Jack White is the coolest man in the world...

Yeah, but have you read NME recently? Their idea of "news" is The Libertines DRINKING SOME BOOZE (gasp!) and then HAVING SEX (crikey!) with GIRLS (shit!). The NME will always be the enemy, so long as it's run on the idea that to be of any worth you have to have this week's trendy haircut and fit into whatever rules they've laid out to determine what they must or mustn't slag off. Can you imagine if DiS was just Sean telling a bunch of monkeys what they must or mustn't like? It totally defeats the object of free-thinking, RIGHT NOW, AWRIGHT! music journalism; giving Nick Kent their Godlike Genius award at this years Brats (sorry, NME CARLING Awards) seems gigantically ironic because you simply couldn't have anyone like Nick Kent, or Lester Bangs, or Julie Burchill, or anyone with anything of their own to say about how bands fit in to the REAL scheme of things working there now; it wouldn't be tolerated, and they would be fired.

The NME trades off its past glories as a barometer of pop culture, and that's pretty much all it has left to trade off. Wishing death on Craig Nicholls won't win you back your readers or their respect. Particularly when you've got fresh-faced, wide-eyed mags like Rock Sound, a vibrant fanzine culture, and sites like this to remind people not only how it ought to be done, but how it IS being done.

Even Kerrang! is honest about what it is.

Anyway, fact is that unless things change (like, unless they fire everyone and start again from scratch) NME is going DOWN. Shotgun first to shit on their grave...

he's cool? is he fuck
and is this news worthy?? is it fuck

Two sharp fists? How do you type?

*tumbleweed...*

The thing's not even worth nicking from Woolworths anymore.

rock sound? surely not,

That'll be Careless Talk Costs Lives or just Careless Talk. And Everett can be called Jerry. Doesn't make a lot of sense, said forwards. Or backwards.

Rock sounds layout is terrible too tho Seymour.

Organ, bless 'em, is only written by 3 people and a bit like me, they care more about getting something out there than the precision. But yeah, a bit of subbing and it'd be fine. Pay someone £20k a year and they'll sub-edit all you like. Put speed in their coffee and they'll zoom off a whole magazine in 2hours. But the writing in the first places has to be good. So few writers nowadays inspire me or make me really, truly want to buy things. I've been going back, reading older rockhacks, back in the day, back when it was more gonzo, more out there, taking more risks, being unashmed of loving things that were uncool. Back before sub-editors and the marketing department blanded everything down to Band name, description like someone infamous and/or quirky, on drugs, insert vaguely known buzz band, playing, insert vaguely fitting genre, at, insert speed compared with mode of transport, perfect for, insert cloned market segment. Etc. Etc. Insert your initials, you're not allowed a name anymore. Yawn. Stop listening to good music. Your opinion is worthless. You might as well be a random computer generating streams of drug-addled, grammatically coherent, turning bands into things if you're american.

And veejays are even worse. And x-fm talk to you like you're all idiots. And mclusky are about to come on 4music. SHOCKER.

I'll go away now and stop copying Chuck P..iuk's amazing stylings.

Eating chimps? You fuckin fascists.. nur!

Sleeping is evil. It's a conspiracy to stop us thinking, interacting and taking over the world. Sleeping causes your imagination to be filled with images from teevee and movies and stuff. Sleeping makes your eyes twitch. Twitching can be signs of various things.

Rock Sound, for all it's shortcomings, is the most honest and untainted of all the rags readily available in WHSmith. I've found more good bands through them and their free CDs than the rest combined.

A return to Lester Bangs-style writing would be great (without the substance dependence) but back then, album releases were actually events. People had less money to spend so the latest Beatles, Zeppelin, Sabbath, they were big deals -- they were what you'd been saving for.

These days, albums are just another product. They're like toothbrushes -- cheap, serve a purpose for a few months before being disposed of. Not saying the art that goes into them is disposable, just the way they're treated by consumers.

I wanna turn album releases into events again. I want to punish the music industry and the media and all the whores that go along with it. I want to get people as excited as me and half our staff. And most of our readers.

"There are thousands more just like you if you just look around..." as I Own Kings say.

We gotta do something. I'm working on it. Few tweaks to the site and BLAMMA! Ready?

Zack de la Roche?
Dennis International Noise Conspiracy?
Erol from Trash?
Any of Sigur Ros?
Jp from 'a', just cus he made sunvisors and anoraks cool again?
Jarle from Span?
Roddy?

Run out of suggestions.

Maybe we should do a Drowned in Sound "50 most inspiring" list.

Zack de la Roche? whiny mosher with attitude problem

Erol from trash - bit pretentious innit?
(trash)

Sigur ros - nice music but apparently from someone who's met them they're really stuck up & cliquey

eh... hm.

haha, too true.

You are not cool cus you're american/(poorly)fake being american:
all of them.

fuck i hate amerikah.

if you like necro. the guy looks like a corpse.

step up, raz...

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gen

Nope.

I was fooled by the hype and bought their last album... won't be stung again for the new one though. They're OK - they're probably quite fun live - but ultimately their songs are very samey and the novelty of the stripped-down 2-piece lineup wears off pretty quick. Whether the NME likes them or not shouldn't really come into it though

hey
I'm not into homocro

Okay.. You people are stupid. If theres no point to the white stripes then you oviously dont think theres a point to music. Idiots. I met jack and he is wonderful. At Bogarts in Cincinnati, Ohio. Your all jealous now! ha ha

I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself (and possibly even Fell In Love With A Girl) have already done better than Hardest Button To Button...

They'd had hits before Elephant...

you called them a "two hit wonder", when they'd already had more than 2 hits by the time 'Elephant' came out (Hotel Yorba, Fell in Love With a Girl, Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground).

I vote "Hardest Button To Button" worst indie rock single of last year. It's the worst garage single so far...

"meg needs to lose a bit of her beer belly"
why does she need to?

Jack white is by far the most amazing guitarist; he can still play awesome beats with a crappy finger. Their music is so meaning full. I hope they make another CD!!!!!