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Written by Joanna Cole | Wednesday, November 7, 2007 |
NME have announced their annual ‘Cool List’ and as always Pete makes an appearance.
With the junkie rocker in at 34 this year, maybe the folks at NME have made way for ‘actual’ cool people in the top ten? . . . and it seems that someone has their head screwed on as Frank Carter from Gallows leads the cool pack, and rightfully so.
The young punk rocker is straight in at number 1 this year, overtaking last years ‘winner’ Beth Ditto. Their are some pleasing names included for example, Morgan Yeah? (Does It Offend You, Yeah?), Simon Niel (Biffy Clyro), MIA and Mr Cool himself Bizzle but as we’ve come to expect from the magazine, people like Ryan Jarmen (The Cribs), Jamie Reynolds (Klaxons) and Alex Turner (Arctic Monkeys) taint the top ten. These NME faves our nothing compared to the person who jumps from 50 to 8 this year . . . wait for it . . . Ms Winehouse stumbles in and quite frankly I’m not suprised (they probably all drink with her in the Hawley Arms). This is the same list that had Pete and Carl joint number one in ‘04 and included ludicrous entries like Nelly, Jamelia and 2002s number 1 Justin Timberlake.
The 50 coolest people in music according to NME are as follows:
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 - check her out www.myspace.com/santogold (you won’t be disappointed)
49. Dev Hynes – Lightspeed Champion
50. Spider Webb – The Horrors
(last years positions in brackets)
NME editor Conor McNicholas had this to say 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!”
Trends set by included artists: sniffing ashes (Keith Richards), not washing (Pete Doherty), substituting food for wine (Amy Winehouse), creating a new hole in the atmosphere above North London, just to look like you’ve stuck wet fingers in a plug socket (Spider Webb).
Expect a rant very soon . . .
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One Response to “NME Cool List ‘07 Revealed”
Good to see The Real Heat in there.
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social Says: November 8th, 2007at 2:59 pm