if I picked up the NME.

The best thing is not to look at it in the first place, and read something with better writing, such as Shoot or the Beano instead.

2000 it covered such lumaniries as

'Ten Benson'
'Godspeed' (on cover)
'V/fm'

And many others, at one point I actually thought, it's getting a bit obscure here, but the free cd's, oh... Them were the days. In those days they would put on avariety of music from drill n bass to rap to all sorts because there was no scene

But they are not haoopy with the hardcore so they need a scene, then when they get anything that might be one

SMACK!

In your fucking face, non-stop, then the bandhoppers startcoming in (view etc) duering the zenith, but I've still got loads of the old cd's so they can;t take away the memories

Once the War of the Roses was over, it just detoriorated, little over 500 years later and it was covering Blur v Oasis. :(

"Since the invention of youth culture in the 1960s, each generation of British teenagers has grown up feeling that they owned NME and the bands inside. It is a fairly intense and obsessive relationship that tends to end with a messy split over musical differences around the age of 25. Former readers then become like embittered ex-spouses, forever recalling a rose-tinted Golden Age of rock journalism."

Pretty much sums it up

It really was absolutely essential reading for me from '74 to about '83. Genuinely subversive, passionate writers who actually gave a toss about music and not just their careers. Still good until the late 90s IMO. The problem nowadays is that the press, whether online or in print, are up the arses of musicians way more than they used to be, which means you get very boring interviews and reviews. Has to be that way or the artists won't speak to 'em, simply communicating via their website.

...and now they are going down the pan.

Hahaha, pure justice.

That is all.

Uncut. And Plan B supposed to be good

mainstream mags i have a certain respect for uncut - plenty of well-written stuff about the 'classic' bands i'm into - replacements, afghan whigs, alt-country, neil young, dylan, smiths etc.
is it not published by the same people that do the nme though???

You have to get it imported from America though....other then that...no

is laughably bad in terms of content and editing.
What I find really idiotic about it is the complete hpocrisy from one page to the next.
On the one hand they hate anything commercial and then you turn the page and they have an advert for topman/hair gel/iphone/whatever.

honestly :)