An early NME article on the band wrote that The Cure " are like a breath of fresh suburban air on the capital's smog-ridden pub-and-club circuit " and noted " With a John Peel session and more extensive London gigging on their immediate agenda, it remains to be seen whether or not The Cure can retain their refreshing joie de vivre.

In July 1991, the British music magazine, NME, noted that the band were, along with KLF, Seal, The La's and Electronic, making their mark in the United States.

" The review also noted that the British music publication NME named it as a " Single of the Week " in 2002.

The Directors Cut had been noted to contain Minogue in full-frontal nudity, however, NME reported that plans to release such a music video were scrapped.

" Panic " was voted Single of the Year by the annual NME readers poll, and also (" somewhat incongruously ", noted Smiths biographer Simon Goddard ) ranked sixth in the Best Dance Record category.

A writer from NME noted that Lopez " really comes into her own " on the " street-smart swingbeat winner " song.

One of the album's singles, " Summer Here Kids ", was awarded ' Single of the Week ' by the NME.

Reception to the new album was generally positive, with even the NME listing no less than six of the album's tracks amongst their Top 10 for the band's best songs to date.

The production was expensive, with Ayers quoting the recording costs in a 1974 NME interview as exceeding £ 32, 000 ( a vast figure at the time ).

NME likened trying to classify the song as " akin to trying to lasso water " and described it as " a monumental barney between the Camberwick Green brass band, a cruise-ship cabaret act, a cartoon gospel choir and a sucker MC hiccuping < nowiki >'</ nowiki > Shake it like a polaroid pic-chaaaa !< nowiki >'</ nowiki > backed up by the cast of an amateur production of The Wizard of Oz.

Wolf parted ways with Universal Records, and on 10 December 2008 announced to NME his plan to sell £ 10 shares of the album on bandstocks. com: " Basically, you can invest in the finishing of the album and the production of it, and you get a share in the album.

However, despite the high-quality production, the song was not well received by the critics, NME said that the production " triumphs over any real sort of feeling ... pure mock Maharishi spirituality that not even Liam can salvage from the realm of self-parody ".

On 18 October 2006, NME. com reported that they were working on the follow-up to Everything Is, recording with Oasis and Jet producer Dave Sardy in Los Angeles, California: " According to a posting on Nineblackalps. com the band and Dave Sardy will ' furrow their brows, vent their spleens and bleed their hearts into the production of a glorious technicolour audiophonic dreamscape '".

Before the production of the " official " charts, various less comprehensive charts were produced, most notably by the NME, which began its chart in 1952 ; some of these older charts ( including NME's earliest singles charts ) are now part of the official OCC canon.

Despite the band's reluctance towards the press around the time of the release of the album, they were featured in Alternative Press, a cover story for Rock Sound, Kerrang !, and NME.

Whilst NME gave it 8 / 10, Q Magazine rated it one of the worst albums of the year, mocking Masters ' boastful attitude towards drug abuse.

It gained a good response in the United Kingdom, with the NME describing their garage rock sound as " of the oldest school ".

Inspired by the biblical story of the resurrection of Lazarus of Bethany by Jesus Christ, the album continued the punk and garage rock-inspired arrangements explored by Grinderman, resulting in what NME termed a " gothic psycho-sexual apocalypse ".

" Ted Kessler of NME wrote: " Over a pounding garage tattoo Martin poses a deep, mortality-based teaser (' where do we go from here?

Many appreciated the band's punk and garage rock-influenced revival of the southern rock genre, with NME hailing the album among the " best debuts of the past 10 years.

Others identified this movement as another wave of garage rock revivalism, with the NME in 2003 designating it a " new garage rock revolution ", or simply a " new rock revolution ".

The NME took to Grunge very slowly (" Sounds " was the first British music paper to write about grunge with John Robb being the first person to interview Nirvana.

For the most part, NME only became interested in grunge after Nevermind became popular.

British magazine NME, reviewing the UK 7 " single in March 1989, said: " All the smart bastards are mixing strings with grunge guitars nowadays and the Pixies are no exception.

Independent music magazines Melody Maker and Sounds named Surfer Rosa as their album of the year ; NME and Record Mirror placed the album 10th and 14th, respectively.

Although a limited release-because it was so unique and at odds with everything else on the market – it was picked up on by NME who championed the band, although one guest reviewer, John Lydon of Public Image Limited condemned the band as " trendy hippies.

However, this new direction for the NME proved to be a commercial success and the paper brought in new writers such as Andrew Collins, Stuart Maconie, Mary Anne Hobbs and Steve Lamacq to give it a stronger identity and sense of direction, although Mark Sinker left in 1988 after the paper refused to publish a negative review he wrote of U2's Rattle and Hum.

Giant Steps placed second to Debut by Björk in the 1993 NME album of the year list, voted by the paper's contributors, although it came in first place in the subsequent NME readers ' poll.

Unsurprisingly, these titles were seldom used when not required, although NME did so as part of its involvement.

This can be substantiated by the fact that charts published in the NME were of a shorter format and other chart listings such as those in Melody Maker, became less and less informative although they were probably more accurate.

The critical reception was generally good, receiving good reviews from NME, Q magazine and Billboard, although they were also accused of lack of imagination and unoriginality for allegedly borrowing ideas from other influential bands such as The Strokes.

The band never quite capitalised on the momentum generated by the success of debut single " Tom Verlaine ", which was named ' Single of the Week ' by the NME, although the band's final LP, Magic Happens entered the lower reaches of the UK Albums Chart and " Airplane Gardens ", lasted for one week in the UK Singles Chart.

The Indie Chart does not appear in the 2008 revival, and seems to have been replaced by the NME TV Video Chart, which focuses on alternative music and less well known artists, although not all of these are on independent labels ( a requirement for entry into the original Indie Chart ).

Their debut album Stars of CCTV was released on 4 July 2005, and although receiving critical acclaim ( NME called it the Album of the Year and it was nominated for the Mercury Prize and two Brit Awards ; Best British Group and Best British Rock Act ), it didn't reach No. 1 in the UK albums chart until six months later on 22 January 2006.

Touring by this point took them further and further afield, everywhere from Palermo to Kyoto fell to their conquest, although British success was limited to an NME single of the week and a John Peel session.

In December 2005 the band made their U. S. Network television debut on the Late Show with David Letterman where they performed " Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt ", as well as announcing the release of their second album, With Love and Squalor which would be released on January 10, 2006, although in January the band would be in the United Kingdom on the NME Shockwaves Tour with Mystery Jets, Arctic Monkeys and Maxïmo Park, before embarking on their on headline tour in April and releasing " Its a Hit " on February 20 and re-releasing " Nobody Move, Nobody Gets Hurt " on May 3.

Featuring a host of crack sessioneers ( including Bernie Worrell, Anton Fier, and Jack Waldman ), his new direction-a brand of polished dance / electro-seemed a million miles away from the abrasive edge of Josef K. Indeed Haig was already disowning his past with a vengeance, informing the NME that Josef K was a ' cockroach ' he wanted squashed, although two songs-" Adoration " and " Heaven Sent "-had begun life with that band.

In an otherwise highly enthusiastic review of the best-of for the NME, Steve Sutherland criticised the band's " sheer disregard " for their earlier work ; " Just because these songs embarrassed them once they started listening to broadsheet critics and retreated wounded from the big-sales battle with Oasis doesn't mean that we're morons to love them.

In an interview with NME, Gillespie said that the band had written " euphoric rock ' n ' roll songs " for their next album.

The band then returned to England for two headline performances at the V Festivals, which received poor reviews, with NME stating " where songs used to spiral upwards and outwards, they now simply fizzle tamely.

On 6 June 2006, NME reported that Ash were in a New York recording studio and had twenty seven " rough " songs.

In April 1967, NME reported that The Move had offered a £ 200 reward for the recovery of the master tapes of ten songs intended for their debut album.

1990s Private Waters in the Great Divide, described by the NME as " a return to form with inspired lyrics and buckets of the type of sexual innuendo that Creole has made his own ", had a hit with the single " The Sex of It ", a song written by Prince and recorded at Paisley Park Studios with Sheila E. It reached Top 40 in the US and UK and is to date one of his best-known songs.

NME reviewer Richard Grabel wrote, " Chronic Town is five songs that spring to life full of immediacy and action and healthy impatience.

Gartside recorded a demo of one of his new songs, " The ' Sweetest Girl '", in January 1981, and the song was included on the C81 cassette compilation obtained with tokens from the March issues of NME.

The first outing of one of the new songs was " The " Sweetest Girl "", which was featured on C81 ; a free cassette tape given away with the NME music magazine.

In July 2012, it was revealed in the NME magazine that Wolstenholme wrote and sang two songs on the album The 2nd Law, ' Liquid State ' and ' Save Me '.

" Deliriously great songs " ( NME ).

By the time NME journalists Keith Cameron and Roy Wilkinson encountered Gene, the band had already gained some live experience and written several songs.

Voted ' Best New Singer ' in 1959 in the British music magazine, NME, Douglas went on to record eight cover versions of former American hit songs, in his total of nine Top 40 UK singles.

Stating in NME that they " just wanted to get them songs out there ", the release alluded to the fact that their actual ( full-length ) debut album would be released at a later date.

The NME gave it 8 / 10, saying the songs sound " pretty much like Neil Young if he'd heard an Aphex Twin record ".

" A review by the NME staff compared " Stronger " to songs recorded by ABBA, saying, " there's the deranged helium synth pop of ' Stronger ' with the huge ABBA chord change in the chorus that sounds scarier and more robotic than the Backstreet Boys.

In October 2011, NME placed it at number 129 on its list " 150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years ". This song peaked # 19 on the alternative songs chart.

He began writing songs in English and placed advertisements in NME for a bass player and drummer to form a new Loso, auditioning prospects by having them perform the entire Hendrix album, Are You Experienced.

" Unfinished Sympathy " ranked highly on 1991 year-end polls for the best singles of the year, reaching the top spots on polls from NME, Melody Maker and The Face, and also features prominently on critics ' and popular polls as one of the best songs of all-time.

Priya Elan of NME explained that " the results are pretty much all quality " and that some of the tracks are better than the original songs on Silent Alarm. Rockfeedback's Thomas Hannan stated, " It's all very clever, but the most intelligent thing about it is that it makes you think about the original in a completely altered way.

Krissi Murison of the NME had praise for such songs as " June Gloom " and "( So I'll Sit Here ) Waiting ", but criticized the " over-polished approach " of producer Wendy Melvoin.