well, What's the Best Music Magazine in the Werld?

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where are all the positive peeps around here ? always so negative

― Vic (Vic), Sunday, 14 September 2003 05:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Comes With A Smile. it is perhaps the only music magazine that has never pissed me off badly in one way or another. always comes with a fab CD too. perhaps a little too alt.country leaning for some though

― the surface noise (electricsound), Sunday, 14 September 2003 05:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Ptolemaic Terrascope and Broken Face are both good, for the indie/psych fan.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Sunday, 14 September 2003 06:08 (twenty-two years ago)

ptolemaic terrascope is pretty cool, but bloody hard on the eyes

― the surface noise (electricsound), Sunday, 14 September 2003 06:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Just read Careless Talk Costs Lives for the first time and that was pretty cool.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Sunday, 14 September 2003 08:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Rock Sound

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 14 September 2003 08:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I like Sound on Sound, Total Guitar, The photos in Careless Talks, the non-music review stuff in punk planet, the music reviews in Vice.
Kerrang is good to read in Smiths.

― mei (mei), Sunday, 14 September 2003 08:56 (twenty-two years ago)

The Village Voice or Freaky Trigger.

― David. (Cozen), Sunday, 14 September 2003 09:19 (twenty-two years ago)

< /don't know what tag this should be: self-congratulatory? blinkered? inbred? annoying? sheltered? true?>

― David. (Cozen), Sunday, 14 September 2003 09:20 (twenty-two years ago)

sound projector, or possibly sound collector

― autovac (autovac), Sunday, 14 September 2003 09:29 (twenty-two years ago)

but the village voice isn't a music magazine

― Vic (Vic), Sunday, 14 September 2003 10:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know ifthis means nything, but I stopped reading Q, NME et al about the same time as I started reading Freaky Trigger and hipping in on ILM.

ILM seems like the best music mag to me, in that you can fight back with the stupid writers if you feel the need.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Sunday, 14 September 2003 10:43 (twenty-two years ago)

The Matmos interview in the current Wire is the most exciting thing I've read in years (not just because 'The Civil War' seems to be catching up with what I've been doing since 1999, and what Goodiepal has been doing since 2001). I like De:Bug too. You can web-translate it.

― Momus (Momus), Sunday, 14 September 2003 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Sound Collector is a cool magazine! It reminds me of the old Chemical Imbalance or one of those other mags from way back when.I love Bananafish too cuz I love all those long interviews with mad professor-type noise and minimal people. I usually have no idea what they are talking about. I like The Big Takeover for the interviews too. I must really like the Q&A format cuz i end up reading 40-page interviews with the members of Leatherface or somebody else that I have never heard and probably never will hear. I think its cute too how Jack will say to some grizzled punk vet, "hey, remember when you spilled your drink on me in 1979 and you apologized to me?" like he's still a ten year old kid. I admire his enthuisiasm. I used to love Seconds magazine cuz those interviews were extremely entertaining. They would have that great mix too. Hakim Bey into Bootsie Collins into Anton Levay,etc.I love Terrorizer and Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles and Ugly Things and i used to like that Mojo Collections mag before they stopped it cuz i'm a geek.I still like Mojo for the pretty pictures and the occasional story. That Sly Stone one was cool and so was the Stevie Wonder one.

― scott seward, Sunday, 14 September 2003 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

FT with it's tributaries has almost completely weened me off the printed press. I gave up reading the NME in February after 4 and a half years and since then I bought the first issue of Bang because it was £1, and an issue of Muzik because it had that Cassius French house CD with it.

― Nick H, Sunday, 14 September 2003 15:46 (twenty-two years ago)

ILM: 'the only good music mag is a dead one'

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 14 September 2003 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

THE VILLAGE VOICE??!?!?!?!??!?!?!

― Evan (Evan), Sunday, 14 September 2003 20:50 (twenty-two years ago)

You haven't read it.

― David. (Cozen), Sunday, 14 September 2003 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)

FT isn't just about music and it isn't a magazine!

The one I most enjoy at the moment is probably Popworld though its reviews section is teeny-tiny and it's still only OK - doesn't bore me though which is a mercy.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 15 September 2003 08:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Well colour me stupid.

― David. (Cozen), Monday, 15 September 2003 10:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Did anyone ever read Pop! Year Zero fanzin, circa 1996-99? That was the best thing ever, almost.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Monday, 15 September 2003 13:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Tom, I didn't say FT was a music magazine. If it was though, rest assured it would be the answer to the original question.

― Nick H, Monday, 15 September 2003 14:04 (twenty-two years ago)

No no David did - he's not stupid though.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 15 September 2003 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

The Village Voice??

― um, Tuesday, 16 September 2003 03:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Julio:the only good musician is a dead one

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 08:27 (twenty-two years ago)

that comment could only come from someone who sees DJs week in, week out. I mean, its not like they are proper musicians really ;)

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 11:17 (twenty-two years ago)

haha, I meant to put it in quotations, I thought that'd be your stance!

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 11:38 (twenty-two years ago)

no. I like musicians or ppl who 'can play'.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 11:58 (twenty-two years ago)

The Beat, out of Los Angeles is a self-described reggae, african, caribbean and latin music magazine that has good columns and ocassionally interesting features. It's got its weaknesses but the columnists write about some stuff (Congolese, Brazilian, Algerian) that I never see written up in much depth anywhere else. Their columnists are based around the world, but I'm not sure how easy it is to find outside the USA. Their annual dancehall issue would interest some ILM posters I'm sure.

― Steve Kiviat (Steve K), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 17:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Audion ownz all other musick magazines.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Melody Maker 1993-1996 was unquestionably the finest music magazine ever. What went wrong thereafter, God only knows, but for a while back there the breadth of music covered was fantastic. Meanwhile, the wit and imagination of some of their finest writers (Bennun, Price, Parkes, True, Mueller, Stubbs, Reynolds) was surpassed by nobody. Anything you care to mention now is just stale old toss, or cynical cooler-than-thou tedium. Wish it wasn't the case, but it just is.

― Cardinal Fang, Tuesday, 16 September 2003 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

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