Mojo Magazine: Classic Or Dud

The quality of an album has no bearing on whether the story behind it is interesting or not.

I guess it's unlikely Duran*2 will ever aquiesce to do a 'making of' "Thank You" special, but hey it must have been interesting making a totally rub* album.

*received wisdom, haven't heared any of it.

Yes, Les Harvey.

Again that's the problem about funk/hip-hop fans. Your extreme intolerance towards anything that is not funk/hip-hop/R&B related.

Geir's reply is the funniest thing I've ever read on here by him.

Sometime in the future a hip-hop band will sample that piano riff on clocks.

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But didnt some hip-hop/RnB bands do a phil collins tribute?

In a hip-hop style. Doing it in Collins' original style would have been very unlikely.

That just doesn't count. When will a hip-hop band do a cover of "Clocks" that contain every single verse sung from the beginning to the end, containing absolutely no rap parts, and with a backing track containing all the chords of the original, over a straight 4/4-beat?

Then the brilliant "A Trick Of The Tail" and "Wind And Wuthering" albums would never have happened.
(And as for his 80s solo work, it cannot compare to the brilliance of the 70s Genesis stuff, but it is at least a lot better than anything ever released in the hip-hop genre)

When will Coldplay, Travis, Keane cover rap songs while actually rapping instead of singing?

-- Geir Hongro

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meanwhile nominations are in for this year's MOJO Honours
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/news/article570939.ece

The nominations

Best New Act

Corinne Bailey Rae

Guillemots

Amadou and Mariam

Teddy Thompson

Archie Bronson Outfit

The Raconteurs

Inspiration Award

Sparks

Johnny Cash

Buzzcocks

Paul Weller

The Fall

Icon

David Bowie

Scott Walker

Johnny Cash

Neil Young

Van Morrison

Songwriter Award

Joe Strummer

Richard Hawley

Nick Cave

Chrissie Hynde

Kate Bush

Catalogue Release of the Year

Johnny Cash: Legend

Talking Heads: Reissue Series

Orange Juice: The Glasgow School

Various: Anthems in Eden

Various: Strangely Strange But Oddly Normal

Jeff Wayne: War of the Worlds

Vision Award

Kraftwerk: Minimum-Maximum

Bob Dylan: No Direction Home

Ramones: The Story of the Ramones

Dig! [documentary on the Dandy Warhols and the Brian Jonestown Massacre]

The Flaming Lips: The Fearless Freaks

Mayor of the Sunset Strip [documentary on the history of fame]

the stax CD comp that comes with the amy winehouse cover is pretty awesome.

the article about her is "okay" i felt bad for the writer cuz he was supposed to have a big interview with her than she has a meltdown and he's gotta do the story anyway.

i haven't read the stax feature but it will probably be cool cuz it's about stax.

also had a buried treasure about some band called Home that was a weirdo/roots-rock/prog/concept album deal that featured cliff richard from AC/DC!

Cliff WIlliams??

duh haha yeah williams not the elvis of england dude

Hahaha!

I thought you might have meant Cliff Burton.

I'm sorry, I'm off to the paralell universe that has Cliff Richard of AC/DC in it!

Mojo is still a quality mag, but it's about time the CD coming with the mag contains some decent music soon.

the free CD's with mojo are the best reason to buy it

Actually they have done a pretty good historical job with those CDs lately. The only thing lacking now is that they choose some good genres to make CDs from. They write about a lot of great genres, so I am sure it'll happen...

i used to wonder what james brown had to do to get on the cover of mojo. apparently dying wasn't enough. when he was given the mojo honors lifetime achievement award, the cover went to jimmy page, winner of the far-more-coveted best dvd award.

The Heavy Nuggets thing is awesome. Thanks Mojo.

Was that the one before the Amy Winehouse/Stax one?

yes.

I bought it today, for the electronica CD on the cover. John Foxx! Gary Numan! Tangerine Dream! Great stuff.

this month's free CD is great..comp of old school Ska and Reggae stuff.

That's last months, UK dudes.

This months is a Paul Weller gets someone to pick stuff that they reckons Paul Weller probably thinks is endemic to what Paul Weller is all about, plus three Paul Weller Rarities. (being: One cover version of one of his very first songs that he never recorde dwith The Jam, one etc...)

well it's new to me! but yeah i guess we are late.

i don't really like the specials that much but i really enjoyed the article about them a lot.

Just reading "SKa'd for Life" Horace Panter's book, he the bassman of the specials.

Updated (2008) odds for the first hip-hop act to get a full Mojo front cover:

4-5 Beastie Boys (up from evens)
evens Public Enemy (down from 4-5)
3-1 Kanye West
4-1 Wu Tang Clan
5-1 Outkast (down from 7-4)
6-1 Eminem (down from 2-1)
8-1 Jay Z
20-1 50 Cent (down from 12-1)
25-1 Run DMC/LL Cool J (down from 20-1)
33-1 T-Pain/Li'l Wayne
40-1 Dizzee Rascal
50-1 bar

I fancy a punt on Jay-Z, especially if he pulls off Glastonbury.

probably won't be wu-tang because they just did a big feature on them recently that pretty much covered everything...

Yep, but they managed to prove to themselves that they can cover rap and do it interestingly.

Mojo hardly ever features new acts on the cover.

If Mojo ever put rap on the front it's gonna be "canonical" stuff like Public Enemy or De La or something. Maybe in five years time 36 Chambers will be some sort of fogey rock-crit classic, who knows?

I'm unloading about 23kg of Mojos from the mid-late 1990s. I'm going to dump them all on eBay, but if there's anyone here looking for fills drop me an email - I'd rather folks here got first dibs.

will swap 8lb 4oz of UNCUTs?

i've been trying to give away my deadweight of mojos for ages now.
free to anyone - collection basis only.
issue 45 onwards with one missing (richie edwards cover, ended up in river avon)

One thing I absolutely love Love LOVE about Mojo: The layout. You can read the whole thing cover-to-cover and not have to do any backtracking. They print each story IN FULL and don't start the next one til the previous one is finished - none of this infuriating "Continued on page 83" nonsense like you'll find in "Rolling Stone" or other inferior rags.

I don't know if this admirable approach is Mojo-specific, or if it's typical of other UK magazines (music or otherwise). Either way, it earns my approval. If only other magazines (newspapers even) could follow their example...

ha, i have the opposite experience. the only US mag i read with any regularity is Wired and the 'continued..' thing in that bugs me silly (especially when the continued piece is less than a full page or if the continued bit is itself continued)

(Wired has recently felt like it's 50% adverts. there used to be a lot but recently they've been more noticeable, probably because they switched to the right hand page of each spread. that and the bloody stiff pages they insert, normally for things like cigarettes made by native americans, stuff i couldn't buy even if i wanted to.) (offtopic!)

cigarettes made by native americans

LOL!

currently selling my mojo archive for a wallte busting 99p : (#45 > #195)
so had to clear them out of the attic.
quite interesting to see the gradual change in the magazines layout
also, it really drives home just how few women are given cover status.
out of the 150 issues, only 5 have been by women
guesses for the 4 that have been awarded this status most welcome (one woman was granted the priviledge twice)
may have to count up the total of beatles/related covers just to see ..

Kate Bush, Joni Mitchell, Aretha Franklin, Tiffany.

kate bush : correct #111, #145