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Originally Posted by silenced
UK is such a small market compared to US and yet they really know how to put together a magazine
sound on sound, future music, computer music, even the guitar ones
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Same goes for the way they cover the music scene. I was way into Select and Q in the mid-90s Brit-pop era, and I thought they really put US rags like Spin and Rolling Stone to shame. They were much more cheeky and irreverent, and when they were snide--which was most of the time--they were way funnier . . . because they had the stones to laugh AT the celebs--not just wink along WITH them, like the timid sycophants at Spin and RS. Oh, and they wrote better captions.
And most importantly, they so weren't waterlogged with "significance." You never felt like they were berating you for not liking the classic rock. I mean, Rolling Stone is STILL penning flatulent tributes to the Grateful Dead, Dylan, Mick Jagger, et al. Absolutley snooze-inducing. (Don't get me wrong--I like 60s music, but let it go, people, it's 2005. Jan Wenner berating us for not caring enough about the 60s is ridiculous. I mean, were the kids in the 60s lectured endlessely about the Cultural Significance of the flappers of the 20s? I think not.)