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so, the twenty coolest people in the world are -
1. (New) Alex Turner (Arctic Monkeys)
2. (New) Liam Gallagher (Oasis)
3. (New) Kanye West
4. (New) Antony (Antony and the Johnsons)
5. (9) Brandon Flowers (The Killers)
6. (17) Devendra Banhart
7. (1) Pete Doherty (Babyshambles)
8. (New) Jemima Pearl (Be Your Own Pet)
9. (New) Bob Dylan
10. (1) Carl Barat (The Libertines)
11. (New) Ian Brown
12. (New) Damon Albarn
13. (New) Ryan Jarman (The Cribs)
14. (New) Julian Casablancas (The Strokes)
15. (New) Ninja (Go! Team)
16. (New) Paul Epworth
17. (New) Billie Joe Armstrong (Green Day)
18. (New) Tom Atkin (The Paddingtons)
19. (New) Henry Harrison (The Mystery Jets)
20. (New) Gerard Way (My Chemical Romance)
apparently. nme cool list 2005.
i knew
i was so uncool...
It's so true..
...Bob Dylan is completely new to being cool.
just as i begin to accept nme
they do this. what does "cool" mean? and why does julian casablanca have more of it that Paul Epworth for instance?
okay, i'm just bitter i'm not on the list.
liam gallagher
can fuck off.
so can gerard from mcr.
yeah!
how is Liam a NEW ENTRY? like he's never been top of their cool list before..?
and.. Ian Brown??????
who
the fuck are the Strokes?
and why
someone from the Paddingtons !!!
er...
what the fuck?
how can that chubby fucker from Green Day be 'cool'? and surely the Arctic Monkeys are anti-cool?
BIZARRE.
Yeah,
but being anti-cool makes them cool, y'see. Which, ironically, makes them uncool.
now
my head hurts !
nme
the nme can fuck right off out of my life.
Dude.
That guy from Green Day is hardly chubby...
i think
the qualification for being 'cool' is just to be a fucking idiot.
what has ian brown done this year apart from getting thrown by a security guard?
what has liam gallagher done this year? apart from release a dodgy album and go 'yeah, er, who's big at the moment? yeah, they're all crap'.
and what has bob dylan DONE this year? talked about being cool in the 60s/70s/80s/90s.
and of course, the cribs and the paddingtons are complete jokes. puke.
i notice..
.. no-one seems to have a problem with Kanye.
:D
he is cool
that's why
guh
it's spelled 'Foxx' actually. i'm working with amateurs.
paul epworth
was definitely in it last year.
i
think you're right.
It's a ...
...pointless conceit. The only good thing about this list is we've gotten a pretty decent CD out of it the last couple of years...
Not this year
though. The CD is bloody awful.
I just typed out a huge message about how the NME is getting better, back to the level it once was at, but that this is a giant let down and just awful pointless lazy 'journalism', but then I deleted it because I was getting too angry with myself. Oh well.
I'm assuming
that I'm 21st in that list. Anthony from The Johnsons is not cool he sounds like Heather Fucking Smalls for chrissakes.
You're
52nd, just behind George off of Rainbow (the Carl Barat of children's television) and Leonard Nimoy.
If
George was Rainbow's Carl Barat who was the coke-snorting-crack-smoking-supermodel-dating tosser?
Zippy?
Nah,
Bungle. Clearly. That bear was an out of control drug-addled MONSTER. He wore pyjamas at night, and nothing in the day. He was clearly OUT OF IT.
It says much
that they had to tell us what band so many of them are in.
I think if you don't know who they are they clearly aren't cool.
Fuckwits.
don't be silly
they're <i>super</i> cool if we need telling who they are. Heh heh! Ryan Jarman. Hahahaha!
if it didnt
tell me which band they're from i would barely know who a third of those people are.
so they can't be that cool yet
Why
Is Charlotte Church not on the list? She meets every criteria - boozy, brassy, big gob, always in the papers, rubbish music etc
Actually
It's a really good point.
Maybe because she dresses like a 'chav'?
the girl Church
is cool as fuck. FACT.
who
is Paul Epworth? and who are Be Your Own Pet?? Im so out of touch.
whys...
ninja from the go! team in there... i love them all that but have i missed something what she done that makes her cool enough for the fucktards at nme seems rather random...
She's mouthy
but good looking. Which seems to be the epitome of cool.
also
they probably needed to get the girl-count up. 2/20 is pretty poor.
Well,
you just need to face the fact that girls clearly aren't cool in 2005 ;)
Girls
RULE the cool school.
So there.
seriously
girls are under-represented in that list, but I guess most NME readers are male and could see themselves being more like paul apworth, but can't really imagine themselves being in the schla la las
Hmm…
I’m not sure I really agree; I can appreciate that, say Billie-Joe Armstrong is cool, and aspire to be as cool/successful as he is, but we’re different sexes.
HOWEVER, I would agree that the NME is dominated my male musicians/artists and therefore the percentage of girls that make their cool list is likely to be small.
And no-one can imagine what it’s like being in the Schla La Las. Some days it’s like the Smack My Bitch Up video, other days it’s like the Wizard of Oz.
But with less lions.
The Cool List...
...is a stupid pointless conceit (as I've already said)
But as for The Go! Team, has anyone heard the first Mint Royale album? How similar?
oi
Where is Kele from The Bloc Party?
Where is Teh Coxon?
It's a fickle world, is pop music.
Go, Henry!
FUCKING
hate the Cool List. I liked it last year because it had most of the people I liked in. This year, it can fuck itself.
Yes to Ms Church
Silly list but if we're arguing over its contents I also agree that Charlotte should've been on there. Sadly her music sucks (someone get her some good writers, please) but in terms of hilarious egotistical rockstar quotes she's almost outdone Courtney Love in just one year.
Dear
oh dear oh dear oh dear oh dear oh dear oh dear oh dear oh dear oh dear oh dear oh dear oh dear.
Your man from the Mystery Jets is clearly cooler than anyone else on the list. So there.
You're
all missing the point.
The fact they even HAVE a 'Cool List' is what we should be worrying about.
What the fuck is cool? I try to use it as little as possible, as I don't think it can describe anything. Obviously its not about the quality of music they make (see Kanye West, Doherty, Gerard War).
I hate the word and this makes me hate it even more.
what is cool?
I agree entirely with wrightylew. Every time the word "cool" is used I take a moment to peruse the situation:-
Eg:-
a) the person who has used the term "cool"
b) the incident or person to which "cool" is being referred
most the time it is a cunt saying some thing/someone is a cunt/cuntlike.
cunts.
Inuit you Politically Incorrect so an so!
but Eskimo is a much better name.
Ah.
I stand by my assertion that Eskimo is a better name than Inuit.
Jesus.
Christ.
Fair Play to Henry from the Mystery Jets though.
this list is acrtually wrong
almost right, but henry was 18 when i looked at it.
Its just a preferance list
Gotta love Ninja and Harry though.
bare jokes
I assume Kanye's in there for his outburst rather than his music. This is NME after all
Oh no, he "saved hip hop" didn't he, cheers NME
Pete Doherty
is the biggest rich kid, smack headfuck up and deserves a good slap from his father, the little up start. notfor12 year old NME readers to worship him. Twats.