And around the same time there was Nescafé with the future Giles.
― AlanSmithee, Monday, 9 November 2015 19:40 (eight years ago) link
Still, I'm wondering if demand for the kind of what-happened-on-the-telly-last-night entertainment news has actually ballooned since the internet, which is weird now you can basically watch it whenever you want.
― Matt DC, Monday, 9 November 2015 21:55 (eight years ago) link
Has anyone actually got and read one of the new NME's yet? Outside of London like
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 9 November 2015 22:03 (eight years ago) link
well, yeah
― Mark G, Monday, 9 November 2015 22:34 (eight years ago) link
you're barely outside tbf!
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 9 November 2015 23:22 (eight years ago) link
i read oneit had loads of james bond stuff in itit was awful, but a few bits less awful than I expected
― kinder, Monday, 9 November 2015 23:41 (eight years ago) link
They're around in Glasgow. Fopp and elsewhere. It's just another free thingy isn't it? I don't know if I would connect the NME logo on these things to the paper I read in late 80s/90s any more than I thought that paper was the same as the 50s version.
― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 9 November 2015 23:49 (eight years ago) link
HMV have copies in Dundee. I think I read the first free issue, maybe two, but haven't bothered since - I'd stopped buying it on any regular basis years ago anyway. Is it terrible thay I can't be bothered carrying a copy around town if I pick one up? At least the Skinny has a little more to read.
― michaellambert, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 00:50 (eight years ago) link
Also I find the NME website unreadable on my phone so that's not really a replacement.
― michaellambert, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 00:52 (eight years ago) link
They have them in tesco. In my local tesco anyway.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 01:00 (eight years ago) link
New free NME seems very closely modelled on ShortList in terms of design, content, even the paper used
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 09:33 (eight years ago) link
How is it on the cheeks?
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 09:40 (eight years ago) link
https://pmchollywoodlife.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/justin-bieber-nme-magazine-lead-1.jpg
― piscesx, Thursday, 12 November 2015 12:11 (eight years ago) link
oi, leave me out of it
― kinder, Thursday, 12 November 2015 12:20 (eight years ago) link
can't work out whether piscesx bumped that in a +ve or -ve way. opinions to go with your c/p images please!
― lex pretend, Thursday, 12 November 2015 12:25 (eight years ago) link
Also, the Hollywoodlife.com link, is that on the actual magazine?
― Mark G, Thursday, 12 November 2015 12:32 (eight years ago) link
opinions to go with your c/p images please
sometimes silence is more dignified
― ogmor, Thursday, 12 November 2015 12:47 (eight years ago) link
That Bieber cover is New Labour level triangulation. "It's okay older readers, he's got a knife through his head really!"
― Matt DC, Thursday, 12 November 2015 13:05 (eight years ago) link
It's not even their fucking interview.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 12 November 2015 13:06 (eight years ago) link
that Hollywood Life bit isn't on the cover, couldn't fnd a JPG of the regular one.
i think it's pretty good they've got JB on because NME likers on Facebook have been moaning non stop about *every* cover they've had since the relaunch (RiRi, Kill Your Friends etc) so they musta thought F it and just gone the whole hog. i still don't think he's done anything as good as Boyfriend mind.
― piscesx, Thursday, 12 November 2015 13:07 (eight years ago) link
Nah they'll have had a Bieber cover in mind since the relaunch, especially given we're now well into the worldwide Campaign for Bieber Rehabilitation.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 12 November 2015 13:09 (eight years ago) link
that Hollywood Life bit isn't on the cover
OK, so it's not some sort of weird buy-in interview from said website which requires a citation/publicisation.
That's something, anyway.
― Mark G, Thursday, 12 November 2015 13:10 (eight years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/nmemagazine/posts/10154344284529167
― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 12 November 2015 18:04 (eight years ago) link
RIP NME.
― Turrican, Thursday, 12 November 2015 19:40 (eight years ago) link
It's a long, painful death until it joins Sounds, Melody Maker and Word in music mag heaven from this point on.
― Turrican, Thursday, 12 November 2015 19:44 (eight years ago) link
Trying to read the awful 10-best blog posts everyone's complaining about, and they seem to have been taken down. Microsoft didn't get value for $, obviously.
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Friday, 13 November 2015 01:46 (eight years ago) link
"It's a long, painful death until it joins Sounds, Melody Maker and Word in music mag heaven from this point on".
Don't forget Select!
― Kibbutzki (Jaap Schip), Friday, 13 November 2015 05:08 (eight years ago) link
Select is in music mag hell for creating Britpop
― Cosmic Slop, Friday, 13 November 2015 16:17 (eight years ago) link
The pre-Oasis polyester version of Britpop though: Suede, Pulp, Auteurs, St Etienne, Denim. Eccentric rather than beery. Stuart Maconie's essay in that issue is worth rereading.
― impossible raver (Re-Make/Re-Model), Friday, 13 November 2015 17:14 (eight years ago) link
They still covered all things Britpop though. It was *the* britpop bible
― Cosmic Slop, Friday, 13 November 2015 17:19 (eight years ago) link
I dunno, I quite enjoyed Select magazine at the time - particularly when they would do things like go through a bands discography song-by-song, like they did with Blur and Radiohead.
― Turrican, Friday, 13 November 2015 18:21 (eight years ago) link
Uh, well they covered the biggest bands of the time. They also covered lots of dance music and declared (iirc) Orbital the highlight of Glastonbury, not Blur, Oasis or Pulp.
― impossible raver (Re-Make/Re-Model), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 19:33 (eight years ago) link
aww RIP Select, thank you for introducing me to such Britpop legends as Vapour Space and the Wipers. Possibly both in the very same Britpop issue.
also Vox, which I concede maybe nobody else remembers fondly, but also turned me on to a bunch of stuff
although, in those days, what mag didn't? the joy of not knowing everything yet (ha)
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 20:08 (eight years ago) link
For all Select's faults, the joy of reading a new issue with an afternoon pint and fag will never in my life be surpassed.
― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 21:30 (eight years ago) link
I enjoyed Vox too. If I recall, the first time I ever heard Lamb was on a cover-mounted CD with Vox.
― Turrican, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 21:38 (eight years ago) link
There's a website with scans of old issues of Select, although it's not complete.
― Turrican, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 21:43 (eight years ago) link
Vox where U2 & Inxs covers were their equivalent of Beatles & Stones
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 21:49 (eight years ago) link
I used to enjoy Q, years and years ago, when they'd do things like make a journo sit in a pub for 3 days and record every song played on the jukebox and go slowly mad to endless replays of 'Africa' and 'November Rain'
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 23:50 (eight years ago) link
Cosmic Slop is probably the only person in the world who can still get annoyed by music mags that closed the best part of two decades ago. Well, maybe DJ Martian as well.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 18 November 2015 11:36 (eight years ago) link
Select was a great mag in its Andrew Harrison helmed prime. As others have said, it covered plenty of other things than Britpop. They were very pro pop and very pro dance music. Its treatment of pop culture and social issues was great too. The poster section in the middle provided plenty of fodder for my teenage bedroom walls. Always loved the personals at the end, although I never plucked up the courage to start corresponding with anyone in there. Once John Harris took over around 96 it lost a lot of its wit and flair. And like many mags it was a victim of the Britpop fallout.
― Poor.Old.Tired.Horse. (Stew), Wednesday, 18 November 2015 15:34 (eight years ago) link
Another great feature in Select was the home interiors section (I forget the actual name of it), where pop stars would show off their living rooms. The first issue I bought (REM, Autumn 94) had Poison Ivy and Lux Interior's house, which was the coolest thing I'd ever seen aged 13. Still up there really. Wish I could find a scan of that feature online.
― Poor.Old.Tired.Horse. (Stew), Wednesday, 18 November 2015 15:37 (eight years ago) link
Tried googling for your Cramps home interiors spread and got you saying exact same things 10 years ago.
Dug out some old Selects from the mid 90s the other day. The Andrew Harrison era was the best (? up to mid-95). He and Adam Higginbotham then went on to start Neon, which was the best mainstream/cult populist movie magazine evah!The first issue I bought was from Nov 94. The cover is missing but it's quite possibly the finest single issue of a music magazine evah! (I'm gonna get the most evah!s into a post evah!)REM main feature (not as worthy as you'd think - Neil Cooper gets them to drop their pants), Portishead on soundtracks, Kylie, Flavor Flav and his troubles, Sven Vath, Laibach! Then at the back there's a home beautiful piece with Poison Ivy and Lux Interior showing off their amazing house. It's possibly the greatest double spread in British pop mag history, evah! ― Stew (stew s), Thursday, July 21, 2005 10:16 AM (10 years ago) Bookmark
The first issue I bought was from Nov 94. The cover is missing but it's quite possibly the finest single issue of a music magazine evah! (I'm gonna get the most evah!s into a post evah!)REM main feature (not as worthy as you'd think - Neil Cooper gets them to drop their pants), Portishead on soundtracks, Kylie, Flavor Flav and his troubles, Sven Vath, Laibach! Then at the back there's a home beautiful piece with Poison Ivy and Lux Interior showing off their amazing house. It's possibly the greatest double spread in British pop mag history, evah!
― Stew (stew s), Thursday, July 21, 2005 10:16 AM (10 years ago) Bookmark
― Eyeball Kicks, Wednesday, 18 November 2015 17:17 (eight years ago) link
Interesting to hear that John Harris took it over around '96, I never really paid a lot of attention at that age to who was writing/editing music journalism but I did stop reading Select around then. Coincidence? Perhaps.
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 18 November 2015 17:28 (eight years ago) link
Oh lord, my youthful lingo. The cringe!
― Poor.Old.Tired.Horse. (Stew), Wednesday, 18 November 2015 22:54 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nme.com/filmandtv/news/ant-and-dec-caught-complaining-about-technical-gli/393986?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=antanddec
Thanks NME for al those years and all that. It wouldbe nice if the news they covered on the website was primarily music based, not for me but whoever wants it now.
I guess its not.
― Mark G, Saturday, 28 November 2015 20:36 (eight years ago) link
No, NME has not 'got good'. Close thread and let us never think of this again.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 29 November 2015 05:20 (eight years ago) link
http://i64.tinypic.com/20jo39u.png
― Ad h (onimo), Monday, 15 February 2016 10:07 (eight years ago) link
honestly believe they're just trolling aging nerds now
― Chikan wa akan de. Zettai akan de. (Noodle Vague), Monday, 15 February 2016 10:52 (eight years ago) link
wtf
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 15 February 2016 12:16 (eight years ago) link
That pic was "blocked at work" to me, I have discovered that if you post blocked images on Facebook, they display.
So I did. Then deleted it.
Then posted it again to all. Think the world will appreciate it.
― Mark G, Monday, 15 February 2016 12:35 (eight years ago) link