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Now, this could have been an interesting list as it included writers past and present among voters but as Johnny Cigarettes reveals, .

Still, it was nice to see mclusky Do Dallas in there.

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Tall, moustachioed alcoholic - plays firewood with a bow.

I was actually pleasantly surprised by how diverse it was. There were a lot of surprise choices in there along with the obvious ones. Only 3 Spiritualized albums is scandalous! But then no one here was actually expecting it to be a mirror of their tastes were they? A few too many of the usual suspects there which I don't personally care for (Oasis, The Smiths, The Verve) but then people actually do like those albums, so it's difficult to complain. My 500 would be very different, but more than I expected would fit into both.

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I was amused to see Pussy Galore's cover version of Exile On Main Street at number 253. This was only officially released as a cassette, with just 550 copies made. There have been bootleg versions on vinyl, but they don't have all the tracks. Apparently, they only covered it because Sonic Youth had planned to cover The White Album and Pussy Galore saw themselves as The Stones to Sonic Youth's Beatles. Neil Hagerty is said to be the only member of the band who actually knew all the songs on Exile and the studio process largely consisted of him hurriedly teaching the rest of the band one song at time and then recording that song before moving on to the next. As the recordings go on their relationship to the originals become more and more tenuous and half arsed as they seem to get bored with the project. Considering how long the Stones worked on the original, it's quite funny that the cover version is only 229 places lower.

I thought of making my own top ten, basing it simply on the LPs that I return to the most and then seeing where they made it on the list (if at all), but I can't be arsed. I did notice though, that Black Monk Time didn't make the 500 and that would easily be in my top two or three.

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Curmudgeonly Rock 'n' Roll time traveller from ye olden days

2nd verse same as the 1st...

Bit miffed that no Spacemen 3 made the list. Not because I'm a fan but because they've made previous NME lists. They did a 100 greatest British albums a couple of years back (interestingly it was The Stone Roses at number 1, ahead of The Smiths unlike this list, which just shows how much these things change) and S3 did quite well in that. The Perfect Prescription is normally the one they go for, but Playing With Fire is their ultimate album. Black Monk Time is another odd omission. But then if we start debating stuff that didn't make it we'd have another 500 albums list...

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