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NME writers elect The Queen Is Dead as greatest ever LP
By Aly Barchi | Published on Thursday 24 October 2013
NME writers past and present have collectively deemed The Smiths’ ‘The Queen Is Dead’ to be the best LP that ever was, in the physical/digital mag’s Kanye West-esque Greatest Albums Of All Time list.
Morrissey and co’s 1985 LP, which features ‘Bigmouth Strikes Again’, ‘The Boy With The Thorn In His Side’ and ‘Frankly Mr Shankly’, only made it to #5 in NME’s Best Albums Of All Time poll back in 2006, but that was voted for by fans, not journalists. And it was ‘best’, not ‘greatest’, which are different superlatives entirely. And thirdly, it was 2006.
Celebrating a new era in NME’s lifetime, the results of the ‘Greatest LPs’ survey are being slowly unveiled, 100 by 100, on NME.com. Or, simultaneously to those buying this week’s issue. And if you don’t feel like waiting or buying, why not review sneak peaks of twelve writers’ top tens here. And please, no one point out how much Laura Snapes loves The National.
