I dunno, I quite enjoyed Select magazine at the time - particularly when they would do things like go through a bands discography song-by-song, like they did with Blur and Radiohead.
― Turrican, Friday, 13 November 2015 18:21 (eight years ago) link
Uh, well they covered the biggest bands of the time. They also covered lots of dance music and declared (iirc) Orbital the highlight of Glastonbury, not Blur, Oasis or Pulp.
― impossible raver (Re-Make/Re-Model), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 19:33 (eight years ago) link
aww RIP Select, thank you for introducing me to such Britpop legends as Vapour Space and the Wipers. Possibly both in the very same Britpop issue.
also Vox, which I concede maybe nobody else remembers fondly, but also turned me on to a bunch of stuff
although, in those days, what mag didn't? the joy of not knowing everything yet (ha)
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 20:08 (eight years ago) link
For all Select's faults, the joy of reading a new issue with an afternoon pint and fag will never in my life be surpassed.
― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 21:30 (eight years ago) link
I enjoyed Vox too. If I recall, the first time I ever heard Lamb was on a cover-mounted CD with Vox.
― Turrican, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 21:38 (eight years ago) link
There's a website with scans of old issues of Select, although it's not complete.
― Turrican, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 21:43 (eight years ago) link
Vox where U2 & Inxs covers were their equivalent of Beatles & Stones
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 21:49 (eight years ago) link
I used to enjoy Q, years and years ago, when they'd do things like make a journo sit in a pub for 3 days and record every song played on the jukebox and go slowly mad to endless replays of 'Africa' and 'November Rain'
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 23:50 (eight years ago) link
Cosmic Slop is probably the only person in the world who can still get annoyed by music mags that closed the best part of two decades ago. Well, maybe DJ Martian as well.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 18 November 2015 11:36 (eight years ago) link
Select was a great mag in its Andrew Harrison helmed prime. As others have said, it covered plenty of other things than Britpop. They were very pro pop and very pro dance music. Its treatment of pop culture and social issues was great too. The poster section in the middle provided plenty of fodder for my teenage bedroom walls. Always loved the personals at the end, although I never plucked up the courage to start corresponding with anyone in there. Once John Harris took over around 96 it lost a lot of its wit and flair. And like many mags it was a victim of the Britpop fallout.
― Poor.Old.Tired.Horse. (Stew), Wednesday, 18 November 2015 15:34 (eight years ago) link
Another great feature in Select was the home interiors section (I forget the actual name of it), where pop stars would show off their living rooms. The first issue I bought (REM, Autumn 94) had Poison Ivy and Lux Interior's house, which was the coolest thing I'd ever seen aged 13. Still up there really. Wish I could find a scan of that feature online.
― Poor.Old.Tired.Horse. (Stew), Wednesday, 18 November 2015 15:37 (eight years ago) link
Tried googling for your Cramps home interiors spread and got you saying exact same things 10 years ago.
Dug out some old Selects from the mid 90s the other day. The Andrew Harrison era was the best (? up to mid-95). He and Adam Higginbotham then went on to start Neon, which was the best mainstream/cult populist movie magazine evah!The first issue I bought was from Nov 94. The cover is missing but it's quite possibly the finest single issue of a music magazine evah! (I'm gonna get the most evah!s into a post evah!)REM main feature (not as worthy as you'd think - Neil Cooper gets them to drop their pants), Portishead on soundtracks, Kylie, Flavor Flav and his troubles, Sven Vath, Laibach! Then at the back there's a home beautiful piece with Poison Ivy and Lux Interior showing off their amazing house. It's possibly the greatest double spread in British pop mag history, evah! ― Stew (stew s), Thursday, July 21, 2005 10:16 AM (10 years ago) Bookmark
The first issue I bought was from Nov 94. The cover is missing but it's quite possibly the finest single issue of a music magazine evah! (I'm gonna get the most evah!s into a post evah!)REM main feature (not as worthy as you'd think - Neil Cooper gets them to drop their pants), Portishead on soundtracks, Kylie, Flavor Flav and his troubles, Sven Vath, Laibach! Then at the back there's a home beautiful piece with Poison Ivy and Lux Interior showing off their amazing house. It's possibly the greatest double spread in British pop mag history, evah!
― Stew (stew s), Thursday, July 21, 2005 10:16 AM (10 years ago) Bookmark
― Eyeball Kicks, Wednesday, 18 November 2015 17:17 (eight years ago) link
Interesting to hear that John Harris took it over around '96, I never really paid a lot of attention at that age to who was writing/editing music journalism but I did stop reading Select around then. Coincidence? Perhaps.
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 18 November 2015 17:28 (eight years ago) link
Oh lord, my youthful lingo. The cringe!
― Poor.Old.Tired.Horse. (Stew), Wednesday, 18 November 2015 22:54 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nme.com/filmandtv/news/ant-and-dec-caught-complaining-about-technical-gli/393986?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=antanddec
Thanks NME for al those years and all that. It wouldbe nice if the news they covered on the website was primarily music based, not for me but whoever wants it now.
I guess its not.
― Mark G, Saturday, 28 November 2015 20:36 (eight years ago) link
No, NME has not 'got good'. Close thread and let us never think of this again.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 29 November 2015 05:20 (eight years ago) link
http://i64.tinypic.com/20jo39u.png
― Ad h (onimo), Monday, 15 February 2016 10:07 (eight years ago) link
honestly believe they're just trolling aging nerds now
― Chikan wa akan de. Zettai akan de. (Noodle Vague), Monday, 15 February 2016 10:52 (eight years ago) link
wtf
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 15 February 2016 12:16 (eight years ago) link
That pic was "blocked at work" to me, I have discovered that if you post blocked images on Facebook, they display.
So I did. Then deleted it.
Then posted it again to all. Think the world will appreciate it.
― Mark G, Monday, 15 February 2016 12:35 (eight years ago) link
http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sob7lk
― Kibbutzki (Jaap Schip), Thursday, 18 February 2016 23:40 (eight years ago) link
We got all these facts from surfing a Windows 10.9.6 with flexible tablet interface.
― kinder, Friday, 19 February 2016 14:09 (eight years ago) link
NME to cease print edition.
― Kibbutzki (Jaap Schip), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 12:14 (six years ago) link
the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually still alive
― Under the influence of the Ranters (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 12:18 (six years ago) link
ha, otm
― War, Famine, Pestilence, Death, Umami (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 12:47 (six years ago) link
they lost when they dropped "accordion times" from the title
― mark s, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 12:48 (six years ago) link
i thought i'd be sadder about this but tbh it feels like a mercy killing, and i'd kinda made my peace with the nme being dead a pretty long time before it turned into a freesheet anywway
― War, Famine, Pestilence, Death, Umami (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 13:03 (six years ago) link
it's still going to be available online isn't it? that's a kind of alive -- wait we're all dead aren't we
― mark s, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 13:06 (six years ago) link
if only
i guess it'll be online for as long as time inc can continue to squeeze pennies out of it but tbh i have even less idea who bothers to look at the online edition these days than who bothered to pick up the freesheet
― War, Famine, Pestilence, Death, Umami (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 13:13 (six years ago) link
went to the website and all the top stories seemed to be Oscars-related
― nashwan, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 13:20 (six years ago) link
They haven't even bothered making an announcement on their similarly Oscars-heavy Facebook page.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 13:27 (six years ago) link
the final NME print cover is a conceptual hommage to this LP: http://factmag-images.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/cale-05-kevinayers.jpg
― mark s, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 13:48 (six years ago) link
yikes
― maura, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 13:56 (six years ago) link
Well, I would never have expected Buzzcocks to make it onto the final NME cover!
― Mark G, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 14:03 (six years ago) link
I guess now Mark E Smith has gone...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 14:04 (six years ago) link
a fitting tribute to the paper's birth in 1976 and it's continuing commitment to the best in new pop
― Under the influence of the Ranters (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 14:13 (six years ago) link
can i just tip my hat to Matt for trying to delimit this guff to one active thread and also thanks for not making it the swagger thread
― Under the influence of the Ranters (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 14:15 (six years ago) link
didwenevergetthissortedlads.txt
― War, Famine, Pestilence, Death, Umami (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 14:16 (six years ago) link
Shenanigans
https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/former-nme-editor-reveals-shenanigans-12145655?x
― Kibbutzki (Jaap Schip), Thursday, 8 March 2018 09:29 (six years ago) link
terrible editor claims terrible editor wasn't terrible
― Finnegans woke (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 8 March 2018 09:34 (six years ago) link
poll each paragraph of that or do we have better things to do?
― nashwan, Thursday, 8 March 2018 09:40 (six years ago) link
The boss of the music magazine between 2002 and 2009, Conor McNicholas had a front row seat to stars like Dave Grohl, Pete Doherty, the Kaiser Chiefs and the Killers
― Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Thursday, 8 March 2018 09:41 (six years ago) link
i was gonna post that specific line, sends a thrill thru the pulse
― Finnegans woke (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 8 March 2018 09:44 (six years ago) link
Mirror article hashtags:
Danny Baker Dave Grohl Joni Mitchell Reading and Leeds Festivals Kasabian Kings of Leon The Killers The Strokes Hospitals Giving birth
Seems to be more about white dudes behaving badly than about music.
― koogs, Thursday, 8 March 2018 09:48 (six years ago) link
Hospitals Giving Birth had their moments.
― nashwan, Thursday, 8 March 2018 09:53 (six years ago) link
Is 'wide passion' a misprint?
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Thursday, 8 March 2018 09:54 (six years ago) link
I remember Dave Grohl almost killing a journalist by throwing an unopened can of lager full pelt at their head after they’d sprayed him with beer for a cover shoot backstage at Reading Festival. (Only a swift duck saved the hack.)
https://cdn.birdwatchingdaily.com/2013/10/ducks-Mallard.jpg
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Thursday, 8 March 2018 09:57 (six years ago) link
I caught a glimpse of (hair + eyebrows dyed jet black) Terry Christian yabbering incoherent cliches about this on the news and he was credited as a music journalist. How on earth do you get to the age of 57 and still be Terry Christian?
― calzino, Thursday, 8 March 2018 09:58 (six years ago) link
Some are born Terry Christian, some achieve Terry Christianity and some have Terry Christian thrust upon them.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 8 March 2018 10:17 (six years ago) link
A cover featuring Amy Winehouse
― Mark G, Thursday, 8 March 2018 10:40 (six years ago) link