The R.I.P. Thread

[lemonjelly]

The NME...

 

[playtheace]

The NME...

Really?....it has been utter shit for years to be fair....was always a "sounds" man myself.

 

[lemonjelly]

Slightly tongue in cheek matey, just saw the print version is about to fold.

 

[nimrod]

agree with Ace, Sounds was better though NME had its moments.

 

[playtheace]

Slightly tongue in cheek matey, just saw the print version is about to fold.

ahh, so your right in a way,I had been picking up the free version every now and again but i just seemed to "hmmm" my way through it.
Perhaps im just to old now but i always thought the NME of the 80's catered for a broad range of ages.

 

[playtheace]

agree with Ace, Sounds was better though NME had its moments.

Bit of a magazine hoarder back then so i used to get Record Mirror too and Melody Maker.
There was a glossy magazine called Noise! that was pretty good too and Flexipop!

Duran Duran and Dolly Mixture/Crass in the same magazine!....bloody eckers.

 

[nimrod]

Bit of a magazine hoarder back then so i used to get Record Mirror too and Melody Maker.
There was a glossy magazine called Noise! that was pretty good too and Flexipop!

I’d interchange between sounds, nme and MM. usually depending what freebies were on offer. rarely anything else. best mag in the end was Select imo - epic reviews in that, loved it. never heard of noise or flexipop.

 

[Keef]

You're all forgetting the absolute daddy re music mags,the one the only smash hits! Or are you all being too cool to admit to it?

 

[playtheace]

You're all forgetting the absolute daddy re music mags,the one the only smash hits! Or are you all being too cool to admit to it?

I've still got some of The Smith's lyrics from Smash Hits, it had some good stuff in it to be honest, probably cos Neil Tennant was behind it.
Lookin was funny...worzel gummidge and The Specials in the same issue.

 

[playtheace]

I’d interchange between sounds, nme and MM. usually depending what freebies were on offer. rarely anything else. best mag in the end was Select imo - epic reviews in that, loved it. never heard of noise or flexipop.

Noise was punk new wave and Flexipop was a mag with a free Flexi on the front every issue.
Yeah select was great, you remember the one with the Flexi on the front with the piss take Bono phoning up Piers Morgan?
Might have been Victor Lewis Smith or someone like that.

 

[nimrod]

Noise was punk new wave and Flexipop was a mag with a free Flexi on the front every issue.
Yeah select was great, you remember the one with the Flexi on the front with the piss take Bono phoning up Piers Morgan?
Might have been Victor Lewis Smith or someone like that.

don't remember that. I never really bought select for the freebies as I was earning by then and buying stuff. I've got about 300+ issues of MoJo still, all with a free CD, most in my loft now. they tend to repeat the same tracks a lot of the time though iirc. I must have bought Record Mirror once as I have a freebie with a great version of subculture and the brilliant track Jennifer Wants by Raymonde (featuring Morrissey's mate and the Smiths' first gogo dancer, James Maker). Love that track.

I was definitely too cool for smash hits though of course I remember it. my sister used to get it.
Look-in we used to get in the mid 70s. we all liked Abba who I think featured in it a lot.

 

[playtheace]

don't remember that. I never really bought select for the freebies as I was earning by then and buying stuff.

Even better...it was Chris Morris who took the piss out of Piers Morgan

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

I used to religiously buy Kerrang.

It has become absolute bollocks in the last few years sadly.

 

[Tony Towner]

I still buy Kerrang, I like to collect the articles and put them in a scrap book. I cut them out with my rock paper scissors



Nicked that from Twitter

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

That is VERY VERY bad...

 

[James]

Sir Ken Dodd you’ve tickled so many people for so many years. RIP

 

[arklowolf]

Sir Ken Dodd you’ve tickled so many people for so many years. RIP

A past workmate of mine used to go and see Doddy every year, he reckoned he was the funniest man alive and he had you in stitches from the first minute to the last.
R.I.P. Sir Ken.

 

[SSB]

Remember the E&S running articles about audience members cars getting locked in the Civic Hall carpark as his show went on that long.

 

[PPB]

A past workmate of mine used to go and see Doddy every year, he reckoned he was the funniest man alive and he had you in stitches from the first minute to the last.
R.I.P. Sir Ken.

I'd have to agree with that arklo, saw him once when I lived on the Isle of Man, never stopped laughing from the minute he walked on until he walked off, which over ran by about 30 minutes. He never shut up :icon_lol:

To be able to make people laugh for a living, what a wonderful thing to be able to do.

R.I.P Sir

 

[Keef]

Hubert de givenchy aged 91, one of those people you thought had died years ago,or never really existed as you thought the brand was just made up,anyway,fashion designer responsible for the little black dress loved by everybodies other halves for parties,and made famous by Audrey Hepburn in breakfast at tiffanys