THE WORST NME COVER OF ALL TIME

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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)

No matter how often it happens, every time I see "The Mighty Lemon Drops" I always go "fucking hell I'd forgotten all about them!"

I'll have forgotten again by the next time someone mentions them, even if it's tomorrow.

― onimo (onimo), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

it's real poisoned-chalice time at the moment -- mcnicholas has done well enough at the things publishers appear to like ("re-establishing the brand") that successors wanting to introduce tweaky content-improvements will be discouraged from trying (or even applying for the job)

it needs to be in a total circn AND content tailspin to be "turned around" -- then someone actually smart might step and risk all (bcz they have little to lose; they won't be blamed for a disaster already in place)

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

how NME fares depends (too much) on where Bwitish Wock goes next surely.

― reverto levidensis (blueski), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

I prefer the '91 issue ("Walsall Pact!", "A Rabbit With Hutch", "Punt's Not Dead!"). I, for one, welcomed our Quantick/Collins/Maconie overlords.

Imran Ahmed only has a one hour weekend show on 6Music I think. Just as well really, as he has a painfully stilted delivery as if he's tracing his finger along the line as he reads his script out.

― DavidM* (unreal), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

yes but it needn't! the wire used to be a jazz mag!

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

surely they have some chicken egg thing going on with Bwitish Wock (i first read this as some sort of jibe along the lines of NME is the market competitor of practical cooking magazine or summat) they can, by sticking to very narrow parameters always find what they are looking for. i mean 5 years ago saying "oh there jus another NME band" didn't mean that much but now folks say it all the time. well some do. maybe there are gaggles of long haired lads setting out to fuffil connor's accountants wet dreams. there ambition for a cover feature halping them to tick each box with accuarcy and dilligance. it's brand management.

― acrobat (elwisty), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

oh and for nick http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/onemusic/journalist/profilesp05.shtml

― acrobat (elwisty), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

the wire used to be a jazz mag!
-- mark s (mar...) (webmail), Today 5:11 PM. (later) (link)

[big heavy moderator edit, prob]

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

every time I see "The Mighty Lemon Drops" I always go "fucking hell I'd forgotten all about them!"

There is a very good reason for this.

― Clothing the Gotterdammerung Doors (noodle vague), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

I just searched and found them on a "forgotten bands" thread :)

― onimo (onimo), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

the pigeon detectives are much better than the arctic monkeys (although maybe not if they're going to go round dissing beth)

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 23:04 (nineteen years ago)

i looked at the magazine in the co-op. fucking hell there tips for the year... so the story goes the strokes begat the libertines the libertines begat the arctic monkeys now... we have the post monkeys diaspora... jesus as i remember the twang, the view, the pigoen detectives and like 5 others, two token bands with girls in... does anyone remember the post libertines wave, the others and the rakes being the most succesful. jesus. this is getting sort of scary.

― acrobat (elwisty), Friday, 12 January 2007 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

http://imagebank.ipcmedia.com/imageBank/c/conor%20mcnicholas%20apr%2006%20.jpg

HOT

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 14 January 2007 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

no way were the others successful

― PAUL FUCKING ROBINSON (electricsound), Sunday, 14 January 2007 22:55 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't read the whole thread, but did anyone ever pinpoint when the NME covers became so terrible? I've determined 1975 was the year Rolling Stone covers turned to crap. However, even the worst Rolling Stone covers are better than any NME cover from the last few years at least.

― musically (musically), Sunday, 14 January 2007 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

The NME have changed their website, no unique weekly jpg, now the front cover image is formatted in php and the details of each week's issue has a [long] permalink.

http://www.nme.com/layout/magImage.php

This week's NME features My Chemical Romance and a cluttered front cover
http://tinyurl.com/2rbek6

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

http://img471.imageshack.us/img471/1254/untitled13ff.jpg

copy & paste into photoshop, upload to imageshack...

― fandango (fandango), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

Right. The "Secret" pain at the heart of MCR.

― God Bows to Meth (noodle vague), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

'it's difficult to watch someone deteriorate'... ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY WERE SHIT TO BEGIN WITH!!11!!!!!1!!

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 10:01 (nineteen years ago)

(hahahaha!)

― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 10:08 (nineteen years ago)

again the amount of text per double-page is really quite impressive:

http://www.nme.com/images/84_mcr1.jpg

― vita susicivus (blueski), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 10:37 (nineteen years ago)

i hope the article DOESN'T continue overleaf actually.

― vita susicivus (blueski), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 10:38 (nineteen years ago)

jesus the inside looks like the independent on sunday or something!

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

Good to see "1977 punk" finally getting some coverage- the music press has really not looked at this topic enough.

― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

It's remained dormant far too long

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

Archival searches of 1977 NME reveal no retrospectives on 1947 ("The spirit of Geraldo lives!").

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

That was more Melody Maker, then.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

battle of the lightweights

My Chemical Romance Hit Back At Kasabian
Calling the Leicester band 'ignorant'...
http://www.gigwise.com/news.asp?contentid=27128

instead of 1977 punk why aren't the NME doing a 30th celebration of Pink Floyd - Animals
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animals_%28album%29
Released: January 23, 1977 (UK)

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

because it's shit?

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

Calling Kasabian "ignorant" is a little bit like calling My Chemical Romance "ridiculous, pompous, overblown prog-emo", isn't it?

― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

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