THE WORST NME COVER OF ALL TIME

The best bits of all these covers are the lines beneath the photo/headline

'...so what are YOU doing?', 'everyone's talking about it'

deluded NME at it's worst

it's not delusion if you're just saying stuff to vibe with yr target audience

and a lot of people ARE talking about it.

lol no, gonna need receipts for that. it certainly hasn't cropped up on my twitter feed or any articles i've noticed since the morning after

wait, so someone who professes complete uninterest in the NME and all the bands they feature hasn't heard anything about this?

The only reason people are still talking about this is because the NME is still drawing it out, in previous years a vaguely sarcastic acceptance speech would barely even have been noted.

All it really illustrates is the NME's desperation to wring some sort of agenda out of this.

Making a Thing out of not very much is what music papers do. I remember they once tried to convince us we gave a shit about S*M*A*S*H or that people from Menswear and Blur both occasionally drank in the same pub.

Making a Thing out of not very much is what music papers do.

well it shouldn't be!!!

mdc otm

music magazines should stick to reporting the facts, just like Smash Hits used to

matt dc otm

look what happened to smash hits

smash hits is the one magazine I thought would last the longest.

sarcasm aside, I think NME are entitled to try and wring an agenda out of this if they want, and we're entitled to laugh at them for trying. And I think that NV is right, all they're doing is trying to appeal to their core audience and bolster their sales which isn't necessarily a bad thing, whatever any of us might think about that agenda or the quality of the music they are championing.

and of course whether that appeal is doomed (as I think is probably the case, FWIW), time will tell.

Making a Thing out of not very much is what music papers do.

This is exactly what NME/MM/Select did in the early-mid 90s when they were selling truckloads, and what Kerrang! does now. It's about stoking a conversation within a reader community. I don't have a clue who most of the people in Kerrang-world are, let alone what they're up to but it's not for me. It's no dafter than a hip hop magazine hyping a beef that is only relevant to hip hop fans or a dance mag trying to push a new genre.

Which is not to say that this particular cover isn't horrible and embarrassing.

Yeah I don't have a problem with it either, just pointing out that it's nothing new.

SHROOM. Remember SHROOM? After 40 years of kids taking psychedelics and listening to music a new thing started where kids were taking psychedelics and listening to music

Skunk-rock RIP

Googling around just now I found this contender for the crown.

http://static.nme.com/images/gallery/NMECoverCMA3040910.jpg

Sex God. Dance King. Total Nutjob.

who the actual fuck is darwin deez?? not even kidding i have never heard that name before

once again, this is why i hated the music press growing up!

It's quite sobering reading old music magazines in the British Library and realising how many of the people in the new artists slots were never heard of again. That's showbusiness.

you sort of wonder whether they continued to make worthwhile music that just wasn't in fashion, or whether they were always destined to only have a handful of good songs in which case...idk, this is one of the weird things about pop music journalism, when some of the best examples of the form are made by people you KNOW don't deserve to be talked of in long-term terms, but at the same time you can't actually acknowledge that

Darwin Deez is an American indie band from New York City signed to music label Lucky Number. The group's frontman Darwin Deez attended Wesleyan University and previously was a guitarist for the Creaky Boards and a rapper.

oh, that Darwin Deez

Was he in Deez Nuts?

i say i say i say, my wife has just been watching the test match with a hot new guitar band from nyc

So Arctic Monkeys won the same awards last night from NME as they did last week at the Brits. Brand differentiation in action!

Deez Nuts is from Sydney, Mark, don't you know ANYTHING

one cannot be in Deez Nuts, quite the contrary

you don't understand, Deez Nuts is etc. etc.

true fact: dee snuts was the original name of the singer from twisted sister until he got it changed by deed poll

dee d'poll

Eddie Deed-Poll Tudor

christ I think I need a lie down

Why is Debbie Harry's head relegated to the bottom of the cover?
http://i.imgur.com/kKNSeqN.jpg

because she's not shit

the league of extraordinary haircuts

what a fucking mess.

i hate the font for 'awards/special'

and yes, they clearly had their line re 'gentlemen' all set up and so debbie had to be sidetracked.

not good.

debbie's nme awards haircut was significantly more extraordinary than damon's , if they'd used my headline she could have been up there.
the picture kind of looks like damon is auditioning for the league of extraordinary haircuts and is about to be turned down.

her heads just there like a football for the 4 dudes

Alex Turner has said that his Brit Awards speech was his attempt at teaching people about the importance of rock music.

http://www.nme.com/news/arctic-monkeys/75872

its really really pathetic. Why would any girls buy NME? It's pretty obviously seen as a guys mag now and Kerrang is for girls. I remember when both appealed to boys and girls.

that image cuts of the bottom of the cover, the actual cover doesn't actually have debbie harry's disembodied head floating along the bottom, not to disagree with your more general point.

One of the people in that picture is an innovator, a songwriter and a conqueror... and it ain't Albarn, Cooper Clarke, Turner or Harry.

xp

still looks like an afterthought!

Oh, I just clicked it's not the latest new indie band with members prematurely aged.

iow, that elbow bloke is 40. Like, it's only just happened omg.

this one is just a mess. It's like a bad cover of the old Look-In magazine

http://i.imgur.com/UT9X4jK.jpg

I don't know who Peace, Wolf Alice or Temples are :(

big fan of wool phallus here

All you need to know about Peace
http://fuckyouneilkulkarni.blogspot.com/2013/04/peace-in-love-columbia.html