THE WORST NME COVER OF ALL TIME

The Meteors, they was good

I think its fair to say arctic monkeys are pretty huge in the UK . They straddle the indie nme/kerrang market + crossed over to pop kids like my cousins 17 yo and friends who usually listen to Rihanna.

The Very Things

Have you just broken into the cupboard in our back bedroom or something?

Even in this discussion Coldplay can't get any credit, despite surely outstripping everyone except possible 1D in sales terms.

Coldplay hugely outstrip everyone including 1D with something like 60 million album sales worldwide. They're just so forgettable.

Ha! Despite the fact that Chris Martin's from Exeter (and my dad worked for his dad etc etc etc) and their first album is so British I kind of think of them as being a global / American / sans nationality thing these days.

Because they've got so little character.

I think its fair to say arctic monkeys are pretty huge in the UK . They straddle the indie nme/kerrang market + crossed over to pop kids like my cousins 17 yo and friends who usually listen to Rihanna.

― Scooby Doom (۩), Tuesday, February 25, 2014 12:21 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I still find them quite easy to ignore, though. It's not like '96 Oasis where they were literally fucking everywhere!

I think we have now safely established that Arctic Monkeys are not "the UK's biggest band".

South Yorks' biggest band maybe?

Neepsend's biggest band.

Gotta be

top three at least

Which is why NME editor's desperate reaching for quantitative justification is so dumb; he's bowing to neo-liberal understanding of justification; "we write about Arctic Monkeys because they're the most massive and significant (they're not the most massive or significant)"; he needs SO BADLY to justify his magazine, to align it with something, that he's grasping. Go counter-culture! Go underground! Go alternative! Define yourself by being special, not by being big. I blame Oasis. They broke how we understand success.

"neo-liberal understanding of justification"? I'm sure the phrase "biggest band in x" existed before both Oasis and neo-liberalism.

the thing is, the williams thing was just really bad copywriting, but if you were any good at copywriting you'd be earning £££s doing it for a corporation, not filling pages in the NME.

"neo-liberal understanding of justification"? I'm sure the phrase "biggest band in x" existed before both Oasis and neo-liberalism.

― What is wrong with songs? Absolutely nothing. Songs are great. (DL), Tuesday, February 25, 2014 3:21 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Well yes, 'bigger than Jesus' etc etc, bit NME's 'brand' 'value' seems confused as to whether it's about alternative rebel spirit or being massive; the two sometimes align (Nirvana? perhaps Oasis very early on) but generally they don't. Why not talk about Arctic Monkeys being the 'best' band in the world? Because you can't quantify it. So lie about them being the biggest. (False claims as lies.)

Best band in the world is used in alternate weeks iirc

Why are we even still ~talking~ about the Arctic Monkeys? Alex Turner has such a bad haircut and I don't even want to shag *any* of his band.

i wd like to thank Mr Kulkarni for the Ted Bovis gag if nothing else

surely we're long overdue another go at Rockabilly

wasnt there a daily mail feature on the rockabillys in the usa living in some town where everything in their houses are from the 50s?

worlds first AMish community

There's an amazing punchline at the end of that Kulkarni rant where he... vows never to read the NME again.

he's a rockabilly rebel

nme coverpic on facebook
http://i.imgur.com/q18n8Mb.png

lol
http://i.imgur.com/jQuk2GO.jpg

oh no

well that fulfils the thread title tbh

RU ONSIDE

wasnt he an old blues guy?

O R U snide?

a ass pocket full of wacky

YOU ARE THE REF

RL Turnerside

he's just got to keep a-rockin', everywhere he goes

Fuck me.

ROCK ROLL NEEDS YOU

N

when the hell did k d lang get so aggressive?

alfred otm

http://www.anorak.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/alvin-stardust.jpg

Good spot.

I like that the "N" is in scare quotes; like they're somehow sceptical of the "and" connecting "rock" to "roll." "Yeah, the man wants you to think it's rock 'and' roll, maybe it's rock *or* roll, did you ever think of that?"

http://fashiongrunge.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/rolling-stone-cover-volume-905-9-19-2002-the-vines.jpg

Bound, gagged and loving it. The people who pay to be kidnapped. Is that what is happening in that Vines picture?

Hey NME lets go for a little walk..
http://i.imgur.com/4l2yDpL.jpg

I like that the "N" is in scare quotes; like they're somehow sceptical of the "and" connecting "rock" to "roll." "Yeah, the man wants you to think it's rock 'and' roll, maybe it's rock *or* roll, did you ever think of that?"

― voyou, Tuesday, February 25, 2014 4:26 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ummmm... To be fair, that's how "rock'n'roll" is generally stylised, isn't it?

the n in rock'n'roll is supposed to have two apostrophes, whereas as voyou says the n on that cover is in quote marks

omg I just noticed the quote from Henry V

rickroll needs you

seriously it's a classic web 2.0 prank and it sucks people forgot about it