NME #1 album prediction

[Medusa]

> 8 Kanye West - Late Registration
 
 It seems kind of weird to me that this made their list.
 
 Cheers
 
 DJ Medusa.

[palahniukkubrick]

Originally posted by Medusa:
  > 8 Kanye West - Late Registration
 
 It seems kind of weird to me that this made their list.
 
 Cheers
 
 DJ Medusa.

Why is that?

[kurosawa-b/w]

Originally posted by Medusa:
  8 Kanye West - Late Registration
 
 It seems kind of weird to me that this made their list.
 
 Cheers
 
 DJ Medusa.

They've been in love with Kanye ever since he made his controversial statements.

[Relaxer]

Q Magazine
 1 Coldplay - X&Y
 2 Gorillaz - Demon Days
 3 Kaiser Chiefs - Employment
 4 Oasis - Don't Believe The Truth
 5 Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
 6 James Blunt - Back To Bedlam
 7 Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better
 8 Arcade Fire - Funeral
 9 KT Tunstall - Eye To The Telescope
 10 Hard-Fi - Stars of CCTV
 
 Uncut:
 1 Funeral by Arcade Fire
 2 Illinois by Sufjan Stevens
 3 No Direction Home: The Soundtrack by Bob Dylan
 4 Black Mountain by Black Mountain
 5 Alligator by The National
 6 A Bigger Bang by The Rolling Stones
 7 LCD Soundsystem by LCD Soundsystem
 8 Get Behind Me Satan by The White Stripes
 9 You Could Have It So Much Better by Franz Ferdinand
 10 Want Two by Rufus Wainwright

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Now I see where you guys got all got your personal top 10 lists from. You all read the same magazines and buy the same albums.

They all use the same cologne, too.

[ccfalzon]

BTW, any 2005 top 50 list is meaningless without MMJ, Sinead, Ryan Adams, or Fiona Apple.
 
 And how did Oasis even crack the top 100? That would be like a US reviewer thinking that the Black Crowes were still in the conversation.

[Relaxer]

Originally posted by frenchpiece:
  BTW, any 2005 top 50 list is meaningless without MMJ, Sinead, Ryan Adams, or Fiona Apple.
 
 And how did Oasis even crack the top 100? That would be like a US reviewer thinking that the Black Crowes were still in the conversation.

Oasis is still a relevant album-releasing band, with singles that top the UK/European charts, whereas the Black Crowes are not. Plus, Oasis can still fill a 100,000 seat stadium, the Black Crowes could not.
 
 I'm not a big fan of Oasis anymore, but the fact remains that their fanbase in UK and Europe remains rabid and enormous, and a lot of people really liked their latest record.

[palahniukkubrick]

Originally posted by Relaxer:
   Plus, Oasis can still fill a 100,000 seat stadium, the Black Crowes could not.
 
 

Oasis can fill a 100,000 seat stadium in Europe, but not here. It took weeks for their Madison Square Garden show to sell out. Meanwhile, the Crowes sold out 7 nights at the Hammerstein Ballroom and their NYE show at MSG in a few days.

[Relaxer]

Originally posted by pickup hiccup stickup:
   

Originally posted by Relaxer:
   Plus, Oasis can still fill a 100,000 seat stadium, the Black Crowes could not.
 
 

Oasis can fill a 100,000 seat stadium in Europe, but not here. It took weeks for their Madison Square Garden show to sell out. Meanwhile, the Crowes sold out 7 nights at the Hammerstein Ballroom and their NYE show at MSG in a few days. [/b]

Are 100,000 people less impressive in Europe than in the States?
 
 And according to what I read, Oasis' MSG show sold out in less than a day. That's considerably less than "weeks". Plus, a New Years Eve show is a bit more of an event than a regular show in June, which is what the Oasis show was. Would the Black Crowes sell it out in March?
 
 And filling the 3,0000-seat Hammerstein for 7 days is impressive. Of course, the Arctic Monkeys just sold out a 2,000-head venue (in Europe), and that was with only one single out. So it's all relative.

[ccfalzon]

Just because Oasis sold out a 100,000 person venue in Europe doesn't make them relevant. That would mean that despite all of the crap that Metallica and DMB have been putting out for the past ten years, their ticket sales would overshadow their disappointing recent output.
 
 The new Oasis album was not good. They haven't had even a "good" album since Morning Glory. You could take a dump on acetate and the Brit press would swarm to it like flies. If they aren't careful, Pete Doherty's career might become the Brits' crowning acheivement of this decade.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

uh, yes.
 
 
 

Originally posted by Relaxer:
 QUOTE]Are 100,000 people less impressive in Europe than in the States?

[Sage 703]

I'm a little bothered by the frequency that the Arcade Fire is showing up on lists for this year - NME and otherwise, and not just in the UK.  They got a Grammy nod for Funeral.  What the hell?  Are we just rewriting when this was released?  It isn't even as though it was reissued this year on a major or something.  It is still on Merge.
 
 Oh, and I second the previous statement that Ryan Adams has to be included on any year end lists - both of his albums were among the best things I heard this year.

[BLACKSTORM]

Originally posted by frenchpiece:
  Just because Oasis sold out a 100,000 person venue in Europe doesn't make them relevant. That would mean that despite all of the crap that Metallica and DMB have been putting out for the past ten years, their ticket sales would overshadow their disappointing recent output.
 
 The new Oasis album was not good. They haven't had even a "good" album since Morning Glory. You could take a dump on acetate and the Brit press would swarm to it like flies. If they aren't careful, Pete Doherty's career might become the Brits' crowning acheivement of this decade.

It actually makes them very relevant. NME and Q are British mags not American. So it should not suprise anyone to see Oasis on the list. They are one of the biggest acts in the UK and Europe.

[BLACKSTORM]

Originally posted by Etan de Balzac, Footie Ball Player:
  uh, yes.
 
 
 

Originally posted by Relaxer:
 QUOTE]Are 100,000 people less impressive in Europe than in the States? [/b]

uh, no.