Shit, I'm a diehard Brit Pop fan and even I don't agree with those lists.

the bottom 20 are much better than the top 20

The list is pretty bad until you see Q’s top 50, possibility the worst list I have ever seen. At least NME has stuff like Sufjan Stevens and Devendra Banhart on their list:

01 X&Y Coldplay
02 Demon Days Gorrilaz
03 Employment The Kasier Chiefs
04 Don't Believe The Truth Oasis
05 I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning Bright Eyes
06 Back To Bedlam James Blunt
07 You Could Have It So Much Better Franz Ferdinand
08 Funeral The Arcade Fire
09 Eye To The Telescope KT Tunstall
10 Stars Of CCTV Hard-Fi
11 Supernature Goldfrapp
12 Late Registration Kanye West
13 Get Behind Me Satan The White Stripes
14 The Magic Numbers The Magic Numbers
15 I Am A Bird Now Antony & The Johnsons
16 Prarie Wind Neil Young
17 As Is Now Paul Weller
18 Finally Woken Jem
19 Blinking Lights and Other Revelations Eels
20 Devils And Dust Bruce Springsteen
21 Want Two Rufus Wainwright
22 One Way Ticket To Hell…And Back The Darkness
23 Aerial Kate Bush
24 Life In Slow Motion David Gray
25 Silent Alarm Bloc Party
26 Confessions On A Dance Floor Madonna
27 Some Cities Doves
28 29 Ryan Adams
29 LCD Soundsysyem LCD Soundsysyem
30 Oceans Apart The Go-Betweens
31 Tourist Athlete
32 Coles Corner Richard Hawley
33 Leaders Of The Free World Elbow
34 Playing The Angel Depeche Mode
35 Z My Morning Jacket
36 Nashville Josh Rouse
37 Lullabies To Paralyze Queens Of The Stone Age
38 With Teeth Nine Inch Nails
39 Pushing The Senses Feeder
40 Cripple Crow Devandra Bandhart
41 More Adventureous Rilo Kiley
42 Be Common
43 Dynamite Jamiroquai
44 Where The Humans Eat Willy Mason
45 Ruby Blue Rosin Murphy
46 Language. Sex. Violence. Other? The Stereophonics
47 Red Book Texas
48 Horse Fabulous The Stands
49 Arular M.I.A.
50 Our Shadows Will Remain Joseph Arthur

I know most don’t care for me bring up NME. I know the history of the magazine (on Wikidepia and is quite a story) and it’s still relevant. I agree that it’s a horrible publication these days and only use it for the news section on the web. Fastnbulbous actually brought up this story to me again today and so I thought I would follow up since it still is about music. The Guardian and NME have both gotten involved over this web site article that I posted a few days back.

Bump one last time, the guy Momus (yes from the band of the same name) got a hold of the actually NME Writers' Poll and posted it on his blog. Mumus, who is a regular poster on ILM wrote this: "Unfortunately, the editor of my blog has tampered quite significantly with the list, and what's more the NME's lawyers have been in touch to say that any attempt to reveal the actual music tastes of NME's writers will result in a lawsuit from the NME." I find this kind of stuff absolutely fascinating.

Bottom line: Don’t fuck with NME!

edit: full deleted lononist post: http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:7Sz ... =firefox-a

Just a guess, but I don't think Momus was being serious.

PS Momus is an artist, not a band.

Well don't go inflating his ego any more than it need be... I saw that on his livejournal this morning and thought it was pretty funny.

And as south pacific probably expects, I agree with a lot of the Momus list.

me, three!!

This is precisely why I stopped paying $8 a mag for overrated garbage.

yea, I couldn't agree more DJ...this album is a lot of fun...The Modern Way is greatness...I don't get the hate either

Autolux's came out in '04.


np: Orishas-Naci Orishas

i just heard this tune....freakin awesome...the kid is like 19 or soemthing

22 Oxygen Willy Mason

ok, so i know not to ever subscribe to q