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Enthusiastically greeted by the music press — the NME called it " a Great Pop Record ... bigger, bolder, narkier and funnier Modern Life is Rubbish "— Parklife is regarded as one of Britpop's defining records.
Partly due to increasing antagonisms between the groups, Blur and Oasis ultimately decided to release their new singles on the same day, an event the NME called " The British Heavyweight Championship ".
While Q called it " a dense, fascinating, idiosyncratic and accomplished art rock album ", the NME felt it was inconsistent and "( at least ) a quarter-of-an-hour too long ".
The band's new sound was met with poor reviews, NME called it " confused and lacking in cohesion ".
NME magazine's Paul Du Noyer called the album " colossally smug and cosmically dull ; an interminable, vacuous and drearily egotistical stab at spirituality: Into the muzak.
Partly due to increasing antagonisms between the groups, Blur and Oasis ultimately decided to release their new singles on the same day, an event the NME called " The British Heavyweight Championship ".
The NME still covered the Indie scene and was involved with a war of words with a new band called Manic Street Preachers who were criticising the NME for what they saw as an elitist view of bands they would champion.
In October 2006 NME launched an Irish version of the magazine called NME Ireland.
The magazine special editions were called NME Originals, with some featuring articles from other music titles owned by IPC, including Melody Maker, Rave and Uncut magazines.
The NME called them, " 1984's most instantly kitsch mass program of monosodium glutamation of the brain ".
Critical reaction to the album was mixed ; British music magazine NME called the record " another joyfully old-fashioned rock ' n ' roll album immersed in the classics ," while the American review site Pitchfork Media posted a totally anomalous review containing only a video clip of a chimpanzee urinating in its own mouth.
" NME called it an " alt-alt-country, hacked-up acoustic guitar over knife-sharp beats.
13 Unlucky Numbers included the single " California ," whose music video was later called " infamous " by NME and has been included on Artforum's website.
Having headlined the NME Stage at The Glastonbury Festival in 1992, the band spent the next couple of years on a worldwide tour, releasing a mop-up compilation of older non-album material and two new tracks called " 0. 522 " in 1994 before decamping to Wales to record their final album, Brainbloodvolume.
The NME called Lowedges the " first great album of 2003 " and it topped an end-of-the-year poll held by Virgin Radio.
The NME called it a " genuine classic ," noting the variety of sounds present in the album.
NME called it " one of the most ludicrous records you'll ever hear ", though their review was favourable.
One NME reviewer called the album " floridly impersonal and " grandiosely arranged ", but also criticized Wainwright for being " too overwrought and naff ".
Julian Marshall of the NME called it " a humanising, comprehensive and often heartbreaking document of a man who, in five years, changed the face of music, almost by accident.
The nights were called " Nautical " and were featured in the Guardian newspaper and named NME club of the week for the 1 September 2006 show, which featured British Sea Power and the Tiny Dancers.
The NME gave the album 8 / 10 and said: “ A soulful romantic album that sees Razorlight comfortably leap the ‘ difficult second album ’ trap ,” The Observer Music Monthly gave it 4 / 5 saying “ His band ’ s second album justifies the self-belief .” Q Magazine called it “ The best guitar album since Oasis ’ s ‘ Definitely Maybe ’.”
In 2005 NME called the band " music to flunk rehab to ", and Rolling Stone and MTV named them as one of its top 10 bands to watch.

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His debut album Maxinquaye was nominated for the Mercury Prize and voted Album of the Year by NME Magazine.
This album got the band some attention from the press ( namely NME, Sounds and Melody Maker ), and dropped most of their reliance upon the Theory of Obscurity.
The album also received favourable reviews from several music critics and was also listed by NME as one of the best albums to be released in 1981.
The group won four NME Readers poll awards that year ; Band of the Year, Best New Band, Single of the Year ( for " Fools Gold ") and Album of the Year ( for their debut album ).
According to an NME interview, this may have been one of the last times he performed as Fatboy Slim, as he may now focus on his new album, The Brighton Port Authority ( BPA ).
Blur entered the studio early that year to record material for a new album, but in May producer William Orbit told the NME that Albarn had halted recording.
NME reviewer Steve Sutherland gave the album a nine out of ten rating, writing, " These freaks shall inherit the earth.
In an interview with NME, Gillespie said that the band had written " euphoric rock ' n ' roll songs " for their next album.
Blur entered the studio early that year to record material for a new album, but in May producer William Orbit told the NME that Albarn had halted recording.
The album received unanimously positive reviews, with praise from music periodicals such as Rolling Stone, NME, and Blender, as well as a four-star review from the Los Angeles Times, calling it a " wild emotional ride " sure to be " one of the most dissected and debated collections of the year.
However, days later, Melissa Auf der Maur, interviewed in Toronto where she was appearing at the North by Northeast music festival, said she had " no clue " about the band's reported reunion and denied the NME claim she had, or was asked to, contribute vocals to the album or had been asked to tour with the purportedly reunited band saying, " I actually don't know the reunion ... I arrived at music festival in Toronto and I heard that Hole were getting back together from people sending me links ," she said.
NME gave the album a 6 / 10 rating, and Robert Christgau rated it an " A -", saying, " Thing is, I can use some new punk rage in my life, and unless you're a fan of Goldman Sachs and BP Petroleum, so can you.
In June 2009, Love announced through an NME blog that Hole was re-forming, with Auf der Maur on bass and Micko Larkin, who is Love's lead guitarist, on her upcoming album.
Her second album 1990s I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got gained considerable attention and mostly positive reviews: it was rated " second best album of the year " by the NME.
After sales had plummeted to 60, 000 and a review of guitar instrumentalist Duane Eddy had been printed which began with the immortal words ' On this, his 35th album, we find Duane in as good as voice as ever ,' the NME had been told to rethink its policies or die on the vine.
The phrase was coined by NME after the band Blur released their album Parklife in the same month of Cobain's death.
In September 2011, NME. COM organised and live-blogged a real-time Nirvana, ' Nevermind ' Twitter listening party to mark the twentieth anniversary of the classic album.
* NME album of the year
The release of the album saw more critical success, with the band appearing on the cover of NME.
In March 2008, NME reported that The Vines ' fourth studio album had been completed during the week of 3 March 2008 to 10 March 2008, with a tentative release date of June 2008.

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