Are Freaky Trigger and Tangents the new NME/MM? If so which is which and who is Sounds?

To answer your question, no they're not.

And if they are, then Sounds (the rockistest one) is plainly Pitchfork.

I wonder what Elidor might be?

Best bits of the MM combined with the best bits of the Guardian and Independent, is my unselfish guess.

Crucial difference A:

People paid to read the NME. Tempted though I constantly am as Publisher to whip a virtual hat round and say it's for a 'server fund' or something I fear I'd be unsuccessful.

A corollary of this is crucial difference B:

People were paid to do the NME. This meant that if - picking an example out of the air here - the writer/editor of several successful features spent two weeks drinking and arsing about on IM and never updating them they would have been in the shite.

I understand what you mean, though. In answer, we're Record Mirror.

_Stankonica_ would have been a better title, though. ("What do you call a stank harmonica?")

I'm glad to hear it. I always suspected you had your tongue in your cheek, because your postings are so articulate that I wouldn't believe you could be so ignorant, but I just wanted to confirm.

Basically most of the south of England feels like a suburb of London now, even the Scilly Isles. Which I don't resent, though I do resent people telling me that the party whose economic policies helped to bring it about over 18 years is the party which would preserve the countryside in aspic were it ever to regain power.

Robin (Lib Dem voter, like virtually all progressive ruralists)

For what it's worth, I'm quite familiar with the the suburbs of London and I've also spent a bit of time in Devon. I wasn't struck by the resemblance either.

To answer your question, Tim: to suggest that the south of England is one big suburb is closer to the truth than to suggesting that it is made up of different time zones. This is 2001, for fuck's sake. Enough right now.

What do you know about 30 years ago? I can remember East Devon and London 20 years ago (and more) and I can't see how Devon is any more like a suburb now than it was then. It wasn't then and it's not now.

Do we have a policy of deleting posts that take someone else's name and email address?

OK, it may have been funny, but posting under someone else's name is a really crap precedent to set. Please don't do it.

I was just responding in shock horror.

Insane Clown Posse Pat posted from a difft one every time: presumably at a library or caff or sumfink. (Tho I spose he cd have been four difft ICP-ers, in on the same fun game...)

Mail me privately if you feel it's most appropriate.

Were any of the earlier posts sent from an IP of Liverpool University (liverpool.ac.uk or liv.ac.uk)? If so, I would have no doubts whatsoever as to who it would be.

What the fuck is "Tangents"?

Oh, you youngsters: http://www.tangents.co.uk/frozen.html

Never heard of it either and I'm Dom's dad

I know you read this Dom. You'll recognisde the funny line:

http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/music/archives/2007/07/column_hugs_and.php

Fucking hell, see how far you can get through these collected Everett True columns. Is he fucking senile or something?

http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/music/archives/columns/hugs_and_kisses/

It was from Tangents that I drew many of my original Careless Talk writers

So it was a magazine for jailbait?

Courtney Love really should have killed him instead of Kurt.

What the fuck is "Freaky Trigger"?

http://blogs.menupages.com/boston/Mystery.jpg

(it's a rap album by a band called outkast by the way)

:D

everett true is a cunt.

i wouldn't know about that, but i do hate his writing

lol at his "PITCHFORK WRITERS HAVE THEIR RAMPANT EGOS UNCHECKED" schtick, considering how CTCL was basically Miss AMP writing a list of which cocks she'd sucked that week.

one of their writers told me he was a cunt.

Enrique: willing to risk being defriended on Facebook in order to speak truth

When he interviewed my girlfriend's band he tried to set it up so he could interview the male and female members seperately.

tbh if you're still dating the same girl you were last year, I'd rather not look at the male members either

i hear he killed a man.

Murder isn't the one morally reprehensible crime I'd most expect E True to commit, if you catch my drift.

I was pretty surprised when I first came here and found out that some people (quite a lot actually) respected him for, uhhhhhhhhhhh, something or other... forming Nirvana perhaps?

"Commissioning them to write their shitty reviews"

See also: Chuck Eddy

and: Nick Southall

jokes!

Right, 'cos I was genuinely dumbstruck by it

possibly this tripe

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v716/Mofrackie/Singles/hist83.jpg

xposts

The Legend: nearly as good as Regular Fries

He always seemed like a bit of a joke figure in the indie scene, like, "Oh no, here comes The Legend, I hope he's not playing tonight"... but then so were the Vaselines... it's all that Kurt Cobain's fault

You hurt me in my heart, Henry.