Frank Carter. He’s like, really, really cool you know.
Well, well, well – this is a good a reason as any to hate the NME. Their annual excerise in licking arse, “The NME Cool List 2007″ has just been published.
This year sees the number 1 spot taken by Frank Carter of Gallows (I bet he’s well pleased) replacing Beth Ditto (seriously, she was like, sooo 2006). Just what is the point in all this? Fuck knows. The best thing about this list, though I’m not sure Brandon Flowers will agree, is that his moustache pipped him 26 places to number 18 in the list – give it a record contract before someone else does!
(Last year’s positions in brackets)
1. Frank Carter – Gallows
2. Jamie Reynolds – Klaxons (13)
3. Lovefoxxx – CSS (10)
4. Ryan Jarman – The Cribs
5. Lethal Bizzle
6. Alex Turner – Arctic Monkeys (32)
7. Kate Nash
8. Amy Winehouse (50)
9. Beth Ditto – The Gossip (1)
10. Keith Richards – The Rolling Stones (26)
11. MIA
12. Thom Yorke – Radiohead (9)
13. Drew McConnell – Babyshambles
14. Prince
15. Tom Clarke – The Enemy
16. Noel Gallagher – Oasis
17. Hayley Williams – Paramore
18. Brandon’s Tache – Brandon Flowers, The Killers
19. Matt Bellamy – Muse (27)
20. James Smith – Hadouken
21. Caleb Followill – Kings of Leon
22. Matt Helders – Arctic Monkeys
23. Eddie Argos – Art Brut
24. Craig Finn – The Hold Steady
25. Morgan Yeah? – Does it Offend You, Yeah?
26. Simon Neil – Biffy Clyro – (28)
27. Simon Taylor – Klaxons
28. Karen O – Yeah Yeah Yeahs (5)
29. Kele Okereke – Bloc Party
30. Meg White – The White Stripes (24)
31. Tim Harrington – Les Savy Fav
32. Gerard Way – My Chemical Romance (8)
33. Jamie T
34. Pete Doherty – Babyshambles (28)
35. Lou Hayter – New Young Pony Club
36. Ian Brown
37. Joe Lean – Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong
38. Andy Burrows – Razorlight
39. Kyle Falconer – The View
40. Nicky Wire – Manic Street Preachers
41. Josh Homme – Queens of the Stone Age
42. Cole Alexander – Black Lips
43. Suki – Real Heat
44. Brandon Flowers – The Killers (29)
45. Yannis Philippakis – Foals
46. Patrick Wolf
47. Carlos D – Interpol
48. Santogold
49. Dev Hynes – Lightspeed Champion
50. Spider Webb – The Horrors
November 7th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
Marvellous – it really does make you wonder if anyone actually thinks, after reading this, that they’re any better an artist for appearing on that list.
Well, I guess it’s nice to see some oldies in there too.
November 7th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
where’s Todd Trainer in that list? That’s what I wanna know.
November 7th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
And more to the point, where the hell am I?
Seriously though, I think taking the piss out of NME is a bit like accusing Jackie of being unintellectual. Its been a comic for young teens for decades and 13-year-olds love all that shit, so good luck to them.
But it’s a great gateway into ‘alternative’ music for young people – a stepping stone into the joyous world of bedroom misery, sixth form angst and all the joys that go with it. I still have cuttings from it from when I was wee – it introduced me to the kind of bands (and via them, the friends) I still love now, and for that I give praise. But slagging it off once you’re past 17? What’s the point?
November 30th, 2007 at 10:47 am
I agree with chris marling. What is the point in slagging NME off at all when it has done so much for indie/rock music, despite what you may beleive. At 18 I still buy it occasionally, whilst not giving a damn about the fact that it is now ‘cooler’ to say you hate it rather than admit you occasinally read it.
December 27th, 2007 at 12:45 am
nme is hilariously poor
a cool list being compiled by grown adults
reeks of the emotionally stunted
December 28th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
its a very good list, of very talented people. its a shame though becuase my two favourites are 35 and 46.
August 17th, 2008 at 4:09 am
Frank Carter is the coolest man nowadays.
But where’s Paul Banks?
Jamie T 33?