New NME Article - very interesting

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  • wash_
    wash_ Posts: 1,073
    Not sure whether to read this article or not...do I need more hatred to that mag or not?!
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  • Housing Jim
    Housing Jim Posts: 644
    Like someone else said NME have never been big Pearl Jam fans.

    It's a shame that Melody Maker folded as they did give Pearl Jam a lot of coverage back in the 90s, many covers and some really good articles.
    A democracy on paper, apparently well ordered, regularly subverted by irrational chaos.

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  • False_Belief
    False_Belief Cardiff Posts: 763
    It's a really positive piece actually - I was incredibly surprised. They're portrayed as 'the last men standing' of that era, and the writer comes across as a fan who actually knows a little bit about what they've been up to since Ten!! It starts off by saying (and I'm paraphrasing here, as I don't have the article in front of me) that 'they're a band that readers who won't even bother reading this article would enjoy'.

    I'm pretty sure the Kurt quote came from Jeff though.

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  • False_Belief
    False_Belief Cardiff Posts: 763
    Housing Jim wrote:
    Like someone else said NME have never been big Pearl Jam fans.

    It's a shame that Melody Maker folded as they did give Pearl Jam a lot of coverage back in the 90s, many covers and some really good articles.

    The NME were really positive in their reviews of Yield, Binaural and Riot Act though - they all scored highly.

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  • False_Belief
    False_Belief Cardiff Posts: 763
    False_Belief wrote:
    It's a really positive piece actually - I was incredibly surprised. They're portrayed as 'the last men standing' of that era, and the writer comes across as a fan who actually knows a little bit about what they've been up to since Ten!! It starts off by saying (and I'm paraphrasing here, as I don't have the article in front of me) that 'they're a band that readers who won't even bother reading this article would enjoy'.

    I'm pretty sure the Kurt quote came from Jeff though.

    That'll teach me for ignoring an entire page of postings before jumping in with my $0.02 :roll:

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  • jrd
    jrd Posts: 3,060
    dunkman wrote:

    fucking hopeless journalism... i'l probably still buy it though

    good man, now bring it to Manchester so us tightwads can read it too...! :oops: ;)
    Oh yeah? Well, I've had about enough of morons and halfwits, dolts, dunces, dullards and dumbbells - and you chowderhead yokel, you blithering hayseed, you - you've had enough of me?
  • False_Belief
    False_Belief Cardiff Posts: 763
    jrd wrote:
    dunkman wrote:

    fucking hopeless journalism... i'l probably still buy it though

    good man, now bring it to Manchester so us tightwads can read it too...! :oops: ;)

    WH Smiths at lunchtime is the only way to read that rag ;)

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  • pdalowsky
    pdalowsky Doncaster,UK Posts: 15,259
    Why the fuck should they give a shit what Kurt thought anyway?

    I mean why would that be such a bad thing.

    I think its kinda refreshing they wouldnt hang on the words of a junkie who thought nothing of blowing his head off when he had a two year old daughter.

    Nirvana were good, but only revered when the guy shot himself. Its pathetic. Sure many of you will love them, but the worship over Kurt Cobain is pathetic.
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    jrd wrote:
    dunkman wrote:

    fucking hopeless journalism... i'l probably still buy it though

    good man, now bring it to Manchester so us tightwads can read it too...! :oops: ;)


    no.






    ;)
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • notforconsumption
    notforconsumption Posts: 116
    NME and Uncut are published by the same company and i think they try to differentiate their readers so that 16 year olds buy NME until they grow a bit older and start buying Uncut.
  • wash_
    wash_ Posts: 1,073
    Well, bought the rag...interesting. It does seem a bit forced on NME's part to lay the past to rest. But, it's positive to the band so i'm pretty pleased with it.

    I did laugh when they wrote about how Jeff ran after NME's taxi to give them a copy of Deranged Diction's record!!!! Good ol Jeff never stops putting out!! :lol:
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  • mfc2006
    mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,491
    can we read this anywhere online?
    I LOVE MUSIC.
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  • i shit and i stink
    i shit and i stink Posts: 1,122
    Nirvana haven't released anything in ages, have they?
    we're all going to the same place...
  • i shit and i stink
    i shit and i stink Posts: 1,122
    I did flirt with buying this the other day but then I saw the bands they raved about in there were called stuff like Dogpoo Coefficient, Rent The Urn, Wobblemongle and so on... then I remembered that even when I was stoned and vacant at uni the only interesting bit was doing the crossword whilst we waited for 15 to 1 to start. It's basically the muso equivalent of 'shoot' magazine.

    Mind you, I seen to remember a quite positive review of Light Years.
    we're all going to the same place...
  • happy_larry
    happy_larry Posts: 221
    I bought it and was really disapointed with it. All they seemed to want to do was talk about Kurt Cobain. FFS, the guy was an idiot, he shot himself, get over it. What the hell have PJ got to do with them anyway? If you want to write a nice peice on the 'tragedy' of Kurt's life then fine but in an interview with Pearl Jam I want to read about Pearl Jam. Why is it that every article I read about Pearl Jam has to bang on about Kurt Cobain and Nirvana? Ok they were from the same city and era but if I read something about the Beatles it's unual to read about The Stones or The Who in such detail in the same article. So why are PJ and Nirvana unseparable, its not like they were all that similar musically or even friends. Yes Kurt slagged of PJ but they weren't the only band he didn't like. To me it just felt that it was only a small portion of the article was actually anything to do with their chat with the guys.

    I just long for the day when I can read about PJ and not have to read about Nirvana at the same time.

    That's the NME for you I suppose

    Rant over, thanks for listening!
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  • blondieblue227
    blondieblue227 Va, USA Posts: 4,509
    The Nirvana/Pearl Jam link will never die huh.

    Why didn’t Kurt get help for his shit? Or go to an isolated island to get away from it all?

    I don’t expect an answer, I’m just saying.


    thanks for summing up the crappy article.
    *~Pearl Jam will be blasted from speakers until morale improves~*

  • wash_
    wash_ Posts: 1,073
    As I have bugger all to do tonight, I'll type up the article. It's not nearly as negative as some people think.
    2006 ░▒▓ Astoria, Dublin, Leeds, Reading, Lisbon, Paris, Verona, Athens
    2007 ░▒▓ London, Dusseldorf, Copenhagen, Nijmegen
    2009 ░▒▓ Manchester, London
    2010 ░▒▓ Hyde Park

    *§* Music is all the juice i'll need *§*
  • mfc2006
    mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,491
    wash_ wrote:
    As I have bugger all to do tonight, I'll type up the article. It's not nearly as negative as some people think.

    thanks, wash!! 8-)
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  • wash_
    wash_ Posts: 1,073
    mfc2006 wrote:
    wash_ wrote:
    As I have bugger all to do tonight, I'll type up the article. It's not nearly as negative as some people think.

    thanks, wash!! 8-)

    Just trying to upload a scan, which might work. If it doesn't, then I'll type it up!
    2006 ░▒▓ Astoria, Dublin, Leeds, Reading, Lisbon, Paris, Verona, Athens
    2007 ░▒▓ London, Dusseldorf, Copenhagen, Nijmegen
    2009 ░▒▓ Manchester, London
    2010 ░▒▓ Hyde Park

    *§* Music is all the juice i'll need *§*
  • wash_
    wash_ Posts: 1,073
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    2010 ░▒▓ Hyde Park

    *§* Music is all the juice i'll need *§*

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