Because I'm a packrat, I've got several thousand magazines in my basement which I occasionally dip into. I'm reading the SPIN 100th issue (1993) right now and thought the readers' Top 10s were pretty interesting.

Best Album
1. Alice in Chains-Dirt
2. REM-Automatic for the People
3. Where You Been-Dinosaur Jr
4. Singles-Original Soundtrack
5. Soul Aylum-Grave Dancers Union

Most Significant Important Artists of Our Generation

1. Perry Farrell
2. Madonna
3. Michael Jackson
4. Michael Stipe
5. Henry Rollins

Top 10 Songs of Our Time

1. Black-Pearl Jam
2. Jane Says-Jane's Addiction
3. In Your Eyes-Peter Gabriel
4. Three Days-Jane's Addiction
5. Alive-Pearl Jam
6. Just Like Heaven-The Cure
7. Stairway to Heaven-Led Zepellin
8. Sunday Bloody Sunday-U2
9. Message in a Bottle-The Police (???????????)
10. With or Without You-U2

"Black" really is an awesome song.

And Message in a Bottle doesn't deserve so many ?s

That's misinterpreted, the question marks were just genuine shock that it appeared in the Top Songs of our time. I like The Police, just never thought I'd see SPIN readers voting that one in. I actually like Sychronicity II best.

You have thousands of magazines in your basement? Do you use 'em to start a fire?

i too have 1000's of old magazines, including that issue of SPIN

I WISH I had all the magazines I've bought or subscribed to over the years. Wrestling mags from the late 80s/early nineties..Details, GQ, Rolling Stone, SPIN, the Source, Nat Geo, Time, Newsweek etc..from about 91-on. I had a trunk full of tones of stuff from college that my aunt threw away.

This is awesome. And useful. See: this Thread.

Not yet.. I recently did an inventory after my wife moved to Saskatchewan, and I estimated there is probably over a thousand in boxes down there. I just can't throw them out. There's lots of SPIN, Rolling Stone, CMJ etc. They're really fun to read, 10-15 years gone. Lots of great articles, especially the 'Year in the Life of Rock n' Roll' by Jim Greer.

Do you ever check them out. I dug out a bunch this evening and am having a great time reading old SPINs. There are a lot of great articles. Cripes, even Richard Hell used to review for SPIN.

i always read them.
i love the letters to the edtiors.

i mostly have Rolling Stones, but a handfull of early 90's SPIN's, some rayguns (RIP), some early Details and the first issue of George!

I have a drawer full of old Spin and Ranger Rick issues at my parents' house.

The last time I moved I had to throw out 10 years worth of Melody Makers and NME's. I also had to ditch loads of comics from when I was a kid. Do you think Batmans Vs the Moleman from 1982 was worth something? If so it's probably about 12ft down at Greengairs landfill site by now.

Me too, including the first issue of George (note Jewels that I deleted Raygun)

Add to my collection a smatterring of wrestling and freestyle/bmx/skateboard rags from the 80's (like 1% of the thousands that I used to have) and a nice collection of 70's, 80's, & 90's Playboy.

BTW the Spin 20 is one of most consistently funny things in the world to me.

Oh, Get Your War On in RS has become a fav as well

I don't have a clue what I left in my mom's cellar 20 years ago. Boxes and boxes of the first couple of decades of my life that I haven't looked at since 1984 or '85. Probably all molded and ruined by now since her house is 110 years old and the cellar is not in the best shape.

I'd pay top dollar for Batman vs. Hans Moleman!!!

i also have 100's of 80's MAD in my parents basement

i found a copy of basketball digest from 1990 in my mom's house, and i read an entire article called "who's better head to head: Detlef Schrempf vs. Danny Manning" while i was in the head.

I bet that was riveting.

I've got a bunch of those as well, pluse a large number of Archie Double Digests.

it kind of was, because i knew the answer but wouldn't let myself skip ahead to see if they got it right. they did.

Every Breath you take is the Police's best song. No question.

My co-worker is 45 and when her parents sold their house a couple years ago they found three huge cradboard boxes in their attic of old magazines that she had accrued during her teen years - loads of Rolling Stones and Creems from the mid-late 70s and early 80s that ended up in the hands of yours truly.

Looking through them is an absolute ball. I haven't gone back through them in a while, though. I should work on that.

Huh. Questions. Yes.

I could list 30 + that are better, but okay.

I sold all my comic books when I moved to Atlanta. Pretty much furnished our place too! I had some great stuff.

Steve(who will now grieve for his lost childhood)

I also forgot how much SPIN hated Stone Temple Pilots. In their review of 'Purple', Rob Sheffield goes on and on about how they're just Pearl Jam clones and says "Look I couldn't blame you for wishing that a just God would wipe Weiland from the face of the earth."

Ouch. I think it's kind of funny, because there seems to be a lot of revisionism regarding STP now. They were the hallmark of all that was wrong and evil in music 11 years ago and now, I believe I read in SPIN last year something along the lines that Weiland was "among the best performers of the 90s" and how it was good to see him healthy and back on his game with Velvet Revolver. Makes you wonder what today's equivalent will be in 2016.