SELECT Magazine, RIP

That is the most early 90s magazine cover imaginable. Jesus Jones! The Orb! The Shamen! James! The Levellers! Unwashed bloke being dragged away from rave by police! Faith No More!

sensery overload!

wayne's world reference as main... headline or w/e

All of this stuff had an exotic appeal to me at the time, it was for older people doing cool outdoor partying things. Of course I'd barely heard most of it and had no idea it was shite.

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I think i had this one as I remember the posters
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BONEHEAD SPEAKS!!!

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most of the covers on this site are Blur or Oasis. It wasn't really like that was it?

I keep meaning to outline, page by page, the copy of Vox magazine from January 1997 that I found the other idea. It's like looking into a different world (Exhibit A - Tony Blair on their 'cool list')

Vox always seemed to have INXS on the cover but that was earlier 90s. Dont recall anything about the late 90s, didn't even think it survived that long tbh

december 1990
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do people still use "Nice planet. We'll take it!" as a way of conveying in a headline that a band are becoming very popular? I'm a big fan of this phrase

Pre Mojo there was still no escape from the fab four
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oh wtf!!

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Cant imagine a time there would ever be a cover like this.

dj mencap I don't recall that phrase at all

That last one is atrociously brilliant. I like the clipart surfer in the middle.

it's astonishing isn't it?

what does 'king of the black market' mean in this context? he sells records to black people...?

what would be the equivalent "big" artists to put on it now? So we can laugh at it in 20 years

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I wondered that myself, HM

ffs
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Meg Matthews? Really?

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^^ ok that one *is* weird to me. the others are kind of lol90s. that 'planet 2000' thing...

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LOL 1993

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do magazines still do the student pull out things?

Pixies = LCD Soundsystem
UB40 = Mumford & Sons
Bon Jovi = Kings of Leon
MC Hammer = there is no modern equivalent of MC Hammer so Tinchy Stryder or someone will have to do

Check all the covers out here

UB40 = Mumford & Sons

hahahaha so true yet never thought about it before

don't understand that 'Jarvis Cocker...' circle on the MM cover

I mean I know it's a thing that happened but not what it signifies

One thing's for certain, a music magazine today would never interview comedians (Mark Lamarr and Sean Hughes, Vic & Bob several times).

noone would interview Mark Lamarr and Sean Hughes nowadays though surely?

DJ M, it's in a fake blue plaque, and is just an illustration for the 'Rock Tours' thing it sits above.

DJMen, the whole idea that the thing that happened became something that contributed to the legend and history of Britpop?

i.e. that if they actually had put those up, they'd have been taken down by now.

One thing's for certain, a music magazine today would never interview comedians (Mark Lamarr and Sean Hughes, Vic & Bob several times).

Apart from Bill Bailey and the casts of the Inbetweeners and Skins and the Mighty Boosh about 8 million times.

Took me a while to parse that 'Mutiny, Mr Christian' on the Hughes/Lamarr cover. Hughes's face distressing me.

September 1992 'marxman' mentioned on the cover strap. Did I ever know who they were? I don't now; the only name I don't recognise from these covers.

This is all making me absolutely unnostalgic.

oh god I remember Marxman,lol

Marxman was a four-piece hip-hop group formed in London in 1989. Together with groups like Massive Attack and Portishead, Marxman helped craft the "Bristol sound," a studied blend of hip-hop, Northern soul, and electronic music that formed the basis for what would become the trip-hop subgenre. The group's uncompromising political beliefs, augmented by their diverse racial makeup, were the source of much controversy during their brief reign in the British singles charts, leading their debut single, "Sad Affair," to be blacklisted from BBC radio for expressing what was perceived to be tacit support for the Irish Republican Army. Though their beliefs were more a product of their militant socialist ideals than conventional flag-waving patriotism, Marxman was one of the first hip-hop groups to incorporate traditional Irish folk in their music, counting Davy Spillane and Sinéad O'Connor among the musicians to contribute live performances to their debut record, 33 Revolutions per Minute.

Marxman's history began in Dublin, Ireland, with MC Hollis Byrne and electronic musician Oisín Lunny. The pair had met through their fathers, singer Michael Byrne and Donal Lunny, who had performed together in the '70s with Irish rock pioneers the Emmet Spiceland. Lunny was the founder of the Mood Club, one of Dublin's most popular weekly club nights during the late '80s, and Byrne was one of the earliest progenitors of graffiti art in Dublin. Meeting up in London in 1989, Lunny became the third member of a group fronted by Byrne, now performing under the name MC Hollis, and talented Bristol rapper MC Phrase (aka Stephen Brown). Lunny took a background role as programmer and instrumentalist, while mixer and scratcher DJ Kay One completed the lineup shortly afterward. Marxman's debut single, "Sad Affair," was issued by Gilles Peterson's Talkin' Loud Records, then a satellite of Polygram, in the U.K. and Ireland in 1992; a rewrite of John Gibb's modern folk ballad "Irish Ways and Irish Laws," it was quickly blacklisted by chart radio for its utterance of the phrase "tiocfaidh ár lá," the rallying cry of the IRA in Northern Ireland. By this point, however, the group's popularity had been established, and later in 1992 they capitalized with the release of a second single, the anti-slavery lament "Ship Ahoy," which was bolstered by Sinéad O'Connor's sung chorus and the tin whistle of Afro Celts mainstay and then member of the Pogues James McNally.

In 1993, 33 Revolutions per Minute was released, along with a third single; "All About Eve" sampled Stevie Wonder's "My Cherie Amour" and tackled the issue of domestic abuse through a third party's eyes, while a video clip for the single was directed by Spike Jonze, immediately following his involvement in the Beastie Boys' "Time for Lovin" video. 33 Revolutions per Minute was issued in the U.S. in 1994, but failed to make a significant impact, and the group's momentum on the other side of the Atlantic halted simultaneously. Following the release of The Cynic EP, Marxman parted ways with Talkin' Loud; in 1995, they released Time Capsule, an angrier but more musically conservative effort, on the More Rockers label, before disbanding the following year. Oisín Lunny went on to have success as an electronic artist, releasing a successful single, "The Mood Club," in 1999 on Independiente Records, and following it up with a full-length album, When It Hits You Feel No Pain, in 2001.

yeah comedians are in NME all the time wtf

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My inner 13 year old is still going "uhhhh I totally need to buy this for the tape but shit, I already spent my pocket money on that Vox with a CD on".

Of course I could probably look up what all the tracks were and download them but it wouldn't be the same.

(PS if anyone does find an archive of Vox scans please let me know)

not much info on vox
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but for rebecca http://www.discogs.com/label/Vox+Magazine

http://www.discogs.com/label/Select+Magazine

haha there is one red tape for sale http://www.discogs.com/Various-Red-Tape/release/1291370

i bet you buy it

I had that 1996: Were You There? one!

My tape deck is bust so no, that seems a bit extreme.

Although Vox was seen as IPC's response to EMAP's Q magazine

Pah, Vox totally shat all over Q. 4-track Demos era Peej on the cover, the Orb on the CD, Rapeman and Frank Kozik in the record collector supplement? Meanwhile Q was all U2 and the Stones every month.