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

NME gave Morrissey as its source for the story.

Neil Perry gave Album a positive review in the NME: " This is a wonderful, stunning and equally confusing record, and working on the theory that you'd never expect to hear the Lydon sneer backed by prime metal riffing, that's exactly what you get.

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.

The NME gave the Sex Pistols their first music press coverage in a live review of their performance at the Marquee in February that year, but overall they were slow to cover this new phenomenon in comparison to Sounds and Melody Maker, where Jonh Ingham and Caroline Coon respectively were early champions of punk.

In 2007, Razorlight received a worst album nomination for their self-titled album, which NME themselves gave 8 / 10.

Doherty told the NME that Street gave the band an ultimatum of " if you carry on like this, I ’ m going home " in reference to Pete's drug addiction at the time.

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.

NME gave the record a positive review, but most of the press generally disliked the album as a backlash against shoegazing began.

NME writer John Mulvey gave an ambivalent review.

A journalist from NME saw a gig in 2000 and gave the band a glowing review.

NME gave Mirror Ball a nine out of ten.

Allmusic gave it 3. 5 stars and the NME gave a very enthusiastic response.

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

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

" Kitty Empire writing in NME also gave Lady Saw's toast a positive review, stating that it " does an excellent job of sexing up all the sugar.

The NME gave it 8 / 10 and called it " patchy " but stated " there are gems hidden on here iridescent enough to render the collection essential ".

Timothy Mark from NME gave it a positive review, as he concluded " Madonna, who has generously recorded this single for the benefit of anyone still curious as to what it really feels like for a girl.

Peter Robinson from NME gave it a positive review.

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?

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 ).

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 ".

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.

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

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.

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 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 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.

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.