THE WORST NME COVER OF ALL TIME

I like the way the NME old popstars thing excitably lists all these addictions and tragedies as a way of explaining why a bunch of guys look about 20 years older than they did 20 years ago.

7. plans for 2010 general election scrapped and new government elected according to Rateyourmusic positions; My Dying Bride settle gingerly into new role as MP for Knowsley South

(Adam Ant actually looks about 5 years older on his!)

8. David Cameron forced to stand down after having got 51 SB nominations from party MPs after voting "happiness is a warm gun" the worst song on the White Album.

Yeah, I dunno what they've got against Wendy James either, we can't all look 12 for ever like Conor M

9. New Kerrrang! editor Matty Taylor vows that Muse have graced the cover for the last time

10. Elizabeth Fraser enters Eurovision and wins it

11. Jools Holland Later gets canned, and is replaced by a new version of Snub TV

12. the BBC revamps 6 Music with a radical new direction

13. DJ Martian standing on the Pyramid Stage for two hours ringing a bell really loudly while singing "play up Pompey" is hailed by Michael Eavis as the greatest Glastonbury headliner since Radiohead in 1997.

+PLUS+

14. That arse from Biffy Clyro puts his fucking shirt on for once.

Tempted to start a generic indie guitar band called +PLUS+ just so I can claim I'm on the cover every week.

That "then and now" article is hilarious.

"age and a recent alcohol addiction have washed away most of his youthful good looks."

No, really? Age rid him of his youth?

http://kayascodelario.net/photos/albums/magazines/2009/02_NME/Kaya_Scodelario_001.jpg

wasn't there an entire thread dedicated to that cover?

L-R: Ant, Dec, Severed Head

Posting this here so i can find it at a later date as no doubt i will forget which thread it was in and this will be the 1st one i search :)

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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN A NEW LEADER EMERGES. It's the chest hair that does it.

come back conor mcnichols, a certain amount is forgiven.

That is your God.

Also, this just in: THE CLASH WERE A BAND.

That is your God.

Yes exactly and I dunno: that is actually a half-decent cover with some clarity, as opposed to the unfocusable-upon clutterfest I expect... ok it's just been shuffled westwards on the page I suppose, hold left hand over baubles and I say it looks not bad at all...

I read the Cowell interview earlier and he comes off as pretty reasonable really - I hope no-one had their fingers crossed it was gonna be a monstering because it's nothing of the sort

He's coated off every interviewer that's sat with him. Even Clarkson!

not really the worst

but

http://www.nme.com/images/10322_164604_mumfordandsons_nmecoverL220310.jpg

at least the whole approach of the cover is 'cleaner' than they used to do a few years ago.

actually, please replace years with months

eg that skins cover upthread.

New editor seems to have changed a great deal of the mag.

Although, a greater reliance on 'archive reprints'.

SO, is there an extended (or even a small) tribute to AChilton?

looking at that cover it's difficult to tell

oh look one of them's wearing a newton heath man u fan scarf! what a hero!

abysmal

Yeah that cover looks like any number of em from like 1996, sucky band but perfectly OK other than that imo

-the period in the subtitle
-the newton heath scarf
-'big star's underground icon'
-the big pink suede panda bear hurts
-the cunts in the picture whoever they are
-countryside realness shit

thx

the big pink suede panda bear hurts

Hmmm, I've not heard it called one of those before.

well you can do what you want, but don't step on it

Vampire Weekend the other week was apparently their worst selling cover ever: 21,000 was the rumour.

the worst of the TEN covers this week

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I automatically inserted a tutting sound after "the state of music today".

"being in a band..." line cribbed from the Manic Street Preachers' Big Book of Bollocks...

Mumford And Sons should really think about hanging themselves

note suspicious wear pattern on the Strat

Obviously had a belt sander taken to it.

I guess it's too much to hope that belt sanding a guitar is part of their live act.

Mumford And Sons should really think about hanging themselves

Or starting a firm of solicitors...

Ten covers? Ten fucking covers?

And none of them feature Oasis - NME standards slipping then...

i do like the cleanliness of the new logo

http://img59.imageshack.us/i/nmecoverlcd010410.jpg/

salright
should really be polling them

http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/8288/nmecoverlcd010410.jpg

I love the text describing it on the website:

Inside this week:
New Look NME
10 Special Covers
New Content
On Sale Now!

Forgetting that the '10 Special Covers' won't be 'Inside this week', I wonder if 'New Content' really is something that the kids will go for.