Lisarocket
In bed with me dinner
I've never really read it. Back in the day Sounds was way better and currently Word pisses all over it.
NME - problems and solutions
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bluestreak
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LD Rudeboy said:What, to sneer while not telling you what you about the music?
yep.
the point of the nme was that in an age of radio one being shiter than shite, no music tv and and no internet you only found out what new music wasabout by word of mouth or the music press.
hence you bought the nme which gave you a nice broad selection of music, reviews which were mildly entertaining and let you know what sounded like stuff you already liked and what you needed to lsiten to be to be cool or have a good record collection, depending on the journo, and sneered enough so that you were constantly reminded that you were cool and everyone else who liked bon jovi or kylie weren't. except when bon jovi or kylie were cool. but hey, how else were decisions made over strongbow and cocaine in the good mixer by music geeks getting paid to do something they'd ahve done for free anyway ever be disseminated to the sticks otherwise.
man, you don't get it.
bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
Crispy said:
sadly this is the truth.
Lisarocket
In bed with me dinner
LD Rudeboy said:I much preferred Kerrang to be honest.
Kerrang is still good. Aparently selling as many copies now as it did back in the hair metal days of the 80's.
make it more like Hot Press, opiniated nonsense for sure - but an entertaining read (admittedly i have not read it in about 5 years)
http://www.hotpress.com/
http://www.hotpress.com/
bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
LD Rudeboy said:I much preferred Kerrang to be honest.
funnily enough, when nme got shit i returned to kerrang again. it was a shite time for rock music, couldn't have been more unfashionable. but at the same time that meant that no-one was in it for the money. the music and journalism were both good. i stopped reading it when nu-metal started rollin' out big time and kerrang had to cover all the wankyness.
by that time my tastes had become so wide i couldn;t justify buying any single mag anymore.
is kerrang any good these days? is paul rees still in charge?
bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
LD Rudeboy said:
didn't you read it during those heady of days of the darkness being the best band ever that were going to teach us all about how to rock?
*sniggers*
Idris2002 said:
Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
I agree with bluestreak. I used to enjoy the NME back in the nineties, and though there was plenty of sneering some of it was funny sneering and there was usually some interesting stuff in there too. I did get annoyed with their obsession with being the first to spot The Next Big Thing though, which causes them to hype up the most ridiculously mediocre bands with gobshite lead singers.
For me its death knell was sounded when it merged with Melody Maker and began trying to cater to its market as well.
For me its death knell was sounded when it merged with Melody Maker and began trying to cater to its market as well.
The music press was due to die in the late 80s/early 90s but its ass was saved by first Madchester and then 'grunge', and then to a lesser extent britpop. Since then, they've been fucked, basically, and desperately (and understandably) trying to create, to WILL INTO BEING, a scene with that kind of broad appeal.
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
i used to read melody maker every week from about 1989-1992, but i read NME too - they were important to me at the time, but I grew out of them.
a very bright girl in my year ten class (aged 15), gave a gcse assessment speech on the NME last month, because it means so much to her.
NME might have been significant journalism at some point in the distant past - but certainly since my day it's a publication for kids. Kids love it, adults think it's a bit simplistic and content free. sounds about right to me.
a very bright girl in my year ten class (aged 15), gave a gcse assessment speech on the NME last month, because it means so much to her.
NME might have been significant journalism at some point in the distant past - but certainly since my day it's a publication for kids. Kids love it, adults think it's a bit simplistic and content free. sounds about right to me.
fishfingerer
sultan of cringe
The last thing pop needs is new Burchills and Parsonses. They're shit.Cheesypoof said:
bluestreak
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poului said:
it's sad because i liked the nme and i think it's a shame that once-enjoyable paper publications have been put out of business by the transitory nature of the internet. i like the printed word and i like magazines, and i like music journalism. nothing against online journalism, hell i;'ve done some, but i think there;s room in the world for both.
kained&able
Here for the football.
Nme needs competion to sort itself out untill a new indieish weekly comes out and starts taking a piece of nmes revenue from them they have no reason to change.
dave
dave
BadlyDrawnGirl
Piano Tuna
Get Swells back.
fishfingerer
sultan of cringe
Lives in America now. His Playlouder.com stuff is still quality.acid priest said:Get Swells back.
acid priest said:Get Swells back.
good lord no.
i seem to remember him slagging off alan mcgee in one issue, only for mcgee to reply in the letters column the week after, basically saying 'fair enough, but if you hate me so much, stop sending me your fucking show reel'
although i could have dreamt that
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
acid priest said:Get Swells back.
Nah, bring back Charles Shaar Murray (aka CSM)!
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
Idris2002 said:
Is that the Welsh band or the hippyism?
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