The thing about Pete Doherty is well, he’s rubbish, he serves no purpose, has no obvious talent and has people frothing at the mouth as if he’s some sort of genius bard of our times, he’s not.

For some inexplicable reason he has just been voted ‘Hero of the year’ by the NME. The NME has had a similar decline in quality as the alternative UK music scene has, almost as if they are in cahoots together to drag everything down and make it as bland as possible. Once upon a time the NME was essential reading, brilliantly written by a crack team of the finest music journalists out there; David Quantick, Stuart Maconie, Andrew Collins, Steve Lamacq, Stephen Wells, Dele Fadele…now it’s an indie version of Heat magazine, full of posters, gossip from the indie scene, free cds, only people perceived as being cool on the cover rather than being there for any musical merit.

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For some reason everybody loves Led Zepellin again, it’s like punk never happened. Punk HAD to happen because of overblown behomoths suck as these over-rated wankers and now 30 years after punk Led Zepellin have taken their place on the rock throne again, indicative of the derth of decent bands around and the derth of people with good taste buying music.

There are many reasons for Zeps suckage, here are just a few of those reasons.

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