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 ".

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.

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.

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.

Hammond told NME that the suits will be available in three styles with a new design every season and that he's aiming to keep the line classic.

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.

NME wrote, “ Unconditional already has the time-worn feel of an indie classic .” The cover was taken from C. Finley ’ s oil on canvas named “ Colab .” “ Unconditional ” received heavy airplay on Radio 1 and XFM London.

" NME gave it a nine out of 10 rating and called it " a bona fide classic.

" I've been working on a detective story that starts at the St Giles in the Fields church in London for the last two years ," she told NME adding that she " loved detective stories " having been a fan of Sherlock Holmes and US crime author Mickey Spillane as a girl.

In a 1993 NME interview, Damon Albarn of Britpop band Blur agreed with interviewer John Harris ' assertion that Blur was an " anti-grunge band ," and said, " Well, that's good.

* 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!

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 noted that the album's production " leans towards the harsh garage grunge of Surfer Rosa, although the songs retain the strong melodies of Doolittle ," and said that " Bossanova is the composite Pixies LP.

" did affect us as we were all teenagers at the time ," said Scott in a 2009 interview, " couldn't understand why people were so outraged by our sound that they had to tell the NME or whoever that they wanted us dead!

It was probably the uniforms that swung it ," said in an interview with NME in November 1996, and " Well, we know that democracy doesn't work.

" We were totally surprised ," Cummings says of the NME review.

" However, not everyone was complimentary about the change in musical style, with Robert Christgau of The Village Voice stating " If you thought they were bad when they were cute, or even that they were cute when they were good, believe me, you don't want to hear them mature ," and NME with the even harsher verdict: " But damn those cruel hormones – Hanson's collective balls have MmmDropped, and the giddy rush of adolescence seeks to mutate Mercury's finest investment into a trio of crack-voiced hulks.

" The purpose of music is to elevate and inspire the spirit ," Dylan said in a 1983 interview with NME.

The NME gave the album a mixed review feeling that the album was overlong, noting " Does the world really need to own both their reappraisals of Bomb The Bass ' ' Bug Powder Dust ', even if the first one is a corker?

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.

Sputnik Music and NME gave it 4. 5 stars to the album with Sputnik Music's Critic Tyler Fisher saying: " This is their most cohesive album, it expands on newer sounds and improves on others.

" 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.