Isn't NME just there to lick Oasis arseholes these days? Didn't they place Liam Gallagher as the greatest frontman - and on another occasion - the greatest singer?
Seriously? Liam Gallagher?
NME is as bad as Rolling Stone magazine.
NME won't admit to anything being good if they haven't had some part in breaking an act early on. Their take on Queen was that they would never make it, so when they did and became huge, they just carried on telling anyone who would read their toilet paper rag that they were crap. Queen weren't the only band to come under fire this way, but they got more flak then most!
A friend of mine owns a recording studio. A friend of his, who is now a news editor for a TV company used to work for the NME. He reviewed a one of the Queen gigs at wembley in 78. He said it was one of the best gigs he'd ever seen and the band were better than he could have imagined. The review was written up, but just before it went to print the editor called him in and asked what he was playing at. The guy said the gig was brilliant so that's the way I've reviewed it. The editor said yeah I know I was in the audience but their's no way anyone is going to say that anything Queen do is good in this paper.
The review was re written by someone who wasn't even at the gig and it said exactly what the NME always said.
[QUOTE] [b]Band Forever wrote:[/b]
Dear Mooghead,
I do like other artists but Queen are obviously my favourites. IMO you'd have to be taking some serious non-medicinal drugs to enjoy listening to Morrisey or the Smiths. They are devoid of any charisima or enegry just so flat and dull! If they were on a life support machine you would want to pull the plug out after two bars.
I just don't get them or any of these shit Indie bands that NME touts as the next cultural revolution. Morrisey is such a traitor and outspoken critic of our country (the best in the world), he should go and live somewhere remote and dull as he is 'One Man Island'. [/QUOTE]
And what country might that be?
Who do you like Band Forever?
I saw this online article a few years ago and I was surprised
http://www.nme.com/photos/freddie-mercury--20-reasons-why-we-miss-him/253459/1/1
This is the laziest article I have ever seen... just a bunch of people round the office shouting 'what do you think of Freddie Mercury'? A yellow jacket? Big teeth? AOBTD/Flash (not his songs).. stupid and patronising.
Who do you like Band Forever?
We need to know, is it Nickelback? Bon Jovi? Tell us who is good.....!
Who do you like Band Forever?
The last week I was talking with Wayne Hussey from The Mission.
He remember two hated things about N.M.E.
One, an article about Freddie and the headline was is this man a prat? The other, The Mission on cover, and the headline-the most stupid british band.
Of course, Wayne hates NME ;)
Just quickly following on from my original post a few months ago.,.this week the NME have their 500 greatest songs list (I don't buy it, just read it in a WH Smith). Queen are featured once, but for their Bowie collab only. Not surprisingly, Oasis and Arctic M get top praise. Tracks included in the list:
TLC - Waterfalls
House of Pain - Jump Around
That Kylie / Nick Cave ballad (cant think of the name)
So according to NME, these tracks are better than ANY Queen song. Really pi**es my off!! I don't know why it gets me but it does.
Like I say, all the writers are 18 and those songs 'got them interested in music in the first place'.
We're buggered.
[QUOTE] [b]Dunno223 wrote:[/b]
Just quickly following on from my original post a few months ago.,.this week the NME have their 500 greatest songs list (I don't buy it, just read it in a WH Smith). Queen are featured once, but for their Bowie collab only. Not surprisingly, Oasis and Arctic M get top praise. Tracks included in the list:
TLC - Waterfalls
House of Pain - Jump Around
That Kylie / Nick Cave ballad (cant think of the name)
So according to NME, these tracks are better than ANY Queen song. Really pi**es my off!! I don't know why it gets me but it does.[/QUOTE]
What a sad rag the NME is!
All these years... Does anyone still read NME?
Doubt it has the clout it did back in the 70s and 80s.
