It's not so much that UK Garage is great, though some of it I think is very good (not "7 Days", I'll admit), but if the best - the very best - that Melody Maker can muster against it is Coldplay and Toploader then really, what IS the point? Their attitude now seems to be that music is just something you 'do' in sixth form, like taking an embarrassing pull on a spliff or two. Which is fine, but the people who think like that don't buy music mags, surely.
― Tom, Friday, 13 October 2000 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
I agree with Tom that the fuss they made about the "Orbit" section in - I think - February 1994 was ridiculous, at least five years too late. But as someone who probably wouldn't be writing this now were it not for that MM, it saddens me. The sort of people Tom describes - people who "do" music in the sixth form without being at all interested in it or stimulated by it for one moment - bought music papers sporadically during the Oasis era depending on whether or not their heroes were on the cover (at least the ones I knew did). They are most definitely not the people around whom you build a long- standing following for a music paper, but then the MM long since gave up on such concerns ...
― Robin Carmody, Friday, 13 October 2000 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
I can see it now...
"You're skin [ker-chink!] You're skin and bones [boom-chink!] turning in [ker-chink!] to something bea-bea-bea-beautiful! [boom-boom-boom-chink!]" (Cue descending bassline)
MC Neat or Richie Dan: I like da yellow, for da mind, body, soul-ah!/It be all so yellow on da Moet and Chandone-ah! When da DJ rewind it will all be so yellow-ah! Coldplay and da massive will be takin' it so low-ah!
― Tim, Friday, 13 October 2000 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Richard Tunnicliffe, Wednesday, 18 October 2000 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Robin Carmody, Wednesday, 18 October 2000 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
enjoyed it at same time as other people posting here sometimes afraid that its old fart syndrome and that maybe young gods/arkane/mbv /big black/sonicyouth werent that great.....................but of corse they were-
as for them denouncing uk garage- pure marketing hype- they probably looked at a demographic and decided it was a good idea............eeks
― Matthew, Sunday, 19 November 2000 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
But what does the MM have up against it? Coldplay? Oh dear.
― Phil Paterson, Sunday, 19 November 2000 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
I used to like MM when some writers would get anxious about HOW RIDICULOUS THEIR LIVES WERE. I mean, if I was in my late thirties and having to interview Sugarbabes, like some dull hack in the Guardian last week...
― oliver, Wednesday, 22 November 2000 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Tom, Wednesday, 22 November 2000 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Michael Bourke, Monday, 4 December 2000 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Sean Baskerville, Tuesday, 15 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I think this is true. Kind of great if it is.
― mark s, Tuesday, 15 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― DG, Tuesday, 15 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Yes, let's ban it. I personally can't stand UK garage at all.
― Phil Paterson, Saturday, November 18, 2000 8:00 PM (8 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
1st usage of "ban" on ilx
― 'lop chalpagne (and what), Friday, 27 February 2009 20:16 (fifteen years ago) link
and suggested by esteBAN too!
― Pfunkboy in blood drenched rabbit suit jamming in the woods (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 27 February 2009 20:18 (fifteen years ago) link
MM really went downhill so fast didn't it? I looked forward to getting MM every weds, it really was a great mag, then it just became the worst piece of shit mag ever. All starting with giving Catatonia album of the year in 1996. Fucking britpop.
― Pfunkboy in blood drenched rabbit suit jamming in the woods (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 27 February 2009 20:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Did Old Fart!!! SIGN HIS POST LIKE IT WAS A FREAKIN EMAIL there???
― Luka ModReq (DJ Mencap), Friday, 27 February 2009 20:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Wasn't that how he always posted?
― Pfunkboy in blood drenched rabbit suit jamming in the woods (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 27 February 2009 21:08 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/ETT4tC6.jpg
― Odysseus, Thursday, 16 March 2017 16:31 (seven years ago) link
lol should poll thishttps://www.discogs.com/Various-Born-To-Do-It-Better/release/2665202
― devvvine, Thursday, 16 March 2017 16:33 (seven years ago) link
that was a brilliant version of Qotsa best ever song on that cd
― Odysseus, Thursday, 16 March 2017 16:37 (seven years ago) link
Shall I?
― Odysseus, Thursday, 16 March 2017 16:41 (seven years ago) link
Best Track on Melody Maker's 15 Garage Busting Alternative Anthems aka that racist "craig david" cover issue
― Odysseus, Thursday, 16 March 2017 16:45 (seven years ago) link