Yet Another Cycling Forum
Off Topic => The Pub => Arts and Entertainment => Topic started by: andyoxon on 19 September, 2008, 08:46:16 pm
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This for me, to 1979... ( was 14) :)
YouTube - Video Killed the Radio Star (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWtHEmVjVw8)
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I have a clear memory of my sisters (12 and 19 at the time) watching this on Top of the Pops on the Black & White telly as I was being ushered up to bed. I was 7. The sun was still shining outside (7pm) and I was being sent to bed!! :o
YouTube - The Tremeloes - Silence is Golden (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP3YCZvuB6A&feature=related)
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For me it is 1992 and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpHRHSLWBMw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpHRHSLWBMw)
:'( Damn I'll never forget her
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God this looks so old now:
Eddie and the Hot Rods (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weQ4oNk7Pqc)
I can remember my next door neighbour, me and a couple of others endlessly thrashing this one out in his uncle's workshop.
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This for me, to 1979... ( was 14) :)
YouTube - Video Killed the Radio Star (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWtHEmVjVw8)
Awesome. The love of my life (the now Mrs S) had just started at Oxford Uni. I can remember punting up and down the M40 in my Morris Marina TC to that and this:
YouTube - Cars - Gary Numan (HQ Audio) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP2h16m8X1Y)
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The song is horrible saccharine.
But it was played constantly when I was about 12, on holiday in France. My Sister (8.) cried her eyes out when she first heard it.
I was reading some Sci Fi at the time. I can't quite remember it. Something about (semi?) sentient jewels.
EDIT: Found it - Dreaming Jewels (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dreaming-Jewels-Gollancz-Collectors-Editions/dp/0575071400) - now I'm going to have to get it - bloody hell, the power of music.
Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q1KXAVTZyY)
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Another
Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdXfkkyI1nQ)
Played constantly in 6th form common room.
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Met Mrs nicknack Easter 1981. Shortly after, we went to see this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xclaB5jrguw) lady in one of the Oxford quads (can't remember which). Not my usual sort of stuff but it was magical, and this still brings a tear to my eye.
Screens gone all blurry...
:'(
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1985 - I had just taken the (very near) future Mrs TC back to the station in Luton to return home, after visiting me in Stevenage.
I'd been looking forward to the new Dire Straits Album, and heard this (Brothers in Arms Title track) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5JkHBC5lDs) on the radio on the way back.
It took my breath away - and I still love it.
I could do this all night. ;D
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I could do this all night. ;D
So I will. ;D
1980ish - Loughborough Uni Students Union - Hazel O'Connor, Live - Will You (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UbHXSsiUnE&feature=related). I touched her hand (OMG! :D)
As a direct result of that song, I went out, bought, and completely failed to learn to play a saxophone. :thumbsup:
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For me it is 1992 and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpHRHSLWBMw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpHRHSLWBMw)
:'( Damn I'll never forget her
Dear God you need to put a health warning on that. Not for the faint-hearted
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martha & the Muffins Echo Beach
The Motors Airport
Jonathon Richman & the Modern Lovers
All from school
Tainted Love at Uni, and then playing Two Tribes at full volume on degree results day :)
Martin Stephenson & the Dainties Boat to Bolivia and James when doing my PhD
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For me it is 1992 and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpHRHSLWBMw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpHRHSLWBMw)
:'( Damn I'll never forget her
Dear God you need to put a health warning on that. Not for the faint-hearted
Bloody Hell! I clicked on that. Arghhhh! I'll have nightmares now.
Trout Mask Replica always reminds me of the prefects room at school.
Weather Report's first album brings back my first year at uni.
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Another
Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdXfkkyI1nQ)
Played constantly in 6th form common room.
Tache-Tastic
I'll throw in a vote for some hot summer-tastic Tenpole Tudor (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNJbJAjM5Ho)
10 C.C. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTYrjtgU-44&feature=related) for lovelorn youth everywhere
Steel Pulse because Babylon is falling (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fhvw2lwSZ7Y) (no change there then)
Just about anything by Joni Mitchell (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LhwlsaA-Vc)
And feel the funk with Maze (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoXZ-KNIs-M&feature=related)
Mrs Manotea lost my copy of Echo Beach. It gets mentioned every couple of years...
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God this looks so old now:
Eddie and the Hot Rods (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weQ4oNk7Pqc)
Tee hee. Which is why tunes that take you back are best heard and not seen. That's one of many great tunes on the soundtrack of "That Summer" (http://www.discogs.com/release/780184).
Other tunes take me back to different times and places.
Blue Monday. Kennedy (The Wedding Present). Dancing (John Martyn). Thieves Like Us (New Order).
All those tunes put me in particular places (sometimes in motion, sometimes not) at particular times. (So specifically I'm not going to share.)
But these tunes (they're not the only ones) do this in a way that other - just as good - tunes by the same people or bands, or from the same time just don't.
And that's something I can't explain ;)
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Met Mrs nicknack Easter 1981. Shortly after, we went to see this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xclaB5jrguw) lady in one of the Oxford quads (can't remember which). Not my usual sort of stuff but it was magical, and this still brings a tear to my eye.
Screens gone all blurry...
:'(
Yep, blurry screen here too...
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I don't recognise many of those songs. :)
Ricky Martin's Livin' la vida loca does take me back though ;)
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I don't recognise many of those songs. :)
Ricky Martin's Livin' la vida loca does take me back though ;)
Whippersnapper! ;)
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Great song from an excellent album that's very evocative of my 6th form time... shame we never changed the world...
YouTube - tom robinson band - winter of 79 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR40vZQCXh0&feature=related)
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I could do this all night. ;D
So I will. ;D
1980ish - Loughborough Uni Students Union - Hazel O'Connor, Live - Will You (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UbHXSsiUnE&feature=related). I touched her hand (OMG! :D)
As a direct result of that song, I went out, bought, and completely failed to learn to play a saxophone. :thumbsup:
Oooh! Breaking Glass. Ace film :thumbsup:
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Get this for a classic then:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SPogGqCgeM&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SPogGqCgeM&feature=related)
Joe Jackson in 1979.
My favourite was the "Body and Soul" album 5 years later. Fantastic.
I don't recognise many of those songs. :)
:P
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I should have said ANY of those songs ;)
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This one. YouTube - WTC Twin Towers Tribute - In a New York Minute (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=RHco2ijkwDo&feature=related)
and this one YouTube - Paul Hardcastle - 19 (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=b3LdMAqUMnM)
and this one YouTube - television the drug of the nation (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=sgOWTM5R2DA)
not to mention YouTube - Laurie Anderson - O Superman (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=0hhm0NHhCBg)
and YouTube - Once in a Lifetime (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=EYbUCvz1LYE)
Damon.
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The very first album I bought at the age of 11 8)
YouTube - The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iMeyKEOvBI)
I lost my virginity when this album was playing :thumbsup: :D
YouTube - nirvana - smells like teen spirit (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPQR-OsH0RQ)
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Form a very dark few months back in about 1991. This was playing at a party when I was at my lowest and it still takes makes me feel a bit odd every time I hear it. Turned out all right in the end as we got back together and 17 years later we still are.
YouTube - Thin Lizzy - Still in love with you (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsIubn5Pp6s&feature=related)
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Mrs Manotea lost my copy of Echo Beach. It gets mentioned every couple of years...
;D
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Just poking about among my tapes... isn't it amazing how some music stays fresh, like this, while other stuff dates so badly.
Talking Heads, from Stop Making Sense:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r7X3f2gFz4&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r7X3f2gFz4&feature=related)
This brings back the 6th form common room for me.
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Grrr..
As soon as I saw the title of the thread, I thought:
YouTube - Video Killed the Radio Star (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWtHEmVjVw8)
Turns out I've been well 'n' truly beaten to it. Someone took the credit for my second symphony...
So it'll have to be
12" version of Mike Oldfield doing pop from back in '83 (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uii8cE783yE)
Can anyone musically knowledgable tell me - is that a minor key that it starts in? Is that unusual for songs these (or those) days?
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Ah, the old 12 inches hey? That takes me back.
I can think of a few - and Oh Superman and "Video killed the radio star" have already been covered. This isn't my favourite OMD song (that'd be Joan of Arc) but Talking Loud and Clear reminds me of a picnic on a sunny day with my then girlfriend in a field with the smell of ripe crops wafting in the breeze.
YouTube - OMD - Talking Loud And Clear (12" Version) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Piq--jBz8Zc)
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In 1988 I was queuing in the Kings Heath, Birmingham branch of Sainsbury's and the guy behind me suddenly says, "That Roy Orbison, he's dead, you know".
YouTube - Roy Orbison And K.D Lang - Crying (1987) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78eQbwe3-9o)
What a legacy, though.
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Just poking about among my tapes... isn't it amazing how some music stays fresh, like this, while other stuff dates so badly.
Talking Heads, from Stop Making Sense:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r7X3f2gFz4&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r7X3f2gFz4&feature=related)
This brings back the 6th form common room for me.
The live version of Psycho Killer, from Stop Making sense, played very loud in a beach bar on Paros in 1985 :)
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:thumbsup:
How about
YouTube - New Order - Blue Monday (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts9r0QHuFHw)
anyone remember this... takes me back to Bulawayo days.
YouTube - Steve Winwood - Arc of a Diver (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT_HDXWsZeo)
This... is a click on it if you dare - takes me back to uni days because you couldn't avoid it...
YouTube - We all ... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0auCDOERZyE) some of the title has now been removed for your protection... ;D
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I'm not clicking on *that* because I'll have the tune in my head all...ah, bugger.
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Jean Genie by Bowie and Touch Too Much by AC/DC take me back to a legendary house party I went to when I was 13 or 14. :D
Whole Lotta Rosie by AC/DC always takes me back to that era too. Lots of house parties where me and my friend Simon would pretend to be Bon Scott and Angus Young and he'd carry me round the room on his shoulders. 8) :thumbsup:
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Madness - One Step Beyond
Video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-uyWAe0NhQ)
Ah, school discos...
Faith No More - From Out Of Nowhere
Video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbNUr_bbFP4)
Utterly terrible video, utterly brilliant song
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A couple more from my youth
Midnight Oil : Beds are burning (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td1ZLqrEpXI)
Iron Maiden : Number of the beast (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUOpUqni0_g)
Pink Floyd : comfortably numb (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkJNyQfAprY) I will never forget the first time I saw "The Wall"
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Pink Floyd : comfortably numb (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkJNyQfAprY) I will never forget the first time I saw "The Wall"
The version on The Division Bell tour DVD with the 8 minute Dave Gilmour solo and the strange Disco Ball thingie has to be one of the musical highlights of my life :thumbsup:.
Edit: I watched the whole DVD this week when I should have been working, in honour of Rick Wright.
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Mike Oldfield & Maggie Reilly - To France (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSc0jGIdpwY)
Tom Petty - Learning to Fly (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mX9-2xuyP8)
The Cure in Orange (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGCARzk5wos)
They all still do it for me after all these years...
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Madness - One Step Beyond
Video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-uyWAe0NhQ)
Ah, school discos...
Faith No More - From Out Of Nowhere
Video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbNUr_bbFP4)
Utterly terrible video, utterly brilliant song
Faith No More...one of my favourite bands. I saw them live at the Reading Festival and Hammersmith Odeon. Brilliant live band. Mike Patton was the perfect replacement for Chuck Mosely. I used to put this song on the jukebox in our pub every weekend.
I will also add...
Sweet Harmony by Liquid
Mad World by Tears For Fears
Don't You Want Me Baby by Human League
Kool in the Kaftan by B A Robertson
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Hine e hine (http://folksong.org.nz/hine/index.html) a Maori lullaby.
It was played at my father's funeral (the Kiri te Kanawa and the Maori Music Group version - not the awful saccharine Haylet Westenra version). It also takes me back to my days in the school choir, when I was the only pakeha in a Maori school.
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Hine e hine (http://folksong.org.nz/hine/index.html) a Maori lullaby.
It was played at my father's funeral (the Kiri te Kanawa and the Maori Music Group version - not the awful saccharine Haylet Westenra version). It also takes me back to my days in the school choir, when I was the only pakeha in the village.
FTFY
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Hine e hine (http://folksong.org.nz/hine/index.html) a Maori lullaby.
It was played at my father's funeral (the Kiri te Kanawa and the Maori Music Group version - not the awful saccharine Haylet Westenra version). It also takes me back to my days in the school choir, when I was the only pakeha in the village.
FTFY
:P