THE WORST NME COVER OF ALL TIME

Scots bands Glasbogus

I see what you did there.

glansvegas

shitbandegas

Ha ha ha, with all the twittering going on about it, I'm really convinced that the entire Academy is filled with nothing but crackberrying and iPhoning freaks tweeting each other. Oh, the hilarity.

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STILL ON TOP

Yo, I thought I told you that we won't stop
Now whatcha gonna do when it's cool
bag a money much longer than yours

The full list of nominees for Hero Of The Year were:

Barack Obama
Noel Gallagher
Brandon Flowers
Alex Turner
Noel Fielding

who does barack obama think he is, ducking the ceremony like that?

He was sat in the White House posting comments on Noel Gallagher's myspace blog.

I'm glad my 15+ votes for the singer from Paramore helped her to an historic victory. I also did 15+ votes for Oasis is every category they were nommed.

nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom

that one's worth a repoll!

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7911613.stm

And so, on to the coveted best British band award. It's a biggie and who should win but Oasis... who were subjected to some pretty deafening boos from across the venue.

woah what muse are still going?

― meme economist (special guest stars mark bronson), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 23:11

Huge in mainland europe, I believe. also the main dude in band is one of those guys who gets a feature in guitarist's magazines once every three months.

And girls love him

Huge in mainland europe

It was only two years ago they played friggin Wembley Stadium as well! I think it's actually that they don't need to have any sort of presence when they're not releasing an album or playing gigs

Unlike Oasis or most pop bands who feel the need to get into the tabloids so people dont forget about them. If Muse were in the tabloids I think they would be far more hated

Are Oasis in the tabloids much these days?

When they have a record coming out Noel always gets in them.

Tempted to suggest a "extrapolate NME cover design to the year 2013" photoshop competition.

game

but it really won't exist by then, right?

cant see it. Web presence only. kinda surprised they havent got a huge website like PFM for themselves. Lots of daily reviews and news with the NME brand it would be a massive hit in the UK im sure. Maybe there's no money in that? Not that there can be much money in printed media these days.

Pity they didn't keep their archive of old and new reviews of albums that they had 9 years ago before the cost-cutting. NME.com was good back then. I don't think I've visited it in years now bar the links to it posted on ILM.

Ugh what an ugly site http://www.nme.com/

Today in Smiths I saw two magazines I hadn't seen before. One was Shindig a magazine for old garage rock,funk,folk etc. Stuff that isn't mainstream enough for Mojo to cover. And a "Rock And Metal" magazine called Power Play with Justin Hawkins on the cover and it covers Slipnot and other such mainstream rawk/metal. Pretty much looks like a UK version of Metal Edge before unperson took it over. Looks totally pointless and cant see it lasting. Is it a new magazine or just new to my local wh smiths?

ok it appears Power Play has been going for 10 years

http://www.myspace.com/powerplaymagazine

http://www.shindig-magazine.com/

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NME going for the Kerrang readership?

Is that Sylar?

It's Biffy Clyro dude

Biffy Sylar?

I could give a fuck about the band but that's quite a neat cover I think. Have they used actual handwriting or one of those crappy fonts? Some of the letters look the same, some don't

Has Macnichols dude left yet?

I don't get it... why now?

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'Lux Interior by Bobby Gillespie'

That's the last Conor McNicholas issue, there are loads of different covers, partly as a bit of a final flourish for him and also presumably to give him a nice sales bump to go out on.

xp ha I'm no fan of Bobby Gillespie but to single him out amongst the pantheon of winners on that cover...

Show the Syd one!

http://www.nme.com/photos/pop-stars-now-and-then/154487/1/1

Anyroad: Here's a "LOL POP STARS NOW LOOK OLD AND DECREPIT" feature.

Except that virtually all of them look, um, alright really.

For all those NME readers who have been wondering what Limahl from Kajagoogoo and Nik Kershaw are up to these days.

More fun is 'pictures of Kanye West's funniest outbursts':

Back in 2005 his target was none other than US President George W Bush. During a TV benefit for victims of Hurricane Katrina, he accused the government of insitutional racism: "George Bush doesn't care about black people!" Pic: PA Photos

And here's that picture:

http://akamai-static.nme.com/images/gallery/kanye_west_PAPhotos_016.jpg

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"Why now" may have something to do with interest in Cobain by people who discovered him through Guitar Hero.

the average 17 year old NME reading teenager in 2009, was a toddler when Kurt Cobain blew his head off in 1994, so how could they miss him?

The NME have realized the landfill indie is rubbish and have been playing it safe since Murison has taken the editor role. Last week Monkeyhead Brown and Jay Z, this week Mojo/Uncut lite retro Necrophilia condensed.

They can't miss him, but NME can tell them that they should and they'll buy that. I'm 30 and people of my generation carried the torch for like, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, etc.

Cobain's appeal to a certain species of teenager has outlived any awareness of him at the time, though. I was nine in 1994 and they were still my favourite band age 14 and later the favourite band of a lot of people I knew age 14.

I suspect there were a lot more people developing that sort of relationship with Sid Vicious up until about 1993 than there were in 1995, though.

There were a lot of Pistols fans at my school when I was in my mid teens c. 94-95. Also there will be teenagers listening to Nirvana forever, it's a new perennial.

The NME have realized the landfill indie is rubbish and have been playing it safe since Murison has taken the editor role.

Conor McNicholas edited the most recent edition, or at least had executive responsibility for it.

The point being popular video game with cobain in it + cobain on the cover of a magazine = magazine sales, whether the article is about Missing Him or His Effects Pedals or whatever.