THE WORST NME COVER OF ALL TIME

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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

Was it Syd Little who ended up working as a minimum wage painter and decorator, or Tommy Cannon? I can never remember.
-- Dom Passantino (juror...), July 18th, 2006.

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oh i've GOT to know.

― pisces (piscesx), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Silly Alan McGee, everybody knows that Joyce Grenfell was the original punk rocker:

― Momus (Momus), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 16:16 (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.

Christ, damned if they do, damned if they don't. Would it be better if they *hadn't* made a big deal?

I don't read the NME any more because there are other places I like to read about music these days. However, it's like TOTP and, dare I say it, John Peel. Not as good as it used to be, or just not as relevant to me, no real place for it in my world any more, but I'd be sad/will be sad/was sad* when it is/was* removed for good.

*delete as appropriate

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I felt like that when Melody Maker went. Although, from 87-97 it was the greatest music paper ever.

― Venga (Venga), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link

i thought NME had wrote off Pete Doherty, so why is the talentless prat on the front cover again !

http://www.nme.com/images/84_nmecoverpetedoherty_L250706.jpg

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 12:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Oasis Again ! the key question: When are the going to break up - sunnnnnnshine

Indie-Rave ? The last time that term was used was The Shamen in 1992

New Music [More tuneless local indie tripe]: Larrikin Love, The Holloways !

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:04 (seventeen years ago) link

what album are they talking about re indie-rave?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:13 (seventeen years ago) link

many nme readers were scarcely born when rave started.

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I hope Pete says sorry to me for the three minutes I wasted listening to a fuck-awful Libertines song once before I deleted the fuck out of that shitty mp3.

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ The Unstoppable Troll Machine (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:15 (seventeen years ago) link

no idea !

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:18 (seventeen years ago) link

probably the beginning of a 6-month hype pre-release campaign for The Klaxons

― fandango (fandango), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Doherty: "What is wrong, with my life, that I must get junk every night. I'm sorry"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Indie-rave = The Fratellis to cover "Cubik"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:24 (seventeen years ago) link

maybe Kasabian? - they are sub stone roses drivel

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Please please please let it be MSTRKRFT.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:25 (seventeen years ago) link

uh-oh there's a band called the fratellis.

xpost -- haha i was gonna say that.

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:26 (seventeen years ago) link

yeh i thought Kasabian - but then they would surely have mentioned their name on the cover no?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:26 (seventeen years ago) link

TS: Indie-Rave vs. Grindie

― fandango (fandango), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:27 (seventeen years ago) link

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