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NME crowns the coolest for 2007
The NME Cool List. Great. It's like junior high but for adults (Do you think I'm good-looking? Y or N). For what it's worth, the list is in the new issue which hit newstands today. Or if you don't want to buy it, we've got the list here.According to Drowned in Sound, which provides said list in non-NME magazine form, the magazine asserts on this year's list that "Punk Is Cool.' Sorry, NME, looks like The Washington Post scooped you on that story.
"Thirty years after the height of punk there are a whole load of new bands making wild and passionate noise," says NME Editor Conor McNicholas. "But it takes more than just great music to make it to the top of The Cool List - these people effortlessly set trends with every breath they take - and it's great to see that people like Keith Richards prove that you don't have to be young to do this!"
Yes, Keith Richards: the coolest friggin old dude. Well, since the death of Hunter S. Thompson.
And since this is America, you can weigh in on the list here, and cast your vote. Go for it! Or if you have a way with words, spout off at letters@nme.com. Maybe someone can explain how Thom Yorke drops from number nine to number 12 this year. Is there an algorithm involved in this process or what?
Drum roll, please. The 50 Coolest:
1. Frank Carter '' Gallows
2. Jamie Reynolds '' Klaxons (13)
3. Lovefoxxx '' CSS (10)
4. Ryan Jarman '' The Cribs
5. Lethal Bizzle
6. Alex Turner '' Arctic Monkeys (32)
7. Kate Nash
8. Amy Winehouse (50)
9. Beth Ditto '' The Gossip (1)
10. Keith Richards '' The Rolling Stones (26)
11. MIA
12. Thom Yorke '' Radiohead (9)
13. Drew McConnell - Babyshambles
14. Prince
15. Tom Clarke '' The Enemy
16. Noel Gallagher '' Oasis
17. Hayley Williams - Paramore
18. Brandon'''s Tache '' Brandon Flowers, The Killers
19. Matt Bellamy '' Muse (27)
20. James Smith - Hadouken
21. Caleb Followill '' Kings of Leon
22. Matt Helders '' Arctic Monkeys
23. Eddie Argos '' Art Brut
24. Craig Finn '' The Hold Steady
25. Morgan Yeah? '' Does it Offend You, Yeah?
26. Simon Neil - Biffy Clyro '' (28)
27. Simon Taylor - Klaxons
28. Karen O '' Yeah Yeah Yeahs (5)
29. Kele Okereke '' Bloc Party
30. Meg White '' The White Stripes (24)
31. Tim Harrington '' Les Savy Fav
32. Gerard Way '' My Chemical Romance (8)
33. Jamie T
34. Pete Doherty '' Babyshambles (28)
35. Lou Hayter '' New Young Pony Club
36. Ian Brown
37. Joe Lean '' Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong
38. Andy Burrows - Razorlight
39. Kyle Falconer '' The View
40. Nicky Wire '' Manic Street Preachers
41. Josh Homme - Queens of the Stone Age
42. Cole Alexander - Black Lips
43. Suki - Real Heat
44. Brandon Flowers '' The Killers (29)
45. Yannis Philippakis - Foals
46. Patrick Wolf
47. Carlos D - Interpol
48. Santogold
49. Dev Hynes '' Lightspeed Champion
50. Spider Webb '' The Horrors
(Last year's positions in brackets)
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This is dumb as shit.
Hex
meg white? what the?
DEDGE
nice to see Santagold on there, but the list is absurd.
Dave Park
I've officially stopped caring about even finding out if the new NME hype bands are any good at all. Who are Gallows? I dunno, and I'm not gonna google it either. I feel a weight lifting...
Jeff K
Re: Selection 34. Pete Doherty. Nothing says cool quite like a coked-up has-been.
Kyle
Ryan Jarman's a legend, should have been number one.
And Yannis from Foals should be higher.
If you don't know who Cribs and Foals are, find out you idiot.
A Realist
Alex Turner and The Monkeys are amazing too.
Oh and Kyle?
Pete Doherty is cool.
End of.
A Realist