No, it’s not that Rees Mogg arse-wipe, and neither is it George Hunter (if only), it’s that monobrowed Manc charlatan who has somehow stretched a thin song-writing ability – just enough to produce the odd half decent Beatles pastiche – into a platform that allows him to spout arrant self-aggrandisement pretending to be self-effacing yet so loaded with hyperbole he even has the arrogance to name drop people like David Bowie.
Is it possible to get a subscription to Mojo that omits any mention of the fool, and are there artists for whom you wish the same sort of editing were possible too?
Rigid Digit says
Noel usually gives good interview (although the Manc-ier Than Thou taking head is becoming a bit predictable).
Was good in the annual Steve Lamacq visit this week, and now with this cover has finally achieved the height of dad rock
JQW says
Tim Burgess?
Or Dan Hicks?
Vulpes Vulpes says
Both far more talented, with genuine talent in depth, and emminently much more interesting than the scowling eejit in question.
As long as you’re prepared to allow the former’s blatant theft of an already celebrated band’s name pass.
Moose the Mooche says
And his ridiculous blonde wig.
dai says
I always hear the Beatles ripoff stuff aimed at him, but songs like Shakermaker, Supersonic, Slide Away, Cigarettes and Alcohol, Some Might Say, Morning Glory etc whether you like them or not, bear little or no relationship to the Fab Four.
Uncle Wheaty says
Agreed.
He gets a lot of stick that is not justified.
He writes meat and veg rock and roll tunes that people like and buy.
If you don’t like it, walk away!
Uncle Wheaty says
This is clearly influenced by the Beatles though!
grac says
I enjoyed it and as was said above, he always gives good interview. The ‘thumbs aloft’ pic sent to Weller anecdote was laugh out loud funny!
deramdaze says
Comes with an Alternative Dire 1980s CD.
I’ve been after something for scaring off the seagulls.
Kjwilly says
Don’t you have any recent Dylan for that purpose?
deramdaze says
Glad the ol’ guy’s still with us, but I don’t buy into the idea that “Oh Mercy,” Time Out Of Mind” etc. are any good.
So, no.
This Alternative Dire 1980s compilation will have to do the job.
Junior Wells says
TOOM no good?
*Staggers off into the antipodean night mutterng “this Brexit thing is really fucking them up up there “*
Junglejim says
The man’s a tool and an oaf.
If anybody else gives a monkey’s what he thinks about anything, that’s their prerogative, but the jammiest rock/ pop performer the UK has produced holds less than no interest for me.
Kjwilly says
I always think it is interesting to hear his views on the music biz. He has worked hard for his success.
Junglejim says
I think his profound philistine igrorance is highlighted by the fact that he either won’t cop to, or is unaware of, the fact that his sole talent is for recycling – T Rex & Slade riffs, Neil Innes tunes & bits of the Fabs & that his success is totally due to a peculiar moment in UK pop.
Without the media & the nation having ‘ a moment’ when inward looking nostalgia took over – Union Jack guitars, The Italian Job aesthetic etc – his success would have been limited to a footnote of 4 or 5 singles & him & his knuckle dragging brother would now be doing deliveries in a white van argueing over whether to listen to TalkSport or 6 Music.
His cretinous comments about R n B at Glastonbury & calling Corbyn a communist merely underline what a prick he his, not to mention that although the pair of them profess total Beatle worship , they clearly miss the Fab’s clearest message that ‘Love’ is where it’s at & prefer to act out the philistine football dork roles that they are obviously more comfy with.
He made a stack of dosh & most of it went up his nose. What more does anyone need to know?
Junglejim says
Did I mention I’m not a fan?
😀
Vulpes Vulpes says
Post of the year. Right there.
Twang says
Yes I love it. Hilarious.
Black Type says
The Beatles and Floyd must be having a month off…
Moose the Mooche says
Putting Noel Gallagher on the front page saved the NME, after all.
…er…
hubert rawlinson says
How sweet to be an idiot!
Noel would like to thank Ron Nasty for the tune.
Whatever!
SteveT says
Preferable to Liam but not welcome on a Mojo cover. Surprised that David Holmes who I admire greatly is working with him.
Mojo has had an excellent recent run of form so I can forgive them this blip.
Don’t do it again.
Kjwilly says
Why is he not welcome on a Mojo cover? Is there a rule that it has to be vintage rockers?
dai says
And why is the cover so important? I presume the whole issue isn’t dedicated to him.
Moose the Mooche says
Noel is 50 odd and had his first hit 24 years ago. He IS a vintage rocker.
Black Celebration says
Mojo readers. Tough crowd.
Blue Boy says
Oh , I don’t know – for a few years and across their first two albums they bestrid the world and were genuinely exciting compared to much that was around at the time. I’m not a big fan but I really don’t understand the loathing.
Mike_H says
Not exactly a Mojo for their All-Time Hall Of Fame, but not so bad I’d consider unsubscribing, either.
As for Oasis and the Gallagher brothers, the meat they offer is hardly prime cuts and the potatoes have probably been in the cupboard for a bit longer than I’d like.
I only get it for the crossword, anyway.
Black Celebration says
Ethel Beast, all mixed up? (3,7)
Les loses to a definite article (3, 7)
They blest outside dining with a strange dessert – why not? (3, 7)
and so on
Rigid Digit says
Ethel Beast?
Far away in time
Freddy Steady says
@mike_h
Me too and this one looks tricky.
Mike_H says
I always cheat as there are so many artists, albums, songs etc. I have no clue whatsoever about. As there’s nobody looking over my shoulder, I’ve been getting away with it up to now.
The photo clues are usually the hardest ones for me, but all 3 of them for last month’s Kate Bush issue were instantly recognisable, for a change.
I haven’t started on the new one yet. One photo clue instantly recognisable and another rings a bell very strongly. And one across/five across is a good starter.
Bartleby says
When Wilde said ‘talent borrows, genius steals’, I find myself nodding approvingly at Macca channeling chord structure ideas from Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and music hall and incorporating them into a different mileu to arrive at something new and fresh – a path which just about everybody else followed (see for example the innovative use of the 7th chord – virtually unheard in our rock and roll and pop music before Macca’s PS I Love You chorus and nigh-on ubiquitous in rock and pop ever since (Gimme Shelter, Lola, Aqualung, Orgasm Addict, Suffragette City, Pretty Vacant, Layla etc etc (see Dominic Pedler’s superb Songwriting Secrets of The Beatles)).
For some reason, Noel’s industrial scale plundering of entire melodies, chord progressions, hooks, orchestrations arrangements, top lines, drum patterns and production techniques from likes of Gary Glitter, Stones, Fabs, Faces, Stevie Wonder, the Velvets, T-Rex, Sly Stone, Neil Innes, the New Seekers et al strikes me as more Del Boy than The Sting.
Tiggerlion says
Does that mean Paul has talent and Noel is a genius?
Bartleby says
Maybe it does. I’ve got this life thing completely wrong haven’t I.
Moose the Mooche says
I read that post in a Marvin the Paranoid Android voice.
Bartleby says
I alternate between Marvin and David Dixon’s perfect Ford Prefect.
Rigid Digit says
Simon Jones had a Zephyr
Bartleby says
Peter Jones did rep in East Anglia
Moose the Mooche says
I don’t know what Peter Jones would say but whatever it was he would start by saying “Well…”
Vulpes Vulpes says
ARF! Brilliant!
*to self: “New Seekers!” YES! Top observation!” Must send Bartleby a Christmas card for that one.*
Bartleby says
Thanks, but i should point out that it’s not my observation – the NSers actually sued them – successfully – and – I believe – the subsequent album version omitted a verse which had contained direct lifted lyrics (from I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing).
Colin H says
I’ve always found that term ‘top line’ really ugly. It’s a melody. Yet ‘top line’ reduces it to the level of a nut or a bolt, takes any sense of human creation out of it somehow…
Bartleby says
Fair enough. It’s just widely used in songwriting circles, rather than ‘vocal melody’. And in particular for additional collaborative input – especially incidental hooks – when the basic vocal melody is already written or implied..
Carolina says
I didn’t even notice the bloke on the cover (that’s how observant I am). Just headed straight for the Paddy McAloon interview which was for me the first priority – well, after giving the album reviews a quick glance. Great interview with Paddy.
The Good Doctor says
Looking forward to reading that and CD sounds good…Felt, Prefab, Microdisney..and doesn’t matter if the sticky stuff tears the cover!
Salty says
Don’t think I’ve bought a Mojo this year, but a Paddy MacAloon interview trumps whatever dull cover star they have.
retropath2 says
The covers are to appeal to the casual buyer, not us moaning minnies who profess not to like it or its ilk (the mag) yet have every copy ever printed under the bed, next to the Uncut pile. Word is in the heritage section now, in the garage next to bestringed piles of old NMEs. (MM and Q went to the tip when the wife complained about all the tat in the house.)
P.S. I buy em all but throw em away.
Vulpes Vulpes says
Mine go out in the recycling these days. The garage actually has room for more tools now that the piles are gone, and the roof beams are staightening up nicely.
The photo cover of the latest Mojo at least has the decency not to have anything other than a Technics advert on the back of it, so that’s been torn off, crumpled up and added to the kitchen bin along with the cold pasta shapes and the scrapings from the bacon pan. Where it belongs. I’m now looking at a moody shot of Jagger circa Performance, which is something of an improvment.
SteveT says
Tools in a garage? WTF. @vulpes-vulpes you seriously need to get a grip – you are letting the side down.
Bartleby says
I had a clear-out of old Qs once. Literally the following week, Sting started claiming he’d always been joking about his tantric flapdoodling and, no longer armed with the very interview, I was unable to hold the fibbing fornicator to account among my dwindling (increasingly select) band of followers. I don’t think I’ve thrown anything out since.
The Good Doctor says
Blimey retro, how big is your bed to fit every copy of Mojo and Uncut under it?
Sewer Robot says
Oh, you can fit any number of Mojos or Uncuts under our bed, but just one issue of Q and her indoors can’t get a wink and is grumbling about her back all the next day.
“The Princess And The Q”, I call it..
Bartleby says
Bartleby says
Well that’ll teach me to put brackets round my comments. Have an up anyway
Tiggerlion says
I find with my *princess*, I need to mind both my Ps and Qs.
retropath2 says
Well, if you read to the last sentence….
But since you ask, it’s like they say, big feet, um, big bed(room slippers)
Neela says
I would like to edit out Morrissey and Kurt Cobain. I just don’t get it. Sorry fans. Though I understand they sell copies. Though, in all fairness, I rather read about them than listen to their music.
Rigid Digit says
Kurt Cobain?
What is so great or important about Kurt Cobain?
Never understood the greatness.
Maybe I missed something, but Nevermind could’ve been re-titled “Nothing Special”
Right place, right time – a generation needed a figurehead and a martyr
Moose the Mooche says
Amen. Nirvana were a good little band, on the scale of someone like Milltown Brothers. That’s all.
dai says
It’s a brilliant album, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Come As You Are, In Bloom, Lithium, On a Plain etc. Great lyrics, dynamic playing, brilliant voice. Generation did not “need a martyr”. I think 99% of his fans would have been quite happy if he had lived.
Sitheref2409 says
Agreed.
One of the few bands who generated the reaction, upon first listen, of “what the HELL is this?” For someone whose music collection wasn’t huge as a teenager, they were incredible and new a loud and great
Tiggerlion says
I always felt they ripped off Pixies who were much, much, much better.