THE WORST NME COVER OF ALL TIME

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 :)

http://i49.tinypic.com/14xm992.jpg

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Media/Pix/pictures/2009/12/15/1260874129094/NME-Christmas-2009-issue-006.jpg

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

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Media/Pix/pictures/2010/4/6/1270558733051/Biffy-Clyro-005.jpg

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.

haha

maybe they've brought back film reviews?

Basically it looks like the NME is trying to reposition itself as Q - one artist/band per cover, complete with wanky quote from said artist/band. The Rihanna one is hilarious - "You need people to tell you when you're f***ing up" quoth 'anna, with a sequinned top and a parrot on her shoulder.

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

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really do hate multiple covers per issue generally. STOP DITHERING.

new logo and cover layout looks pretty good to me although it's a bad idea to have james murphy's head across half of your new logo.

it almost always looks terrible when mags obscure their logos but on its debut week it's a particularly bad idea.

"I'd love to see the record labels crash and burn. Er, except my one..." says Elton John

The LCD Soundsystem cover is a Morrissey joke, which makes it ok.

i actually really like the look of the new covers, even if the actual content is pretty lol. nice to see it look so clean after years of being headache inducing. also lol at a record label boss saying he'd like to see them crash and burn.

i actually like the new look covers.
clean and simple.
though as stated by others, the multiple covers thing is overdone now.
are people really out there collecting them all ?
have pokemon kids moved onto printed media driving this marketing need?
suspect not.
also, that list of 10 discussing the state of music in 2010 is pretty much as to be expected from NME.
well that is all apart from : magnetic man
which required a quick wiki dive to find out more.