The Cribs, winner of NME's Outstanding Contribution to Music 2013

I feel the need to pre-empt this post by saying I like The Cribs!  A LOT!  I've currently got Men's Needs, Women's Needs on my mp3 player.  I hadn't listened to it in two or three years, and the first time I listened to it in 2013 I thought to myself, 'I forgot how good this album is, this is a great album!  And it works as an album, not just as a few singles and some filler.'  The New Fellas, Ignore the Ignorant....



Photo: http://www.clubzone.com/events/518258/toronto/lees-palace-and-the-dance-cave/the-cribs

BUT I'm surprised The Cribs got the NME award for Outstanding Contribution to Music.  Recent winners have included Pulp, PJ Harvey, The Specials and Elbow.  However, the Outstanding Contribution to Music award is different to the Godlike Genius award (recent years: Noel Gallagher, Dave Grohl and Paul Weller). (I wonder how the criteria differ between OCM and Godlike Genius... unlike Godlike Genius has to be an individual?)

Yet despite how much I like The Cribs, I'm quite surprised to see them up there with Pulp, PJ Harvey and The Specials.  Well done, lads, though I never would have thought!