Talk:Select (magazine)

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The term 'Britpop'[edit]

Did Stuart Maconie actually coin the term 'Britpop' in Select? The Britpop article itself states that John Robb used the term in Sounds in 1989, Select was founded in 1990--MartinUK (talk) 07:28, 20 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Pardon?[edit]

"...was unique in that it started a journalistic movement to collect coverage of diverse musical trends into single publications."

Can someone elucidate what this actually means? Whatever it is, I'm pretty sure it's nonsense. AuntFlo (talk) 01:25, 29 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't write the above phrase, but as a reader of music journals of the contemporaneous period, my recollection is that indeed Select's peer publications tended to focus on one style of music almost exclusively. There were specialist magazines for heavy rock and metal (Kerrang), indie (NME), AOR (Q), dance (Mixmag), rap (Hip Hop Connection) and pop (Smash Hits). I don't recall any other dedicated music magazines of the time covering the whole spectrum as Select did.Danno uk (talk) 19:45, 25 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

NME Connection[edit]

I've long since trashed my old copies of Select, so I can't confirm this, but wasn't it billed as "The NME Monthly" or something like that? There's no mention of an NME connection in this article. phreakydancin (talk) 03:03, 16 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That was Vox, I think. Select was pretty much its own thing, even if it did feature the usual suspects. --—Vom ^(talk) 22:52, 15 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]