Not an avid reader but... (Q)

Member Name: DuckWarri0r

Product:	Q
Date:	27/07/01 (31 review reads)
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Advantages: Honest Opinions, Well Written Articles

Disadvantages: Loss of "old" music

I bought my first copy of Q after seeing the Q music channel on sky digital (455). The music was very good quality, unlike the much "popped up" MTV. Some alternative music with some old stuff. A great combination.

So I skipped eagerly to the newsagents in the following days and purchased a copy of the afformentioned magazine. First thing I noticed upon flicking through was lack of adverts. There are the obligotary ones in the culminative pages of the magazine (any magazine not have these?) aswell as a few strung through out the remainder of the issue.

The interviews were intelligently written, and with actually interesting people in the hot seat. Better yet was a feature where you could send in questions to be asked to next months interviewee.

The Album reviews (there are loads of these) are very good, and truthful to what the reviewer feels, something which I find lacking in many magazines now who do not have the balls to go against the corporate grain. I digress. The featured articles are also very interesting and involving, the latest being a 20 page special on Radiohead.

Lately though, although I cannot speak for much of the magazine's life, Q's focus seems to be shifting to more and more alternative music. Part of the appeal of Q was its mix of old and new, which it appears to be losing.

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