#101

They also did many great, if pricey, specials. This (2003 and couldn’t be any other year with how much people are thinking daily about Electric Six :joy:) was not a definitive list, as it included ringtones and Har Mar Superstar’s "top 5 least sexy songs) but still brilliant and such good fun.

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#102

It’s a shame people have lost their jobs… but we can all agree that Q was the absolute nadir of music journalism for at least a decade. It’s sad that their current editor couldn’t drag it out of its own grave.

#103

Yeah, I think they’ll be around in 5 years’ time, or at least I would like to think so.

As has already been said, it’s not necessarily that Q magazine has fundamentally changed, but instead the landscape has. Digital media has killed print media.

Personal anecdote: before I decided to go to university my father was desperate for me to get into the print trade as it always seen as a safe profession, had a good pension, good pay etc, but talking to family friends who worked in the industry they could see the writing was on the wall the minute internet usage took hold, and they were proved right. None of them now work in the industry and it’s less than a tenth of what it used to be. It’s over to a large extent. Not just magazines but I struggle to see how the newspaper industry will be financially viable. Circulation in recent years has collapsed and titles are still struggling to create a revenue model online in the face of free news coverage.

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#104

Yeah cracking mag that, originally the pics were for SPIN

https://citizeninsane.eu/media/usa/spin/04/pt_2000-11_spin.htm

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#105

Dipped into some music titles on Readly lately too. Simple to use and good range. The benefit for mags must be the increased reach and circulation numbers. I guess the revenue is potentially quite limited. Sharing out the monthly tenner of a highly engaged user across Readly and multiple publishers leaves little cash compared to issue sales and subscriptions. But those models are not doing so well!

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#106

Likewise just subscribed to Readly but I’m guessing it’s just like Spotify - x amount gets divided up between magazines/publishers every month, amounting to not very much.

#107

Seeing a lot of snide comments with regards to Q’s recent issues/focus but I thought it was a very decent publication. Used to read it lots in my early teens and definitely turned me on to some good bands.

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#109

Pretty much. Readly takes its cut and divvies up the rest. The fewer mags we read, the more the lucky few publishers earn. But the increased reach helps sell ad space, so hopefully it brings in cash for publishers elsewhere.

#110

Yeah, they did. It’s this, Be Here Now and that Semisonic album from around 2001 that always come to mind first whenever the subject of Q’s more misguided ***** treatments comes up.

#111

It’s a tricky one. I don’t stream music because I want the artists to receive a reasonable fraction of the money I spend on them, yet I have and enjoy my Readly subscription. I guess my justification is that I’d stopped buying all print magazines*, so in the end they’re getting some (small) amounts of my money rather than none whatsoever :man_shrugging:

I regularly bought Kerrang!, NME, Melody Maker, Vox, Q & Select (and others intermittently) as a teenager/twentysomething, but eventually stopped them all as the content I actually wanted to read dwindled or they went out of print. Readly is perfect for that: I always want to read the reviews in all magazines, and articles-wise there’s usually a magazine or two’s worth of interesting content spread between Q, Mojo, Uncut, Prog, Record Collector, Metal Hammer, Classic Rock, Electronic Sound and Long Live Vinyl (the last of those is probably my favourite at the moment)

*Not entirely true, I still have a physical subscription to Sky & Telescope :upside_down_face:

#112

Remember that same year they gave Stadium Arcadium the same score. A fucking double-RHCP-album.

#113

Yep. Q was instrumental in my musical upbringing teen years. But if anything the most important lesson it taught me was to be very sceptical of mainstream music reviews.

Reveal(their 2nd worst album)
Discovery(I like this but it’s not 5)
Semisonic
RHCP
Etc…

I worked them out before I wasted too much of my cash

#114

Really want to listen to semisonic now

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#116

Yep, it’s a fucking ten!

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#117

My only frame of reference is this unfavourable comparison by pitchfork for the second James Iha solo album

bafflingly outdated alt-rock songs that could comfortably sidle between choice cuts from Marcy Playground and Semisonic and get their asses handed to them.

#118

Such sad news.

I’ve decided to do a thread of magazines to subscribe to. Feel free to share and suggest some I’ve missed (going to bed now but will definitely add more in the morning)

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#119

This should have been the mega hit, always thought the Adele one was pretty average.

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#120

Was never a massive fan of Q however, one of the few times I bought it they did reviews of I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning before I had gotten into Bright Eyes and Handsome Boy Modelling School - White People. So I’m grateful for those 2 albums at least.