Another notable retrospective praise came in 2003 from the British magazine, NME, which rated Forever Changes No. 6 on their list of greatest albums of all time.

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.

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.

D-D-Don't Don't Stop the Beat was rated among the best albums of the year by Rolling Stone, NME, Entertainment Weekly and Blender.

NME magazine ( 12 / 30 / 00, p. 77 ) rated XTRMNTR # 2 in its " Top 50 Albums Of The Year 2000 ", and later at the NME Carling Awards 2001, it won " Best Album " of the year.

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.

The NME rated the song as the 27th best song of 2002.

Noel Gardner of NME rated The Director's Cut eight out of ten, finding that it sounded better in practice than in theory.

* Alan Smith, in an NME review entitled " The Brilliant, the Bad, and the Ugly ," derided " Revolution # 9 " as a " pretentious " example of " idiot immaturity " and, in the following sentence, assigned the benediction " God Bless You, Beatles!

The record was awarded 9 / 10 by the UK music magazine NME, which stated, " It's an intentional masterpiece, a throw-everything-at-the-wall bric-a-brac of sounds, colours and stolen ideas.

They also performed at T in the Park 2010 on the NME Stage on the Friday July 9 and Oxegen in Kildare, Ireland on Saturday July 10 on the Vodafone stage.

In its fortieth anniversary issue from 9 May 1992, trade publication NME selected Tales from Topographic Oceans for their " 40 Records That Captured The Moment " for 1974.

* NME ( 9 / 10 )

It failed to light up the British and Irish charts, but received mixed reviews, getting a Metacritic score of 71, positive reviews from the BBC 7 / 10 from the NME, a 6. 9 / 10 from Pitchfork and a 2 / 5 review from the Guardian UK.

It received a 9 / 10 score in the NME and an 8. 7 on Pitchfork.

On release, the album received wildly differing responses, largely criticising the looser arrangements and downbeat feel ( though NME awarded it 9 / 10, lauding the bands ' " near-superhuman powers ").

The Clash's release Capital Radio, which was released 9 April 1977, could only be obtained by sending away a coupon featured in one issue of the NME, and the red sticker from the cover of the band's debut album.

In 2011, NME placed it at number 9 on its list " 150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years ".

The album received a " 9 " rating from the NME.

In the year-end issues " Men's Needs " was named third-best track of 2007 by NME with the album coming in at No. 9, Track of the Year 2007 by the Metro newspaper and finishing in the 100 best tracks in Rolling Stone magazine in the USA.

It received mixed reviews: Allmusic gave it a four star rating, the NME 8 out of 10, and Music Week and MOJO were equally positive, but it received much weaker reviews from some of the British press.

NME magazine wrote in 1991, " are acceptable pretty face of a whole clump of bands that have emerged since the whole Manchester thing started to run out of steam.

" We felt ' Popscene ' was a big departure ; a very, very English record ", Albarn told the NME in 1993, " But that annoyed a lot of people ... We put ourselves out on a limb to pursue this English ideal and no-one was interested.

NME reviewer Steve Sutherland gave the album a nine out of ten rating, writing, " These freaks shall inherit the earth.

NME magazine wrote in 1991, " are acceptable pretty face of a whole clump of bands that have emerged since the whole Manchester thing started to run out of steam.

" We felt ' Popscene ' was a big departure ; a very, very English record ", Albarn told the NME in 1993, " But that annoyed a lot of people ... We put ourselves out on a limb to pursue this English ideal and no-one was interested.

The British music press spoke positively about the album, with Q giving it four out of five stars calling it " a surprising, playful collection " while the NME wrote that Debut was " an album that believes music can be magical and special.

" NME < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Mark Sinker, reviewing the album in March 1988, said " they force the past to sound like them "; he awarded them nine and a half stars out of ten.

NME ( 4 / 15 / 00, p. 34 )-6 out of 10-" An unfashionably old-school metal album .... it's Pantera's bid to herald the rebirth of bullet-belt, cut-off denim metal .... It's a solid album, oozing drunk-as-hell metal spirit.

On the week the single came out, The Libertines featured on the cover of the NME for the first time.

They won Best New Band at the NME Awards for that year and Barât moved out of The Albion Rooms.

In April 1991, the British music magazine NME reported that their US tour had sold out before Jesus Jones arrived in the country.

" NME reported that Twisted Sister had sold out the 3, 000 capacity New York Palladium for a March 16 show without a recording contract or radio airplay.

Reviews were mostly positive with NME giving it 8 out of 10 stars and saying ".. Nitzer Ebb prove they ’ re far from obsolete.

The latter album earned rave reviews from established British publications such as Q, NME, and Mojo, and mimicked the debut by selling out its first pressing of 3, 000.

( However, in 2004, NME tipped Pram as the next big band to watch out for ).

Interviewed by Charles Shaar Murray in 1972 for the NME, Took commented that "( Record companies ) didn't want to buy Steel Abortion or Peppermint Flickstick A bit naughty, the words, but then I'd taken in all this American culture and American society in general, and got chemicalised out of it, a general trip, and put it all into words.

NME gave Mirror Ball a nine out of ten.

In July 1989, the British music magazine, NME, reported that Soul II Soul had to pull out of their scheduled live appearance on BBC Television's Top of the Pops programme, following a dispute with the programme's producer.

" High praise followed in the New York Times, NME, Gear, and Alternative Press, and the band set out on lengthy tours supporting acts such as Sleater Kinney and Bratmobile.

The critical reception was generally good, receiving good reviews from NME (“ Razorlight ’ s debut packs more tunes than Franz, more spirit than The Strokes and more balls than nearly every band out there right now .”), Q magazine, Billboard and Rolling Stone who said

However, like many other artists who come across negatively in NME interviews, Borrell and supporters have accused the magazine of misrepresentation and emphasising quotes out of context.

NME editor Connor McNicholas said, " My first contact with Franz Ferdinand was when someone was playing the Darts of Pleasure demos, in the NME office, and it was genuinely one of those moments when a track goes on and I come bundling out of my office saying ' what the hell is this because this is amazing '".