A Sad Loss (Melody Maker)

Member Name: Blurbubble

Product:	Melody Maker
Date:	27/04/01 (55 review reads)
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Advantages: It was varied and humourous

Disadvantages: It is no longer!

Melody Maker is dead. I remember this publication from waaaaay back in my youth (and that's a long way) so I'm even sorrier to see it go even though it had been going downhill.

It was a weekly publication - originally a tabloid newspaper but in recent years had become a glossy magazine - a mistake I think.

They were always good for covering a wide variety of music and NOT just what was trendy or jumping on bandwagons - however this seemed to change once they became a glossy magazine and they turned into little more than a slightly more adult version of "Smash Hits".

Nevertheless I will miss 'Melody Maker' as this was my favourite music magazine for coverage of live gigs, the gig guide, new releases of albums and singles aswell as in-depth interviews and the obligatory centrefold posters of bands you wouldn't normally find in trendy magazines.

For £1.60 a week you got all this plus humourous columnists, sarcastic letters, contacts pages for penpals aswell as smaller snippets of up-to-the-minute news. The quality of the journalism was, one the whole, very good although one or two writers had their heads firmly up their own backsides!!

So, with a sad farewell, I wave goodbye to one of my favourites and wonder where to head from here? I like Kerrang for coverage of heavier bands but find NME too elitist - there appears to be nothing in-between left anymore.

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