WHEN DOVES FLY....TO TOP OF NME POLL!

Doves' 'THERE GOES THE FEAR' has been named the NME writers' single of 2002,

The track, a Number Three hit for the band last April, pipped the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' debut EP, with ' 'Hate To Say I Told You So' in third place.

The full list is:

1. Doves – 'There Goes The Fear'
2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – 'EP'
3. The Hives – 'Hate To Say I Told You So'
4. The Coral – 'Dreaming Of You'
5. Queens Of The Stone Age – 'No One Knows'
6. The White Stripes – 'Fell In Love With A Girl'
7. Sugababes – 'Freak Like Me'
8. LCD Soundsystem – 'Losing My Edge'
9. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – 'Whatever Happened To My Rock And Roll (Punk Song)'
10. The Vines – 'Get Free'
11. The Rapture – 'House Of Jealous Lovers'
12. Libertines – 'What A Waster'
13. The Datsuns – 'In Love'
14. Eminem – 'Without Me'
15. Flaming Lips – 'Do You Realize??'
16. The Streets – 'Let’s Push Things Forward'
17. Nelly – 'Hot In Herre'
18. Fischerspooner – 'Emerge'
19. The Strokes – 'Someday'
20. The 80s Matchbox B-Line Disaster –'Celebrate Your Mother'
21. Missy Elliot – 'Work It'
22. Polyphonic Spree – 'Soldier Girl'
23. Buff Medways – 'Troubled Mind'
24. The Thrills – 'Santa Cruz (You’re Not That Far)'
25. Jimmy Eat World – 'The Middle'
26. Ms Dynamite - 'Dy-Na-Mi-Tee'
27. BRMC – 'Spread Your Love'
28. The Coral – 'Goodbye'
29. Tweet – 'Oops (Oh My)'
30. Vines – 'Highly Evolved'
31. Ash – 'Envy'
32. Cornershop – 'Lessons Learned From Rocky I To Rocky III'
33. Idlewild – 'American English'
34. The Streets – 'Don’t Mug Yourself'
35. Massive Attack/Mos Def – 'I Against I'
36. Libertines – 'Up The Bracket'
37. The Kills – 'Black Rooster EP'
38. The Beatings – 'Jailhouse'
39. Truth Hurts – 'Addictive'
40. Aaliyah – 'More Than A Woman'
41. Ms Dynamite – 'It Takes More'
42. The Streets – 'Weak Become Heroes'
43. Coldplay – 'In My Place'
44. Idlewild – 'You Held The World In Your Arms'
45. The Bellrays – 'Fire On The Moon'
46. Doves – 'Pounding'
47. James Yorkston And The Athletes – 'The Lang Toun'
48. Pulp – 'Bad Cover Version'
49. Aqualung – 'Strange And Beautiful'
50. Soundtrack Of Our Lives – 'Sister Surround'

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