Who do the British seemingly hate Q Magazine?

What an awful, awful winner.

i gets worse...

Kasabian luv in at the NME this week
http://www.nme.com/magazine

that Krissi Murison has shifted NME even closer to the Q mainstream

rewind...it gets worse

40) 3 Words - Cheryl Cole

How the hell did this get in there? And nine places above Dylan?!

no idea, however there is evidence in that Q list that Q writers are clearly tone deaf

huh, aren't there 2009 albums that haven't had their promos distributed yet? Being a few months early with decade lists is kinda understandable, but this...

also, Mika has a new album? Who knew. Is it a major flop or have I just successfully blocked him out?

also, Mika has a new album? Who knew. Is it a major flop or have I just successfully blocked him out?

you obviously don't read Britain's most read music mag - OMM, as Mika was on their front cover a few months back

Martian's been limbering up for this moment for the last couple of months, like Gary Neville on the Anfield touchline.

i honestly had no idea that half of that list were even still making music, let alone releasing albums this year.

cheryl cole, wtf.

Q magazine is so establishment / mainstream, most 2009 mainstream albums have been released, and the ones yet to be released seem rather ordinary

upcoming mainstream releases
http://www.albumvote.co.uk/albums/prerel.aspx

He's also glossed over that band Salem he's been bumming for weeks getting listed on the NME cover there xxp

i gets worse...

actual lol

He's also glossed over that band Salem he's been bumming for weeks getting listed on the NME cover there xxp

Also actual lol.

Wow wow wow wow. I've subjected myself to that Kasabian album twice and cannot imagine a world anywhere ever where it could be considered the "best" of anything.

I believe that all music should be based on the Horst Wessel Song.

-- Geir Hongro (geirhon...), March 18th, 2005.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 6 October 2006 11:41 (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Sure, white people have made a lot of interesting music. Black people too, although not too much after hip-hop started dominating. Stevie Wonder, Earth Wind & Fire and Lionel Richie have all made lots of great music with lots of melodic and harmonic qualities.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 6 October 2006 11:43 (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Do you think Streicher got a bum deal at Nuremberg, then?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 6 October 2006 11:45 (4 years ago) Bookm

Was this ever a question that needed answering? Q was awful back then, and it's probably worse now.

(Although there was a period in the 90's when it wasn't so bad, I suppose)

Still not sure that Geir ≠ Marcello. Though lately I've been wondering if Geir = another (fav) ILXor. I am prone to looking for patterns, though.

MC's Geir sock was too strident, he could never get the unflustered tone right

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The Soft Bulletin on the cover i note. 2/5 they gave that, first time round. Blue Lines getting pride of place as usual. wasn't even in their Top 50 *of that year* when it came out.

it's almost as if stuff has to hang around for a few years before it gets to be in the middlebrow canon

Rod Stewart's Ultimate Guide To Life? Guy Garvey Solo LP

I had that edition as a kid, and remember the list well.

you had this edition? easy to think that looking at it, but it isn't out til Tuesday!

For my sins I did buy Q fairly frequently when I was a callow youth, until I got wise to the fact that those "Top 100" lists they are always running are pure empty page filler. For such a chunky mag it was often surprisingly short on content, you could get through the meat of it in about an hour and were left with a nagging feeling you'd wasted your money.

The bigger problem has always been how it continues to reinforce an extremely conservative rock/pop orthodoxy, never challenging received opinions and always dishing out five stars to the same canonical big names. I guess that's the answer to how it keeps selling, it's like comfort reading for people who have a passing interest in music but aren't really interested in anything they don't already listen to.

https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/bauer-reveals-plans-to-close-merge-or-sell-ten-magazines-q-planet-rock-simply-you/

Magazine publisher Bauer Media plans to close, merge or sell ten of its print titles it says will not be sustainable once the Covid-19 crisis is over.

The titles affected are: music magazines Q and Planet Rock, car brands Modern Classics and Car Mechanics, “true-life” title Simply You, Mother and Baby, Golf World, Practical Photography, Sea Angler and Your Horse.

Bauer said for each of these titles it is currently looking at whether to move them to a digital-only format, merge them with sister titles, sell them, or close them altogether.

rip big man, heaven needed a magazine i assumed had stopped production at least a decade ago

Claiming Sea Angler and Your Horse for the name of my terrible new band.

I'd be surprised if some other publisher didn't step in and buy Q tbh. But who will save poor old Sea Angler?

Call him Ishmael Reed Publishing Company

* advertising jingle plays* Pick up your monthly copy of Golf World, now incorporating Q Magazine.

Uh, anyone on here ever write for Q?

sure, music can be timeless, but what's wrong with music also being fleeting, ephemeral? something to enjoy one day and forget the next? the joy of pop music doesn't require it being 'timeless'. you don't need to get married to every single record you buy -- there's room for plenty of one-night-stands, too
― geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 4 November 2003

i wish i could still have one night stands

With a magazine?

The magazine in Darlimg Nikki was probably not Q.

cover of the last issue answers the thread question nicely

begging to be polled. somehow.

i like it when you tag crappy old pop stars with their first names only because they're our friends

I thought Q was good in the late 80s and early 90s. It once got the Trouser Press record Guide’s endorsement.

I wish Geeta still posted here

― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK)

geeta's presence on this board was fleeting, ephemeral, something to enjoy one day and forget the next

I have some bad news about @QMagazine. The issue that comes out on July 28 will be our last. The pandemic did for us and there was nothing more to it than that. I have attached our final cover and my editor’s letter for context.
On the plus side, we’re all available for work. pic.twitter.com/rm8qOcUBtB

— Ted Kessler (@TedKessler1) July 20, 2020

I haven't read it in a few years, mostly because it seems to have nearly disappeared from shelves around here, but that was formative for me in the 1990s. Really sad news.

I'm guessing this is a direct result of advertising budgets getting slashed in the pandemic?

The reader-submitted interview questions feature yielded some amazing results. Bobby Gillespie and Ian Brown’s were jaw-dropping

aw man, that's sad

good riddance to this fucking pile o' shite.

^ The genuine voice of the British

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EdYHPSeWsAYRQSD?format=png&name=small

aka Pyjama Boy and the Wifebeater

what's wrong with being sexy?