- Audio CD (10 Mar 2008)
- Number of Discs: 3
- Format: Box set
- Label: Virgin TV
- ASIN: B0012R08GG
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 35,820 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. The MC5 - Kick Out The Jams | |||
| 2. Velvet Underground - I'm Waiting For The Man | |||
| 3. The Stooges - No Fun | |||
| 4. The Doors - L.A. Woman | |||
| 5. The New York Dolls - Jet Boy | |||
| 6. Patti Smith - Gloria | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. The Clash - I Fought The Law | |||
| 2. Stiff Little Fingers - Suspect Device | |||
| 3. The Jam - Going Underground | |||
| 4. The Vapors - Turning Japanese | |||
| 5. Generation X - Kiss Me Deadly | |||
| 6. The Pretenders - Brass In Pocket | |||
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| Disc: 3 | |||
| 1. Morrissey - Suedehead | |||
| 2. The Stone Roses - She Bangs The Drums | |||
| 3. Happy Mondays - Step On | |||
| 4. Inspiral Carpets - This Is How It Feels | |||
| 5. Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence | |||
| 6. Orbital - Chime | |||
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Product Description
Album Description
NME Classics spans three musical decades - 70s / 80s and 90s and brings together the most inspirational and most influential artists of their time, from the really defining moment of NME with punk singles from bands such as The Clash, Happy Mondays, Oasis and REM to name but a few. It also brilliantly encompasses the numerous musical genres of those times from the heady sounds of Punk in the 70s and New Wave in the early 80s, to Two Tone, Indie, Brit Pop and Rave.
Focussing on the classic rock biased tracks, NME Classics is the perfect nostalgia trip for lads and Dads (from the first time around) and Festival goers. It includes a special booklet which includes photographs from the magazine from those decades, together with sleeve notes from editors of the time.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
I haven't read the NME in years but long before the advent of the internet, a favourable review in the NME was one of the few ways a small up and coming artist could get people to listen to them (which meant travelling to some underground record shop and actually buying a physical copy of the album, something that's becoming increasingly rare these days).
This collection should have contained more obscure indie the type which the NME was always about heralding. Instead it's horribly predictable. Does anybody really need to go over all those obvious punk and new wave tracks. Disc 3 jumps past real indie and straight into that horrific beast that started to develop in the nineties and never went away, corporate sponsored manufactured "indie" rock. Yawn.
Instead of buying this, go check out the back ctalalogues of Sarah Records, Rough Trade, Drag City, Matador, Domino, Fire and a host of other indie labels.
This collection should have contained more obscure indie the type which the NME was always about heralding. Instead it's horribly predictable. Does anybody really need to go over all those obvious punk and new wave tracks. Disc 3 jumps past real indie and straight into that horrific beast that started to develop in the nineties and never went away, corporate sponsored manufactured "indie" rock. Yawn.
Instead of buying this, go check out the back ctalalogues of Sarah Records, Rough Trade, Drag City, Matador, Domino, Fire and a host of other indie labels.
8 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Firstly, don't get me wrong, there is very good stuff on here, but, this compilation is notable for what it lacks.
Bar one Doors track, there is no psychedelia, a genre that was hugely influential to many of NME's favourite bands over the years, c86 is notable for it's absence, as is shoegaze...precious little in the way of new romantic, and, while not my things, no rap, no acid house & dance music is represented by one Orbital track.
This compilation smacks of one person's record collection, rather than a cross section of the music that the NME covered - and championed - over the decades.
Another criticism is that it hardly digs beneath the surface - something that the NME used to excell at - if this is your thing, the chances are that you'll have many of these tracks in your collection anyway.
In summary, an alternative collection for people who shop in Woolworths.
If you want the most sucessful tracks of your favourite bands in one natty package, and no more, this may well be for you, but, for those of you that may want some reference points, and to discover new music that you didn't know you loved, then, I'll agree with the reviewer above that 'Son Of Nuggets' would be a far better starting place.
Bar one Doors track, there is no psychedelia, a genre that was hugely influential to many of NME's favourite bands over the years, c86 is notable for it's absence, as is shoegaze...precious little in the way of new romantic, and, while not my things, no rap, no acid house & dance music is represented by one Orbital track.
This compilation smacks of one person's record collection, rather than a cross section of the music that the NME covered - and championed - over the decades.
Another criticism is that it hardly digs beneath the surface - something that the NME used to excell at - if this is your thing, the chances are that you'll have many of these tracks in your collection anyway.
In summary, an alternative collection for people who shop in Woolworths.
If you want the most sucessful tracks of your favourite bands in one natty package, and no more, this may well be for you, but, for those of you that may want some reference points, and to discover new music that you didn't know you loved, then, I'll agree with the reviewer above that 'Son Of Nuggets' would be a far better starting place.
5 of 8 people found the following review helpful
While the 90's anthems left me short changed this latest compilation does what it exactly says on the tin as it has nearly all the tracks i recognise and love from MC5's kicking out the jam,s to Blondies "One way and another all the way to the 90's best tracks.
even better its a bargain!
even better its a bargain!
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