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NME – The 50 Darkest Albums Ever Made
Issue 22 Jan 2011

1. Manic Street Preachers – The Holy Bible
2. Spiritualized – Let It Come Down
3. Nirvana – In Utero
4. The Smiths – Meat Is Murder
5. Nico – Desertshore
6. The Cure – Pornography
7. Nick Drake – Pink Moon
8. Antony And The Johnsons – I Am A Bird Now
9. Johnny Cash – The Man Comes Around
10. Kanye West – 808s & Heartbreak
11. Portishead – Dummy
12. Morrissey – Vauxhall & I
13. Joni Mitchell – Blue
14. Scott Walker – The Drift
15. Wire – 154
16. Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral
17. David Bowie – Heroes
18. Dépêche Mode – Violator
19. Leonard Cohen – Songs Of Love And Hate
20. The Psychedelic Furs – Talk Talk Talk
21. Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds – Your Funeral…My Trial
22. Joy Division – Closer
23. Sunn O))) – Monoliths & Dimentions
24. Swans – White Light From The Month Of Infinity
25. The Fall - The Nations Saving Grace
26. Black Flag – My War
27. Slint – Spiderland
28. Arab Strap – Elephant Stone
29. Tricky – Pre-Millennium Tension
30. Marvin Gaye – Here, My Dear
31. Big Star – Third/Sister Lovers
32. Husker Du – Candy Apple Grey
33. Nina Nastasia – The Blackened Air
34. Lou Reed – Berlin
35. Radiohead – Ok Computer
36. Low – Things We Lost In The Fire
37. Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath
38. Neutral Milk Hotel – In An Aeroplane Over The Sea
39. Glasvegas – Glasvegas
40. Smog – The Doctor Came At Dawn
41. Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – I See Darkness
42. Billie Holiday – Lady Sings The Blues
43. Public Image Limited – Metal Box
44. Suicide – Suicide
45. Editors – The Back Room
46. Interpol – Turn On The Bright Lights
47. Bruce Springsteen – Nebraska
48. Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head
49. Pulp – This Is Hardcore
50. The Xx - Xx

ARSE!

6, 22 and 43 I'll allow

What about number 48

I hate that f**king publication.

Any list of "darkest albums" that leaves off Smell the Glove ain't worth considering. Obviously not done their research. 1/10, must try harder.

sam1 wrote:What about number 48

It was a dark day for music, for sure.

They also forgot Permission To Land by The Darkness.

wtf, where did they did their research?

everyone knows The black Album is the darkest album ever made.

nope, that's Spinal Tap's Smell the Glove, or summat

mh wrote:

sam1 wrote:What about number 48

It was a dark day for music, for sure.

Agreed!

Kanye West is quite dark but that's a rather SPECIEIST remark!

IZ.

Well, what do you expect?
The NME wouldn't know music if it fell on them.

Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Yup, harcore goth

paul wrote:Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Yup, harcore goth

He sings like an emoe, tho.

IZ.

Izzy HaveMercy wrote:He sings like an emu, tho.

IZ.

Corrected for you

There's some bloody fantastic music on that list BUT 80% of it hardly fits with the list it's supposed to be.

I guess if people get into Swans, Black Flag, Suicide, Sunn O))) or Scott Walker's 'The Drift' from reading it then something worthwhile will have come of it.

That's not something you can say about that rag very often!

Izzy HaveMercy wrote:

He sings like an emu, tho.

IZ.

Corrected for you

I thought he meant amoeba

James Blast wrote:18. Dépêche Mode – Violator

Who put the accents on those vowels?

Aye the list is wank

markfiend wrote:

James Blast wrote:18. Dépêche Mode – Violator

Who put the accents on those vowels?

Aye the list is wank

..and Black Celebration is much darker anyway.
I'm only agreeing with 6 and 22.

Coldplay is just like so uplifting.

I've got a better Wank List.

Carpathian Psychonaut wrote:

Izzy HaveMercy wrote:He sings like an emu, tho.

IZ.

Corrected for you

Bit of Dutch there

IZ.

It's missing The Cheeky Girls innit?

Meat is Murder?

It's not even The Smiths darkest album.

Lists are subjective, it's not like it's a new law or something. These are the darkest albums: FACT.

I agree with some and think others are just plain stupid.

The Holy Bible is to me the darkest album ever made, bet it's not yours.

Ewwwww ewwww, get her!