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[andymcc]

Poor man's Blur.

my reasoning for hating them. i was a blur fan in the 90's. you had to pick a side.

 

[John Dunbar]

Who the fuck is NME?

New Morrissey Express.

 

[Jarate]

The problem with "top _____" lists is they always have so much bias in them. People don't look at the scope of music andnjust readily ignore very important parts ofmmusic they may not like. The only way to make a best of list is to gather somehow unbiased sources (impossible) or to streamline it into categorical ideas you can easily rate suchnas impact, and other such ideas.

 

[GoutPatrol]

How the hell do you even attempt to order 500 albums? Shit's wack.

If you get a large enough sample size, then all it takes is just all the busy work in Excel.

 

[Macmanus]

This list is so British. Revolver is too low.

 

[PumpkinPie]

Stopped reading at NME.

 

[Cuyejo]

No Rolling Stones or/and The Who in the top ten?
List invalidated.

 

[HammerOfThor]

CTRL+F 'Black Sabbath'

Really? No Black Sabbath? They pretty much started an entire genre :/

At least Metallica is on there.

 

[moggio]

There's some mistake.

The Top 100 isn't made up entirely of Frank Zappa albums.

 

[Snuggles]

There's no way anyone's ever gonna agree on a list like this. Civil wars have started over less.

 

[RangerX]

I don't really have a definite Top 10, but here are all the albums I would give a six star honorable mention to. No order, except the bolded which is my favorite album ever.

Arcade Fire - Funeral (2004)
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence (1991)
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds (1966)
Death - The Sound of Perseverance (1998)
Meshuggah - Chaosphere (1998)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem (BBC Symphony Orchestra/Colin Davis) (1967)
Opeth - Blackwater Park (2001)
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead (1986)
Soundgarden - Superunknown (1994)
Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten (1991)
Temple of the Dog - Temple of the Dog (1991)
Yes - Close to the Edge (1972)

You have pretty much the exact same taste in music as me. Props for in cluding unquestionable presence. What a fucking album. I would swap the smiths for the Stone roses debut though and temple of the dog for annhilation of the wicked. i would Probably throw Dirt in there too.

 

[CloudWolf]

I have never unstood the obsession with 'Is This It'. IMO it's a pretty average album with Last Nite as the only highlight. Up the Bracket by The Libertines is a much better early 00's garage rock album.

Anyway, I like the fact that they put Pulp's Different Class and Bowie's Hunky Dory in the Top 10. I love those album to death, but they're almost always overlooked in lists like this.

The Queen Is Dead? No... no. Louder Than Bombs or Hatful of Hollow are much better.

I don't think compilation albums count.

 

[Camp Lo]

Glad to see 'Is This It' get some accolades

 

[Acquiescence]

But A Storm in Heaven is better than any of those albums that made in the top ten. This list no make sense!

 

[Hari Seldon]

I have never even heard of The Smiths haha.

 

[xbhaskarx]

I have never even heard of The Smiths haha.

You are brave to admit something so embarrassing in public.

 

[ShineALight]

Oasis making the top 10 makes me want to throw up.

Was going to make pretty much the same exact post.

 

[moggio]

I have never even heard of The Smiths haha.

Bigmouth strikes again.

 

[Andrew Korenchkin]

CTRL+F 'Black Sabbath'

Really? No Black Sabbath? They pretty much started an entire genre :/

At least Metallica is on there.

What does NME know about metal? Nothing.

 

[Sirpopopop]

No "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" is a grievous omission.

 

[Yen]

I agree with Hunky Dory and Doolittle in the top 10.

 

[dan2026]

There better be some Roy Orbison in there somewhere high up.