Mojo: Yet another Beatles front cover....Who Would You Like To See On The Cover?

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ARGH!
How much more can they write on the beatles?
ARGH!

What bands would you like to see on the cover of MOJO Or In Depth coverage of?
Mine would be:

George Clinton.
Aphex Twin.
Mark Lanegan.

― Arthur McGowan, Friday, 13 August 2004 07:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Van der Graaf Generator
Hawkwind
Man

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 13 August 2004 07:53 (twenty-one years ago)

& yeah, more hyper-coverage of the beatles - why? what is the point?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 13 August 2004 07:54 (twenty-one years ago)

sales.

i believe there's an in-depth Mark Lanegan piece on the way, Keith Cameron has been interviewing Mark recently. Loose Lips did a seven page feature on Lanegan in our first issue, but that's sold out; there's a 2 page follow-up piece in our forthcoming third issue, due the end of next week.

― stevie (stevie), Friday, 13 August 2004 07:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I just point blank refuse to buy MOJO now if its the usual Beatles/Lennon/McCartney/Dylan etc issues.

If they must put them on the cover they could at least restrict the articles to 2/3 pages and do the in depth articles on other bands.
But when half the magazine is taken up with bloody Beatles stuff and then adds artcles on that fuckwad Weller i say no more!

― Arthur McGowan, Friday, 13 August 2004 08:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I find it reassuringly normal when Mojo have articles on the Beatles. It was when they went through their weird phase a few years back of doing massive retrospectives on bands like the Ramones, that I became deeply confused and disturbed. It made me feel old, and I didn't like that.

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Friday, 13 August 2004 08:41 (twenty-one years ago)

And that in a nutshell is why Mojo continues to have the Beatles on their cover.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 13 August 2004 08:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Mojo should do more lists, the 100 best tracks to wash your dishes to etc

I would like to see Bacharach on the cover

― mentalist (mentalist), Friday, 13 August 2004 08:43 (twenty-one years ago)

KAK, United states of America, Silver Apples & George Formby.

― Russell Dixon (Skinny), Friday, 13 August 2004 08:44 (twenty-one years ago)

i think magazines like uncut and mojo operate on the understanding that they have to do several Beatles etc cover stories every year, in order to keep the core fogey readership plugged in. not reading it for these reasons, and therefore missing out on their in-depth coverage of artists you might like, seems like cutting off your nose to spite yr face, somehow, but they're yr pennies to spend as you see fit!

ps. if you want the text to my loose lips lanegan piece, just drop me a line, though you do *really* need to see gullick's photos alongside them too.

― stevie (stevie), Friday, 13 August 2004 08:46 (twenty-one years ago)

LAFMS
Sun City Girls
Napalm death

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 13 August 2004 08:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Van der Graaf Generator

There was a pretty lengthy VDGG article in Mojo about a year or two back (maybe more?)

I still want Mojo articles on Magma, Judy Henske, and The Sound. k thx bye

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 13 August 2004 08:56 (twenty-one years ago)

there was, yes, but you know.. VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR!!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 13 August 2004 08:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Jake Thackray

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Mojo and Uncut also have to take into account the wishes of their large overseas readership who are perfectly happy to read about the Beatles and Dylan 'til the end of eternity.

If you look at these Q&A lists in the broadsheets, the Rob Brydons and Helen Baxendales of this world always go on about how they love to read Uncut or Mojo because it's got all their old favourites in it and they're a bit too old for this noisy music that kids like I mean they've got kids themselves know what they mean?

As per VDGG, apparently core Mojo/Uncut readers have no idea who they were.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 13 August 2004 09:02 (twenty-one years ago)

The only acts who are allowed on the cover of Mojo:

Beatles
Dylan
Stones
U2
Clapton
Zeppelin
REM
Radiohead
Pink Floyd
White Stripes if it's a quiet month and they're feeling extra-bold
Morrissey once every five years.

Plus (or especially) dead people.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 13 August 2004 09:04 (twenty-one years ago)

the weird thing is - and i don't read uncut closely enough to be able to comment for them, though i remember a welter of alt_country acts in their new bands section - when Mojo covers new music, they're certainly unafraid of covering 'this noisy music' - like I've said elsewhere, The Hunches, Icarus Line, Secret Machines and Comets On Fire all have received in depth and early coverage there, and andrew carden's underground column is always great reading.

Marcello, when has Mojo had Clapton on the cover, at least recently? i think you're getting confused with Uncut, who had Clapton on the cover a couple of issues ago.

― stevie (stevie), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:06 (twenty-one years ago)

The review sect in "Mojo" is often pretty good I think. Most likely though I'll pass on this new issue, b/c of the beatles and paul weller taking up too much space.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:07 (twenty-one years ago)

That said, I can hardly complain about content, really, when I've taken to reading "Classic Rock" quite regularly.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:09 (twenty-one years ago)

well i much prefer any of these capital gold heroes to mojo putting anyone new on the cover, but i would like to see:

george clinton
frank zappa
the funk brothers
the zombies
prince
syd barett
rotary connection
love
captain beefheart
screamin jay hawkins

these have probably all been covered by mojo, maybe even on the cover, but n/m.

― splooge (thesplooge), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:09 (twenty-one years ago)

if any of these got played on capital gold i might consider listening to it!

(zappa excepted, and of course by prince i mean playing songs other than the three that capital gold keep playing)

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 13 August 2004 09:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Bobby Darin
The Kinks
Harry Nilsson

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Kinks are on the front of the current Uncut!

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 13 August 2004 09:25 (twenty-one years ago)

when mojo puts a new artist on the cover, it just looks wrong, like your uncle coming to visit you wearing a strokes t shirt. you know they dont *really* like it, so you dont know why they bother. you want to know what your uncle is genuinely most passionate about.

others that should be on the mojo cover:

chuck berry
bo diddley
little richard

(COME ON MOJO FUXORS! THESE GUYS ARE STILL ALIVE (ONLY JUST)! DO IT NOW!)

robert johnson
tin pan alley persons
the shirelles

― splooge (thesplooge), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:28 (twenty-one years ago)

and it's a fantastic piece as well. first time i've bought uncut in ages, loved it. great motown cd on the cover as well.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:31 (twenty-one years ago)

For some reason I never even bother looking at Uncut, always seems like a second-rate cut-price Mojo rip off to me. Even the paper seems cheaper.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:33 (twenty-one years ago)

But the circulation figures are higher!

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 13 August 2004 09:38 (twenty-one years ago)

i like reading uncut, even if i sometimes feel like a young ignoramus doing so. the design could be better IMO though. the kinks piece WAS great though.

― splooge (thesplooge), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:45 (twenty-one years ago)

i remember when mojo had the smiths on the cover a couple years ago, it seemed SO surreal.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)

what is the criteria to be a mojo-branded-artist? is it just that your career had to have started decades ago? if it is, i wonder who will be eligible for it in 2020? shouldnt mojo wait to cover the strokes and stripes until their careers are artistically dead in the ground at least? i think theyre acting a bit fast.

― splooge (thesplooge), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:48 (twenty-one years ago)

As I hinted on another thread, Mojo are crazy stupid not to put the Libertines on the cover. Right now. Before it's too late. They're not my thing but even I can see the commercial sense of doing this.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 13 August 2004 09:51 (twenty-one years ago)

reported yesterday:

Brand Republic report Uncut continues to perform well as music sector suffers last 6 months:

Uncut put on a modest 1.5% in sales, rising to 112,816 copies
Mojo fell 3.9% to 100,347 copies

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:55 (twenty-one years ago)

i dont get the 'before its too late' thing as if the libs do part ways officially, then that would be the perfect excuse for mojo to do something in depth on the band. but yeah, they should do a libertines cover, with a long spread on mick jones (taking in the clash, B.A.D, etc etc), plus a spread on the bands that influenced the libertines, and how (more oldies coverage).

then again, lots of mags could put the libs on their covers. im kinda glad they havent. im already starting to get bored of seeing pete's pale and unhealthy looking mug everywhere. i wouldnt mind if they talked about what makes them good musically, but its all this bollocks about the ongoing pete n carl soap opera.

― splooge (thesplooge), Friday, 13 August 2004 09:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm just saying it might help Mojo regain some of those readers they've lost.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 13 August 2004 10:04 (twenty-one years ago)

marcello, tell uncut to put them on the cover and usurp mojo!

― splooge (thesplooge), Friday, 13 August 2004 10:07 (twenty-one years ago)

hahah i can just see jonesey's face turning red at that idea! 30 pages on the libertines with no mention of sam peckinpah or gram parsons or barbed wire tequila at the crossroads!

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 13 August 2004 10:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a copy of Mojo with BLUR on the cover. How the fuck?

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 13 August 2004 10:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I think that having a CD every month, even if most of it's crap has helped Uncut's sales in a big way. If you're a casual buyer spending 4 quid on a magazine and trying to decide between two fairly similar products then the CD would be the clincher. Now that Mojo seems to be going the same way with a CD every month I'd imagine there sales would pick up to a similar level.

As for the Beatles they must have just about exhausted the angles on them. Other than the Hamburg years and the Apple debacle there isn't much they haven't covered. I'm a long term Beatles fan (apologist) but let them rest in peace

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 13 August 2004 10:40 (twenty-one years ago)

There are some Beatles angles not covered yet: heroin addiction, wife-beating and assorted misogyny

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 13 August 2004 10:42 (twenty-one years ago)

As for cover stories which would fit the Mojo aesthetic I'd suggest;

Berlin era Bowie
Miles Davis goes electric
Dusty Springfield. Not enough women covered.
New Order.
Prince.
New pop.
Madchester.
NWA and the birth of gangsta rap. My how that would upset a few people.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 13 August 2004 10:46 (twenty-one years ago)

New Order's been done I think. First two suggestions are definite possibilities.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 13 August 2004 10:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Oum Kalthoum, Om Kolthom, Om Kalsoum, Omm Kalsoum, Omme Kolsoum, Oom Koolsum, Oum Kalthoum, Oum Kalthum, Oum Kalsoum, Oum Kaltsoum, Oum Kolthoum, Oum Koulsoum, Oum Kulthum, Oum Kulthume, Um Kalthoum, Um Kolthoum, Umm Kulthum, Umm Kalsoum, Umm Kalthum, Ummu Kulthum, Umm Kulthume

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Friday, 13 August 2004 10:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Now that Mojo seems to be going the same way with a CD every month I'd imagine there sales would pick up to a similar level.

and Mojo's CDs are mostly *killer*, too.

NWA and the birth of gangsta rap. My how that would upset a few people.

Mojo readers, as a rule, hate rap, and are very vocal with this opinion. Mojo's still run some *great* pieces by Angus Batey on hip-hop, though, and my first piece for the mag was a feature on Mike Ladd.

― stevie (stevie), Friday, 13 August 2004 11:03 (twenty-one years ago)

i heard mojo readers complained in their droves when mojo did that hip hop retrospective piece several months back.

angus batey gave the last so solid album 5/5! or was it 4/5? either way, that was ridiculously generous. no wonder mojo readers hate rap, they must be terribly confused as to whats good if so solid get that many stars!

― splooge (thesplooge), Friday, 13 August 2004 11:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Scooter.

― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 13 August 2004 11:09 (twenty-one years ago)

mojo also fluffed the 'hip hop' CD that came with that issue with the rap retrospective, they did a cd with songs that have been sampled by hip hop producers, but they werent essential or pivotal break-sources, and i cant help thinking that they should have made it a cd of actual hip hop songs.

― splooge (thesplooge), Friday, 13 August 2004 11:09 (twenty-one years ago)

if people want cds of actual hip hop songs they can always go and buy the source or something.

hip hop magazines do exist you know.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 13 August 2004 11:17 (twenty-one years ago)

no more Beatles/ Dylan/ Stones etc

suggestions:

Peter Murphy/ Bauhaus
late period Talk Talk plus a.r.kane / Bark Psychosis tagged on
The Associates
The Cocteau Twins
Siouxsie & the Banshees
Duran Duran
Cabaret Voltaire
XTC
Killing Joke - 25th anniversary special for next year
Brian Eno
King Crimson
Simple Minds - 25th anniversary
The Stranglers
Talking Heads
The Fall
English Music Mavericks Overview: Durutti Column, Bill Nelson, David Sylvian, Peter Hammill, Robert Wyatt, Howard Devoto, John Foxx, Chris Cutler, Mark Stewart, Martyn Bates [Eyeless in Gaza], Coil, Nurse with Wound, Martin Bowes [Attrition], Steven Wilson [Porcupine Tree] etc

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 13 August 2004 11:30 (twenty-one years ago)

marcello, its like vibe magazine in the US doing a cover mount CD to accompany a feature on rock, then only including hip hop songs that have sampled rock songs on the disc.

― splooge (thesplooge), Friday, 13 August 2004 11:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't wait for the Mojo Special Edition on the New Vaudville Band/Supercamp/Ian Whitcomb/Dr.West's Medicine Show & Junk Band/Bonzo Dog Band/Etc. It should have a list of the top 100 bonnie & clyde/flapper/vodeodo/23 skidoo/kazoo/megaphone/ukelele tracks that try to ruin what would have otherwise been near perfect psych albums. And I would be happy to write about the influence of David Carroll's Golden Oldies For Today's Teens on Lennon & McCartney.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 13 August 2004 11:49 (twenty-one years ago)

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i wanna see a george martin cover.

― splooge (thesplooge), Saturday, 14 August 2004 11:20 (twenty-one years ago)

ALF BICKNELL COVER NOW

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 14 August 2004 12:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I work alongside a zealous Beatlephile (what's the right word for this?) and even she's bored with cover stories about them.....unless they involve degrading sexual acts.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I would like volume 1, Mark E. But I haven't got volume 2 yet. We could do a swapsies or something.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Sunday, 15 August 2004 09:13 (twenty-one years ago)

pj. no worries. tis all yours. as for swapsies .. sure we can sort it out .. expect email ..

and as for 15 covers .. umm in 130 issues. i side with Alex in 'only' ?

oh, and i would LOVE a full on DEVO cover/special. their time must be soon.

best thing in the current mag - page 132 - Borderline advert - the return of King Kurt. way hey ..

― mark e (mark e), Sunday, 15 August 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

And 15 covers for macca and 15 covers for lennon?

― AnonAnon, Sunday, 15 August 2004 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

four weeks pass...

another useless Rolling Stones front cover !

http://www.mojo4music.com/html/mojo_new_issue.shtml

http://images.q4music.com/content/teaserimages/mojo/cover_big.jpg

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe I've missed it, but I would love to see Professor Longhair on the cover. It could just be a giant history of New Orleans music and weirdness from Earl Palmer to Mystikal to the Soul Rebels Brass Band, who really should be huge. But mostly I'd like to know more about that guy.

I remember this hilarious article on Professor Longhair in Spin with an interview from before he died. That man deserves a biopic or something.

― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 04:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Pete, good call. I was just about to post about how I love the mag, was thrilled to see Fats Domino's name on the cover a few months back and then disappointed to find an interesting but maybe three-page feature on him inside.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 05:03 (twenty-one years ago)

David O'List
Matthew Fischer
Mary Hopkins
Bill Nelson

No--not Nelson. I stumbled onto his site and he looks simply terrifying these days.

― ian g, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 05:50 (twenty-one years ago)

The Stones cover put me off, but there's a great Tom Waits interview, Buddy Holly, Mark Lanegan, and Ben Thompson giving the new Dizee 5 stars. Haven't played the Clash cd yet, but it's chock full of reggae and rockabilly goodness.
The new bands section has been covering stuff like Fiery Furnaces and Comets On Fire - FF only got coverage in NME after Eleanor's romance with Alex Kapranos became public knowledge. And some idiot gave their album 1/10. Sir Keith Cameron gave in two thumbs up in the 'jo.
(The 'jo; what am I thinking?!)

Wouldn't it be great if Mojo did a psych folk cover linking the likes of Devendra Banhart and Joanna Newsom back to John Fahey, Incredible String Band et al?

The next Mojo is going all out on Johnny Cash. And not before time.

What about the Mojo post-punk cover with Pil. That was a great issue.
And the free CD's have been far better than the Uncut ones. The Chili's comp is brilliant, as have been the Roots of Led Zep and the Raw Soul, Raw Blues affairs.

― Stewart Smith, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)

1001 Essential Music Facts

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)

1001 Non-Essential Music Farts...

1001. The current lineup of Lynyrd Skynyrd (how macho can they be when they have the word "nerd" in their name, twice!"
1000. The current lineup of Pink Floyd (just a faint reverberation...)
999. The current lineup of The Beach Boys...

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Sunday, 19 September 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

was there a thread about the last NME cover? saw it in the supermarket, was a bit taken aback...

― stevie (stevie), Monday, 20 September 2004 05:17 (twenty-one years ago)

There was, aye.

― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Monday, 20 September 2004 06:45 (twenty-one years ago)

THE WORST NME COVER OF ALL TIME

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 20 September 2004 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Suicide

― Braces Tower, Monday, 20 September 2004 09:56 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

Lennon would've been 64 this month... have Mojo got him on the cover again?

― Rocky Robin, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 12:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Lennon would've been 64 this month...

Yeah, why don't Mojo get some older gentlemen off tha street, put him in Granny Glasses, and stick him on the front cover of Mojo with the headline: "This is what Lennon would have looked like if he were still alive today, you bunch of pillocks!!!!"!?!?!?

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

The BBC website already did that.

― Rocky Robin, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3728030.stm

― Rocky Robin, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 13:26 (twenty-one years ago)

They can do it all with computers 'n' that these days, innit?

― Derridadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 13:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Nah, they've got it wrong...this is what John Lennon would look like now...

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Q has a feature about "Dark Side of the Moon" on the cover. Now, unless I'm very much mistaken, both Uncut and Mojo have already had cover stories about this over-rated snoozefest within the last few years - this must be some kind of record?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 13:21 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah it was a record that came out in 1972.

*pause*

thank you very much ladies and gentlemen, my name's freddie parrot face davies, good night.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 13 October 2004 13:28 (twenty-one years ago)

1973 surely.

* pause *

thank you very much ladies and gentlemen, i'm a journalist on a uk monthly rock mag, good night.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 13:30 (twenty-one years ago)

No you're quite right, 24 March 1973, the same day as Aladdin Sane and the Beatles' Red and Blue compilations.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 13 October 2004 13:33 (twenty-one years ago)

So this is the all important 21st anniversary? Dammit so now we have to wait 4 more years for Roger Waters to tell us what it was all about AGAIN

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

31st anniversary, surely?

* pause *

thank you very much ladies and gentlemen, I think I'm starting to get the hang of this game.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

That's a new 'un. 31st anniversary.

Meanwhile the 25th anniversary of Unknown Pleasures, Metal Box, Entertainment, Fear Of Music and Off The Wall goes unheralded, as opposed to that of London Calling because y'know that was REAL ROCK by REAL MEN, i.e. white/hetero/anti-arty.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 13 October 2004 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I reckon it must be the 30th anniversary of Roger Waters opening the envelope containing his first royalty check for "DSOTM".

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Bizarrely enough however, it would appear that Machine Gun Etiquette actually is getting the full 25th Anniversary treatment: complete with reissue with bonus tracks and a promotional tour!

Knowing The Damned 'though, the album release date will probably be delayed and delayed until after the tour's finished and will end up coming out next June, after the anniversary gone and forgotten and with absolutely no promotion.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"Dark Side" OTM!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

Mojo has changed it's publishing cycle, now on sale the first Wednesday of each month. Directly taking on Uncut that goes on sale the first Thursday of each month.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

They should go the record collector route and come out 13 times a year.

As for covers, unbelievably they haven't done Roxy/Ferry/Eno. Time is ripe now, what with their artschool grandchildren Franz Ferdinand (still) flavour of the month.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Foxhunting fascist Ferry, however, is decidedly not flavour of the month at present.

Also Roxy/Ferry/Eno are alive and well, and as you know Mojo and Uncut prefer to have dead people on their covers (this month: Sid Vicious and Brian Jones respectively).

― Rachel Verinder, Thursday, 6 January 2005 08:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I like Mojo but why it never seems to take me that long to read it. I buy it in the morning, read it on the way to work, and then on the way home and I'm done!

The free CDs are kinda nice but a lot of the time I never get round to listening to them, I think I'd kinda prefer it if they made the magazine just that little bit more chunkier.

What happened to that Collector section? That used to be kinda interesting...