THE WORST NME COVER OF ALL TIME

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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)

Kaiser Chiefs...

NME 10.02.2007
http://tinyurl.com/2a24uo

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://img108.imageshack.us/img108/5157/nmemagimagecx8.jpg

― abanana, Monday, 26 February 2007 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

It seems the worst NME cover is always the most recent one.

― billstevejim, Monday, 26 February 2007 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

Worst for a long time...TWANG
http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?blog=8&m=200703

― djmartian, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

it looks like they had to distort that photo to fit all those nerds on it

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

I can imagine they've done much worse than that

― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

Who is going to be 1st to photoshop TWATS instead?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

NME need to re-format their copy...how's this

Twang - getting wasted with the best NME Chav Indie Band of 2007 for teenage morons - are you thick enough to want some?

― djmartian, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a380/mattslack/magImage.jpg

― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

yaaaooow!

― blueski, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

NME goes Zoo or Nuts

Is this the best or worst front cover?

Beth Ditto naked !

This week's NME
http://tinyurl.com/2vzwuh

is that a photoshop hack or the real deal?

― djmartian, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

oh Nick ! got in quick ! [it just arrived in my bloglines]

― djmartian, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

next person to piss me off on ILX gets their face photoshopped onto Beth's (face or ass, haven't decided yet).

― blueski, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, that cover is great and a rare example of wit on NME's part.

― Billy Dods, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.spittel-schramberg.de/adobe%20logo.gif

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

How is it witty? Also, they have removed most of her lower back.

― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

lol at the fact that they've had a meeting to discuss how many rolls of fat they can Photoshop out of the picture while still making her recognisably fat.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

Well, it's clearly a play on the Demi Moore Vanity Fair cover and lad's mags, subverting the typical body image found on that (and other) magazines.

Then again they may have just liked the idea of having a naked BBW on the cover.

― Billy Dods, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, if there's one thing you don't associated with emaciated pasty indie boys it's a love of fat girls.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

Ha. She's been on the cover already right? Hope so. I'd rather see her in some sort of ridiculous costume, man's suit whatever. Going nude always seems a cynical or desperate ploy - that 'it's a man's world after all' thing. I can't see this as some liberating feminist statement just because of her figure (as opposed to 'weight').

― blueski, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

http://i12.tinypic.com/2uzqbmh.jpg

Photoshopped indeed!

― Finefinemusic, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

The message here is not "it's a man's world after all" or some kind of liberating feminist statement. It's quite clearly "Kiss My Ass".

The joke, as I see it is the LOLs at indie music geeks struggling to make sense of it.

― everything, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

..plus she strips off to various degrees whenever they play live so it's not much of ploy in this case.

― everything, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

Beth Ditto will be appearing on MTV News within the next few days to let us know what Beth Ditto thinks of the Beth Ditto controversy.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

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