BRITISH "LADS" MAGAZINE POLL

Fuck RYM for not letting me include this image:

http://rateyourmusic.com/misc/link_image?album_id=163252&image_hotlinked

FHM and Loaded are the only two I've really ever read, and FHM beats Loaded easy.

No option for "all of these magazines should be closed down next week, and all of the people responsible for publishing them should be repeatedly kicked in the nutsack forever", otherwise, top poll.

Did early-days Loaded have that many redeeming features, really? I remember it being pretty good but I was 15, 16 at the time (which didn't stop me from finding FHM near-unreadable)

I'm not sure the 'If You Buy This Magazine Your Life Will Be That Little Bit More Like Daniel Craig's' titles quite fit in here but it's not my poll.

Bizarre had some good articles, I'm told.

I bought a copy of Esquire a few months back because it had a photoshoot with the secretary from Ugly Betty in a pencil skirt. I should probably be shot.

Can I borrow it?

Bizarre had some good articles, I'm told.

-- Free Peace Sweet!, Monday, 7 April 2008 11:47 (11 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

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Bizarre had some good articles, I'm told.

-- Free Peace Sweet!, Monday, 7 April 2008 10:47 (22 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

Yeah, I'm told there's some scots lad who interviews cult film directors for them from time to time.

Can I borrow it?

-- Tom D., Monday, 7 April 2008 11:48 (13 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

http://www.popcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/05088beckinewton122986ltn1.jpg

Would run up on that SO hard.

Which of these is the absolute bottom of the barrel again, is it Front or Stuff?

Front.

Seriously, a wank rag for nu-rave kids.

"DIGGING DIVORCE" was written by James Brown and is one of those "Area Sociologist Believes Own Behaviour Indicative Of Larger Trends" pieces that nobody in their right mind would ever read.

GQ and esquire sometimes have decent articles.

nuts and fhm usually have some decent breasts.

I'm kind of amazed they're still publishing Loaded, it seems such a relic of its time now. A lads mag hasn't actually folded in years has it? Although presumably Maxim isn't long for this world.

king and smooth usually have some nice asses.

A lads mag hasn't actually folded in years has it?
-- Matt DC, Monday, 7 April 2008 11:53 (42 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

Ice?

Oh yeah, I forgot that one existed.

if uk vers of gk is not any diff than the us vers it has some good features if you can get past its writers always talking about being in spain this summer and paris that summer and brazil on this vacation and getting this great shampoo there blah blah

"Loaded, it seems such a relic of its time now"

tits dont date.

gq* :/ xxp

Although presumably Maxim isn't long for this world.

-- Matt DC, Monday, April 7, 2008 5:53 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

i'm pretty sure maxim is the king of this list-- def in the US at least

tho GQ and esquire aim for the older "lad" i assume

In the US yes, in the UK its sinking like a stone.

Interestingly the Stuff magazine website is pretty much all gadgets and nothing else. I presume they just put the bikini-clad woman on the front to make people feel less embarrassed about reading a magazine purely for the article on SatNav systems or whatever?

Dom watches Ugly Betty?

Yeah, well, we all knew he was gay.

I don't watch it, I just want to fuck the receptionist.

I used to love with a fashion designer.

*live.

http://www.uploadthis.co.uk/uploads/Under_ware/YouBeBackpedallingFool.jpg

Bizarre had some good articles, I'm told.

-- Free Peace Sweet!, Monday, 7 April 2008 10:47 (22 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

Yeah, I'm told there's some scots lad who interviews cult film directors for them from time to time.

-- Pashmina, Monday, 7 April 2008 10:49 (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

I no longer read this since their scarf-porn correspondent got the push.

The only one of these mags I ever see is Nuts coz people at work buy it, but bored as I am I still can't be bothered to open it.

Is Felix Dennis's internet lads mag still going?

Self-confessed (maybe) murderer Felix Dennis, call him by his name.

I think I have read a copy of it (x-post, Bizarre) once in my life, I can't remember much about it, maybe there was something about that european castle that was in "eurotrash" that's run by dominatrixes and you can pay mad scrilla to go there and get treated like shit and get forced to do running repairs on the structure of the place BEST EVER MONEY-MAKING SCAM i WISH I'D THOUGHT OF IT. Maybe that was in "The Observer" magazine, though, I can't remember.

They didn't hoof you from Bizarre as well did they, Dom?

You forgot the most read LADS MAG in the country:

http://www.shortlist.com/

It has a Danny Wallace column.

Shortlist versus SPORT. There's a battle for the ages.

That Danny Wallace column constantly goes into italics for no real reason.

SPORT isn't bad for a free mag given out at stations.

I love the way Nuts tries to vary shit. One week, it's 'The Naked Issue'. Then the 'Big Boobs Issue'. Or the 'Topless Issue'.

And last week's came with a 'Bumper Book of Boobs'.

And I loved one recent cover where the main story was 'INSIDE: [model's name] shows us her boobs!'

basic

Can't stand these mags. If only there was some other, cheaper way to look at girlie pictures.

Nuts and Zoo are at the bottom of the pile here. Arena used to be a reasonable magazine, but I haven't seen a copy in over ten years, so perhaps it isn't now. I'd feel embarrassed about buying any of these in a newsagents. I'd probably have to slip one inside a copy of Razzle or something.

I read a copy of FHM recently and found it mostly OK. This means it might have some merit past pictures of tits, though I am a (straight) girl and thusly might have my priorities a bit wrong in this regard.

This is basically my point. If you want porn, buy a porn mag. If you want a men's magazine, buy... er... oh shit...

A lads mag hasn't actually folded in years has it?
-- Matt DC, Monday, 7 April 2008 11:53 (42 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

Ice?

-- Dom Passantino, Monday, 7 April 2008 10:54 (8 hours ago) Bookmark Link

In a shameless plug for my thread you can see some first edition covers of Loaded and Bizarre here...
This is the thread where I post the front covers of magazines I collected from the 90s, mostly now defunct.

As well as the long forgotten Deluxe ('For Men')

Generally, they all 'jumped the shark' when they realised the issues with a girli on front sold better than with anything else on the front. If I recall, one of them went with a 'look, not a girli BUY IT PLZ otherwise we have to go girlifrontcover FOREVER!!'

Guess it didn't sell.

It could be that the general quality has dropped, it could be that after a while they tell you nothing new and just repeat what was said before. It could be that Lucy Pinder is not sexy in my opinion.

Loaded had a playfulness at the time that was different/new.
Maxim 'broke' a new market that other mags either sprung up in its wake, or rebranded themselves to suit (bit like Punk in 1976 then!)

Loaded's last brilliant moment was having one month with fifty different covers (ranging from Basil Brush, Teletubbies, The Jam, blimey who else?), but shot itself in the foot and jumped the shark from that moment. I mean, how do you top that?

I havent bought any of them for a very long time.

I'm not sure the 'If You Buy This Magazine Your Life Will Be That Little Bit More Like Daniel Craig's' titles quite fit in here but it's not my poll.

-- Matt DC, Monday, April 7, 2008 11:46 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

lols they totally do. i did a thread where i had to buy a copy of nuts for an art project (not mine); anyway, also purchased as part of this were copies of other lads' mags (and i think an old copy of 'the erotic review'). aaaaanyhoo, they're ALL the SAME, except, yes, the girls in gq and esquire are that little bit more cokey and unattainable, and the writers are even more insufferable jerks.

james brown gave me props once, a loooooong time ago. his article sounds AWFUL.

The last issue of Arena I saw, which might be the current one, had Joe Calzaghe on the cover and barely a pair of breasts in sight. For a second I was impressed but on the other hand I didn't read a single word of it.

Esquire has shifted 'upmarket' a bit to capture that 'too guilty even to buy GQ' market, I think this translates to 'putting a black and white section in the middle and alternating Daniel Craig or Jose Mourinho* covers with retro-arty covers featuring Anna Friel or Scarlett Johansson that might have been risque in 1953'. Once again I never bother to actually read it.

*Only football manager they would ever put on the cover.

Jewell might make the step up now.

Too rapey, let GQ have him.

sure nuts and zoo have MORE tits -- the number they have is insane. perhaps i'm in denial about the existence of the kind of person who would buy gq to read it.

People like to have pictures to look at on trains isn't it?

Petridis, Piers, and AA Gill: in the same mag!

I'm voting for Stuff because I don't know what that is, but I know what all the others are.

"Stuff" is gizmos.

I don't have that kind of spare cash!

"Stuff" is in the same bracket as "T3" and several other magazines that feature on their covers a woman wearing a bikini holding a super complex new mobile phone.

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ILX is some classy guys.