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What the fucks happened to kerrang........its full of bilge like Kelly and Avril...2 of the most dire women ever to enter a recording studio..........
METALLICA | 17 Jul '03, 10:37 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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They try not to cover Avril but they justify writing about kelly osborne as they say she has a "rock attitude". fuck that just a spoiled rich kid who has been given everything on a plate. it annoys me that they claim to be pop-punk and yet they cover a geneticly cloned boy-band every week, eg. the all american rejects this week.
danmiffy | 17 Jul '03, 12:10 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I remember kerrang when it was a metal mag........Kelly osbourne is a talentless bitch, shes got where she is thanks to her equally talentless father, who is a complete embarresment.....
METALLICA | 17 Jul '03, 12:57 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Kerrang hasn't written about metal for about 4 years now.
grindgodgrind | 17 Jul '03, 13:50 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Kerrang- magazine and channel have totally sold out. You watch- next week, Avril Lavigne will be on the front cover!
forbidden_snowflake | 17 Jul '03, 20:07 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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to be fair, the music channel can only play bands who can afford videos and for some reason has to gloss the top surface to please the most people as possible.
sean | 22 Jul '03, 10:45 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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are you only now noticing what bilge Kerrang is?
Noon | 18 Jul '03, 01:44 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Are you talking to me? No, i'm not just noticing how crap it is, i stopped watching it when they put Avril Lavigne "Sk8er Boi" on the playlist.
forbidden_snowflake | 18 Jul '03, 21:14 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Scuzz is a much better channel...but think this is only available on Sky.....
METALLICA | 21 Jul '03, 17:51 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Yeah.Totally agree.But p-rock's kinda cool too.
forbidden_snowflake | 21 Jul '03, 18:36 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Sorry to butt in but...
Kerrang sold out long ago when they realised they couldn't cut it as a stand-alone metal magazine.
They diversified into Nu metal,Punk and even Pop some time ago.
P rock was started by Lol of Moonska and was initially grabbed a load of the Kerrang tv audience ( I believe some 20%) it lost credibility when they blatantly started to use it as a medium to plug their own label.
Scuzz is a different animal altogether. Far from being an independent channel, it's part of the Sky business and funded by Sky. They don't advertise it as such as the image would suffer.
As for the attack by the poster on ozzie... At least he didn't go through a "Country and Western period" like some.
I saw Mettallica ( sorry Everest! ) at Donnington and didn't think they were that great. All the hype and adoration is just a case of "The Emporer's New Clothes"
dustysurfer | 22 Jul '03, 11:31 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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no, I wasn't talking to you, I was responding to METALICA's orginal post, not that it really matters this being a posting board and all, and everyone having the God given right to jump in whenever and wherever they like...it was my first post here, and I was, shall we say, worse for the wear at the time, so I probably posted wrong...not that that matters either...

Off the point I know, but as to darling Avril...one has to wonder how anyone manages to attain any 'standing' in the pop music world w/o having heard of David Bowie, as she so glibly proved after her now infamous flub/diss on national TV...my mind equates it with an up 'n' coming blues guitarist never having heard of Stevie Ray, truly remarkable...I suppose it's par for the course really, such is the vacuous pop music machine these days and small wonder as well that radio wondergirl's work reflects it...then again, maybe it's all because she's about 6 minutes old, then again, who cares...
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 22 Jul '03, 13:23 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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''my mind equates it with an up 'n' coming blues guitarist never having heard of Stevie Ray, truly remarkable''

Stevie Ray should be desecrated though. The Icky Line got him good and proper didn't they?
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 22 Jul '03, 13:27 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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"Stevie Ray should be desecrated though. The Icky Line got him good and proper didn't they?"

hmmm...if memory serves he Was desecrated good and proper back in 1990, no wait, oops, my bad, I mean incinerated...

Not being a blues fan I've really no real opinion on SRV beyond he was capable of playing a memorable gig...caught him a month or so prior to his death and still look back on it as a night well spent, literally and figuratively...but there's a lot of other reasons that account for that beyond any technical skill he possessed, which I'll spare relating to you all since I'm such a magnanimous soul...

...and as to Icky? My only opinion is Aaron's next stop would have been the nearest pawn shop.
Noon | 22 Jul '03, 21:38 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I like the way you think........
METALLICA | 22 Jul '03, 14:05 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Ohhh! OK. thought you were talking to me.
forbidden_snowflake | 24 Jul '03, 17:42 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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i love kerrang
its amazing
ilovetyson | 11 Aug '03, 14:38 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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What is Kerrang's circulation? - I can't help but think that it sells a damn-sight more than the NME....
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 11 Aug '03, 15:39 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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it does indeed
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 11 Aug '03, 16:18 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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not as much as you think,
last year kerrang sold on average 85,000 per week
while nme sold 72,000
danmiffy | 11 Aug '03, 18:53 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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the plus points though is that the lack of good weekly music magazines certainly helps the popularity of web zines such as DIS.
danmiffy | 11 Aug '03, 18:56 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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This is true.
I don't half miss decent weekly music magazines though.

The last time I've bought NME I felt so cheated by the lack of space devoted to actual reviews when compared to adverts I swore never to buy it again. The next time I bought it, exactly the same thing happened...

By the way, is it just my imagination or has Kerrang(!) stopped championing new British talent the way it did in the early and mid nineties?
Teepee_uk | 12 Aug '03, 09:55 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Kerrang used to be good but I listen to Scuzz now, I used to listen to P-rock but its gone!! :'( It was a really good channel.
benjitude | 16 Aug '03, 09:49 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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here you go here's the latest stats - Seems Kerrnag is blowing it but not as much as Rocksound !

First fig is last years Jan-June, second fig is this year's Jan-June, third fig is % change.

Classic Rock: 40,271 - 43,545 : +12.9
Kerrang!: 84,173 - 70,361 : -16.2
Metal Hammer: 44,070 - 35,876 : -18.6
Mixmag: 74,070 - 53,212 : -28.2
Mojo: 100,138 - 103,654 : +3.5
NME: 72,057 - 72,443 : +0.5
Q: 160,950 - 172,557 : +7.2
Rock Sound: 32,074 - 23,043 : -28.2
Smash Hits: 145,149 - 150,042 : +3.4
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 16 Aug '03, 11:56 | Send note | Report this | Reply