CLASSIC POP Magazine - ILM's Ideal Magazine for Old Farts?

I don't mind Maconie's OU lecturer act on Freak/Freakier Zone. Then again i don't need or even want the act of listening to radio to be "sexy".

Haven't listened to Maconie since the 90s but gushy radio presenters who constantly blether away about how much they luuurve the record they just played is one of my biggest bugbears. Actually I think this was the subject of my first ever ILM thread. I don't mind a bit of enthusiasm, especially if it's genuine and more importantly interesting, but all this "I was sitting in my kitchen the other day when this song came on and I have to say that this will blow you away" thing is so dully condescending it makes me want to switch off immediately.

You have to be able to balance it out. Too much enthusiasm and you wonder: "which PR company is paying the DJ to say this?"

I'd rather have sexy radio than Aspergic radio.

i.e. explain every last thing about the Clash as though brains or Google or YouTube didn't exist because you're afraid if you don't your listeners will switch to BetterMusicMix FM where they can hear "London Calling" 200 times an hour.

I think it's a common problem with music radio and music publishing; it's an industry based not on love, but on fear.

Print media is just more risky these days. At least with digital if you cover something niche you're sort of guaranteed someone will be interested, and even if they aren't it's not the end of the world. Once you start having to factor in printing and logistical costs it all becomes hedged bets.

But again it's not so much what is covered that gets me, it's how it's covered. We're at a stage where prestige for a written article has switched from print to digital, so a respectable writer would more likely appear online than in one of these shallow rags.

which is why people like Morley are pathologically grumpy about So-Called Internet Critics superseding "traditional gatekeepers." Someone from '76 calling himself a "traditional gatekeeper," oh my sides.

Something mags used to do was take the piss quite a bit - out of musicians, out of the music industry, out of themselves even. There was a kind of irreverence, a "who gives a hoot, it's only music" attitude that I don't see much any more even in the best publications and sites and certainly not in mainstream alt-monthlies where even a mildly disparaging review is considered daring.

was thinking about how much i LOVED buying magazines and how many magazines i used to buy! i would go to a barnes & noble 10+ years ago and buy, like, 15 magazines at a time. i never buy magazines anymore. i'll buy ugly things once or twice a year or however often it comes out and maybe once a year in the winter during a blizzard i might get some new mags at the drug store if i think i'll be inside all day.

turns out most of the planet can live without them.

i'd guess a lot of the demographic who used to buy magazines when travelling have portable dvds/internet/whatever that takes away their need to read

http://khu.music.s3.amazonaws.com/songify_504f6c10e6a0e.mp3

Celeb gossip magazines still sell shitloads and that stuff is all over the internet too.

Picked up this 'Classic Pop' thingie.
Editorially, it ticks off all the right boxes for a 40 yr old raised on synths n ABC n mtv, but the writing is flat and uninspired and the layout is kinda ugly. Oh well.

Can't see this lasting very long.

http://www.classicpopmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/CP01.CoverUK-250px-210x300.jpg

The story of Trevor Horn's ZIT

couldn't have been less entertaining than their story of Trevor Horn's ZTT!

mr.raffles, man he was mean (but probably fair)

btw what was the 'influence of Kraftwerk' article like? I'd like to imagine that it was just some blank pages with a note at the top saying 'If you've bought this magazine you can probably write this article yourself.'

On The Road With Madness - Adam Ant

^^^ you're ALL doing a much better job than CP did!

@sno - every article is a 'you could've written it yourself!' no real insight at all in these pages.

The Kraftwerk bit is an excerpt from 'Publikation' btw.

There's quite a bit of cobbling together features from existing sources.

Now with Added Vintage Rock Magazine

http://www.vintagerockmag.com/subscribe/

We were once given some tickets to see Goldfrapp supporting Duran Duran at the M.E.N Arena. It was a bit of a shock to see middle-aged people in cardigans *losing it* for the headliners. Classic Pop reminds me of that sometimes but it does have some very good writers.

how much is this mag now?

found out that Classic Pop is not part of the classic rock/prog etc stable and is just cashing in on the name

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NWHJMH3

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