Worst Music Media Publication (alternative, punk, rock, albums, fan)

**Janszoon** · 11-21-2008, 01:05 PM

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Originally Posted by WaspStar

Anyone who hates Rolling Stone mag (hopefully everyone) needs to check out Elvis Costello's liner notes for the Rhino version of Get Happy!!!

It's hilarious; he dismisses the magazine as a "rag [which] has, over the years, undergone a remarkable transformation from an organ of the supposed counterculture to a shallow pop-culture shop window for starlets and acrobats while funding their efforts with generous amounts of Big Tobacco advertising revenue and offers of penis enlargement to easily deluded teenage boys."

heh

Minstrel · 11-21-2008, 02:42 PM

Is there really much of a difference between music magazines? I've read a fair amount of them over the years and, outside of some slight tone differences, there doesn't seem to be a more homogenous industry than music journalism. There almost seems to be a formally approved style that music magazines (counting e-zines, like Pitchfork) adhere to and writers for them adhere to.

I found them (and still find Pitchfork) somewhat useful just as information as to what's been newly released outside the mainstream. But there's precious little insight. Their implicit goal seems to be to try and foster an elitist culture and language for their readers to feel a part of. Nothing more, nothing less. At base, it's really not to do with music, though music is certainly the theme. It's about feeling part of an exclusive society.

Music magazine culture is to being a music fan as organized religion is to being spiritual. You can be into music or spirituality through your own exploration...the organized culture is for feeling a part of a society (with the attendant us-vs-them mentality).

ObiSobi · 11-21-2008, 11:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Minstrel

Is there really much of a difference between music magazines?

I agree completly. They all belong in the same place... the trash.

Zombeels · 11-22-2008, 12:30 AM

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Originally Posted by shiseido_red

Any publication that attempts to compile a list of the "Top 100" anythings.

Let's see...that would be all of them.

FireInCairo · 11-22-2008, 12:40 AM

NME and RS are the worst of a bad bunch.
I don't mind clash though for my fill of elitist indie rhetoric.

15Steps · 11-22-2008, 01:06 AM

f*cking ign.

stick to the game reviews lads.

WaspStar · 11-22-2008, 05:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Minstrel

Music magazine culture is to being a music fan as organized religion is to being spiritual. You can be into music or spirituality through your own exploration...the organized culture is for feeling a part of a society (with the attendant us-vs-them mentality).

That's a really good point there. I think a lot of those dreaded "top 100" lists are meant to reassure people that they don't need to look past their already existing Beatles collections for music.

anticipation · 11-22-2008, 12:35 PM

spin magazine is absolute garbage,
as well as sports illustrated.

dac · 11-22-2008, 12:51 PM

NME gives us pumps up Oasis and Bloc Party. Rolling Stone puts Fall Out Boy and Panic at the Disco on their cover.

Rolling stone by a mile.

FaSho · 11-22-2008, 01:17 PM

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11-21-2008, 02:42 PM	#12 (permalink)
Minstrel Music Addict Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 436	Is there really much of a difference between music magazines? I've read a fair amount of them over the years and, outside of some slight tone differences, there doesn't seem to be a more homogenous industry than music journalism. There almost seems to be a formally approved style that music magazines (counting e-zines, like Pitchfork) adhere to and writers for them adhere to. I found them (and still find Pitchfork) somewhat useful just as information as to what's been newly released outside the mainstream. But there's precious little insight. Their implicit goal seems to be to try and foster an elitist culture and language for their readers to feel a part of. Nothing more, nothing less. At base, it's really not to do with music, though music is certainly the theme. It's about feeling part of an exclusive society. Music magazine culture is to being a music fan as organized religion is to being spiritual. You can be into music or spirituality through your own exploration...the organized culture is for feeling a part of a society (with the attendant us-vs-them mentality). __________________ "Blow your tuneless trumpet, the choice is yours / We don't want the glamour, the pomp and the drums / The Dublin messiah scattering crumbs"

11-22-2008, 12:40 AM	#15 (permalink)
FireInCairo Later on... Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Melbourne Posts: 1,235	NME and RS are the worst of a bad bunch. I don't mind clash though for my fill of elitist indie rhetoric. __________________ O G MUDBONE: Only You can prevent forest fires.

11-22-2008, 01:06 AM	#16 (permalink)
15Steps The Passenger Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Bucketheadland Posts: 583	f*cking ign. stick to the game reviews lads. __________________

11-22-2008, 12:51 PM	#19 (permalink)
dac MB's Biggest Fanboy Join Date: May 2008 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land Posts: 2,852	NME gives us pumps up Oasis and Bloc Party. Rolling Stone puts Fall Out Boy and Panic at the Disco on their cover. Rolling stone by a mile. __________________

11-22-2008, 12:35 PM	#18 (permalink)
anticipation Music Addict Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 3,565	spin magazine is absolute garbage, as well as sports illustrated.