[kj] NME's latest monstrosity - Top 100 influential artists

[bq at soundgardener.co.nz]

I never read any music rags to be honest - I get my music info here, Facebook, and various bands' webpages. I clicked the link to the NME list on some website. What a total load of shit. The fact that Hole, The Strokes, and Kanye made the list at all...FFS. 

I have checked out Quietus, in fact I think the bloke behind the magazine did a bunch of video interviews of influential / interesting musicians. They were great - Lydon and Gary Numan, and I think he might even have done Adam Ant? While back now.


>---- Original Message ----
>From: GREG SLAWSON <gregslawson at msn.com>
>To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" <gathering at misera.net>
>Sent: Tue, Aug 12, 2014, 3:57 PM
>Subject: Re: [kj] NME's latest monstrosity - Top 100 influential artists
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>True--although the Rolling Stone polls are not as bad as this one. I think another problem might be the way they're constructed--a conglomeration of several reviewers ratings.
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>> On Aug 11, 2014, at 11:15 PM, "T.B." <planetary at socal.rr.com> wrote:
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>> GREG SLAWSON wrote:
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>> I think it's just their fave bands--any other explanation is hard to believe  
>> 
>> +++++++++++++
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>> It's the same as those shitty Rolling Stone "Best" polls that defy any common sense.  You know, Best Guitarist placing Kurt Cobain over Jimmy Page or Eddie Van Halen.  They do that shit to generate talk and ultimately the website hits.  Those rags can't drown in their tar pits of outdated mediocrity fast enough.
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>> T.B.
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