THE WORST NME COVER OF ALL TIME

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.

it's kind of a cop-out in terms of a safe way to put both rihanna on there and magnetic man who are too unknown to make it otherwise.

it almost always looks terrible when mags obscure their logos

tell that to SFX's circulation figures

http://i49.tinypic.com/21c8jut.jpg

LIAM
'OASIS'
NOEL GALLAGHER

the new cleaner design didn't last long.

who the fuck is serge?

bloke from kasabian.

http://www.nme.com/layout/magImage.php
GLASTONBURY
GLASTONBURY
GLASTO'S
GLASTO 2010
THE SMITHS
JOHNNY MARR
40 years
40th ANNIVERSARY
+
+
+
oasis

It will sell a lot of copies.

yeah, that looks like the office SEO expert has gotten into the design dept

http://i38.tinypic.com/14w3gw5.jpg

what year is it?

i was expecting to see oasis, so it's a small step up from that at least

http://static.nme.com/images/magazine/nmemagcover4sept300810.jpg

ew...

i hate the libs, but its a good picture

http://static.nme.com/images/magazine/NmeCoverLibertinesCC090511.jpg

there is no future for this band

hopefully

the headline so nice they strapped it twice

that could be a cover from any week in the last 5 years. the nme, folks.

NME getting more like Mojo all the time.

Lol @ the last three covers on this thread all being Libertines.

I saw a copy earlier this week (Friendly Fires on the cover I think) and it looked and read better than in the McNicholas era. Putting more words in has probably helped.

what am i missing here? how is this week's cover the same as one from a year ago? have just seen it in the paper shop by ours.

the old one had an address that they keep changing the image on. my fault for not rehosting it.

.. this weeks one with Bono on it.

Not because it's Bono, necessarily. But then again...

http://www.nme.com/layout/magImage.php

(I assume this pic won't be of Bono by next week...)

rawr

For posterity:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/kitbrash/magImage.jpg

Who to see! By the shitty bands themselves

v sporting of them to suggest how to survive them

Has the cover that featured Miles Hunt, Andrea from the Darling Buds and Guy Chadwick been mentioned on this thread? Fuckination no wonder acid house and sub pop thrived. It had a nauseating 'flowers of our youth' type headline with the three fuckwits posing with flowers. I only spent the 55p for Steven Wells at this point.

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

I thought it might be a homage to Jonathan Meades.

http://www.theartsdesk.com/media/k2/items/cache/feb7e9c589993a5a644987614f09b605_XL.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/IvvOj.jpg

In this week's NME... (15/08/11)

One story has dominated the music world over the past week: the needless and mindless torching of a warehouse on London’s outskirts that has plunged the independent music sector into chaos. With £millions of stock up in flames, entire backcatalogues wiped out and the future of some of the country’s most beloved indie labels hanging in the balance, NME asks: will the UK indie scene ever be the same again?

Plus, the big clean up. The riots may have smashed up our cities, but they can’t break our spirits. Kaiser Chiefs, Emmy The Great, Everything Everything and Sam Duckworth lead the way as the UK music scene mucks in to get Britain back on its feet. Go indie!

so kasabian are talking about dinosaurs, and laura marling is talking about beast, but its kanye who's talking nonsense?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/aug/18/nme-circulation-falls

Circulation now below 30,000. You could fit everyone who buys the NME into White Hart Lane and still have about 7000 seats left over.

that's the same warehouse torching that many people on this board expressed some degree of upset about, right? i know this cover is ... poorly expressed, but it doesn't really seem that bad of a deal

UK music scene mucks in to get Britain back on its feet. Go indie!

i really hate the 'cleaners-up = fascist' meme but... ugh @ this too

The riots may have smashed up our cities, but they can’t break our spirits.

who are we? (to be clear, i think rioting and looting are bad.)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/table/2011/aug/18/abcs-consumer-magazines

what the hell is that at #70 "Moshi Monsters Magazine" ?

^Top 100 selling UK publications list btw

Irish Farmers Journal coming in at a credible 92

Moshi Monsters is some kids thing. I only know this cos the photographer I work with a lot has little kids who are into it so he's mentioned it.