Has The NME Got Good?

Vox where U2 & Inxs covers were their equivalent of Beatles & Stones

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'

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Oh lord, my youthful lingo. The cringe!

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.

No, NME has not 'got good'. Close thread and let us never think of this again.

http://i64.tinypic.com/20jo39u.png

honestly believe they're just trolling aging nerds now

wtf

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.

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sob7lk

We got all these facts from surfing a Windows 10.9.6 with flexible tablet interface.

NME to cease print edition.

the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually still alive

ha, otm

they lost when they dropped "accordion times" from the title

i thought i'd be sadder about this but tbh it feels like a mercy killing, and i'd kinda made my peace with the nme being dead a pretty long time before it turned into a freesheet anywway

it's still going to be available online isn't it? that's a kind of alive -- wait we're all dead aren't we

if only

i guess it'll be online for as long as time inc can continue to squeeze pennies out of it but tbh i have even less idea who bothers to look at the online edition these days than who bothered to pick up the freesheet

went to the website and all the top stories seemed to be Oscars-related

They haven't even bothered making an announcement on their similarly Oscars-heavy Facebook page.

the final NME print cover is a conceptual hommage to this LP:
http://factmag-images.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/cale-05-kevinayers.jpg

yikes

Well, I would never have expected Buzzcocks to make it onto the final NME cover!

I guess now Mark E Smith has gone...

a fitting tribute to the paper's birth in 1976 and it's continuing commitment to the best in new pop

can i just tip my hat to Matt for trying to delimit this guff to one active thread and also thanks for not making it the swagger thread

didwenevergetthissortedlads.txt

Shenanigans

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/former-nme-editor-reveals-shenanigans-12145655?x

terrible editor claims terrible editor wasn't terrible

poll each paragraph of that or do we have better things to do?

The boss of the music magazine between 2002 and 2009, Conor McNicholas had a front row seat to stars like Dave Grohl, Pete Doherty, the Kaiser Chiefs and the Killers

i was gonna post that specific line, sends a thrill thru the pulse

Mirror article hashtags:

Danny Baker Dave Grohl Joni Mitchell Reading and Leeds Festivals Kasabian Kings of Leon The Killers The Strokes Hospitals Giving birth

Seems to be more about white dudes behaving badly than about music.

Hospitals Giving Birth had their moments.

Is 'wide passion' a misprint?

I remember Dave Grohl almost killing a journalist by throwing an unopened can of lager full pelt at their head after they’d sprayed him with beer for a cover shoot backstage at Reading Festival. (Only a swift duck saved the hack.)

https://cdn.birdwatchingdaily.com/2013/10/ducks-Mallard.jpg

I caught a glimpse of (hair + eyebrows dyed jet black) Terry Christian yabbering incoherent cliches about this on the news and he was credited as a music journalist. How on earth do you get to the age of 57 and still be Terry Christian?

Some are born Terry Christian, some achieve Terry Christianity and some have Terry Christian thrust upon them.

A cover featuring Amy Winehouse

some have Terry Christian thrust upon them.

ew

#RIPNME This is from an NME photo shoot in 1997. Kenickie on the Staten Island Ferry. Should mention NME wouldn’t put us on the cover because we refused to strip off and be painted gold. pic.twitter.com/Gly7MKQ4ym

— Emma Jackson (@EmmakJackson) March 7, 2018

Seems to be more about white dudes behaving badly than about music.

on the NME's masthead since at least the early 90s iirc

since 1973 iirc

http://www.paulgormanis.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Nick_Kent_1.jpg

probably but i wanted to note *cough* honourable exceptions

honourable saelf-pimping klaxon: i wrote an obit in 2009 for steven wells which i think describes the good and the bad of the nme i cared about (which was never quite the nme i actually wrote for):
http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2009/06/steven-wells-1960-2009-sleep-gently-sweet-foe/

lol as my sister just pointed out, i now have to jam another sentence into my book at late proof stage: thank you ipc for yr thoughtful timing you were always garbage >:(