SELECT Magazine, RIP

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.

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 (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^still stand by this fwiw

even the typo

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that very issue was the start of Glastonbury going overground. first time a mag/paper covered the fest in colour. pre-tv era.

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!

sensery overload!

wayne's world reference as main... headline or w/e

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.

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taken from http://selectmagazinescans.netii.net/?cat=25

I think i had this one as I remember the posters
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BONEHEAD SPEAKS!!!

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most of the covers on this site are Blur or Oasis. It wasn't really like that was it?

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')

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

december 1990
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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

Pre Mojo there was still no escape from the fab four
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oh wtf!!

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Cant imagine a time there would ever be a cover like this.

dj mencap I don't recall that phrase at all

That last one is atrociously brilliant. I like the clipart surfer in the middle.

it's astonishing isn't it?

what does 'king of the black market' mean in this context? he sells records to black people...?

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

ffs
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Meg Matthews? Really?

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^^ ok that one *is* weird to me. the others are kind of lol90s. that 'planet 2000' thing...

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LOL 1993

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do magazines still do the student pull out things?

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