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| Surfer Rosa |
Posted - 09/16/2004 : 05:04:36
What do you all read?
I need new music mags since I'm gradually getting very annoyed with Q which appears to be in rapid decline and NME is nowhere near as good as it used to be.
Spin isn't looking too bad lately (loved the Pixies issue) - are there any other titles to be recommended? Or even websites? |
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| n/a |
Posted - 09/20/2004 : 07:16:51
when moving I discovered three huge boxes of old NME and melody maker, I had a wee remenisce about when they were good then lobbed them into a bin bag and forgot all about it untill now
the room smelled like cupids gym
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| hammerhands |
Posted - 09/17/2004 : 21:13:07
I think this looks very good, a must see for music fans and photography buffs, and free! A technical note, if you hit Ctrl-N on the pop-up you get a new window with scroll bars.
Music magazines, heh. What was that quote? Here it is, "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture."
Here are two more quotes from The Greatest Music Trivia Book Ever..., Paul Sullivan 2003
"If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong." Aaron Copland
"Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa
I once had a subscription to Rolling Stone. I actually miss it, but I'm not sure why. One of the issues I got was the TOP 100 ALBUMS OF THE LAST 20 YEARS. My mother giggled when I told her it had to be right, it was polled from Rock Writers. I see Never Mind The Bollocks has dropped in the estimation of said Rock Writers. In at 226 Doolittle, 315 Surfer Rosa [behind Nevermind at 17!, Appetite for Destruction at 61 (which beat Led Zeppelin II, The Wall, Bitches Brew, Catch a Fire, Exodus)].
Jazz and guitars, those are my topics. Just Jazz Guitar would fit the bill, but it's too expensive and only comes out quarterly. The inaugural issue had Jimmy Bruno on the cover, for which I'm eternally grateful.
Vintage Guitar Magazine is published in Bismarck, ND, which always makes me smile. I had a subscription to that, and I may need it again. It's one of those collector's rags with oodles of ads. I feel out of the loop, there was a time when I could tell you the going price of every Gretsch and Gibson. I've never read a copy of 20th Century Guitar but it looks informative.
I was given a subscription to JazzTimes, which I don't always get! Sometimes it comes with dog-eared pages, I guess some mailman is a Jazz fan. I would rather have Down Beat, or the Jazz Report. I'm proud to say I've read every issue, from cover to cover of dig!
In JazzTimes and DownBeat they have blind fold tests or Before and After, I can never imagine!
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| Domestiques |
Posted - 09/17/2004 : 11:46:20
I used to have on my wall a pixies interview from the melody maker, it must have been from around the time of bossanova or trompe le monde, probably the latter, but for me sounds was always the best paper, now, I dont really regularly read any, I pick up odd issues of all types of mags, but I cancelled my subscription to nme 3 years ago after 15 odd years.
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“I want to be a star!” I cried
They said, “You’re overqualified.
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| Carl |
Posted - 09/17/2004 : 11:43:35
I had stacks of old NME, Melody Maker(now defunct)anad Q magazines, but I fucked them all out(I just kept some with Pixies/FB interviews. I'd only occasionally buy them now, if there was something of interest in them(same goes for Uncut and Mojo). |
| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 09/17/2004 : 11:26:48
Yeah and this week they have filled it with 1001 shit music facts. Absolute bollocks!
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| Surfer Rosa |
Posted - 09/17/2004 : 01:10:06
Amen indeed.
They even now have a new policy to reduce the number of gig reviews since live music doesn't seem to be that important anymore!!!!! |
| n/a |
Posted - 09/16/2004 : 23:46:34
AMEN
the room smelled like cupids gym
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| Domestiques |
Posted - 09/16/2004 : 23:33:26
I hate the nme, I hate what they have become, I hate the fact that sounds and melody maker went to the wall whilst that shit rag still exists. I hate the fact that they have such a high opinion of themselves and their bands, I hate them almost as much as I hate McCartney.
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“I want to be a star!” I cried
They said, “You’re overqualified.
Why don’t you learn to tune your damn guitar?” |
| n/a |
Posted - 09/16/2004 : 22:20:49
I've been drinking VoVat, it's most unfortunate, while the vote was being passed chances are I'd just consumed six pints of I can't remember, necked several bottles of colourfull fruity things, had a kebab with the "most hardcore chilli sauce in the shop, don't look at me like that kebab man I can take it" and just gone arse over tit twisting my ankle and skidding shin first into a pile of broken glass mangling my leg...
good times!
the room smelled like cupids gym
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| VoVat |
Posted - 09/16/2004 : 16:31:14
Where have you been, Tre? The motion to change the Frank Black Forum to the Bitchfight Forum was passed last night, by a vote of 17 to 5. And he isn't Frank Black anymore. He's Chuckie T.
Brick is red, and Hitler's dead. Hang me! |
| n/a |
Posted - 09/16/2004 : 15:31:00
have I wondered into the wrong forum again, I was looking for FB.net not bitchfightforum, thats my weekend forum..... all music mags suck, NME gets on my tits but I still buy it every fucking week and still moan that they are a bunch of glossy mag rimming shites.... sorry wrong forum AGAIN, damned drink
the room smelled like cupids gym
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| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 09/16/2004 : 13:26:11
I do, oh I do. FINALLY someone who realises my pain. I have wanted to stop for so long now 'cos I am so tired, but I know that you all couldn't go on without me, you especially. I do it for you guys, I do it for you!
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| bumblebeeboy2 |
Posted - 09/16/2004 : 13:19:29
quote:
Originally posted by Homers_pet_monkey
You could never be cool Simon so stop trying.
Your response was soooooo predictable, don't even you get tired of being so tiresome?
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don't you get tired of replying to just about every thread in the forum?
And it's hard to be a human being, and it's harder as anything else, and I'm lonesome when you're around, and I'm never lonesome when I'm by myself, and I miss you when you're around. |
| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 09/16/2004 : 13:11:33
You could never be cool Simon so stop trying.
Your response was soooooo predictable, don't even you get tired of being so tiresome?
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| bumblebeeboy2 |
Posted - 09/16/2004 : 12:24:17
LOL @ Homers! Yeah, right... 
and quite right, bang has finished, i'm sure there's another one... i don't know, was just trying to be cool, they were the last mags i got, don't really get music mags, i'm too cool anyway.
And it's hard to be a human being, and it's harder as anything else, and I'm lonesome when you're around, and I'm never lonesome when I'm by myself, and I miss you when you're around. |
| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 09/16/2004 : 11:04:23
I don't really like any that I have read. Mojo is for old men (sorry Emily ), Q is for people who like Dido and NME is just plain fucking annoying for so many reasons.
Uncut 'aint too bad.
However I still feel the need to buy NME, simply because it is far and away the best for breaking new bands. You have to put up with them declaring each one 'The Most Important On The Planet' or such-like, but I am capable of formulating my own opinions on bands, so this is not a problem for me.
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| Daisy Girl |
Posted - 09/16/2004 : 10:49:49
I'm pretty lame-- don't read anything. Sometimes I will read my husband's Rolling Stone. |
| ramona |
Posted - 09/16/2004 : 10:36:00
I like Mojo. And Uncut is good too, lots of information and reviews.
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| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 09/16/2004 : 10:27:14
Bang's no longer around, si? I liked it. I used to like Careless Talk Costs Lives as well, but seeing as they didn't actually manage to change the world in 12 issues like they say they would, they did the dignified thing and shut. I want to get round to reading Plan B, Everett True's new magazine. He's one hughely opinionated man, but then isn't that the whole point of music journalism.
I used to like Logo, but their website appears to be on indefinite hiatus, I dunno if the mag is still available.
I read Record Collector like the nerd that I am, but its pretty decent. I can barely read Q and NME now.
 So, I finally got my X-Wing |
| tiredeyes |
Posted - 09/16/2004 : 09:41:15
no depression
the big takeover
paste (always comes with a free cd) |
| bumblebeeboy2 |
Posted - 09/16/2004 : 09:17:26
yes, uncut is quite good. and bang.
And it's hard to be a human being, and it's harder as anything else, and I'm lonesome when you're around, and I'm never lonesome when I'm by myself, and I miss you when you're around. |
| BLT |
Posted - 09/16/2004 : 08:37:54
1. MOJO
http://www.mojo4music.com/
2. The Big Takeover
http://www.bigtakeover.com/ |
| edwina |
Posted - 09/16/2004 : 07:37:37
Uncut. |
| KimStanleyRobinson |
Posted - 09/16/2004 : 07:34:28
I got an issue of "Tracks" in the mail a couple weeks ago.
This is a good rag. http://www.tracksmusic.com/index.jsp
I used to read Spin, but got tired or reading about the fucking Hives, Strokes, White Stripes. I let my subscription lapse right before the Pixies issue.
Touche...
I azlso Read NoDepression every once in a while. Top of the heap alt country journal.
http://www.nodepression.net/
You're a donut. |
| the thing |
Posted - 09/16/2004 : 07:31:57
Seriously recommend everyone anywhere ever to check out "Comes with a Smile" - its a really nicely designed magazine - mainly interviews, with a consistently excellent cd. It's a bit expensive (£4.95) an a bit too alt-country maybe but gloriously lacking in NME self importance.
Anyway, me likey, have a look: www.cwas.hinah.com
 www.atreum.com/images/churchsign.jpg" border="0"> Forget the cults I got me a whole church! |
| Monsieur |
Posted - 09/16/2004 : 07:16:49
In France, we have some more "general" magazines, like Rock&Folk, Rocksound etc. Then we have these kind of "indie" magazines - Inrockuptibles and Magic. Les Inrockuptibles is probably the highest quality magazine, but I hate their opinions and their editorial line - I almost always disagree with them. Magic is a little better (at least these guys seem to listen to the records before writing on them). The best, of course, was the magazine where I used to write when I was at school, called the Happy Few.
I will show you fear in a handful of dust |
| Broken Face |
Posted - 09/16/2004 : 07:12:53
for the folkier/alt country stuff, i love Harp
-brian
 - "I joined the Cult of Frank / And they tried to cut off my nuts and make me put on a blue jumpsuit"
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| apl4eris |
Posted - 09/16/2004 : 06:32:56
Punk Planet.
http://www.punkplanet.com/
We love it so much we bought the entire back catalog.
(edit: Maybe I should clarify, it's not just punk and not just music, but all sorts of independent music reviews and interviews, as well as articles on social and political topics.)
www.epitonic.com is really great too. |
