SELECT Magazine, RIP

fact: their first ever mention of B&S was making fun of the cover of Tigermilk (when it first came out I suppose).

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serious political analyst john harris of course.

please
please
please!!!!

!@!!

-- Marcello Carlin (marcellocarli...), July 21st, 2005.

There's still time

select was a fine mag.

Graham Coxon had "the Right to POP"

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)

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

If it is to blame for Britpop do people still mourn for Select?

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)

It was fine until the last editor ruined it.

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

I think I preferred Select to any of it's near-contenders, be that Vox, Q, or Uncut later on.

I can't really remember Vox wasn't it essentially a glossier monthly NME?

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.

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.

The problem with music magazines today is that they don't come in boxes with free packets of Rice Krispies.

-- Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, June 5, 2008 4:00 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

i remember this ===> aspies unite.

1st time it contained anything decent in it?

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A load of issues scanned.

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

Weirdest picture of Ringo I've ever seen:

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Looks like John Lennon impersonating Ringo

Joe Dunne

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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?

It was a different magazine, not a rebrand.

Did it feature a bunch of demise-era ex-Select writers then? It had about the same level of quality.

Bang! (Another new music mag thread)

a thread from when it first came out.

had about the same level of quality.

im liable to overrate select, but no

I remember it being about as charming as Select was just prior to going under

EMAP really picked the wrong time to fold Select, if they'd hung on for another year they'd have been alright.

Well this is fun: http://selectmagazinescans.monkeon.co.uk/

Really want to know how many copies that Gay Dad issue sold.

Well it was at least one. Possibly not much more though.

Plonked into one at random, ended up with a "Stars in their eyes" special (People doing Jarvis, NHannon, NPersson, GStefani, etc)

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.

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...

I think the first one I got was the one with Morrissey on the cover from July 1991.

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