[Music] RIP NME Weekly Print Edition

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

'NME magazine to end print edition after 66 years'

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/news/nme-magazine-end-print-edition-66-years/

*sigh*

Required Thursday morning reading during our formative punk years. Or as a rare late-night treat on Wednesday nights from the newspaper shack outside Victoria station following a gig before catching the train back to BN1.

Melody Maker was for earnest students who wanted to read a thesis on empty pomp rock. Sounds was with honourable exceptions (Jane Suck, Dave McCullough) for dafter younger brothers. But NME hit that sweet spot between 1976 and 1979.

RIP NME

 

[The Gem]

'NME magazine to end print edition after 66 years'

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/news/nme-magazine-end-print-edition-66-years/

*sigh*

Required Thursday morning reading during our formative punk years. Or as a rare late-night treat on Wednesday nights from the newspaper shack outside Victoria station following a gig before catching the train back to BN1.

Melody Maker was for earnest students who wanted to read a thesis on empty pomp rock. Sounds was with honourable exceptions (Jane Suck, Dave McCullough) for dafter younger brothers. But NME hit that sweet spot between 1976 and 1979.

RIP NME

Loved that mag back in the day.

 

[1234andcounting]

Charles Shaar Murray, Nick Kent, Julie Burchill, Danny Baker - your boys took one hell of a beating.

Read it devotedly throughout the 70s and much of the 80s. Required reading back then. Brilliant in depth interviews with all the greats. Another bit of my past bites the dust.

 

[spring hall convert]

Put out of its misery.

They totally ****ed up, if they'd come up with a decent internet offering in the late 90's/ early 00's when Pitchfork started to get going they could have been top dog rather than a free paper more concerned with flogging hair-gel than any serious music journalism as it has been for the last two and a half years of existence.

 

[dolphins]

In its day, was excellent and would buy a copy each week. Suspect it was hoping for an Evening Standard-esque revival becoming free, but its limited distribution I think was the problem. The content seemed to become a shadow of its former self, and what kids are going to be that interested in a print music mag these days with the way music is "consumed" by that demographic?

 

[Worried Man Blues]

Another 70s reader, remember those one liners at the back, prog rules, far out man..................

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Put out of its misery.

They totally ****ed up, if they'd come up with a decent internet offering in the late 90's/ early 00's when Pitchfork started to get going they could have been top dog rather than a free paper more concerned with flogging hair-gel than any serious music journalism as it has been for the last two and a half years of existence.

Think they ***ed up long before then. In the 80's they had neither the music to write about nor the writers capable of polishing a turd.

 

[spring hall convert]

Think they ***ed up long before then. In the 80's they had neither the music to write about nor the writers capable of polishing a turd.

It was still selling plenty in the early to mid 00's.

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[The Sock of Poskett]

Certainly had its moments, as did Melody Maker to be fair (and I was partial to a bit of prog in its pomp).
Record Collector's the mag for me these days, along with other middle-aged vinyl vultures. At least they print some of my gig reviews ...

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

It was still selling plenty in the early to mid 00's

Britpop did give NME a second lease of life to be fair. Dog days were the eighties.

 

[Pevenseagull]

Put out of its misery.

They totally ****ed up, if they'd come up with a decent internet offering in the late 90's/ early 00's when Pitchfork started to get going they could have been top dog rather than a free paper more concerned with flogging hair-gel than any serious music journalism as it has been for the last two and a half years of existence.

Spot on ...
It utterly died on it's arse a decade or so ..... amazed it was still going.
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Next time Julie comes in the pub I'll buy her a drink.

 

[spring hall convert]

Spot on ...
It utterly died on it's arse a decade or so ..... amazed it was still going.
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Next time Julie comes in the pub I'll buy her a drink.

Without wanting to come across all city boy, the brand must have been worth a fair bit as recently as 10-15 years ago.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

The Xmas double size issue was always a must-buy even in the later stages of decline while they could still rope in motormouths like Mark E Smith and Shaun Ryder, lock them in a room and just ply them with stuff with the recording devices of the day running. Guaranteed 4-6 pages of massively entertaining transcript right there.

 

[jakarta]

So much is now online, why would you bother with print media?

As an aside really looking forward to Friday Nights BBC4 Minimalist Evening, I'm a big fan of Philip Glass & Steve Reich, hoping they will have a bit of Brian Eno & the Krautrockers of the 1970's as well.

For example...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubdHYhnersU&list=PLwR9whaosec_tkR5ADPSyl2S8d8JoP38L&index=1

 

[pearl]

Think they ***ed up long before then. In the 80's they had neither the music to write about nor the writers capable of polishing a turd.

I stopped reading it about 30 years ago when they kept repeating stuff week after week.

(I could never get my head around Melody Maker .... hippy brother used to get that)

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

Essential reading on the train to School in the early 60's.

They ran an awards show at the Wembley Arena every year and my mate Steve and I managed to get tickets for two, maybe three years running.

Everybody who was anybody in the 60's was on that show, Beatles, Cliff Richard, Rolling Stones, all the Liverpool bands, the Hollies, Adam faith, Joe Brown, Dave Clark Five, Dusty Springfield, Cilla Black and many more

And loads from the States came over; Roy Orbison, Del Shannon, Andy Williams, Perry Como, just about everyone except Elvis.

Steve and I saw the lot. Great days.

 

[Official Old Man]

I was a Sounds reader myself and got a feeling I've still got around 100 issues in the loft, next to the 1970/80's Albion cuttings.

 

[studio150]

Melody Maker poll winners 1977, makes interesting reading with Punk/new Wave just starting to make an impression but still dominated by prog

 

[Eric Potts]

The first NME i ever bought . Mid '76 . Bought it every week for the next 10 years or so , and then we just drifted apart , apart from the occasional one night stand , for old times sake : It was never the same though.

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

It was handy for ordering break through singles of punk bands and imports from the ads in the back pages

Something you often couldn't find in local record shops