Volume magazine was a music magazine which was published in the
, and two best-of compilations. These special editions were packaged in double-disc jewel cases, and each came in a box with Volume's standard-sized 192-page booklet.
The music artists featured in the magazine ranged widely from
was featured quite heavily.
The magazine contained interviews and bios of various bands and musical artists, with discographies and "favorite tracks" lists of the artists. The tone of many of the articles was irreverent, and much of the filler material was riotously funny. For example, in the Wasted compilation's companion booklet, several short blurbs entitled "The Diary of Dave Stewart's Beard" are written from the perspective of a beard, in which it pontificates whether it will be shaven, and describes its attempts to hide itself in shame after the poor performance of its owner's latest album.
Issues
Volume One, September 1991
- Meat Beat Manifesto – "Love Mad" (3:28)
- Papa Sprain – "Flying to Vegas" (4:48)
- Nitzer Ebb – "Come Alive (Remix)" (5:32)
Kitchens Of Distinction – "Innocence" (4:58)
- Throwing Muses – "Red Shoes (Version)" (3:39)
- The Darkside – "Guitar Voodoo (Live)" (4:38)
- Dr. Phibes & The House of Wax Equations – "Sugarblast" (5:04)
- The Popguns – "Going Under (Remix)" (5:27)
- The Orb – "Reefer Spin in the Galaxy" (4:59)
- New Order – "Confusion (Remix)" (5:35)
- The Shamen – "Hyperreal (Remix)" (5:03)
Fortran 5 – "XX21 (Remix)" (4:59)
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult – "Leather Sex (Remix)" (5:45)
- Consolidated – "The Sexual Politics of Meat" (3:44)
- The Wolfgang Press – "Sucker (Version)" (3:36)
- Daisy Chainsaw – "Upmanship Down" (2:45)
- L. Kage – "Another Story From Raintown" (3:47)
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Volume Two, November 1991
- Barry Adamson – "Odio-Amor, Odio-Amor" (1:12)
- Lush – "Tiny Smiles" (4:10)
- The Blue Aeroplanes – "Aeroplane Blues (LA Mix)" (4:21)
- MC 900 Ft Jesus – "Killer Inside Me" (3:08)
- New Fast Automatic Daffodils – "All Over My Face (Scam Mix)" (4:42)
- Nine Inch Nails – "Head Like A Hole (Alternative Version)" (4:13)
- Whipped Cream – "Mr. Green" (3:52)
- Spirea X – "Signed DC (Acoustic Version)" (3:38)
- Blur – "Oily Water" (4:58)
- The Sugarcubes – "Hetero Scum" (3:05)
Definition Of Sound – "When A Lion Awakes (Full Length Version)" (2:32)
- Celestial Tribes – "Gold (Remix)" (3:53)
- System 7 – "Miracle (Orb Remix)" (6:14)
Bomb The Bass – "Liquid Metal (Remix)" (4:35)
- EMF – "I Believe (Inframental Foetus Remix)" (6:38)
- Pulp – "She's Dead" (5:03)
- No-Man – "Kiss Me Stupid" (4:52)
- Curve – "Already Yours (Basement Mix)" (3:56)
- Gallon Drunk – "Ruby" (4:06)
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Volume Three, May 1992
- Daisy Chainsaw – "I Feel Insane (Live)" (3:12)
- Therapy? – "Innocent X (Remix)" (3:00)
- Depth Charge – "Daughters Of Darkness" (5:31)
Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy – "California Uber Alles" (4:14)
- Levitation – "Cloud Shine" (1:50)
- The Charlatans – "Over Rising (Instrumental)" (3:38)
- Psychotropic Vibration – "Jesus Timeshare Experience" (5:46)
- The Breeders – "Safari (Remix)" (3:31)
- Honey Tongue – "Let's Sail Away (Remix)" (5:38)
- Terrorvision – "My House (Dirkhill Road Mix)" (2:51)
Public Image Limited – "Criminal (Remix)" (4:30)
- Sweet Jesus – "Sisterfly" (2:44)
- Orbital – "Belfast / Wasted (Wasted Vocal Mix)" (7:04)
- Moby – "Go (Subliminal Mix)" (4:26)
- Natural Life – "Find Our Direction (Remix)" (5:43)
LFO – "Slow Down Speedy" (3:13)
Sheep On Drugs – "Motorbike (Remix)" (4:55)
- Interference – "Overload (Live)" (5:20)
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Volume Five, December 1992
Volume Eight, November 1993
Volume Ten, July 1994
- A.R. Kane - "Deep Blue Breath" (5:30)
- Disco Inferno - "Second Language" (4:44)
- Scarce - "Naked Freak Shadow" (3:16)
- Gene - "To See The Lights" (2:28)
- The High Llamas - "Might As Well Be Dumbo" (4:53)
- Pulp - "Joyriders" (3:31)
- Tiny Monroe - "Cream Bun" (3:50)
- Echobelly - "Fake" (3:11)
- Gigolo Aunts - "They Don't Know" (2:43)
- Lush - "Tinkerbell" (3:16)
- Tricky - "You Don't" (4:42)
- Credit to the Nation - "Come Dancing" (4:37)
- Loop Guru - "La Boheme" (5:29)
- Transglobal Underground - "Khan" (6:55)
- Transcendental Love Machine - "Revolvalution" (4:07)
- Insides - "Tikky" (5:20)
- Oracle - "The Sweetest Place" (5:44)
- Peter Perrett's The One - "Daughter" (4:28)
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Volume Eleven, August 1994
Volume Twelve, December 1994
- Node - "Olivine" (7:47)
- Spiritualized - "Good Times (Pure Phase)" (5:41)
- Goya Dress - "Foetus" (3:59)
- Garbage - "Vow" (4:31)
- Prolapse - "Visa for Violet and Van" (5:14)
- Shriek - "Girl Meets Girl" (2:15)
- Pet Lamb - "Son of John Doe" (2:37)
- Moby - "What Love?" (2:49)
- G. Love & Special Sauce - "Tomorrow Night" (4:19)
- Massive Attack - "Karma Coma (Bumper Ball Dub)" (5:55)
Experimental Audio Research - "Space Theme (Tribute to John Cage in C, A, G and E)" (3:44)
- Laika - "Lower Than Stars" (4:56)
- Ride - "Only Now" (4:30)
- Catatonia - "Dream On" (2:32)
- Love Spit Love - "Wake Up" (3:34)
- Novocaine - "Pond Life" (4:35)
- Flinch - "Days" (4:49)
- Nitzer Ebb - "In Decline" (5:37)
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Volume Thirteen, 1995
- Krispy 3 - "Listen Up" (3:56)
- Whiteout - "Polyesther Blues" (3:52)
- The Boo Radleys - "Reaching Out From Here (Martin Carr Demo)" (3:04)
- Animals That Swim - "East Street O'Neill" (2:06)
- Juliana Hatfield - "Waves" (4:23)
- Elcka - "Games We Play" (3:48)
- Interact - "Just Because" (4:15)
- Throwing Muses - "Hillbilly" (3:22)
- Kaliphz - "Sex, Horror & Violence" (4:17)
- Luscious Jackson - "Daddy" (2:38)
- Tribute to Nothing - "Look At Yourself" (2:50)
- The Flying Medallions - "Vanity Fair" (2:17)
Nova Mob - "No Promise Have I Made" (2:52)
- Done Lying Down - "Bolus" (2:17)
- Rosa Mota - "Frost Bitten" (4:44)
- Edwyn Collins - "In A Nutshell" (4:09)
- Tindersticks - "Tiny Tears" (5:23)
- Radiohead - "Nice Dream (Demo)" (3:10)
- Velo Deluxe - "Jesus Let Me In" (3:19)
- Reverberation - "It's All Over" (5:32)
- Heather Nova - "Maybe An Angel (Acoustic Version)" (4:33)
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Volume Fifteen, November 1995
Disc One
- Rhythmicon - "Springs & Magnets Part 2 (Return to Steam)" (5:08)
- Life's Addiction - "Quiet Storm (Demo)" (4:59)
- Solid - "Outside" (4:02)
- Cocteau Twins - "Circling Girl" (3:35)
- Baby Bird - "Alan Ladd" (3:02)
- LHOOQ - "Vanishing" (5:41)
- The Shamen - "MK2A (Tranquility Bass Dub)" (6:10)
- Alabama 3 - "Hypo Full Of Love (The 12 Step Plan) (Remix)" (6:47)
- Ultramarine - "Altered Ego" (5:47)
- New Order - "Everything's Gone Green (Advent Remix)" (5:55)
- Joi - "Everybody Say Yeah (Spring Heel Jack Remix)" (7:18)
- Jock Scot with The Nectarine No. 9 - "Thierry Lacroix" (2:54)
- Scheer - "Don't Know Why? (Demo)" (3:41)
- The Flaming Stars - "Bring Me the Rest Of Alfredo Garcia" (3:16)
- Mick Harvey - "Who's 'In', Who's 'Out'" (3:14)
- State of Grace - "Perfect and Wild" (4:28)
- The Wannadies - "Let Go Oh Oh"
Disc Two
- Law One - "Better Get Ready" (9:27)
- Alien - "Sam The Ant Tamer" (5:47)
- Bonjour Monsieur Basie - "Ambient Jazz Suite No. 2" (9:26)
- Data track
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Volume Sixteen, July 1996
- Dubstar - "Not So Fast" (4:16)
Space - "Me and You vs the World" (3:39)
- Bawl - "Unfinished" (2:39)
- The Candyskins - "Europe + Japan" (3:12)
- Northern Uproar - "Moods" (3:19)
- Linoleum - "She's Sick" (3:37)
- Cradle - "Second Nature (French Version)" (4:40)
- Super Furry Animals - "Frisbee" (2:34)
- Octopus - "I Know Who I Am" (3:06)
- Beck - "Thunder Peel" (2:42)
- The Cure - "Club America (Roxy Mix)" (5:10)
- Pusherman - "Whole" (5:02)
- Baader Meinhof - "GSG/29" (3:07)
- Moonshake - "Nothing But Time" (4:23)
- Gretschen Hofner - "St. Pauli" (3:06)
- The Shave - "Crushed Velvet Panties" (4:09)
- Lush - "Half and Half" (3:17)
- Edward Ball - "Docklands Blues" (4:39)
- Balloon - "The Saw Song" (4:35)
- Vic Chesnutt - "Flowers on the Wall" (4:34)
- The Afghan Whigs - "I Want to Go to Sleep" (3:43)
- Labradford - "The Window" (4:37)
- Heave - "Barberskum" (4:09)
- The Pop Group - "3: 38" (3:40)
- Mark Stewart - "Digital Justice (dub)" (5:52)
- Meat Beat Manifesto - "Future Worlds (Alternate Version)" (4:26)
- Data track
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Volume Seventeen, January 1997
- Alabama Three - "Woke Up This Morning" (6:46)
- Elastica - "Love Like Ours" (2:23)
- Travis - "U 16 Girls" (4:17)
- Terrorvision - "Conspiracy (Remix)" (3:24)
- Gallon Drunk - "All This and More" (3:37)
dEUS - "The Magic of New Pop Music" (3:50)
- Morphine - "Never Live Twice [live]" (2:41)
- Björk - "Possibly Maybe [Lucy Mix]" (3:02)
The Longpigs - "On and On (Pass the Snake Mix)" (5:15)
- Rare - "Rollercoaster" (3:54)
- Little Axe - "What Have You Got?" (4:04)
- Turn On - "Latin Gloop" (4:37)
- System 7 - "Big Sky City" (7:53)
- Curve - "Test" (5:59)
- Drugstore - "Communication Breakdown" (2:46)
- Throwing Muses - "Like a Dog" (3:23)
- Elvis Costello - "What Do I Do Now?" (4:26)
- The Auteurs - "Unsolved Child Murder" (2:00)
- Catatonia - "Mickey" (2:34)
- Cuckoo - "More of Me (And Then Some)" (4:21)
- Fruit - "Leather Jacket" (4:29)
- Mel McRory - "Here I Am" (2:24)
- The Divine Comedy - "Through a Long and Sleepless Night" (6:22)
- Cocteau Twins - "Touch Upon Touch" (4:05)
- Geneva - "Closer to the Stars" (3:42)
- Fiel Garvie - "Risk" (3:47)
- Fringe - "I'll Keep It in Mind" (4:35)
- Bettie Serveert - "Spine" (3:12)
- Bill Janovitz - "Red Balloon" (5:26)
- Mindless Drug Hoover - "Volume" (3:05)
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