THE WORST NME COVER OF ALL TIME

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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.

NME: Welcome to the w*nk dungeon.

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I skimmed it on lunch and iirc that refers to an injoke some rubbish band featured in the mag had on their tour

xp

It's the name of a "venue" it seems.

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BRING THEM BACK

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has there ever been a poll for best nme editor?

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Great lyrics writer Kurt "an albino, a mosquito" Cobain

Alex Turner gives us an insight into his boundless imagination: "I write about what I see. What else is there?"

What a northern wit!

There's only one word to describe that Libertines poster: classic.

Christ the NME is depressing. Would hate to see the male to female cover artist face-count ratio for the last 5 years. And yet they still occasionally review good stuff (The Pheromoans album got an 8/10 this week, not bad for a 750 LP run on Upset The Rhythm) and have some decent writers in amongst the shit that means I hate them every time I succumb/have a long train journey and weaken and buy a copy.

"classic Libertines"

Alex Turner gives us an insight into his boundless imagination: "I write about what I see. What else is there?"

― Poor.Old.Tired.Horse. (Stew), Saturday, September 8, 2012 5:47 PM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

eh I don't particularly care for Alex Turner but this doesn't really work as a zing at all

Well, it's not exactly the world's greatest zing, but Turner's non-more-realist rhetoric does betray a lack of imagination. Nothing wrong with realism, but my response to 'what else is there' would be, well, quite a bit more... Not that I'd necessarily want to hear him singing about warlocks and space demons...

Ooo lyrics. I like lyrics in songs.

Although in fairness to Alex Turner, he could be bringing some Kantian transcendental idealism into the NME by stealth...

Wonder if they manage to get through a whole issue on lyrics without mentioning hip hop.

Actually if it's a list-type situation they'll probably have Eminem and Mike Skinner.

funny you say that Craigo. check this:

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‘For Whatever Reason’ Annie Gardiner, 2012

installation of copies of NME magazine from 1989-2008. Piles of magazines divided by gender of artists depicted on the cover, as follows:

Female – Male – Both – None

ha. i wonder how the wire would compare?

Would probably have to go with cover mentions to compare with the Wire, given they do single artist photo covers with five or six others mentioned, whereas the NME has photo splashes where the Wire just has text mentions.

Over the last 2 years it's 2-15-3-4, solely based on cover photos.

Last few months worth of NME covers according to Wikipedia:

25/04/12 John Lydon
01/05/12 2012 Summer Festivals Preview
08/05/12 Alabama Shakes
15/05/12 The Ramones
22/05/12 The Hot List
29/05/12 The Stone Roses
05/06/12 David Bowie
12/06/12 Mumford and Sons
19/06/12 100 Greatest Songs of NME's Lifetime
26/06/12 The Stone Roses
03/07/12 The Stone Roses
10/07/12 Florence and The Machine
17/07/12 The Rolling Stones
24/07/12 Muse
31/07/12 Two Door Cinema Club
07/08/12 Joe Strummer
14/08/12 The Killers
21/08/12 The Vaccines (Reading and Leeds 2012 preview)
28/08/12 Foo Fighters and Green Day (Reading and Leeds 2012 review)
04/09/12 Kurt Cobain
11/09/12 Joy Division
18/09/12 John Lennon

So the new editorial strategy appears to be 'Become Mojo'.

I still didn't quite believe rock music was dead until I saw those covers all laid out like that. It's like they've given up.

I wouldn't conflate rock magazine is dead with rock music is dead.

yeah a bit like saying dance music died with Muzik or Jockey Slut

except who would mourn if the nme died now

it would be like the dandy where old people mourn old nme that hasnt existed in a long time

It's probably a conflation of 'mainstream rock music is dead' with 'print media is dead' but you'd think they'd have more ideas than that.

oh my god is that cobain cover real

classic Libertines!

matt maybe its actually selling more now than it was?

Then that doesn't reflect well on the current state of its core stamping ground then does it?

more its readership

You make it sound like these things are completely unconnected.

current state of its core stamping ground

England?

"Voice of a generation" - whose generation? I thought I was the tail end of the Nirvana generation (liked them but was too young to see them live) and I don't think my generation or the one above is really of much interest to the Nirvana readership; we're their parents and the boring office workers who clog up the buses at 8:30am when they go to school/college, surely?

I mean looking at that list maybe it is just selling to people a few years older than me who want to read about the Stone Roses for the billionth time, but... who are these people and did they not stop buying it a decade ago when it went Kerrang!-sized and the remaining 80 words per page became (possibly thankfully) unreadable due to being printed in e.g. hot pink on a red background?

idk there will always be rock revivals

it is dead but will never die