Yes Gemmill...

[Alex 35077]

5 minutes ago, Meenzer said:

 

The TOTP repeats on BBC Four have been very good for illustrating that.

 

Of course, I mostly prefer the utter shit...

Aye there’ll be one year from your youth and you’ll think ‘this should be good’ and it’s invariably about 90% cheesy shite. Which I also quite like to watch often  did you know there’s virtually no copies (I think there’s the odd rare one in private ownership) of TOTP show before the mid-70s? As they used to routinely wipe / reuse the tapes. And virtually no video recorders back then of course. Loads of lost performances from the likes of Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles and others. Seems crazy in retrospect 

Edited October 30, 2023 by Alex

[Meenzer 15524]

1 minute ago, Alex said:

Aye there’ll be one year from your youth and you’ll think ‘this should be good’ and it’s invariably about 90% cheesy shite. Which I also quite like to watch often  did you know there’s virtually no copies (I think there’s the odd rate I’ve in private ownership) of TOTP show before the mid-70s? As they used to routinely wipe / reuse the tapes. Loads of lost performances from the likes of Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles and others. Seems crazy in retrospect 

 

And yet the PJ & Duncan years are comprehensively documented. There's no justice.

[The Fish 10856]

3 minutes ago, Meenzer said:

 

The TOTP repeats on BBC Four have been very good for illustrating that.

 

Of course, I mostly prefer the utter shit...

Does my nut when people say 90s music was amazing and then they make it their fucking personality. 

 

Biggest selling singles of the decade were;

 

Biggest albums were;

[Monkeys Fist 42419]

2 minutes ago, The Fish said:

Does my nut when people say 90s music was amazing and then they make it their fucking personality. 

As a Shed Seven mega-fan, I disagree. 
 

 

[The Fish 10856]

Is Shed Seven the name you've given to your victims?

[Alex 35077]

Even in the 60s there was loads of stuff that was gash. But comparing the best selling from the 60s to later decades is a bit like comparing apples to oranges imo. As there was a lot of groundbreaking stuff in the mainstream / pop chart back then. Whereas later there’s much more diversity as ‘the popular music scene’, to go all Tony Blackburn, split in ever increasing genres and sub genres with loads of different underground scenes. 

[Alex 35077]

I guess grouping an entire decade together is a bit daft too though 

[Monkeys Fist 42419]

1 minute ago, The Fish said:

Is Shed Seven the name you've given to your victims?

It’s where I keep them fresh. 

[The Fish 10856]

1 minute ago, Alex said:

Even in the 60s there was loads of stuff that was gash. But comparing the best selling from the 60s to later decades is a bit like comparing apples to oranges imo. As there was a lot of groundbreaking stuff in the mainstream / pop chart back then. Whereas later there’s much more diversity as ‘the popular music scene’, to go all Tony Blackburn, split in ever increasing genres and sub genres with loads of different underground scenes. 

 

I'm guessing Streaming and commercialism have taken a stronger grip around the throat of modern music too. 

[Meenzer 15524]

33 minutes ago, The Fish said:

Biggest selling singles of the decade were;

 

Eliminate the movie/TV/charidee/dead celeb tie-ins and you're left with an excellent top three, to be fair. But yes, not great otherwise.  

[Alex 35077]

I was talking to my lass about the 90s the other night, possibly inspired by old TOTP clips on bbc4. You reminded me with that album list that there was a period when loads of knackers went round thinking they were Liam Gallagher. Not just trying to look like him but walking around with the imaginary stone in their shoe and bad case of rickets. Usually with an invisible roll of carpet under each arm. In one case at university there was a lad who spoke with a manc accent and claimed to be from Hulme. It was later discovered he was actually from (I shit thee not) Sunderland 

[Monkeys Fist 42419]

I still see lads, in their 50s, sporting Weller cuts with the daft bit in front of the ears. 
 

Get a fucking grip Grandads, it looked shit back then and it’s even worse now. 

[Renton 21615]

2 hours ago, The Fish said:

Does my nut when people say 90s music was amazing and then they make it their fucking personality. 

 

Biggest selling singles of the decade were;

 

Biggest albums were;

 

Pointless exercise. Numbers of records sold means fuck all (and I'm actually pleasently surprised Urban Hymns and Jagged little pill are there). The number one hit, a rehash of a good song, just illustrates the utter mawkishness of the British public which hasn't changed one jot. There was masses of shit in the 90s but also some good stuff before it became the last decade for music to take a stand before it was obliterated by the unadulterated crap thrown out from "talent" shows and music streaming. Where are the Beatles, Pink Floyds, Radioheads, ***insert countless pre 2000's bands*** now? Eh, EH? 

Edited October 30, 2023 by Renton

[PaddockLad 17252]

2 hours ago, Monkeys Fist said:

I still see lads, in their 50s, sporting Weller cuts with the daft bit in front of the ears. 
 

Get a fucking grip Grandads, it looked shit back then and it’s even worse now. 

Is that aimed at someone on here?

[PaddockLad 17252]

2 hours ago, Renton said:

 

Pointless exercise. Numbers of records sold means fuck all (and I'm actually pleasently surprised Urban Hymns and Jagged little pill are there). The number one hit, a rehash of a good song, just illustrates the utter mawkishness of the British public which hasn't changed one jot. There was masses of shit in the 90s but also some good stuff before it became the last decade for music to take a stand before it was obliterated by the unadulterated crap thrown out from "talent" shows and music streaming. Where are the Beatles, Pink Floyds, Radioheads, ***insert countless pre 2000's bands*** now? Eh, EH? 

I think my youth gave me an over fondness for 80s music. I’ve now come round to thinking that the 70s in the UK & US had a far more interesting and varied chronology and produced bands with a huge, far reaching influence that is only second the Beatles and the Stones 

 

Consider:

 

Heavy metal 

West Coast US singer/songwriters 

Country rock 

Commercial reggae/lovers rock 

Progressive rock 

Glam rock 

Punk rock 

New wave

Disco

Mod revival 

Ska revival 

NWOBH 

 

All started in the 70s 👌

 

 

 

Edited October 30, 2023 by PaddockLad

[Monkeys Fist 42419]

18 minutes ago, PaddockLad said:

Is that aimed at someone on here?

Are you not a fellow domehead like? 
 

Mind, if you’ve got a Weller cut, that explains the shirt …

[PaddockLad 17252]

Just now, Monkeys Fist said:

Are you not a fellow domehead like? 
 

Mind, if you’ve got a Weller cut, that explains the shirt …

No, I have a reasonable barnet for a gentleman of a certain age and I can assure everyone it’s never been near a fuckin feather cut of any kind 🤪

[Monkeys Fist 42419]

So you’ve just got minging taste in shirts, then? 

[PaddockLad 17252]

8 minutes ago, Monkeys Fist said:

So you’ve just got minging taste in shirts, then? 

I didn’t look like Jacob Rees Mogg or wear a skirt when I got married which are the two most common looks for nuptials if that’s what you’re suggesting? 
 

Am fuckin certain most of you lot turned up at the church looking like an 18th century country squire who’s a bit down on his luck, so I’d think on if I were you  

[ewerk 30598]

22 minutes ago, PaddockLad said:

No, I have a reasonable barnet for a gentleman of a certain age and I can assure everyone it’s never been near a fuckin feather cut of any kind 🤪

Hope you get your gas bill sorted, mate.

 

 

[Howmanheyman 33173]

5 minutes ago, PaddockLad said:

I didn’t look like Jacob Rees Mogg or wear a skirt when I got married which are the two most common looks for nuptials if that’s what you’re suggesting? 
 

Am fuckin certain most of you lot turned up at the church looking like an 18th century country squire who’s a bit down on his luck, so I’d think on if I were you  

 

I was specifically told don't do anything with your hair as I was forever fucking about with it and moaning as I was afflicted with a cows lick.* Anyway, on the morning I thought I'd put a bit of gel on and basically had a choirboy centre parting which the wife still whinges on about now and then twenty three years later. 

 

*Now I'm just afflicted with bald patches so shave my head. The cows lick is still there if I let it grow. That cunt's going nowhere left to it's own devices, it would survive a ground zero nuclear bomb.

[Monkeys Fist 42419]

30 minutes ago, Howmanheyman said:

was specifically told don't do anything with your hair

Not a problem for me see below. 

40 minutes ago, PaddockLad said:

I didn’t look like Jacob Rees Mogg or wear a skirt when I got married which are the two most common looks for nuptials if that’s what you’re suggesting? 
 

Am fuckin certain most of you lot turned up at the church looking like an 18th century country squire who’s a bit down on his luck, so I’d think on if I were you  

-Aged 15 at my Dad’s second wedding on the left. 
-Aged 30 at mine on the right. 

 

Yes, that’s a fucking bow tie on the left-I had no say in the matter. 

 

[ewerk 30598]

2 minutes ago, Monkeys Fist said:

Not a problem for me see below. 

-Aged 15 at my Dad’s second wedding on the left. 
-Aged 30 at mine on the right. 

 

Yes, that’s a fucking bow tie on the left-I had no say in the matter. 

 

I’ll be honest, I didn’t think you’d have been leader of the BNP at 15.

[Monkeys Fist 42419]

Just now, ewerk said:

I’ll be honest, I didn’t think you’d have been leader of the BNP at 15.

I was too busy fighting off slappers.  
 

[RobinRobin 11263]

6 hours ago, Monkeys Fist said:

I was too busy dragging slappers into the bushes.  
 

MF'dYP