THE WORST NME COVER OF ALL TIME

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Having said all that, you can't say on the one hand "Oh the cool list is unimportant" and then complain they didn't put it on the front cover.

Mind you, in past years they made it the main feature on the front page.

Maybe next year they won't have one.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 23 November 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

Don't make me sick , wev'e always been here you arrogant prick

-- i am not a nugget (stevieisdrinkingdosequi...), November 23rd, 2006. (stevie)

I await the day when Lily Allen recognises ANY female that has come before and paved the way for her.

But I'm not holding my breath for it.

― wordy rappaport (EstieButtez1), Thursday, 23 November 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

but you're awaiting it. it's something you're actively waiting for.

― benrique (Enrique), Thursday, 23 November 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

Why is her fucking music so shit tho?

― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Thursday, 23 November 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

but you're awaiting it. it's something you're actively waiting for.

Only for the comedic value that will come out of it.

― wordy rappaport (EstieButtez1), Thursday, 23 November 2006 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

From her Times Magazine "interview" last Saturday:
"I don't get out of bed for anyone, you know."

I don't suppose most people would

― Feargal Hixxy (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 23 November 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

hang on, mark grout buys the nme?

― pscott (elwisty), Thursday, 23 November 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

I've not read any proper Allen interviews so have not heard talk about any artists, men or women, that 'paved the way' for her. I'm not sure who they would be either. Apart from her Dad obv.

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Thursday, 23 November 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

Having said all that, you can't say on the one hand "Oh the cool list is unimportant" and then complain they didn't put it on the front cover.

Mind you, in past years they made it the main feature on the front page.

it seems a fair complaint all things considered.

out of interest how many women HAVE been on the NME cover this year?

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Thursday, 23 November 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

enrique, you just need to hear "standing in the way of control" to know why Beth Ditto is so cool.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 23 November 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - or black people?

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 23 November 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

i suppose NME would argue that there aren't any bands as big and famous as Muse, Franz, Kaisers etc. that are female-fronted let alone all women.

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Thursday, 23 November 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

vicious circle really

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Thursday, 23 November 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

go lily.

― pisces (piscesx), Thursday, 23 November 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

haha lallen otm! "responsibilities to youth culture" nonsense notwithstanding she is quite right.

Oh and by the way , theres not enough RAVE in New Rave .

this is PARTICULARLY otm.

nme = most racist, sexist publication of all.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 23 November 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

nme = most racist, sexist publication of all.

*cough* daily mail *cough*

― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Thursday, 23 November 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

nme = daily mail of music

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 23 November 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

at least the daily mail virtually ADMITS it

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 23 November 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

I Just Bought A Copy of 'Nuts'

― pscott (elwisty), Thursday, 23 November 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

incidentally what is it about the NME that you consider racist and sexist? I'm not being facetious...I haven't read it for years, not since the steve sutherland days, probably.

― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Thursday, 23 November 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

it's as racist and sexist as the industry it documents and the readers it caters for...

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Friday, 24 November 2006 00:01 (nineteen years ago)

It's just dull.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 24 November 2006 00:17 (nineteen years ago)

Lily is OTM.

Another gobsmackingly ignorant comment came from the NME's Krissi Murrison in today's Independent:

"She's one of the first really talented lesbian musicians that we've seen for some time."

I mean, hello?

― Stew (stew s), Friday, 24 November 2006 00:17 (nineteen years ago)

ROFL.

― Dan Barramouss (jimnaseum), Friday, 24 November 2006 00:38 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

how punchable are "The View" ?

http://www.nme.com/images/84_nmecovertheview_L080107.jpg

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

NME = BOR-RING!

― GLC (ZakAce), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 03:48 (nineteen years ago)

what were the other 9 bands?

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 03:52 (nineteen years ago)

b, l, o, c, p, a, r, t, y

― friday on the porch (lfam), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 04:38 (nineteen years ago)

i had a 7" by A. it wasn't very good

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 04:51 (nineteen years ago)

Oi, The View, get your hair cut. Better still, get your head cut.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 08:25 (nineteen years ago)

Now now, gentlemen, let's not leap to judgement!

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 08:27 (nineteen years ago)

Already I detest them for not having short back and sides and for not wearing suits and ties.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 08:28 (nineteen years ago)

Already I detest them for their awful lad-pop records.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 08:32 (nineteen years ago)

The tall one at the back has almost the same hair as I did before I had it cut the other day!

Raw Patrick probably OTM, however; they seem the sort of band about whom you can leap to judgement having heard a mere 5 seconds of their music. And that in itself's a LOJ. Argh.

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 08:34 (nineteen years ago)

the view are a lot of fun live, and the record's very good [caveat ahoy] at what it does. i'd say they're a no-brainer for success this year.

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 10:26 (nineteen years ago)

stevie over on the other place, on a thread about the nme / terris / strokesocalypse you made a reference to being considered "a bit of a joke" at the nme, what did you mean? i have been trying to sort of work it out from what i remember of yr stuff back then (i was reading nme cover to cover in them days) and i can't see any reason. i guess office politics or summat...

aren't the the view the ones who declared "what's so cool about being a fat dyke anyway?" from the stage? i read it in the London Lite. it made me rather queasy.

― acrobat (elwisty), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

On the contrary, I can make a snap judgement about them having heard NOTHING

(xpost to Louis)

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

Kerrang is worse this week. According to them Biffy Clyro is the band who will change your life.

(mind you I suppose it didn't actually sayfor the better)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

Still going are they? Good heavens.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.nme.com/images/84_NMEcover_panicatthedisco_L2.jpg

This one, from mid-October 2006, strikes me as being so absolutely SMASH HITS CIRCA 1986 that it almost hurts.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

Birmingham scene = Ocean Colour Scene

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

Birmingham's current local band scene may be the worst in the country.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

"Take two copies of Smash Hits into the shower?"

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

Birmingham's current local band scene may be the worst in the country.
-- Dom Passantino (juror...), January 10th, 2007.

how do you know?

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

ie doe sit compare badly to the, like, cirencester scene?

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

wasn't smash hits circa 1986 recently much lauded when said pop journal folded?

― acrobat (elwisty), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

shit moves fast at this url, bub.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

Cirencester band with the most Myspace hits:

http://www.myspace.com/aerielcarthief

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.multinet.no/~jonarne/Hjemmesia/Favorittartister/the_alarm/smash_hits_1986.jpg

"Contemporary AOR is bullshit. We want to be the new XTC"

― reverto levidensis (blueski), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

The Alarm and their "Spirit Of '76" and even then I was yelling LET GO PEOPLE

The golden pop age of Hollywood Beyond, Nick Berry and It Bites.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

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