THE WORST NME COVER OF ALL TIME

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that list seems to indicate that putting emo on the cover isn't going to play well with the current readership

― pscott (elwisty), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

At least glam-emo breaks with the NMEs love of dull reality-principle-indie. Anything has to be better than Arctic Monkeys, Fratellis etc...

― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

the royal we

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

Only the NME could put the tagline "The week the world went black" under the whitest of white bands.

― The Real Esteban Buttez (EstieButtez1), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

The Royal We - good band in NME shockah! It's all downhill for them now I fear... ;)

― Stew (stew s), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

Furthermore, NEM writing about a good Glasgow band for a change shockah!
Their favoured Glasgow bands of late have been the horrid Fratellis and Dykeenies.

― Stew (stew s), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

er NME that is...

― Stew (stew s), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, I thought Panic at the Disco were emo... And who the fuck is Kasabian?

I'm an American— do I have to keep up with this shit or can I just wait until the next ejaculation hits the NME?

Can't they just focus on telling me whether rock is dead or alive?

― js (honestengine), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

Kasabian - they are unfortunately popular in the UK
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasabian

they are well known for slating other bands on a regular basis

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

what do you like in the uk top 40 dj m? albums or singles?

― pscott (elwisty), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

i was thinking about the shocking state of "mainstream music" the other week, i came to the conclusion that 2006 is the worst year for [album] chart / mainstream music in my lifetime *. [* well since 1980, i was too young to remember indepth the 70s]

as for singles chart i try to avoid daytime radio, but it's dismal: r n b trash / rap blink blink/ supermarket rock - radio 2 aor / NME tripe / Commercial US emo rawk related / watered down commercial dance / boy/ girl bands aimed at teenager girls

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

The Momus spoof still wins this thread.

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

DJM OTM, more or less.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 26 October 2006 10:01 (nineteen years ago)

Marcello OTM about DJM being OTM.

DJM OTM, of course.

― The Real Esteban Buttez (EstieButtez1), Thursday, 26 October 2006 10:03 (nineteen years ago)

the solution is: don't care. what does i matter how bad the charts are? don't listen to the radio, there's already too much good current music to hear via other routes.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 26 October 2006 10:10 (nineteen years ago)

what does i matter

Are you Linton Kwesi Johnson?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 26 October 2006 10:22 (nineteen years ago)

aye aye.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 26 October 2006 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

Jacques Dutronc - Mini Mini Mini. S'in French though.

― braveclub (braveclub), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

oops sorry wrong thread!

― braveclub (braveclub), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://myspace-877.vo.llnwd.net/00435/77/84/435444877_l.gif

― boney (b0n3y), Sunday, 12 November 2006 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.nme.com/images/84_NMEcover_oasis_L111106.jpg

― a.b. (alanbanana), Sunday, 12 November 2006 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

I was going to look for the Grebo cover from the early 90s (or was it late 80s?), but all Google was able to come up with was this:
http://www.grebo-ik.org/tennis/grebo-open/2002/images/barn_ungdom.jpg

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 12 November 2006 22:53 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.nme.com/images/84_NMEcoverGreendayBono_L18110.jpg

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

Bono & Green Day - in 2006 who cares

Oasis vs Beatles - battle of trad songs rock

My Chemical Brothers - The Black Parade - What is means to you - tuneless tripe for moronic teenagers

Foo Fighters - Another Generic Rock Album, Grohl bores us again

Yeah Yeah Yeahs team up with NME failure fad band The Horrors

Fratellis - We love the Clash - they listen to daytime 6 Music

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

Muse Brainwash Britain - Jools Holland Later show gig to include hypnotic hallucinating light display with bloated subliminal chorus repeated through song

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

6 goths

i'm sure there are more than that in 2006, but still you never really know ..

― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

Bono & Green Day - in 2006 who cares

amazingly the answer is "millions of people". who cares about the sort of music you like? or the music i like, for that matter?

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

on no it's the "cool list" issue plus a free generic guitar bands CD

http://www.nme.com/images/84_NMEcoverMUSE_L251106.jpg

The View - tuneless generic guitar tripe

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

why don't they just have a Cool List on their site that people can vote on so it's constantly changing?

i guess it would take the sense of control and influence away from the 'experts' and put it in the hands of their 'bibbling ignorant readership', so no good.

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

My Chemical Brothers - The Black Parade - What is means to you

I like the Daily Mail / Generic "Woman's Magazine" appeal to this headline

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

watch out plan b magazine - beth ditto is NME cool

anyone notice NME has activated an Interactive Web strategy on
http://www.nme.com/news

- comments on News items [registered users only]
- suggest third party RSS Feeds [all of them so far are from other big media outlets]
- an interactive web form to contact the NME

"What do you think of the beta version of the changes to NME.COM news? - click to have your say"

looks like web2.0 hype and blogs have influenced this strategy

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

do Plan B do a Cool List?

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

DiS unleash the NME Cool list:

http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/1328024

1 Beth Ditto (The Gossip)
2 Faris Rotter (The Horrors)
3 Lily Allen
4 Jarvis Cocker
5 Karen O (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
6 Kieren Webster (The View)
7 Kate Jackson (The Long Blondes)
8 Gerard Way (My Chemical Romance)
9 Thom Yorke (Radiohead)
10 Lovefoxxx (CSS)
11 Paul Simonon (The Good, The Bad & The Queen)
12 Liam Gallagher (Oasis)
13 Jamie Reynolds (Klaxons)
14 The House Of Lords (The Young Knives)
15 Tahita Bulmer (New Young Pony Club)
16 Cee-Lo (Gnarls Barkley)
17 Ryan Ross (Panic! At The Disco)
18 Carl Barat (Dirty Pretty Things)
19 Jack White (The White Stripes/The Raconteurs)
20 Jamie Frost (The Automatic)
21 Serge Pizzorno (Kasabian)
22 Eugene Hutz (Gogol Bordello)
23 Albert Hammond Jr (The Strokes)
24 Meg White (The White Stripes)
25 Jay-Z
26 Keith Richards (The Rolling Stones)
27 Matt Bellamy (Muse)
28 Pete Doherty (Babyshambles)
29 Brandon Flowers (The Killers)
30 Statik
31 Richard Hawley
32 Alex Turner (Arctic Monkeys)
33 Vincent Vincent (Vincent Vincent & The Villains)
34 Lupe Fiasco
35 Alexis Taylor (Hot Chip)
36 Mike Patton
37 Jamie Williams (Tilly & The Wall)
38 Bobby Gillespie (Primal Scream)
39 Mike Skinner (The Streets)
40 Ali Love
41 Tunde Adebimpe (TV On The Radio)
42 Mince (The Fratellis)
43 Devendra Banhart
44 Sam Duckworth (Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly)
45 Victoria Bergman (Ex-The Concretes)
46 Jackie McKeown (1990s)
47 George Barnett (These New Puritans)
48 Cat Power
49 Thorunn Antonia (Fields)
50 Amy Winehouse

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

do Plan B do a Cool List?

Cool: Not paying your writers
Uncool: Paying your writers

― dommy p is alright WHICH IS A LOT MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE (Dom, Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

Kieren Webster (The View)

Would you know this non entity if he was on the front cover of "the fly"?

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

who? George Barnett (These New Puritans)

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

31 Richard Hawley

y'see the trick is to NOT be cool...

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

50 Amy Winehouse

Do these people not have televisions or something?

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

Beth Ditto: Am I cool, kids?
DJ Martian: (dismissive) No.
Beth Ditto: Good. I'm glad. And that's what makes me cool, not caring, right?
DJ Martian: (dismissive) No.

― dommy p is alright WHICH IS A LOT MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE (Dom, Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

Martian, "let go".

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

Is Beth Ditto considered particularly uncool? Why?

― brr (fandango), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

i think she's pretty cool by most people's standards.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6172794.stm

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

That new Jarvis record is terrible.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

He's nicking my songs. Again.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

Funny how the BBC site mentions how Beth Ditto is the coolest rock star then shows a picture of Lily Allen instead.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

NME editor Conor McNicholas said: "This year's Cool List is a testament to the raft of hugely talented women who have taken hold of the music scene in 2006."
"From Beth to Lily to Karen, they've brought new energy to a scene dominated by men.

"They're also living proof that you can still rock a crowd when you're wearing stilettos."

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

perhaps on December 1st we can have a list thread of women who wear stilettos while 'rocking a crowd' on stage.

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

Man, Connor Mack just can't wait to follow his predecessor into the world of cheap wank rags, huh?

― dommy p is alright WHICH IS A LOT MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE (Dom, Wednesday, 22 November 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

Cool: Not paying your writers
Uncool: Paying your writers

plan b have begun paying contributors, dom.

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

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