Are NME the worst Music Reviewers ever?
>>60713446
>>60713519
I mean obviously AM is a far greater musical achievement than Laughing Stock, right??
http://www.nme.com/photos/nme-s-100-most-influential-artists-50-1/346061/1/1#50
Yes
probably some of the worst professionals
>>60713446
>>60713519
At least they didn't go full poptimist and white guilt cluck like p4k yet
>>60713446
oh noes, muh /mu/core!!!!!!!!111!
>>60713519
> Their peak is yet to come
Is this guy fucking Merlin or something? Cut the fortune teller shit.
>>60713519
This is just pathetic.
>>60713672
Laughing Stock is one the best albums of all time. Don't post if you don't know shit about music.
>>60713519
Not worse than pitchfork's Kanye review
>>60713627
embarrassing
>>60713710
oh noes, muh /mu/core!!!!!!11!!!
>>60713627
This is the worst thing I've ever seen. The XX at 10...
>>60713775
Forget /mu/, Laughing Stock is fucking incredible regardless and any decent music reviewer should be able to see that
http://www.nme.com/reviews/autechre/6602
yes
The thing you need to realise with NME is that they gain an awful lot from their audience being in the dark when it comes to musical knowledge.
So from around 2003 to now, NME has been about maintaining a hierarchy where they deliberately promote bands that they can own (really mediocre bands), and then hype these really mediocre bands to enormous lengths all the while knowing they can't possibly make a second album that can compete with that level of hype.
Then like eight months later they tear those bands down with a five or six out of ten review to prove their readers that they're the intellectuals. Unless those bands give something to NME (like a fucking promotional 7"!!!) to slap on their magazine for free.
They're essentially playing the same game as P4K except with a much smaller ball park.
>>60713627
>the gun club at seven
nice desu
>>60713926
That's hilarious. What are some of these NME-core bands?
>>60714210
All looks pretty /mu/ to me.
http://www.nme.com/photos/25-best-albums-of-the-decade-so-far/365404
>>60713627
Does a more reddit tier list exist?
>>60713519
>peak has yet to come
>still growing, still fine-tuning, still learning
>literally closes with the words "near perfection"
>perfect score
>>60713519
>literally not a single word about the music
>>60713926
They've been like that since the 90s with their build them up-knock them down mentality.
Despite this, you're absoloutely right. The real down turn though was when Connor McNicholas became editor in 2002. That guy is a cunt and destroyed what was left of the mag's credibility.
>>60713519
Came here to post this.
Side note, that album isn't as bad as we make it out to be, solid 6 or 7, but that review is cringe.
>>60714252
>http://www.nme.com/photos/25-best-albums-of-the-decade-so-far/365404
At least half of those are hated here. Some of it is definitely /mu/-core though.
>>60714210
NME-core is kind of an odd statement, since no one remembers any of the bands NME throws under a bus and even NME won't admit to it.
But a quick reference list
The Twang
Hadouken
Does it Offend you, yeah?
The Gallows
The Enemy
god I can't actually remember but there are a lot of band that have been hyped to a ridiculous degree over the years by NME and they're all garbage.
It's weird because when NME do now and again branch out to give their readers something new and exciting, its fucking revolutionary to their readers. They do like a three page spread on Fucked Up once and I was just getting into broader types of music at the time (I was around 14) so they were like the coolest thing to me.
These days I know that Fucked Up are the most boring and safe hardcore band going but because of this reluctance that the NME has for giving their naive young readers any interesting music, I spent like two years buying shitty Fucked Up albums without knowing that something like Black Flag or Minor Threat existed.
>>60714444
I fucking hate that cunt.
I still remember his smug expression when doing a retrospective on the last Libertines album (bout two years after it had been released it was being treated like an abosultely canonical album)...ugh..
>>60714593
Everything is hated here.
This thread just proves /mu/ is filled with Amerifats biased against British sites and music
>>60714707
Its an American website with mostly American users, this is why there is 20 rap threads and only one ''electronic'' thread.
>>60714707
>Trying to start shit
>>60713627
>Tame Impala more influential than Led Zeppelin
>>60713446
Any site that attempts to quantify pop music shouldn't be worth anybody's time. You kids are retarded.
>>60714651
Palma Violets as well pretty generic british indie rock but it was hyped like it was the best thing coming out from the last decade
