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Originally Posted by daveofficer
just to prove how utterly shit the nme has become they awarded bob fucking geldof with a hero of the year award.
and gorillaz got the john peel music innovation award. now nothing against the gorillaz but are they innovative because they're a cartoon? well surely josie and the pussycats would have somthing to say about that or even the monkees. also they're on their second album now. not really that new an idea anymore is it? maybe if they'd been awarded it after the first album.
what do you lot think?
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I remember in the mid 90s that the NME awards were rebranded The Brats in retaliation to the blandness of the Brit Awards.
Now, sadly, there's very little difference between the two - half of the Brits winners (Kaisers, Coldplay) and dozens of the nominees probably cropped up in the same categories in the NME awards.
Even the NMEs "Godlike Genius" - Ian Brown - was nominated for a Brits.
And if The Gorrilaz are the most inovative act featuring in the NME then I despair - there's simply no hope for music if that's as interesting as it gets.
Did Bob Geldof get the lifetime achievment award at last years Brits? Sorry, but his music is shite - give him the award for Charity, but not for music.