The NME stinks

NME in sucking ass shockah!

Everett True in Aryan shocker?

If Mowgli ever formed a band with his jungle friends, they would sound like Vampire Weekend...just imagine Baloo puffing on panpipes....throwing in a bunch of chattering 'eh-eh-eh-ehs' that would ricochet coconuts off trees faster than Keef..."

From today's NME. WHAT the fuck?

^^^Still better than the ILM thread on VM.

NME - B*P morelike

That's not racist so much as just... insane. Completely idiotic and wrongheaded. Who's name is on the byline, though? Cos we really ought to be crucifying the moron that wrote it and the subs / editors who published it directly as people rather than bashing the whole publication (which, admittedly, I think of as shit and haven't even glanced inside of in at least three years).

The buck stops at the top, as in any organisation.

It's by 'EE' = Emma Edmondson.

It's more worrying in that it is symptomatic of the NMEs treatment of non-generic, 'world' influenced or foreign bands - a review of Deerhoof a while back was shockingly simplistic. The thought processes that go into writing a crock of shit like the above are pretty traumatic to think about.

African music > hmm! Jungle Book!

I mean, fuck off EE.

Although, to be fair, the bit where they go "Come on, baggy, get with the beat.."

well it worked for Climie Fisher

I mean, is Emma Edmondson trying to be funny, trying to be racist, or trying to be an idiot? wtf kidn of generation are being weaned on this shit? (Luckily not a 'generation' at all because fuck-all people read it now, but still...)

Comparison with NME of early eighties:

FULL COVERAGE of African and other non-mainstream musics.

KING SUNNY ADE and YOUSSOU N'DOUR amongst others on cover of NME BEFORE they became well known.

NO EXCUSE to say that FOLK ROOTS covers it enough in 2008.

2008 NME readers must REMEMBER - current management of NME thinks you're STUPID. Do you want to pay all that money every week to be PATRONISED?

There were no specialist mags who covered world music. There are lots of specialist mags covering rap and R&B.

Are there any specialist magazines that cover R&B?

I think Fats Domino occasionally gets mentioned in Jazz Journal.

Are there any specialist magazines that cover R&B?

There's enough hip-hop in today's R&B for it to be covered by hip-hop mags.

Edmondson was just zinging. I understand it works for many other respected music writers.

There's enough hip-hop in today's R&B for it to be covered by hip-hop mags.

-- Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 12:27 (47 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

Pretty sure today's R&B has the least amount of hip-hop in it than at any time since 1986.

Pretty sure today's R&B has the least amount of hip-hop in it than at any time since 1986.

Certainly there's way more hip-hop in, say, Beyonce or Alicia Keys than there was in the music of Alexander O'Neal and Terence Trent D'Arby.

lol black people

'Wishing Well' would've been even better with a Rakim guest verse

Rakim on "Wishing Well", The Biz on "Sign Your Name".

Well, it's a good thing those songs did not feature those guest verses. But the best thing about them is that "Sign Your Name" in particular had such a beautiful melody it wouldn't fit with a rap guest verse at all.

Now, I wouldn't normally go in for this sort of witchhunt, but using all available offboard channels to kick off an enormous 'NME is racist' row that forces the magazine into a humiliating apology is urgent and key.

The article itself is sub-Boris Johnson at best and that's even if you are viewing it very kindly.

Doesn't exactly help their case against Morrissey either.

Though I firmly believe that the best and most effective "offboard channel" to deploy against the NME is the one I have used for the last 20 years, i.e. not buying it.

fibs dingbod, my Worthington review ran in 1999

They look very white indeed to me:
http://www.lostateminor.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/vampire_weekend.jpg

Hideously white, would you say?

Stevie xpost: as I said, I haven't bought the NME for 20 years. My first wife did, however.

That means I've been buying the damn "Hello" for 10 years!

POLICEMAN goes into a NEWSAGENT and says HELLO HELLO HELLO.

NEWSAGENT asks WHY DO YOU NEED THREE COPIES OF THAT CRAP?

POLIECEMAN replies OK OK OK.

NEWSAGENT asks BLOODY HELL DO YOU WANT THREE OF THOSE AS WELL?

keywords: coat, get.

true: When we went to Florida last year, we were asked to get some mags for a friend. The list was Hello, now take a break, chat, OK.

That sounds like the worst text adventure game ever :(

They also asked us to bring Galaxy chocolate, but the air hostess said we wouldn't be able to take it through US customs, so we ate it on the plane.

Still. The NME, ay?

If the NME had any sense they would have had the Division Belles on this week's cover.

i'm not sure if dingbod is clowning djmartian or just turning into him.

have they ever been seen together at an FAP?