THWOTH wrote:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn_DQohLNY0[/youtube]

...Sunday evening... ...bath time... ....school tomorrow.... *shudder*


Fuck nostalgia!

Always made sure I was out of the bath before it came on! Wasn't there usually a comedy slot before it? ISIRTA?

During the 4 hour drive back from Dorset today (visiting Mum & Dad) this came up on the IPod, brought back memories of Summer 1976

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NRgRpKiMTg[/youtube]

The one and only Tony Banks tribute band (Strictly Banks) played Mad Man Moon at the one and only Tony Banks tribute concert. Really good rendition of a tricky song it was.

Dries van Tonder wrote:[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdYWuo9OFAw[/youtube] (Iris - Goo Goo dolls)

Ahhh, love that.

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIXyKmElvv8[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKQwgpaLR6o[/youtube]

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDHl5djnYM4[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWmrfgj0MZI[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iQl46-zIcM[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDZFf0pm0SE[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Tiz6INF7I[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC_UILNwWrc[/youtube]

Better stop there I think...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjPqsDU0j2I[/youtube]
My dad used the play this song a lot in the car.. driving through the night. ahhh nostalgia

Then this happened:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm-DK0gwXdw[/youtube]

Emmeline wrote:

THWOTH wrote:


...Sunday evening... ...bath time... ....school tomorrow.... *shudder*

Exactly the same memories as me!

I can't even bear to click play on that youtube clip - such is my horror of that sound! It actually makes me feel sick and I can conjure up the smell of starch as my mother did the ironing, singing along to the tunes while my father cut his toenails onto newspaper and I sat at the table trying to write a homework essay.

Yuk indeed. It's amazing how completely this music takes me back, more redolent and portentous even than one of Proust's mother's madelaines. For me it conjurers up mustard-coloured cushions on a brown velour sofa, swirly patterns in a coarse nylon carpet, the sound of a twintub clunking its way across the kitchen floor in spin, the slurping of the dog licking his balls in front of a two-bar electric fire with plywood surround and real 'coal effect' lighting beneath plastic embers, and the sprouty whiff of the family's post Sunday lunch flatulence. My response is palpably physical too - memories I treasure and yet also wish I didn't have.

There are others of that period which have a similar effect on my delicate sensibilities: Hurricane Smith, O Babe (What Would You Say), Peter Skellern, You're A Lady, Peters and Lee, Welcome Home, and Paper Lace, Billy Don't Be A Hero. But this one kind of encapsulates all the others in one act of schlagerish deplorability!

Oh OK just one more...back in Canada in the late '70s, my dad had a Judy Collins obsession. The B-side to Send in the Clowns was a particular favourite of his. I'd lie on the floor in my checked flares and listen to him play this over and over. That time is kind of like a dream now, but this takes me right back there.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y3m-5X4FN4[/youtube]

I think that's what's called a diaphanous frock I think. That's a lovely song though.

Even the term 'B-side' evokes palpable nostalgia in those of... erm... a certain age. This was the B-side to that most famous of traditional Australian folk, Sun Arise...



...I know because I had it.

THWOTH wrote:There are others of that period which have a similar effect on my delicate sensibilities: Hurricane Smith, O Babe (What Would You Say), Peter Skellern, You're A Lady, Peters and Lee, Welcome Home, and Paper Lace, Billy Don't Be A Hero.

Just reading those titles brings it all back (the era that is, not my lunch - there again though)!

Old git!

This one perfectly represents the shirt collar placed outside a jacket's lapels...

For me it's when I was a kid and at festivals out of my mind on whatever I could get my grubby little paws on. Mainly speed, pills, acid and weed.

The Charlatans at Phoenix festival when i was 17:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwAcwsqgsXk[/youtube]

Or this orbital track from Glasto in 1994 when I was 16 :

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhVU8RKRaTY[/youtube]

Or the Prodigy at T in the Park when I was 17:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlcgysnHEzQ[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT6kjQhVJ9Y[/youtube]

Absolute classic.

I'm sticking with the cheese.



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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QQ0hH4MYsk[/youtube]

Peter Chase, you will forever be associated with this song.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCvMKcNJCAY[/youtube]

These will probably only mean anything to Brits of a certain age.

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfKWPyj51vU[/youtube]

Ah, those got me Paul. But what about this...

...or this even?

Probably one of the first songs I ever remembered hearing on the radio:

10 CC - I'm Not In Love
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2BavhwpIJg[/youtube]

Big boys don't cry....

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azVqekQBK8g[/youtube]