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
Bang! (Another new music mag thread)
a thread from when it first came out.
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 3 March 2011 14:57 (thirteen years ago) link
had about the same level of quality.
im liable to overrate select, but no
― this odyssey that refuses to quit calling itself (history mayne), Thursday, 3 March 2011 15:00 (thirteen years ago) link
I remember it being about as charming as Select was just prior to going under
― Morcheeba, simply happening. (PaulTMA), Thursday, 3 March 2011 15:34 (thirteen years ago) link
EMAP really picked the wrong time to fold Select, if they'd hung on for another year they'd have been alright.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 3 March 2011 16:04 (thirteen years ago) link
― DJ Mencap, Thursday, 5 June 2008 14:42 (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
^still stand by this fwiw
― deeznults (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 3 March 2011 16:14 (thirteen years ago) link
even the typo
http://selectmagazinescans.netii.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/cover6.jpg
― this odyssey that refuses to quit calling itself (history mayne), Thursday, 3 March 2011 16:16 (thirteen years ago) link
that very issue was the start of Glastonbury going overground. first time a mag/paper covered the fest in colour. pre-tv era.
― piscesx, Thursday, 3 March 2011 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link
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!
― Matt DC, Thursday, 3 March 2011 16:22 (thirteen years ago) link
sensery overload!
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 3 March 2011 16:23 (thirteen years ago) link
wayne's world reference as main... headline or w/e
― this odyssey that refuses to quit calling itself (history mayne), Thursday, 3 March 2011 16:25 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 3 March 2011 16:26 (thirteen years ago) link
http://selectmagazinescans.netii.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/cover5.jpg
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 3 March 2011 16:26 (thirteen years ago) link
taken from http://selectmagazinescans.netii.net/?cat=25
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 3 March 2011 16:27 (thirteen years ago) link
I think i had this one as I remember the postershttp://selectmagazinescans.netii.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/cover2.jpg
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 3 March 2011 16:29 (thirteen years ago) link
http://selectmagazinescans.netii.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/cover2.jpg
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 3 March 2011 16:30 (thirteen years ago) link
BONEHEAD SPEAKS!!!
http://selectmagazinescans.netii.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/cover3.jpg
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 3 March 2011 16:31 (thirteen years ago) link
http://selectmagazinescans.netii.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/cover21.jpg
most of the covers on this site are Blur or Oasis. It wasn't really like that was it?
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 3 March 2011 16:33 (thirteen years ago) link
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')
― Matt DC, Thursday, 3 March 2011 16:34 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 3 March 2011 16:36 (thirteen years ago) link
december 1990http://selectmagazinescans.netii.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/cover14.jpg
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 3 March 2011 16:40 (thirteen years ago) link
http://selectmagazinescans.netii.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/cover11.jpg
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 3 March 2011 16:41 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― deeznults (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 3 March 2011 16:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Pre Mojo there was still no escape from the fab fourhttp://selectmagazinescans.netii.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/cover13.jpg
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 3 March 2011 16:42 (thirteen years ago) link
http://selectmagazinescans.netii.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/cover24.jpg
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 3 March 2011 16:44 (thirteen years ago) link
oh wtf!!
http://selectmagazinescans.netii.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/cover19.jpg
Cant imagine a time there would ever be a cover like this.
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 3 March 2011 16:45 (thirteen years ago) link
dj mencap I don't recall that phrase at all
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 3 March 2011 16:46 (thirteen years ago) link
That last one is atrociously brilliant. I like the clipart surfer in the middle.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 3 March 2011 16:46 (thirteen years ago) link
it's astonishing isn't it?
what does 'king of the black market' mean in this context? he sells records to black people...?
― this odyssey that refuses to quit calling itself (history mayne), Thursday, 3 March 2011 16:47 (thirteen years ago) link
what would be the equivalent "big" artists to put on it now? So we can laugh at it in 20 years
xp
I wondered that myself, HM
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 3 March 2011 16:48 (thirteen years ago) link