#181

I only discovered Select very late in its lifecycle sadly, but there were some cracking CDs with the couple of issues I did get, had my first introduction to The Fall, Outkast, Magnetic Fields, Lambchop, Kelis, Deltron 3030 and more from those cover discs.

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#182

I think I only started buying it over the course of the last four issues. One CD had the BBC Sessions version of Mogwai’s New Paths To Helicon long before Government Commissions came out. Pretty sure I’ve still got it in a box somewhere for that very reason.

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#183

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This was the first one I got and it’s a bit of a classic - I know everyone goes on about the CDs (which were great) but man look at those POSTERS!

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#184

I still mourn select

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#185

did anyone here buy X-Ray magazine? got into a few bands via their cover CDs, including the mars volta and the thermals

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#186

Yes, the posters! Where do teenagers get posters to stick on their wall now if no-one is buying magazines?

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#187

Yes! I got the last three issues and thought I’d found a friend for life

#188

Looking back I definitely had a few years of madness in the late 90s early 00s when I was buying practically every music mag I could get hold of every month - Q, Uncut, Mojo, Vox, Select, Mixmag, the occasional Rolling Stone on import and the weekly NME, Melody Maker and Kerrang. I mourned each of them as and when they passed. I think I actively stopped buying music mags after the death of BANG! which just felt weirdly personal, in a way.
Only came back to print mags in the last couple of years after discovering Electronic Sound.

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#189

I liked that magazine, but was very irked by that particular cover.

#190

at least bang magazine is immortalised in that help she can’t swim song (when I look up the lyrics it says ‘band’ magazine but I swear it is bang)

#191

Ah yes, the mega band HSCS. That’ll definitely keep Bang magazine high in the public consciousness
:wink:

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#192

Their walls are just full of selfies.

#193

I probably bought it a few times in the 90s, then forgot about it until my mum bought me a copy in Asda last week for my birthday, along with some dolcelatte and a bag of mixed nuts.
Thanks mum x

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#194

Never heard of this but would like to get to the bottom of that nuclear strength Carl Craig take in the top left.

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#195

I thought that said Rovers for a minute and was trying to think what the reference was

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#196

I got a few issues of it, mainly for the CDs.

I also got the first few editions of Bang!, but it petered out and ended up retreating into averageness before folding.

CarelessTalkCostsLives, LooseLipsSinkShips and PlanB were my favourites, all from the same stable.

I’ve never really got into Wire, despite liking the kind of music that they cover.

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#197

Some relics from yesteryears…

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#199

Anyone remember the short lived Sun Zoom Spark?

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#200

Same. I wondered whether they’d interviewed this bloke by mistake: