THE WORST NME COVER OF ALL TIME

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

It looks a bit that Radiohead cover Q did when Kid A came out. I can't seem to find any pictures of that, though.

I like the Arcade Fire cover tbh.

So, that's the Lou Reed memorial edition then?

if they had waited a fortnight they coulda had VU at #1 in their alltime list

OK, that is you, innit?

Hands up if you don't know the exact content of that Bradley Wiggins feature before even opening the magazine.

SIR

Dadley Wiggins

Well, uh..

Sir Modley

Heck of an echo goin on...

what is weird about arcade fire?

For the NME they are the Suicide to Coldplay's VU

Context is everything

I had a quick flick-through this weeks, there are 'only' two large pages on Lou Reed.

I assume that next weeks will be a larger, more fulsome affair.

Right, I don't know if this is new, but..

On the website, there is "100 best songs of the 60s"

Number 100 is "Send me a postcard" by Shocking Blue.

Could this list actually be interesting? Hmmm.....

http://www.nme.com/images/NMELouReedCoverCMA3-091113.jpg

The 'larger, more fulsome affair'..

A long interview by Lester Bangs, the sort of thing people would write in and say "the writer spent three-quarters of it writing about himself", but of course, they won't now : It's Lester Bangs!

.. and an enlarged version of his last interview alongside Mick Rock, about a photo-book.

according to the front page of this week's Kerrang! there is a Lou tribute inside, courtesy of one of My Chemical Romance who isn't the singer. I thought this was very sweet given that there's no real reason why they should note his passing at all

Juxtaposing Lester Bangs and Mark Beaumont like that is the least flattering comparison ever.

0__o

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tbf, if nme is fully committed to being a nostalgia magazine now, I'd me more interested in reading about several of the artists on that cover than the nme's usual fare of stone roses/oasis/sex pistols etc

I can only assume the reggae-pop explosion of 93 and 94 is well documented inside

nu metal of course started in 94 with the 1st Korn album and Kerrang calling it "Nu-Metal" because metal was old fashioned and wouldnt sell and was really really bad and they had to make up a genre that would help sell magazines.

amazing how knackered Brett looks. maybe i'm mistaken but you'd never see a relatively big star Indie rock name look so blates wasted on a cover these days.

Were the NME big on post rock in 1994? Seems more Melody Maker

NME briefly flirted with post-rock in 1999 (Mogwai's Blur t-shirt, GYBE! on the cover), I don't recall it being much of a feature before then - though I'd stopped reading regularly by 1994 so idk maybe it was a thing.

i dont remember it being so

Select was quite big on it from around that big Tortoise album - Salaryman, Labradford, Ui etc

Can't remember a big push from NME's direction before this

'94 was the year I started reading the music press and I think quote-unquote post-rock bands would have got some coverage in NME even if that descriptor wasn't in their lexicon yet. MM was definitely a bigger booster of that kind of thing yeah

To be fair that top ten albums list is pretty damn good. Top two are overrated, but ymmv.

94 was the last good year of nme lists probably. It still had decent stuff in the top 10 til the end of the 90s (unless you hate spz/mercury rev)

but i was always a melody maker guy until they gave catatonia album of the year in 96?

http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/mmpage.html

http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/nmeindex.html

98 it was

Attention, there has been another important list from the NME!

http://www.nme.com/photos/the-500-greatest-songs-of-all-time-500-401/330541/1/1

http://www.nme.com/news/nirvana/75297

I love to hate a list as much as the next guy but no way I'm clicking 500 links to see 500 items.

jan.hansen.9693 said 3 hours ago
"Imagine" - John Lennon at only number 476 !!!! Just after "Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley at 475 !!!! Then I stopped reading !! This is a joke !!!

nathan.king.777
nathan.king.777 said 2 hours ago
Salt-N-Pepa 'Push It' #466, John Lennon 'Imagine' #476..........What the actual f#@k?????

george.pap13
george.pap13 said 44 minutes ago
Imagine no476, above it shitty hip hop no fucking way

Above us only shitty hip hop.

i imagine working at buzzfeed provides more job satisfaction and pride than working at nme these days

The Top Five in NME's list of the greatest songs of all time is:

5: 'Last Nite', The Strokes
4: 'How Soon Is Now?', The Smiths
3: 'I Feel Love', Donna Summer
2: 'Love Will Tear Us Apart', Joy Division
1: 'Smells Like Teen Spirit', Nirvana

okay

valuable, original and much-needed top 5 for 2014

They've only uploaded 500-401 so far. Blur, Arctic Monkeys, Coldplay, Bowie, Nirvana, Primal Scream, R.E.M and The Jam have all had more than one song place already.

The only decent surprises in that first section have been the appearances of Patio Song by Gorkys Zygotic Mynci, Shame Shame Shame by Shirley & Company, Across 110th Street by Bobby Womack and Overload by Sugababes (or just Sugababe as they've called them) Apart from those it's just the usual suspects. No Libertines yet but they've got to fill that top 100 somehow.