Old Melody Maker vs Old NME?

look - mm circa 92 - 96 : heyday of last music press
with any true balls, bile, soul, wit etc.
what's astonishing when u re-read it, is how nme
today sounds like the observer by comparison.

mm broke suede, they made the manics, they discovered
oasis, they gave first front covers to all 3. likewise
radiohead and countless more. they always sold fewer than
nme so they could risk take at their leisure. nme was a good
6 months behind constantly, as anyone who read either will tell
you. nme was at it's peak in the baker/burchill era about
12-15 years before.

and i didn't mention romo once !

Besides, MM was always streets ahead with it's coverage of underground music.

but yes, as we all know the MM kicked arse in the early '90s.

RIP Roy Carr
https://www.clashmusic.com/news/music-writer-roy-carr-has-died

RIP. The Beatles: An Illustrated Record was a James Redd Ur-text

His contempt for George Harrison and all his works in that book was bracing. RIP Roy.

And Lord Alfred carries on the tradition today

Trying to remember his line about "Yesterday," I think it was "Schmaltz rears its ugly head again with this one" or something like that

mm broke suede, they made the manics, they discovered
oasis, they gave first front covers to all 3. likewise
radiohead and countless more.

;_; ;_; ;_;

more evidence for the war crimes tribunal!

i wrote a little about roy, who i worked with for a while in the 80s