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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jul 7, 2020 7:45:17 GMT
Which magazines or other publications do you read regularly?
Or did you read regularly at one time?
At various times I regularly consumed....
NME Uncut Moyo When Saturday Comes New Statesman The Gooner (Arsenal fanzine)
I don't read any of those now
The only current subscription I have now is...
Wired
I took advantage of a bargain introductory offer I like their website and wanted to give them some cash
I'm always casting about for a music mag to get regularly
Does anyone read Vive Le Rock or Louder Than War?
I'm tempted by both but not actually bought either
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Post by personunknown on Jul 7, 2020 8:34:34 GMT
Used to love Uncut. They would include a CD with track of bands that had released albums that particular month, great for discovering new artists. That seemed to dry up and the discs were then bands covering songs by an established artist, very hit and miss.
NME was a sacred cow that because it hadn't predicted punk tried to correct that by promoting bands and scenes that just didn't cut it, Bogshed anyone? Before folding, its finally ignominy was that it was given away free in radical haunts like Topshop.
Running a shop, I used to subscribe to Record Collector but it became so repetitive, so many articles on rate Beatles vinyl that I could repeat them in my sleep.
To be perfectly honest, I find most of the current music mags so badly written, the prose penned by some slavish fan boy. You'd always be better off with a music biography book that looks at the subject in depth rather than three pages of sycophantic drivel and a few colour pictures. Someone once lent me a copy of Metal Hammer, full of bearded, tattooed, long leather coated blokes looking moody in woodland settings, telling you how they struggled for their 'art's, pretentious bollocks.
The only publication I buy now is Private Eye and only when I'm off on a trip somewhere.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jul 7, 2020 11:13:56 GMT
Thanks PU To be perfectly honest, I find most of the current music mags so badly written, the prose penned by some slavish fan boy. You'd always be better off with a music biography book that looks at the subject in depth rather than three pages of sycophantic drivel and a few colour pictures. Yes. That really chimes with me too.
Although...
....Andy mentioned this over on the Glam thread.... The latest issue of Vive Le Rock has a huge cover feature on Glam Rock: The Sweet, Slade, Glitterband, Mike Chapman and Hello are all included. Thanks Andy - a good excuse to try out Vive Le Rock
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Post by johnnyoi on Jul 7, 2020 12:44:29 GMT
I used to get Sounds every week and Zigzag occasionally .Goal and World Soccer for the football.Had a fair collection of Record Collectors as well.Most recently it’s been Viva la rock but haven’ bought it for a while due to the cost.A lot of these mags now retail for about £5 if not more.and a lot of the time you don’t even get a free cd anymore.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2020 16:41:24 GMT
I used to have a subscription to Vive Le Rock but didn't renew it as it was becoming repetitive.
I mean how many times do the Damned, Glen Matlock and the Stray Cats have to be in it? Still, it can be a decent read.
Louder for War doesn't cater for my musical interests at all🤨
I used to subscribe to Maximum Rock'n'Roll too but it was fast becoming hipster hell and the last issue was underwhelming to say the least.
I reckon Tim Yohannon would have burned it had he still been alive.
The NME by and large has always been pish so I always bought fanzines.
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Post by politician2 on Jul 7, 2020 21:22:57 GMT
I used to read quite a few different music magazines, and then stopped… and then recently started again, as I discovered an app that allows you to read current and back issues of thousands of magazines (including all the major and specialist music mags) for eight quid a month.
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Post by zeopold on Jul 8, 2020 20:50:47 GMT
In the 70s Music magazines were mostly written by old farts but are mostly written by young people these days, and young people have been mostly shallow since the mid 90s
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2020 6:57:48 GMT
In the 70s Music magazines were mostly written by old farts but are mostly written by young people these days, and young people have been mostly shallow since the mid 90s What an old farty thing to say😂
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Post by smogquixote on Jul 22, 2020 7:18:38 GMT
I stopped reading once the ripped up pics of page three girls stopped appearing in local hedges
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Post by johnnyoi on Jul 22, 2020 12:57:18 GMT
Back in the 90’s it was Loaded and Viz for me.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jul 23, 2020 10:58:19 GMT
I received the Glam edtion of Vive Le Rock yesterday with Brian Connolly of Sweet on the cover I ordered it online I'm quite impressed by VLR - plenty of interesting articles about old punk groups and new ones too It's got a slight metal emphasis too which I could do without, but I guess they have to broaden it out a bit
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2020 18:59:43 GMT
I haven't bought one in a while but it's still a good read.
I dunno about metal but it certainly contains a load of pish like Michael Monroe and Sisters of Mercy and all that goth rubbish.
However, it's still has something for everyone.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Dec 2, 2022 12:46:56 GMT
The Christmas NME used to be one of my favourite end of year things
I miss it
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2022 12:52:38 GMT
I suppose VLR partly fills that gap....
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Post by personunknown on Dec 2, 2022 13:19:45 GMT
I've just bought this month's Record Collector for their 2022 best of rundown and a free glam rock 2023 calendar. It's also got a feature on Joe Strummer, with some rare, never before published photos. But at £7.20, it's well overpriced and by the same token I picked up Mark E Smith, Alan McGee and Bruce Dickinson autobiographies for 50p each from a charity shop. Far more value in the latter
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