..a gift subscription of Esquire a few years ago and the bloody thing has never stopped arriving. It's the only other magazine I peruse, apart from occasional trips to the dentist when I pick up Conde Nast Traveller or People's Friend. You have to wonder who it's aimed at, with its adverts for £300 bottles of cognac, watches that cost more than my first house and Louis Vuitton holdhalls, (price available on application). It also makes me glad there's a Word.

I enjoy Uncut as much as The Word, neither is my 'perfect read' but they both contain good and notsogood features.

I read the other music mags occasionally. The Word is the only one I subscribe to.

I think what nails it for me is that I can swap the other titles around quite happily, they all feel like variations on a format and give me the same 'type' of read.

However, the Word is the only music magazine that is anything like itself. (And anything like that good.)

I have bought it twice in recent months - Edwyn Collins and then Bowie. On both occasions I was reminded of the old advert (was it for twix) that talked about other snack that took two bites and it were gone - not much to read at all. Much more to read in Word.

Makes up for the occasional person who says the opposite on the basis of the fact that they don't like something in a new issue. All we ask is that people "factor in" every element of what we do - the magazine, the CD (fifteen brand new tracks a month), the podcasts, this site - when taking out a subscription. I think we provide an awful lot. But I would say that, wouldn't I?

I consider myself very lucky at the choice I have magazine-wise. I subscribe to Mojo, and buy most issues of The Word, and the occassional Uncut, and consider myself spoilt rotten. The FPO on the other hand seems to have a much wider selection of utter rubbish.

apart from the Radio Times. Oddly enough, Word appeared on the newstand just as I had decided that the once indespensable Q had become a monthly collection of lists and that I would give up on it.
On a more general note, I seem to be losing the ability or will to read a newspaper having read a broadsheet most days for many years. I put this down to online news and generally bite sized stuff that is so prevalent now

but found that I was getting through each issue in about an hour or so (two train trips to work!). Also, I'm sure he's a good bloke and all that, but Allan Jones' columns used to be the epitome of name-dropping "I was there and you weren't" journalism.

I used to buy Mojo every month, but for the last few years have just bought it if something particularly interests me. The journalism just doesn't seem inspired.

Oh, and I subscribe to Word.

That I am easily pleased by the best of everything which is why I subscribe to The Word.Tried the rest The Word is the best.