Pop (Critic) Idol: Rolling Stone to search for Apprentice
Whispers and rumours from across the Pond...
The editor-in-chief of leading US title Rolling Stone is thought to be in talks with MTV over a possible Apprentice-style show.
The show, if it sees the light of day, will follow budding music journalists as they compete for a full-time position at the magazine. Jann Wenner, who is also the magazine's publisher, will have the final say on who makes the grade (or who can suck up to the most PRs, we suppose).
DiScuss: Reckon we can be on the judging panel? Oh go on...
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Pop (Critic) Idol: Rolling Stone to search for App
sod the judging panel
send mike diver over
he'll be FAMOUS! He might even win
and he can wear a DiS t-shirt for the entire series
send mike diver over
he'll be FAMOUS! He might even win
and he can wear a DiS t-shirt for the entire series
Pop (Critic) Idol: Rolling Stone to search for Apprentice
Do you witter on endlessly about Bob Dylan and the Velvet Underground as if anyone's remotely interested?
Do you give bafflingly fawning reviews to utterly mediocre MOR guitar-rock albums every so often, and apparently at random?
Do you have no real knowledge or understanding of black music yet own 'It Takes A Nation' and 'What's Going On' because you think you ought to?
Do you wrongly imagine that anyone cares about anything you've ever had to say about music or anything else, ever?
Then Rolling Stone magazine needs YOU!!! Get that application in today...
Do you give bafflingly fawning reviews to utterly mediocre MOR guitar-rock albums every so often, and apparently at random?
Do you have no real knowledge or understanding of black music yet own 'It Takes A Nation' and 'What's Going On' because you think you ought to?
Do you wrongly imagine that anyone cares about anything you've ever had to say about music or anything else, ever?
Then Rolling Stone magazine needs YOU!!! Get that application in today...
Pop (Critic) Idol: Rolling Stone to search for Apprentice
I'm disappointed no one has reported on the reality show where contestants compete to be the new singer in INXS. What a prize!
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Wanna walk in a dead man's shoes fronting a forgotten Eighties pop-rock monster?
You might as well end it now.
You might as well end it now.
Pop (Critic) Idol: Rolling Stone to search for App
you see mr Diver - that's the kind of stuff that will make you loved by millions
I dare you to apply
I dare you to apply
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They offered Mike Patton the job and he said he'd only do it if he could hang from a noose on stage. Ouch.
Pop (Critic) Idol: Rolling Stone to search for App
we should've thought of this first, really.
(i bet you it has actually crossed sean's mind at one point ;))
(i bet you it has actually crossed sean's mind at one point ;))
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. God bless Mike Patton.
Pop (Critic) Idol: Rolling Stone to search for App
*waits for NME to cotton on to this idea*...
Actually that mightn't be as bad as first thought - ripe for sabotage, heh...
Actually that mightn't be as bad as first thought - ripe for sabotage, heh...
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the NME did, way back when. Only there were no TV cameras around to make a show out of.
It was in the late 70s/early 80s. they published an ad with the immortal phrase "hip young gun slingers wanted", seeking to find some of the hottest "raw" talent aorund. From memory, that's how they found Julie Burchill and Nick Kent, but I could be very wrong.
It was in the late 70s/early 80s. they published an ad with the immortal phrase "hip young gun slingers wanted", seeking to find some of the hottest "raw" talent aorund. From memory, that's how they found Julie Burchill and Nick Kent, but I could be very wrong.
Pop (Critic) Idol: Rolling Stone to search for Apprentice
Can I be the one who says that we are all doomed as a society? Can I? Can I?
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Ah, yeah. Though twas Parsons rather than Kent.
Can't imagine them passing up such a gilt-edged opportunity to further their 'brand reputation'/etc though, should the Rolling Stone show take off. Whether it'd unearth (let alone even *allow* for the unearthing of) similar hip young gunslinging raw talent, given free reign as they were to fly in the face of its previous editorial lines, is another matter entirely. Or just call it fucking unlikely. Sigh...
Can't imagine them passing up such a gilt-edged opportunity to further their 'brand reputation'/etc though, should the Rolling Stone show take off. Whether it'd unearth (let alone even *allow* for the unearthing of) similar hip young gunslinging raw talent, given free reign as they were to fly in the face of its previous editorial lines, is another matter entirely. Or just call it fucking unlikely. Sigh...
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I'm pretty sure you did do it about a year ago. I'm still waiting to hear what you thought about my piece on GCSE music.....
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If you're not interested in Dylan or the Velvets you're a fucking idiot.
Pop (Critic) Idol: Rolling Stone to search for Apprentice
How could this possibly make for good television. Come to think of it, how is watching a guy build a motorcycle make for good television? How does watching a hairstylist cut hair make good television? How does watching four guys playing poker make good television? How does watching some guy put up wallpaper make good television? How does watching celebrities eat worms make good television? Er, scratch that one. That does! How does watching....
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Or alternative someone who realises that, whether or not these acts were vital 30/40 years ago, the music scene has moved on and the world isn't especially crying out for yet another article about either of them.
I've got nothing against either of these acts but, whilst I sympathise to some extent with people wanting to remember music history, it does depress me the way that people hold up acts from forty years ago as some standard bearers that can never be beaten. There's been plenty of great music since then (some of which, dare I say it, I like a damn sight more than anything Dylan or the Velvets did) so why go over it all again?
Plus do you really expect anyone now to write anything about Dylan or the Velvets that's not been said before?
I've got nothing against either of these acts but, whilst I sympathise to some extent with people wanting to remember music history, it does depress me the way that people hold up acts from forty years ago as some standard bearers that can never be beaten. There's been plenty of great music since then (some of which, dare I say it, I like a damn sight more than anything Dylan or the Velvets did) so why go over it all again?
Plus do you really expect anyone now to write anything about Dylan or the Velvets that's not been said before?
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