NME Album Of The Year - History...
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Just made 3 playlists for the NME Album Of The Year
NME Album Of The Year 2000 - 2009
2000 - Rated R - Queens of the Stone Age
2001 - Is This It - The Strokes
2002 - A Rush of Blood to the Head - Coldplay
2003 - Elephant - The White Stripes
2004 - Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
2005 - Silent Alarm - Bloc Party
2006 - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not - Arctic Monkeys
2007 - Myths of the Near Future - Klaxons
2008 - Oracular Spectacular - MGMT
2009 - Primary Colours - The Horrors
So Indie as expected...
NME Album Of The Year 1990 - 1999
1990 - Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches - Happy Mondays
1991 - Nevermind - Nirvana
1992 - Copper Blue - Sugar
1993 - Debut - Björk
1994 - Definitely Maybe - Oasis
1995 - Maxinquaye - Tricky
1996 - Odelay - Beck
1997 - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space - Spiritualized
1998 - Deserter's Songs - Mercury Rev
1999 - The Soft Bulletin - The Flaming Lips
Nicer mix; Mainly Indie with a little Dance and Hip Hop thrown in....
NME Album Of The Year 1980 - 1989
1980 - Closer - Joy Division
1981 - Nightclubbing - Grace Jones
1982 - Midnight Love - Marvin Gaye
1983 - Punch The Clock - Elvis Costello
1984 - The Poet II - Bobby Womack
1985 - Rain Dogs - Tom Waits
1986 - Parade - Prince & the Revolution
1987 - Yo! Bum Rush the Show - Public Enemy
1988 - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back - Public Enemy
1989 - 3 Feet High and Rising - De La Soul
The 1980's - Well the NME was undecided.....
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Playlists;
http://mog.com/playlists/38565
http://mog.com/playlists/38574
http://mog.com/playlists/38623
Go back even further and it gets more intresting;
1974 - Pretzel Logic - Steely Dan
1975 - Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan
1976 - Desire - Bob Dylan
1977 - "Heroes" - David Bowie
1978 - Darkness on the Edge of Town - Bruce Springsteen
1979 - Fear of Music - Talking Heads
What happened to Punk then? It was usually Single of the Year;
http://mog.com/playlists/38815
http://mog.com/playlists/38809
Comments (4)
I love that people consider MGMT, White Stripes and Franz Ferdinand indie. It's really quite adorable.
I'm surprised Coldplay won back in 2002. Didn't seem to have paid attention back then I guess.
Marvin Gaye in '82 is pretty cool.
There's definitely a pattern that forms by the decade.
NME seems to want to get away from the majors by doing pysdo-majors in the past few years.
Overall, I see a nice variety over the years, although, yes - the 70's gets interesting indeed.
Also, is London Calling on the 70s list, the 80s list, or both?
The present decade sure isn't looking like the best in the bunch, which is more to do with who won. '74 - '79 though is plain strange.