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NME keeps me baffled
Submitted by Erik Gonzalez on April 23, 2007.So sometimes the "flavor of the week" syndrome on the other side of the pond is mind-boggling. Currently, we seem to be in a state of rapid flux in the UK. Take a look at the current NME Top 10. Right now The View is #1, followed by the Cribs (who had a pretty darn good single a couple years back with "You're Gonna Lose Us"), the Maccabees, Jack Penate, the Noisettes and the excellently named Mumm-Ra (Thundercats Ho!). Of course, I've probably set myself up here to get bashed for not being up on the UK pop scene, but gotta love the final line of the article: Will The View be able to hang onto their crown when The Twang arrive on the scene next week? I have no idea what that means.
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imaginary liz said on April 23, 2007:
I love NME and I hate NME. They've given me so much great information and fed so many infatuations... but in the recent years there's been multiple times that I've been dupped by their glowing praise... and get stuck with some $20 import cd that ends up being the UK version of Fall Out Boy. This has happened so much so I find it hard not dismissing them as a hype machine most of the time. There are still gems that make me glow a warm sunshine color... but that's rare these days. And... the fact that they still quote people in Oasis to get mean snappy quotes on the new up and coming acts is annoying. It's so 1990's of them.
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toby said on April 23, 2007:
The Twang were on the cover of NME a few weeks ago. It's the NME hoping that they will be vindicated as the tastemakers of the UK. The Twang are not my cup of coffee, derivative in a happy mondays-verve-stone roses-oasis kind of way, without the memorable song to call their own.