THE WORST NME COVER OF ALL TIME

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yes, this week's as seen: http://www.nme.com/magazine

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Do people really respond well to magazine covers that are jampackedthismuch with pictures and keywords? As odd as it might sound, I think the best music mag covers in general are ones done right after someone dies.

― musically (musically), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 18:35 (eighteen years ago) link

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e202/dog111333222/NME_180306.jpg

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 18:47 (eighteen years ago) link

that was last week's issue

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 18:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh, pick any of the 67 NME issues with Ian Brown on them... I choose this one, just because of the title..

http://www.rockmem.com/NME/19_11_94.jpg

― Yoo Doo Nut (donut), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 19:00 (eighteen years ago) link

wait, tom petty AND m people?

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 19:02 (eighteen years ago) link

And Harry Fuckin' Enfield! Still, I bet you a pound to a piece of shit that it was a better read then than it is now. Is this the thread where you get to call Conor McNicholarse a cunt? If so, count me in.

Bit of a while ago now but did anyone see him on that end-of-year MTV2 best of round-up bullshit with Zane Lowe 'round Christmastime? Hasn't he just got the most kickable face you've ever fucking seen?

I really don't like Conor McNicholas by the way.

― yer mam! (yer mam!), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 19:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Conor Mclickspittle is like the most appalling spotty school prefect, I just hope he knows he stands for absolutely nothing except the perpetuation of cultural hegemony. Don't worry tho, in a few years he'll have a column in the Groaniad (yay.) then be a regular talking head on do you remember the 00s (fantastic.)

― gekkoppel, Tuesday, 21 March 2006 21:27 (eighteen years ago) link

I trust everyone else was as intensely disappointed as me when they actually saw the "sickest rock merch ever"

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 21:55 (eighteen years ago) link

People are ignoring that the last band on that NME cover are Nancy Boy. Not the Placebo song, but the long forgotten glam-metal band fronted by Mickey Dolenz's son.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 22:00 (eighteen years ago) link

If anything, Tom Petty ages that issue more starkly

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 22:23 (eighteen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

Possibly a new candidate:

http://www.nme.com/images/84_NMEcover_L180406.jpg

It's rather deceptive but I think I got the better of it when I read "How four hardcore kids staged a punk rock revolution" and thought "Huh?".

Also, they have a token fat dude in a silly hat.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link

My 12 year old adopted cousin knows this shit is whack.

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 21:32 (eighteen years ago) link

THE 11 LOUDEST RECORDS IN ROCK

1. Arctic Monkeys
2. Metal Machine Music (ask yer grandparents)

continue.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 21:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Fat dude in a silly hat = US equiv. to Kaiser Chiefs Peanut.

11 loudest records in rock feature surprisingly not bad, if pointless.

Interview with Be Your Own Pet on last page references ex-Swans singer Michael Durra! If y're transcribing a tape and a band mentions someone you haven't heard of (and this being the NME these days that's probably anybody ever) wouldn't you take the five seconds to check the spelling on the internet? You could find that out on Amazon! Contempt for reader ahoy.

Why is Shaun Ryder dancing like that? He's shat himself.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 21:40 (eighteen years ago) link

People still read NME? I don't even read it in smiths now.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 22:21 (eighteen years ago) link

"Punk rock revolution"

Fucking cunts. The very notion was dead as the credits played on the Grundy programme.

― Venga (Venga), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 22:54 (eighteen years ago) link

stop the revolution I want to get off

― fandango (fandango), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 22:57 (eighteen years ago) link

How many of you are going to festivals? Please hunt down Conor McNicholas and tell him that he is a company boy twat until he starts crying. He may not be the main culprit but he'll do.

― Venga (Venga), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 23:01 (eighteen years ago) link

new issue =
http://www.nme.com/images/84_nmecover_L240406.jpg

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 23:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Why are they reviewing a fucking advert?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 23:18 (eighteen years ago) link

People in ad agencies do coke. Coke is a basic, sempiternal rock and roll value. Therefore, advertising is rock and roll, and as such warrants coverage by the NME.

― Momus (Momus), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 00:14 (eighteen years ago) link

completely bizarre

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 00:19 (eighteen years ago) link

New Kaiser Chiefs Tracks Revealed:

"Oh Fack Giles, Here Come the Townies"

"I Like Girls"

"Baggy Trousers"

― Ricky Nadir (noodle vague), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 00:21 (eighteen years ago) link

(shrug) I see nothing wrong with that NME cover.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 01:16 (eighteen years ago) link

I wouldn't want to be a member of any disco that played Panic! At The Disco.

― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 01:22 (eighteen years ago) link

(shrug) I see nothing wrong with that NME cover.

It was more that they were reviewing an advert than the actual cover!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 01:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Win Carl Barat's Signed Guitar? Like ver kids care about Carl Barat these days.

― Bring Me The Head of ESTEBAN BUTTEZ (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 02:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Lumme. I stopped reading the NME back in about 93 and it doesnt look like I've missed anything at all :/

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 03:26 (eighteen years ago) link

This week: four casually dressed young men, standing in a line in a photographer's studio! Again!

― bham (bham), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 08:05 (eighteen years ago) link

(shrug) I see nothing wrong with that NME cover.

Learn to look better.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 08:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah but the Cl ub Of The Week is bob on!

― Affectian (Affectian), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 09:30 (eighteen years ago) link

xpost to Est - Hey, it's a guitar! for free.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 09:32 (eighteen years ago) link

"Girls Aloud are as exciting as Franz Ferdinand"

This is a palpable untruth, but nice to see the NME catching up with me four years later.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 09:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Who the fuck are "Arctic Monkeys"?

I should've known these words would come back to haunt me.

― Philip Alderman (Phil A), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 11:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Apropos whatever, completely unexpectedly, Lo-Fis were fucking brilliant at Knebworth at the weekend. The sound's completely redeveloped since their early days - less glitchly, more bassy, and more like Bugged Out!-esque funky house / techno spun out into MDMA- mantras than Embrace faiing to make dance music.

-- Chris Houghton

― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 20:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Punk rock for the kidz! The next major step in realizing the possibilities of music on the internet!

NME.COM, a Time Warner Inc. company (NYSE: TWX), and Mercora, Inc. today announced an agreement whereby NME.COM will develop a beta version of MyNME Radio that brings Mercora's innovative 'music search' and legal music sharing capabilities to NME.COM users. As a result, NME.COM users will have the ability to search, find, and listen to music on the world's largest user-contributed digital radio network. Users will also be able to broadcast their own collection of music to others on the network, as well as browse and listen to their friends' music collections. MyNME Radio will be available by the end of Q2 2006 at www.nme.com.

"With 1.5 million of the most passionate music fans visiting the site each month, NME.COM is the U.K.'s most important music community ," said Kevin Heery, director of Digital Development, IPC Ignite! "Our partnership with Mercora will provide this community with the ultimate music social network experience. This is the next major step in realizing the possibilities of music on the internet."

http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?storyid=8024&ret=Default.aspx

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 22:52 (eighteen years ago) link

two months pass...

http://www.nme.com/magazine

"why syd matters now more than ever"

― pisces (piscesx), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link

"why syd matters now more than ever"

Because he's dead, apparently.

― musically (musically), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link

"why syd matters now more than ever"
Because they can do a Syd special and cash in.
And then theres the NME/Mojo Classics special issue to come no doubt.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Why Sid matters now more than ever:

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link

BECAUSE OF FAULTY HTML FUCK
http://www.chairmanmoo.co.uk/images/news/syd.jpg

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.essentialchristian.com/images/a-picmain/MWT0422.jpg

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Was it Syd Little who ended up working as a minimum wage painter and decorator, or Tommy Cannon? I can never remember.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I am not able to hate journalists because of what they like, I am a lot more likely to hate them because of what they dislike.

Thus, any backclash against Britpop special will be the worst thing ever.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I've got this idea in my head that the NME office is like a combination of Press Gang, The Daily Planet and Fagin's den from Oliver Twist.

― badg (badg), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 23:13 (seventeen years ago) link

that sounds too good.

I think it's a combination of New Labour PR department, the Feltham Young Offenders Institution, and a hair salon.

― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 23:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Had a look at this at Tesco at lunchtime. It was OK and I'm quite surprised that they bothered at all. They reprint some Nick Kent article on Syd that I couldn't be bothered to read bcz I don't like him.

Alan McGee says, "He was the original punk rocker." Does he never tire of fatuous wrongess?

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 12:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Syd's about the 14th "original punk rocker" that the ginger millionaire has cited in the last ten years.

― Venga (Venga), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 12:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Other "Original punk rockers" that AMc has cited:

Kevin Rowland, bosoms can't be bothered ..

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 12:45 (seventeen years ago) link

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