THE WORST NME COVER OF ALL TIME

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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)

http://www.gastonx.net/Zitrone/800025.jpg

― reverto levidensis (blueski), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

golden age

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

googling NME 1986 brings up several 1991 covers for some reason

― reverto levidensis (blueski), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

omg

everything about that cover is hysterical

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.poplife.info/Bilder/213087.JPG

reppin' Lovebug Starski 4 da popists

― reverto levidensis (blueski), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

EASTENDERS... BREL

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

genius

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

i'm pretty sure mark s wrote at least some of that attali-related nme noise piece

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

i wasn't allowed near it!! it wz mostly biba, with a slather of don w. -- i only knew abt it when it came out

(i wz still v.v.v.low on peckin order in 1986) (not that i wz ever high, nme-wise)

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

What a strange year 86' was, next week BROOKSIDE - BOGSHED - SHIRLEY BROWN - EURYTHMICS

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

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.

NO! that was the pigeon detectives, arctic monkeys ripoffs with cold black holes where their souls should be. (though, for the sake of accuracy, he said "lesbian" and not "dyke")

that sonic youth NME cover is amazing

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

read the coverlines and catch the scent of the coming hiphop wars!

bein an editor: it's all abt weakly panderin to difft embattled office factions popkidz!

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

Still going are they? Good heavens.

Exactly what I thought.
Then I thought the same about Snow Patrol last year and now they have the biggest selling album of 2006.

Scary!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

amazingly bad, but still better than many 00s offerings upthread (xpost2)

― reverto levidensis (blueski), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

read the coverlines and catch the scent of the coming hiphop wars!

The Emo wars took off even less than the Paris Hilton Wars©
did. Not that the NME would be interested in that one.
NME needs a good war, what could it be?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

somalia

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

The Emo wars took off even less than the Paris Hilton Wars©

Not really, as recently as last week the Observer was doing a forthcoming look at the year piece that include some kinda "Ooooh, proper manly bands featuring manly men like Kasabian will helpfully save us from the poofy kids in eyeliner".

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

the SY photo is tremendous actually, very energetic and dynamic, and works much better IRL -- very faded now and-plus always poorly served by dull inkie repro

the type looks REALLY lumpen w.hindsight -- at the time that cover felt unusually stark and minimalist-modernist, let down mainly by the content of the words

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

bein an editor: it's all abt weakly panderin to difft embattled office factions popkidz!

I pity the sadsack who was in the Dr & The Medics faction.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

office wars are actually very much not the same as critical wars -- this is the bitter lesson i learnt that year

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

bein an editor: it's all abt weakly panderin to difft embattled office factions popkidz!

I pity the sadsack who was in the Dr & The Medics faction.

Or Lawnmower Deth

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

dr & medics = no.1 in actual real pop chart (clumsy public reach-round for w.h.smiths randoms)
lawnmower deth = probably no.1 in "indie" chart (clumsy pr-r for whatever-metal randoms)

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

86 is pretty much the turnaround year for nme as a recognised showcase for [bogus word alert] really excellent photographers -- its rep for this had been deserved and was pissed away in next to no time

(from a circulation POV this rep had probably been a net drag of course -- corbijn-esque artiness no match for the tabs' gradual realisation sleb-snapping was theirs to conquer)

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

haha sorry the bogus word was "groundbreaking" -- so bogus i couldn't bear to click submit!

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

i remember the 1986 indie charts and mighty lemon drops were number one for something like 50 out of 52 weeks!

actually this period was about the last period of the nme which appealed to me since the thematic/people-free covers foresee mark s' protoblog wire

(relevant office fractions in the latter, if i understand it correctly:
editor: fule this is the future!
publisher: sell copies)

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

i feel sad that there isn't any room these days for don watson and his ballard-reading train journeys

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

the SY photo is tremendous actually, very energetic and dynamic, and works much better IRL -- very faded now and-plus always poorly served by dull inkie repro

it reminds me of a lot of steve gullick's stuff, like the cover for the second Careless Talk, or the live shots from Loose Lips covers... i love that style of photography.

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

ok. when / if connor m goes onto the great broadsheet job / executive position what chance is there a new editor would / would be allowed to turn the nme "around"...

― acrobat (elwisty), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

it's doing quite well now circulation-wise to the zane lowe crowd isn't it? they probably won't feel any pressing need to turn it around.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

that's half the question, sort of. i'm guessing the money men will recruit the next ed. from Nuts rather than Plan B or summat...

― acrobat (elwisty), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

I've said it before, NME's basically the Newcastle United of the music magazine world, something with that much history and, more importantly, that much money to burn should be doing a lot better than "slightly below average".

The budget for Kerrang is around a third of the NME's, right?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

lex as editor debuting with a sally shapiro cover might not be what ipc are looking for.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

are you talking circulation there dom?

― acrobat (elwisty), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

Nuts to NME would be a step-down though, unless the NME just appoints a Nuts staff writer to the position. Which, well, they won't.

Imran Ahmed is my guess. Joy.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

xp Circulation, yeah.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

he's gone to radio now hasn't he? i'm sure i saw he had a show on 6music.

― acrobat (elwisty), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, but 6Music mid-table jock to NME editor is a step-up, stinnit?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

He was hosting the documentary slot on Radio 1 whilst he was writing for the NME, anyway, so he's got history of doing both.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

i was thinking though he could just jump the editorship and go on to a higher profile broadcast media position. possibly.

― acrobat (elwisty), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

Who the fuck is Imran Ahmed?

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

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