![]() ![]() We can't be authentic, but we can make you laugh by presenting the gap between real and fake, America and Britain. Already there's an Alan Partridge / The Darkness comedy element creeping in. They're British, so 'southern' doesn't mean redneck confederate staters, but middle class boys from southern England, right? The NME sets up a 'bathetic gap' between cliched rock iconography, which is American, and reality, which is British. All caps, three lines, three different point sizes, two different colours, two lines of type slanted diagonally. Next: 'Win Justin Hawkins' guitar!' ('Win' in white, 'Hawkins' guitar underlined' in red)Ĭompetitions, imperatives, more marketing cliches. So is it ironic or sincere? A joke or a plug? Have the inverted commas around a moronic phrase sort of melted away, leaving a kind of sincerity? Now this is a parody of cliched marketing-speak, right? And yet it is also cliched marketing speak. Help me here, because I no longer live in Britain. Some more questions, based on this week's NME cover. The guts to take on a weak and sickly NME !. I have said it before - but there must be a publisher out there with Lots of glossy ads, and AOL CD sellotaped on the front cover! andįree Warners showcase of bullshit bands! its coming to ya soon! Till AOL Time Warner turns it into a fortnightly Rolling Stone with Ladies & Gentlemen the worst and highest price NME ever !. Week Eminem, Papa Roach, American Hi-fi, Travis, Staind, OPM, AshĮtc - total tosh and an NME bib - total crap cut out ! Who is the £ 1.50 the highest price and worst NME ever, look at the rubbish this I just wish they go away because they are not needed in 2001. Laughable - The Strokes an epidemic of bullshit started by NME. Mediocrity and the magnitude of misguided praise is now getting I can't recall a music magazine ever fawning of such blatant hyped Have a declining consumer base - and they don't know why they are NME have to increase price of their rag because the clueless idiots Out as 15% rise in sale price, way above the rate of inflation - the ![]() Review and notice that the price has risen 20p this week (that works ![]() Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Sleep - Take 23 minutes, grab headphones, turn out the lights, have a spiritual experience.This week - The Strokes - yet again ! twice this year! 10/10 album One more, gotta stop myself or I could be here all day. I know, right? The last three minutes of this song make me tear up under almost any circumstance.ĭeath - Voice of the Soul - Appropriate title is appropriate. Also, Devin Townsend is a master of leaving me speechless.ĭevin Townsend - Ki - Yeah, this is the same guy as the previous song. Strapping Young Lad - Underneath The Waves - Often, anger and rage leave the biggest impact. The National - Conversation 16 - Hard choice among their catalog, a personal, chilling favorite. Radiohead - Reckoner - Radiohead fan myself, imo this is them at their most shiver-inducing. Mastodon - Jaguar God - This ranks somewhere in my top 10-15 songs. Zeal & Ardor - Waste - Most of their music applies for me, but this is my obvious (and aggressive) pick. Spurv - Fra Dypet Under Stenen - A glorious 8 minutes of instrumental post-rock I'll try to keep this brief (no promises) with the examples that immediately come to mind. Your description applies to around 1/4 of of the music I listen to and that feeling is an addiction I've been trying to feed for 20-odd years. ![]()
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