| Dunno223 23.10.2013 18:06 |
Just read the latest issue, which has their '500 greatest albums of all time' list. Didn't really surprise me but Queen aren't featured once. Not even ANATO gets a mention. Seems to me like the NME didn't like Queen much in the 70s and not much has changed. Surprise suprise however, Arctic Monkeys and Oasis made the top 20. |
| dysan 24.10.2013 02:47 |
NME is a fashion rag - hence no Queen, but Bowie (the old timer of the year) is heavily featured, and Morrissey is number one as everyone is talking about his autobiography this week. I'm sure when pompous rock is fashionable again the tables will turn. At the moment it's all Eno inspired Jewish funk. |
| mooghead 24.10.2013 03:14 |
Funnily enough Brian May wrote this on his Twitter feed on 24th Oct Dr. Brian May ?@DrBrianMay 8h link … They might just as well say "Music critics have on the whole been very dull and very stupid for a very long time !" link |
| Band Forever 24.10.2013 06:55 |
NME readership for the great unwashed! It's columnists are bunch of wet nosed anti establishment types who call mind numbing drivel noise, music. i.e that pathetic streak of paralysed piss Morrisey. Did anyone hear the Arctic Monkeys or Kaiser Chiefs live? You would hear more melody at a breaker's yard. |
| mooghead 24.10.2013 08:40 |
Who do you like Band Forever? |
| DLCVinnuendo 24.10.2013 08:47 |
it's a surprise to me that the smiths album it's first place, i like very much them, but without queen, and it's a very strange list |
| dysan 24.10.2013 09:22 |
You've got to remember that the people that write for NME are about 18 and trying VERY hard not to rock the boat and stay on message. |
| cmsdrums 24.10.2013 09:39 |
There seems to be a thread about the NME in the 'serious discussion' category??? |
| k-m 24.10.2013 10:26 |
Thankfully, history taught us not to worry about such things. After all, it's just some stupid magazine. |
| jrd1951 25.10.2013 03:40 |
The NME is,and has always been,basically crap.Freddie told them so(can you imagine saying that today?)and for those who were actually around the reviews were pretty scathing.They really went to town in the eighties,with the bloody Smiths and their ilk in every issue,while dismissing Queen albums as 'a bucket of urine' or 'awful'.Only Record Mirror came up with a review for A Kind Of Magic that was accurate,'Empires may crumble,Governments may fall,and they might even change the formula for cadbury's milk chocolate,(they did!)but Queen will always endure' written by some chap called Johny Dee,perhaps he had a good career.......? |
| Togg 25.10.2013 04:44 |
Of course they hate Queen NME is just a shit rag, I have always hated it, the writers they employ either have no idea about the subject or they are so far up their own backsides that all they want to do is make a name for themselves for being 'edgy' I really hope it dies soon, I can't imagine who reads it these days? or why? |
| Band Forever 25.10.2013 07:26 |
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| Band Forever 25.10.2013 07:37 |
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'. |
| mooghead 25.10.2013 08:32 |
Who do you like Band Forever? |
| splicksplack 25.10.2013 11:50 |
Fortunately some of us aren't so polarised. I bought NME and the other 3 main weekly music papers in the 70's and 80's. In an era without the internet they were hugely informative and really did report on what was happening in music. Unfortunately instead of just moving with the times they had an urge to completely insult what had gone before. Stuff that they had championed (check the reviews of SHA and ANATO). I was totally into Joy Division, The Smiths, Blondie, Undertones etc. at the same time as loving Queen and ELO. The fact that ANATO is not in the NME list clarifies that the list is meaningless and created by people that are blinkered and fashion-led (whether it be journos or their dwindling readership). NME is the last desperate gasp of something that once really meant something to the UK record-buying public. |
| Day dop 25.10.2013 12:47 |
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. |
| Vocal harmony 25.10.2013 18:54 |
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. |
| AlbaNo1 26.10.2013 05:09 |
Band Forever wrote: 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'.And what country might that be? |
| mooghead 27.10.2013 10:38 |
Who do you like Band Forever? |
| jazzrazzmatazz 27.10.2013 11:17 |
I saw this online article a few years ago and I was surprised link |
| mooghead 27.10.2013 14:28 |
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. |
| mooghead 27.10.2013 14:51 |
Who do you like Band Forever? We need to know, is it Nickelback? Bon Jovi? Tell us who is good.....! |
| mooghead 29.10.2013 13:41 |
Who do you like Band Forever? |
| Apocalipsis_Darko 29.10.2013 22:59 |
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 ;) |
| Dunno223 07.02.2014 08:07 |
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. |
| dysan 07.02.2014 10:20 |
Like I say, all the writers are 18 and those songs 'got them interested in music in the first place'. We're buggered. |
| Heavenite 07.02.2014 17:14 |
Dunno223 wrote: 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.What a sad rag the NME is! |
| KevoM 13.02.2014 07:03 |
All these years... Does anyone still read NME? Doubt it has the clout it did back in the 70s and 80s. |