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03 March 2007

The 51 Best Magazines Ever

post by: ericb at: 16:07 | 15 comments

That can't be a list of the "51 Best Magazines Ever" because not only is it US-centric, they leave out The Economist, OMNI and Scientific American and instead fill it with useless fluff like Details, Tiger Beat and People.

posted by cmonkey 03 March | 16:34

They leave out Glamour! Bad list, bad list!

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 03 March | 16:44

Tiger Beat is not useless fluff!

posted by YouCanCallMeAl 03 March | 16:53

OMNI was a great magazine - my granddad lent me a few boxes when I was a wee one, and they really shaped my view of, well, everything.

posted by muddgirl 03 March | 17:43

OMNI was amazing. Science fact and fiction in a glossy mag.

posted by arse_hat 03 March | 18:04

I miss Spy so much. There's nothing today that comes remotely close to Spy in it's heyday. Suck.com got close, and that's dead too.

(No, Radar doesn't even come on the, er, radar.)

posted by Lentrohamsanin 03 March | 18:06

No Harper's? Fuck that!

posted by interrobang 03 March | 18:15

Wow--just by reading the comments, I don't think I want to look at the article.

posted by box 03 March | 18:36

I just had to laugh when they mentioned "The Spectator" first. I have an antique book "The Spectator, Volume the First" dated 1765. It's not in great shape (the leather covers have come apart from the binding) but it is rather entertaining (once you get used to the "s's" that look like "f's").

posted by redvixen 03 March | 18:54

I was totally shocked at the omission of OMNI. Glad to see MAD Magazine in it's heyday made it though. Basically what cmonkey said.

posted by eekacat 03 March | 18:55

No Hustler? Pheh. (at least they included Mad, thank god). Beer Frame and Answer Me! shoulds been in there, too.

posted by jonmc 03 March | 20:00

Oooh, yeah, we got OMNI when I was a kid. I dug it.

posted by rainbaby 03 March | 20:49

Esquire: #1.

Playboy: #4.

Ms.: #35.

That reflects a lot of the thinking behind the list. And the New Yorker should most definitely be #1.

There are a lot of good magazines missing, and a lot of bad magazines on the list, but it's still a good idea to think about good magazines. Magazines have contributed greatly to cultural change, in a way that newspapers and television shows really haven't.

I'm glad Spy was on there, though. I really miss Spy.

posted by Miko 03 March | 22:04

Second interrobang. No Harpers? No Mother Jones? No Salon? No Foreign Affairs? Jane's Intelligence Review?

What a crap list.

posted by NucleophilicAttack 04 March | 12:45

I get Good Magazine. I enjoy it. I didn't really care much for this piece though.

posted by mullacc 04 March | 21:29

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