SELECT Magazine, RIP

OK, my nostalgia is slightly dampened by reading all the tracklists for the Vox and Select cover tapes and CDs I actually have (quite a few) and remembering all the shit tracks that were actually on there in between the lyfe-changing classixxx etc etc (or, how I blanked out that all mid-90s covertapes were contractually obliged to feature either the Cranberries or Paul Weller).

Even Select's rave! techno! future! tape had to find some rubbish James remix so they could put "JAMES" in big letters on the tape cover and not scare away the indies.

Wait, I was one of the indies, then, and I'm still grateful to Select for making electronic music sound like the most fascinating concept ever, back when I wouldn't otherwise have heard much of it.

I bought vox once I think just to get Orbital - Belfast i think it was. Im trying to remember if one of them had leftfield - not forgotten. If they did, i will have bought it for that.

http://selectmagazinescans.netii.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/albums.jpg

OMG I remember that list. That was what led me to track down Dodgy and Ocean Colour Scene - much to my displeasure. Damn you days before the internet.

Pop stars discuss Morrissey’s Your Arsenal album
http://selectmagazinescans.netii.net/?p=415

At first I thought that list was pretty good, but that was because my brain filtered out the fucking Manics at #1 thinking it was an advert and then thought the column with Underworld, the Boo Radleys, Stereolab, Tortoise was the top 5, with Orbital at #6.

Oh well.

Select albums of the year 1990 - 2000
http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/select.html

I'll take 1990-era Select which did seem to be genuinely all over the map than post-95, obviously Britpop completely narrowed then killed this magazine's focus. Asking some zeitgeist-y indie twats 'have you ever had a heavy metal phase', ugh.

The magazine ran a New Order interview from August or September 1993 that's one of the best long pieces ever on the band.

I read the magazine fairly regularly -- would even splurge on the import charges -- until about '95.

I have time for lots of the stuff listed from 90-94. How did Regret not get best single in 1993?

did you see Best Select Albums Of The Year List

The Birth of Britpop:
http://selectmagazinescans.netii.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/britpop1.jpg

select get tae fuck for inventing britpop you horrible xenephobic 'ironic' shit mag

none of this is really surprising me except 'King Of The Black Market'. seriously wtf. that was from it's first weird year before all the good writers joined. was it even run by a different publisher that first year or..something?

first issue i got was the Depeche 1990 one. anyone else? that's not really Prince on the first issue either if you look closely.

and yeah Rich is right that 93 New Order dominated issue was bloody fantastic.

I remember that 'What... No Bluetones?' thing from 1996 - I never liked the Bluetones but thought it was a bit rich/odd to sneer at them when the actual list includes Space, Shed Seven and Ocean Colour Scene...

First issue I got was the one with the Compleat Blur article, which was pretty much brilliant.

"Seminal music genre...featured Menswear and Thurman...Ooh, don't get me started...Changed your life, didn't it? Cast at the Dublin Castle, tracksuit tops, Paul Weller back on top. Best days of my f**king life...All of which fails to explain why you mongs forgot to vote for me in the readers' poll. Can't-f**king-read-ers poll, more like. Wankers."

The sudden hatred of The Bluetones was weird

They were very "default"

I'll step in and defend Bluetones. Their first album was full of great songwriting but they always got lumped in with the other Britpop also rans.

This is what Select did to the fortnightly rock/metal mag RAW

http://www.thestoneroses.co.uk/images/Raw1995_1.jpg
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511xWeDfyJL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
FROM THE MAKERS OF SELECT it proclaims on the cover. Raw was a great mag before this.

You can buy that Jarvis one if you want to
http://www.amazon.com/Select-Jarvis-Cocker-Bluetones-Oasis/dp/B0034ZKZHQ/ref=sr_1_29?ie=UTF8&qid=1299252839&sr=8-29

or
http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_trksid=p5197.m570.l1313&_nkw=select+magazine&_sacat=See-All-Categories

who wants a Select in a cereal box? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Select-Magazine-Dec-1995-Stone-Roses-X-Files-Blur-/290537173629?pt=UK_Magazines&hash=item43a55d727d

hehe, i knew a metal kid in my class who was incensed at the raw indie re-format. it was weird, why not just start an unrelated magazine and fold the old one? how many pantera fans were gonna start digging on menswe@r?

It seems particularly silly as it was basically Select magazine anyway but fortnightly.

RAW was better than Kerrang tbh , it was a bit more open-minded. But turning into select fortnightly was toooooo much.

Imagine MUZIK had decided to continue but as NME Lite, that is how daft the raw relaunch was. Not only were metal fans gonna buy it but the select readers didn't either. Publishers do not help themselves sometimes.

Did nobody think of those with subscriptions?

seeing that "yanks go home" issue is a pleasant suprise actually... i like all the bands and it doesn't really have anything to do with the post-oasis wannabe-yob culture that had set into mersh indie by '96, quite the opposite in fact. seems more like a celebration of the things that do actually make british pop music unique like eccentricity and being the nerdy underdog. luke haines, lawrence, jarvis and st ettienne peeps all bros. suede were ok i guess.

hah, oh god, I dunno how those people must have reacted.

xp

poor bastards

that font for the "raw" logo was everywhere in the mid 90s, kinda like if you'd made the letters out of ice and then let them melt.

corny drop-shadow a nice touch, too

I think that period stone roses could have been covered by RAW anyway. Sebadoh and dinosaur jr and sonic youth,afghan whigs and other more indie acts etc all did. Metal Hammer covered Oasis (or at least they got in their albums of year list) and i knew a lot of metal fans who dug the 1st oasis album. so why they just changed completely is beyond me.

LOL look at the difference between the other years & 1995
http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/raw.htm

btw the late 80s/early 90s ones aren't there and would have provided even more of a contrast

I appreciate you tirelessly defending the honour of a magazine so on it they gave album of the year to The Wildhearts but I think that, 16 years on, you should maybe let it go.

haha

the wildhearts had some hooks! catchy as fuck.

what was the "photoshop pull out" in raw?

give $10 to jjjusten and he can go to this shop to find out http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0034ZKZHQ/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&qid=1299252839&sr=8-29&condition=used

You can buy issue 1 of Vox magazine from 1990
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VOX-MAGAZINE-HAPPY-MONDAYS-Issue-1-Oct-1990-/320604238867?pt=UK_Magazines&hash=item4aa5807413

issue 2 is there as well

Comes with the Original Box - the Box is in fairly good condition and will be flattened out for posting. Alas, the stuff in the box was eaten 16 years ago.

One of the only things I remember about Select is they once gave away a Michael Eavis mask and it scared the shit out of my sister when I jumped out at her with it on.

ha ha ha

you should have tried wearing it upside down

too good and funny to die this thread.

unlike the magazine!

Well this is fun: http://selectmagazinescans.monkeon.co.uk/

Really want to know how many copies that Gay Dad issue sold.