THE WORST NME COVER OF ALL TIME

issue 7 and still going by the look of it.

Huh. I'd never seen its stablemate, Vintage Rock

Ive not even heard of that. Never seen the 80s pop mag in Smiths tbh

Ooh, Classic Pop looks pretty good tbh.

Spot the pattern there.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 10 October 2013 13:09 (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The older the target readership, the better the circulation figure. Except for Kerrang.

From memory of Careless Talk, it's eye-wateringly expensive to get a magazine on the shelves of Smiths.

Kerrang!'s been at around double the circulation figures of NME since 2002 IIRC.

blimey its on issue 8

xps

Kerrang was selling over 70,000 5 years ago, mainly to teenage girls according to a survey apparently.

I remember an electronic mag launched but I cant find it but I did stumble across
http://electronicsound.co.uk/
Think its app only though no print version

http://electronicsound.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/cover4-01.png

Our latest issue features GARY NUMAN giving us the inside story on his new album, ‘Splinter’… JOHN FOXX remembers his Ultravox days and ‘Metamatic’… THE ORB’S ALEX PATERSON reveals his influences… Plus interviews with CAN founder IRMIN SCHMIDT, BORIS BLANK from YELLO, BILL LEEB from FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY, POLLY SCATTERGOOD, BOOM BOOM SATELLITES, ULTRAMARINE, CLARA HILL, ULRICH SCHNAUSS AND MARK PETERS and SIN COS TAN… BOY’S OWN guv’nor TERRY FARLEY on the early days of acid house, FINI TRIBE’S DAVY MILLER on the making of ‘Detestimony’, and JACK DANGERS on HENK BADINGS and the PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORY. We also review albums by FACTORY FLOOR, NYPC, CHVRCHES, VILE ELECTRODES, MARCEL DETTMANN, GIORGIO MORODER and loads more. Tune in and oscillate!

Electronic Sound is a new UK-based magazine dedicated to the very best in electronic music. We’ve drawn a line through the entire history of electronica and we’re intent on finding new ways to join the dots. Each month, we’ll features weighty interviews, in-depth reviews, great photography, and lots of video and audio clips. Tune in and oscillate!

Could you do that line over but sound a bit more worried please pfunk? I have been sat on a kerr-angst pun for so long now, it's going to split me in two when it finally pops out. Thanks!

oops xp

I think K! has had a mainly-female readership for a long, long time to be honest. And I think that's a good thing?

Kerrang was selling over 70,000 5 years ago, mainly to teenage girls according to a survey apparently. AND NOW ITS FALLING AND OH THE DESPAIR

xp

everyone's falling. it's a miserable time.

Pretty sure that teenagers have basically stopped buying magazines in their entirety.

but we might get a quality pun from nick b out of it!
xp

they have websites now. from a financial point of view it's hard to argue with.

xp oh i buggered that up there didn't i

it's all spoilt now!

I cant really imagine teenagers buying digital magazines for their phones/ipads

It's amazing that the NME website is still so poor, especially given that Pitchfork exists and, for all its faults, is still a pretty great example of how to structure an online publication.

former pitchfork uk person Laura Snapes is now NME's features ed iirc so hopefully that will lead to a perking up of the website. MOJO's website has recently had a relaunch, lots of ace stuff to read on there.

NickB, to make up for ballsing up the joke twice...

Kerrang was selling over 70,000 5 years ago, mainly to teenage girls according to a survey apparently. AND NOW ITS FALLING AND OH THE DESPAIR

I think I need to be the one saying it?

Kerrang was selling over 70,000 5 years ago, mainly to teenage girls according to a survey apparently. AND NOW ITS FALLING AND OH THE DESPAIR

Laura's good but she was editorial not technical; I can't see her exerting influence over interfaces and usability.

Kerrang was selling over 70,000 5 years ago, mainly to teenage girls according to a survey apparently. AND NOW ITS FALLING AND OH THE DESPAIR

ha too late i flounced off already!

I don't really get why Laura Snapes is seen as the barometer of quality these days, I mean she's better than most of them but her writing isn't exactly spectacular and she has the most boring taste in music imaginable.

otm.

I can imagine much more boring taste.

I can imagine much more exciting though.

But it probably wouldn't sell a weekly magazine to teenagers and students. Saying that, not much seems to.

ahh there's the thread I started
CLASSIC POP Magazine - ILM's Ideal Magazine for Old Farts?

i spent some money in fopp today and was given a free copy of the bowie nme. it is not to my tastes, but i was impressed by how PACKED, content-wise, it was. seemed p gd value for £2.40

Was there lots of reviews?

So this week NME is asserting its new brand by publishing (print only, can't find it online) its 500 greatest albums of all time list.

There are some interesting choices. They don't seem to like dance music at all. Or jazz. Or much hip hop beyond Kanye. They like The Strokes a lot. And The Smiths. These aren't surprises.

what's the top 5?

From memory: SMiths, Strokes, WhiteAlbum, Pulp, um...

I think it was collated by:

50 people listed their 50 top albums,
then the "top 50 albums of each year" got incorporated in.

Oh yeah, Stone Roses.

haha, fucking hell

Top 10:

10. Definitely Maybe
9. White Album
8. Doolittle
7. Stone Roses
6. Different Class
5. VU & Nico
4. Is This It?
3. Hunky Dory
2. Revolver
1. The Queen Is Dead.

Lots of 'alumni' of the paper submitted top 50s, plus every top 50 ever published, #1 gets 50 points, #2 49 etc etc.

I doubt very much that they'll have gerrymandered results, before anyone suggests that.

thanks nick, that's one grim list

I doubt very much that they'll have gerrymandered results, before anyone suggests that.

they fuckin' should have, out of embarrassment

20. OK Computer
19. Whatever People Say I Am etc etc
18. Loveless
17. It Takes A Nation Of Millions...
16. Closer
15. Let England Shake
14. Low
13. Funeral
12. Horses
11. Nevermind

30. Enter The Wu-Tang
29. Marquee Moon
28. Back to Black
27. Screamadelica
26. Pet Sounds
25. What's Going On
24. Exile On Main Street
23. Ziggy Stardust
22. Parklife
21. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

50. Dusty in Memphis
49. Sound of Silver
48. Hounds of Love
47. Strangeways, Here We Come
46. Debut (Bjork)
45. Parallel Lines
44. Holy Bible
43. Rubber Soul
42. Innervisions
41. Daydream Nation
40. Unknown Pleasures
39. London Calling
38. Never Mind The Bollocks
37. Forever Changes
36. Blood on the Tracks
35. In Utero
34. Abbey Road
33. Modern Life is Rubish
32. Paul's Boutique
31. Dog Man Star

Album Poll Connections!

14. Low
13. Funeral
12. Horses
11. Nevermind

John Mulvey's submitted list: http://www.uncut.co.uk/blog/wild-mercury-sound/my-top-50-albums-of-all-time-subject-to-change