Has The NME Got Good?

oi, leave me out of it

can't work out whether piscesx bumped that in a +ve or -ve way. opinions to go with your c/p images please!

Also, the Hollywoodlife.com link, is that on the actual magazine?

opinions to go with your c/p images please

sometimes silence is more dignified

That Bieber cover is New Labour level triangulation. "It's okay older readers, he's got a knife through his head really!"

It's not even their fucking interview.

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.

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.

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.

https://www.facebook.com/nmemagazine/posts/10154344284529167

RIP NME.

It's a long, painful death until it joins Sounds, Melody Maker and Word in music mag heaven from this point on.

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.

"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!

Select is in music mag hell for creating Britpop

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.

They still covered all things Britpop though. It was *the* britpop bible

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.

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.

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)

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.

I enjoyed Vox too. If I recall, the first time I ever heard Lamb was on a cover-mounted CD with Vox.

There's a website with scans of old issues of Select, although it's not complete.

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.

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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:
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yikes