Mojo Magazine: Classic Or Dud

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

Debbie Harry was a cover for an NYC punk package, wasn't she? And that was that bizarre Amy Winehouse cover story a couple of years ago ..

ithappens hits the spot :

debbie harry : #63
amy winehouse : #170

so, who's the last one ..

Mo Tucker?

Hang on: Yoko!

actually, thats a good point re yoko.

but dont recall seeing her gracing one amongst the pile i have

i could have sworn she did !

unless that the one that ended up in bristol harbour.

Janis?

That leaves Sandy Denny and Madonna.

ok, she is on a cover with john.

therefore not part of this gang (solo covers)

same goes for abba.

xpost : bravo - janis .. #79

which is pretty shocking i think.

i mean it was something i was aware of, but to see the stats so black and white it really drives it home.

also, out of 150 issues, 15 of them are beatles/related (more if including oasis .. )

Compare it to any other British music publication of the era you'd get an equivalent percentage I reckon.

"of the era" = back in the sixties?

The 60s were a lot less obnoxiously 60s-ish than the last 20 years.

true.

ok, shall we do black solo artists next ?

i suspect the list will be even more limited ..

Michael Jackson

Curtis
Jimi Hendrix

I might just be speaking for myself here but I reckon ILM is not short of "is the music press and its audience a bit racist?" threads.

Amazed there's not a Joni cover in there.

re rascist point.

i aint saying that at all.
especially for mojo given the artists covered over the years.
just the cover choices are always so predictable/limited.

re joni : agree.

was looking at this for the first time in forever at the newsstand the other day (ok, truth be told it was a borders, but that doesn't sound as romantic). anyhow there are some pretty good pieces in the current issue devoted to the heyday of elektra. they shoulda put a shirtless jac holzman on the cover instead of jim morrison, though

have to admit, i had a little emotional moment as the man who got my mojo magazine archive for 99p drove away into the sunset.

xpost I dunno, all the Borders' are gorn in the UK, so...

Has Mojo just stopped doing a cover mounted cd after like a decade and whatever.
Wasn't sure what to think when I saw a new edition with no cd on its front.
Monkees as cover stars.,
Oh yeah finally got the Album Classics set of solo Michael Nesmith cos i wanted to check my credit card was working on Tuesday morning thanks to the nonsense with 3 not topping up my phone

That used to blow my mind how magazines and sometimes newspapers in the UK had CD's in them. Especially felt that way the first time I ever visited the UK was around 2007 or 2008, when publishing was already collapsing in the U.S. I also noticed a LOT more people reading magazines and especially newspapers everywhere I went, so I guess that helps prop up the cost of doing so.

a few years ago i decided to call it quits re mojo (same stories, same bands, no longer relevant to what i listen to etc etc)
so, i went online and logged into my account place, and cancelled my sub.
for about 9 months after i was still getting it sent to me.
do like the whole subscribers covers thing though.
they are much better than the covers with all the text all over the place.
also, i do miss the monthly drop through the letterbox and the quick flick through to find the odd reviews for electronic music ...

I think Mojo are testing the waters with regard the free cd withdrawal.

There’s a note in the mag about it, production costs, etc. Think there’ll be one next month.

But. Didn’t do Flexipop any good!

right, I've just seen th ecover.
Maybe the format is getting less popular. A download code or some music platform playlist might substitute but doesn't work with th eway I listen to those things. Not sure if it would get the multiple plays these things do for me .

Something that still makes me chuckle from the cover of Viz "Free Prince CD for Eddie Reader! If you are Eddie Reader, don't hesitate to contact us today to claim your FREE Prince CD"

I remember when Mojo didn’t always have a CD!

I do too it's just a very long time ago. IK remember when they started being an occasional thing and normally seemed to be done quite well. Which might be why it became a standing thing

I thought the CD production costs were covered by the ludicrous amount magazines charge the artists/labels for inclusion, maybe not then

I have kept 2x MoJo CDs, both great compilations

https://www.discogs.com/release/2088114-The-Amorphous-Androgynous-A-Monstrous-Psychedelic-Bubble-Exploding-In-Your-Mind

https://www.discogs.com/release/782404-Various-Made-In-Britain

Yes, and also these ‘artist compiled’ jobs:

https://www.discogs.com/release/6137554-Various-Its-A-Wonderfull-Life-A-Journey-Into-Sound

https://www.discogs.com/release/2290694-Various-Step-Right-Up

Hmm, what to have as a closing track?

I still have a “Drugs in Music” one from nearly 20 years ago. It came in a plastic baggie. But for the last decade or so those CDs have been not of interest to me. All those “Current Indie Bands Play ‘Revolver’” are just landfill.

Yeah, you have to keep an eye on them for the occasional goodie.

This is my all-time favorite Mojo comp, an excellent addendum to the Nuggets box:
https://www.discogs.com/release/520015-Various-Instant-Garage-Music-Guide-Vol1

i found that the best ones were the cds that stuck to a particular genre.
the AA is brilliant and sits in amongst my FSOL/AA collection as opposed to in my box of Mojo freebies.
also, that Instant Garage one is really good, as GMM says, totally fits with Nuggets.
oh, the reggae based ones are always superb.

Oh those music guide ones were nice, about four of them I believe

yeah, they really were.
the "Raw Soul" or the "Roots of Hip Hop" one was originally meant to be a David Holmes sequenced mixtape, but problems re track clearance, meant it ended up as a standard compilation.

I still have several of those CDs around: Instant Garage, Raw Soul, Roots of Hip Hop, and Stax Soul Power. Had the Made in England one but let it go out in a purge.

There's a review of my book in the latest issue of Mojo, which is kinda cool if you're me.

My favourite Mojo CD is Change The Beat (14 Tracks From Madonna's New York Scene):

https://www.discogs.com/release/6614131-Various-Change-The-Beat-14-Tracks-From-Madonnas-New-York-Scene

There's a review of my book in the latest issue of Mojo, which is kinda cool if you're me.

― but also fuck you (unperson)

ooh this is very cool.
bravo.
going to have to try and find a copy and have a scan to figure out which review.
don't have access to a WH Smiths these days (or a lunch hour !) which was always the way to check on reviews/articles without buying the magazine.

Clostridium

Ok, how did my spelling corrector get that word from me typing xpost?

Anyway.. message starts:

Xpost (but yes that is cool)

Yeah, that’s another mojo save cd.

I’m loathe to throw cds away (but have done) so I have a lot of the uncut/mojo cds going back. Some have sold to completion nuts (I assume) via discogs. Some have made it to my ‘keep’ boxes, most if not all of the ones mentioned so far (I think someone bought that ‘drugs in music’ one but)

Will check out others that are in the keep box…

Heavy mod
Heavy soul
heavy nuggets

Most o fthe psychedelic ones even going back to early days have been good.
The stuff like the Grapefruit compis on hard rock, britfolk and things
I think there's at least one New York Punk one.

Yeah I've got a handful I keep around that I like, even relatively recent ones:

In Search of Syd: MOJO Presents 15 Mind-Bending Freak-Outs!
This Is A Call! (15 Brainmelting Dispatches From The Golden Age Of U.S. Alt-Rock) (despite the Foo Fighters namecheck, it's a nice little comp with The Grifters, Built to Spill, Shudder to Think, Red Red Meat)

Yeah those Music Guide ones were great! Lovely cover art too; I’ve still got them and I’ve chucked out a million other free CDs.

https://www.discogs.com/release/9092883-Lou-Reed-A-Life-In-Music

One track from each of his first (however many) solo albums.

Including Metal Machine Music!