Teen mags whatw're yours?

1_in_1,000,000

I had to have Bliss and Smash hits every two weeks until I was about 15. Smash hits for the posters and bliss for boys. what ones did you get?

Gauge

When I was 12-14 J17, Sugar, and Bliss were the best. Taught me everything I knew about sex and had some genuinely interesting articles/true stories. I take a flick through them now if I come across them in a newsagent and they're not nearly as interesting now

Edit: Can't forget Horse & Pony!

Quality

Jaysus...

I learnt a lot from those magazines..

Just 17, Mizz was that one...

My wardrobe in my mas still has the posters up on the inside of it...

Silverfish

Melody Maker and NME

Nevyn

Kerrang and 2000A.D. ( ok it's a comic but still... )

Oryx

*shows age*

My early teens one was Jackie.

After that I gave up on mags and read horror novels (and NME). Apart from a great one off series of magazines called One to One, about sex. Copies were like gold dust in my school!

Quality

Do you remember the Judy Blume books? They were always tattered copies. Primary school time, With talk of periods and kissing boys!!!

You werent in the know till you read one of her books!!

Oryx

Quality wrote: »

Do you remember the Judy Blume books? They were always tattered copies. Primary school time, With talk of periods and kissing boys!!!

You werent in the know till you read one of her books!!

I missed out on those. I was reading my mums maeve binchy's in primary school. Which might explain a lot.

laurak265

Smash hits, top of the pops magazine and bliss were mine!

Toto Wolfcastle

I loved anything with a problem page.

I read one last week (Shout I think) and I couldn't stop laughing. It was nice to see that kids still have innocent enough problems.

jos28

Oryx wrote: »

*shows age*

My early teens one was Jackie.

I am the same vintage, so it was a dash to the newsagents after school every Wednesday to get the Jackie.

Zaph

Shoot! I'm surprised no-one's mentioned it yet.

Toto Wolfcastle

Zaph wrote: »

Shoot! I'm surprised no-one's mentioned it yet.

Is that the one that used words such as 'corr blimey' and 'wotcha'?

Jules

Twinkle when i was very young and bunty, no others really come to mind oh and i used to rob my brother 2000 ad too!

Zaph

janeybabe wrote: »

Is that the one that used words such as 'corr blimey' and 'wotcha'?

Not that I remember, it's a football magazine. I think it's nothing but pictures with the odd caption now, but it was actually quite an intelligent magazine when I used to buy it.

Toto Wolfcastle

Zaph wrote: »

Not that I remember, it's a football magazine. I think it's nothing but pictures with the odd caption now, but it was actually quite an intelligent magazine when I used to buy it.

Oh I'm thinking of Match. Nothing remotely intelligent about Match.

Zaph

janeybabe wrote: »

Oh I'm thinking of Match. Nothing remotely intelligent about Match.

Yeah, that was pretty crap. Read it once or twice in a mates, but didn't like it.

rain on

Does anyone remember that one called Now!? I only remember it putting out a handful of issues.. it was different to the Now magazine that's around at the moment. Was around 1995 or so. I was a big fan.

Apart from that I used to get Big!, Smash Hits, It's Bliss (and then Bliss when they dropped the It's), Just Seventeen (and J17), and then when I got on towards my mid-teens, Kerrang, Metal Hammer, Cosmo and Company. Stopped buying them altogether when I was about 17.

Larianne

My mother said I was reading filth - Bliss and Sugar.:rolleyes:

Toto Wolfcastle

Larianne wrote: »

My mother said I was reading filth - Bliss and Sugar.:rolleyes:

I wasn't allowed read Bliss and Sugar for ages. My mother said it was filth too.

cuckoo

janeybabe wrote: »

I wasn't allowed read Bliss and Sugar for ages. My mother said it was filth too.

My poor mother also had a low opinion of those magazines, not for the problem pages or info about sex (i made sure she never got sight of them)......but for the tampon ads. Yup, tampons - the work of the devil. :rolleyes:

Add me to Team 2000ad, i used to kinda fancy Judge Dread, he was soooo masculine.

nomorebadtown

janeybabe wrote: »

I wasn't allowed read Bliss and Sugar for ages. My mother said it was filth too.

Your mother was dead right!
I went to a mixed school. I seem to recall some girls reading these on the bus during school tours etc invariably the mags would be grabbed by one of the lads and passed around, not much use barr the problem pages...that stuff was pure comedy gold. These mags seemed to make girls smug and happy in the knowledge that they knew more about sex and relationships than the boys...but of course, as boys, we didn't give a fook about the finer details, we just wanted to cop a feel of some tit.

Quality

Quality wrote: »

Do you remember the Judy Blume books? They were always tattered copies. Primary school time, With talk of periods and kissing boys!!!

You werent in the know till you read one of her books!!

I remember coming across Forever when I was 10.....(I was a voracious reader) and I was utterly disgusted by the mechanics of the whole concept.

What was the name of the one with the picture stories? I loved that one.


There is still a mini poster of this guy stuck on my hotpress door.

Toto Wolfcastle

Quality wrote: »

Do you remember the Judy Blume books? They were always tattered copies. Primary school time, With talk of periods and kissing boys!!!

You werent in the know till you read one of her books!!

Lol I remember when my friend was in 5th class (I was in 4th) and her class got a talk about periods in school. She was telling me all about this talk and I grabbed a Judy Blume book, flicked through it, and found the part the mentioned periods to show her that I knew all about it! (Which I didn't.)

I vaguely remember that same friend reading magazines with paper dolls that you could dress up in paper clothes. And Bunty too. (Possibly the same thing?)

bronte

That takes me back moonbaby!
I was a bliss j-17 and sugar junkie...spent aa bloody fortune on them!

Larianne

The free gifts were soooo cool. Remember one time got these stick on nail art thingys and thought they were the bees knees.

lorweld

I used to love Big! I'd save my pocket money for it and live in hope that there would be posters of NKOTB in it:o I''d be really happy if the poster was the middle page one cos it'd be bigger!:D

_Whimsical_

Quality wrote: »

Do you remember the Judy Blume books? They were always tattered copies. Primary school time, With talk of periods and kissing boys!!!

You werent in the know till you read one of her books!!

I loved Judy Blume.The one day it took me to read all of "Are You There God It's Me Margaret" is etched in my mind forever .As is :
"we must, we must , we must increase our bust!".


Magazines wise I read Just17 from age 12 to 15 ish. I remember reading the problem page with friends when I was 12 .We were reading a "I'm 14 and I've never kissed a boy" problem. We REALLY pitied that girl. We never imagined we'd grow into 14 year olds with that problem...which of course we did.

dfx-

Zaph wrote: »

Shoot! I'm surprised no-one's mentioned it yet.

:cool:

And Commando war stories

Aisling(",)

i read kiss,cosmo girl,mizz and i think sugar when i was a bit younger.

jezza

Mizz. J17.
My fave was sugar though. I also collected was it sabrina or barbie or something? they were out in 2000/2001 and used to give free make up with it. Nearly sure it was sabrina.
Also bought kiss Still do on occasion.

cuckoo

lorweld wrote: »

I used to love Big! I'd save my pocket money for it and live in hope that there would be posters of NKOTB in it:o I''d be really happy if the poster was the middle page one cos it'd be bigger!:D

Middle page posters did mean that you had to be very careful when tearing them out because of the staples, i regularly used to use my fingernails to peel back the staples (living dangerously!).

Bijoux

Mizz...then Sugar and Kiss....

Used to love the cringe section in Mizz :pac:

rainbow kirby

I started with Big and Smash Hits, then moved on to Bliss, Sugar, J17 slightly later on, then to More and Company, but I stopped buying magazines a few years ago.

Weidii

I used to get Empire and PC gamer...

I've since moved on to National Geographic and Focus.

1_in_1,000,000

Weidii wrote: »

I used to get Empire and PC gamer...

I've since moved on to National Geographic and Focus.

Haha, nerd type, eh? I learnt about sex from bliss - you learn about sex from PC Gamer?

m'lady

omg remember 'forever' by Judy Blume? she called his cock 'ralph'! that book thought me a lot!

pow wow

MG, Bliss, Mizz, soft spot for J17 (and their Christmas Annuals - legend!).

Still have some old ones in a box at my parents' house I think; can't imagine why!

Nead21

also J-17 fan and then later Bliss and Sugar. i bought Kerrang when i had money!
When i was about 16 i started buying More, which shocked my mam when she flicked through it and saw "Position of the Week"!

Cutie18Ireland

Grandad used to get me sugar magazine every month, often being pointed to the bags of sugar... lol .After that was Kiss magazine, purely for it being Irish

Crumble Froo

mizz religiously in early teens (and yep, i had to give the first issue to my mam, so she could check what i was reading. it was a special on puberty, and had pics of girls in underwear. very risqué. had to keep it hidden from my bro and sis). actually, remember when the trousers with skirts attached were quite popular? i saw them in teh square while out with the family one day, and commented quite knowingly that they were in fashion now, had seen it in mizz... my bro turned around to me and told me mizz was ruining my life. haha, i was quite offended at that one.

later teens was all kerrang! every week, and NME/Q whenever they were featuring bands i particularly liked. had to stop buying them when i was 16/17 as was quite broke and stuff,but used to spend hours in easons, reading them.

m'lady

m'lady wrote: »

omg remember 'forever' by Judy Blume? she called his cock 'ralph'! that book thought me a lot!

It took me years to disassociate the name Ralph with cocks.
She had to do that because the censor limited the number of times she use actual gential terms.

Judy Bloom was the bomb.
It's not the end of the world, Blubber, Superfudge, Then again maybe I won't. Fantastic books.

Gauge

Yeah, I've been considering buying some battered second hand versions just to re-read them I loved Are You There God, It's Me Margaret, even if it did make me think that sanitary pads had to be attached to belts.

Quality

Moonbaby wrote: »

It took me years to disassociate the name Ralph with cocks.
She had to do that because the censor limited the number of times she use actual gential terms.

Judy Bloom was the bomb.
It's not the end of the world, Blubber, Superfudge, Then again maybe I won't. Fantastic books.

Yeah, she was brilliant, but all the same, I dont think I shall be buying them for my daughter!!!:D

Toots

I used to love Sugar and Mizz! The embarrassing moments sections were best. When I was about 17 I started reading Cosmo, still get it most months, again for the embarrassing moments! Too much ads in it though TBH.

Toto Wolfcastle

Toots85 wrote: »

I used to love Sugar and Mizz! The embarrassing moments sections were best. When I was about 17 I started reading Cosmo, still get it most months, again for the embarrassing moments! Too much ads in it though TBH.

I started reading Cosmo last month because I was bored at work and it was there and I'm kind of hooked now, as are a couple of the men I worked with! They tried to steal it to photocopy some of the articles.

The Sweeper

Um, mine were Kerrang and Metalhammer. [/sheepish]

janeybabe

janeybabe wrote: »

I started reading Cosmo last month because I was bored at work and it was there and I'm kind of hooked now, as are a couple of the men I worked with! They tried to steal it to photocopy some of the articles.

[suspicious] What kind of articles?[/suspicious]

Cosmo is possible the worlds greatest waste of paper and ink. After the Daily Mail.

Toots

janeybabe wrote: »

I started reading Cosmo last month because I was bored at work and it was there and I'm kind of hooked now, as are a couple of the men I worked with! They tried to steal it to photocopy some of the articles.

Lol! I know! Whenever any of my male friends are up, they're always grabbing the Cosmo and having a laugh over the embarrassing moments pages. They get all annoyed if they come up for a beer and they've read all the Cosmos already :pac:

Toto Wolfcastle

Moonbaby wrote: »

[suspicious] What kind of articles?[/suspicious]

Cosmo is possible the worlds greatest waste of paper and ink. After the Daily Mail.

Lol all the sex ones! One guy spread the word that the lads should take a look at pages 96 to 111.

minxie

mine was smash hits so i could cut out the pics
and put up on my wall!!!:D
and more cos of the gossip...:p