My daddy was a TV, my mommy was a magazine

[venta]

My previous post reminds me: I don't actually like lists of things as a form of entertainment. Which therefore poses the question "What on earth am I doing with a subscription to Q magazine?"

If you've never picked up a copy of Q, you perhaps won't know that it has some form of OCD relating to lists. Every issue... we reveal the top 20 songwriters! The top 100 songs of all time! 300 albums you must listen to before you DIE! 25 greatest gigs!

Et cetera. By the time you've added in their monthly charts, their double page spread on the 50 recommended downloads for this month, the list of top lists of all time... it's a complete fillerfest and there's barely half a page left for any actual content.

However, here's my dilemma... I read Vox magazine for years, until it packed in, and then started reading Q when I'm sure it wasn't so list-centric. But looking around the shelves, I simply don't see anything particularly appealing to replace my monthly Q.

Does anyone have any recommendations for good music magazines ? Select's packed in these days, and Mojo scares me by being far too grown up and worthy. There's a wealth of classical music magazines of varying qualities, but I'd like something that covers a more rock/pop/indie sort of area.

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[venta.livejournal.com]

Er... who is the Fifty Quid Bloke ? Does he hang out with the man on the Clapham Omnibus ?

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

I first saw him defined in this article.

"The 50-quid bloke is a big user of the web, Hepworth says, but unlike his children, he wants to own things. He shops at Amazon as well as the high street. He loathes Pop Idol, telling the kids it devalues everything rock music stands for (the kids reply that it's only a TV show, dad). But he is defined more by his likes than his dislikes and, crucially, he wants to keep up. He likes the White Stripes, Coldplay and Blur and has persevered with Radiohead through the difficult last three albums. His latest buys are the debut albums from the Stands, who remind him of the Byrds, and Franz Ferdinand, who remind him of the Glasgow art-school bands of 1982. The fact that most of the new bands sound old is a definite help."

(That was a few years ago, the references need updating!)

[reddragdiva]

That would be me, except buying things means you have to put them somewhere. I'm a big fan of 500 gigabyte music buckets.

[venta.livejournal.com]

That would be me

Aha! I've always suspected you were a Coldplay fan ;p

[reddragdiva]

NO! NO! OLD OBSCURE POSTPUNK FROM THE OLDEN DAYS!

You know, where I go to MP3 blogs, listen to obscure early-early-early industrial and think, "... y'know, this stuff always did suck."

[venta.livejournal.com]

:)

Which reminds me, have you started dancing like a dad yet ?

[reddragdiva]

WHAT MAKES YOU THINK I STOPPED?

[venta.livejournal.com]

Heels.