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Post by Stevenelsonfanclub on May 11, 2005 20:34:44 GMT 1
I'm no massive fan of theirs TBH, but for me "Happy Hour" by The Housemartins captures the exact mood of the whole 80's yuppie thing and the associated culture.
Every time I hear it, I can picture how things were then.
What song does it for others??
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Post by john on May 11, 2005 20:38:16 GMT 1
Everyone should of been a fan of The Housemartins I remember Happy Hour being on the video in the exchange 14 times on the trot one evening in the summer of 86
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Post by morpheus on May 11, 2005 20:41:17 GMT 1
the one i wrote myself around 85 time with the nippy title of "WHY OH LORD WHY" now i work in a factory
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Post by ratcliffesghost on May 11, 2005 20:44:48 GMT 1
1982 Millwall v West Ham at the old Den, the first record on the tannoy at half time was The Animals "we've gotta get out of this place" Never been to that fixture since
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Post by john on May 11, 2005 20:55:12 GMT 1
Sort of coincidence, but when Shrewsbury had its 1990 earthquake or should of really said Dudley? , on beacon at that exact time was Martika " I feel the earth move under my feet"
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Post by harmerhillshrew on May 11, 2005 20:59:38 GMT 1
The never ending summer of 1976. Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen had been released at the end of 1975 and I could not stop playing the album. I recorded it to cassette and played it in my first car non-stop (just passed my test) This one verse from the title track just summed my life up at that time. Wendy let me in I wanna be your friend I want to guard your dreams and visions Just wrap your legs round these velvet rims And strap your hands across my engines Together we could break this trap We’ll run till we drop, baby we’ll never go back Will you walk with me out on the wire `cause baby I’m just a scared and lonely rider But I gotta find out how it feels I want to know if love is wild, girl I want to know if love is real
Oh for never ending summers Every one else was going daft on New Wave and Punk and I was viewed as rather strange for listening to Bruce
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Post by john on May 11, 2005 21:00:39 GMT 1
Andrew you are rather strange ;D
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Post by harmerhillshrew on May 11, 2005 21:01:38 GMT 1
Andrew you are rather strange ;D
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Post by thesalmon on May 11, 2005 21:25:47 GMT 1
bob dylan... the times they are a changin'
stone roses... fools gold
blur... parklife
and my personal favourite is by jimmy cliff... vietnam
Yesterday I got a letter from my friend fighting in Vietnam And this is what he had to say: 'Tell all my friends that I'll be coming home soon My time'll be up some time in June Don't forget', he said, 'to tell my sweet Mary Her golden lips are sweet as cherry'
And it came from Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam
It was just the next day his mother got a telegram It was addressed from Vietnam Now mistress Brown, she lives in the USA And this is what she wrote and said: 'Don't be alarmed', she told me the telegram said 'But mistress Brown your son is dead'
And it came from Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam Vietnam, Vietnam - hey - Vietnam Somebody please stop that war now!
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Post by ShrewsAde on May 11, 2005 21:31:31 GMT 1
The never ending summer of 1976. Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen had been released at the end of 1975 and I could not stop playing the album. I recorded it to cassette and played it in my first car non-stop (just passed my test) This one verse from the title track just summed my life up at that time. Wendy let me in I wanna be your friend I want to guard your dreams and visions Just wrap your legs round these velvet rims And strap your hands across my engines Together we could break this trap We’ll run till we drop, baby we’ll never go back Will you walk with me out on the wire `cause baby I’m just a scared and lonely rider But I gotta find out how it feels I want to know if love is wild, girl I want to know if love is real
Oh for never ending summers Every one else was going daft on New Wave and Punk and I was viewed as rather strange for listening to Bruce I thought it was "together Wendy We can break this trap" in a band this was one of the best songs we ever played (keyboards) - but the middle bit was too intense for the guitarist so we only played it twice totally loved it such a emotional song to hear .... and to play ... woof
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Post by harmerhillshrew on May 11, 2005 21:38:04 GMT 1
I thought it was "together Wendy We can break this trap" Sorry Ade, you may be mistaken with the final verse, Together Wendy we can live with the sadness
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Post by grinfish on May 11, 2005 21:49:17 GMT 1
Black - Wonderful Life - summed me up back in 1987. Just started secondary school, and just starting to take a serious interest in girls, and simultaneously discovering their link with depression in the male of the species Next, "Something for the weekend" by The Divine Comedy, just had a kind of jolly rolling rhythm but ended in a most unfortunate way. A kind of parallel to my life, where a woman ended up leading me to that metaphorical "woodshed", only to leave me dazed and confused and with a lot less than I started with. And that all before going through a 5 year marriage ending in a right state! Must be something in the water...
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Post by rob on May 11, 2005 22:22:25 GMT 1
My generation. ;D
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Post by timgallon on May 11, 2005 22:31:47 GMT 1
World in Motion - New Order. Anytime i hear it it takes me right back to Italia 90
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Post by SeanBroseley on May 11, 2005 22:41:30 GMT 1
Here's one which is a little different: Extract from a book by Harry Shapiro and Caesar Glebbeck called Jimi Hendrix - Electric Gypsey, based on the recollections of a British artist called Mark Boyle who, at the time, did the light show/projections for Soft Machine. Tha backdrop is the assissination of Martin Luther King. The next Hendrix gig was in Newark in the USA. outside the venue it was like a ghost town with armoured cars on street corners and sporadic ginfire in the distance. "Hendrix came out to enormous applause and said, "This number is for a friend of mine," and he abandoned completely his normal set. The band played an improvisation which was absolutely hauntingly beautiful. Immediately everyone knew what this was about. This was a lament for Martin Luther King. And within minutes the whole audience was weeping...The musichad a kind of appalling beauty. Harrowing music. When he came to the end there was no applause. He just put down his guitar the whole audience was sobbing, and he just walked quietly off the stage." We'll not see, or hear, his like again.
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Post by rob on May 11, 2005 23:05:23 GMT 1
You get what you give-new radicles.
Seems to some up peoples philosophy on life nowadays
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Post by ThrobsBlackHat on May 11, 2005 23:45:19 GMT 1
Sixth Form College is Cigarettes and Alcohol by oasis and The Day They Caught the Train by Ocean Colour Scene Uni is various crappy summer Ibiza anthems, which are now only heard after Norwich score a goal
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Post by rob on May 11, 2005 23:56:23 GMT 1
whippin picadilly (gomez) also reminds me of sixth form visits to manchester,
"play a bit of football, go into the union...."
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Post by CuyahogaBlue on May 12, 2005 0:43:19 GMT 1
Elvis Costello - What's so Funny 'Bout Peace Love and Understanding - helped me get through the Thatcher Years Madame Medussa; UB40 The Beat first album "stand Down Margaret, stand down please" Yep - Conservative rule resulted in some great music
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Post by harmerhillshrew on May 12, 2005 7:21:40 GMT 1
Hard to believe UB40 made some of the most cutting music with a political edge during the early 80s. 1 in 10 for instance. How the hell did they finish up do cover versions of Sonny and Cher hits
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Post by WindsorShrew on May 12, 2005 7:47:27 GMT 1
Bad Moon Rising by Creedance Clearwater Revival used in the film American werewolf in London roughly the same time as I enlisted in the early 80's.
REM everybody hurts because of Vitez Bosnia in the early 90's.
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Post by gobbieshrew on May 12, 2005 8:10:17 GMT 1
just broke up for study eave to do my GCSE's and someone had on "I'm Free" by the soup dragons, sheer class.
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Post by DownseyNLI on May 12, 2005 8:25:01 GMT 1
Any Radiohead as i was introduced to this band by an ex girlfriend, and went to see them at them at the men last time we saw each other.
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Post by dachs on May 12, 2005 11:57:24 GMT 1
Sorry Ade, you may be mistaken with the final verse, Together Wendy we can live with the sadnessThat quote is still 'rock'n'roll' future, mind.
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Post by SMP on May 12, 2005 13:35:48 GMT 1
Jump Around - House of Pain - Last night of Uni
Golden Green - The Wonderstuff - Friday nights in 'The Fridge'
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Post by Manchester Education Committee on May 12, 2005 16:03:51 GMT 1
12/5/05 Simply Red - Money's too tight to mention
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Post by shysophie on May 12, 2005 16:16:14 GMT 1
Stealers Wheel - Stuck in the Middle with You - remembering one of my best mates having that a ringtone and singing to it when people rang him Green Day - Holiday - pretending to be Billie Joe Armstrong in science,with mates Nay and Tash (Mike and Tre).....you know the rest Ozone - Dragostea Din Tei - Dancing to it with my cousin like last June The Rasmus - In The Shadows -Spending an entire Saturday in the house watching music channels to get to tape it from beginning
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Post by peterjones1 on May 12, 2005 16:22:53 GMT 1
'Girl From Mars' by Ash, it was my soundtrack to the summer of 1996, some of the happiest times of my life
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Post by wiganshrew2 on May 12, 2005 16:44:14 GMT 1
Boulogne- on the way home from Paris. Hot, Simmering Summer Day in 1967. I was with my boyfriend of that time. We had hardly any money left- just about enough to go into a local "Boulangerie" and buy a cople of croissants. He was tall- much taller than me- but I married someone nearer my own size!! This song "A whiter shade of Pale" came drifting down the street, I don't even know where from. It was SO typical of it's time. Life in those days was a crazy dream (except when you were at work!) We though everything was possible- it couldn't last!! We skipped the light fandango Turned cartwheels ’cross the floor I was feeling kinda seasick But the crowd called out for more The room was humming harder As the ceiling flew away When we called out for another drink The waiter brought a tray And so it was that later As the miller told his tale That her face, at first just ghostly, Turned a whiter shade of pale She said, ’there is no reason And the truth is plain to see.’ But I wandered through my playing cards And would not let her be One of sixteen vestal virgins Who were leaving for the coast And although my eyes were open They might have just as well’ve been closed She said, ’i’m home on shore leave,’ Though in truth we were at sea So I her by the looking glass And forced her to agree Saying, ’you must be the mermaid Who neptune for a ride.’ But she smiled at me so sadly That my anger straightway died If music be the food of love Then laughter is it’s queen And likewise if behind is in front Then dirt in truth is clean My mouth by then like cardboard Seemed to slip straight through my head So we crash-dived straightway quickly And attacked the ocean bed
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Post by fatbobsbelly on May 12, 2005 16:49:39 GMT 1
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