THE WORST NME COVER OF ALL TIME

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Syd's about the 14th "original punk rocker" that the ginger millionaire has cited in the last ten years.

― Venga (Venga), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

Other "Original punk rockers" that AMc has cited:

Kevin Rowland, bosoms can't be bothered ..

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

Was it Syd Little who ended up working as a minimum wage painter and decorator, or Tommy Cannon? I can never remember.
-- Dom Passantino (juror...), July 18th, 2006.

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oh i've GOT to know.

― pisces (piscesx), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

Silly Alan McGee, everybody knows that Joyce Grenfell was the original punk rocker:

― Momus (Momus), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

"why syd matters now more than ever"
Because they can do a Syd special and cash in.
And then theres the NME/Mojo Classics special issue to come no doubt.

Christ, damned if they do, damned if they don't. Would it be better if they *hadn't* made a big deal?

I don't read the NME any more because there are other places I like to read about music these days. However, it's like TOTP and, dare I say it, John Peel. Not as good as it used to be, or just not as relevant to me, no real place for it in my world any more, but I'd be sad/will be sad/was sad* when it is/was* removed for good.

*delete as appropriate

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

I felt like that when Melody Maker went. Although, from 87-97 it was the greatest music paper ever.

― Venga (Venga), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

i thought NME had wrote off Pete Doherty, so why is the talentless prat on the front cover again !

http://www.nme.com/images/84_nmecoverpetedoherty_L250706.jpg

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

Oasis Again ! the key question: When are the going to break up - sunnnnnnshine

Indie-Rave ? The last time that term was used was The Shamen in 1992

New Music [More tuneless local indie tripe]: Larrikin Love, The Holloways !

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

what album are they talking about re indie-rave?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

many nme readers were scarcely born when rave started.

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

I hope Pete says sorry to me for the three minutes I wasted listening to a fuck-awful Libertines song once before I deleted the fuck out of that shitty mp3.

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ The Unstoppable Troll Machine (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

no idea !

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

probably the beginning of a 6-month hype pre-release campaign for The Klaxons

― fandango (fandango), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

Doherty: "What is wrong, with my life, that I must get junk every night. I'm sorry"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

Indie-rave = The Fratellis to cover "Cubik"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

maybe Kasabian? - they are sub stone roses drivel

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

Please please please let it be MSTRKRFT.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

uh-oh there's a band called the fratellis.

xpost -- haha i was gonna say that.

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

yeh i thought Kasabian - but then they would surely have mentioned their name on the cover no?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

TS: Indie-Rave vs. Grindie

― fandango (fandango), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

GRINDIE RAVE

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

GRINDIE EMO RAVECORE

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

NEW ACOUSTIC GRINDIE EMO RAVECORE

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

NEW WAVE OF BRITISH NEW ACOUSTIC GRINDIE EMO RAVECORE

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

"There's always been a dance element to my music" says Paolo Nutini

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

grindiemo would be awesome, just for the lulz.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

Last weekend there were 2 niche festivals in England:

Futuresonic
http://www.futuresonic.com/
[Manchester]

and

SuperSonic
http://www.capsule.org.uk/Supersonic/
[Birmingham]

..instead the NME dish up Doherty / Oasis tosh.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

grindiemo would be awesome, just for the lulz.

http://www.getcapewearcapefly.com/

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

I think a bunch of ilxors should storm the NME office in a musical revolution and take over.

Whos with me?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/images/400/comedyspecial_1.jpg

― Citizen Smith (Kerr), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

Docherty isn't talentless although it is easier for you to think he is so he can represent.... spomething, for you.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

You're right. He's clearly supremely talented... at getting himself in the papers.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

NEW WAVE OF BRITISH BAGGY SHOEGAZE ROMO NEW ACOUSTIC GRINDIE RAVECORE

― Ricardo (jaxxalude), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

Did you hear that tuneless drivel of a single he released last year?

If MM was still with us, Doherty would abused by Mr Agreeable every week !

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

Docherty isn't talentless although it is easier for you to think he is so he can represent.... spomething, for you.

Indeed. I too would like this constant wave of Jack Docherty-bashing to stop.

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ The Unstoppable Troll Machine (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

Did you hear that tuneless drivel of a single he released last year?
If MM was still with us, Doherty would abused by Mr Agreeable every week !

-- DJ Martian (altmartinu...) (webmail), Today 3:40 PM. (djmartian) (later) (link)

Mr. Agreeable was long gone from MM when it bit the dust.

― Ricardo (jaxxalude), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

If MM was still with us, Doherty would be on the cover every other week. Just like Liam and Noel were in '96.

DJ Martian, I do kinda sympathise with your hankering for a music press which functioned as it did in the late 80s/early 90s, but have you not, even after all these years of complaining about the NME on ILM, begun to accept that for a multitude of reasons those days are firmly in the past and will never return?

― Venga (Venga), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

does NME still do Thrills?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

Indeed. I too would like this constant wave of Jack Docherty-bashing to stop.

-- ESTEBAN BUTTEZ The Unstoppable Troll Machine (estebanbutte...), July 25th, 2006.

-1.0

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

but have you not, even after all these years of complaining about the NME on ILM, begun to accept that for a multitude of reasons those days are firmly in the past and will never return?

LOSER TALK! DAMN QUITTERS

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

I find Martian's resilience strangely heart-warming.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

-1.0

Aw, come on. It had to be done.

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ The Unstoppable Troll Machine (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

does NME still do Thrills?

Well the only two copies of NME I've read in the last 5 years were the Peel and Syd tribute issues and there seemed to be no attempt to take the piss out of pop stars therein. Unless the Kasabian interview in last week's was the subtlest piece of satire since Swift. The NME is clearly a PR journal for various "indie" acts these days and nothing else. Ho hum.

― Venga (Venga), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

"Thrills" was usually pretty rank back in the day, in any case. sub c*l*m humour, most of the time.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

True.

But the "diary of Kurt and Courtney" and/or "Evan/Juliana" were some good things, until reality kinda took teh funnie away...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

Collins and Maconie were/are no match for teh Stubbs.

― Venga (Venga), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

i think calling Johnny Cigs-type humour 'sub Calum' is some wack ordering.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

nah. i know stubbs is more 'one of us'-y but nah.

xpost

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

could it be FABRICLIVE cut copy the 'indie rave' album they are bigging?

― pisces (piscesx), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

ok, "proto-c*l*m".

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

I liked 'Techno News with Troy Wembley'

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

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