What were or are your favourite fanzines - and why? And what ideas should we nick from them? And is the zine scene nowadays entirely online? Surely not! But the last 'zine I bought was awful....
(Don't have to be UK fanzines, of course.)
― Tom, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
• Karren Ablaze's "Ablaze!!" (early 90s, Leeds)
• Colette R.Hall's "looks yellow tastes red" (late 90s, Cape Cod)
• Frank Kogan's "Why Music Sucks", 1987 to date, 13th and maybe last issue out NOW (not online): details from me when I get back to london next week (as not to hand right now).
CF was just naughty and funny. A!! was passionate in an unpassionate time. lylr was really smart (esp. for a zine put out by a 15-year-old; but that's a crappy thing to say, because it would have smart — if strange of focus — if CRH had been 45). WMS is simply the lifework of punk's greatest thinker.
― mark s, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― ethan, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Patrick, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 24 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Dr. C, Tuesday, 24 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
The idea of fanzines rather than the things themselves was what inspired me I think - I've never seen an issue of Monitor, or Caff or Are You Scared To Get Happy? in my life and if I saw them now I'd perhaps think they were crap but the idea of doing something like that was a real motivator. The only ones I remember seeing and thinking - hey these are great - was one called Adventure Playground which TWAS always reminds me of a bit, and one I can't remember the name of done by a self-described grrl which had really luminous personal writing mixed in with the pop.
― Tom, Tuesday, 24 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Andrew, Tuesday, 24 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Mark, Tuesday, 24 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Obsessive Eye - infection, erosion, innovation
Only three editions, brilliant writing about great music, making connections and offering new perspectives, intelligent thinking, interviews with artists and analytical overviews.
Only Issue 3 still available to order.
― DJ Martian, Tuesday, 24 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
I'm going to start claiming completely falsely that "Frank's" is where Tom learned to write.
― Dirty Vicar, Tuesday, 24 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― james e l, Tuesday, 24 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 24 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Others: Why Music Sucks (mentioned above), Motorbooty (clever pokes at sacred cows), Sick Teen (only issue I saw is demented and hilarious), Forced Exposure (big impact on me in 80s; first place I recognised actual "craft" in writing, as opposed to just, y'know, words on a page. Though in hindsight, lots of the bands they liked sucked), Throat Culture (Lester Bangs revivalism).
― AP, Wednesday, 25 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― duane zarakov, Wednesday, 25 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Why Music Sucks: from Frank Kogan, PO Box 9761, Denver CO 80209-0761, USA. Price info: MUST be in U.S. funds, $6 postage paid for U.S. and Canada; $7 Mexico; elsewhere is $9 except $9.50 for Western Europe and $10.00 for Japan, New Zealand, Australia.
#13 features Andrew Palmer, Don Allred, Luc Sante, Colette of looks yellow tastes red, Phil Dellio, Kogan hisself — and much much more!!!
― mark s, Thursday, 3 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/feb/02/fanzine-simon-reynolds-blog
quite like this article. woofah is great but i think the design could maybe be a bit more interesting and reflect the music its covering. applejack is handsewn. im trying to think what the grime/dubstep/reggae equiv of sewing a fanzine could be. maybe woofah could be made out of hemp? or be shaped like bullet casing. ;)
― p-noid (titchyschneiderMk2), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 11:50 (sixteen years ago)
bein discussed on thre judes-controlled-media guardian-zing thread.
but yeah lol gun crime.
― display name fatigue (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 11:52 (sixteen years ago)
I was looking around to see if there was a list of what fanzines have been anthologised and released as books. This in the wake of my brother giving me the Complete Touch & Go for my birthday.
So is there a list or guide anywhere?I'm interested in picking up a few more if such things are around.I know that Dave Markey's We Got The power has recently been compiled, Karen Ablaze's 1980s zine Ablaze came out a couple of years ago and I've mainly been put off by the price since I actually get a mention in it.
JUst wondering what others there are out there. I think Sniffin Glue was done years ago and I meant to pick it up.Have Slash, Flipside, or any others?
& which of the ones that have been done are worth picking up?
― Stevolende, Sunday, 5 January 2014 22:57 (eleven years ago)
I wish someone would compile all of Motorbooty. And also all of Grand Royal.
― the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music (stevie), Sunday, 5 January 2014 23:12 (eleven years ago)
Yeah, would love getting the Melvin van Peebles thing from Motorbooty again. Couldnt work out what number it was when i tryd buying a few from ebay a few years back but I think it was that that turned me onto him alongside getting a cheap copy of the Rated X by An All White Jury 2cd. & the others I got were also pretty great.Same with Grand Royale. Possibly first place I read a good Lee Perry overview
― Stevolende, Sunday, 5 January 2014 23:55 (eleven years ago)
I think there was a Flipside one (which I have lying around somewhere ).
― curmudgeon, Monday, 6 January 2014 15:14 (eleven years ago)
Search & Destroy was compiled
― a lake full of ancient spices (los blue jeans), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 03:38 (eleven years ago)
yeah seems to be going up in price nastily from what I've seen. Looks like one I'd really like to have. So maybe somebody will redo it at some point.
Would love the early Forcedexpoosures put together in a volume, later thicker ones are probably too large but could be reissued either separately or in smaller groups.
Would love Strange Things are Happenning to be compiled since I think I lost a couple of them.
Also the early Ugly-Things being put out as a book would be great. There are probably other garage related zines that the same would be true of
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 11:33 (eleven years ago)
Oh hey, there's two Bomp! books. They look good.
― a lake full of ancient spices (los blue jeans), Saturday, 11 January 2014 23:53 (eleven years ago)
and a Punk book too. ("The Best of Punk Magazine" if you are searching for it)
― a lake full of ancient spices (los blue jeans), Saturday, 11 January 2014 23:55 (eleven years ago)
The first 4 issues of Bananafish were compiled into a book with an interesting css, both worth getting if you're interested in weirdo/noise rock.
― JacobSanders, Sunday, 12 January 2014 00:08 (eleven years ago)
I meant cd not css
― JacobSanders, Sunday, 12 January 2014 00:10 (eleven years ago)