If NME Likes You, Do You Automatically Suck?

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I'm just curious.

― ben welsh (benwelsh), Monday, 3 March 2003 00:45 (twenty-three years ago)

suck what?

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 3 March 2003 00:46 (twenty-three years ago)

the big one

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 3 March 2003 00:46 (twenty-three years ago)

what he said.

― ben welsh (benwelsh), Monday, 3 March 2003 00:47 (twenty-three years ago)

the short answer is yes, with an if. the long answer is no, with a but.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 3 March 2003 00:47 (twenty-three years ago)

i'd imagine so but i haven't read it for about 15 years

― duane, Monday, 3 March 2003 00:55 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm becoming convinced that no-one has EVER read the NME, and in fact it was created as a marketing tool by Mean Fiddler with the aim of selling more vegeburgers back in 1986.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Monday, 3 March 2003 02:09 (twenty-three years ago)

they like(d?) the strokes hence this question rendered null and void.

― minna (minna), Monday, 3 March 2003 02:19 (twenty-three years ago)

No. But you are more likely to suck in if NME likes you in 2003 than you were if they liked you in 1995...

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 3 March 2003 02:24 (twenty-three years ago)

If the NME employs you, you automatically suck.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 3 March 2003 13:56 (twenty-three years ago)

If the NME employs you, you automatically suck.

Close to the truth, yes...

Q and Mojo, however, are mags that I respect a lot.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 3 March 2003 13:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Everybody believes what they're told to
Everybody believes what they read in the N M E

― Lawrence (Alan), Monday, 3 March 2003 14:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Believing this seems no more nor less foolish than believing that the NME liking you makes you terrific.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 3 March 2003 21:59 (twenty-three years ago)

martin skidmore is right. it likes good stuff and bad stuff. it liked ILM's album of the year "OPM" for starters, so i don't know how people here could say everything the NME likes is shit. it's not what you like that makes a magazine good, though. if they could discuss what they liked more interestingly, and less childishly, it would be a good mag.

actually, the white stripes review in the recent issue is quite good. i don't even like the white stripes, but i still thought it was quite interesting for an NME review. more of this, please.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 3 March 2003 22:17 (twenty-three years ago)

However, knowing that if NME likes you, then they will hate you in a month or two, is definitely useful wisdom for young musical talents...

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 01:08 (twenty-three years ago)

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