Burn my eyes! NWS

[James Blast]

he's really flipped this time

[silentNate]

Only a 7"

[radiojamaica]

he's really flipped this time

Indeed, what's up with the watch?! Looze it Mozzer

[eotunun]

F*cking singles, eh?

[Izzy HaveMercy]

This would even be safe for work if he'd release it on an USB stick.

Never liked Mr. Dialtone and he sinks even deeper now...

IZ.

[Perki]

D:

[GC]

Meat is Murder

[timsinister]

No clever ideas now, Maisey

[eastmidswhizzkid]

warwick hunt.

[splintered thing]

Oh my lord - Moz..... what next?

[Maisey]

I wish I'd seen this before the photoshoot

Robertzombie'll love this

[culprit]

...must...erase....this.....from.....mind.....

Is he mad?
This reminds me of the Kevin Rowland incident of a few years ago!!

[Izzy HaveMercy]

I wish I'd seen this before the photoshoot

Me too.

WHEN HE STILL HAD ALL HIS CLOTHES ON!

and a burka covering really all of his idiot self, if at all possible kthxbai

IZ.

[robertzombie]

I wish I'd seen this before the photoshoot

Robertzombie'll love this

[Silver_Owl]

I wish I'd seen this before the photoshoot

Me too.

WHEN HE STILL HAD ALL HIS CLOTHES ON!

and a burka covering really all of his idiot self, if at all possible kthxbai

IZ.

I really have no opinion one way or another regarding him - but why the hate? On what grounds does this venom ooze from every pore of your very being?

[Izzy HaveMercy]

I really have no opinion one way or another regarding him - but why the hate? On what grounds does this venom ooze from every pore of your very being?

He's a cock.

No really, I never liked the guy. He whines like a WW II bombing alarm, he writes all his lines in the key of a phone dialtone, and I really do respect everyone's opinions but he never respected anyone else's; he pissed off nearly all of his colleagues in music, uttered some slightly racistic words in his time and in general succeeds in saying something negative about almost everything and everyone.

Tot say it with Fat Bob's words: "If Morrissey says not to eat meat, then I'll eat meat; that's how much I hate Morrissey"

IZ.

[silentNate]

To say it with Fat Bob's words: "If Morrissey says not to eat meat, then I'll eat meat; that's how much I hate Morrissey"

As someone who doesn't like meat I still laughed at that. I hate Morrissey- he was rubbish in Dr Who

[Silver_Owl]

To say it with Fat Bob's words: "If Morrissey says not to eat meat, then I'll eat meat; that's how much I hate Morrissey"

As someone who doesn't like meat I still laughed at that. I hate Morrissey- he was rubbish in Dr Who

And he was rubbish in Men Behaving Badly

But seriously Iz - What racism? I know he did the song about a Benghali in Platforms but not sure what the connotation is.

All I know is he wrote some fine tunes for The Smiths.

Does he whinge a lot? I don't know.

[silentNate]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicbl ... eyresponds

Can't make up for the barely disguised racism of Benghali in Platforms however

[Maisey]

Never read the interview, but I certainly believe that the NME would do exactly as Mozzer says it has.

The magazine is total fcking disgrace in my opinion. Many magazines swing with trends in order to sell issues but that's ALL the NME is much of the time.

As far as I can tell, it's a device for manufactoring bands as and when they believe there is a market for them, rather than exposing the world to the best of contemporary music.

I remember reading a Rosetta interview from the 90's in which he said talked about the NME's refusal to feature them for no other reason than they didn't fit with the magazine's policy of what was cool - despite the fact that Rosetta were shifting many more records and selling out venues larger than many of the bands the magazine was featuring.

IMO It's publications like the NME that give the British music media the astoundingly bad name that it has.

Even today many acts get completely fcking ignored despite huge achievements in the face of a media wall of silence. Take an act like VNV Nation. They tour internationally, headline massive festivals in Europe and even in the UK they sell out large venues (Islington Acadamy for example). Have they ever been featured? My arse they have.

It's stange that comtempory bands that have gotten big through the quality of their music and their own hard work can be ignored, yet huge amount of print space is often dedicated to unheardof sh!te that just so happens to sound exactly like whichever band is currently selling the most digital fcking downloads.

I really fcking hate the New Music Express.

I never really liked Morrisey, but my estimation of him has just gone up.

[Maisey]

Oh, and one last thing - does anyone remember the recent "NME guide to goth"?

In huge red letters under a picture of Robert Smith. Goth 1976-1991 RIP.

POINT THE FIRST: The term wasn't even being used to descibe bands (however much they objected) until about 1978/79.

POINT THE SECOND: The magazine featured, almost exclusively bands that denied ever being goth and completely ignored a lot of the acts that actually came to embrace it (the m*****n being a noteable exception).

POINT THE THIRD: 1991 RIP???!!!

The only reason goth died in 1991 was that the NME declared that it had, despite it being far from the actual truth. Just because they decided to feature Britpop and Grunge to a nausiating level does not mean that another movement has undergone genredeath. See above post for Rosetta Stone's comments.

[robertzombie]

[mh]

And no thanks at all to the NME

It was rubbish then, it stayed rubbish throughout the 80s and 90s, and it's still rubbish now.

Now, I really must go find some extra-strong bleach to put in my eyes.

[Qarly]

That is terrifying.
I am now wishing to be the person I was immediately before entering this thread.

[markfiend]

Former writers on NME include:

• Tony Parsons
• Julie Burchill
• Paul Morley
• Danny Baker

All cnuts. Nuff said.