NME's Cool List 2003 - What Do Y'all Think?

[Psychocandy]

I'll list the Top 10 for the moment and will put up the entire Top 50 tomorrow or Friday night.

Here's the Top Ten...

1. Justin Timberlake
2. Brody Dalle of The Distillers
3. Meg White of The White Stripes
4. Caleb Followill of Kings Of Leon
5. Carl Barat of The Libertines
6. Peaches
7. Chris Chester of Jet
8. Beyonce
9. Albert Hammond Jr of The Strokes
10. Karen O of Yeah Yeah Yeahs

What do y'all think?

[Sparrow]

Christ, I hate these lists. Who comes up with these things?

[BadCoverVersion]

PEACHES and MEG WHITE are the coolest on the list.

Nice to see a list that is 50% female for a change...great stuff.

I feel JT is going to get a dissing, shame really...he's produced the BEST POP this year. Senorita, Cry Me a River, Rock Your Body and Girlfriend are all quality tunes.

Overall, VERY diverse and fair list.

[Saruman]

This should be the cool list

1) Ozzy Osbourne
2) Rob Zombie
3) Zakk Wylde (Ozzy, Black Label Society)
4) chick from the Distillers
5) Jonathan Davis (Korn)


There's a good top 5 of cool people.

[Psychocandy]

Fuck it!!! I'm doing jack shit anyway so I may as well post the rest of the list right now. :D

1. Justin Timberlake
2. Brody Dalle of The Distillers
3. Meg White of The White Stripes
4. Caleb Followill of Kings Of Leon
5. Carl Barat of The Libertines
6. Peaches
7. Chris Chester of Jet
8. Beyonce
9. Albert Hammond Jr of The Strokes
10. Karen O of Yeah Yeah Yeahs
11. Dizzee Rascal
12. Jack White of The White Stripes
13. Marcie Bolen of The Von Bondies
14. Andre 3000 of Outkast (ex?)
15. Christina Aguilera
16. Eminem
17. Sean Paul
18. Devendra Banhart
19. Chris Martin of Coldplay
20. Sharin Foo of The Raveonettes
21. Dave Navarro of Jane's Addiction
22. Cedrix Bixler of The Mars Volta
23. Rishi Rich
24. Julian Casablancas of The Strokes
25. Pharrell Williams of The Neptunes & NERD
26. Davey Havok of AFI
27. Robert Smith of The Cure (a pleasant surprise)
28. Frankie Poullain of The Darkness (rock the 70's porn star look fella)
29. Linda Perry
30. Bill Ryder-Jones of The Coral
31. Kylie
32. Gabe Andruzzi of The Rapture
33. Paul Banks of Interpol
34. Holly Golightly
35. Charlie Simpson of Busted
36. Josh Homme of Queen's Of The Stone Age
37. Thom Yorke of Radiohead
38. Glen Bartup of 20-20s
39. Nick McCarthy of Franz Ferdinand
40. Queens Of Noize
41. Preston
42. Peter Hayes of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
43. Mutya Buena of Sugababes
44. Jamelia
45. Rufus Wainwright
46. Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips
47. Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance
48. VV of The Kills
49. Martin Tomlinson of Selfish Cunt (ain't gonna be seeing these guys on Top Of The Tops any time soon)
50. Bjorn Agren of Razorlight

There ye go.

The following artists were on 2003's list but weren't deemed cool enough for the 2004 list.

Gwen Stefani
Dr Dre
Romeo
Roots Manuva
Liam Gallagher
Mark Lanegan
Jay-Z
Dave Grohl
Richard Fearless
Richard D James
Arthur Lee
Nick Oliveri
Ryan Adams
Felix Da Housecat
Didz Hammond
Alesha Dixon
DJ Hell
Robert Harvey
Serj Tankian
DJ Rubbish
Daniel Kessler
David Holmes
Courtney Love
Nick Pankhurst
Pink
Kelly Osborne
James Skelly
Nick Jago
Erol Alkan
Conor Oberst
Miss Kittin
Howlin' Pelle
Almqvist
Nelly
Craig Nicholls
Mike Skinner
Dolf De Datsun
Fabrizio Moretti
James Murphy

How fickle is fame? :D

And how bored must I be? :confused:

[BadCoverVersion]

Originally posted by Psychocandy
35. Charlie Simpson of Busted

Eyebrows?

What the FUCK?

:D

Oh, my giddy head.

Any chance you could post the 'fool' list Psycho? You know you're the bestest...and I adore ya...and I can't be arsed traipsing to the shop tonight...;)

See, the paper shop that sells NME is much further than the fag and sweets shop, and it's frequented by skally's, who oft' holler...

"Oy, get ya tits out...luv!"

Niiiiiiiice.

Anyway...

EYEBROWS?

[Psychocandy]

That be the "fool" list milady. :D

I think they are going to compile a list voted for by the readership. I'll post that when they publish it. Personally I think that the NME dudes and dudettes should be publically flogged then left to perish, homeless on the cold streets of this land for the crime they committed against all taste by the inclusion of that wankstain on the curtain of life Charlie Simpson. I almost choked on my aero when I spotted his cretinous visage staring back at me from the page. A complete load of clagnuts.

[BadCoverVersion]

Originally posted by Psychocandy
Personally I think that the NME dudes and dudettes should be publically flogged then left to perish, homeless on the cold streets of this land for the crime they committed against all taste by the inclusion of that wankstain on the curtain of life Charlie Simpson. I almost choked on my aero when I spotted his cretinous visage staring back at me from the page. A complete load of clagnuts.

Fucks sake...I'm dying here...:D, I've spluttered tango on my mousemat.

You have a way with words Psycho.

Clagnuts...tee-hee.

[Psychocandy]

Originally posted by BadCoverVersion
Fucks sake...I'm dying here...:D, I've spluttered tango on my mousemat.

You have a way with words Psycho.

Clagnuts...tee-hee.

It was beyond my control. I was channeling spirits.

[Bullet Tooth Tony]

Interesting list. Timberlake has had a good year but is he really the coolest?

Don't know who I'd choose to be top to be honest?

One thing that struck me was that Charlie from Busted was on there...I mean what for? Mr Mono-brow? Who will it be next year one of the little shites from Blazin Squad.

Good list, very diverse.

[screamer581]

I can kinda take or leave the list, but it is cool to see Rufus Wainwright on there, he is a cool cat.

[JCR]

Och the NME lost all rights to decide on what is cool and what is not when they put avril lasagne on the cover. The fact they get outsold by Kerrang! these days just shows how far they've fallen.

[Shakamaker]

Originally posted by BadCoverVersion
Fucks sake...I'm dying here...:D, I've spluttered tango on my mousemat.

You have a way with words Psycho.

Clagnuts...tee-hee.

:D I was choking on banana by 'wankstain on the curtain of life'. Cheers, Psycho!

[BadCoverVersion]

The 'wankstain on the curtain of life' in all his glory...

http://www.princessmoon3k.homestead.com/files/Charlie.jpg

Just a wee treat for Psychocandy, you see.

[Psychocandy]

Originally posted by BadCoverVersion
The 'wankstain on the curtain of life' in all his glory...

http://www.princessmoon3k.homestead.com/files/Charlie.jpg

Just a wee treat for Psychocandy, you see.

It's quite honestly beyond me to explain his presence on that list. The only theory i've managed to conjure up so far is that NME enjoys courting the wrath of it's readership and have planted this talentless schmuck on the list, one place above the infinitely cooler Josh Homme nonetheless, in an attempt to liven up next weeks letters page. I'm sorely tempted to put pen to paper meself. I've never written into the NME and wouldn't generally allow myself to be driven to such drastic lengths under normal circumstances. However, i'm feeling particularly unusual these days and extreme circumstances call for extreme measures.

[docholiday_13]

Anybody who even considers calling Timberlake cool should be hung up by their nuts and then beaten.

That's just me talking though.

I don't think you could have found a cooler act than Outkast this year.

And where are the Neptunes on that list?

I'm in agreeance with Sparrow. Lists suck the high hard one.

[Psychocandy]

Originally posted by docholiday_13
And where are the Neptunes on that list?

Pharrel is on the list. Number 25.

[paul calf]

it's different i will give them that,i personally think justin has done enough this year to be included somewhere,top i am not sure but included yes,as for the busted boy hell no!
thought wayne coyne should have been much higher.

[scottish-movie-freak]

Where the hell is Amy Lee from Evanescence?! :mad:

[A.J. Hakari]

Originally posted by Psychocandy
1. Justin Timberlake

He belongs on a list of cool singers as much as I belong as head of the Steven Seagal Appreciation Society.

[Lynn Minmei]

Originally posted by Adam J. Hakari
He belongs on a list of cool singers as much as I belong as head of the Steven Seagal Appreciation Society.

You belong as the president of the Air Bud Addiction Club.

[Haddonfield]

One thing about that list....Huh?

Who the f**k are they?

Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kings Of Leon, The Distillers, The Libertines....Never heard of any of them.

[A.J. Hakari]

Originally posted by Lynn Minmei
You belong as the president of the Air Bud Addiction Club.

Dammit, I tried to steer away from an AIR BUD joke...

Just when I thought I was out...Lynn pulls me back in...

[Psychocandy]

Originally posted by Haddonfield
One thing about that list....Huh?

Who the f**k are they?

Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kings Of Leon, The Distillers, The Libertines....Never heard of any of them.

I can kind of understand you not knowing who The Libertines are being that they are mainly a UK concern at the moment. The Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs, Kings Of Leon and The Distillers are three of the finest currently functioning bands in the world. All three have featured extensively not only in the UK music press but also in the US. All of the above bands feature on the best album of the year lists by Spin and Blender as published in another thread (except for The Distillers). So they aren't exactly unknown commodities.

[Morgana]

Originally posted by Psychocandy
I'll list the Top 10 for the moment and will put up the entire Top 50 tomorrow or Friday night.

Here's the Top Ten...

1. Justin Timberlake


I watched a tv concert special with Timberlake last night, just to see whether he's really as irritating as he appears...I have to yes, he really is that irritating. Timberlake is white suburbia hippidity - hoppidity fare, and a mediocre one at that. His songs become quickly old, especially since they're played to death by pop radio stations. Don't know how the rest of the world views him, but in the States he suffers from severe overexposure!