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davidt
on Tuesday June 03 2003, @09:30AM
austere writes:
Just read this: Smiths special supplement free with this week's NME! - NME.com "Calling all SMITHS fans - look out for this week's issue of NME, which features a special supplement devoted to the legendary band. The Smiths special will feature a host of nuggets from the NME archives, including a classic interview, every album review and a look back at the letters Morrissey wrote to the papers a music fan in the 70s, before he became one of the most popular cover stars in NME's history. We also have a look at classic Smiths iconography, get the stars' opinions on the band, find out what NME.COM readers' 20 favourite Smiths songs are, and give away posters!" Sounds wonderful.
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Good mag (Score:1, Informative)
The highlights are the 1985 NME interview with Morrissey by Danny Kelly and the article by Sylvia Patterson about what difference The Smiths DID make (there's a funny story about meeting Morrissey in a pub in Camden too).
I know it's the NME but it's worth £1.60, if only for this week only...
Top 20 (Score:0)
Re:NME.com Smiths Top 20 (Score:2, Informative)
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Buy abroad (Score:0)
Re:Buy abroad (Score:2, Informative)
Hope that helps.
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Poster? What! (Score:0)
Sodd the bloody NME!! (Score:1)
Will I go out and buy the NME for the Smiths supplement? Yeah, I'm a fan but, unlike them, I'm a TRUE fan in it for the music not for the money or how many issues they'll sell by printing LIES!
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NME is for people who have no interest in music (Score:0)
Help. (Score:1)
If someone can get me a copy, I pay for it and shipping and handling.
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Scans Forthcoming (Score:0)
will post them on the discussion board.
or discussion bored, thanks to mozzerian.
xx
Stars Opinions (Score:1)
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dial a cliche (Score:0)
The opening page has a photo of some berk in what is supposed to be a funny BEFORE and AFTER pose where before the Smiths he eats big macs and drinks lager and after listening to the Smiths he reads Oscar Wilde and sticks flowers out of his back pocket. HOW PATRONISING!
This kind of shit does a disservice to what it is to like The Smiths and Morrissey and panders to the usual stereotype.
Smash Hits In A Trenchcoat (Score:1)
The group would be much better served by one of those NME compilation mags, when at least the writers had passion and a modicum of intelligence.
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Special 20th Anniversary Souvenir! (Score:1)
It is so easy to forget now, but back in the mid-80's Morrissey was messianic figure, and many people like me, waited with bated breath for his Epistle to be printed to his apostles every week in the NME! God be with the days!
Like many people in here, I haven't bought the NME in years. But quickly scanning the articles about bands I've never heard of; pages of abundant advertising filler (does Richard Fucking Branson own The Enemy? He must have, as Virgin Megastores and Mobile have 4 full pages of advertising combined); plus all that ringtone nonsense; one realises what a seriously dumbed down society we have become over the past few years. How could anyone buy this rubbish on a WEEKLY basis?
At the risk of sounding like an old fogey, the glory days of NME are long gone. When it was a fortress for the hip swinging, gun toting, smart alec, sophisticated personae of journos like Tony Parsons, Nick Kent and Julie Burchill, readers were THEN actually literate and literary. Smart to Patti Smith and The New York Dolls like Our Steven Patrick - who actually wanted a career with them reviewing gigs and singles after leaving school - readers wanted their intelligence to be complimented rather than insulted like it is nowadays.
Reading the NME in the 70's/80's was almost like booking a table weekly at the famous Algonquin hotel in Manhattan, and being superbly entertained by the savage caustic wit of Dorothy Parker and Charles Kaufmann.
Reduced in size, with fewer polysyllabic words, and it's slimey silvery scratchcard, it's a pathetic shadow of it's former self.
Nowadays it is just The Daily Sport, for illiterate musos and bored teenagers who like looking at pictures while they're waiting to receive their next text message.
Text messages without vowels that is. With syllables reduced, vowels dropped, there will come a point where we will just drop words altogether, at which point the NME will be published with full blown pictures of gigs of the week only.
As we'll all be reduced to communicating by sign language, many will have their redundant vocal cords surgically removed in order to assist the evolution of the mute human species and The Smiths with their higly articulate, literate and literary front person will be just a very distant memory.
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