Magazines You Miss

I subscribed to Match Weekly (won star letter once; prize was a ball and a boot bag!) and Roy of the Rovers (a comic I know) as a kid and loved them both.
 
Sounds
NME
Melody Maker
The Word

Someone mentioned Q. Has that gone. Its been terrible the last few issues I have seen but its been a while.
 
Smash Hits was absolutely hilarious back in the day. Paul “Fab Macca Wacky Thumbs Aloft” McCartney and all that. I absolutely loved it.

I also remember having a particular penchant for Blitz.
 
Still miss reading a comic, a great childhood happiness, Dandy,Beano,The Beezer, the Cor - Whizzer and Chips New Hotspur, The Victor. Commando Mags.

Used to get a few off younger cousins - Look out for Look In

Teen years MM & Sounds, older cousins, gave me old copies of the Oz magazine and The Rolling Stone, which unfortunately I dumped instead of keeping.

Working my apprenticeship, Car Mechanics and a neighbour used to give me old copies of the science periodic Popular Mechanics.

In the summer in my early and late teens I used to really enjoy going around every record shop in Stockton and a couple in Middlesbrough. Also WH Smiths used to be packed with Teens and early 20`s going through the music, car and photography mags and papers.
Fun times and something we all chatted about.
Its all gawn now, although I noticed a month back or so the HMV in Newcastle and Windows seem to be selling vinyl and lots of decks in the window.
Oh the Guitarist, but I stopped buying that yonks ago.
 
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Viz, is it still going?

Used to get it from Phaze in the early days, spelling mistakes and ink runs galore.

Think I still have a few if the early ones about
 
Bit of a magazine nerd, Your Sinclair was my favourite.

The one I really miss, and that has never been replaced, was Time Out with its comprehensive and brilliant listings of things to do. If I arrived in London or Barcelona or New York, first thing I would do would be buy a copy of Time Out and start circling things to check out.

There’s no replacement for that. It’s insane to me that there’s no useful website or app which has comprehensive listings of a wide range of events in a certain city, when it existed 15 years ago and was used by loads of people. FB events is probably the closest, but the UI doesn’t really work and it relies on businesses to create their own events.

One of those things like headphone jacks, Bluetooth signals cutting out every 5 minutes and having to sign in to 3 apps with different passwords and multi factor authentication to change the temperature of your fridge where you go, yeah, the world was better 15 years ago.
 
theredrooster said:
Would agree with you about Q and The Word which were both excellent.

A very specific genre, but I loved Amiga Power back in the day, a very funny and entertaining read not to mention generally honest reviews.
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Unless it was a Team 17 game, lol

(In order)

Commodore Format
Zzap!64 (Technically back via Patreon)
Amiga Format
Mega
Mega Power
Sega Pro
PC Format
PlayStation Plus
Play
FHM
Loaded (which I was once featured in an issue of!)
 
goalscrounger said:
Jazz mags don't count, sorry!

Inspired by the Borrow Box thread, which defunct magazines do you look back nostaligcally on from your younger days?

From the 70s/80s, we used to get these two delivered from Maude's in Normanby:

Football Handbook
Popular Computing Weekly

From the 80s/90s I used to buy these every month:

Select
Crash
Amiga Power (and occasionally Amiga Format)

From the 2000s I got these two delivered:

The Word
Q (when it was good)
(I used to get FourFourTwo as well, but that isn't defunct so not allowed here!)
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Select 👌🏻
 
The ones I remember fondly were

Kit car
Mad
Popular mechanics
Railway modeller (which I think is still going)
Cage and aviary
 
jonny_greenings_sock said:
Bit of a magazine nerd, Your Sinclair was my favourite.

The one I really miss, and that has never been replaced, was Time Out with its comprehensive and brilliant listings of things to do. If I arrived in London or Barcelona or New York, first thing I would do would be buy a copy of Time Out and start circling things to check out.

There’s no replacement for that. It’s insane to me that there’s no useful website or app which has comprehensive listings of a wide range of events in a certain city, when it existed 15 years ago and was used by loads of people. FB events is probably the closest, but the UI doesn’t really work and it relies on businesses to create their own events.

One of those things like headphone jacks, Bluetooth signals cutting out every 5 minutes and having to sign in to 3 apps with different passwords and multi factor authentication to change the temperature of your fridge where you go, yeah, the world was better 15 years ago.
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There's a TimeOut website that's OK, and whilst not as detailed as the print version is still a decent starting point for exploring aa new city.
 
For me it's:-

Select (which I've taken to buying old editions of on ebay)
Lime Lizard (a relatively short running zine / magazine focused on underground culture and only lasted 11 issues https://magpile.com/courtney-dale/ )
Melody Maker (always preferred it to NME in the early to mid 90's)
Mountain Biking UK (when you had little to non suspension and mountain bikes were still relatively new to the UK)
Cycle Sport
 
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