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Next week's NME to be special 'The Queen Is Dead' issue

posted by davidt on Sunday June 04 2006, @09:00AM

The server.ntli.net troll writes:

Next week's NME, on sale Wednesday June 7, is to be a 'The Queen Is Dead' special. Features will include:
* today's rock heroes on why "The Queen Is Dead" still rules
* Article on The Smiths remembering the making of the album
* An article on some of Manchester's new bands at Salford Lad's Club
* A competition to win the complete Smiths and Morrissey back catalogues.

Scan (advert in this week's NME):

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vegetarian ray also writes:

20TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL in the NME [Ł1.80p] next week wednesday 7th june for THE SMITHS , THE QUEEN IS DEAD. Reserve your copy now!

Marking 20 years of the release of the 'Queen Is Dead'. With special interviews with former Smith band members. Groups & other artists who loved were inspired.

Front cover issue & lots of words & pictures.

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Any Others? (Score:1)

Will any of the eight albums that finished above "The Queen Is Dead" in the 1986 NME journalists' poll be getting a similar honour?
Janet Jackson's was one, if I remember correctly.

Benton * -- Sunday June 04 2006, @11:22AM (#223193)
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Re:Any Others? by drilltime (Score:1) Tuesday June 06 2006, @10:44AM

I will play my CD all week! (Score:0)

20 years of the "Queen Is Dead"? Hold on, that means I have been out of high school for about 20 years- shite! I will listen to the CD this week at work and at home. Great songs!
T-Bloke

Anonymous -- Sunday June 04 2006, @11:27AM (#223198)

How many more? (Score:0)

Is every British magazine doing this tribute to the QID?

Anonymous -- Sunday June 04 2006, @11:55AM (#223208)

Re:How many more? by Benton (Score:1) Sunday June 04 2006, @12:24PM

NME Queen Is Dead Issue (Score:1)

Hello 'Vegetarian Ray'.

(Isn't it great to hear our Moz is No.2!)

What is your involvement in this issue?
Are you quoted in the paper itself?
Please tell us more!

Fuzzy wuzzy -- Sunday June 04 2006, @12:16PM (#223220)
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Re:NME Queen Is Dead Issue by vegetarian ray (Score:1) Monday June 05 2006, @12:59AM

it's so lazy (Score:1)

to mark TQID as the best smiths album. i know it's been debated ad nauseam but 'the smiths' and 'meat is murder' are (to me) easily the equal of TQID, and are both dazzling self-contained albums. while the smiths were wearing out by 'strangeways' (although 'stop me...' raised the Palladium roof last week) their body of work is as magical and unfathomable as ever. i feel in these bite-size all-you-need-to-know times, to iconise The Queen Is Dead is to (a) freeze it as an historical artefact (b) relegate the other records (and morrissey's solo work) to second-rate status.

anyway i'm so suspicious of NME these days. it's a brand logo for corporations to attach to their release/radio station/festival. it's hardly an independent critical voice - its editorial space is a 10th of what it was when TQID came out, and back then it had several competitors.

methadone -- Sunday June 04 2006, @12:31PM (#223225)
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Re:it's so lazy by Anonymous (Score:0) Sunday June 04 2006, @01:55PM
- Re:it's so lazy by methadone (Score:1) Sunday June 04 2006, @05:54PM

The Queen is Dead is Dead (Score:0)

Pleeeeeze. Is there anything left to say?

Anonymous -- Sunday June 04 2006, @01:44PM (#223246)

I don't get it? (Score:1)

what is the obsession with "The Queen is dead" album? I must be the only one that doesn't worship this record. Strangeways is far better ans same goes for world won't listen.

marred -- Sunday June 04 2006, @05:09PM (#223302)
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Re:I don't get it? by Anonymous (Score:0) Monday June 05 2006, @03:23AM
Re:I don't get it? by Anonymous (Score:0) Monday June 05 2006, @03:51AM

what will be contained inside? (Score:1)

what about this mystery Q&A? didn't they ask for questions over a month ago?

suzanne -- Sunday June 04 2006, @09:58PM (#223338)
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I scare dead people.

"it's classic,man" (Score:1)

i find the admittance of the smiths and in particularly the queen is dead into the "classic rock" pantheon distasteful.
this vile pious retrocentric and - dare i say it - long haired outlook now dominates music journalism as well as "serious" consumption.
it is difficult for many to stomach but the smiths were a pop band..possibly the last one to carry such a huge intellectual and sub-cultural clout..but a pop group none the less.their use of the past was subtle,often polical and very poigniant. ..and they were despised by most pious rock fans at the time,so every time some longhair bigs up the queen is dead it is as mouthpiece of the retro-cognisenti...and i usually tell them meat is murder and strangeways are better.

drilltime -- Tuesday June 06 2006, @11:23PM (#223777)
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