Really starting to piss me off now at how they seem to have their heads permanetly lodged up the arses of The fuckin Strokes and The Vines!
According to their little survey from "punters at reading/Leeds" the best band by far at the festies was The Strokes and the worst being Prodigy and Real Big Fish! what a fucking surprise you complete tossers!
NME? nah.. THE STROKES MONTHLY!
Shut up about those shit bands! Especially the bloody Vines who they seem to make out as fuckin gods whilst really they are pants.
phew. sorry bout that guys. just bought the NME you see and it's vexed me just a tad...
..just notice that! Read through the reviews of almost EVERY band who played Reading and yes "The Strokes" are mentioned..
hahahaaaaaaaa..
get this..
just read the Foos review and.. I qoute..
"...The Strokes with muscles..."
hahahahaa..
whos up for all gettin together and sending offensive yet constructive emails to our friends at "THE Strokes Monthly" aka NME?
...I couldn't find a review of The Parkinsons who rocked way harder than anyone else I saw. Mind you, NME is more concerned with what the bands are wearing, and the Parkinsons are down to bare chests and black jeans by the end of the first song, so there's no fashion-writing to be done by NME scribes...
Oddly, I missed the Strokes and the Vines (curry and lager were calling me) - were they as average as I imagined?
the strokes were shockingly ordinary..they don't live up to the hype and were my only disapointment of the weekend....i'm now convinced that Pulp and Janes Addiction should both have headlined above the strokes as 1) they're both very established, 2) they have a lot of material 3) they're well known for good live shows. The strokes on have 1 album which is good to listen to, but converted the live arena couldn't live the hype, they're very arrogant and half of the hype has just been built up by cunts like NME and Jo Whiley who think they're the best thing since sliced bread..but i feel this is mroe to do with the strokes image than they're music...real kind of anal very pretentious aren't we cool sort of thing...anyway thats enough of a rant
i read all the reviews of bands at reading on the NME webaite that i cud and agreed with none of them. It irritates me soooooo much. this is gonna be a ramble but here goes. Melody maker was a much better magazine than NME. It catered to more left-feild of music and was more open to the dance, hiphop, metal, rock and what ever else scene it obviously also catered for the indie fans...but it was always good at ignoring the shite stuff ie.e uk garage and judged a band on ability and not image. Consequently because it was dedicated to the music....and tried to cover allsorts it ended up competeing with specialist mags like DJ mag, kerrang, source, jazz review etc etc....i'm a hiphop fan and so i would plum for source mag or hiphop conection instead of melody maker. so they go bust..damm shame. NME think "oh crap meolody were too individual..we better stick to the more centre ground and only have a little bit of underground stuff, also if we go for image over content we're bound to survuve" and so NME start licking the arse of jiggy rap, numetal and uk garage...they also start slagging off the old main stays like blur and oasis as they're no longer image based enough..and anything that was too extreme dillenger, aphex twin etc we'll just say they're pointless and constantly slag them off. then along come the stokes....."oh great" say NME don't they look good...lets suck they're dicks even though they're shit.....i'm bored but you get the point
...there's not much competition for the NME. Kerrang is very partisan (metal and more metal) so, if you want general music information (what's being released, who's touring etc) then the NME is the only option.
I'm guessing from people's posts here that most visitors to this site are pretty broad-minded in their musical tastes, which is always nice to see.
So where is the weekly catering for people that want information on a wide range of stuff? It's the NME or nothing, which makes their stance on the Strokes/Vines etc all the more disappointing as they don't need to hype stuff when they've no real competitors.
We could of course ignore the (sometimes) stoopid magazines and enjoy the the thing that matters, the music, it speaks for its self. Music is a personal thing, and someone (full of someones) in NME obviosly cannot see how anyone cannot like the Strokes, and may find it downright offesive.
But I do agree, NME can kiss my Stroke(s), and I hope they stop brown-nosing them soon before there's NO WAY BACK!!!!
I thought Reel Big Fish were really good actually, although being of the midget brigade I couldn't see them...
This may be a dumb question, but do they still make Melody Maker?!
it was crap,even worse than the glasto review issue in june,which is saying something.
i actually wondered if they had seen the same festival i had?!
the strokes,best band of the weekend?????
ok janes addiction were shite but at least they put some sort of show on.the strokes only need to look at the white stripes & the hives to see how to work with limited material.
as for the vines they just happen to be the worst sort of grunge cover band that weighed us all down in the early 90's.
the reviews were poor & no sense of how fun it was came over at all,it just read if those there watched the bands from backstage.
sad thing is nme is the last weekly paper that does give you a update on a weekly basis.
just dont buy it every week.
you could always listen to radio or internet sites and sample a bit of everything thats going on, maybe go some gigs and wallow in back issues of Sounds and, above all, give NME NONE of your delightful money.
Or buy a crappy rag and moan about it.
the Parkinsons were rather good, by the way
what d'you mean "lack of material" when talking about the white stripes... they have 3 albums with a 4th imminent! please don't tar them with the same strokes brush, they sound nothing like them!! sorry if i have totally misinterpreted your message...