Iowa was ranked sixth in the " 50 Albums of the year " by NME in 2001.

Named after an unfinished Blondie song, Parallel Lines was ranked at number 140 on Rolling Stone < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, number eighteen on NME < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s 100 Best Albums of All Time, and number seven on Blender < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s 100 Greatest American Albums of All Time.

A 2003 poll of NME writers ranked Doolittle as the second-greatest album of all time, and Rolling Stone placed the album at 226 on its list of " The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time ".

It was ranked # 1 at the Top 30 " Heartbreak " albums of all time by NME.

Melody Maker listed it as number 7 on their End of Year Critics List in 1992, NME ranked it at number 5 on its end of year list behind PJ Harvey's Dry, and Vox listed it as number 14 in its Albums of 1992.

NME ( 12 / 30 / 00, p. 78 ) ranked number 16 in its " Top 50 Albums of the Year ".

NME ranked the album # 4 on its list of the 50 best albums of 2000.

In 2007, the song was ranked number thirty-six on the NME " Greatest Indie Anthems Ever " countdown.

In a similar poll, NME ranked it the 20th greatest music video of all time.

The NME has ranked the album number 39 in its list of the 50 greatest albums of the ' 80s and number 51 in its list of the greatest albums of all time.

" 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.

NME and Pitchfork Media ranked Alligator as a top album of the 2000s.

" 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.

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.

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.

Debut single " Drink the Sunshine " in 1996 was followed by support from NME, who placed them on the " Bratbus Tour " ( an annual tour of four hotly-tipped bands ) which would visit universities in the UK.

During an interview with NME Magazine, he shot and killed a squirrel with a pellet gun to prevent any further damage to his electrical system in the attic at the location the interview was held.

" 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.

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 ".

* Baby Gramps videos at NME website ( including August 28, 2006 Letterman appearance )

In 2009 NME charted XTRMNTR at No. 3 in The Top 100 Greatest Albums of The Decade

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.

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.

Jane's Addiction performed at the first-ever NME Awards USA on April 23, 2008, with the reunited core line-up of Perry Farrell, Dave Navarro, Eric Avery, and Stephen Perkins.

Courtney Love and guitarist Micko Larkin performing at Bumbershoot in Seattle, Washington in September 2010. On June 17, 2009, NME posted two in-depth blogs, and links to two interviews, of Courtney Love announcing the reunion of Hole.

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.

On August 28, 2009 they headlined the NME / Radio One tent at Reading Festival ( and August 30 at Leeds Festival ), playing a string of their old hits, such as " Epic " and " MidLife Crisis ".

In the United Kingdom the C86 cassette, a 1986 NME compilation featuring Primal Scream, The Pastels, The Wedding Present and other bands, was a document of the UK indie scene at the start of 1986.

She moved to London in 1973, working at the weekly music paper NME and at Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood's clothes store.

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.

In May 1989, the British music magazine, NME reported that 10, 000 Maniacs had won the songwriter category prize at the New York Music Awards.

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.

These and other artists also appeared at the NME Poll Winners Concert, an awards event that featured artists voted as most popular by the paper's readers.

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.

The pair rapidly became champions of the Punk scene and created a new tone for the paper ( Parsons ' time at NME is reflected in his 2005 novel Stories We Could Tell, about the misadventures of three young music paper journalists on the night of 16 August 1977, the night Elvis Presley died ).

In 1981 the NME released the influential C81 cassette tape in conjunction with Rough Trade Records, available to readers by mail order at a low price.

The NME was generally thought to be rudderless at this time, with staff pulling simultaneously in a number of directions in what came to be known as the " hip-hop wars ".

Some commented at this time that the NME had become less intellectual in its writing style and less inventive musically.

By the summer of 1996 Oasis's prominence was such that NME termed a number of Britpop bands ( including The Boo Radleys, Ocean Colour Scene and Cast ) as " Noelrock ", citing Gallagher's influence on their success.

Through the end of 1991 and early 1992, Suede received a number of favourable mentions in the music press, garnering them slots at shows hosted by NME and attended by significant musical figures such as former Smiths singer Morrissey.

Also in 1972, Slade were voted number one top band and leading recording act in the NME magazine chart points survey, and number one top live band.

However, Gallagher was often regarded as the spear-head of the Britpop movement, and at one point of time, NME termed a number of Britpop bands ( including Kula Shaker, Ocean Colour Scene and Cast ) as " Noelrock ", citing Gallagher's influence on their success.

In 2011, NME placed the soundtrack at number 1 in their list of the 50 best film soundtracks ever, writing, " combining plangent beauty with a kind of clanking evil jazz, this is one of those endlessly evocative soundtracks that takes up residence in your subconscious and never leaves.

The song was released as a single on the Fontana Records label, and climbed to number 1 on the UK NME pop chart.

The song reached number one on the NME charts in the United Kingdom, but only made it to # 2 on the official UK Singles Chart as used by the BBC.

It did hit number 1 on the unofficial NME singles chart.

In 2007, NME launched a campaign to get the song to number 1 in the British charts and encouraged readers to purchase or download the single on 8 October.

The Melody Maker described Feast as " an album of filtered brilliance, fertile, sensual and erotic " and the NME accentuated " The humours of Sioux's frosty larynx are nakedly outlined against skins of sometimes fabulous quality " The album reached number 17 in the UK Albums Chart.

In October 2011, NME placed it at number 95 on its list " 150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years ".

The album was also highly regarded critically, appearing near the top of several end-of-year polls including the number one slot on NME Album of the Year and the number two spot on the Village Voice end-of-year list compiled by Robert Christgau.

Of Crunchy NME said it was " packing the kind of irresistible groove that would shoot straight to the number one for 14 years in any right-thinking world.

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

In May 2007, NME magazine placed " A Design for Life " at number 30 in its list of the 50 Greatest Indie Anthems Ever.

In October 2011, NME placed it at number 75 on its list " 150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years ".

In October 2011, NME placed it at number 42 on its list " 150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years ".

" However, the album received less than favourable reviews from a number of other sources, including Pitchfork Media and NME.