Music mags as a kid

I only got shoot the footy mag, remember getting the first at Neil’s, Holmfield rd.
Also helping myself to Mayfair etc from under my big bro’s bed, the dirty git 😏
 
Not when I was a kid, but a bit older. Metal Hammer, Kerrang! and mail order Loud One. Also a bloke in UK who used to produce his own mag and mail order service.
 
Lala said:
Pinched from another thread (ish) .
Did you have a favourite?
I had Smash Hits on order, but in my defence I was a teenage girl at the time.
Loved my music 😍
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Yes.. I'd get Smash Hits for the free flexi discs and lyrics to all the songs... But would get NME just to read up on the Punk, Electro bands just so I could try and look like I was at the cutting edge of music. But sadly I was a typical TOTP type kid.
 
NME. Read it cover to cover every week. Read others as well but NME was my preferred one.

I really miss music magazines. I don't think you can actually buy one that's not a retro one now. Oh, actually, you can cos I occasionally but the Wire but it's too up its own arse to but regularly and is like an academic study of very worthy serious music mostly.
 
td53 said:
NME. Read it cover to cover every week. Read others as well but NME was my preferred one.

I really miss music magazines. I don't think you can actually buy one that's not a retro one now. Oh, actually, you can cos I occasionally but the Wire but it's too up its own arse to but regularly and is like an academic study of very worthy serious music mostly.
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I just listen to Radio 6 now for all my music needs and information.
 
Got the recently deceased Q magazine for many years from when it started in 1986. Naively believe my collection is now worth millions Rodney!
 
hertfordseasider said:
I just listen to Radio 6 now for all my music needs and information.
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Cos I'm contrary I very rarely listen to it as it's squarely aimed at me. I like Iggy though. His show is a bit mad and unexpected if indeed it's still on. I'm mostly hoping Steve Lamacq bores himself to death though. Hate him with a raging passion.
 
td53 said:
Cos I'm contrary I very rarely listen to it as it's squarely aimed at me. I like Iggy though. His show is a bit mad and unexpected if indeed it's still on. I'm mostly hoping Steve Lamacq bores himself to death though. Hate him with a raging passion.
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Iggy is still on every Friday evening, SL is very smashey and Nicey but his choice of music is excellent.
 
Penthouse, Whitehouse and Love Birds but not necessarily in that order..




Oh sorry, you said music magazines.....


Maybe I played to a different tune.
 
Smash Hits from about aged 11-15, along with Look In occasionally when they were giving away free stuff.

NME from aged 15 for the next 20years, started to go off it early 00's when it stopped being a newspaper.

Moved to Uncut and Mojo for the last 15yrs and added Electronic Sound for the last three or four.

During lockdown last year, I took advantage of subscription offers on Uncut and Mojo, delivered in the post every month. One was half price for the year, the other was two years for the price of one. Offers are probably still available.
 
I used to buy NME, Melody Maker and Q as a teen in the 90s. It's a shame they have all gone to the wall as I used to really look forward to reading them and seeing the gig listings etc.
 
NME every week from age 13 to 17. Then, I became interested in jazz, and switched to the Melody Maker.

I haven't bought a music paper for 50 years -- I rely on my kids and grandkids to keep me up with the latest trends.
 
Fortunately we had a newsagent on Highfield Road from 1971-76 when I was 8-13 so Thursday was the day when's all the music papers came. Sounds was my favourite but it was great to read them all for free and put them back on the counter. I was into all the rock bands from an early age and ZZ Top and Kraftwerk really before they were well known. Great days.
 
I went through a phase of Kerrang in the early 90s, mainly too try and keep abreast of what was happening in Maiden world.

But it did cause me an embarrassing time on the first holiday we went on together in 1993 in Ipsos, Corfu. It was a small company and the rep was a London wide boy, who managed to persuade us to attend a karaoke evening in the next town, think it was Dassia. Long story, we were late, the night wasn't very good and I got fearfully p****d. Knowing my musical tastes the rep bludgeoned me into doing the first one, saying there were some songs "I'd like". Scanning the list, virtually the only I recognised was It's a Sin by the PSB. I looked quizzically at the rep - well it's a rocky 80s one, was his explanation.

His payoff for agreeing was to introduce me to a group of two couples from Belgium, the men of which were in a rock band, so he told me. I'll introduce you, he said. I reckoned, if they were even close to recording anything I'd have heard of them at the time, reading Kerrang every week. So, suitably starstruck, I staggered off to meet them with the wife's encouraging words "don't bore him" ringing in my ears.

Turns out they were the Belgian equivalent of the likes of Shady. And I'm sure they were very good at what they did (as Shady were), but once I found that was them we obviously had nothing to say to each other, and a dreadful protracted silence ensued as I tried to work out how to leave without looking rude, and they no doubt wondered who I was, why I'd come over, when was I leaving again and how did they do it without risking a drunken tirade. He offered to send me a tape, which I gratefully accepted and moved off without giving an address. I still feel sorry for them now, having to meet this bladdered lunatic when they're just trying to have a nice holiday with their girlfriends.
 
NME and Sounds - gave up on Sounds due to Gary Bushell and his line in pseudo working class white boy warrior bollix. NME was like this board, infuriating but you had to read it!
 
NME and MM.

NME was definitely for the more serious studious types and MM a bit more light hearted. All in my opinion.
 
Sounds came out every Wednesday if I remember right.
Read it from late 70's right up to the late 80's....for the gig listings and latest bands
Loved kerrang as well......they broke Marillion, Twisted Sister and Motley Crue to the UK......as well as NWOBHM becoming an anacronym.

Had a shop called Nostalgia Comics where I lived that had all the US mags as well including one called Cream that was all about MOR/Rock 😍
 
td53 said:
Cos I'm contrary I very rarely listen to it as it's squarely aimed at me. I like Iggy though. His show is a bit mad and unexpected if indeed it's still on. I'm mostly hoping Steve Lamacq bores himself to death though. Hate him with a raging passion.
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6 is like a massive buffet. You'll always find something to like, but you'll never like all on offer.

SL sounds liker he's talking to teenagers in their bedroom doing geography homework, but he plays stuff.

I really detest Laverne. Really REALLY. But the music is OK.

Mary Anne 'i'm from a tiny little village called Garstang' Hobbs plays some brilliant stuff and her story must be a good read.

Keaveney is an arse. The Peter Kay of 6 'Did i mention garlic bread'?

Marc Riley seems to have toned down a bit of the shouty stuff but the intro jingle sends me packing.

Giddy & Co, rarely hear, but wouldn't tune elsewhere if listening.

Ravo is 100% brilliant, dry and knowledgeable about his stuff.

Rad Mac are really good, bit lost at weekend because of the time available, but great all the same.

6? Love it.
 
fcblackpool said:
6 is like a massive buffet. You'll always find something to like, but you'll never like all on offer.

SL sounds liker he's talking to teenagers in their bedroom doing geography homework, but he plays stuff.

I really detest Laverne. Really REALLY. But the music is OK.

Mary Anne 'i'm from a tiny little village called Garstang' Hobbs plays some brilliant stuff and her story must be a good read.

Keaveney is an arse. The Peter Kay of 6 'Did i mention garlic bread'?

Marc Riley seems to have toned down a bit of the shouty stuff but the intro jingle sends me packing.

Giddy & Co, rarely hear, but wouldn't tune elsewhere if listening.

Ravo is 100% brilliant, dry and knowledgeable about his stuff.

Rad Mac are really good, bit lost at weekend because of the time available, but great all the same.

6? Love it.
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I don't like a lot of the stuff Lurpack plays. I never ever need to hear Gene or Sleeper ever again. I can't remember if I invented this or I read it but I always call him "boring man in an indie disco"

He plays indie landfill half the time and I think for someone who seems to think he's keeping Peel's flame alive he really isn't.

Sometimes I am spectacularly misanthropic I think.

Laverne is just irritating. I used to fancy her ridiculously when she was in Kenickie though. She was in the NME being all wry and beautiful and in a band and packing in doing her A-levels write when I was at college. She's so bland now. :-(

I listen to WFMU a lot at home. It's an American freeform station and it has a similar eclectic style but is a bit less indie playlist. It can play some absolute shite but you never know what's on next. Could be 30s jazz, rockabilly or some mad 2 hour electronic mix.

I'd just like 6 to take a bit more of a risk and be less like a home for ex radio 1 DJs that aren't quite radio 2 material but it is good.

I surprisingly enjoy Craig Charles, even though it's not my thing at all... he just sounds so in love with what he plays.

Agree totally about Ravenscroft. It's in the blood innit!
 
td53 said:
I don't like a lot of the stuff Lurpack plays. I never ever need to hear Gene or Sleeper ever again. I can't remember if I invented this or I read it but I always call him "boring man in an indie disco"

He plays indie landfill half the time and I think for someone who seems to think he's keeping Peel's flame alive he really isn't.

Sometimes I am spectacularly misanthropic I think.

Laverne is just irritating. I used to fancy her ridiculously when she was in Kenickie though. She was in the NME being all wry and beautiful and in a band and packing in doing her A-levels write when I was at college. She's so bland now. :-(

I listen to WFMU a lot at home. It's an American freeform station and it has a similar eclectic style but is a bit less indie playlist. It can play some absolute shite but you never know what's on next. Could be 30s jazz, rockabilly or some mad 2 hour electronic mix.

I'd just like 6 to take a bit more of a risk and be less like a home for ex radio 1 DJs that aren't quite radio 2 material but it is good.

I surprisingly enjoy Craig Charles, even though it's not my thing at all... he just sounds so in love with what he plays.

Agree totally about Ravenscroft. It's in the blood innit!
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I'm going to give WFMU a go. But, is it a Steely Dan tribute station?
 
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