Lineup 2014

[sjseabass]

Is it not current bands then?

Dunno why they'd feel the need to rule those out if it was.

Why? Like it not they've had a huge influence on music in this country and, to NME's readers, will be just as influential as a lot of the bands you listed as not being included

True, but we're talking, what, 8 years tops they could've influenced new bands coming through? Not enough time for them to make the cut imo.

Plus there's the argument that bands influenced by AM are arguably just being influenced by the sum of their influences, who are themselves the sum of their influences, and so on all the way back to the actual originals. Which is why not having some of those listed acts in there is pretty stupid, and just deliberately shit-stirring by the NME. Who'd have guessed .

will be on the list:

The Libertines

Yeah, occurred to me after I posted that they'll definitely put them in there too.

Edited July 31, 2014 by theevilfridge

[#FreeComTruise]

Dunno why they'd feel the need to rule those out if it was.

As in bands currently around, but again I don't get it either

[the wonderwhy]

Name some bands they've influenced.

Probably just about anyone in Britain who's decided to start an indie-rock band since 2006...

[dentalplan]

Bullshit.

[the wonderwhy]

Not really

[dentalplan]

You've got to remember they got where they are very young so a lot of future indie musicians will have been already massively into that sort of music before they broke through. They actually rose up towards the end of the indie explosion so how they can have influenced 'anyone in Britain who decided to start an indie rock band' in the digital age is beyond me.

[the wonderwhy]

You've got to remember they got where they are very young so a lot of future indie musicians will have been already massively into that sort of music before they broke through. They actually rose up towards the end of the indie explosion so how they can have influenced 'anyone in Britain who decided to start an indie rock band' in the digital age is beyond me.

Because a lot of those future musicians probably weren't inclined to do anything about it until they saw the massive success that Arctics had. And I imagine a lot of bands changed the way they did things because of that success as well.

I bet if you asked the likes of Palma Violets, Catfish and the Bottlemen, Royal Blood, Jake Bugg, Peace, Baby Strange etc (this is just bands off this years lineup) if they were in someway influenced by Arctics, they'd say yes. Perhaps not necessarily in terms of sound, but they may have influenced their sound, their appearance, the way they play gigs... anything. They probably helped inspire a few of those bands to start out (or get serious) in the first place.

Obviously they'd all reel off a bunch of other, probably more influential, bands as well, I'm not disputing that at all, but I reckon Arctics would be in there for most of the new bands that have come through in the last five or so years.

Anyway, my point was more why NME would include Arctics, which is because they're clearly influential to the readers. Even if that's just some loner that's decided to sit in his room all day strumming a guitar because he likes Whatever People Say... that sill counts. If they wrote an article about why Elvis, The Beach Boys and The Kinks are three of the most influential acts of all time most of their readers wouldn't give a shit.

[dentalplan]

But why though? There were so many bands exploding onto the scene at that point - plus the nation still being in the shadow of Britpop - that Arctics were just a drop in the ocean. Plus they came at a time where people never really had to listen to them, they could just download whatever they want for free. I think the main thing the Arctic Monkeys had is that they were one of the first success stories of MySpace.

[the wonderwhy]

Because of their success. There wasn't really anyone else who was scoring a number 1 debut album, playing decent sized venues so quickly and leaping up festival bills. And yeah, their social media success probably influenced bands to try and replicate that too.

It's like Andy Murray winning Wimbledon and loads of people deciding to pick up a tennis racquet. Something is there for ages but someone making a huge success of it and raking a fuck-tonne of money of the back of that is only going to influence a bunch of other people.

[mrtourette]

So next week's NME is 'The most 100 influential acts in music' and it doesn't feature:

The Beatles

The Rolling Stones

Bob Dylan

Elvis Presley

The Who

The Kinks

The Beach Boys

Sex Pistols

Discuss.

NME

[Yellow_Fellow]

judging by what i've heard every fucking band that's worth listening to has been influenced by QotSA

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[tyranicide]

judging by what i've heard every fucking band that's worth listening to has been influenced by QotSA

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QotSA have had Dave Ghrol with them, who was influenced by his time in Nirvana and Kurt was heavily influenced by the Beatles

[dentalplan]

Why did you type that?

[sjseabass]

Maybe it'll turn out none of those bands are featured because they're going back past them to all the jazz, blues and rock and roll guys.

Or they'll have the Stone Roses at #1.

[#FreeComTruise]

Maybe it'll turn out none of those bands are featured because they're going back past them to all the jazz, blues and rock and roll guys.

It could be another of those "of NME's lifetime" or "of the past decade" lists, but it's hardly like the influence of someone like The Beatles will have just ended when the band stopped making music. Then there's the likes of the Stones and Dylan who are still touring and releasing new music so that angle doesn't really make sense either

Maybe artists that have only formed in the last 20 years or something similar, but that hardly gives enough time for there to be a 100 truly influential artists?

I hate NME because their marketing is actually really good because I want to see this stupid issue now

[mrtourette]

NME are the masters of getting idiots to care about lists that don't mean anything.

[mattgimmeshelter]

Arctics were the first band to get big from the internet right?

Apart from that I reckon they are just a big British band, not influential.

[#FreeComTruise]

NME are the masters of getting idiots to care about lists that don't mean anything.

I'm an idiot too? You're being so nice tonight

[Yellow_Fellow]

Arctics were the first band to get big from the internet right?

define big and "from the internet"

[Yellow_Fellow]

NME are the masters of getting idiots to care about lists that don't mean anything.

Buzzfeed

[mattgimmeshelter]

define big and "from the internet"

I thought dance floor went viral or something on YouTube?

[Gucci Piggy]

I formed an indie rock band since 2006, and that wasn't because of Arctic Monkeys.

Was probs cause of Muse; were they in there???

[mrtourette]

Everything is because of The Libertines. Everything. They invented the internet that Arctic Monkeys were the first band to use to get big.

[mrtourette]

I thought dance floor went viral or something on YouTube?

So you don't actually know what you're talking about?

The reason they are credited as some kind of modern trendsetters is because they are seen by the mainstream as the first band to utilise free downloads and fan file-sharing through their website(s) to spread word of mouth (rather than using the traditional methods of advertising and airplay) to mass effect, and it culminated in the #1 single when very little was spent on promotion or pushing the record using traditional methods. This prompted middle-aged media types everywhere to hail them as some kind of indication of the future and how music was going to be distributed and that these upstarts form the North were shunning tried and tested formulas and breaking down barriers, forcing the music industry to try and keep up, blah blah blah, as if it was something new. Which of course it wasn't. And look at these young upstarts now, where once they were allegedly blazing a trail, forcing the music industry to take a long hard look at itself and question its future they are now using immoral schemes to avoid paying taxes on their millions.

It's got nothing to do with 'going viral or something on youtube'.

Edited July 31, 2014 by mrtourette

[#FreeComTruise]

Was probs cause of Muse; were they in there???

We don't know the list yet pleb