Since its turnaround in the early-1980s, the New Musical Express (more commonly known as the NME) has occasionally supplied vinyl, cassettes and more recently CDs on its cover. Many popular alternative artists have appeared on NME compilations, including the Smiths, Blur, Franz Ferdinand, The Stone Roses and the Libertines.
The NME have also issued compilation albums for sale, such as In A Field of Their Own and Ruby Trax.
History NME have included covermount albums for a long time. The Clash's release Capital Radio, which was released 9 April 1977, could only be obtained by sending away a coupon featured in one issue of the NME, and the red sticker from the cover of the band's debut album. The NME also released the much regarded compilation album C86, documenting the birth of jangling indie pop, in 1986. Big Audio Dynamite II released their second album The Globe with a coupon, which had to be sent to the NME, to receive their first live album. In 1992–1993, NME released their own compilations, In a Field of Their Own and Ruby Trax, all containing exclusive recordings. Around this time, they started covermounting cassettes on their magazines, such as the Brat Pack series, and NME Xmas Dust Up in late 1994, a mix by The Chemical Brothers (their fourth and final release using their original The Dust Brothers). In 1997, Beat Up the NME, mixed by Fatboy Slim, was also a covermount. A list of the covermounts is below. In 2005–2007, the NME released more commercially sold compilations like those from 1992 to 1993, The Essential Bands series. Also, NME released a commercially available album, also featuring exclusive recordings like their 1992–1993 albums, NME In Association With War Child Presents 1 Love, as a charity album in 2002.
Discography
1992 Date of IssueTitle (Catalogue No.)Track listing1992In a Field of Their Own: Highlights of Glastonbury 1992 (GLASTON1DCD)Disc 1: The Orb – A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain that Rules from The Centre of The Ultraworld Jah Wobble's Invaders of The Heart – Do You Live What You Sing? Flowered Up – Weekender James – Gold Mother Dr Phibes & the House of Wax Equations – Hazy Lazy Holograi Fat Dinosaur – Love Senser – The Journey of Life Curve – Faît Accompli The Faith Healers – Reptile Smile The Breeders – Iris Lush – Starlust
Disc 2: Billy Bragg and The Redstars – Accident Waiting to Happen Carter USM – Sheriff Fatman The Levellers – Battle of the Beanfield Ned's Atomic Dustbin – Grey Cell Green The Frank And Walters – Walter's Trip The Family Cat – Steamroller The Real People – What You Want Spiritualized – Shine a Light Kitchens of Distinction – Mad as Snow Thousand Yard Stare – Seasonstream Midway Still – Better Than Before The Senseless Things – Too Much Kissing Blur – Sunday Sunday
1993 Date of IssueTitle (Catalogue No.)Track listing1993Glastonbury 93: In a Field of Their Own Volume Two - Highlights From The NME Stage (GLASTON2DCD)Disc 1: Suede – My Insatiable One (3:28) The Auteurs – Early Years (4:38) Dodgy – Stand By Yourself (4:05) Eat – Bellytown (4:02) Adorable – Sistine Chapel Ceiling (3:45) Belly – Angel (2:46) The God Machine – She Said (4:33) Mega City Four – Enemy Skies (4:11) Lemonheads – Hannah And Gabi (2:46) Superchunk – Seed Toss (2:47) Teenage Fanclub – Everything Flows (8:02)
Disc 2: The Orb – Blue Room (8:39) Stereo MC's – Fade Away (4:55) Ultramarine – Pansy (6:09) The Verve – Gravity Grave (9:23) Spiritualized – Take Your Time (6:56)
1995 Date of IssueTitle (Catalogue No.)Track listing28/01/95NME Brat Pack '95 (NME BRAT 95) Blur – This Is A Low Gene Sick, Sober and Sorry Portishead – Numbed in Moscow
Oasis – (It's Good) To Be Free Paul Weller – This is No Time??/??/95WEA NME2 Green Day – No Pride Red Hot Chili Peppers – Warped Electrafixion – Lowdown Better Than Ezra – Good Lick – Fireboy
The Pretenders – Night In My Veins The Flaming Lips – Brainville Suggs – Haunted k.d. lang – Get Some Alanis Morissette – You Oughta Know18/11/95NME USA Today (NME NOV 95) Sonic Youth – Unwind Boss Hog – Sam
Garbage – Supervixen Rocket From The Crypt – Born In '69 The Amps – Empty Glasses
1996 Date of IssueTitle (Catalogue No.)Track listing27/01/96NME Brat Pack '96 (NME BRAT 96) Blur – TOPMAN Pulp – Ansaphone Paul Weller – Stanley Road (demo)
Oasis – Bonehead's Bank Holiday Supergrass – I'd Like To Know The Prodigy – Firestarter (Empirion Mix)03/02/96NME Bus '96 (NME B-BUS 96) The Bluetones – Driftwood Fluffy – Crossdresser
The Cardigans – Seems Hard Heavy Stereo – Cartoon Moon??/06/96Here Comes The Summer (NME FEST 96) Cast – Better Man Lush – I've Been Here Before Bis – Secret Vampires Mansun – Ski Jump Nose Dodgy – Homegrown Pusherman – Whole
The Afghan Whigs – My Enemy Super Furry Animals – Mario Man Babybird – Losing My Hair Northern Uproar – Goodbye Dubstar – A Certain Sadness Smaller – Giz a Life??/10/96Bleeping with the NME (NME MC OCT 96)Orbital – The Box Underworld – Pearl's Girl (NME Mix) The Chemical Brothers – Loops of Fury
Goldie – This is a Baad (Source Direct Mix) Leftfield – Filler Fish DJ Shadow – Changeling??/??/96WEA NME 3 Alanis Morissette – Ironic Porno for Pyros – Kimberly Austin Catatonia – Lost Cat Jaguar – But Tomorrow You Am I – Mr Milk
Mark Morrison – Crazy Spacehog – In the Meantime Nada Surf – Sleep Elvis Costello – Distorted Angel The Flaming Lips – Waterbug
1997 Date of IssueTitle (Catalogue No.)Track listing February 1, 1997Creation for the Nation (CREFREE'97) Oasis – Live Forever (demo) Arnold – Twist (demo) The Boo Radleys – C'mon Kids Teenage Fanclub – I Don't Care Edward Ball – Trailblaze Ultra Living – Homesick
3 Colours Red – Nerve Gas 18 Wheeler – Prozac Beats Super Furry Animals – Arnofio/Glo In The Dark The Diggers – Circles Hurricane – Just Another Illusion??? 1997Beat Up The NME (NME NORM 1)Pierre Henry – Psyche Rock (Fatboy Slim Malpaso Mix) Death In Vegas – GBH Bassbin Twins – Volume One-Side Two-Track Two Psychedeliasmith – Fixy Jointy Basement Jaxx – Fly Life Elite Force – Saturnalia Monkey Mafia – Lion In the Hall Double 99 – RIP Groove Old Skool Flavas Vol III – Booty Beats C. J. Bolland vs Hardknox – The Prophet
EPS & 2 Vibe – Big Time EPS & 2-Vibe – Hype the Funk 175 – Volume One Latyrx – Say That Kaleef – Trials of Life (Fishead Inst) Mr Dan – One Man Banned Bassbin Twins – Out of Hand Overseer – Hit The Tarmac Cut La Roc – Post Punk Progressive Sensateria – Give Me My Auger Back
1998 Date of IssueTitle (Catalogue No.)Track listing31/01/98NME Brat Pack '98 (NME BRAT 98)Beck – "Deadweight" Radiohead – "Meeting in the Aisle" Prodigy – "Smack My Bitch Up" Stereophonics – "A Thousand Trees" Death in Vegas – "Dirt" Blur – I'm Just a Killer for your Love" Mansun – "The World's Still Open" Bentley Rhythm Ace – "Why is a Frog too..." Travis – "20" The Seahorses – "Round the Universe"21/03/98NME Clean Sweep (NME AST 98)Super Furry Animals – "Bad Behaviour" Stereophonics – "Traffic" Travis – "Good Feeling" Warm Jets – "Down, Down, Down" Dawn of the Replicants – "Radars" Idlewild – "You Just Have to be who you are" Mogwai – "Ex Cowboy" Lo Fidelity Allstars – "One Man's Fear" Earl Brutus – "Come Taste my Mind" The Deftones – "My Own Summer (Shove It)" Asian Dub Foundation – "Assassin" Bentley Rhythm Ace – "Running on the Spot" theaudience – "I Never Have Been Done" Therapy? – "Tightrope Walker" Spiritualized with Suicide – "Rocket USA" All tracks recorded live at the Astoria Theare, London, between 18 and 25 January 1998??/??/98NME presents Radio 1 Sound City Newcastle-Upon-Tyne (NME SC 98)Stereophonics – Carrot Cake & Wine (Live) Fatboy Slim – Kalifornia (Simons Edit) Rocket From The Crypt – Lipstick (Radio 1 Session) Six By Seven – Get A Real Tattoo Neville Marcano – Root Cage Hefner – Pull Yourself Together Gorky's Zygotic Mynci – Hush The Warmth Clinic – Kimberly Super Furry Animals – Guacamole Terrorvision – Spanner In The Works Campag Velocet – Harsh Shark (Live At Reading 1998) Mogwai – I Don't Know What To Say Plastikman – Are Friends Electrik (NME Edit) Symposium – Circles, Squares & Lines 3 Colours Red – Be Myself Gene – Olympian (Live At Royal Albert Hall 1997) 26/09/98 Parlophone: A Flavour of the Label (NME 001)Beastie Boys – Intergalactic Bentley Rhythm Ace – Madam, Your Carriage Awaits Mansun – Television Idlewild – 4 People Do Good Dr. John – John Gris (j.spaceman mix) Neil Finn – Twisty Bass Sparklehorse – Hundreds of Sparrows Liz Horsman – This Is Blue The Supernaturals – Country Music The Dandy Warhols – Hard On For Jesus Sean Lennon – Spaceship Cecil – Larger than a Mountain to the Ant Bran Van 3000 – Forest K-Klass – Live It Up (Perpetual Motion Remix)
1999 Date of IssueTitle (Catalogue No.)Track listing??/??/99Spring Offensive (NME SPR 99) Suede – Popstar Cast – Dreamer Pavement – The Hexx Basement Jaxx – Same Old Show Regular Fries – Dream Lottery Underworld – Moaner Mogwai – Small Children in the Background Add N To (X) – Robot New York Mishka – Bring A Man Down Ultrasound – Fame Thing Sebadoh – Flame (exclusive acoustic version) Super Furry Animals – Download The Flaming Lips – The Spark That Bled Travis – She's So Strange??/??/99NME On: 1 (NME ON 1 – 1)Capitol K – Song For Banana Big Leaves – Sly Alibi Jim O'Rourke – Woman Of The World The Donnas – Get U Alone Younger Younger 28's – We're Going Out Seafruit – Looking For Sparks Bellatrix – Silverlight The Webb Brothers – I'm Over And I Know It (radio edit) To Rococo Rot – Telema Zan Lyons – Suicide (new version) Jumbo – HON Honey The New Electrics – Beautiful Mind Jadell – Keep On Beber – "Juvenile Delinquent" Roots Manuva – Juggle Tings Proper??/??/99Annual Probe Volume 1 (NME BRATS 99)Manic Street Preachers – This Is Yesterday (Live) Massive Attack – Mezzanine Placebo – Burger Queen Stereophonics – T-shirt Suntan (Live) Mansun – Special/Blown It (Delete As Appropriate) Gomez – 78 Stone Wobble (Live) UNKLE – Celestial Annihilation Chef – Simultaneous Air – Kelly Watch The Stars (Edit) Fun Lovin' Criminals – All My Time Is Gone Ash – Numbskull Embrace – The Good Will Out (Live) Fatboy Slim – Soul Surfing??/??/99Annual Probe Volume 2 (NME BRATS II 99)Mercury Rev – Endlessly Elliott Smith – Pictures Of Me Arab Strap – Piglet The Afghan Whigs – Somethin' Hot Royal Trux – Stevie (For Steven S) Quasi – I Never Want To See You Again Leila – Won't You Be My Baby, Baby Third Eye Foundation – A Galaxy Of Scars Boards of Canada – Roygbiv Jurassic 5 – Concrete Schoolyard MDK – Acid Rave (All The Girls Love An) Godspeed You! Black Emperor – The Dead Flag Blues (Edit)??/??/99Priceless Creation (NME-CRE 1999)Oasis – Acquiesce Primal Scream – Star My Bloody Valentine – Soft As Snow (But Warm Inside) Teenage Fanclub – Mellow Doubt The Boo Radleys – Free Huey 3 Colours Red – This Is My Hollywood Edward Ball – Love Is Blue Sugar – JC Auto The Jesus and Mary Chain – Cracking Up Super Furry Animals – Gathering Moss??/??/99The Glastonbury Broadcasts Vol 1 (NME-BBC GLASTO 99)Supergrass – Caught By The Fuzz Oasis – Rock'n'Roll Star Ocean Colour Scene – The Day We Caught The Train Reef – Allotment Cast – Alright Jeff Buckley – Eternal Life The Cure – Just Like Heaven Pulp – Sorted for E's and Wizz The Verve – Gravity Grave Orbital – ChimeAutumn 1999Bollox To Ibiza (NME AC 99)Campag Velocet – Bon Chic Bon Genre Leftfield – 6/8 War Kevin Rowland – I Can't Tell The Bottom From The Top Royal Trux – Waterpark LFO/Aphex Twin – Simon From Sydney Public Enemy – World Tour Sessions Stereolab – Come and Play in the Milky Night The High Llamas – Harper's Romo David Axelrod – Holy Thursday Death In Vegas – Dirge??/12/99Might Club (NME DEC 1999) Basement Jaxx – Don't Give Up Beastie Boys – Remote Control Ian Brown – So Many Soldiers Folk Implosion – My Ritual Regular Fries – Swimming In Someone Else's Swimming Pool Suede – Indian Strings Smog – Held The Flaming Lips – Race for the Prize