Darlin' i shall be there around Christmas time...

To go off topic.

I found Ian on the beginning of this thang,

Darlin' i shall be there around Christmas time...

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Kilkenny in the Royal Oak, Jalan Semantan

80/ in Diggers', Dalry Road

Compare and contrast...

I can't imagine Diggers' without a pall of blue smoke...

And to avoid sectarian violence - no colours. (I'll bet I get grief over that from the misinterpretopolice)

The most obvious difference - apart from the lack of McEwans 80/ - is that there's only one member of staff on here - if there were two they'd outnumber the customer (that's me, by the way...)

I don't think I was ever the only customer in a pub in the '80s - how times change!

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They're just showing here the aftermath of some Malaysian football competition - when the players take their medals some of them wai, some clasp their hand-shaking forearm with the other hand, and some touch their breast over their heart after shaking hands...actually looks like it could have been a thai team that won something, but I don't know - I don't recognise the strips...

Back to the thread-starting post...

Actually, I was working in a factory dawn till dusk - not like Charles, fortunately, who became obsolete (name the band! its an obscure b-side, and since I dumped my vinyl b-side the roadside, I can't check myself what it was bought with...)

I've been thinking lately about Smart buses, that used to take the workers from my home town to the coal mines further West - coal mines! that's a bit '80s, isn't it? Devo couldn't have covered "working in a coal mine" ten years later, could they? Anyway, I've been thinking about the Smart buses, blue with Smart in beg letters on the back, but they weren't.

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hot dog jumping frog albuquerque

heartbroken i was ! when my first real love and i split up after a massive row. so i fled to israel to live on a kibbutz and then went onto travel extensively around the globe. only to find out on my return that if i had not gone my girlfriend had indeed regretted the whole incident,was sorry and had never wanted us to part. but, alas it was too late i had already left the country before she got the chance to tell me. she then went on to tell me, this being some years later that this tune bared so much significance to what had happened after i left.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1Cs04Z6ce8

edie looks so much like my ex that i have been talking about in my last post. had such a crush on her too ! plus the fact that she made some great music. only problem is that she then went on to marry paul simon.

Back to the thread-starting post...

Actually, I was working in a factory dawn till dusk - not like Charles, fortunately, who became obsolete (name the band! its an obscure b-side, and since I dumped my vinyl b-side the roadside, I can't check myself what it was bought with...)

I've been thinking lately about Smart buses, that used to take the workers from my home town to the coal mines further West - coal mines! that's a bit '80s, isn't it? Devo couldn't have covered "working in a coal mine" ten years later, could they? Anyway, I've been thinking about the Smart buses, blue with Smart in beg letters on the back, but they weren't.

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Well knock me down with a sledgehammer (*1) turns out Charles was an A-side for the Skids, and from 1978 -

http://thep5.blogspot.com/2009/03/skids-charles.html

if the internet is to be believed.

But "Specky Potter Meets Monkey McGuire Behind The Lochore Institute" was definetley a B-Side! And an instrumental to boot

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*1 Stay tuned for the Oxford Road Shopping stories!

think suzanne is now a devout Buddhist.

Back to the thread-starting post...

Actually, I was working in a factory dawn till dusk - not like Charles, fortunately, who became obsolete (name the band! its an obscure b-side, and since I dumped my vinyl b-side the roadside, I can't check myself what it was bought with...)

I've been thinking lately about Smart buses, that used to take the workers from my home town to the coal mines further West - coal mines! that's a bit '80s, isn't it? Devo couldn't have covered "working in a coal mine" ten years later, could they? Anyway, I've been thinking about the Smart buses, blue with Smart in beg letters on the back, but they weren't.

SC

Well knock me down with a sledgehammer (*1) turns out Charles was an A-side for the Skids, and from 1978 -

http://thep5.blogspo...ds-charles.html

if the internet is to be believed.

But "Specky Potter Meets Monkey McGuire Behind The Lochore Institute" was definetley a B-Side! And an instrumental to boot

SC

*1 Stay tuned for the Oxford Road Shopping stories!

Used to love a wander past Lochore Institute and round the meadows with my then girlfriend.......such happy memories....<sigh>

Sometimes I wonder what mibbe wouldae happened ken?

hen..?

I lived Warrender Terrace. Looking over the links.

I would remind you that Bros were a householdhold name when they were famous - depends when you had your 'formative years'.

Exactly my point - they were known for a year or two when the publicists needed to sell the product - then back to obscurity.

But people like Elvis, beatles, Rolling Stones are still household names and music by the Who, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald and many others are still played on many radio programmes throughout the world.

The last time I heard Joan Jett and the Blackhearts was from my library, as with many others.

My formative years were during and after WWII. My RAF days were spent listening to Frankie Vaughan (Green Door), Ivor & Basil Kirchen, Elvis, Jerry Lee, PJ and a host of others. Not all remembered - Laurindo Almeida, for instance. Some excellent tracks with Bud Shank.

Whatever happened to the girl from Ipanema?

Alma Cogan, Lita Rosa, Sandie Shaw, Dusty Springfield, Karen Carpenter, so many others from that era have faded away - but some still remain within our collective memory. I don't think anything from the eighties remains.

Alma Cogan, Lita Rosa, Sandie Shaw, Dusty Springfield, Karen Carpenter, so many others from that era have faded away - but some still remain within our collective memory. I don't think anything from the eighties remains.

I think you have to allow for the fact that 'collective memory' is not a static thing, it changes over time and the collective memory of those who were children or teenagers in the 80s is very much full of artists from those years.

There are actually quite a few 80s acts that remain part of the collective memory, without any hesitation the mega stars like Madonna, U2 and Michael Jackson (not my favourites, but that they are still very well known can not be disputed), and somewhat less famous but very much still remembered and respected, bands like Depeche Mode, R.E.M., The Cure, The Smiths.

In terms of metal, Metallica is still a huge band, and the Guns n' Roses of the late 80s was immensely successful and that part of their career is still remembered with nostalgia.

I thought these guys were innovative:

...

Sometimes I wonder what mibbe wouldae happened ken?

hen..?

SOmetimes I open up facebook just to read the format "... Comment, like"

Nostalgia's not what it used to be, by the way, boys.

I spent about three years as a student in Tollcross - mostly drinking in the Tap, which is (sadly or otherwise) no longer there since the building got knocked down.

Diggers was about as far West - no, I suppose Tynecastle is a few hundred yards further... that I ever went, and Easter Road in the other direction...

To get back on topic - Serious Drinking - Love on the Terraces (Love on the Terraces...), bought with "He's an angry bastard but he's all right" and "Bobby Moore was innocent" if memory serves me correctly

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Alma Cogan, Lita Rosa, Sandie Shaw, Dusty Springfield, Karen Carpenter, so many others from that era have faded away - but some still remain within our collective memory. I don't think anything from the eighties remains.

I think you have to allow for the fact that 'collective memory' is not a static thing, it changes over time and the collective memory of those who were children or teenagers in the 80s is very much full of artists from those years.

There are actually quite a few 80s acts that remain part of the collective memory, without any hesitation the mega stars like Madonna, U2 and Michael Jackson (not my favourites, but that they are still very well known can not be disputed), and somewhat less famous but very much still remembered and respected, bands like Depeche Mode, R.E.M., The Cure, The Smiths.

In terms of metal, Metallica is still a huge band, and the Guns n' Roses of the late 80s was immensely successful and that part of their career is still remembered with nostalgia.

Yes, Madonna is still active. U2 as mega-stars? Not in my book. Couldn't tell you any track from them - just checked my library (10,000+ tracks) nothing there.

Michael Jackson was a child of the 60's - with the Jackson 5. I would not count him as an eighties product.

You mention 'The Cure' and 'The Smiths'. Never heard of 'em. Not in my library, either. Depeche Mode and REM were like modern elevators - up and down very quickly.

I don't like being negative, but really - about the eighties as most know it, I cannot be anything else. I had fun, but I was in Libya the whole decade.

which is another score for my view that its about the era you belong, Elvis, don't own a single track & never have, same with the beatles (yuk). Rolling stones, sure still famous but not for the music, haven't had a decent track in generations, they self publisize & make movies & have affairs with stupidly young russian waitresses, hardly a testiment to their ability to keep the current masses buying their new stuff. But they do alright in royalties & "best of" albumns.

U2 are mega stars, much more active & relevant than RS in terms of new songs & attracting the new generations. That you have never heard of the cure or smiths just shows your age, just as mine shows by not knowing 99% of the names mentioned in your post.

You were +40 years old in the 80's & living in Libya to boot, how could you be nostalgic for the 80's in the same way we in our teens & 20's were? We lived it, attended the clubs it was being played & made mixed tapes off the radio to be copied & spread around amongst our peers, something you've probably never done either.

But it doesn't make the era & it's music any less relevant to what you remember.

I just wonder what point you & the other complainers are trying to make? OK you don't like the music & don't think it is worth mentioning but we do & are having fun doing so.

Taste is a subjective subject so maybe you need to start your own thread for 40's swing music or whatever else it might be you think as "good" music but you can be sure that I won't be coming along & making negative posts about the song style you post.

The first ever song/video played on MTV

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiJ9AnNz47Y

As it's Halloween

My link

remember vividly attending a gig of the happy mondays back in the eairly 90s where shaun ryder cocked up the opening lines to this track and just pulled up and said "&lt;deleted&gt; it start again "

obviously out of his tiny little mind at the time as were most of the crowd in the venue that came to see them perform. got the biggest cheer of the night as i remember !

More blatant 90's tunes !! OK tigerfish I wasn't gonna do this but.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK2tWVj6lXw&ob=av2e

Over a million hits! and....

Any worse 80's tunes out there?

^ oi smokie, its not a 90s tune ! i know because i did my research just before posting and knew you'd pull me up on it. actually released at the back end of the eighties off the " bummed " album and was a massive haceienda athem at the time.

now for a bit of the stone roses released off the self titled album '" the stone roses ". again at the back end of the eighties when the music industry got a good kick up the backside and started to take note of the indie scene that was coming out of manchester.

stock aitken and waterman eat your heart out. shame the same thing cant be pulled on that other &lt;deleted&gt; simon cowell. although i seem to remember either last christmas or the christmas before RATM knocking him off his perch to reach the number one spot back in the u.k.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQUxCQxu9og

Ha Ha! Well done tigerfish. Now for one of my early favourites. Sitting on a bench on Arbroath cliffs while my wee golden cocker spaniel raced around.....bliss!

and

Never heard REM? Well here you go....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M--XIve1lxY

More blatant 90's tunes !! OK tigerfish I wasn't gonna do this but.....

Over a million hits! and....

Any worse 80's tunes out there?

Pete Waterman was great, wasn't he - probably still is.

Takes me back to Middlesbrough, it was the summer of '88 - those were the best days of my life (apart from 2000 - 2001, and the rugby league season of 2009 / 10, and 21 - 23 December 2006 were pretty tops too... And Freshers' Week '87, when the tes-shirts matched our Bandits T-shirts...

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EDIT: Embedded videos deleted to reduce repetition...

Hadn't listened to this band in years....

Hadn't listened to this band in years....

you little sod smokie. i was going to post them, but i thought they might not be appreciated by some folk. i will give you that one though, seeing as they are from north of the border.

oh well heres another great outfit from south of the border, but probably with celtic connections.

always remind me of the young ones and rick.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM6j14DDtGI

^ talking of which, it wasnt all about the music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxA0a5G6ccg

Hadn't listened to this band in years....

oh, takes me back - I went to see them in - what was the night club right on the corner at Tollcross, spread over three floors, as I recall...

Anyway, they were not very impressive, but the Shop Assistants were great...

Saw them many times (the Shop Assistants) - wouldn't have paid money to see the J&MC again...

I saw King Kurt there as well... oh happy days...

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A few years ago I left all my vinyl at the side of the street at 2 am, and I really miss the Shop Assistants, and also my ZZ Top - Tres Hombres, but I suppose that could be replaced.... I've never had much joy looking for the Shop Assistants, though I haven't tried too hard...