― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 11:07 (eighteen years ago) link
RAW Magazine was great. It covered loads of indie/alternative bands that Kerrang hadn't started covering yet(preferring the likes of Skin or more trad rock/metal bands at the time- how things change!) and it was my gateway to discovering Sebadoh, when Bubble & Scrape got a 5/5 review. Same with Sugar. Which actually was no3 in the albums of the year poll that year . (its a shame rocklist.net have removed the RAW lists) but get your nostalgia fix from Kerrang insteadhttp://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/kerrang.html#1991Scroll all the way down to 2005 and relive it all!
― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 11:09 (eighteen years ago) link
Would the 60ft Dolls fit here? Probably more NME than Raw, but some snotty punk goodness. Their Happy Shopper single is one I still hum to myself occasionally.
― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 11:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 11:25 (eighteen years ago) link
Saw Warrior Soul with Metallica in '89-ish. They were rubbish I thought.
― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 11:27 (eighteen years ago) link
He was a bit of a cock. His long history of being laughed at started with a somewhat immature 'gay' skit on the first Meatmen single in 1980
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 11:33 (eighteen years ago) link
I must have hours of videotape of this stuff. I need to dig it all out.
Sadly there will be lots of crap Thunder/Bon Jovi/Little Angels as the woman presenter loved that shite.
― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 11:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 11:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 11:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 11:51 (eighteen years ago) link
Didn't do much for me, I have to say.
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 11:58 (eighteen years ago) link
esp No's 2,11,15
― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 12:00 (eighteen years ago) link
The divide between the 80s and the 90s couldn't be more stark, could it? Although it would appear that for the guys at Kerrang! the 90s actually started in 1991!
― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 12:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 12:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 12:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 12:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 12:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 12:49 (eighteen years ago) link
Kerrang 1984 Singles
1. Van Halen - Jump2. Prince - When Doves Cry3. ZZ Top - Gimme All Your Lovin'4. John Waite - Missing You5. Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax6. Motörhead - Killed By Death7. Robin George - Heartline8. Steve Perry - Oh Sherrie9. Van Halen - I'll Wait10. W.A.S.P. - Animal (**** Like A Beast)
― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 12:51 (eighteen years ago) link
Yeah, David Lee Roth better than Master of Puppets and Reign in Blood on the '86 albums list! And who the hell were/ are the Vinnie Vincent Invasion? And was that really the 9th best album of 1986? Interesting to note that Purple Rain did extremely well in '84, as well.
― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 12:52 (eighteen years ago) link
7. Robin George - Heartline?
― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 12:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 13:01 (eighteen years ago) link
http://cover6.cduniverse.com/MuzeAudioArt/550/556666.jpg
― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 13:15 (eighteen years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e4/VinnieVincent.jpg
― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 13:17 (eighteen years ago) link
I like the way this thread has morphed from dubious rock bands of the 90s to- erm- dubious rock bands of the 80s!
― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 13:19 (eighteen years ago) link
x-post: Gawd, Charlotte Church is looking well rough there.
― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 13:21 (eighteen years ago) link
Robin George was pushed by Kerrang as a rising superstar around 1985, until they realised that no-one liked him. Sounded like Magnum I think.
― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 13:26 (eighteen years ago) link
I remember Kerrang giving Robin George the big push back in the '80's. My memory says aor/pomp-rock w/technoflashy lead guitar playing, but I'm not entirely sure. I do remember this promo photo, where he's standing on a hilltop, bare chested, sucking his cheekbones in, and holding a bc rich guitar. IIRC he wasn't a shredder, '90's style.
I checked his website, and he's evidently still making music, so good for him, I really fucking admire ppl who keep on plugging, even if I'm not into what they're doing. I was going to check his music out on his site, but it crashed not only firefox, but my entire PC! while I was (briefly) staring at the screen, I noticed that they'd misspelled "discography" as "discocraphy" haha.
He was certainly very handsome, probably the equivalent of lisa dominique for Kerrang's (many) female readerz.
Actually my main memory of Kerrang in the '80's was this constant migraineish background drone of grim adolescent mastubatory sexism. If you were into metal & prog rock, it was pretty much the only game in town - especially after someone at "sounds" went batshit insane and handed the editor's chair to g4rry bush3ll - and if you wanted to read abt new metal releases, tour d8s etc, you were stuck w/"kerrang". But, it wasn't much fun. How I wish we'd had "terrorizer" back then.
My ex band played at this big club last year, and in a cupboard in the dressing room, they had a big pile of old "kerrang" issues, starting at something like issue #3. Cover starts liek Asia, or Fish from Marillion, with his sub jaz-coleman facepaint! I decided to rip 'em off next time we played there, but when we did, they were all gone.
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 13:43 (eighteen years ago) link
We may as well do this nowPandora Vs Pandora Peroxide.
― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 13:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 13:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 13:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 13:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 13:53 (eighteen years ago) link
Kerrang!/NYC memory: It's Only Rock And Roll, a record store in Manhattan, used to sell Kerrang! for only 99 cents as a way to get people in the door. Did anyone else here religiously visit this store for this like I did?
(I found a reference to the store here!)
― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 13:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 13:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 13:58 (eighteen years ago) link
That sort of continues in "classic rock" magazine, which is pretty much targeted at ageing ex-80's-kerrang readers. They have people covering various sub-genres of metal, and someone covering prog rock. Many of the writers I remember from '80's Kerrang, and "Sounds" before that. They had a feature on all the less well-known nwobhm bands, written by geoff "deaf" barton iirc.
(x-post, yeah, I remember bushell writing for kerrang, but at least they didn't let him edit the bloody thing!)
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:07 (eighteen years ago) link
Kontinuum is officially the worst music magazine cartoon ever. Even worse than those two DJs from Melody Maker.
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:13 (eighteen years ago) link
Nurse! The screens!
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:22 (eighteen years ago) link
Pashmina, throw it all in the bin! Really! You'll never regret it.
― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:32 (eighteen years ago) link