All these years later, do the NME still hate Queen?

Just read the latest issue, which has their '500 greatest albums of all time' list.

Didn't really surprise me but Queen aren't featured once. Not even ANATO gets a mention.

Seems to me like the NME didn't like Queen much in the 70s and not much has changed. Surprise suprise however, Arctic Monkeys and Oasis made the top 20.

NME is a fashion rag - hence no Queen, but Bowie (the old timer of the year) is heavily featured, and Morrissey is number one as everyone is talking about his autobiography this week.

I'm sure when pompous rock is fashionable again the tables will turn. At the moment it's all Eno inspired Jewish funk.

Funnily enough Brian May wrote this on his Twitter feed on 24th Oct

Dr. Brian May ?@DrBrianMay 8h
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/oct/23/musical-evolution-cool-heinous-to-hip … They might just as well say "Music critics have on the whole been very dull and very stupid for a very long time !"

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/oct/23/musical-evolution-cool-heinous-to-hip

NME readership for the great unwashed! It's columnists are bunch of wet nosed anti establishment types who call mind numbing drivel noise, music. i.e that pathetic streak of paralysed piss Morrisey. Did anyone hear the Arctic Monkeys or Kaiser Chiefs live? You would hear more melody at a breaker's yard.

Who do you like Band Forever?

it's a surprise to me that the smiths album it's first place, i like very much them, but without queen, and it's a very strange list

You've got to remember that the people that write for NME are about 18 and trying VERY hard not to rock the boat and stay on message.

There seems to be a thread about the NME in the 'serious discussion' category???

Thankfully, history taught us not to worry about such things. After all, it's just some stupid magazine.

The NME is,and has always been,basically crap.Freddie told them so(can you imagine saying that today?)and for those who were actually around the reviews were pretty scathing.They really went to town in the eighties,with the bloody Smiths and their ilk in every issue,while dismissing Queen albums as 'a bucket of urine' or 'awful'.Only Record Mirror came up with a review for A Kind Of Magic that was accurate,'Empires may crumble,Governments may fall,and they might even change the formula for cadbury's milk chocolate,(they did!)but Queen will always endure' written by some chap called Johny Dee,perhaps he had a good career.......?

Of course they hate Queen NME is just a shit rag, I have always hated it, the writers they employ either have no idea about the subject or they are so far up their own backsides that all they want to do is make a name for themselves for being 'edgy' I really hope it dies soon, I can't imagine who reads it these days? or why?

Dear Mooghead,
I do like other artists but Queen are obviously my favourites. IMO you'd have to be taking some serious non-medicinal drugs to enjoy listening to Morrisey or the Smiths. They are devoid of any charisima or enegry just so flat and dull! If they were on a life support machine you would want to pull the plug out after two bars.
I just don't get them or any of these shit Indie bands that NME touts as the next cultural revolution. Morrisey is such a traitor and outspoken critic of our country (the best in the world), he should go and live somewhere remote and dull as he is 'One Man Island'.

Who do you like Band Forever?

Fortunately some of us aren't so polarised. I bought NME and the other 3 main weekly music papers in the 70's and 80's.

In an era without the internet they were hugely informative and really did report on what was happening in music.

Unfortunately instead of just moving with the times they had an urge to completely insult what had gone before. Stuff that they had championed (check the reviews of SHA and ANATO).

I was totally into Joy Division, The Smiths, Blondie, Undertones etc. at the same time as loving Queen and ELO.

The fact that ANATO is not in the NME list clarifies that the list is meaningless and created by people that are blinkered and fashion-led (whether it be journos or their dwindling readership).

NME is the last desperate gasp of something that once really meant something to the UK record-buying public.