― N_RQ, Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:58 (eighteen years ago) link
like?
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stewart Smith (stew s), Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stew (stew s), Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:12 (eighteen years ago) link
fact: their first ever mention of B&S was making fun of the cover of Tigermilk (when it first came out I suppose).
― Viz (Viz), Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stew (stew s), Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stew (stew s), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stew (stew s), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:40 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Stewart Smith (stew s), Thursday, 21 July 2005 18:14 (eighteen years ago) link
serious political analyst john harris of course.
― Enrique, naked in an unfamiliar future where corporations run the world... (Enri, Thursday, 21 July 2005 18:45 (eighteen years ago) link
pleasepleaseplease!!!!
― piscesboy, Friday, 18 November 2005 10:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Friday, 18 November 2005 10:46 (eighteen years ago) link
!@!!
― UART variations (ex machina), Sunday, 21 January 2007 04:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― White Dopes on Punk (Bimble...), Sunday, 21 January 2007 09:20 (seventeen years ago) link
-- Marcello Carlin (marcellocarli...), July 21st, 2005.
There's still time
― Feargal Hixxy (DJ Mencap), Sunday, 21 January 2007 09:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jonesy (Jaap Schip), Sunday, 21 January 2007 12:10 (seventeen years ago) link
select was a fine mag.
― wogan lenin (dog latin), Sunday, 21 January 2007 12:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― hank (hank s), Sunday, 21 January 2007 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Real Dirty Vicar (dirtyvicar), Sunday, 21 January 2007 18:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 22 January 2007 00:21 (seventeen years ago) link
Graham Coxon had "the Right to POP"
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 22 January 2007 09:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Fjord Spellman (fjord), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:37 (seventeen years ago) link
Raw Magazine was a biweekly heavy metal magazine published by EMAP.The magazine was a rival to Kerrang! which was published by the people behind Sounds. However, when the publisher of Sounds and Kerrang! decided to concentrate on trade papers such as Music Week, the Kerrang! brand was sold onto EMAP who decided it was the stronger brand amongst Metal fans.Due to this, Raw Magazine was relaunched in the mid 1990s as a biweekly sister magazine to EMAP's monthly Select, with its musical focus shifted from that of metal to that of Britpop. This relaunch confused longterm readers, and with sales falling, the magazine did not manage to survive into the 2000s. (it didn't even make the next year)
The magazine was a rival to Kerrang! which was published by the people behind Sounds. However, when the publisher of Sounds and Kerrang! decided to concentrate on trade papers such as Music Week, the Kerrang! brand was sold onto EMAP who decided it was the stronger brand amongst Metal fans.
Due to this, Raw Magazine was relaunched in the mid 1990s as a biweekly sister magazine to EMAP's monthly Select, with its musical focus shifted from that of metal to that of Britpop. This relaunch confused longterm readers, and with sales falling, the magazine did not manage to survive into the 2000s. (it didn't even make the next year)
SELECT, the early 90s Britpop bible, is closing down. Is anyone sad? Does anyone else remember it with fondness? Has anyone got anything to say at all?-- Tom, Monday, 4 December 2000 01:00
-- Tom, Monday, 4 December 2000 01:00
If it is to blame for Britpop do people still mourn for Select?
― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 5 June 2008 13:56 (fifteen years ago) link
It dug deeper.
It's the one magazine that got closed down while it was getting better. (The free CDs were the only ones worth bothering with at the time)
― Mark G, Thursday, 5 June 2008 13:58 (fifteen years ago) link
It was fine until the last editor ruined it.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, 5 June 2008 14:04 (fifteen years ago) link
It's the one magazine that got closed down while it was getting better.
Don't agree with this at all TBH, but even in what I'd say were its best years (94-95), it covered a lot of total shit and if ILM had been around at the time it probably would have got clowned more otfen than not
― DJ Mencap, Thursday, 5 June 2008 14:42 (fifteen years ago) link
I think I preferred Select to any of it's near-contenders, be that Vox, Q, or Uncut later on.
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 5 June 2008 14:44 (fifteen years ago) link
I can't really remember Vox wasn't it essentially a glossier monthly NME?
― Matt DC, Thursday, 5 June 2008 14:48 (fifteen years ago) link
It was IPC's forerunner to Uncut.
The problem with music magazines today is that they don't come in boxes with free packets of Rice Krispies.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, 5 June 2008 15:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Early Vox: glossy (and spined for the first few years, since someone mentioned them on ILM today) monthly aiming somewhere between the Select and Q markets, a little less retro-obsessed than Q but not as colourfully anarchic nor as indie as Select. It probably wanted to be seen as timeless and authoritative rather than caring about current scenes; it was wordy and slightly (but not completely) humourless; it had separate reviews sections after the main vaguely-rock-stuff-here bit for world music, some token dance/electronic stuff but mostly it didn't seem too interested in that, maybe blues, films? I don't remember. Free CDs fairly often, which were slightly confused attempts to cover all the bases but ended up a bit dry and worthy, like the magazine.
It was the first music magazine I read semi-regularly, mainly for the free CDs (a huge barely-portable Discman was my new most treasured possession) but I liked it, possibly because it explained stuff more than Select, which treated everything like a joke that I didn't quite feel in on yet.
Later Vox: got thinner, lost the spine, ditched CDs for tapes and tried to ape Select more closely. I was buying Select and the NME mostly by then.
― a passing spacecadet, Thursday, 5 June 2008 15:32 (fifteen years ago) link
-- Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, June 5, 2008 4:00 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link
i remember this ===> aspies unite.
― banriquit, Thursday, 5 June 2008 16:49 (fifteen years ago) link
1st time it contained anything decent in it?
― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 5 June 2008 20:14 (fifteen years ago) link
http://selectmagazinescans.netii.net/
A load of issues scanned.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 12:38 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't remember some of their covers being quite so o_O: http://selectmagazinescans.netii.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/cover4-219x300.jpg http://selectmagazinescans.netii.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/cover1-236x300.jpg
― Stevie T, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 12:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Weirdest picture of Ringo I've ever seen:
http://selectmagazinescans.netii.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/cover13.jpg
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 12:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Looks like John Lennon impersonating Ringo
― Tom D (Tom D.), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 13:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Joe Dunne
― Mark G, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 13:31 (thirteen years ago) link
ace http://selectmagazinescans.netii.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/hate.jpg
― piscesx, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 14:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I remember buying something called BANG magazine circa 2002 with The Strokes on the cover, which very clearly resembled terrible late-period Select. Only lasted a few issues. Was this an attempt to rebrand, whilst failing to realise that the actual content was the failing element?
― Morcheeba, simply happening. (PaulTMA), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 14:30 (thirteen years ago) link
It was a different magazine, not a rebrand.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 14:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Did it feature a bunch of demise-era ex-Select writers then? It had about the same level of quality.
― Morcheeba, simply happening. (PaulTMA), Thursday, 3 March 2011 14:51 (thirteen years ago) link
One of the only things I remember about Select is they once gave away a Michael Eavis mask and it scared the shit out of my sister when I jumped out at her with it on.
― jimitheexploder, Saturday, 5 March 2011 00:14 (thirteen years ago) link
ha ha ha
you should have tried wearing it upside down
― blud money (sic), Saturday, 5 March 2011 01:46 (thirteen years ago) link
too good and funny to die this thread.
― piscesx, Monday, 14 March 2011 19:40 (thirteen years ago) link
unlike the magazine!
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Monday, 14 March 2011 19:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Well this is fun: http://selectmagazinescans.monkeon.co.uk/
― Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 1 November 2013 12:11 (ten years ago) link
Really want to know how many copies that Gay Dad issue sold.
― Matt DC, Friday, 1 November 2013 13:30 (ten years ago) link
Well it was at least one. Possibly not much more though.
― not a lunch that is hot (snoball), Friday, 1 November 2013 13:32 (ten years ago) link
Plonked into one at random, ended up with a "Stars in their eyes" special (People doing Jarvis, NHannon, NPersson, GStefani, etc)
― Mark G, Friday, 1 November 2013 13:42 (ten years ago) link
Aw, I was hoping for full scans. Though yeah, I wouldn't want to scan 100 issues either. Hats off to that guy for what he has scanned.
Surprised by how few I had as I spent a large chunk of my teens reading them, but I'd buy one issue and re-read it obsessively for months, I guess, plus they were competing with Vox, NME, MM and later the dance mags for my attention.
― the supreme personality of Godhead : a summary study (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 1 November 2013 13:52 (ten years ago) link
Clicked on July 1994 cz I had that one, clicked on the page with a blurb on Pressure of Speech bcz long-forgotten name, whatever happened etc, read
"I really fucking hate D:Ream - I think 'Things Can Only Get Better' will be the next Tory Conference rally song."
I wonder...
― the supreme personality of Godhead : a summary study (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 1 November 2013 13:55 (ten years ago) link
I think the first one I got was the one with Morrissey on the cover from July 1991.
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Friday, 1 November 2013 14:16 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/UAu1XQP.jpg
― Cosmic Slop, Friday, 27 November 2015 21:39 (eight years ago) link