Highest Rated Review by the Community
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Feb 19 '02
Pros: Occasionally has good articles.
Cons: Too many advertisements, Too much flip-flopping.
Summary: Music magazines are not in a good state these days. Rolling Stone, the leader, is worth buying once in a while. But as a whole is too inconsistent to maintain an edge as the leader, While Revolver (which I previously praised) has gone from being a symbol...
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Feb 09 '11
Pros: Photographs, Some musical discoveries
Cons: Terrible Articles, Ads, Book Reviews
Summary: Seriously, are the people who write articles in Spin Magazine currently attending an elementary school? This isn't a slap at those from ages six to twelve, but rather a closed fist towards those who hire the writers for this publication. While ...
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Apr 21 '02
Pros: There are no pros
Cons: Wasted money if you actually decide to pay for this, everything
Summary: Spin, plain and simple, is an awful magazine. the editors are nimrod morons who have no actual taste in music, their just trying to make a quick buck by interviewing trendy artists, labeling pop bands punk. Basically trying to put a market on punk in...
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Apr 16 '02
Pros: Some witty humor, good photos, decent articles.
Cons: Tries too hard to cover every area of music, ends up undercovering everything.
Summary: My subscription to SPIN came about through an offer from my college bookstore. For paying way too much money for books, I got to choose from a list of magazines which I would get a half-year subscription to for free. Not being the Popular Mechanics type,...
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Dec 05 '00
Pros: Innovative
Cons: Not enough pictures or information on the shots
Summary: The December 2000 issue of spin made a bold statement to the outside world on how they conduct their magazine. The photographer Martina Hoogland-Ivanow, plus the fashion designer Jason Farrer did an outstanding job in their picks for each set of arenas...
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Dec 02 '00
Pros: None
Cons: it sucks
Summary: I can't stand this mag. It sucks. Its kind of like Alternative Press, only its not about alternative. It's supposed to be, but its not. It's about mainstream, and I don't like mainstream. The magazine consists of about ten articles about bad new...
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Nov 26 '00
Pros: so shocking you kinda want to see what they'll do next
Cons: makes being a junkie look cool, irrelevant, poor journalism
Summary: I'll wager dollars to doughnuts the target demographic for SPIN magazine is 13 to 30-year-old skaters and drug addicts living in major metropolitian cities who hit every underground club there is and scoff at any band, movie, book or any piece of ...
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Oct 27 '00
Pros: Great feature writing
Cons: Constant, neverending glorification of horrific acts
Summary: "Spin will rock your world with coverage of the progressive music scene and in-depth investigative reporting on a slew of issues, from politics to pop culture. Reviews, essays, profiles, and interviews make up a package of pure rock energy with an...
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Oct 06 '00
Pros: Some interest to music fans filters through the glitter.
Cons: The glitter, unless you're a 17 reading teeny-bopper.
Summary: And here I thought Rolling Stone(RS) had gotten too glittery. Compared to this fashion/MTV drenched piece of fluff, RS is a paragon of music journalism. From begin to end Spin assaults you with everything that's wrong with music, and unlike...
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Sep 19 '00
Pros: Cheap, good current events
Cons: nothing too special
Summary: Spin is a good magazine about popular music. Nothing great about the magazine, but it does have some entertaining reading. Some.
With an annual subscription price of less than $10, it is well worth the money. I disagree with many of the album...
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Sep 04 '00
Pros: Great articles, new artists, old artists, not overfilled with teeny-bopper schlock
Cons: None that I can think of
Summary: I recently became a subscriber to SPIN magazine, and really did not know what to expect. I figured, why not? I'll give it a shot. Boy was I surprised! What a great magazine for the Generation X and Generation Y, respectively.
I was truly...
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Aug 15 '00
Pros: no redeeming value in the last 10 years!
Cons: people actually buy this?
Summary: My bass player owns a recording studio and so he gets this mess for free. I was hangin around there one day bored as hell and decided to pick up the latest Spin and browse through it. The first question I had was, "Who the Hell buys...
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Aug 07 '00
Pros: smart-ass lit theory applied to pop culture
Cons: smart-ass lit theory applied to pop culture
Summary: When I decided to give my opinion on Spin (more on this in a minute) I consulted the already existing negative reviews. I have to say that I was disappointed. Critics of the magazine seem to find fault with the manner in which it fails to achieve...
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Aug 07 '00
Pros: introduces new artists to the readers
Cons: rarely likes any mainstream music
Summary: At first I subscribed to Spin thinking that it was cool that they talked about other artists, not just mainstream, unlike Rolling Stone. I still do like that about Spin, sometimes I don't wanna read articles about Backstreet Boys and *Nsync every issue....
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Jul 26 '00
Pros: Has a wide variety of music articles, a definitive youth magazine
Cons: Too many ads, doesn't focus on music, they took away Sean Landers
Summary: Spin is a definitive magazine for America's youth. They are not just a normal rock/pop music publication, but one that goes far beyond that. They cover everything from politics, trends, music, movies etc.
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