Yeah, I got the impression the magazine's raison d'etre was basically to find a new band every couple of weeks - typically a foursome of floppy-haired indieoid 'skinny-tie cock-jockeys' (as someone on here brilliantly put it) - who were going to (sigh) "save rock-n-roll". Again. :slanted: Wasn't it the NME put The Strokes in a list along with the Rolling Stones and the VU as "the most important bands ever"? Something like that, anyway. I wouldn't put it past them.
Edit: although there were some funny pisstake articles sometimes, I seem to remember. There was a feature called "Julie Burchill's Au Contraire", in which letters were supposedly written to Ms. Burchill that went "Dear Julie, given your well-known stance on [issue X], I expect you also thing [opinion Y]?", and the supposed answer always started "Au contraire!"...