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| Subject | Re: Blow Me, Rolling Stone |
| Date | Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:53:05 -0400 |
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Rolling Stone stopped being relevant for me so far back I can't even remember when that was. I think RS went the way that most music magazines usually go--they have to meet their audience's expectations, and sell issues, so they cover what their audiences are interested in. Yeah, RS was relevant to me in its early days, but the magazine now covers music that I have no interest in. So, I'm not surprised RS doesn't speak to me. And I can read Peter Travers' movie reviews online.
As far as the RRHOF is concerned, I went a whole lotta years ago, and my impression was one of design over substance. Sure, the building is impressive looking--for a modern art museum, perhaps, but it doesn't say rock 'n' roll. And there was so much open space that should have been used for exhibits that I really felt cheated as a visitor. It reminds me of how much fun I used to have when I lived in New York and visited the Musuem of Broadcasting, as it was called then. I would watch old kinescopes, tapes of favorite shows, news events, whathaveyou, for as long as they would allow me to be there on a single admission. Good bang for my buck.
Madonna will never mean a thing to me, so her induction doesn't even register. Now, if Gilbert O'Sullivan ever gets in, that might be another thing entirely...
Alan
http://www.buhdge.com
http://www.purepopradio.com
Artists getting into the RRHOF don't make me want to like them any more than I already do, nor does this make me want to check out artists I may not have listened to over the years. Frankly, the whole getting inducted thing doesn't faze me. The quality of an artist's work does.
---- Steve Alter <shteevea@yahoo.com> wrote:
> RS jumped that shark decades ago, when they did cheesecake shots of Linda Ronstadt when Living in the USA came out; that really was the end of it as a music mag for me. (Not that I had a problem with Linda's cheesecake, I just didn't want to see them there. ;-)) There's still occassionally decent political and music jounalism buried in there, but it is subservient to the mag's pop culture marketing bent.
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> Mojo is without question the best real music mag, though Q is still OK (gone the way of RS a little bit over the past few years). I also read Harp and Paste regularly, because they cover music I like, but the writing is realllly inconsistent.
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> As for the Hall, no it's not really a "Rock 'n' Roll" Hall of Fame, and it's a disgrace how many important folks aren't acknowledged while Madge gets in...but I'll just walk past her stuff when I'm there, (Just like I'll walk past Bobby Bond's in Cooperstown.)
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> Aaron Milenski <amilenski@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > Yup. RS stopped being relevant decades ago. > It is to rock journalism what Danielle Steele is to literature.> Give me MOJO any day.
> I was in a local bookstore a few years ago looking for the newest issue of Mojo, and the woman who worked there said "yes, a magazine that actually is about music. Look at this!" And she proceeded to show me the display, where the Mojo magazine had a photo of a band with their guitars on the cover and Rolling Stone, Spin and a number of other US "music mags" had half-naked women on the covers.
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