THE WORST NME COVER OF ALL TIME

article in today's metro abt this:

http://www.metro.co.uk/music/913247-nme-celebrates-60th-birthday-but-can-it-reclaim-its-former-glory

There's no equivalent list of Kerrang covers but my guess would be they'd provide a much better picture of commercially successful rock music in 2012.

in london anyway, working class kids tend to be more into 'urban'/dance or whatever

provinces + north 'indie'/rock has/had full spectrum dominance but again idk what music exactly the kids listen to these days

is it just like the vaccines + maybe odd future or something

kids i know seem to be mostly emo metal or mersh hip hop/r and b stuff

i don't really remember anyone into metal when i were a lad but then that was in era when papa roach ruled metal

also i guess every british thread shouldn't be about racism + class factionalism + general resentment/bitterness/stupidity but there was an awful lot of rhetoric towards rap/garage etc that could be described as crypto-racist in the same way as david laws could be described as a crypto-tory

i kinda imagine this might have improved in the last decade

This week's is very, very bad and features the worst picture of Cobain I think I have ever seen.

pic?

http://static.nme.com/images/13910_171007_NMECoverCMA3Nirvana100913.jpg

I have approx 250 words in it. Haven't read anything else in there yet, though.

ok that is a shitty photo

surprisingly good teeth i thought

He's American.

teeth too pretty to die young

anyhow, it looks like they have serious problems if M.I.A. is the newest artist mentioned on their front cover

change that '20 years' to '10 years' and the 'new' in nme makes some sense again.

on every nme cover ever: "Pete Doherty's back and up to his old tricks"

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/sep/24/nme-experiment-online-charge

Lol no way is that going to work, you're talking literally the most entitled readership ever.

But it's "30p cheaper than one of the San Fransisco band's singles on iTunes."

Print circulation of the 62-year-old indie bible fell to 20,011 in the first half of this year, down from 56,284 five years ago, according to the latest Audit Bureau of Circulations figures. Visits to its website, however, have rocketed to an estimated 8 million users a month.

20,000 a week isn't very much.

If they're starting to go down the online payment route then how long until the papermag stops getting published?

http://www.musicweek.com/_media/images/NME_Relaunch_Bowie.jpg

http://cdn.umg3.net/lanadelrey/images/sized/cdn/images/uploads/NME_Cover-597x739.jpg

no matter how hard she tries she still can't manage any look other than "boring and sullen"

Quite like the design of that new cover (although it's basically The Face) but that's a terrifying picture of Bowie.

***about BOXCAR time*** is so horrible my toes are still curled up in embarrassment for the sub

at least they didn't spell it 'MVSIC'

'Why don't you call yourself New Mojo Express and just be done with it?'

the nme typeface bit looks nice. If there really are more reviews I might even read it in the co-op next time im in.

also ldr has her tongue out. Miley copying her?

look at the bottom left of the pic

other way around, LDR copying Miley...

such an embarrassment, this rag

Difficult to say which is the bolder innovator in that regard.

"January 2012" ?

Miley Cyrus's Video For "We Can't Stop" (Being Badass Means Sticking Your Tongue Out A Lot Apparently...) [Started by scott seward in June 2013

correct
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other way around, LDR copying Miley...

LDR was copying Miley over 18 months ago?

Del Lana Montana?

i know who carries it off better

as posted elsewhere
http://cdn.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/articles/2013/04/19/lil-bub-the-world-s-cutest-cat-stars-in-documentary-lil-bub-friendz-at-tribeca/_jcr_content/body/inlineimage.img.503.jpg/1366337940819.cached.jpg

how long has nme been using "The Past,Present and Future Of Music" as a byline? What direction are they taking now then? Beatles/Dylan on the cover every 3 months like Mojo/Uncut ? or reprinting classic features of the past?

How much photoshopping on Bowie's jowels/neck? A lot.

Never seen it before. (xpost)

reprinting old features could be good i suppose but we already have mojo/uncut etc for new articles on old music. We dont need new articles on the glory days of britpop/landfill/libertines

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oh good, agendas and importance, just what music needs

The NME may as well just become a monthly magazine now, shouldn't it?

a monthly podcast

If it did then it couldnt set the agenda for the next seven days!