Of course I’d agree that The Smiths were the most influential band in the last 50 years, but then I would also be described as a typical Smiths fan and NME reader when I was a lad etc etc. Anyway, that’s also the view of the current crop of lads & lasses that read the NME, apparently. It doesn’t seem as if their readership demographic has shifted one iota in 15-plus years. But The Strokes at No.17? That’s one short attention span.