{"id":1855,"date":"2011-10-26T15:56:10","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T15:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=1855"},"modified":"2017-10-24T10:57:37","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T10:57:37","slug":"vox-pop-welsh-bands-feature-poorly-in-nme-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/culture\/vox-pop-welsh-bands-feature-poorly-in-nme-list","title":{"rendered":"Vox pop: Welsh bands feature poorly in NME list"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Welsh bands account for just three of the top tracks of the past decade and a half, according to a leading music magazine.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_1934\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 300px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/nme-logo11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1934\" title=\"nme-logo1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/nme-logo11-300x137.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"137\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">NME&#39;s writers largely ignored Welsh artists in a recent list of great songs<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In a recent feature, writers from NME selected their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nme.com\/list\/150-best-tracks-of-the-past-15-years\/248648\">\u201cbest 150 tracks of the last 15 years\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a list littered with international hits, only three are by Welsh bands: at 150 Manic Street Preachers\u2019<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EG3fou1E6os&amp;ob=av2n\">Australia<\/a><\/em>, at 75 the Manics\u2019 <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TfEoVxy7VDQ&amp;ob=av2e\">A Design For Life<\/a><\/em> and at 66 Super Furry Animals\u2019 <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Q5N5jKF_8CE\">The Man Don\u2019t Give a Fuck<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Graf Middleton, of Cardiff\u2019s Spillers Records, feels that it\u2019s not a fair reflection of the diversity of the Welsh music scene, and points to the abundance of Welsh-language songs.<\/p>\n<p>Of the list\u2019s top-ranking Welsh song he said, \u201cEven Super Furries have got better songs than that, and there\u2019s plenty of other great songs around\u2026 but the ones that get remembered, maybe they\u2019re the ones with the most swear words in\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welsh bands account for just three of the top tracks of the past decade and a half, according to a leading music magazine. 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