Old Gold Posted November 22, 2006 Report Share Posted November 22, 2006 does anyone know the actual point of a cool list?????To sell records... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaki Posted November 22, 2006 Report Share Posted November 22, 2006 Erm, I noticed nobody's done this yet :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delboy Posted November 22, 2006 Report Share Posted November 22, 2006 dougie donnerlly is way cooler than any of the imbeciles in that list! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cow tipper Posted November 22, 2006 Report Share Posted November 22, 2006 who the fuck are vincent vincent and the villains? a band who haven't heard a record past 1959.they're quite gud though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TR!ΔNGL€ T€€TH Posted November 22, 2006 Report Share Posted November 22, 2006 does anyone know the actual point of a cool list?????To irritate music snobs like me... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael MacLennan Posted November 22, 2006 Report Share Posted November 22, 2006 does anyone know the actual point of a cool list?????To generate discussion concerning the NME, for one thing... it's the sort of thing that'll be sent via a press release to other media outlets, disseminated via message boards, and it's evidently worked given the four pages on this thread so far... Even if it's negative publicity in some ways (ie because people will say the list is 'rubbish') it still does wonders for brand awareness.I pretty much agree with Mart. It's just a silly little thing to prompt a good discussion, I doubt the journalists at the NME take it seriously, at least not as much so as the fools who go into an apoplectic rage and then feel the need to let their emotions run rampant on an internet message board. Without even getting paid for it, unlike those 'stupid' music journalists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Gold Posted November 22, 2006 Report Share Posted November 22, 2006 To generate discussion concerning the NME, for one thing... it's the sort of thing that'll be sent via a press release to other media outlets, disseminated via message boards, and it's evidently worked given the four pages on this thread so far... Even if it's negative publicity in some ways (ie because people will say the list is 'rubbish') it still does wonders for brand awareness.I very much agree with this. I'm pretty tempted to buy an NME to see their actual reasoning for having the Sun's best mate Pete still in there, and for that matter the rest of their dodgy choices. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delboy Posted November 22, 2006 Report Share Posted November 22, 2006 cos dear old pete still sells papers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Posted November 22, 2006 Report Share Posted November 22, 2006 uhhhh.....it's a fucking joke designed to provoke a reaction and it looks like a lot of you have fallen for it. the horrors are in nme mainly because they are on a label run by one nme's writers.spanisharmada's comment on the girl from the gossip was pretty predictable. ooooh she's fat! pssssh....she's also pretty kick ass!yeah it's trashy having a cool list...that's the point! it's entertainment....music is meant to be entertaining and fun. you guys really need to lighten up.he shooots. he scores Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaki Posted November 22, 2006 Report Share Posted November 22, 2006 It doesn't have to be like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psydoll Posted November 23, 2006 Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 Fudge needs to rip this idea off surely.It's been too long coming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
framheim Posted November 23, 2006 Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 Fudge needs to rip this idea off surely.It's been too long coming.oh god no... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TR!ΔNGL€ T€€TH Posted November 23, 2006 Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 Fudge needs to rip this idea off surely.It's been too long coming.For the love of God no! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bluesxman Posted November 23, 2006 Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 If an overweight girl wearing ill fitting clothes is cool, does that mean half of Union Street on a Friday/Saturday night is cool? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaki Posted November 23, 2006 Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 If an overweight girl wearing ill fitting clothes is cool, does that mean half of Union Street on a Friday/Saturday night is cool?Granite city - cool hotspot. Budz Bar - Top establishment. Justice Mill Lane - Scotland's Soho Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bluesxman Posted November 23, 2006 Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 Granite city - cool hotspot. Budz Bar - Top establishment. Justice Mill Lane - Scotland's SohoI was out in Aberdeen last Friday for a 30th birthday pub crawl and ended up at that end of town for the first time in many moons, usually only in town for gigs these days and rarely venture far from Tunnels or something. I was lost for words.I ended up in Club Tropicana, is that officially a gay bar these days? The evidence I witnessed suggests so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsen B Posted November 23, 2006 Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 From Drowned in Sound:Lily Allen has opened her regularly free-flowing gob - proverbially - on her MySpace page to have a pop at NME and the magazine's editor, the award-winning Conor McNicholas. Allen is angry with the magazine's decision to drop its proposed cover of Allen plus a selection of other female artists - those featured around the top of the magazine's 'Cool List' (click here; Allen was third) - and also with its editor's rather dangerously sexist remark that "you can still rock a crowd when you're wearing stilettos". This week's issue features Muse on the cover, rather than the likes of Allen and 'Cool List' number one Beth Ditto, frontgal with excellent Olympians The Gossip. Allen had fallen out with NME previously, regarding drug-related comments (read the reveal-all interview on Pitchfork), but agreed to contribute to the 'Cool List' article because "the context was so important, i.e. a strong female presence in music". She comments on her latest blog:"Now I don't care for the 'Cool List', and I said this to them in the interview, which is probably why they didn't print it. I don't really think the NME are in any position to tell us who is cool and who isn't; personally I don't think a bunch of people sitting in an office drinking tea, inventing musical genres, and watching Nathan Barley DVDs are leading any kind of cool brigade, do you? But I did find it interesting that they wanted to put five women on the cover, and wanted to name 2006 our year."Which, of course, they didn't. And then there was Conor's comment, a little unwise in hindsight. Says Allen:"I mean how fucking patronising. Is that all we are, stilleto-wearing people? Is that all he could say, that we brought a 'new energy' to the music scene? Don't make me sick. We've always been here, you arrogant prick. This was your chance to actually show you meant it. And instead you put Muse on the cover, 'cause you thought that your readers might not buy a magazine with an overweight lesbian and a not-particularly-attractive-looking me on the front. Wankers. "You should take your heads out of your New Rave arses, and actually think about your responsibilities to youth culture, and to women in general." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DustyDeviada Posted November 23, 2006 Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 Really depends what shape the latex is in and if you've got the va va voom to carry it off. I think the shape I'm in would be more of an issue.As for va-va-voom, I had a Clio a few years ago, does that count? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tam o' Shantie Posted November 23, 2006 Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 Hmmph, a mere slip of a girl. A wee bit extra wouldn't go amiss.I'm pretty sure her doctor would disagree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skull Commander Posted November 23, 2006 Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 Having just read the full piece in the magazine, I can tell you now that the reason for Mike Patton's inclusion is as follows;"Just for the interview he gave backstage at Lollapalooza, which became a YouTube sensation. Increasingly troubled by Wolfmother's retro blurting in the distance, the former Faith No More singer dispensed his own brand of rock justice, gasping "Are you hearing this shit? What year are we in? Forgive me, Wolfmother, but you SUCK!" Legendary."http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r98WLLWMq3oSo, yeah, I'd say he warrants inclusion. Guffaw! Wofmother are indeed no better than the Darkness, and Patton summed it up better than I ever could. Classic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delboy Posted November 23, 2006 Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 From Drowned in Sound:Lily Allen has opened her regularly free-flowing gob - proverbially - on her MySpace page to have a pop at NME and the magazine's editor, the award-winning Conor McNicholas. Allen is angry with the magazine's decision to drop its proposed cover of Allen plus a selection of other female artists - those featured around the top of the magazine's 'Cool List' (click here; Allen was third) - and also with its editor's rather dangerously sexist remark that "you can still rock a crowd when you're wearing stilettos". This week's issue features Muse on the cover, rather than the likes of Allen and 'Cool List' number one Beth Ditto, frontgal with excellent Olympians The Gossip. Allen had fallen out with NME previously, regarding drug-related comments (read the reveal-all interview on Pitchfork), but agreed to contribute to the 'Cool List' article because "the context was so important, i.e. a strong female presence in music". She comments on her latest blog:"Now I don't care for the 'Cool List', and I said this to them in the interview, which is probably why they didn't print it. I don't really think the NME are in any position to tell us who is cool and who isn't; personally I don't think a bunch of people sitting in an office drinking tea, inventing musical genres, and watching Nathan Barley DVDs are leading any kind of cool brigade, do you? But I did find it interesting that they wanted to put five women on the cover, and wanted to name 2006 our year."Which, of course, they didn't. And then there was Conor's comment, a little unwise in hindsight. Says Allen:"I mean how fucking patronising. Is that all we are, stilleto-wearing people? Is that all he could say, that we brought a 'new energy' to the music scene? Don't make me sick. We've always been here, you arrogant prick. This was your chance to actually show you meant it. And instead you put Muse on the cover, 'cause you thought that your readers might not buy a magazine with an overweight lesbian and a not-particularly-attractive-looking me on the front. Wankers. "You should take your heads out of your New Rave arses, and actually think about your responsibilities to youth culture, and to women in general."have to say lily allen has gone up in my estimation with those comments, Conor McNicholas only looks like he's been out of school a couple of years but thats probably just me getting older! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wendy Moon Posted November 26, 2006 Report Share Posted November 26, 2006 McNicholas is a jumped up public school wanker with a rockstar complex - I know - I did a week's work experience down there. The testosterone fug around those offices is suffocating and sickening, and the only writer I have any time for is Peter Robinson who is doing something far more exciting with Popjustice anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Mike Posted November 28, 2006 Report Share Posted November 28, 2006 hahaha, that Mike Patton interview is funny as fuck. What a dude Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skull Commander Posted March 16, 2007 Report Share Posted March 16, 2007 Hmmph, a mere slip of a girl. A wee bit extra wouldn't go amiss.The Gossip show naked talent at SXSW | News | NME.COM"Mere slip" eh....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WoodyRATM Posted March 16, 2007 Report Share Posted March 16, 2007 The Gossip show naked talent at SXSW | News | NME.COM"Mere slip" eh.......gads o_O Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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