THE WORST NME COVER OF ALL TIME

can't wait to see how well this is received

pretty sure this is it:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NME-MUSIC-MAG-ZZ-TOP-17-NOV-1984-/201051298970

worse than the one with a bald bloke's head painted like a globe, because the mag featured an extensive interview with midnight oil?

http://thumbs1.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/mzywkEkl-R-dEo5q_pbEEwA.jpg

Jack Barron's head, as we've probably covered upthread

if you didn't like the ZZ Top cover don't sweat it, just wait until next week and all will be well again

http://www.rockofages.uk.com/stock/6818.jpg

design-wise that's a million miles from awful

oh agreed, I just posted it because it amuses me tbh

Adrian Thrills, now music critic for the Daily Mail

Noel takes on Courtney Love

new musical express

http://www.nme.com/images/gallery/NMECoverBeatles_CMA3_170315.jpg

most ilm cover they've had for a while though tbf

NME covers since the start of 2015:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/birdnestsoup/nme.jpg

Noel Gallagher's miserable face on 25% of them

I know you got Noel!

fucking hell, that beatles cover. that picture's nearly 50 years old ffs!

statistics indicate that there are three times as many noel gallaghers making music as there are women or black people

LOL @ "100 Greatest Beatles songs!" Really curious to hear what Dave Grohl and Jack White have to say about that, I only have their opinions on everything else in the universe.

http://i.imgur.com/aQ20DQm.png

I don't know who that guy even is!

Wass not Wazz

Mick Talbot

dont you notice the "get tickets" but? nobody at nme.com has either it seems

*bit

We have a winner
http://nme.assets.ipccdn.co.uk/images/NMECoverChrisMoyles_CMA3_WhiteBorder_300915.article_x4.jpg

fucking hell, that beatles cover. that picture's nearly 50 years old ffs!

Apparently - two of them are supposed to be 'flying' (tripping), unbeknownst to the other two. I assume it's John and Paul ?

But -yes, completely depressing set of covers.

effortlessly tapping in to twatosphere culture wars zeitgeist tbf

twatosphere

to avoid getting trenchanted, should point out that this wasn't intended as a pun on 'twittersphere', which has only just occurred to me.

don't trenchant me bro

lots of cats are going to asking each other this week who the stubbly dude on their litter tray liner is

this is the nme equivalent of clickbait.

3 issues into the new era and only one has been a musician.

i picked up the ex-vampire issue.

summary : its a 20 minute (max!) bus ride skim read.

summary: it's litter

We're done here. Lock the thread. Go about your business.

Well, quite.

http://i.imgur.com/lP90f7l.jpg

nme.com currently promoting this (dunno if its in the mag or not ) http://www.nme.com/photos/50-greatest-guitar-riffs-of-all-time/289593

http://nme.assets.ipccdn.co.uk/images/NME-Cover-100thingstodothissummer-090616.magazine.jpg

with no actual article in it, just an extended listicle ..

the metro on a wednesday has better (and more) reviews in it now.

strangely reminds me of Youth Suicide in a way

Magazine suicide more like

Faintly surprised it's still going.

Shit By Both Sides

surely only a matter of weeks before the content of every article is 100% emojis too

whenever i see a copy of the nme now it's part of a massive stack of unclaimed issues - is anyone even reading anymore other than the morbidly curious music journalism diehard? the most recent abc figures to the end of 2015 show they were distributing more than 300,000 copies of each issue but i have no earthly idea who might be picking them up

Walking past shoreditch high street this morning they had 3 people handing them out. Its p easy to be handed something. Reading it is another matter.

You just don't see anyone reading it. Get on the train and there are people reading Time Out and Stylist and Shortlist all over the place but you pretty much never see anyone reading the NME.

You can finish it in about 5 mins.

Ive tried. Its not even a magazine though. No reviews, no interviews, no news. Basically its some hair gel adverts and a couple pictures of pop stars or ladrock stars and oh look a bin why am i carrying this

How long is it going to last then? Surely not long now.

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