SELECT Magazine, RIP

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
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vox_%28magazine%29

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.

OK, my nostalgia is slightly dampened by reading all the tracklists for the Vox and Select cover tapes and CDs I actually have (quite a few) and remembering all the shit tracks that were actually on there in between the lyfe-changing classixxx etc etc (or, how I blanked out that all mid-90s covertapes were contractually obliged to feature either the Cranberries or Paul Weller).

Even Select's rave! techno! future! tape had to find some rubbish James remix so they could put "JAMES" in big letters on the tape cover and not scare away the indies.

Wait, I was one of the indies, then, and I'm still grateful to Select for making electronic music sound like the most fascinating concept ever, back when I wouldn't otherwise have heard much of it.

I bought vox once I think just to get Orbital - Belfast i think it was. Im trying to remember if one of them had leftfield - not forgotten. If they did, i will have bought it for that.

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OMG I remember that list. That was what led me to track down Dodgy and Ocean Colour Scene - much to my displeasure. Damn you days before the internet.

Pop stars discuss Morrissey’s Your Arsenal album
http://selectmagazinescans.netii.net/?p=415

At first I thought that list was pretty good, but that was because my brain filtered out the fucking Manics at #1 thinking it was an advert and then thought the column with Underworld, the Boo Radleys, Stereolab, Tortoise was the top 5, with Orbital at #6.

Oh well.

Select albums of the year 1990 - 2000
http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/select.html

I'll take 1990-era Select which did seem to be genuinely all over the map than post-95, obviously Britpop completely narrowed then killed this magazine's focus. Asking some zeitgeist-y indie twats 'have you ever had a heavy metal phase', ugh.

The magazine ran a New Order interview from August or September 1993 that's one of the best long pieces ever on the band.

I read the magazine fairly regularly -- would even splurge on the import charges -- until about '95.

I have time for lots of the stuff listed from 90-94. How did Regret not get best single in 1993?

did you see Best Select Albums Of The Year List

The Birth of Britpop:
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select get tae fuck for inventing britpop you horrible xenephobic 'ironic' shit mag

none of this is really surprising me except 'King Of The Black Market'. seriously wtf. that was from it's first weird year before all the good writers joined. was it even run by a different publisher that first year or..something?

first issue i got was the Depeche 1990 one. anyone else? that's not really Prince on the first issue either if you look closely.

and yeah Rich is right that 93 New Order dominated issue was bloody fantastic.

I remember that 'What... No Bluetones?' thing from 1996 - I never liked the Bluetones but thought it was a bit rich/odd to sneer at them when the actual list includes Space, Shed Seven and Ocean Colour Scene...

First issue I got was the one with the Compleat Blur article, which was pretty much brilliant.

"Seminal music genre...featured Menswear and Thurman...Ooh, don't get me started...Changed your life, didn't it? Cast at the Dublin Castle, tracksuit tops, Paul Weller back on top. Best days of my f**king life...All of which fails to explain why you mongs forgot to vote for me in the readers' poll. Can't-f**king-read-ers poll, more like. Wankers."

The sudden hatred of The Bluetones was weird

They were very "default"

I'll step in and defend Bluetones. Their first album was full of great songwriting but they always got lumped in with the other Britpop also rans.

This is what Select did to the fortnightly rock/metal mag RAW

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FROM THE MAKERS OF SELECT it proclaims on the cover. Raw was a great mag before this.

You can buy that Jarvis one if you want to
http://www.amazon.com/Select-Jarvis-Cocker-Bluetones-Oasis/dp/B0034ZKZHQ/ref=sr_1_29?ie=UTF8&qid=1299252839&sr=8-29

or
http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_trksid=p5197.m570.l1313&_nkw=select+magazine&_sacat=See-All-Categories

who wants a Select in a cereal box? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Select-Magazine-Dec-1995-Stone-Roses-X-Files-Blur-/290537173629?pt=UK_Magazines&hash=item43a55d727d

hehe, i knew a metal kid in my class who was incensed at the raw indie re-format. it was weird, why not just start an unrelated magazine and fold the old one? how many pantera fans were gonna start digging on menswe@r?

It seems particularly silly as it was basically Select magazine anyway but fortnightly.

RAW was better than Kerrang tbh , it was a bit more open-minded. But turning into select fortnightly was toooooo much.