''NME'' Not For Me (Saturday Ramble)
With a demographic who want to enkindle the career of a punk band 30 years past there sell-by-date to administer an inconsequential reformation in an age with extensive middle class rule and the likes of Peter Doherty BA as the representative for the ''working classes'', what has this silly and fatuous little music rag got to offer?
Add box hats and glow sticks to these boys, and you have the sort who are getting riled up over NMEs ''piqued'' and ''passionate'' response to the name calling of Faris Rotter (The Horrors) by ''moronic'' local hoodlums who don't understand his ''conceptual vision''.
Eton boys taking on Southend locals with a drone of journalists at the NME as there chieftain advisors.
OK, that's enough blather.
Over to you Parkinson.
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Bit of rhyme.
Once the epitome of punctured youth, now seems to be a clueless spoof.
and I'm a dog who likes the fog.
NME
From this I assume that you're not a teenager in the first flushes of pop love?
NME is written by youth monkeys for youth monkeys, hasn't it always been that way? Considering it's the last inky man standing, it must be doing something right. I bought it recently for the one sided White Stripes 7" and read it from cover to cover. It filled a fairly long bus journey.
You should give your Word mag to a 17 year old, see what they make of that, Grandad.
Aside from the ageist swipe,
Aside from the ageist swipe, you may well be right.
But the truth is that some things just ain't as good as they once were.
The NME was once a cutting edge concern that reported on a thriving music scene that was THE most important thing in the lives of those that read it, not merely one of many diversions.
It was staffed by highly opinionated writers whose styles set a template for those that followed.
It wasn't aimed at 17 year olds, that's for sure (Although I myself started reading it at 12)but at a literate body who required slightly more than "Tremeloes new waxing" style copy.
The last time I thumbed through it, it was filled with desperately poor writing from a bunch of nonentities, this from a paper that once gave us Nick Kent, Charles Shaar Murray, Ian Penman and the magnificent Ian MacDonald.
I know plenty of 17 year olds that would love much of The Word and wouldn't grubby their fingers with the poor show the NME has become.
I Am Actually 18
I'm 18 years of age...having turned 18 3 months back.
I'm reporting from the frontline, so you can't hold that against me.
so easy to hate
i stopped reading it because the writing became very poor and humourless but mainly because they ran those strange hate campaigns. Do you remember the Morrissey debacle over the song "national front disco"? The lyrics are in my humble opinion some of Moz's least ambiguous but some moron (cynical controversy careerist steven wells i think) decided it was time to give the pope of mope a kicking and decreed that it was impossible for a singer to comment on racism or describe a character from first person perspective without holding those beliefs. A bit like believing Dostoyevsky was a murderer because he wrote crime and punishment, see how they forn over him now. Placebo got it in the neck as well.
God..
just reading that made me cringe.
One wonders what they'd make of Randy Newman.