The NME is shite
Nov. 5th, 2003 03:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shermaramaI've never been much of a one for music mags, but recently I have noticed quite how many sub-genre music mags there are out there and boggled. I often go into WHSmith at Liverpool Street whilst waiting for a train and read the ads in the NME, that being about the only
thing the NME's any use for, and the sheer range of other music or quasi-music-lifestyle mags coming out of late is nearly as astonishing as the way they all go totally unnoticed by people whingeing that the NME's shite but there's nothing else.
Anyway. Having a little time to kill recently I've had a flick though as many of them as I can find, pretty much regardless of covers or music genre, just to see what's there. The metal mags are as lame as they always have been, unfortunately, I'll buy Terrorizer now and then but the actual originality quotient in any one issue is negligible - there's a standard way to write about metal and all that changes is who's doing it. I suspect that's true of every
genre but I'm too used to metal. After being variously disgusted with the crassness and triviality of some, and the nose-in-the-air sycophancy and elitism of others, I have found only one that hasn't actively repelled me. Jockey Slut, of all things, appears in danger of having actual content about vaguely interesting stuff whilst having a sense of humour I can appreciate.
So though it caters for genres I wouldn't have said I was particularly into, I'm listening to the cover CD and finding some of the sort of stuff I've always liked but not been quite sure where to find. This seems like a good thing.
thing the NME's any use for, and the sheer range of other music or quasi-music-lifestyle mags coming out of late is nearly as astonishing as the way they all go totally unnoticed by people whingeing that the NME's shite but there's nothing else.
Anyway. Having a little time to kill recently I've had a flick though as many of them as I can find, pretty much regardless of covers or music genre, just to see what's there. The metal mags are as lame as they always have been, unfortunately, I'll buy Terrorizer now and then but the actual originality quotient in any one issue is negligible - there's a standard way to write about metal and all that changes is who's doing it. I suspect that's true of every
genre but I'm too used to metal. After being variously disgusted with the crassness and triviality of some, and the nose-in-the-air sycophancy and elitism of others, I have found only one that hasn't actively repelled me. Jockey Slut, of all things, appears in danger of having actual content about vaguely interesting stuff whilst having a sense of humour I can appreciate.
So though it caters for genres I wouldn't have said I was particularly into, I'm listening to the cover CD and finding some of the sort of stuff I've always liked but not been quite sure where to find. This seems like a good thing.