THE WORST NME COVER OF ALL TIME

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Didn't Oasis stop the Smurfs from covering Wonderwall? Is that what they meant?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

makes Oasis sound like the Smurfs

What the fuck does that even mean?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 11:41 (nineteen years ago)

I fancy listening to the Smurfs version of "I Wanna Be A Hippy" now.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 11:44 (nineteen years ago)

What the fuck does that even mean?

Smoke some crack and you'll 'get it.'

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

I bet NME never got shit like this in 1928.

― JTS (JTS), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

Worthless music in the NME is no surprise, but who in god's name designs those covers? Is the graphics department run by chimpanzees? Even the tabloids are better put together.

― Ice Cream Electric (Ice Cream Electric), Thursday, 27 July 2006 00:24 (nineteen years ago)

i think i might like the covers more, if they were less red and black, and more blue and green

― -- (688), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

Joyce Grenfeld is a LEGEND. She should be on the cover of NME when her nursery school tapes get reissued. ROCK ON!!!!

― JTS (JTS), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

man like simon reynolds is backing the klaxons.

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Friday, 28 July 2006 07:54 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno if "it had to happen i spose" = backing.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Friday, 28 July 2006 08:25 (nineteen years ago)

This band are SERIOUSLY in need of a punch.

― fandango (fandango), Friday, 28 July 2006 08:36 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

the NME try to get analytical: War on EMO? Which side are you on?

http://www.nme.com/images/84_NMEcoverEMO_L160906.jpg

they should have have been ridiculing these EMO artists from the start, but no they gave them coverage

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 10:10 (nineteen years ago)

there are probably other artists, that they could have given coverage to :(

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 10:17 (nineteen years ago)

This is really ridiculuos.

― zeus (zeus), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 10:31 (nineteen years ago)

I just saw the cover in the shop just now and was coming back to post it.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 10:35 (nineteen years ago)

aww, all the little Kaiser Chiefs fans in Doncaster must be growing up :D get a move on Conor!

this is a good way to put two of the most genuinely popular with 'ver kids (yet un-incubated by the NME Britpop 2.0 bullshit dept) rock bands ON THE COVER whilst simultaneously trying to give off a "still relevant" look, like they haven't dropped the ball completely w/r/t covering what the yoof who are now 15 and up are listening to.

― boredom to the left, babylon to the right (fandango), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 10:37 (nineteen years ago)

Esteban Buttez: "The judges aren't stupid, just worthless cunts."

― Eazy-Esteban Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 10:37 (nineteen years ago)

What is SH*TOR DISCO?

― Eazy-Esteban Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 10:38 (nineteen years ago)

trend analysis 2006/7

indie kids > metal
emo kids > metal

NME > fucked
Kerrang > smug & creamy

― boredom to the left, babylon to the right (fandango), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 10:42 (nineteen years ago)

Whatevah the NME's position on emo is, mine is the opposite.

― Eazy-Esteban Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 10:43 (nineteen years ago)

The Hip Hop Wars were never like this.

― Venga (Venga), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 10:44 (nineteen years ago)

What NME should be covering this week: Mastodon

http://www.terrorizer.co.uk/images/issues/bigt149.jpg

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 10:46 (nineteen years ago)

If Panic! At The Disco are getting threatened in the street The Killers UK tour should be pretty short.

― boredom to the left, babylon to the right (fandango), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 10:49 (nineteen years ago)

Can the Arctic Monkeys save us from this American invasion???

― boredom to the left, babylon to the right (fandango), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 10:51 (nineteen years ago)

ripvanwinkle.jpg

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 10:52 (nineteen years ago)

I pitched that Welsh scene report idea but they were way ahead of me. I'd like to write for Terrorizer

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

Can Eric sort the NME out? When did Eric Fuller edit Sounds magazine?

new managing director of IPC ignite! starts September 18th

IPC MEDIA APPOINTS ERIC FULLER MANAGING DIRECTOR OF IPC IGNITE!
http://tinyurl.com/hmd8b

IPC Media chief executive Sylvia Auton today announces the appointment of Eric Fuller, currently publishing director of IPC ignite! magazines, Nuts and Loaded, to the role of managing director
of IPC ignite!

.....

Eric joins the IPC Media board on September 18, 2006 and will oversee the IPC ignite! portfolio of men's and music magazines, Nuts, Loaded, NME and Uncut and their digital brand extensions, including the market-leading NME.COM.

.....

Eric started his career at Spotlight Magazines' music weeklies Sounds and Record Mirror, both of which he edited. He was promoted to publishing director of Kerrang! and also worked in the US as group publisher of Guitar Player and other magazines for musicians.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

also look who has turned up at 6 Music

ex NME writer

Imran Ahmed
http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/music_week/biog_imran.shtml

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:01 (nineteen years ago)

Another good excuse for me not to invest in a digital radio.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

Imran actually admitted to a friend of mine that his sole reason for working at the long dead NME was not because he had the slightest interest in music, but to get himself on the radio, and presumably from there into some kind of meeja career. Hmm, a bit like John Peel then.
-- snotty moore (liljelvi...), March 12th, 2005 12:03 AM. (link)

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

Cut his ears off now, if he hasn't the slightest interest in music.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

dj martian, why do you care so much about what 14 year olds are listening to?

― acrobat (elwisty), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

bit extreme.

xpost

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

As I've said before, if anyone thinks Imran Ahmed's hip-hop writing was bad, you need to see his pro-wrestling journalism. In particular his celebration of Bill Goldberg's wide ranging moveset.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

Anyway, I was torn between starting up a new thread and bumping this one to discuss teh indie v emo warz, but we may as well carry on here.

Thoughts:

1) Emo has basically left the NME fucked. Kerrang are back ahead in the ABC figures, and the NME is torn between appealing to its current readers by saying "Look at these poofs from America, I bet they don't drink WKD like real men such as the Fratellis do", and going "Well, there's a lot more money in emo than indie by the end of this year, let's break out the eyeliner". So, yeah, it basically is the modern day equivalent of the hip-hop wars.
2) NME-endorsed hatred of indie hatred of emo basically boils down to misogyny, right?
3) Where does this leave the Killers?
4) Mastodon fucking suck.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

why misogyny?

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

i kind of lump indie in with emo. i am very out of touch. it's all 'lol indie' to me.

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

why misogyny?

Because emo is basically for and specifically targetted at 14/15 year old girls. Go to My Chemical Romance's Myspace, try and find comments left by males.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

i see. i didn't know anything about it.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

it's not like the hip-hop wars. it's like the bald-men-and-the-comb wars.

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

So, let's see, IPC unwilling to use real writers with a real passion for music, preferring to use crap writers using "music journalism" as a kindergarten stepping stone to reviewing films for the Daily Sport.

Ah well, if you pay peanuts, you know what you get...

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

some metal dude laughingly recounted to me a story of how at download an "emo kid" had been tied to a chair by a bunch of metal types who proceded to threaten slicing his wrists open. i thought that was quite unpleasant.

― pscott (elwisty), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

you were very complimentary about 'plan b', and they don't even pay peanuts.

xpost

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

the NME has *always* covered EMO bands. i'm certain there have been other covers with the word large style on the cover over the last few years.

― pisces (piscesx), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

The NME discovered emo, what, two years after "The Middle" came out?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

Thing about Plan B is that the payment issue doesn't bother me; I would enjoy writing for it anyway, as I do for Stylus (maybe I ought to think up some ideas for articles and get in touch with The Management). Whereas two years with IPC convinced me that obedient sweatshop writers were all they wanted.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

Dom Dom Dom, when are we gonna see an emo character in wrestling? (Jeff Hardy doesn't count.)

― Eazy-Esteban Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

Aren't Ring of Honor doing an emo character with one of their undercard workers? He does a lot of moping about his valet and then gets squashed. Alex Shelley would be a pretty cool emo heel I think, but Paparazzi Productions > anything else in wrestling at the moment so there's no point changing him.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

My Chemical Romance are effectively a boy band. And we've been slagging off certain boybands forever without misogyny accusations (because most people agree their songs are shit).

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

Somebody didn't get the memo about My Chemical Romance being this generation's iconic band!

― Eazy-Esteban Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

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