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Things I have
learned about July 1991, January 1993 and April 1993 from the July 1991,
January 1993 and April 1993 issues of 'Q' magazine, purchased for a pound
each on the second of January 2001 at the Notting Hill Comics and Books
Exchange
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1. Wendy James once appeared
in magazines.
1. Tank Girl was still quite trendy (and presumably Revolver
was still around. And Crisis. And the other one. The one that was by
2000AD and had 'Third World War'. I don't know.
They were before my time).
1. Ice-T was also still quite trendy.
2. From the fifth to the eighth of February, 1993, Johnny Cash
was playing at Butlin's, Bognor, along with the Krankies and Timmy Mallett.
The actual Johnny Cash.
2. According to an advert on the back cover of the April 1993
issue, 'Rock music is taking only one direction in 1993'. That direction
being... Coverdale / Page.
12. The same Coverdale / Page who appear on the cover CD of the
April 1993 issue, along with a fresh-faced band called Radiohead, who
are a bit like Dinosaur Jr (according to an advert).
2. Adverts used to have sideways text going up the side of the
page and featured text in lots of different point sizes, often curving.
Presumably DTP took until the early-90s to filter through to advertising
agencies in the UK.
8. Q magazine once gave They Might be Giants an
award.
9. If you telephoned 0800 212 643 in January 1993, you could
find out about Digital Compact Cassette (DCC), the new invention from
Philips.
10. Prefab Sprout should have sued their record label for the
advert on the back of the January 1993 issue, for The Best of
Prefab
Sprout - A Life of Surprises. Who were Prefab Sprout? What a
terrible
name. It's so 'wacky' and 'zany'.
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Dead
Bon Jovi
Where are they now?
No taste
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5.
'Rave culture is the new world order and we are the final generation.
All the dreams of our ancestors have built to this moment.' - the late
Terence McKenna, in an extremely melancholic article on The Shamen. Who
are also late.
5. The internet does not exist. Nor, for that matter, do computers.
At all.
5. Oh, hang on, there's a Sega Megadrive.
4. The Frank and Walters. Who were from Cork. I don't know any
more.
4. Some adverts used to be in black and white.
5. The Fiat Uno Turbo i.e. could go from 0-60 in 7.7 seconds up
to maximum speed of 127mph (where conditions allow), for
£5,210.
6. Elvis Costello used to have a beard and big hair, and
The Juliet
Letters was such a masterpiece that Q magazine did a
seven-page interview
with him. 'An album you know you're going to be able to live with down
the years' - Melody Maker.
7. There was a band called The Big Dish.
8. Kevin Rowland of Dexys Midnight Runners (sic) would not
have looked
good in a dress even when he was young.
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The new rock'n'roll
Wendy James and Philip Glass - together
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12.
There were adverts for cassette tape.
12. You could buy a portable DAT player for £499.99 so that you
could listen to your DAT copy of New Order's Substance and
interview people.
13. Both Nirvana and Frank Zappa 'are', not 'were'. Kirsty MacColl
is also in the present tense, but I don't find that as strange because
it's hard to believe that she's not around any more.
14. Depeche Mode released an album called Songs of Faith
and Destruction
(sic). I bet they got a lot of mail about that.
15. Oh. I just realised that the title of Frank
Zappa's Sheik Yerbouti is a pun. I hadn't
realised that before. I'm not being sarcastic. It just struck
me.
16. Julian Colbeck, of Keyfax semi-fame, felt moved to correct
Q's misuse of the term 'MIDI' in the July 1991
issue.
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