Nate Champion
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@Lili Marlene and all my Thumped buddies.
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Funnily enough the "token" female bass player from JJ72 has released more post JJ music than any of the rest of them.
I also had this issue. After years of hearing about Melody Maker I was finally living somewhere it was available (Belfast) and this was what it was. What a let down.haha, I had that issue. I still have the CD from it actually.
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Neil Kulkarni and Sarah Bee go into the hell that was the last few years of Melody Maker on one of the Chart Music podcasts.
God I used to hate JJ72 back in the day. Yer man's voice, christ almighty
I was in the Gaeltacht with the singer from jj72. A bit of an arse, although at 15 I wouldn’t judge him by it
God I used to hate JJ72 back in the day. Yer man's voice, christ almighty
Melody Maker was class until they tried to become all things to all teenagers basically. I'd say i started around 1996 or 1997 and read it until it shutdown. Aged about 14 i had to cycle l the way up to Sutton to get a copy FFS. I didn't know any better at the time but in retrospect I can I see how obviously it became a different magazine over those four years or so. I was a bit bewildered what they were doing putting Bewitched and Fred Durst on the cover, apparently so were the staff. I'd read Select as well but I liked the scrapiness and bitchiness of the weekly press.I also had this issue. After years of hearing about Melody Maker I was finally living somewhere it was available (Belfast) and this was what it was. What a let down.
I also remember it having a terrible review of Kid A, dont know if it was the same magazine.
The Selects from the 90s were so much better. I'd give anything to have that box full of them back.
I'm sure it was a horrendous job but also, dream job, I WISH I could ever have gotten a job in a bookshop.I remember when I worked in Hodges Figgis in 2007/08 [1st Floor], and I was shelving that section at the back stairwell, and he was in there with his mother. His mother must have been embarrassing him or said something. I can remember that sour head on him. In my memory he was tutting at her, throwing her the evils. All this took place in the "psychology" section, ahem.
I'm sure it was a horrendous job but also, dream job, I WISH I could ever have gotten a job in a bookshop.
yeah. Sounds seems more punk and metal and less fashion / trend orientated.Sounds was the best.
It's nuts that kerrang!!! Is still around,I liked it as a kid.
still got the 7"s?Sounds was the best.
It's nuts that kerrang!!! Is still around,I liked it as a kid.
I was quite fond of the Select formatting. Something about it being a monthly made it more appealing too.The Selects from the 90s were so much better. I'd give anything to have that box full of them back.
This rings through retrospectively. Sutherland was a pontificating twat. He'd be likely to give an Ian Brown solo album 8/10 and generally overstate the case for "British" bands etc.pre Brit pop Melody Maker was better than the NME. Steve Sutherland became editor in 1992. he was very conservative and the paper was out of touch. they spent too much time covering old farts and things that amounted to nothing in London.
Yep, older brother was a big metalhead [Machine Head, Pantera, White Zombie]. Interesting reading about degenerates like the Wildhearts and their debauched actitivies. It was real primary school reading.I was definitely reading Kerrang! before I was reading any of the inkies.
still got the 7"s?
And it was Mark Sutherland who ran MM into the ground in the end wasn't it? Were they related??This rings through retrospectively. Sutherland was a pontificating twat. He'd be likely to give an Ian Brown solo album 8/10 and generally overstate the case for "British" bands etc.
Eh maybe 6th class, you were clearly very advanced. To this day i love the Wildhearts, although only their 90s stuff.Yep, older brother was a big metalhead [Machine Head, Pantera, White Zombie]. Interesting reading about degenerates like the Wildhearts and their debauched actitivies. It was real primary school reading.
Ah yeah, and that attitude hasn't gone away either. There's a reason no one cares about this shit anymore and you can blame the forever backwards looking English Rock Defense League types.Have to say I rarely if ever bought Melody Maker. I bought the NME a good bit around 98/99...
I think all the British inkies suffered from a bizarre pro-British music stance in the 90s [that deluded self-suffocators like Sutherland really pushed] that hasn't weathered well. "English rock is back on the map" type nonsense.
Ah seriously though, the good writers were better than a lot of the bands, you'd definitely get more from a scabrous self hating alcoholic wreck of a music writer than 4 lads all trying to be Liam Gallagher. In a lot of ways I prefer reading about music than listening to the latest generation of 24 year old's discover Can and chorus pedals.Yep, the ludicrous cattiness of the reviewers/scribes... I watched an interview with Stuart Braithwaite recently and he was saying that a Melody Maker scribe threatened Rachel from Slowdive [I think] at some early 90s music festival... "I will ruin your career" etc... It's mad the power these hacks had... they fuckin' reviewed records for a living fer Christ's sake??
Ah seriously though, the good writers were better than a lot of the bands, you'd definitely get more from a scabrous self hating alcoholic wreck of a music writer than 4 lads all trying to be Liam Gallagher. In a lot of ways I prefer reading about music than listening to the latest generation of 24 year old's discover Can and chorus pedals.
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