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there's quite a few typos, with punctuation missing, or letters missing here and there. maybe the OMM is being rushed these days.

i still like reading it though, but while i love the design, and they always have some cool things to read (i even like the music doctor section), i find the reviews somewhat elegantly written at the expense of anything of worth or real passion or interest. theyre somewhat blanded out in content terms.

the darkness piece was interesting though, even though, by the end of it, you start wondering if justin hawkins' apparent industry fatigue is just another rise, one that even he doesnt know if its genuine or not.

― splooge (thesplooge), Monday, 16 August 2004 09:41 (twenty-one years ago)

"there's (sic) quite a few typos, with punctuation missing"

"theyre"

"one that even he doesnt know if its genuine or not"

physician heal thyself.

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 16 August 2004 09:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, it finally convinced me to get hold of some Fela Kuti. All these years, and I've yet to hear a single note...

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 16 August 2004 09:49 (twenty-one years ago)

No remarks here of course about most Fela Kuti albums consisting of one single note...

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 16 August 2004 09:50 (twenty-one years ago)

x-post, i dont write for the OMM. and if i cant be bothered to puncutate my posts on a mere message board (as im doing in this very sentence), it just shows that i can spot bad grammar more easily. as snoop dogg said, bad-grammar game recognise bad-grammar game.

fela kuti's albums dont consist of one mere note.

― splooge (thesplooge), Monday, 16 August 2004 09:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, the repetition is one of the things I'm most looking forward to...

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 16 August 2004 09:54 (twenty-one years ago)

you have the right approach, mike.

― splooge (thesplooge), Monday, 16 August 2004 09:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Tom Cox's thing about the 'reggae snob girl' or whatever she was, was absolutely fucking foul and nasty and small-minded beyond measure.

― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Monday, 16 August 2004 10:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't believe you think it's well designed splooge - i think it looks awful.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 16 August 2004 10:04 (twenty-one years ago)

and also IS awful.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 16 August 2004 10:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Tom Cox's thing about the 'reggae snob girl' or whatever she was, was absolutely fucking foul and nasty and small-minded beyond measure.

'surprised'

― stevie (stevie), Monday, 16 August 2004 10:05 (twenty-one years ago)

why? i dont think it's brilliant, but its seems quite clearly laid out, isnt a mess, and i like newspapery layouts.

i think i made a post about well designed mags a while back, i didnt nominate OMM, but i can think of far worse.

i did think it was funny that in the intro they included fela in the great pantheon of 'rock'.

― splooge (thesplooge), Monday, 16 August 2004 10:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Sick Mouthy: agreed, Reggae Girl was awful beyond measure.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 16 August 2004 10:08 (twenty-one years ago)

anything that makes people buy fela records is a good thing, tho. i praise the stars every day that i got curious enough to buy 'he miss road' - such an awesome album.

― stevie (stevie), Monday, 16 August 2004 10:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm going to look for "Best Best".

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 16 August 2004 10:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Tom Cox's thing about the 'reggae snob girl' or whatever she was, was absolutely fucking foul and nasty and small-minded beyond measure.

What was this exactly? You always know it's going to be a hoot if he's writing abut black music... I instructed my girlfriend not to buy the Observer if it was music supplement week, I mean I enjoy banging on about it on here but it's not worth £1.40 for the privelige.

[XPOST I've just read it. Change a few of the names and stuff and he's writing about himself, mmm?]

― DJ Mencap0))), Monday, 16 August 2004 10:10 (twenty-one years ago)

He's just such a nasty, conservative, petulent little shit.

― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Monday, 16 August 2004 10:11 (twenty-one years ago)

x-post - stevie, youre right, but not everything is part of or influenced by rock, yknow. there are other musics in the world that existed separate of rock! i dont need to call everything i like one mere name just to be okay with liking it.

its like the piece i read in jack where the journalist was surprised skinner wasnt into the specials but was a huge hip hop fan, as if hes simply too far 'above' mere hip hop.

― splooge (thesplooge), Monday, 16 August 2004 10:13 (twenty-one years ago)

totally agree splooge, but i guess the attempt might be to convince culturally-closeted rock fans to check stuff like this out, without scaring them with phrases like 'afrobeat', 'world music' or 'jazz'. and its hard for me to think of a record that 'rocks' more obviously than the Fela/Ginger Baker album.

― stevie (stevie), Monday, 16 August 2004 10:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Tom Cox's column manages to surpass itself in awfulness every month. Pure prejudice dressed up as social insight.

The GLC album review written by Casper Llwellyn Smith was also unintentionally hilarious. He thinks Newport is in the valleys, which presumably makes the whole of Wales just one big valley.

― Jason J, Monday, 16 August 2004 10:23 (twenty-one years ago)

put it this way, it took omar and cedric mars volta raving, with frothing mouths, about Fela for me to actually check his albums out, as opposed to just being generally interested in him. i would now reccommend 'expensive shit' / 'he miss road' and the ginger baker LP to *anyone*...

― stevie (stevie), Monday, 16 August 2004 10:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Morley's piece was dreary. McDonalds, Coca Cola and KFC are the work of the Devil? Earth revolves around Sun shock! Capitalism, like ZTT wasn't.

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 16 August 2004 10:25 (twenty-one years ago)

OMM readers: rockist guitar-fascist fuxors, the lot of them!

i need to hear that kuti/baker album.

x-postery, i find it completely bewildering that GLC were number one on their albums list.

― splooge (thesplooge), Monday, 16 August 2004 10:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I feel compelled to buy Tom Cox's book about the nu-metal kid. It's the rubbernecking instinct, I think.

― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Monday, 16 August 2004 10:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Then again, I don't expect any more than the usual kind of racism which puts a novelty act like Goldie Lookin' Chain ahead of Dizzee Rascal on their albums list.

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 16 August 2004 10:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Tom Cox seems like that guy at the party who's riddled with self-hate and loathing and decides to spend the night pouring bile into your ears about all the people who still believe in anything, his own hollow and miserable desperation far too apparent.

― stevie (stevie), Monday, 16 August 2004 10:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm glad i don't do parties.

― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Monday, 16 August 2004 10:37 (twenty-one years ago)

stevie - probably OTM.

― splooge (thesplooge), Monday, 16 August 2004 10:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean, he's probably a sweetie in real life, but his pieces are so scornful and spiteful and cruel. I'd hate to stare at life through so unforgiving a lens.

― stevie (stevie), Monday, 16 August 2004 10:37 (twenty-one years ago)

anyway, stop cursing this dull magazine and THREAD TO MY LOOSE LIPS THREAD, MFs!!!

― stevie (stevie), Monday, 16 August 2004 10:38 (twenty-one years ago)

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm

anyone know if there are (and how to access) archived OMM's ?

― Paul (scifisoul), Monday, 16 August 2004 10:39 (twenty-one years ago)

The GLC album review written by Casper Llwellyn Smith was also unintentionally hilarious. He thinks Newport is in the valleys, which presumably makes the whole of Wales just one big valley.

The server computer at work appears to have tried to send a virus to Caspar Llewellyn Smith recently - albeit at the Telegraph, so not keeping up with developments :(

Him writing about a GLC album is something you sort of dream about, and when it finally comes, you don't know what to say.

― DJ Mencap0))), Monday, 16 August 2004 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)

um, steve yates, aka possibly the worst hip-hop writer in the country, writes for them. It's clearly pointless.

― addy, Tuesday, 17 August 2004 23:07 (twenty-one years ago)

The OMM critics are TERRIBLE. They hand out at least three five star reviews a month, and I remember them giving four stars to McFly a few months back. I don't particularly have anything against McFly, but four stars, come on. This could all be forgiven, of couse, if they ever wrote with any wit, grace or insight. I prefer Alexis sodding petredis.

I always enjoy Paul Morley's column. At least it's funny.

― Wooden (Wooden), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 23:19 (twenty-one years ago)

um, steve yates, aka possibly the worst hip-hop writer in the country, writes for them.

No way has anyone taken the mantle of the UK's worst hip-hop writer from Imran Ahmed yet. He's also Britain's worst wrestling journalist as well, which is a nice double-header.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 23:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I have instructed my girlfriend not to read this thread.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

just read felas music referred to as rock n roll in the guardian's guide the other day. GTFOHWTBS.

― splooge (thesplooge), Saturday, 18 September 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

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