The NME is on a mission to destroy Moz and is constantly slagging him off. I think Kelly has got his magazines mixed up. Any mention of Morrissey in the NME is a predictable and tired piss-take. But then NME only champion bands until their star begins to fade and then slags them off. Kind of like teenage girls' behaviour.

I don't wanna be rude or anything but Kelly Jones, get this: Your music sounds so much like the rest of the Brit Pop that came out of the 90's. I love Brit Pop so I should love your music too - it's just that I don't. Your music is Brit Pop just a bit more boring, there's no edge to it, you sound like someone who smoke 10 Marlboro's too many and you've got no feeling whatsoever. And maybe THAT (the lack of feeling) is the reason why the music press doesn't bother to refer to your music. And maybe THAT (the feeling) is the reason why the music press always refers to bands such as The Smiths. Find the feeling and the passion and forget about being 'cool' - then one day you'll end up..........nah, you probably won't end up being cool.........some people are born cool and i guess you are not one of them Kelly Jones. Self-importance was never cool - David Gray will have to face that fact one day too.

Stereophonics are just plain average...

As a fan of Britpop myself, and I really hate to catagorize them but they sound like the rest of the bad Euro-trash bands that have come out in the last dozen or so years.

Having said that much I do believe that they have a point. I was surprised at how many of the pioneers of modern music NME has left out in their list and these people deserve their credit and their place on the list, but not just to be included mind you. There have been some modern talents that have surpassed their influences and deserve to be rewarded.

Having said that, I think NME hasn't been worth anything save toilet paper since the 80's, but that's just my opinion.

NME is a toilet-paper, indeed, however...
Their is some truth in this: music press tends to ignore Black Artists in favor of White ones (I'm not some macho militant black dude, but White pale-skin queer dude, by the way...)
And if White-dominated press would finally discuss a Black artist, the coverage is very biased. Example: Spike Lee.
I enjoy both Morrissey and say, Erukah Badu, who performed brilliantly 3 days ago at Universal Auditorium, Los Angeles!
Does this fact make me a black sheep among Moz fans? I don't care, I like what I like.
By the way, I like Caifanes too, especially their el Silencio album.
What I want to say here, Moz is my god, but I have some other gods, about dozen of them. (Like Leonard Cohen, Jim Morrison, Bob Dylan, Stuard Murdoch of Belle and Sebastian, Tori Amos (in a Big Way), Lauren Hill, Minnie Ripperton, Maria Bethania, Amalia Rodriguez, Dulce Pontes, Iggy "Sex Machine" Pop, John Cale etc...) What I want to say, it hurts that Moz fans are so clannish, their attitude is similar of the rulers of the former Soviet Russia. Or infamous David Koresh sect of Waco, Texas... (Their is one and only one right way in life, only one worthy singer-songwriter! Who is not with us is against us! No dissent, however small, is tolerated!) How dareth Courtney Love and Michael Stripe go out with our Belowed!!! Fry 'em at Old Sparky. Talented Welsh songwriter David Gray dareth to voice out his opinion (however idiotic!) - throw him to the lions. Rob Smith of Cure dareth to disrespect our Moz - death to the Enemy of the People!
I like Moz, but many of you, his so-called worshippers, are making me somehow very uncomfortable. And before you all cry out: "Hang the DJ", I would better switch to some more newsworthy website!
BTW, some of you folks were complaining out loud: "Why Moz is not visiting us!"
I KNOW WHY! I think He doesn't feel at home at Your sycophantic website either!!!
And if He (Moz) encourages, not discourages this kind of ..."worship", I would respect Him someway less as a human being, even if His artistry is SUPREME.

The same "old bean". (Read my sh*t below under discussion about Modern day British Music scene!)

Working at a prestigous art college in Scotland I often interact with young folk ten years or so younger than myself, being thirty-one. I often catch songs on the radio or CD as the students work and this band figure prominently and I have to say that their music strikes me as being distinctly average and not in the same league as even The Pastels.

When I was growing up at least there was The Jam and The Specials et al., Bowie, Iggy and The Stooges, The Smiths, Joy Division and New Order, The Durutti Column and even The Cure, for christ's sake, not to mention Elvis, Carl Perkins and the like: Plenty to keep us happy at the weekend whilst we got drunk, danced and got laid; variety enough to throw spice into the mix -by all accounts crafted music that has endured. I do remember one public school/well-to-do chap with dreds when I studied at Saint Martins who proudly proclaimed that he was into "indie/dance crossover music" and listened to The Cure's ill-begotten remix album. Even he had more rebellion in him than half the pale souls who chug around to The Stereophonics, Travis and Blink 192-or-you-miss-them.

If anyone had told me when young that the twenty-first century would be so mediocre I would never have believed them, and I feel that The Stereophonics do nothing more than reflect that feeling. Maybe the past is a far country, and they did everything different then, but I do have a record collection that proves that the past was, for me at least, a more interesting place.

The Stereophonics were somewhere at the right time to get all the recognition that they do. They are bland and so unemotional. I have heard more emotion from Emmet Otters Jugband. Their 15 minutes has been extended waaaaay to long!

Oh boy! Just what the world needs, another whiny song about music journalists. How many of these songs has the Mozzer already written? These tend to be the songs i forward through most often. Sorry, i'm not a rock star - i just can't relate.

The Stereophonics are stupid; yeah I agree with their comment that there's more to music than Morrissey and Suede (but Morrisey is the best). These days the kids think that the Stereophonics are really cool and alternative. They're not - they sound like Bryan Adams to me....