Kate Bush ‘Hounds Of Love’ (1985) EMI. 38. 42. Is This It – The Strokes 5. Bowie created Ziggy to be the perfect rock star, a cocaine-skinny humanoid alien, charisma down to his bones and suitably adored by the fan armies depicted in the timeless ‘Ziggy Stardust’ song. The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground 6. Pulp, Different Class (1995) Island. Suede, ‘Dog Man Star’ (1994) Nude. "NME Top 500 Albums of All Time" - interesting to note Radiohead's rankings As this article points out, this list of top 500 albums features a lot of British artists. It’s beautiful (the stirring ‘Alone Again, Or’), threatening (‘A House Is Not A Motel’), paranoid and, most of all, magnificent. Progress - 381/500 Progress - 381/500 Pulp – Different Class 07. Far and away the best album of rock’s Phase One, virtually every one of these 35 minutes brought a fresh revelation, featuring more stylistic and cultural innovation in its first ten minutes than most other bands achieve in their lifespan. The record on which Dylan morphed from quaint singer-songwriter into proper rock star. Blondie, ‘Parallel Lines’ (1978) Chrysallis. 100: 100. I was getting into punk and the owner of the store was like, ‘You’re trying to get into punk and you don’t know The Clash?’ So he bought the record for me. NME 500 Greatest Albums. The Breeders Last Splash (1993) 199: 199. Pixies, ‘Surfer Rosa’ (1988) 4AD. The Smiths, ‘Hatful Of Hollow’ (1984) Rough Trade. Nas was young when he wrote his debut album, just 19, but wise and world-weary, spinning vividly imagined stories of life on the streets. Ecstatic suicides, carrot-flower kings and semen-stained mountaintops. Worse, it reduces the listener’s ability to feel the full range of a tremendous record’s complicated and expansive power. Oh well. Nirvana, ‘Nevermind’ (1991) Geffen. I and the rest of the NME alumni were simply told to vote for our 'favourite' albums – Ideally a top 50 but really anything we could rustle up by the following Monday. 91. It was a masterstroke of lyrical poetry, a piece of work that will continue to live through the ages. NME ' s "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" magazine cover "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" is a 2013 special issue of British magazine NME, available digitally or in newsstands on October 23. Neil Young ‘Harvest’ (1972) Reprise. 54. Then, he went one better. The Stone Roses – … Create your own list of music and share it with the world. ‘The Model’. If the message of ‘Changes’ was that nothing lasts forever, it’s ironic how that song has gone on to become his most enduring hit, and ‘Hunky Dory’ his most time-tested album. 47. 36. Suede had created the Britpop scene in the image of Bowie at his most stylish, only to watch it go mod, chug a load of cheap lager, pretend it didn’t have a degree and fight itself over ‘birds’. Rate 5 stars Rate 4 stars Rate 3 stars Rate 2 stars Rate 1 star . Probably wont make it. Albert Hammond Jnr: ”That was just the set list we had been playing, it was underneath our fingers and the feeling was one of extreme excitement. 23. If that’s true, ‘Blue’ is the equivalent of flesh inked with the names of ex-lovers, minus the stomach-churning regret. [3] Similarly another NME journalist, Kevin EG Perry, also selected four albums by the same band in his top four spots, this time The Rolling Stones.[3]. 75. NME 500 Greatest Albums. Nowadays, it is just the baptismal font of hipness. ›› NME Writers All time top 100 - 1974. Author: chaz156. OutKast Stankonia (2000) 499: 499. The Stone Roses, ‘The Stone Roses’ (1989)Silvertone. The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses 08. More stories from Amsterdam. Are these the Top 25 albums of all time? RZA’s dirt-encrusted production took hip-hop back to its grimy New York basics after LA’s sun-blasted melodiousness had turned the genre into pop, and the Babel of lyrical styles from the then masked emcees returned some mystique to a music that was lacking those essential qualities. It is a state-of-the-nation address which seems impervious to the passage of years. Love, ‘Forever Changes’ (1967) Elektra. David Bowie, Low (1977) RCA. The Libertines, ‘The Libertines’ (2004) Rough Trade. It is one of those select few albums which seem to transcend its influences, working them into something singular and new. The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead 2. Bob Dylan, ‘Blood On The Tracks’ (1975) CBS. Probably wont make it. Trying to listen to all of the top 500 albums according to NME. 500 Greatest Albums of All Time: 225 Kerrang: ... Kerrang: The 50 Best Rock Albums of the 2000s: 1 NME: The Top 100 Greatest Albums of the Decade: 60 NPR: The Decade's 50 Most Important Recordings * Robert Dimery 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die * Rhapsody: The 100 Best Pop Albums of the Decade: 6 Entertainment Weekly: New Classics: The 100 Best Albums from 1983 to 2008. NME: The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time. From the crunchy opener ‘Vertigo’ to the pure punk blast of ‘I Get Along’, the songs sound like they were pulled out of Pete Doherty and Carl Barât’s hearts and straight onto tape.