As inevitable as the debate that’ll follow it, the NME have released the latest installment of their annual ‘Cool List’.
This year’s list, which asserts that ‘Punk Is Cool’, features lairy Gallows ginger Frank Carter in the top spot, with Jamie Reynolds of Klaxons just behind him. Lovefoxxx (CSS), Ryan Jarman, (The Cribs) and Lethal Bizzle complete the list; which – if it wasn’t for the appearance of Jarman – DiS would suspect was to be read upside down.
What else? Well, Brandon Flowers’ facial hair trumps its owner by 26 places; Tim Harrington makes an appearance and Prince sits sandwiched awkwardly at the aftershow between Babyshamble Drew McConnell and Tom Clarke of the Enemy.
All this and more, and more, and more:
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
Says NME editor Conor McNicholas of the list: “Thirty years after the height of punk there are a whole load of new bands making wild and passionate noise. 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!"
You kids, wild for ashes.
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Tim Harrington
is the coolest person on this list.
TIM HARRINGTON
Thank god, finally someone half decent.
Thumbs up Tim
I would too if he let me.
^
this (well not Diver's this)
Also, good call on Frank- but like we didn't see that one coming?!
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
very predictable choice, I loved orchestra of wolves, (dont care for staring at the rudebois but thats neither here nor there), so when the inevitable NME backlash on Gallows comes (see Selfish Cunt, Fratellis, the Twang, Reverend and the Makers) and their dropped from Warner i'll rue the day this cool list was ever published.
easily.
he should be number 1
yes
Is this Kev Kharas
Friday fun 'news' item?
This proves you can rock a crowd wearing tattoos
^
needs more credit
while the whole concept
angers/disgusts me, i dont understand how say, noel gallagher or nicky wire got on a "cool list". Certainly wire is the antisthesis of what the nme would call cool nowadays (which i spose, makes him cool. hang on...
yawn yawn yawn
like I care...?
nice No. 31 reference
Also, 18: lol.
damn
you got there before me to say this!
I don't care if he's changed it by deed poll
I'm still gonna call him Chris Carter.
Does anyone actually
still read this yawnfest?
Ha haha ha
Ian Brown? Ooh he's sooo cool!
:-S
"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!"
Strange, I don't recall ever wanting to be like Doherty, Amy Winehouse, etc.
I did dye my hair cherry red like Patrick Wolf did. But that's okay because I actually like him.
He speaks his mind don't he
He has a good understanding of all the world's problems and comes up with viable solutions like putting cows on the white house.
Even though this is the most ridiculous thing NME does
the list often makes amusing reading. You wonder what exactly leads to people being on this list, eg Drew McConnell - Babyshambles, Andy Burrows - Razorlight. Or Meg White?? Even though I love the White Stripes, how does pulling out of a tour due to anxiety lead to coolness?
I love the NME cool list
Its perfect for showing up the magazine for exactly what it is.
exactly!
jeez
this is hyperlame even for an NME Cool List
if all those people
were together in one room, i would happily bomb it.
I might allow Carlos D to leave first but i'd accept his demise on the basis that Interpol peaked in 2001. And i have nothing against the Les Savy Fav guy.
Other than that, it just reads like a list of people i hate.
In what alternate parallel universe is
Nicky Wire cooler than Josh Homme or Carlos D or Dev Hynes?
Eddie Argos must be pretty happy with #23 on that list though. Doesn't make up for the fact that they never got a #1 single on TOTP though.
Startling omissions!
Where is the House of Lords from the Young Knives?
This yearly shitfest is truly disgusting... I knew i'd want to punch my monitor as soon as I saw it.
Interesting to see no Carl Barat...? I didn't think Interpol were still down with the NME crowd
Where
is Bono?
Not because I want him on there, mind you, but because NME seems to have attempted to make the worst list ever and seems to have forgotten him.
Where is Johnny Borrell?
Stealing Christmas
The NME have been bumming FOTL recently
Yet Falco isn't in it. Coolest dude around surely?
one day..
Conor McNicholas will die at my hands. I'll probably run him over on my bike.
repeatedly
Without tyres
do they still do this rediculous list?
fucking cunts!
True ^
Eddie Argos should be higher!
:)
Ctrrl + F
:(
bastards!
Nicky Wire??
The Manics fan in me is happy that they're getting more publicity... but seriously?
Although he does appear to be better than 90% of the people on that list anyway, and that's saying something.
What factors is this list based on?
I'm having real trouble working it out this year, worse even than usual - if the defining quality of everyone on the list is that they "effortlessly set trends with every breath they take", what the fuck is Plateface Razorlight Drummerboy doing in there?
And no Kate Jackson this year? Shameful.
i must be getting old
I have no clue who that chap at #1 is. At least normally I can roll my eyes.
Cool am I?
Am I?
Am I?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlbC77GS0Ak
This seems incredibly arbitrary.
Not to mention plain stupidly wrong in most instances.
But I suppose it gives an idea of who NME will have 'discovered' come January time.
what a crock of shit
The whole concept makes me want to vomit
Anyone who is cool in rock is not on this list
and that is how best to gauge it. I am not on it and I am sub zero, neither are you which makes you all totally awsome too!
The Avangelist Cool List
1. Anyone who still goes to live shows.
2. Anyone who buys a record that isn't available at Tesco
3. Carslberg Export, may you reign on infinitum!
I wonder
if they've got Prince's permission to use his name in that list. He'll sue their asses. Hold on though....
What happened to Faris Rotter
He was number 2 last year.
Also where is Aaron Angus - surely he's the meaning of cool?
Thumbs up for Tim Harrington (are you sure there really are 30 people cooler than him?)
Can't beleive
i wasted 30 seconds of my life reading this...Carlos D's tache is way cooler than Brandon Flower's btw...
The most pathetic thing about this ridiculous list is...
the way it changes almost completely from year to year, with no rhyme nor reason. Conor McNicholas must surely be the only person in the world who actually thinks this passes for music journalism.
agree tim H rules
you can now determine the readers top 10 at nme.com/coollist
time to put wrong right!
i love the nme when it's like
"and it's great to see that people like Keith Richards prove that you don’t have to be young to do this!"
so did this list just fall into your office? this is the Official Cool List sent by our Lord and Saviour? oh right, you're just being arrogant arseholes. grate!
keith richards
is possibly the uncoolest person I can think of.
a ginger at the top of the cool list?
wow! I like Gallows, but it's strange how this year's number one is almost the complete opposite of Beth Ditto,last years number 1. I just hope Gallows are intelligent enough not to buy into NME's obvious plan to push 'nu punk' as some sort of fictional scene they have made up to sell to the kids.
they
clearly arn't! him being #1 proving this, and every other shit article they have had...
Think About It
How many of these people are on major labels? It's a marketing exercise that is trying to sell records in a different way. Guaranteed that who ever is on that list has either been hyped to death by NME already or will be in the next 6 months (Joe Lean, Does It Offend You, Yeah? etc etc).
Payolla. Nothing more. Nothing less.
"these people effortlessly set trends with every breath they take"
Poetry.
will
probably be a lyric on the cribs next album..
Suki from the real heat
i have snogged her! WOAH!
So she's in the same elite club
as Laetitia from Stereolab then?
spider webb
beautiful hair.
Bizarre...
...as usual. Loving the inclusion of Nicky Wire, it's a rather odd thing for NME to do but then they have been bumming the Manics all year. I guess supporting a non-cool thing makes it cool...or something. Patrick Wolf is too low, but ultimately this is a load of bollocks.
How can one member of Klaxons be cooler than the other?
Just cos he's shagging whasserface from CSS? That's ridiculous. The editor seems to have been a little more careful this year with his statement, after last year's, "it proves you can wear stilletos and still rock a stage"...
"they set trends with every breath they take"
....you cunt.
haha this list actually reminds me of the line in barley
..."cool people will think its cool, stupid will hate it, also cool"
That's
"EFFORTLESSLY set trends with every breath they take" - like, GET IT RIGHT! ;-)
Steff, the drummer
is the coolest member of klaxons.
angry comment
To truly be the voice of the nation, this is the correct list:
Leona Lewis
Gary Barlow
Nicky Byrne
Timbaland
Amy winehouse
Heidi
Britney Spears
hot girl(bailey tzuke?)
Martin Skarendahl
Tom Fletcher
Get it right, nme, eh.
startling ommission
the wombats..
and that idiot from the courteeners.
NME have been hyping both to death recently.. i see they have got that joe jing jung cunt in there somewhere at least.
seriously.
WHY THE CRAP IS NICKY WIRE COOL?
i have never understood.
Nme can suck my balls
What a load of Nonsense.
Frank Carter?
A 12 year old boy with too much anger? Cool?
wow
i'm glad I don't live in the UK anymore. this is fucking ridiculous, I don't even know half these names. Tim Harrington and Cole from Black Lips, only two that get my vote. I guess I still sorta like Karen O and Beth Ditto, as for the rest, gna?!?
shit
shit, im 36 and wear increasing amounts of brown and green clothing, but its still depressing to find out that someone who, i assume, has decided to call themselves spider webb is cooler than me, i demand a recount.