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NME have a lot to answer for
Warning, silly pointless rant alert.....
Is it just me that thinks NME ridiculously overrate bands? The whole new 'rock revolution' bands that they can't stop raving about, they all sound exactly the same as the next 'rock revolution' band. And most of them don't seem to be pushing new boundaries, as it's all been done before. I admit that there are a few bands that are different and have potential, but the rest just blur into one droney noise.
I know some of you will just say don't buy the mag or the bands music if I don't like it. And no I don't go out and buy albums because NME say it's good, but it is funny to read what they think about these 'rock revolution ' bands. And what is worse is that people will go buy what the mag recommends because they are told that the music's cool, and they don't look further than NME for new music. I have a friend who thinks that if the band aren't in NME, there not worth anything. It winds me up.
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Is it just me that thinks NME ridiculously overrate bands? The whole new 'rock revolution' bands that they can't stop raving about, they all sound exactly the same as the next 'rock revolution' band. And most of them don't seem to be pushing new boundaries, as it's all been done before. I admit that there are a few bands that are different and have potential, but the rest just blur into one droney noise.
I know some of you will just say don't buy the mag or the bands music if I don't like it. And no I don't go out and buy albums because NME say it's good, but it is funny to read what they think about these 'rock revolution ' bands. And what is worse is that people will go buy what the mag recommends because they are told that the music's cool, and they don't look further than NME for new music. I have a friend who thinks that if the band aren't in NME, there not worth anything. It winds me up.
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1) NME takes an interest in band.
2) Band gives good copy, e.g. interviews in which they assert themselves to be the most important act in the world right now/ever. This is a path well-trodden, e.g. Suede, Manics, Oasis, and now by fools like Razorlight and The Ordinary Boys.
3) NME picks up this line and runs with it, lauding band as best new thing ever - if band can be pushed as part of a scene, so much the better.
4) NME begins to make fun of band via the odd sarcastic remark/picture caption/whatever.
5) NME launches full-frontal assault on band, calling them rubbish, irrelevant, boring, embarrassing.
6) Band tells anyone who will listen that the NME are all vicious guttersnipes, band doesn't need NME and never did.
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The funniest thing about NME is the vitriol its writers pour upon bands that have succeeded without their patronage. Just fancy, 15 years down the line and still hurling peurile insults at The Levellers, a band who racked up one platinum and a couple of gold albums, numerous chart singles and headlined Glastonbury, all with an NME approval rating of zero.
NME: it's good for a laugh, ain't it?
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in music, it's perfectly understandable really... if i'd been writing i would by now have gone through the whole cycle twice over with franz ferdinand... and i know im not the only one.
everyone wants to go against prevailing opinion if they can. and any music journalist wants to tell people about new music. so, really, if i followed this argument through, the point would be: people who rant about NME being shit and hypocritical, suffer from exactly the same mentality as the journalists writing for the paper.
and lets face it, thats what NME is basically for now. while friday-hmv-shopping man and half-day-on-friday schoolkids, may buy it to hear about what new music there is, most people only read the thing to disagree with it.
So far as the writing goes... it's much better now than a year or two ago. the only problem is that there isnt enough of it.
i think the main features are a bit too long. and there should be loads of short opinion peice type things. and going back to having more live reviews would be nice as well.
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I am begginning to worry about this band as 'Stumble and Fall' and 'Rip it Up' don't live up to the early amazing potential shown in 'Rock and Roll Lies' and the b sides to 'Stumble and Fall' unlike any previous b sides (all of which are stunners) are all shite. I'll reserve true judgement til the album, anyone know when it's out?
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Mmmm no. NME was first onto Razorlight - no doubt helped by the fact their manager is an ex-NME journalist.
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Is it the same ex-NME-journo (dep ed, even) who was doing huge gushing whole-page reviews of Starsailor early on, while he was their manager also?
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Roger Morton is Razorlight's manager. He also manages Dogs (not the ones who die in hot cars).
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Though having said that - there's NME's position on the Darkness.... yet, one their first breaks as such in the capital a few years back was from patronage and support by the organisers & punters of Uncle Bob's Wedding Reception - a club co-run by long-time NME news scribe/editor Jody Thompson. Odd...
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<i>plus ca change...</i>
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I can just about handle the whole overhyping thing, since the bands they target usually have some merit. But the actual quality of the articles is shocking. Fair enough, it needs to be entertaining, but the only informative part of the mag is the tour adverts. The last couple of times i bought it the actual cover article took barely a double page; less than the average Libertines coverage per issue.
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I quite liked Terris. Not the best band ever as NME tried to claim but also not the worst. Without the incredible amount of hype they received I think they would have gone on to be quite successful.
Unfortunately its not in NMEs nature to give a band time to develop. It has to be great now or it gets dropped. They dont seem to appreciate that a bands best work tends to come at least 2 albums into a career.
NME killed Terris!!!! BASTARDS!!!!!
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hmm... *not convinced*
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Over the last few years it's decreased in size and diminished in thickness yet has still managed to become much more expensive. It's dominated by graphics now and their reviews are little more than caption-length. Last I checked they now only review 3 singles a week. And the quality of criticism is dreadful - for a long time I defended them on this front, even with The Strokes and so on, but I just can't physically bring myself to say a positive word about such junk any more.
I know it's always been a hype-machine to an extent, but at least it used to have a sense of humour, a wryly disguised eye for what was actually serious quality...please don't die on me, NME, come back...
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Plus, what's wrong with Conor McNicholas' face?? Saw him on telly a few weeks ago, I almost started crying.
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they loved them in the mid 90s, now it's uncool to like them. fck that, I like Shed 7.
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Morrisey's solo career is as good as his work with the Smiths if not better and I won't listen to any posh cunt, nepotism reliant, london based, pseudo-erudite twat (ie any mainstream music journo- NME employed or otherwise) that wants to tell me different. Unlike NME, DiS refuses to choose between style and substance and remains both popular and underground simultaneously, that could change if it turned into a national weekly print magazine. I don't really want that to happen...
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The legacy name point is a good one. I hadnt really thought of it with reference to sainsbury's because i'd been thinking in temrs of their recent decline. without the economiess of scale of the other major supermarkets, i suppose your right. maybe the question should be why havent they declined further...
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Mystic Meg moment: what will die first, Sainsburys or NME? :)
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i think the generally concensus on DiS is that NME is a bag of bollocks! :-0
however - what are they alternatives?!
BANG was good but that has vanished!
and so was X-Ray - and that has vanished as well: i personal think Q is majoritively crap and don't get me started on Kerrang!!
However, i have been pondering the 'piss issue' and wonder if they purposely wee on the nme in the printing press stages in order to give it that 'authentic rock and roll' ambience? :-)
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do you know me?!! :-0
what did you say on audiojunkies board ages ago? bout the wee, or the 'crap alt.s to nme, or ?
great taste btw... :-) cooper indeed are sublime
hey this is quite a girly DiS 2nite isn't it? what with all the 'big butch men' watching the football!! :-)
makes a nice change! we could say anything we wanted and they wouldn't be here to retaliate!! :-0
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x-ray and bang were really good:
and it was bang that actually really got me into the coopers who are supreme so i thank the dearly departed Bang (r.i.p.) for its guidance! :-)
yeah - the once that weep at film are the best kind! sensitive and kind indeed! :-)
although i must admit i do like football but i'm not watching as my brother wants to chitty chitty bang bang which is a pile of bollocks!!!
ref. to the thread 'Shitty shitty bang bang'!!! :-)
so what albums would you recommend to me, and give them a 'out of ten' score in a nme style so that we don't drift totally from the point of this thread and then anoy all the 'men' when they return!! :-)
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i don't understand
- the boys were kicking off about slipknot and the maggots and now us ladies are at it?!!! :-0
nooo....we must stand as a united front! :-0
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sorry!
slow computer + slow brain = stoopid girl!! :-)
a band - brilliant: name, influences, etc...
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okay - who is nice within the world of rock?
hmmm... Benedict Gautrey of tctc
oh and also the funcky monkey - i must say that otherwise he'll kill me if i don't!! :-) and its true anyway!
i prefer Joey in the knot btw.!!! :-)
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you might regret it if he happens to read DiS in his free time!! :-0
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someone has their panties in a twist!!
recomend a good music rag/mag to me then?!!! :-0 say kerrang, and i kill you!!! :-0
say nme, and you defy the whole point of this post!!!.................
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The Fly? were can i get that?
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www.logo-magazine.com
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last century, I'll grant you.... ;)
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I think matt bellamy's increased musical exploration of his own arsehole and apocalyptic hystrionics gave NME an infinitely more sellable Godspeed with [vaguely] similar subject matter, so there's little need for them to bother with em anymore, sadly, more than 30 words of glib lipservice at best for each new album. And to think their review of "f#a#~" was what actually pointed me in their direction. If that came out today with similar negligable fanfare, you wouldn't see a fucking mention of it in there I'd bet..