THE WORST NME COVER OF ALL TIME

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Wave!

lol I just googled it to find out who said it

ilx is a provider of real

damn right it is

"(I'm sure if I knew the minutiae of the relationship that scarred her so deeply on 'Rid Of Me', it wouldn't have brandished me in quite the same way)"

'Brandish' means 'wave or flourish', right?

Not at the NME it doesn't

That's from this, btw - http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/after-morrissey-the-rock-autobiographies-that-would-be-amazing

I think she meant to say "branded."

Lucy Jones is possibly the worst music writer in the history of music writing, except for everybody else on that page.

A good judgement of the quality of a music writer is what they say about "Revolution 9." On the NME list it was "Lennon went TOO FAR." Lord amucks! Send for Mary Whitehouse! Give him a good spanking! That Lennon - he was very SAUCY

Revolution 9 = Amelodics

yeah, they're confusing it with the "Two Virgins" album...

(nr, obv)

Next bunch of blurbs (200-300) is a lot better in as much as they're written in English and there aren't too many obvious factual clangers. Bit disheartening though to see the Bluetones album one place above Younger Than Yesterday.

lol amazing

nah i can understand young people not liking the jaded old-fashioned trad rock stylings of the Byrds as much as the ahhh forget it

216. New Order, 'Power, Corruption And Lies' (1983) Factory. In the wake of 'Blue Monday', New Order cranked up the synths and lit up the nervous system of the monster we call 'dance'.

I think I'd probably argue with that if I knew what it meant.

the monster we call 'dance'

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01484/PF-dance_1484184c.jpg

LOL

That's pretty much what they said about "Low Life", i.e. the first 'dance' album..

Rock critics' desperate need to credit New Order for inventing dance music is almost as annoying as referring to everything in terms of punk to bestow importance.

yes.

(I did mean "Their first dance album", but what you said still stands true)

I'm waiting for the big canonical piece putting Blue Monday in the rich lineage of the Euro Summer Novelty hit.

That sounds like an awesome April 1st commission right there.

Do you know, I'm really very sorely tempted to get something done on it.

synth tone v. similar to "The Birdie Song" now i think about it

Other big Euro hit of summer '83 was "Dolce Vita" by Ryan Paris. The 12" break is anticipatory of House music.

I've never bought this shitsheet in my life so excuse my ignorance but I am actually a bit surprised that nu-nme is riding for like the national killers of Leon &c, not that I'd expect them to be putting the knife on the cover or anything but I guess I assumed eg disclosure et al would be where they're at now?

think the audience for reading about what music is the best ever probably skews classic rock, whatever people are listening to at any one time

Dolce Vita is a FUCKING BANGER!!!!!!!!!

Just reading through the list on the NME site. Think they really nailed this one.

224. Echo And The Bunnymen, 'Heaven Up Here' (1981) Korova. Like Joy Division's 'Closer' if the drugs worked, the Bunnymen's second album was steeped in doomy grandeur but kept one cheek in the sunlight.

Also really like how much effort they put into this one, some detailed research here.

226. The Doors, 'The Doors' (1967) Elektra. 'Light My Fire'. 'The End'. 'Break On Through (To The Other Side)'. Psychedelic blues got no better.

Chillwave? Daft Punk?

214. Air, 'Moon Safari' (1998) Virgin. Chillwave? Daft Punk? 21st Century robo disco? The source is here, in 'Sexy Boy' and 'Kelly Watch The Stars' from the fresh princes of Versailles' celebrated debut.

xp the question is, which arsecheek remained in sunlight?

xpost Yes, Dolce Vita 12" was on one of the Disco Discharge comps, and I was staggered by how great it was.

On reflection, I probably agree with about 10% of what DJ Martian has to say on this thread.

looool

xpost I can see chillwave in Air. Presume Daft Punk comes from them being French, and nothing much else.

not fair. French, dance-y, two of them.

No really, they only had Moroder on that RAM track cos the guy who played the tuba on Moon Safari was way too busy

LOL

Wait that Air blurb suggests they were the "source" for Daft Punk? I know there's nothing to gain from trying to read sense into these but...

I've never bought this shitsheet in my life so excuse my ignorance but I am actually a bit surprised that nu-nme is riding for like the national killers of Leon &c, not that I'd expect them to be putting the knife on the cover or anything but I guess I assumed eg disclosure et al would be where they're at now?

They should really be eviscerating the music of the last decade by now.

I'm looking at the full list and I really didn't expect to see the second Whitney Houston album in there at 348.

My mum bought that

http://www.nme.com/images/NMECoverArcade_CMA3_291013.jpg

FROM THE VAULT : KEITH RICHARDS 1978
35 years since Rolling Stone Keith Richards was charged with possession of 22 grams of heroin, we revisit NME’s in-depth reporting of the case
Read more at http://www.nme.com/magazine/issue/inside-arcade-fires-hypnotic-new-album#TCtr4fJkGz6JPKLB.99

oh that's sweet, they've let the work experience kid do the cover design this week

they forgot the Sir

does the Arcades Fires do that to their hair deliberately?

new entry at number 1 with Arcade Fire

Gets my vote