WTF is the NME on about with "Chav Rock"?

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This weeks nme says Chav Rock meets Dad Rock with Hard-Fi and Paul Weller.
http://www.nme.com/magazine

(I believe the Ordinary Boys got this chav-rock/chav-mod label amongst NME readers)

WTF???

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 26 May 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

"Panic! At The Disco bassist dramatically quits p10"

biting the arctics a little there.

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Friday, 26 May 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

The NME is wrong about everything.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Friday, 26 May 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

I reckon NME reads ILM

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 26 May 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

rolling thread for 'what stupid pointless exercise the NME have done this week' (was: 'Are you a massive radiohead fan?')

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 26 May 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

Who else are they going to label as Chav Rock? Is this the big new scene? New Wave Of Chav Rock replacing Nu-Britpop like Dad Rock, replaced ,Britpop?

Are Hard-Fi chavs ?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 26 May 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

2006 is surely a bit late to be tacking the term "chav" on anything?

Pics of hard-fi I have seen just seem to show slightly better dressed indie kids, I dunno.

Weller + hard-fi sounds like total aural torture to me.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 26 May 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

New Wave Of Chav Rock

Razorlight
The Kooks
Boy Kill Boy

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 26 May 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

yeah i'm struggling to imagine a worse combo.

lady sov and ordinary boys, maybe.

xpost

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Friday, 26 May 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

according to the link above, page 26 of the new issue shows "- Preston Ordinary Boy goes head to head with Lady Sovereign".

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 26 May 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

you have to have short hair i think

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 26 May 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

I can't wait for the Daily Mail baiting New Wave Of Hoodie Rock

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 26 May 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

Enrique, i can't tell if that's a joke or you genuinely haven't heard the Ordinary Boys + Sov cover/version of "9 to 5" yet?

― fandango (fandango), Friday, 26 May 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

IT WAS A PHUNNEE AND YOU LAMERS SPOILED IT!

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Friday, 26 May 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha ha ha.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 26 May 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

The NME is wrong about everything.

Worth repeating.

― Steve Goldberg (Steve Goldberg), Friday, 26 May 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't heard the Ordinary Boys track either. Is it out yet?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 26 May 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

(what's a "chav"?)

(i hope it means a new batch of UK band influenced by Chavo Pederast-era Black Flag but somehow i don't think that's what it means)

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 26 May 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

no no, that's exactly it!

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Friday, 26 May 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

thx wikipedia!

Chav (pronunciation: /t?æv/) (also Chavette (female chav), Charv or Charva) is a slang term in wide use throughout the United Kingdom since 2004. It refers to a subcultural stereotype of a person with fashions such as flashy "bling" jewellery, Burberry clothing items and counterfeit designer clothing; an uneducated and uncultured background; a tendency to congregate around places such as fast-food outlets, bus stops, or other shopping areas; and a culture of antisocial behaviour and violence. Chavs often listen to dance/trance, RnB, rap, and hip hop music. Response to the term has ranged from amusement to criticism that it is a new manifestation of classism.

SO.....this is basically like when Spin was calling Bizkit and dudes like that "mook rock", inna uk stylee?

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 26 May 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

Recurring Expressions in Music Reviews

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Friday, 26 May 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

The Scottish equivalent of a Chav is a Ned.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 26 May 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

60 ft Dolls and Northern Uproar could reform now. As the grandaddys of it all.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 26 May 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

Working class people make music: story at 10.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 26 May 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

When do we get Eton Rock?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 26 May 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

Since 195fucking8, next question.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 26 May 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

The Windsors

Harry & william to form new band, influences Coldplay and Travis

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 26 May 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

The Scottish equivalent of a Chav is a Ned.

Except "ned" is far more subtle and less based on class hatred. I imagine chav rock refers to those few remaining UK rock bands who haven't attended a minor public school.

― No Ring Goes Like a Ringo Goes (Dada), Friday, 26 May 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

60 ft Dolls and Northern Uproar could reform now. As the grandaddys of it all.

Because they are no more or less "chavvy" than Oasis, yes? NME in talking-total-pish non-shocker!

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 26 May 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

Is Morrisey a chav?

― No Ring Goes Like a Ringo Goes (Dada), Friday, 26 May 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

No, chavs are all racist.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 26 May 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

But so is Morrissey? (Only asking)

― No Ring Goes Like a Ringo Goes (Dada), Friday, 26 May 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

Since 195fucking8, next question.
Was that a happy birthday to paul weller?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 26 May 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

Lily Allen: the female Mike Skinner or Corinne Bailey Rae on crack? You decide p29

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 26 May 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

How would the NME describe Momus?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 26 May 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

Momus = Keith's Allen's daughter

― No Ring Goes Like a Ringo Goes (Dada), Friday, 26 May 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

Notice NME.COM have redesigned and expanded their magazine webpage. More Ammo for us to laugh at each week !

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 26 May 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

"Meet the one-eyed nutjob who likes 14 year old girls: p17"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 26 May 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

(xx-post, or perhaps not)

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 26 May 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/612/2983/320/4-5_News%202.0.jpg

woah that is one sparse news spread in terms of actual text.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 26 May 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

Holy shit that looks like my first ever play-around on Pagemarker.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 26 May 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

i'm really quite shocked by the size of the photos as compensation for lack of news. what a waste of paper!

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 26 May 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, for sake of comparison, does anyone have a shot of the "news" page from Cosmo Girl or Sugar or Bliss or something?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 26 May 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

Whats the reviews page like? Do they even bother reviewing albums now?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 26 May 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

According to that page you linked to, they do.

Not very well, I imagine, but that's not what you asked.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 26 May 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

They normally have a big lead album feature, this week it's The Futureheads and then the rest are a couple of hundred words

Albums reviewed this week

Also reviewed: Albums by Kanye West, The Black Heart Procession, Shack, Matmos, Zero 7, King Biscuit Time, Paul Simon, D4L

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 26 May 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

Wow 3 albums i'm interested in.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 26 May 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

Couple of hundred? More like 120.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 26 May 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

the best thing in NME this week is ILXOR's very own Melissa who was vox popped

Meet Radiohead's Hardcore fans
http://img234.imageshack.us/img234/2583/nme39mg.jpg

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 26 May 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

Wow!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 26 May 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

[It was mentioned on ILE earlier this week !]

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 26 May 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe NME can do a chav rock tribute cd like Kerrang does its cover versions exclusives Kerrang's 25th Birthday Issue (with exclusive covers cd)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 26 May 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

Chav Rock still can't beat shroomadelica for utter NME created ridiculousness.

― Harrison Barr (Petar), Friday, 26 May 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

I bet the NME hope Shroomadelica has been forgotten about.
Do magazines in any other countries try to start scenes like they do here?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 26 May 2006 22:02 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, "Mook" wasn't classist, except in terms of late teen/teenwannabee males of all pedigrees who got no class, and are smirkingly smarmily proud of it; frats or fratwannabees, feeling priveledged to party all over you, especially/mostly if you're female in a magazine. See: nu-metal, lad mags, "The Man Show", "Punked", etc. etc. etc. It was a profile named and cited by planners at Viacom channels and some mags, to show that they could plan, and that nobody ever went broke undersestimating etc. and you can't cheat an honest mook cos there ain't none (excuse me: aren't any)(in Der Plan)

― don, Saturday, 27 May 2006 01:07 (nineteen years ago)

I've never heard the term mook before.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Saturday, 27 May 2006 11:14 (nineteen years ago)

it was pretty much every second word my colleagues and i said circa 2000. we had to have a "mook box" in the office, it got so out of hand. it seemed funny at the time.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 27 May 2006 11:20 (nineteen years ago)

I must be out of touch.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Saturday, 27 May 2006 22:02 (nineteen years ago)

What was shroomadelica supposed to be, anyways? The Zutons were one of the bands in the "movement" yes?

― Harrison Barr (Petar), Saturday, 27 May 2006 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

I think so. The Coral perhaps?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Saturday, 27 May 2006 23:15 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shroomadelica&defid=638608

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Saturday, 27 May 2006 23:16 (nineteen years ago)

Oh God, NME Tries To Start Yet Another New Movement ..... SHROOMADELICA - The music movement that will 'weird up your head',

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Saturday, 27 May 2006 23:17 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.indiesoc.co.uk/viewthread.php?tid=3101&page=1

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Saturday, 27 May 2006 23:18 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, thanks man, I love the ilm thread.

― Harrison Barr (Petar), Sunday, 28 May 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

Reading that indiesoc thing- indie people really are fucking hideous, arn't they?

― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Sunday, 28 May 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

except poncing around doing something as student-y and middle class as forming a band immediately excludes from you being a "chav". and would any real chav be seen dead with indie music blasting out of his stereo

― cucumber, Sunday, 28 May 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

Since when have the only people who form bands been middle class?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Sunday, 28 May 2006 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

Shed 7 were the chavs of Britpop

Wayne Rooney the so called king of chavs - lists the Stereophonics as his fav band

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 28 May 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

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