Magazine Review: Uncut - The Beatles Ultimate Music Guide

[@spaceengineer1452]

Uncut & Mojo are $20 in Oz, too.

[@jldraw]

Uncut Music Guides are pretty solid although if you are a knowledgeable or diehard fan of the band they are profiling, you rarely learn anything new. At the very least it seems they have managed to cull down the errors that are by and large present in other music magazine profiles of bands from the sixties and seventies. I'll offer you a bit of a counterpoint in that I've always appreciated that the Uncut series does include contemporary articles from their family of magazines that take the reader into the moments as this music was being released to the public. As an aside, unfortunately we are reaching a period in the history of rock 'n' roll where we are not only losing many of our favorite artists, but also many of the writers who experienced their music first hand. While I have a great amount of respect for fundamental research, there are any number of pieces that have been written about The Beatles in the past twenty years that have had me scratching my head and asking whether or not someone who was born in the late eighties is truly qualified to write about a band that ceased making records twenty years before they were born? If that sounds harsh, it's only because it's been brought about by a great deal of revisionist history and the natural tendency for those authoring these pieces to pontificate alongside it as it applies to The Beatles.

[@SpitfireCallum]

I’m reading this at the moment. I read the Oasis one last summer and have also ordered the Radiohead one. I agree about your opinion on the ‘Ultimate Music Guide’ and thus far I think I prefer the Oasis edition but I still enjoy flipping through. Keep up the good work 😊

[@timshearn8203]

I bought this before Christmas, expensive, but love it. Full of great pics and articles. Loved the album reviews.

[@zylbher1]

I suppose that because it's a magazine you won't get any in depth infomation, i think that one of the BEST guides to their albums are the Bruce spizer books.

[@stevelang6727]

I have the earlier version of this - pretty good. Also really enjoyed the 3 part Record Collector Beatles magazines that came out last year

[@trevordixon1427]

In UK brilliant guides...all lps and compilations and much more...solo beatles available 2...

[@mercurialmagictrees]

Interesting perspective. I'm glad I got a big coffee table book about the Beatles at B&N on clearance.

[@alanarmstrong3230]

Hey Brian, interesting video. I'm a huge Beatle freak, so I might check it out. Thumbs up also on your hat, I'm a huge Dodger fan.

[@4-dman464]

Thanks for the tip-off. I'll give that mag a miss, I need more than it sounds like that mag provides in terms of good writing, intelligence and research. The phrase for lacklustre slapdash professional writing is 'hack' work, knocked off like a short order cook in a greasy spoon, and that's what 'Uncut' sounds like - - charging for a 3-course meal and serving recycled slop. The days of great magazine writing ended with the decline of New Journalism. Gotta miss those early days of 'Rolling Stone' in S-F before the NYC move, and 'Crawdaddy', and earlier still the large format 'Esquire' days. The last gasp was Chicago's now-defunct 'Stop Smiling,' check out their back issues, Brian. Magazines are dead, I think. 'Uncut' should recruit you to write some of their articles, then I would buy.

[@sebastian_reu9220]

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