Posted October 25, 200717 yr I guess it was only a matter of time. ------------------------------------------------------------ Source: popbitch Rumours abound that the print version of the NME is to be closed, leaving the 55-year-old music paper as a web-only operation. Time for NME.com to launch some more eye-catching stunts like their campaign to "right a historic wrong" by getting the Sex Pistols' re-released God Save the Queen to number one. It entered the charts at... number 42.
October 25, 200717 yr I used to get NME back in the mid-90s, and Melody maker. I can see how they would be so out of date now. I haven't even looked at one for years!
October 25, 200717 yr NME turned into a hopelessly out of touch, elitist mess in the past 10 years. Its demise is welcomed - it's a trashy student rag these days, an embarrassment to the NME of old.
October 25, 200717 yr This really would not surprise me, as it has lost its identity big time and in recent years the quality of music writing has dropped significantly, and featuring emo rock acts on its front cover that should be left to Kerrang to cover has further confused & alienated its readership audience. As someone who bought NME & Melody Maker on numerous occasions in the late 1980s & early 1990s, I am sad about this. But being blunt, it is nowhere near as good a read as it used to be.
October 25, 200717 yr Ive got the mag for the last Year (On and off) and it hasnt been anywere near as bad as most people have been saying :( I am realy angry :angry: :(
October 25, 200717 yr well i was expecting it really, ive heard its readers have gone a huge percentage and it is always getting a slagging off, i get it occasionly just for reading material and it does tend to just hype up c**p bands like klaxons. i perfer other music mags
October 25, 200717 yr Not before time. It's been a dated concept for years now and they've been drifting further away from their roots for far too long. The whole nu-rave thing effectively WAS the last straw. It was obviously gonna burn itself out within a limited period of time. And putting all of their time and energy into it did them no favours whatsoever.
October 26, 200717 yr i still like NME ... btw , NEW RAVE wasnt a failure if you think (at least) that the klaxons won the mercury prize
October 27, 200717 yr http://web.nme.com/reviews/6834.htm An example of fitting a Feeder gripe in someone elses review.
October 28, 200717 yr i still like NME ... btw , NEW RAVE wasnt a failure if you think (at least) that the klaxons won the mercury prize I didn't say it was a failure. I said it was obviously gonna fade away into obscurity within a limited amount of time. It was a nothing genre, something that NME put shitloads of effort into, just for the sake of pigeon-holing something that really didn't need to be. I doubt 'Nu rave' will still be going so strong this time next year, heck the backlash has already started. And it never was a hit on the underground alternative scene anyway. Bye bye NME.
October 29, 200717 yr As someone who bought NME & Melody Maker on numerous occasions in the late 1980s & early 1990s, I am sad about this. But being blunt, it is nowhere near as good a read as it used to be. That's pretty much the way I feel about it mate. In one sense, NME is an institution, but in another sense it has been rendered completely irrelevant by the Internet and the fact that it has engaged in some absolutely disastrous editorial policy change which saw most of the quality NME journalists totally desert the magazine in an almost biblical-style exodus.... :lol: Melody Maker was another mag that folded after going through a "change" as well... MM changed its format from an "inkie" to a glossy mag, aping the style of Kerrang and featuring many of the same bands Kerrang did. Needless to say, it was a failure, the people who read Kerrang had no intentions of switching, and the people who read MM deserted them.... Seems to me that NME are making the same mistake by their coverage of Emo/Alternative acts....
October 29, 200717 yr 'New rave' was already a 'sort of' underground scene with kids who enjoyed listening to remixed versions of guitar band records e.g. the wonderful Digitalism mix of the Futureheads and also liked fairly far-out clothes. I myself had a neon blue n pink sweater and neon pink trainers thing going 2 and a half years ago. The NME did not invent it, apart from the $h!tty name, rather they jumped on something they had no right to in order to try to create a scene which they'd be at the forefront of. The truth is, very few of the acts gave 'new rave' any time. Bands would openly deny knowing what it was in NME interviews when pressed about the 'scene' and the only ones who would refer to it were bands who'd been recently signed by labels on the basis of being 'new rave'. Their press releases even mentioned it. Oh dear. Not that the NME hadn't done this before. Remember the New Wave of New Wave? Big Beat? 'Shroom Bands? Campag Velocet?
October 29, 200717 yr That's pretty much the way I feel about it mate. In one sense, NME is an institution, but in another sense it has been rendered completely irrelevant by the Internet and the fact that it has engaged in some absolutely disastrous editorial policy change which saw most of the quality NME journalists totally desert the magazine in an almost biblical-style exodus.... :lol: Melody Maker was another mag that folded after going through a "change" as well... MM changed its format from an "inkie" to a glossy mag, aping the style of Kerrang and featuring many of the same bands Kerrang did. Needless to say, it was a failure, the people who read Kerrang had no intentions of switching, and the people who read MM deserted them.... Seems to me that NME are making the same mistake by their coverage of Emo/Alternative acts.... MM was already in terminal decline when they changed format. That was really just a desparate and, ultimately, unsuccessful final attempt to save it. It will be sad if the last weekly music mag goes but the current format is a mess.
October 29, 200717 yr The NME did not invent it, apart from the $h!tty name, rather they jumped on something they had no right to in order to try to create a scene which they'd be at the forefront of. The truth is, very few of the acts gave 'new rave' any time. Bands would openly deny knowing what it was in NME interviews when pressed about the 'scene' and the only ones who would refer to it were bands who'd been recently signed by labels on the basis of being 'new rave'. Their press releases even mentioned it. Oh dear. 100% agree. My original post was relating to the energy that NME put into promoting and pushing nu-rave into the spotlight; as opposed to the actual creation of it.
November 4, 200717 yr Popbitch have made an apology saying that they've been misinformed and there are NO plans for the magazine to close. :cheer: As much as I disagree with a lot of their opinions I'm relieved, it's an interesting read and I get a lot of posters from there too.
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