Rolling Stone, Record Collector and Classic Rock

I let my Paste subscription go a few months ago. Somehow it just lost what it had - writing became too "clever" and stopped being an easy read. US subscription rate was a a giveaway - but I was just not reading it.
Am currently in a 'sort out" mode here - anybody want to buy Q Magazine Issues 1-150 - or a 4 foot high pile of Uncut, Mojo and Paste - I calcualted how much these cost me this morning - scary!

but if I had unlimited funds I would consider:

New Statesman
The New Yorker
Internazionale (an Italian current affairs magazine)

The Werd, The Economist, Car, Private Eye, Sound On Sound, Motor Sport

... Private Eye, The New Statesman and The Spectator.

I'm just tons of fun me.

....mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Football

Re-subbed to Uncut when it offered £3 for 3 issues - if the best thing in the current edition is the Beatles piece then I'll be abandoning that again.

Subbed to Mojo for a long time too - gave up as there were too many re-treads ("Blood On The Tracks - THE UNTOLD STORY", etc).

The Economist and The Spectator - the latter doesn't reflect my politics, but it's a hell of a lot better written than the New Statesman. I'd definitely take The New Yorker if it wasn't so damn expensive.

I used to subscribe to Private Eye but I lost all respect for it after its wrong-headed coverage of the Andrew Wakefield MMR story.

I also buy Classic Rock every month (in fact its a night in on the sofa by itself) and occasionally its new little brother organ Prog Rock. CR is tailored for the 30 plus audience who read Sounds and Kerrang in the 80s but it carries a lot of articles about the mainstream rock scene too. I also rate Uncut quite highly, mainly because of the album reviews at the back. Mojo is okay but I rarely pick it up unless there is an eye catching main feature.

I stopped buying Q years ago since I kind of lost interest in the more fashionable genres of the pop rock scene.

When Saturday Comes which has been consistently excellent for a couple of decades, (remembering when you had to work your way through the fanzines rack in Volume Records in Newcastle to find the current issue) and the wonderful Smoke

... are all I need to get by.

word, cycling+ and viz. Although i'm considering wired

Autocar (weekly)- i love cars and you can't beat this

The Word - obviously!

Q (bought this since 1st edition in 1986 and still have some misguided idea that one day my children will want to know about pop/rock in the past and this is their guide! My daughter is only 4 months old!)

Mojo - recently reviewed my opinion and like it more now it has featured a lot more nenwer bands

Health Service Journal - work

Are the only non-work ones.

...there's a few.
Economist Intelligent Living, Focus Science magazine, Prospect, BBC Wildlife, Esquire (until the current subs runs out) and The Word (obviously)

I don't know why I've never subscribed to VIZ. I've read every issue since 1985

I did do Rolling Stone for a long time. And MAD in the early eighties.

FHM, GQ and Esquire for a while.

LOADED back when it was good and Martin Deeson wrote like a bastard.

Golf World for a year in 1993.

New Scientist back when I was doing 'A' Levels.

The Beano, Victor, ACTION!, Angler's Mail, The Fisherman's Handbook. But my mum and dad paid for all these so they don't count.

And I get Dental Update and Evidence-Based Dentistry every month. But you're probably not interested in them.

The Word

The Bass Guitar Magazine

and the good ol' PJ for work.

But I occasionally buy Uncut based on what's on the cover: also on that basis The Week, Guitar Buyer, Record Collector and Wire. I'll even buy a jazz mag if Canterbury scene, the Softs or Robert Wyatt are mentioned. I used to buy The Word based on the cover - it was when I noticed that I was buying every issue that I subscribed.

Steam Railway & Bella.

...asked , so...........
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
Vanity Fair
The New Yorker
Entertainment Weekly ( Just started , hasn't kicked in yet . ) ( Um , the kind-of reason I did is because they offer you a lot of film screening freebie tickets if you live in a " hip/right/lots of promo shows " city and I live in San Francisco , which has a lot of 'em , so...)
( I took a Saved By The Bell " retro " T-shirt as my subscriber's freebie . )

I subscribe to Time, GQ, Mens Journal, Entertainment Weekly, BBC Music and the Financial Times (very expensive here in AZ, but, way better than the Wall St Journal) and Mojo.

...Arizona , Gary ?
Perhaps your profile says , but...!!

whichever it was that had FZ on the cover, loved it for the first 5 years or so, still buy it cos that's what I do every month even though I am not interested at all in say The Kings Of Leon (recent cover story).

It's too expensive to subscribe to these in Australia.

Have only recently discovered The Word and you can only get it at the Air Freight price here anyway which is over 20 bucks which is a bit on the expensive side.

I also read sporadically THE SPECTATOR (as someone said above, not necessarily agreeable politics but brilliant writing), LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS cos my wife subscribes and we get a bunch of several-months-old NEW YORKER mags every few months which get passed on round the neighbourhood.

I get
EMPIRE (mainly for the reviews)
THE WEEK Magazine
THE TEACHER (professional subscription..deep sigh..)
ROCK-A-ROLLA ( Does a good job of covering a lot of "alternative" music)
and I also pick up
PRIVATE EYE
TERRORIZER (Extreme Metal)
ZERO TOLERANCE ( Alternative Music - but erring on the "uncommercial" side)
THE WIRE ( although it can be a curiously joyless experience at times)

I only subscribe to Mojo but I do buy (from Tim the Newsagent of Maple News, Cranleigh, top bloke) Rec Coll, The Word, Uncut and (nb Mr Hepworth) Wisden Cricket Monthly (which I still like to call The Cricketer, rather like the Hammersmith Odeon if you get my meaning). I don't have time to read books anymore.

But only for the articles.

Long term subscriber to the Spectator - lots of great writing and unlike others on here it does reflect my politics. Particular favourite is Jeremy Clarke's consistently entertaining Low Life column. A worthy successor to Jeffrey Bernard.

Been reading Private eye since Uni over 25 years ago but never actually taken a subscription.

Recently added Wire, the UK edition, to my regulars. Bought a copy for a longish train journey and amazingly both teenage sons read it cover to cover. Those with teenage boys who are trying to encourage them to lift their heads from a screen will realise this unique event had to be followed up so subscription has been purchased. Now the bog read of choice for the Beach lads.

And finally The Garden, the monthly RHS mag. Shared with Mrs Beach.Probably my age and growing obsession with my garden, but I probably refer back to this more than any of the others and its the only one that I retain all back copies.

Apart from The Word:

Q (going downhill fast - if I see just one more photo of Beth Ditto.....)

Classic Rock (I also buy the excellent Prog specials)

The Week

Gramophone

its

Runner's World (US)
GQ (US)
Esquire (US)