Although it has been their only hit single in the U. S., the band has maintained critical respect and, to a lesser extent, commercial viability through albums such as 1999's The Soft Bulletin ( which was NME magazine's Album of the Year ) and 2002's Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.

After the 2008 NME Award nominations, Caroline Sullivan of The Guardian criticised the magazine's lack of diversity, saying:

In an October 2007 issue of the NME, the band contributed the song " Blank Heart, Blank Mind " to the magazine's free Love Music, Hate Racism compilation CD.

The song was ' Single of the Week ' in NME, while the incident would top Q magazine's list of Top 50 Most Rock ' n Roll Moments of 1995.

" " Today " topped Eye Weekly magazine's year-end list of best singles, and also appeared at number 32 on NME < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s year-end list of best singles.

In August 2009 Nick was included at number 16 in NME magazine's future 50 list.

Siouxsie Sioux was particularly influential on the dress style of the Gothic rock scene ; Paul Morley of NME described Siouxsie and the Banshees's 1980 gig at Futurama: " was modeling her newest outfit, the one that will influence how all the girls dress over the next few months.

Oakenfold and Paul used fake passes to sneak into places in New York where they met Maze, Bobby Womack and Bob Marley, whom they also interviewed, claiming to be NME and Melody Maker journalists.

ZTT Records is a record label founded in 1983 by NME journalist Paul Morley, record producer Trevor Horn, and businesswoman Jill Sinclair.

On 24 February 2010, Paul received the Godlike Genius Award at the NME Awards.

In 1986, Smith wrote the play Hey, Luciani based around the short-lived reign of Pope John Paul I. Smith has also periodically acted as guest contributor to publications including the NME.

Reviewing the show for the NME, Paul Du Noyer wrote:

Her Pal Judy record was released in 1982 and has been described as " a classic rainy day bit of sound and song to drift away to " by Paul Tickell in NME.

Journalist Paul Morley, then reviewing singles for the NME, made it his single of the week, but his approval did little to get daytime radio play or enhance sales.

In January 1979, Paul Morley, writing for NME, remarked:

NME reported that Albarn had foregone plans to record a solo album and instead formed a new unnamed group which featured Tong with Albarn, former Clash bassist Paul Simonon and drummer Tony Allen.

" In December 1978, another critic from NME, Paul Morley, described the music on The Scream as " unlike anything in rock ":

During an NME interview about his post-Shed Seven band, The Rising, Paul commented on his departure from the group ; " I've never really felt part of a band until now.

In July, almost a year after Josef K had split, yet with just one proper solo record to his name in " Running Away ", Haig was labelled " the face and sound of 1982 " by Paul Morley in a lead feature for the NME.

The new band was unveiled in March 1999-as a major news item with both the NME and Melody Maker-with a line-up of Du Santiago on lead vocals and rhythm guitar and Montrose on bass and backing vocals.

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 ".

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 ".

NME called the album " a personal but secretive thrash-pop opera of urban nihilism and passionate dumbthinks ", and Rolling Stone said the album " may be the most potent blast of female insurgency ever committed to tape ".

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.