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Posted: **Thu 18 May 2006, 10:32 pm**

kimphilby wrote:Anyone remember how good NME used to be?
Happy Days!

I do, I've still got a load of my favourite issues and cuttings from others. They were magic days (late 80's, early 90's), buying it on my way to college every wednesday.

Posted: **Sun 21 May 2006, 12:58 pm**

Janet Street-Porter wrote:
I read the NME 'review' today and it was appalling. What happened to full-page reviews with some personality to them? I don't care if they don't like it but at least tell me why and possibly entertain me.

The no-mark who reviewed it basically said that there comes a time when every G-A-Y act must put away the gay sailors (and other assorted homo cliches) and grow old. There was even some crack about stairlifts!

PSB aren't actually a G-A-Y act and Release was four years ago! I wouldn't call a song with a refrain of 'Sodom and Gomorrah' particularly decrepit.

I've seen the review and satisfactorily discovered the reason why the NME's circulation figures have collapsed. The reviewer - if that term doesn't give the student hack an unmerited credibility - obviously discovered a bonus track on Fundamental that I didn't know existed. "Indifferent Leave to Remain" must obviously concern ambivalent asylum applications. Who else could write such a song, eh? Only the Pet Shop Boys, surely. Alarmingly, it wasn't a play on words.

Drico.

Posted: **Mon 22 May 2006, 12:12 am**

i can remember in the mid-eighties when the nme had great writers like paolo hewitt and sean o'hagan, and championed hip hop when the rest of the mainstream music press gave it a very wide berth. and even as late as 'very' they were still pro-psb. now though it just seems a pale imitation of it's former glories.

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