NME declares Thrash height of post modern cool

  1. avatar thecunnyfunt
    Mon 23rd Jul 2007, 11:07 am

    theyre probably touring some nouveau-thrash bands next year, so they have to start telling the flock to like so they can make more neo-dollar. i cannot wait for the first trendy nme type thrash band

    new young fat metal head club?

  2. avatar T Entertainment
    Mon 23rd Jul 2007, 11:10 am

    The sheer level of ignorance about the actual nature of thrash metal, the vacuity and the gushing, Barley-esque, patronising tone makes me want to boke.

    Last edited on Mon 23rd Jul 2007, 11:25 am, 1 times in total.
  3. avatar nonlogic liam
    Mon 23rd Jul 2007, 11:15 am

    That article is badly written and quite frankly full of shit. On the plus side though I really hope there is a resurgence of Trash as some of that early stuff was fantastic. I have never trusted the NME after they told me the Long Pigs were the best band since the Smiths and I went and bought their record and it sucked and the guy in Buncrana music centre refused to give me a refund because I played it once. Fuc you NME.

  4. avatar The Fires of Hell
    Mon 23rd Jul 2007, 11:39 am

    Disgusting.

    That smug, gormless scene setting makes me want to gnaw my own foot off at the craven liberties they take. I am truly sorry for twats that feel able to write copy like that. F88k them and their desperate, aching need to own.

    You cant. It's ours.

  5. avatar barrypeak
    Mon 23rd Jul 2007, 11:53 am

    anyone see the mtv2 specials over the weekend on emo?

    i hope all this exposure makes thrash as popular.

    there's gonna be alot of very tight black jeans and big white basketball boots in top man before too long.

    caught in a mosh! wha?

  6. avatar T Entertainment
    Mon 23rd Jul 2007, 11:54 am

    I'm already working on my explosives vest.

  7. avatar gl2200
    Mon 23rd Jul 2007, 1:21 pm

    I eagerly await Anthrax trying to cash in on this alleged new resurgence of interest in the thrash scene and then getting gobbed off stage in Bangor leisure centre. Again.


    _____

    I refuse to get even slightly irritated by anything the NME says or does. It just ain't worth the candle.

  8. avatar The Donk
    Mon 23rd Jul 2007, 1:43 pm

    does this mean i can dig out my old bullet belt and HI-Tec moon boots and feel part of the 'scene'???

  9. avatar I'mDead
    Mon 23rd Jul 2007, 2:12 pm

    gl2200 wrote:
    "I eagerly await Anthrax trying to cash in on this alleged new resurgence of interest in the thrash scene and then getting gobbed off stage in Bangor leisure centre. Again."

    laugh

    Classic - Poor Joey Belladonna's perm absolutely soaked with phlegm. Jason Newsted was man enough to take it at the Antrim Forum the year before!

  10. avatar Mickeycolensoparade
    Mon 23rd Jul 2007, 5:02 pm

    Is it cool to hate nme, or cool to like it, or cool to hate it and still read it?

    There's only one solution... indifference

  11. avatar 3cigarettes
    Mon 23rd Jul 2007, 5:30 pm

    It has nothing to do with being cool.

    Why does criticising something have be seen as "cool or uncool". Why not just take people's opinions for what they are instead of bracketing people into dumb labels of implied desire to be cool or not.

    That's not a dig at you mate, it's a dig at the mentality of people that percieve anyone who mocks the Indie bible's as being deliberately subversive, which is (ironically) just about as hypocritical as it gets. You know who you are.

  12. avatar rigsyATL
    Mon 23rd Jul 2007, 6:09 pm

    i assume that was aimed at me grin

    *shrugs*

    i just think it's become so inevitable that people will slag the NME (and the mercurys, and the klaxons etc etc) it's got pretty boring, is all. it's a perfectly resonable point to make and not really hypocritical at all.

  13. avatar 3cigarettes
    Mon 23rd Jul 2007, 6:26 pm

    And why is it inevitable? Perchance because anyone who's passionate about music dislikes seeing it seized by opportunistic talentless hacks (and no, for once, that one wasn't directed at you. wink )

    I know it must get boring to have to listen to all us crazy luddites who think music is intrinsicly worth something more than a badly written piece in a glossy magazine, or an excuse to hawk your substandard wares on a musically dumbed down populace, but ....tough.

    Opposite sides of the fence I guess. smiley

  14. avatar rigsyATL
    Mon 23rd Jul 2007, 6:52 pm

    it's inevitable because i don't think the mercurys or the NME will ever appeal to most of the people who post on this website. i think the NME is more and more a rag for younger music lovers - it's just next in line after smash hits really and i don't think they even worry about hitting readers older than, say, 21 anymore....which is why i think it's sligthly pointless slagging them off so much.

  15. avatar King Canute
    Mon 23rd Jul 2007, 7:17 pm

    rigsyATL wrote:
    it's inevitable because i don't think the mercurys or the NME will ever appeal to most of the people who post on this website. i think the NME is more and more a rag for younger music lovers - it's just next in line after smash hits really and i don't think they even worry about hitting readers older than, say, 21 anymore....which is why i think it's sligthly pointless slagging them off so much.

    but not slagging it off basically amounts to appeasement and we all saw how that worked out when Nev Chamberlain tried it in 1938.

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