observer music magazine

[smellslikesomeghost]

Did anyone else get this on Sunday?
It was a top 100 british albums poll. I couldn't help but zip thru it going boring, boring, boring.
There was a good piece in there by Miranda Sawyer on how it's a spoddy blokes list and as such doesn't acknowledge anything other than spoddy bloke bands.
And lo, is that a picture of mr P.J himself looking all fresh faced and much more attractive than I had imagined...

[Sparkle]

I liked the articles too, I read them aloud to my music-geek boyfriend, stressing the part about the single being pop's natural medium, and the fact that compiling 100 BEST lists is a boy thing, whilst girls only like lists if they are THINGS TO DO lists.

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The Observer Music Monthly pretty much forgot to be readable this month - what sort of a wanky list is "the 100 Most British Albums" anyway? Just because it is The Football^TM and we are all meant to be feeling patriotic does not mean more people are likely to buy London Calling by The Clash. Everyone has it anyway.

I quite liked the various sleb Top Tens going on, with Mike Skinner putting his own in there. But it was not its usual self. (Also, I thought there was meant to be a big article about Brian Higgins and Xenomania, but I was wrong, and it made me say hmmph.)

[joined up talking]

Mr said:

The Observer Music Monthly pretty much forgot to be readable this month - what sort of a wanky list is "the 100 Most British Albums" anyway? Just because it is The Football^TM and we are all meant to be feeling patriotic does not mean more people are likely to buy London Calling by The Clash. Everyone has it anyway.

I quite liked the various sleb Top Tens going on, with Mike Skinner putting his own in there. But it was not its usual self. (Also, I thought there was meant to be a big article about Brian Higgins and Xenomania, but I was wrong, and it made me say hmmph.)

I agree with all of that, normally I can't wait for a month to go by for OMM because I really enjoy reading it, but this month I was disappointed.

After the first one, I got a bit too excited over it, especially as it featured my favourite band everr - blur and the week after, in my excitment, I made my mum ring up our newsagents asking why they hadn't sent it to us and demanding them to bring it over as quickly as possible.

I didn't quite get what the Monthly in Observer Music Monthly stood for.