The NME is the muscial equivalent of the SWP.
The fall and fall of NME
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its kinda hard to get hold of i believe, if you find a copy, let me know soldier.
That doesn't even make sense nor is it witty.
Dr_Gonzo
differentclassradio.co.uk
I wouldn't say that Plan B is exactly thriving but it is a good magazine which covers an excellent range of music. If you look closely quite a few of their writers also write for other publications like the NME and the Guardian but they have a bit more freedom to write how they want in Plan B.
I wrote a research project about the declining popularity of music magazines a couple of years ago at uni, can't remember half the research I did but I have 4,000 words on the subject if anyone is interested/bored enough to read it.
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
Now, now. I have the current issue in front of me and they've given a big 8/10 review to The Week That Was which is music that would go whoosh over Jo Whiley's head. They've also given good reviews to US bands Bowerbirds and Jaguar Love and also inform me that Local H have just delivered their sixth album (sounds like the other five, apparently). There's lots more examples like that.
After a spell of doing reviewing lost of smaller gigs in the Radar section, they've disappointingly cut the number of live reviews but still did a review of Bug playing 3rd Base in Brixton.
I'm not a fan but I'd miss flicking through it if it went under.
I don't think much of Plan B but again, it's better that its around than not.
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
i think on their website there's a lits of places that stock it.
we have it at the Windmill but they're usually gone within a week...should get more i suppose
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Meh, i'd much rather flick though a mag with real pages. Same with music mags. Shame they are all shit. I used to love a good MM with a free record. Mind you I got RM now and then too (yipes)
It's because it's crap
People will still buy magazines if they are good, I remember 'The Face' magazine used to be great, and then it just turned crap and everyone stopped buying it, if NME got ahold of some decent journalists and found some decent music again then they wouldn't be in trouble. I don't believe that the internet will ever kill off hard press, you don't have any quality control on the internet, people would still shell out a pound a week or whatever it costs if it had decent writing and covered interesting bands rather than churning out music industry shit
People will still buy magazines if they are good, I remember 'The Face' magazine used to be great, and then it just turned crap and everyone stopped buying it, if NME got ahold of some decent journalists and found some decent music again then they wouldn't be in trouble. I don't believe that the internet will ever kill off hard press, you don't have any quality control on the internet, people would still shell out a pound a week or whatever it costs if it had decent writing and covered interesting bands rather than churning out music industry shit
if theres any chance you could keep us a copy, id be truly grateful.
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
i usually keep a few by
must be one coming up in September as I haven't seen it for a while
it is a bit of luck whenever you come across it... that kind of makes it nice.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
I thought it was all over the place. I don't think it's all that good.
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hiraethified
And you're a banned poster sneaking back in. Bye.
Silva
This went well.
Most kids find the music on the internet, so music mags need to either have excellent photography, enthralling writing and stuff that can't be found online. Thing is, I've bought a NME issue about last year when Tony Wilson died, and other than a few good photos, it has nothing else. The writing is vapid, few of the mentioned bands are interesting (Arctic Monkeys? The Enemy? Pah!) and it surely could use some essay-stuff articles - for instance, one of the 1992-ish Voxes had a terrific article about how Vinyl isn't dead yet, written by a certain John Peel 
On the other hand, I've bought a few 90's Select and Vox issues, mostly for the interviews and other stuff that can't be found anywhere else, such as contemporary reviews (a lot of those found online were written a few years after the album in question was released, and tend to be somewhat tainted by whatever happened between those years), ads for new albums, singles and gigs (I've opened a blog with them), news ("Happy Mondays in difficulties to complete fourth album"), and other contemporary stuff - one of them has a "upcoming bands" section with Oasis and Tricky
On the other hand, I've bought a few 90's Select and Vox issues, mostly for the interviews and other stuff that can't be found anywhere else, such as contemporary reviews (a lot of those found online were written a few years after the album in question was released, and tend to be somewhat tainted by whatever happened between those years), ads for new albums, singles and gigs (I've opened a blog with them), news ("Happy Mondays in difficulties to complete fourth album"), and other contemporary stuff - one of them has a "upcoming bands" section with Oasis and Tricky
starfish2000
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Exactly if you throw Seven figures at PR and plugging you'll get acclaim & sell records simple as.
Sean
Well-Known Member
I'm glad I wasn't the only one
Although the appeal of finding second hand stroke mags in rubbish tips started to pale slightly when we found one with some still-warm man fat spread over its pages and realised the pervert would still be hanging around somewhere nearby.
Sean
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Most kids find the music on the internet, so music mags need to either have excellent photography, enthralling writing and stuff that can't be found online. Thing is, I've bought a NME issue about last year when Tony Wilson died, and other than a few good photos, it has nothing else. The writing is vapid, few of the mentioned bands are interesting (Arctic Monkeys? The Enemy? Pah!) and it surely could use some essay-stuff articles - for instance, one of the 1992-ish Voxes had a terrific article about how Vinyl isn't dead yet, written by a certain John Peel
I still have a read of my brother in law's NME once in a while and quite like it, but then I was a religious buyer from 15-30 and felt bad when I stopped buying it regularly. I have to admit I've now got a sub to (The) Word which probably makes me a middle aged, middle class Radio 4 listener of the highest order.
bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
Ah, the annual death of teh NME thread. But the bugger still won't die. Waste of paper these days IMO. And yet there are great music mags out there. I still love Plan B (although where it will go without Everett at the helm is hard to say), and Roc-A-Rolla and Wire keep me interested in noisy and over-clever stuff.
If anyone still buys the NME i find its always a good idea to hide it in a copy of 40 plus or something so no one knows
I would say it's the equivalent of New Labour - full of spin and no substance
and VIZ
That woulda been true 10 years ago but when Chris Donald fucked off it went rapidly downhill, i mean what is so funny in things like "Drunken Bakers" etc? I remember the glory days - Postman Plod, Farmer Palmer (that seemed to disappear when CD moved to the countryside and found new friends!), Cockney Wanker
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Quoted for truth. Not to mention 'Desert Island Desk'.
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It keeps falling
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