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Tommy BOO
Joined: 21 Aug 2002 Posts: 3066 Location: here, there, and everywhere
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Posted: Fri May 02, 2003 14:15 Post subject: what's the best uk music magazine? |
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please tell me
i've read q magazine and mojo - i think that they both are quite crap |
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billycasper Guest
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Posted: Fri May 02, 2003 14:37 Post subject: |
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the new issue of bang has a track from the new webb brothers album (not due out til spring 2004) on its cover cd. the last issue of x-ray had a banging daniel johnston track on their cd. careless talk costs lives has nice pictures but, generally, the most pretentious waffle you could ever not want to read. otherwise i can't think of anything to recommend in uk music mags these days. unless you want another 'exclusive' interview with the white stripes or coldplay. |
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che
Joined: 19 Aug 2002 Posts: 988 Location: in the gutter, staring at the stars.
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Posted: Fri May 02, 2003 15:20 Post subject: |
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the nme
(is fucking piss pathetic)
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Tommy BOO
Joined: 21 Aug 2002 Posts: 3066 Location: here, there, and everywhere
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Posted: Fri May 02, 2003 15:32 Post subject: |
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well well... at least british footie magazines are quite decent |
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ciaran Guest
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Posted: Fri May 02, 2003 15:35 Post subject: |
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Most of them are shite. If you want to find out about new music, I find the album reviews in the weekend newspapers and on the net are every bit a sufficient if not better than, creti-nme, q and uncut or the rest of them.
there are some sad old grandads writing for the NME. If they are as getting as excited about the strokes and the white stripes as they say they are, i find it creepy, frankly.
some of the shite that Steve Sutherland has written about these bands, (a man approaching 50 if not already on the wrong side of that number) is so OTT it hurts to read. |
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ciaran Guest
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Posted: Fri May 02, 2003 15:36 Post subject: |
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Not that I am saying that he can't get excited about these bands at his age. I'm not an ageist or anything, I just think he is a phoney. |
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Tommy Tynans Lovechild
Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 854 Location: People's Republic Of BS4 (Though always PL2 4Ever)
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Posted: Fri May 02, 2003 20:26 Post subject: |
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getting close to just getting all them free "indie" mags that litter brissles local venues 'cos the pay ones are cack really. Careless TCL is good for new bands n that but is (as billyc says) pretentious and far far far too humourless. Also a bit passionless too me thinks. Mojo is loads better than Q (what isn't?) but i don't really like mags that are that obsessed with the 60etc, a thing that really really ruins Uncut. Bang looks promising, but nothing will ever top Select at its peak! Top features and some great writers (was it Miranda Sawyer who wrote of Wake Up Boo! "the boo radleys are excellent and this time they've excelled themselves"? good features on trainers n tops too! hooray!).
lol TTL. |
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Setareh Juventina
Joined: 01 Dec 2002 Posts: 1415 Location: Norrköping, Sweden
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Posted: Fri May 02, 2003 21:56 Post subject: |
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I don't know how music freaks can say Mojo is crap, not only is the quality of writing quite decent, but it reports on a wide range of music. I consider it too heavy for me because I'm not THAT crazy about all types of music.
Only time I've been disappointed was the Yoko interview, the journo was basically sucking up during the entire interview.
Amor y Paz _________________ Man is the only animal clever enough to build The Empire State Building and stupid enough to jump from it. |
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Bev
Joined: 25 Aug 2002 Posts: 843 Location: Nottingham
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Posted: Sat May 03, 2003 08:26 Post subject: |
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Select used to be ace!
There was an 'Image' once of the Boo Radleys recreating the Kennedy assination! _________________ Scattershot Writing: www.jameseverington.blogspot.com |
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Tommy BOO
Joined: 21 Aug 2002 Posts: 3066 Location: here, there, and everywhere
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Posted: Sat May 03, 2003 08:46 Post subject: |
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i only ever once read Select and i remember it was pretty good... even though that was ages ago, i didn't know any of the bands on the magazine and my english was quite crap at that time. i heard that select magazine doesn't exist anymore... is that right? |
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Setareh Juventina
Joined: 01 Dec 2002 Posts: 1415 Location: Norrköping, Sweden
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Posted: Sat May 03, 2003 13:19 Post subject: |
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Yes, Select went out of publication at the end of 2001 I believe...or was it 2000, same year as Melody Maker anyway. L&P _________________ Man is the only animal clever enough to build The Empire State Building and stupid enough to jump from it. |
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Posted: Mon May 05, 2003 03:38 Post subject: |
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Yup u=i'd say its all cocknokcer nonsense, sa[aret a[a azpa apart from that new one with the shins cd, but you know what fuckin uncut is OK qw i'd say so anyway. I fuckin hate hotpress but none of you cNa read that its the fuckin piece of shit irish mag with dickheads writing for it. |
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late me Guest
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Posted: Mon May 05, 2003 03:56 Post subject: |
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that was me darragh |
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Kris
Joined: 16 Sep 2002 Posts: 2550 Location: Sheffield
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Posted: Mon May 05, 2003 04:48 Post subject: |
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I reckon I've discovered more good music in the last few years by coming to this messageboard than I have in the last 10 years of buying music mags.
The NME really needs to pull it's head out of it's arse. If I see Coldplay or The Yeah Yeah Yeah's on it's cover one more time I'm gonna cry.
Kinkster _________________ "fashioned by the blade of a world that doesn't care,
feeling so removed, drifting thru stealing air then...
pause and think about it, try to move and shift the pain, but it's there you feel it kicking and you scream and feel alive." |
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Tommy BOO
Joined: 21 Aug 2002 Posts: 3066 Location: here, there, and everywhere
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Posted: Mon May 05, 2003 09:17 Post subject: |
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oh well, i can only buy the biggest magazines like q magazine, mojo and nme here in finland so i guess that there's not much hope for me finnish magazines aren't that great either. |
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