i'm sorry but i cannot have my beloved Magazine likend to a comedy sideshow act - even in jest, Open Mind... Coldplay have spent their career copying other bands - mainly Radiohead (the Bends note for note) and Jeff Buckley - they were so keen to be Radiohead that the singer even named his kid after a computer (ok computer)...no one has matched Magazine's intensity or unique style...

apparently coldplay took their name from the PLAY album and COLD imagination. Ib

apparently coldplay took their name from the PLAY album and COLD imagination. Ib p wrote clocks and speed of sound anyway.

Main sound alikes are Simple Minds. http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/mu​sic/muze/index.pl?site=totp2&act​ion=list_album&album_id=706059&r​and=029

Up on the Catwalk sounds just like Floorboards in parts (or have I ruined my hearing standing next to too many speakers?).

our ears are all different, S-G... when i hear simple minds, i hear cavernous pomposity... gaseous and yet vacuous at the same time...when i hear Magazine, i hear beautiful unpleasantness

when I hear simple minds I weap. I havnt heard them thank God since they were permitted to support Mag on the 2nd hand tour. incidently my uncle who lives in Belfast says they are shite and would have their kneecaps done if they ever came into his pub.

Coldplay's Clocks is a rewrite of Sparks' Amateur Hour.

and speed of sound is a rewrite of clocks... etc

and ib p wrote clocks. so wheres the royalty checks?

Just discovered this site - after a wait of 25 years...

I didn't realise there were people out there who are still as obssessed with Magazine as I am....

Got some pics of Dave perfiming live with the angel brothers. How do i get them on the site? cheers