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Amy Winehouse is cooler than Beth Ditto? Where's Jarvis?!?
Submitted by imaginary liz on November 13, 2007.NME has posted their "Cool" findings for 2007 on their website and has opened the voting for the Readers' Top 10 on their website.
The NME editorial staff ranked cool-kids like so:
1. Frank Carter, Gallows (new)
2. Jamie Reynolds, Klaxon (last year 13)
3. Lovefoxxx, CSS (last year 10)
4. Ryan Jarman, The Cribs (re-entry)
5. Lethal Bizzle (new)
6. Alex Turner, Arctic Monkeys (last year 32)
7. Kate Nash (new entry)
8. Amy Winehouse (last year 50)
9. Beth Ditto, Gossip (last year 1)
10. Keith Richards (last year 26)
I need Erik G to truly critique (and decipher) it for me, but I have to point out the oddness of making Beth Ditto #9 AFTER Amy... and after that Klaxon? And Keith Richards? Is that the token classic dude? I'm guessing that means last year David Bowie was on the list?
Good to know at least the Readers' Top Ten shouts out to Jack White and Jarvis Cocker (who should be #1, always).
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imaginary dana said on November 13, 2007:
Note to self: begin working on Imaginary Cool List.
Topping list: Erik Gonzalez.
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imaginary liz said on November 14, 2007:
Yea we should start a list / Readers vote! Although, tied with Erik G is Jarvis.
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Erik Gonzalez said on November 13, 2007:
#1 Frank Carter from the Gallows: the UK is having some crazed hardcore revival, and the Gallows pretty much sound like any punk-hardcore band of the mid-90s stateside (see "Staring at the Rude Bois"). I think they think he's cool because he has tattoos.
#4 Not sure why the guy from the Cribs is even on here ... he's pretty bland.
#5 Lethal Bizzle: I think Lethal Bizzle could be summed up as Dizzee Rascal 2.0. So far I haven't been overly impressed, but I think he gets cool points from NME for working with Gallows on "Staring At The Rude Bois." I am amused that one of his big hits is called "Bizzle Bizzle".
#7 I can't really comment other than I have a crush on Kate Nash, so I think she's cool. So much cooler than the trainwreck known as Amy Winehouse.
As for the "Cool List" in general, I've been amused by the number of comments I've seen on the Interweb of people cancelling their NME subscription because of this issue. They say NME have more or less become a gossip/fashion magazine that mentions music every once in a while ... and I'm inclined to agree.