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• NME Singles of the week 1998
• NME Pop Poll Results 1998

1. Mercury Rev – Deserters Songs
2. Beastie Boys – Hello Nasty
3. Beck – Mutations
4. Air – Moon Safari
5. Massive Attack – Mezzanine
6. Elliott Smith – Either Or
7. Pulp – This Is Hardcore
8. Royal Trux – Accelerator
9. Jurassic 5 – Jurassic 5
10. Leila – Like Weather
11. Sparklehorse – Good Morning Spider
12. Embrace – The Good Will Out
13. Six By Seven – The Things We Make
14. Babybird – There’s Something Going On
15. Belle & Sebastian – The Boy With The Arab Strap
16. Boards Of Canada – Music Has The Right To Children
17. Arab Strap – Philophobia
18. Quasi – Featuring Birds
19. The Afghan Whigs – 1965
20. Fatboy Slim – You’ve Come A Long Way Baby
21. Lo-Fidelity Allstars – How To Operate With A Blown Mind
22. Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill
23. Idlewild – Hope Is Important
24. Manic Street Preachers – This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
25. Placebo – Without You I’m Nothing
26. R.E.M. – Up
27. Madonna – Ray Of Light
28. Spritualized - Live At The Royal Albert Hall
29. Bob Dylan – Live 1966:The Royal Albert Hall Concert
30. Catatonia – International Velvet
31. Black Box Recorder – England Made Me
32. Elliott Smith – Xo
33. Quickspace – Precious Falling
34. Jeff Buckley – Sketches (For My Sweetheart The Drunk)
35. Hole – Celebrity Skin
36. Kid Loco – A Grand Love Story
37. The Third Eye Foundation – You Guys Kill Me
38. UNKLE – Psyence Fiction
39. The Boo Radleys – Kingsize
40. Sonic Youth – A Thousand Leaves
41. Tarwater – Silur
42. Ash – Nu-Clear Sounds
43. MKD – Open Transport
44. Goodspeed You Black Emperor – F#A#00
45. Garbage – Version 2
46. Fugazi – End Hits
47. Hefner – Breaking Gods Heart
48. Gomez – Bring It On
49. Mansun – Six
50. Robbie Williams – I’ve Been Expecting You

1. Beastie Boys – Intergalactic
2. Super Furry Animals – Ice Hockey Hair EP
3. Stardust – Music Sounds Better With You
4. Mercury Rev – Goddess On A Hiway
5. Manic Street Preachers – If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
6. Cornershop – Brimful Of Asha
7. The Beta Band – The Patty Patty Sound EP
8. Pulp – This Is Hardcore
9. The Beta Band – Los Amigos Del Beta Bandos EP
10. Fatboy Slim – The Rockafeller Skank
11. Primal Scream – It They Move, Kill ‘Em (Arkestra Mix)
12. Hole – Celebrity Skin
13. Elliott Smith – The Ballad Of Big Nothing
14. Air – Sexy Boy
15. Low Fidelity All Stars – Vision Incision
16. Ultrasound – Stay Young
17. Grandaddy – Summer Here Kids
18. Jurassic 5 – Concrete Schoolyard
19. Catatonia – Road Rage
20. Clinic – Cement Mixer
21. Air – Kelly Watch The Stars
22. Massive Attack – Teardrop
23. Black Box Recorder – Child Psychology
24. Lauryn Hill – Doo Wap (That Thing)
25. Embrace – Come Back To What You Know
26. Clinic – Monkey On Your Back
27. Six By Seven – 88-92-96
28. Asian Dub Foundation – Free Satpal Ram
29. Asian Dub Foundation – Naxalite
30. Pj Harvey – A Perfect Day Elise
31. Jungle Brothers – Jungle Brother
32. Les Rythmes Digitales – Music Make You Lose Control
33. Brandy And Monica – The Boy Is Mine
34. Radiohead – No Suprises
35. Mogwai – No Education = No Future (Fuck The Curfew)
36. Four Tet – Thirty Six Twenty Five
37. Mojave Three – Who Do You Love?
38. Arab Strap – Here We Go/Trippy
39. Depth Charge – Blue Lips
40. Campag Velocet – Sauntry Sly Chic
41. Delakota – C’mon Cincinnati
42. Cornershop – Sleep On The Left Side
43. Baby Bird – Bad Old Man
44. Bomb 20 – Flip Burgers Or Die
45. Asian Dub Foundation – Buzzin’
46. Wildchild – Renegade Master
47. Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci – Let’s Get Together
48. Bran Van 3000 – Drinking In LA
49. Idlewild – Everyone Says You’re So Fragile
50. Robbie Williams – Millennium

• Stella Maris - Good Bloke, Bad Bloke and God
• Wildchild - Renagade Master
• Puff Daddy & The Family - It's all about Benjamins
• Pearl Jam - Given to fly
• Aerial M - Wedding song #3
• Spacehog - Carry on
• Asian Dub Foundation - Free Satpal Ram
• Primal Scream - If they move, kill 'em
• Six By Seven - 88-92-96
• The Beta Band - The Patty Patty Sound EP
• Boom Boom Satellites - Joyride
• Bernard Butler - Not Alone
• The Delgados - Everything goes around the water
• New Bomb Turks - Veronica Lake
• The Dandy Warhols - Not if you were the last junky on earth
• Jungle Brothers - Jungle Brother (Urban Takeover Mix)
• Laptop - Gimme The Night
• Royak Trux - I'm Ready
• Cornershop - Sleep on the left side
• Grandaddy - Summer here kids
• Super Furry Animals - Ice Hocky Hair EP
• Bran Van 3000 - Drinking in LA
• Ultrasound - Stay Young
• Fatboy Slim - The Rockafeller Skank
• Rocket from the Crypt - When in Rome (Do the Jerk)
• Elliot Smith - The Ballad of Big Nothing
• Wheat - Death Car
• Idlewiled - Everyone says that you're so fragile
• Jarassic 5 - Jayou
• Mojave 3 - Who do you love
• The Deadly Avenger - The Illicit EP
• Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Let's get together (in our minds)
• Clinic - Cement Mixer
• Four Tet - Thirty six twenty five
• The Monsoon Basoon - In the Iceman's Back Garden
• Hole - Celebrity Skin
• Kid Loco & Schneider TM Vs The Heigh llamas - Homerun Ubershow
• Nic Endo - White Heat
• McAlmont - Honey
• Frendly Science Orchestra - Miniature Album
• Boo Radleys - Free Huey
• Polythene - Pet Hates EP
• Michael Head (introducing The Strands) - Somethin' you like
• Shut Up And Dance - Got 'em Locked
• Mercury Rev - Goddess On A Higway
• Lo Fidelity Allstars - Battle Flag
• Bjork - Alarm Call
• The Bitter Springs - A Good Provider
• Belle & Sebastian - This is Just Another Modern Rock Song
• King Biscuit Time ..sings Nelly Foggits Blues in "Me & The Pharaohs"

Best Single

1. Manic Street Preachers – If You Tolerate This You Children Will Be Next
2. Placebo – Pure Morning
3. Beastie Boys – Intergalactic
4. Super Furry Animals – Ice Hockey Hair EP
5. Catatonia – Road Rage
6. Mansun – Legacy EP
7. Hole – Celebrity Skin
8. Fatboy Slim – Rockafeller Skank
9. Embrace – Come Back To What You Know
10. Mansun – Being A Girl
11. Gomez – Whippin’ Piccadilly
12. Ash – Jesus Says
13. Robbie Williams – Millennium
14. Ultrasound – Stay Young
15. Garbage – Paranoid
16. Pulp – This Is Hardcore
17. Massive Attack – Teardrop
18. Stereophonics – Local Boy In The Photograph
19. Placebo – You Don’t Care About Us
20. Cornershop – Brimful Of Asha

1. Fatboy Slim – The Rockafeller Skank
2. Stardust – Music Sounds Better With You
3. Beastie Boys – Intergalactic
4. Fatboy Slim – Gangster Trippin’
5. Faithless – God Is A DJ
6. Run Dmc * Jason Nevins – It’s Like That
7. Prodigy – Smack My Bitch Up
8. Madonna – Ray Of Light
9. Cornershop – Brimful Of Asha
10. Mousse T – Horny