Noel Sees Red

Pub of Utd fans call to taunt him

Oasis star Noel Gallagher turned the air blue after an entire pub rang to taunt him about Manchester United's title triumph.

His rock pal Mani couldn't resist winding up the City fanatic just an hour after Aresnal's draw against Chelsea gave United the Premiership title triumph.

Former Stone Roses bassist Mani, 44, was in a boozer near his home celebrating his beloved United's success with dozens of other Reds fans. Then he ordered the pub to quieten down and dialled up Noel, 39, on his mobile.

When Noel answered, Mani - real name Gary Mountfield - held the phone up so the whole pub could erupt into chants of "Champions! Champions!"

But Mani got an earfull of abuse when they began singing their favourite United terrace anthems.

One witness at The Elizabethan in Heaton Moor, Stockport, Cheshire said: "Noel was yelling down the line telling them all to shut the f**k up and f**k off! It was hilarious.

"Mani was laughing his head off and said Noel had been quietly reading at home in London when he got us lot on the line."

Mani, now with Primal Scream, and Noel are good friends and often appear on TV winding each other up about football.

Noel and Liam, 34, have also worn City shirts at Oasis gigs, getting their audiences to sing along to "Who the f**k are Man United?"

Source: Daily Star

Scissor Sisters And Oasis

Scissor Sisters and Oasis have kissed and made up after grumpy Noel Gallagher said the disco outfit was "for squares". Daddy-oh.

Scissor Sis Ana Matronic says: "After I heard that the next time I saw him I marched up to Noel, pinched him on the cheek and gave him a big hug.

"If someone says an ill word about Scissor Sisters my goal is to kill them with kindness. Noel called me a 'top bird'."

That's big of him...

Source: www.mirror.co.uk

Turner Singing On Stage Was Worst Nightmare

Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner used to mimic the cocky stage presence of rocker Liam Gallagher - because he was scared of performing in front of a live audience.

The young singer was frightened of the band's leap to fame following the release of their hit single I Bet You Look Good On the Dancefloor in late 2005 so would put on "a front" for fans.

He says, "When we were first playing, I'd have little things to say in between songs and I would start telling a story. But that was probably a front. "It didn't seem frightening at the time but looking back it was a bit unnerving.

"Back then you just thought 'come on' and walked up to collect an award like you were Liam Gallagher or something."

www.contactmusic.com

Liam Will Kill Kele!

Fran's fears over feud...

Travis singer Fran Healy says Kele Okereke is going to get a large Mancunian-shaped footprint on his behind, courtesy of Liam Gallagher.

The Bloc Party frontman recently mouthed off at Oasis - and Liam in particular. But despite being Liam's chum, Fran admires Kele's bravery.

Bloc Party and Oasis have had a long-running feud since Liam, 34, compared them to a "University Challenge team". Kele hit back by saying Oasis had "A totally negative and dangerous impact on the state of British music".

He spewed more bile at Liam by telling Uncut magazine: "It is really daft to reinforce the idea that there is something cool about being dumb".

Fran, 33, - in the charts with Closer - told me: "When Liam catches up with Kele he'll probably kick his ass.

"But you have to admire Kele. He's gobby but he's smart with it. His anti-Oasis rant made me sit up.

"I won't say it was what made me buy the Bloc Party album but it did get my attention and I have bought the album." He added we're mates with Oasis and sometimes we hang out and have a beer.

"They're a great band and we can't wait to hear their new stuff."

Source: Daily Star

Roll Up For A Magical History Tour

There’s no Iggy, no Zeppelin, but a TV story of rock still shines, says Stephen Dalton.

Jimi Hendrix plays Bob Dylan’s Blowing in the Wind at an all-black Harlem dance. The crowd turn hostile, and he is forced to flee for his life. Glen Matlock steals an Abba guitar riff and – hey presto – it becomes the Sex Pistols’ anthem Pretty Vacant. The Judas Priest singer Rob Halford goes shopping for gay S&M gear, and unwittingly invents the classic heavy metal uniform. Noel Gallagher writes Wonderwall, a song he dislikes, but it makes him “a millionaire four times in one week”.

This is just a snapshot of the wealth of stories in the documentary series, The Seven Ages of Rock, which airs on BBC Two next fortnight. Packed with rare footage and super-star interviews, this TV banquet is the latest in a pedigree portfolio of pop shows made at BBC Bristol by the producer William Naylor. Over the past decade, Naylor and his team have set the gold standard for rock television with Dancing in the Street, the country-driven Lost Highway, the songwriter history Walk on By and the Soul Deep series on black pop.

“What we have here is seven hours of music television with some of the greatest artists, producers, songwriters and musicians from the last 40 years,” Naylor says of The Seven Ages of Rock.“These are big names, iconic stories — Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Nirvana — plus great archive footage, much of it rare, some of it unseen.”

Like these previous shows, The Seven Ages of Rockmostly retells history straight from the source. Which means interviews with Keith Richards, Lou Reed, David Gilmour, Noel Gallagher, Damon Albarn, Bruce Springsteen, Michael Stipe, Johnny Marr, Roger Daltry, Bryan Ferry, John Lydon, Debbie Harry, Ozzy Osbourne, Pete Doherty and more.

All this celebrity access, recalls Naylor’s assistant producer, Tony Higgins, required 18 months of tortuous negotiation. “John Lydon took the best part of a year to get,” says Higgins. “But what helped a lot is that many people had seen our previous projects. For instance, Noel Gallagher agreed to be a part of it because he had seen Soul Deep.Oasis were watching it on their tour bus.”

Higgins describes Dancing in the Street and Soul Deep as “high-end, blue-chip, world-renowned” shows that only the BBC could make. But even with such heavyweight calling cards, some stars still eluded them. Patti Smith, Mick Jagger and David Bowie all declined to be interviewed.

“Certain people you know you’re never going to get,” admits Higgins, “like Neil Young or Bob Dylan. But in some ways, you don’t need them. I’ve never heard an interview with Jagger where you go away learning any more about him than you did before. He’s a master of obfuscation. You want someone who can actually contribute to the programme.”

The writer and social historian Jon Savage, who appears as a commentator in Seven Ages, has experience of making music documentaries himself. In the punk era, he recalls, there was “virtually no youth media” and rock was rarely seen on television.

Now it is everywhere, from the BBC’s Glastonbury coverage to Later with Jools Holland to endless archive list shows. Quantity is up, but quality varies wildly.

“A lot of TV pop documentaries are sloppy and slung together on the cheap,” Savage says. “It’s actually very hard in the current television economy to fund proper documentaries, now that there are a lot more stations out there. It’s much easier to get on the conveyor belt and slap something together. But there is a point to telling history properly, if you can.”

Seven Ages certainly makes a decent fist of doing so, even if it draws some fairly arbitrary and potentially contentious chapter divisions. Each loosely chronological episode revolves around a handful of like-minded key artists. The art rock programme, for example, yokes together the Velvet Underground, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Roxy Music and Genesis.

Punk becomes “a tale of two cities”, London and New York. The rise of American alternative rock, meanwhile, is embodied in the parallel careers of R.E.M. and Nirvana. More controversially, perhaps, the 1960s is embodied by guitar god Jimi Hendrix, with Bob Dylan and the Beatles mere supporting players in his drama.

“That’s one of the problems of shows like this,” Higgins admits. “How do you approach punk again? How do you approach the 1960s again? How do you approach Britpop again? All these moments that are very heavily picked over, there is very little flesh left on the carcass of these cultural corpses. It’s difficult to find a fresh angle on these stories, but I think we’ve done it.”

Seven Ages brings the story of British rock up to date in its final extended episode by tracing a line from the Smiths, via Blur and Oasis, to the Libertines and Arctic Monkeys. It also devotes an hour to the perennially popular but critically derided subculture of heavy metal. “It would have been really easy to laugh but millions of people are into it,” says Higgins. “It’s the longest surviving subgenre.

You can’t kill it, it just comes back stronger.”

Unlike Dancing in the Street, however, Seven Ages does not attempt an all-embracing history of pop. Besides Jimi Hendrix, there are almost no black faces. Outside the punk episode, very few women either.

“It is very male, very white,” concedes Higgins. “But frankly, there’s no way around that. We didn’t create that situation. The roots of rock certainly aren’t white, but the appropriation of black musical forms has been going on since jazz. It’s true that you can cut this subject hundreds of ways, but you’re only given X amount of television time, so you are working within very strict constraints. TV does surface very well. If you want detail, you go to books.”

Charles Shaar Murray, the series consultant and Hendrix biographer, defends the show’s narrow focus on rock as an overwhelmingly male and Caucasian genre. “On previous shows like Dancing in the Street, which I participated in a bit, I was very concerned that the history of black music should be told in parallel to all the white pop and rock stuff,” he argues. “But since that show fulfilled that brief, and subsequent programmes like Soul Deep have examined those other musics in their own right, it was interesting to examine rock with a capital R.”

Even within this capital-R definition, the Seven Ages format still excludes some major rock pioneers. No room for Iggy Pop, Led Zeppelin, Joy Division, Sonic Youth, Primal Scream, PJ Harvey, the Cure, the Pretenders or Radiohead, for starters. Never mind more exotic acts with one foot in the rock world like Rage Against the Machine, Beastie Boys, Depeche Mode, Nick Cave or Prince.

“We were keen to find a place for Radiohead, but we just couldn’t,” says Sebastian Barfield, who produced and directed two chapters of Seven Ages. “A lot of it is driven by space and narrative. We don’t fill these films up with extraneous people. If you stop at every step of the way to pay your respects to everyone, I think it would be a less satisfying watch.”

“That’s the problem with all these programmes: what’s your definition?” admits Alastair Laurence, producer-director of the punk episode. “But with this programme we have got a website where you can post your views. There will hopefully be a sense of dialogue with the people watching.”

These niggles aside, The Seven Ages of Rock is absorbing and intelligent music television. It also manages to stand out in a media climate where rock was once marginalised, but is now a ubiquitous mega-brand.

“Pop music has become very big business,” Savage says. “It’s become integrated with the major media industries. It is one of the major planks of Western consumer culture. Pop has won, and there is a good side and a bad side to that. The good side is we can tell the stories of our youth. The bad side is it can become this ghastly mush.”

“Famine and glut both create their own downsides,” Murray argues. “I grew up at time when it was impossible to see or hear much pop on radio or TV. We now have a glut. Anybody who so desires can now listen to the pop or rock subgenre of their choice 24/7. You can look at music as entertainment, as culture, as social history. You can be as tribal as you want or as academic as you want. But I think

Seven Ages of Rockis a very conscientious and entertaining attempt to make sense of what’s been going on over the last 40-odd years.”

Naylor claims that “we’re much better served now than ever before” in terms of rock TV. But he also notes this proliferation has actually put many musicians beyond the reach of normal TV budgets. Seven Ages, which was co-funded by selling North American rights to the “heritage rock” channel VH-1 Classic, boasts the kind of glossy production values that are becoming rare.

“It’s a dying breed,” says Naylor. “We get maybe one of these every three years and I don’t know how much longer we can justify them.

They are expensive, they take a long time, and it’s harder to get contributors. Also they are very complicated in terms of rights. The levels of clearances are just baffling.”

In one sense, the Seven Ages team are victims of their own success. When they made Dancing in the Street 11 years ago, serious rock shows were a rarity. But in this instant-access age of infinite downloads and rising concert attendances, pop has become mainstream entertainment for all ages. Baby boomer dads and their kids now buy the same albums. The generation gap is closed.

“Something happened in the mid1990s,” says Barfield. “Britpop was part of it. There is an argument that Noel Gallagher pointed the way to young kids getting into the Beatles. My dad is 74 and he still talks about the excitement of seeing Bill Haley in Rock Around the Clock.There are pensioners who now regard themselves as part of the rock’n’roll generation. It was weird ten years ago when you had Tony Blair meeting Noel, but hearing David Cameron talking about the Smiths on the radio makes perfect sense now. Everyone connects to this music.”

The Seven Ages of Rock, BBC Two, starts on May 19

Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Manchester Legends Join Granada Football Review Panel

There were some unexpected guests on this weeks Granada soccer night.

Primal Scream basest and Stone Roses legend Mani (Manchester United) and good mates boxing legend Ricky Hatton and the Oasis chief Noel Gallagher (Manchester City) gave there distinct review on the weeks football.

Noel's Reason For Not Buying Manchester City

Oasis star Noel Gallagher won't be joining the race to buy the club.

The guitarist said: "There is no way I would want to buy City.

Why would I want to give every penny I have earned to some horrible little chav footballer so he can buy his wife dresses to wear at Aintree? I would rather piss it up the wall!"

Source: www.mirror.co.uk

Noel Goes From Bad To Verse

Rock superstars from Oasis and Razorlight to 1980s favourites Duran Duran and ABC have topped a chart to find the worst verse in pop history.

They may be responsible for some of the biggest selling hits ever but these and other top songwriters are also behind the most banal, odd, pretentious and plain silly lyrics of all time, a new poll shows.

The eventual winner of the Worst Pop Lyrics ever will be chosen today from a shortlist of 10 which also includes rockers like Toto and Black Sabbath to cult hits from Snap, Des'ree and Human League.

Oasis songwriter Noel Gallagher is to blame for "Slowly walking down the hall/Faster than a cannonball/Where were you when we were getting high?"

Sometimes the lyrics seem to be a desperate search to find words that rhyme such as Toto, looking for a way to describe Africa's most famous mountain, Kilimanjaro, hit upon "like Olympus above the Serengeti."

Listeners to the music radio station BBC 6 have seen the original nominations whittled down to 10 by resident DJs including Tom Robinson - whose own hits include the song Wish I had a Grey Cortina.

01 ABC - That Was Then But This Is Now
02 Snap - Rhythm Is A Dancer
03 Human League - The Lebanon
04 Razorlight - Somewhere Else
05 Duran Duran - Is There Something I Should Know?
06 Oasis - Champagne Supernova
07 Des'ree - Life
08 Black Sabbath - War Pigs
09 Toto - Africa
10 U2 - Elevation

Source: www.eveningtimes.co.uk

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May The 4th Be With You...

Wanted For Crimes Against Rhymes

Music legends from U2 to Oasis and Duran Duran are in the running for the least coveted prize in rock - the award for the worst verse of lyrics ever written.

All three bands are on the list of 10 nominees for the title, handed out by radio station BBC 6Music.

They're up against some stiff competition including techno duo Snap, who penned the unforgettable line: "I'm as serious as cancer when I say rhythm is a dancer."

But the Durannies are hotly tipped to take the prize for this gem from Is There Something I Should Know: "Don't say you're easy on me, you're about as easy as a nuclear war."

U2's Bono earned his nomination for a verse from Elevation, which featured the line: "I've got no self control, been living like a mole now."

And Oasis main man Noel Gallagher is "honoured" for this baffling line from Champagne Supernova: "Slowly walking down the hall, faster than a cannonball."

Other top contenders include 80s pop stylists ABC for: "Can't complain, mustn't grumble, help yourself to another piece of apple crumble."

Listeners to 6 Music sent in their nominations and the top 10 was chosen by the station's DJs. The winner will be announced today on Marc "Lard" Riley's show.

Lard's 6 Music colleague, rock hero Tom Robinson, once wrote a song called Wish I had A Grey Cortina.

But he said: "One of the benefits of only ever having had a handful of hits myself is that most of my own monumentally awful lyrics have been mercifully forgotten.

"A couple are so cringeworthy that I've deleted them from my website in the hope that no one will notice."

Source: www.dailyrecord.co.uk

Nirvana Lyrics Inspired Live Forever

Noel Gallagher Wrote Hit Song As A Backlash To Nirvana....

Oasis rocker Noel Gallagher wrote uplifting hit song Live Forever after he became depressed listening to US band Nirvana.

Gallagher admits he wrote the track in the mid 90s after he heard a particularly downbeat Nirvana song.

He reveals, "It was written in the middle of the grunge and all that and I remember Nirvana had a tune called I Hate Myself And I Want To Die and I was like 'Well, I'm not having that.' "I can't have people like that coming over here, on smack, saying that they hate themselves and they wanna die. That's just rubbish."

Live Forever was recently voted as the Greatest Indie Anthem of all time by British music magazine NME.

Source: www.femalefirst.co.uk

The Answers Are...

Here are the answers to the quiz the other day (here).

01: Roll With It
02: Two
03: Some Might Say
04: Paul Weller
05: Six
06: Owen Morris And Noel Gallagher
07: Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants
08: Anais
09: Robbie Williams
10: Number 1
11: Be Here Now
12: Johnny Depp
13: Berwick Street
14: Sir Isaac Newton
15: Three: Go Let It Out, Who Feels Love? And Sunday Morning Call
16: Familiar To Millions
17: (B)
18: Don't Go Away
19: Stocks Hall, In Hetfordshire
20: The Beatles' Sgt Pepper And Queens's Greatest Hits
21: Producer Owen Morris and DJ Sean "Guilty Pleasures" Rowley
22: Bonehead's Bank Holiday
23: Stevie Wonder's Uptight (Everything's Alright)
24: Champagne Supernova
25: 10 Weeks
26: The Masterplan
27: Ride
28: Deja Voodoo
29: Lisa Moorish
30: Songbird
31: Mucky Fingers
32: Don't Believe The Truth
33: Chris Hutton
34: 18 Wheeler
35: Paul Arthurs
36: £18m
37: £600,000
38: Alex James And Damon Albarn
39: Scott Mcleod
40: Cum On Feel The Noize
41: 13.5 Million
42: (A)
43: She Claimed He Had Bitten Her Nose
44: Two
45: Michael Hutchence
46: Matt Deighton
47: The Black Crowes and Spacehog
48: No Way Sis
49: Chris Evans
50: Wibbling Rivalry

Source: The Essential Q Quiz Book in this months copy.

Syd Barrett - Madcap's Last Laugh

The spirit of Syd Barrett is invoked by an all-star line-up of music and lights. The many guests include Kevin Ayers, The Bees, Vashti Bunyan, King Creosote with Gordon Anderson (The Aliens), Mike Heron, Robyn Hitchcock, Chrissie Hynde, Captain Sensible + more tbc

The house band includes, Andy Bell on bass (Oasis), Simon Finley on drums (Echo & The Bunnymen), Ted Barnes on guitar (Beth Orton).

Syd Barrett was an eccentric genius and the founding member of Pink Floyd, and his creative legacy and quintessential English vocal delivery has proven remarkably influential.

An obscure figure whose life-long struggle with mental illness shortened his creative period in music to only 7 years, however during that short time such classics as Arnold Layne and See Emily Play and Floyds first album The Piper at The Gates of Dawn were all written and recorded. Recently David Bowie, Bobby Gillespie, Brian Eno and Jimmy Page have all paid personal tribute to the 'Crazy Diamond'.

Lighting Design by Peter Wynne Wilson
Producers, Joe Boyd, Nick Laird-Clowes

Plus Rare film footage, and projections of Syd Barrett's paintings.

Produced by the Barbican

With guests Kevin Ayers, The Bees, Vashti Bunyan, King Creosote with Gordon Anderson (The Aliens), Mike Heron, Robyn Hitchcock, Chrissie Hynde, Captain Sensible + more tbc

10 May 2007 / 19:30

Barbican Hall Tickets: £15 / 20 / 25 and available here.

Source: www.barbican.org.uk

The Greatest Indie Anthem Ever Revealed

This week NME and Xfm have announced the 50 Greatest Indie Anthems Ever - as voted for by you.

We've counted up all the songs you suggested and now on NME.COM we're getting ready to reveal who has made the cut, and which song you have proclaimed the Number One Indie Anthem Ever.

The full list, plus exclusive interviews with the acts who've made it, features in this week's issue of NME, which hits UK newsstands today (May 2).

Having brought you the rest of the list on NME.COM this week including the likes of Pixies, The Killers, My Bloody Valentine, Franz Ferdinand, The Verve and The Gossip, we can now reveal the Top Ten.

Despite both The Smiths and The Libertines getting two songs each into the Top Ten, it's Oasis who are behind your Greatest Indie Anthem Ever', with 1994 single 'Live Forever' taking the most of your votes.

So here's Greatest Indie Anthems Ever Top Ten:

1. Oasis - 'Live Forever'
2. Nirvana - 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'
3. Pulp - 'Common People'
4. The Smiths - 'There Is A Light That Never Goes Out'
5. The Libertines - 'Don't Look Back Into The Sun'
6. The Libertines - 'Time For Heroes'
7. The Smiths - 'How Soon Is Now?'
8. The Stone Roses - 'I Am The Resurrection'
9 The Strokes - 'Last Nite'
10 Arctic Monkeys - 'I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor'

You can now see the full list on NME.COM, with numbers 30-11 and 50-31 online already.

Also a special show based on the list will feature on XFM between 2-4pm on Monday (May 7) so be sure to tune in. Go to www.xfm.co.uk for more information.

Source: www.nme.com

Noel Anthem's Indie Number 1

NME announces Live Forever as their Greatest Indie Anthem of all time in this week’s mag.

Noel Gallagher reveals he wrote it as a backlash to a miserable Nirvana track.

He said: “It was written in the middle of grunge and all that and I remember Nirvana had a tune called I Hate Myself And I want To Die and I was like, ‘Well, I’m not having that’.

“As much as I like Kurt Cobain and all that, I’m not having that.

“I can’t have people like that coming over here, on smack, saying that they hate themselves and they wanna die. That’s just rubbish.”

Er, well said, Noel.

But he’d probably give a completely different answer had he been asked at 9am after a night on the ale.

And Noel is a huge Smiths fan — a band famous for encouraging shoe-gazing misery among their fans.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

Noel Gallagher Features Again On The Russell Brand Podcast

Noel Gallagher once again is on the Russell Brand Podcast. Noel speaks about the movie This is England and speaks about returning to the studio soon!

For more information on how to download the podcast click here.

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Andy Bell Appearing At Syd Barrett Tribute Concert

As previously announced on oasisinet.com Andy Bell will be taking part in the Syd Barrett tribute show on 10th May 2007 at the Barbican Hall and will be part of the house band which includes Simon Finley on drums (Echo & The Bunneymen) and Ted Barnes on guitar (Beth Orton). Guests include Kevin Ayers, The Bees, Vashti Bunyan, King Creosote with Gordon Anderson (The Aliens), Mike Heron, Robyn Hitchcock, Chrissie Hynde + more

For more information on the show and ticket purchase details check out the website below;

www.barbican.org.uk

Source: www.oasisinet.com

The Greatest Indie Anthems Ever - Number One Is Getting Close

Today NME.COM reveals Numbers 30-11 of your ultimate songs

This week will NME and Xfm announce the 50 Greatest Indie Anthems Ever - as voted for by you.

We've counted up all the songs you suggested and now on NME.COM we're getting ready to reveal who has made the cut, and which song you have proclaimed the Number One Indie Anthem Ever.

The full list, plus exclusive interviews with the acts who've made it features in this week's issue of NME, which hits UK newsstands today (May 2).

On NME.COM we're also counting down to Number One throughout this week.

Yesterday (April 30) we brought you Numbers 50-31, with the likes of Pixies, The Killers and My Bloody Valentine all featuring.

Now today it's the turn of the of Franz Ferdinand, The Verve and The Gossip all to claim their places in the countdown.

So the Greatest Indie Anthems Ever Numbers 30-11 are:

11. The Smiths - 'This Charming Man'
12. The Stone Roses - 'She Bangs The Drums'
13. The Libertines - 'Can't Stand Me Now'
14. Oasis - 'Don't Look Back In Anger'
15. Blur - 'Song 2'
16. Franz Ferdinand - 'Take Me Out'
17. The Stone Roses - 'I Wanna Be Adored'
18. The Verve - 'Bitter Sweet Symphony'
19. Joy Divison - 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'
20. Joy Division - 'Transmission'
21. The Smiths - 'Panic'
22. The Breeders - 'Cannonball'
23. The Gossip - 'Standing In The Way Of Control'
24. Babyshambles - 'Fuck Forever'
25. Oasis - 'Supersonic'
26. Radiohead - 'Creep'
27. Oasis -' Wonderwall'
28. Pavement - 'Cut Your Hair'
29. Arcade Fire - 'Rebellion (Lies)'
30. Manic Street Preachers - 'A Design For Life'

The countdown will conclude tomorrow (May 3) when we will bring you the full Top 10 and will reveal your Greatest Indie Anthem Ever, so stay tuned to NME.COM.

Source: www.nme.com

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NME and Xfm present: The Greatest Indie Anthems Ever

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The Greatest Indie Anthems Ever

This week will NME and Xfm announce the 50 Greatest Indie Anthems Ever - as voted for by you.

We've counted up all the songs you suggested and now on NME.COM we're getting ready to reveal who has made the cut, and which song you have proclaimed the Number One indie anthem ever.

The full list, plus exclusive interviews with the acts who've made it will feature in this week's issue of NME which hits UK newsstands from May 2.

On NME.COM we're also counting down to Number One throughout this week, and today (May 1) we bring you Numbers 50-31, with the likes of Pixies, The Killers and My Bloody Valentine all featuring.

So the Greatest Indie Anthems Ever Numbers 50-31 are:

31 Oasis - 'Cigarettes & Alcohol'
32 The Stone Roses - 'Fool's Gold'
33 The Killers - 'Mr Brightside'
34 Radiohead - 'Just'
35 Pixies - 'Monkey Gone To Heaven'
36 Kaiser Chiefs - 'I Predict A Riot'
37 Kasabian - 'LSF'
38 Pixies - 'Gigantic'
39 Oasis - 'Champagne Supernova'
40 Klaxons - 'Golden Skans'
41 Blur - 'Parklife'
42 The Cribs - 'Hey Scenesters'
43 Suede - 'Animal Nitrate'
44 The Stone Roses - 'Love Spreads'
45 The La's - 'There She Goes'
46 Dinosaur Jr - 'Freak Scene'
47 The Libertines - 'Up The Bracket'
48 Sonic Youth - 'Bull In The Heather'
49 The Rapture - 'House Of Jealous Lovers'
50 My Bloody Valentine - 'You Made Me Realise'

The next stage of the countdown continues tomorrow (May 2) when we will bring you Numbers 30-11.

The full Top 10 and The Greatest Indie Anthem Ever will be revealed on Thursday (May 3).

Source: www.nme.com