Magazines SPIN
Books and Publications Average Rating:

Rating: - SPIN Good And SPIN Average
The SPIN, "Special Collectors' Issue" THE 90 GREATEST ALBUMS OF THE '90s, is very well written. The list of albums is intresting and seemed well thought out. The writing is exceptionally good (see the review of one of my favorites; Buena Vista Social Club).

Then I come to the 50 Greatest Bands and the list is pretty bad by anyones standard. So many "glitz" bands who were more glitz than music are in this list.

So its very hard for me to decide if SPIN is good magazine that has slipped or just a few bad publications out of many good ones.

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Rating: - Some Good Some Bad
This issue of SPIN, "50 GREATEST BANDS" was terrible. But SPIN also had best music from the 90's issue. This was very solid list. The writing was solid, the list seemed to be put togethor with a lot of thought. For example look at the mentioning of the "Buena Vista Social Club" album in the "90's issue. The writing was excellent why this album was mentioned !!

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Rating: - Gone are the days .....
Gone are the days when you could expect Spin to serve up really good stories, reviews and photography that you could not find anywhere else. Now it merely goes through the motions and tries to act like it's really cool.

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Rating: - lame.
Having been a subscriber until recently for about 4 years, I can state from firsthand experience just how lame this magazine has become. Regarding the Amazon review of the magazine, merely coming up with a gimmicky cover series on the Beastie Boys hardly qualifies as anything more than the obvious, clever advertising. It has nothing to do with the music, any music. The editors constantly put ridiculous bands on the cover and give them top billing as well in coverage. Offspring (as "punk!"), Slipknot, Creed, Metallica, KISS, Axel Rose, David Lee Roth (Agh!!) and, if I'm not mistaken, that brilliant mind of innovation, Fred Durst, have all been cover boys in the past 12-18 months. Utterly pathetic. Of course, if you're musical taste is of that ilk, go for it. Occasionally, they'll have an interesting article or band profiled, but it's hardly worth the yearly subscription for it. I've cancelled my subscription and haven't regretted it at all. If you want to read a music magazine that's about music, not the idiotic rantings of arrested adolescence, check out Magnet magazine sometime.