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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2020 18:09:05 GMT
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Post by rayge on Jul 21, 2020 19:18:07 GMT
I thought that Mojo was to blame, but there's loads on BCB who can't tell the two apart, so what do I know (apart from everything, obvs)
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Post by Sneelock on Jul 21, 2020 19:41:29 GMT
when in doubt say QJO.
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Post by sloopjohnc on Jul 21, 2020 20:33:11 GMT
I used to prescribe and read the article about why music papers/magazines are going the way of the dodo bird.
I still subscribe to Mojo, Shindig, and Ugly Things. Shindig only comes digitally and stopped shipping to the US. I don't think I've looked at an issue in a year even though I get it.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Jul 21, 2020 21:42:28 GMT
It was never fashionable but I loved it growing up and it turned me onto some great stuff too: Residents, Trout Mask, Piper etc
Of course it was always for a middle aged men who largely wanted to read about the music they grew up with (hey, I was 13 and I did too!) and when it came to current music they weren’t the most reliable but they had some really good writers and Q gave me a lot of pleasure for a few years. I would buy it the day it came out and looked forward to it.
I was always a bit sad at how the mag deteriorated into facile lists and the most terrible artists but its decline was also sign of a decline in the music itself. After Britpop it seemed lost but then British music sorta did too
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2020 22:18:03 GMT
I thought that Mojo was to blame, but there's loads on BCB who can't tell the two apart, so what do I know (apart from everything, obvs) Never joined mojo. My path to this hive of intellectuals was q4music - blackcatbone - preludin.
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Jul 21, 2020 22:58:42 GMT
After the fall of the great UK music weeklies, I guess the fall of the music monthlies was inevitable. I assume UK music podcasts, radio shows, and documentaries have filled in some, kinda maybe?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2020 8:57:44 GMT
I can honestly say I never liked it. It always seemed horribly square and corporate.
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Post by tory on Jul 22, 2020 9:25:14 GMT
As I said on BCB, it had a whiff of Gambaccini
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Jul 22, 2020 9:41:13 GMT
Yes.
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Hepworth and Simpkins were always irritating - smug blabbermouths with terrible haircuts. I'm surprised it's kept going as long as it has.
Mojo and Uncut can't be far behind, and I can't say I'll miss either of them much - not the way they've been for the last few years. I mean, I miss Mojo already, if you see what I'm saying.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Jul 22, 2020 11:40:00 GMT
As I said on BCB, it had a whiff of Gambaccini But I quite like him
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Jul 22, 2020 11:41:25 GMT
Yes. Yes. Hepworth and Simpkins were always irritating - smug blabbermouths with terrible haircuts. I'm surprised it's kept going as long as it has. Mojo and Uncut can't be far behind, and I can't say I'll miss either of them much - not the way they've been for the last few years. I mean, I miss Mojo already, if you see what I'm saying. It really lost its way in the late 90s and by the 00s I found it unreadable. I gave up Mojo and Uncut years ago now bar the occasional purchase.
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Post by rayge on Jul 22, 2020 11:47:49 GMT
As I said on BCB, it had a whiff of Gambaccini But I quite like him In the Sixties, when I was well into Marvel comics (and DC too for a while), the letters pages often included long missives from Paul Gambacinni from the Bronx, and they kept sending him the original artwork that was the prize for good letters. I wonder if he still has them.
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Jul 22, 2020 11:56:07 GMT
I remember fondly his rather self-important R1 group profiles in the 80s - he got me into the Beach Boys, the Doors, Led Zeppelin, all those dudes.
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Post by tory on Jul 22, 2020 12:38:10 GMT
He just seemed "establishment" to me - when Radio 1 seemed horribly calcified and almost beyond redemption apart from Peel.
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