Side One
Queen : I Want To Break Free
Nik Kershaw : Wouldn't It Be Good
Thompson Twins : Hold Me Now
Matt Bianco : Get Out of Your Lazy Bed
Carmel : More, More, More
Madness : Michael Caine
The Flying Pickets : Only You
Side Two
Nena : 99 Red Balloons
Cyndi Lauper : Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Tracey Ullman : My Guy's Mad At Me
Matthew Wilder : Break My Stride
Julia & Company : Breaking Down (Sugar Samba)
Joe Fagin : That's Living Alright
Hot Chocolate : I Gave You My Heart (Didn't I)
Snowy White : Bird of Paradise
Side Three
Frankie Goes to Hollywood : Relax
Eurythmics : Here Comes the Rain Again
Howard Jones : What Is Love
The Smiths : What Difference Does It Make
Fiction Factory : (Feels Like) Heaven
Re-Flex : The Politics of Dancing
Thomas Dolby : Hyperactive
China Crisis : Wishful Thinking
Side Four
David Bowie : Modern Love
Culture Club : It's a Miracle
Rolling Stones : Undercover of the Night
Big Country : Wonderland
Slade : Run Runaway
Duran Duran : New Moon on Monday
Paul McCartney : Pipes of PeaceAs you slide down the banister of life
may no splinters point your way
Disco XXV
RRS2 Autobiography Dynamic MY16
Discovery Sport HSE Lux MY17
Evoque HSE Dynamic MY16 (Gone)
RRS2 Autobiography Dynamic MY14 (Lovely car but preferred the Disco!)
Disco 3 Tdv6 HSE MY05 (owned for 11 years and now gone)
Range Rover Sport HSE MY11 (Gone)
Freelander2 SE (Gone but the most reliable car we've ever owned)
Disco 2 V8 (Gone)
9th Apr 2009 9:11 pm
blue meanie D3 Decade
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Thomas Dolby - what a cracker...and theeeeennn......???
9th Apr 2009 9:18 pm
adam
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'Hyperactive' - 1984 - I was 20
I now feel sad and old - but not for long
9th Apr 2009 9:20 pm
blue meanie D3 Decade
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Location: Newbury
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I was only 14, feel any older ? and theeeeennn......???
9th Apr 2009 9:23 pm
MacLeod 313
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Ditto, 1970 child too. Now feeling very old, and its me 40th in January
9th Apr 2009 9:26 pm
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Aw please don't
i just spent an evening with SHMBO watching old ads on you tube.
seems in particular she likes the old Milk tray ads.
All because the lady loves, Milk Tray
you remember the death defying expolits of the guy delivering said chocs?
Seems he was doing it before color TV too !!!
9th Apr 2009 9:48 pm
BLACK BETTY
Member Since: 18 Oct 2008
Location: Louth
Posts: 575
, hate threads that remind me that in a year or so , I'll be 40, Mac whats it like toi be old
Recently got talking to a student work experience/project type at work and was delighted to discover he attended the same uni/course as i did, we got to chatting about the old haunts and tricks , when asked how long since i was there i replied, not that long, and the next question was what year , i replied '88 and then it slowly dawned on me with sickening realization that it was OVER 20 years
So yes i remember most of those things on that list, even more worrying ,I have a LP ' Now thats what I call music #1' the range that is currently in the '80's
my first CD was a major investment at the time, Dire Straits- Brothers in arms ( which some thevin Swedish trollop of an ex stole years ago, and still has'nt returned it. Anika if ur readin this I want my CD back, oh and do you have the spare key of the flat)
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
yes... but only when VERY drunk!!As you slide down the banister of life
may no splinters point your way
Disco XXV
RRS2 Autobiography Dynamic MY16
Discovery Sport HSE Lux MY17
Evoque HSE Dynamic MY16 (Gone)
RRS2 Autobiography Dynamic MY14 (Lovely car but preferred the Disco!)
Disco 3 Tdv6 HSE MY05 (owned for 11 years and now gone)
Range Rover Sport HSE MY11 (Gone)
Freelander2 SE (Gone but the most reliable car we've ever owned)
Disco 2 V8 (Gone)
11th Apr 2009 10:15 pm
SN
Member Since: 03 Jan 2006
Location: Romiley
Posts: 13710
adam wrote:
Some of those are '70's?
certainly are!
Adam - do you remember the Falklans War battleship chart on the wall in the Sixth Form Base? Steve N | 21MY Defender | 08MY Discovery 3 (history) | 06MY Discovery 3 (ancient history)
11th Apr 2009 10:35 pm
SN
Member Since: 03 Jan 2006
Location: Romiley
Posts: 13710
Womble wrote:
What about
They peel them with their metal knives (hahahah)
They boil them for tewnty of their minutes (hahahaha)
Then they smash them all to bits
Anyone ever eaten it straight from the tin!!!
Did try it - not nice Steve N | 21MY Defender | 08MY Discovery 3 (history) | 06MY Discovery 3 (ancient history)
11th Apr 2009 10:36 pm
AndrewW
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Location: Saddleworth
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I'm more of a "Who shot Abe Lincoln?" man meself.....
Where was I when I heard about JFK? - In the queue for me pension 2006 D3 finally swapped for a 2016 D4 Graphite in Graphite grey. No mods
Ah the 80's - here's what I remember, in no particular order:
Human League - Dare
Duran Duran videos with gorgeous models fighting on a log....
Blake's 7 with the wobbly sets
Magpie was cooler than Blue Peter
Someone trashed the Blue Peter Garden!
Ne ne ne Nineteen by Paul Hardcastle
Yuppies in Barbours driving VW GTIs - oookaaayy yah!
Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
Live Aid on TV with Bob saying the F word live
The Tube saying the F word a whole lot
Paul Young (and the fabulously wealthy tarts)
Casio VL-1 keyboard on top 10 records -Human League (open your heart) and Trio (Da Da Da)
The arrival of the 12" mix with Blue Monday
The over-indulgence of the 12" mix with FGTH
Radio one banning FGTH because of wimpy-boy Mike Reid
THHGTTG on BBC1
Cellphones the size of house bricks, with phone bills that looked like international phone numbers!
Filofaxes the size of house bricks
The clothes show made it ok for guys to dress well
The Apple Mac arrived in 1985 - and the TV Ad smashed the Orwellian PC world
Frilly cuffs and frilly shirts for 'new romantics'
Can I have a P please Bob? - Blockbusters was on TV for smart kids
Neighbors on lunchtime TV - Ooooooo Kylie!
NFL on Channel 4 - lot's of highlights edited to Two Tribes
CDs arrived, and everyone had to buy a copy of Dire Straights Love Over Gold to show how good CD was
CDs cost twenty quid, and there were only 10 in my local store to start with - I felt cool just looking at them
McDonald's arrived - and I was never that thin again
NEXT was THE trendy place to buy crap clothes on the high street
The 'youth' took up Ram Raiding, instead of normal retail purchasing
The bad guys and the good guys drove Cosworths!
Every record in the early 80's had a Yamaha DX7 on it, or a Fairlight, or both.
Roland changed the dance world with the TR-808 and TR-909 drum machines, and the TB-303 Baseline
The Prince of Wales went to Eurythmics concerts with Lady Di
Peter Gabriel teamed up with Kate bush on So!
Swing Out Sister 'broke out'
Madonna Slag arrived as a 'virgin'
Minolta released the first autofocus SLR camera, the 7000 - it worked, but was as slow as a dead slug....
Jessops started putting a store on every high street
Dangermouse saved the world, but was way to funny for just kids
The Russians blew up Chenorbyl on my birthday!
The Bears had Walter Payton and the SuperBowl shuffle
The Sinclair C5 was the future of transport
Billy Brag was all hardline lefty - 'I was a miner'
Billy Brag flicked the V's at me when I shouted 'I was a miner' at him
Dave didn't learn to swim, so didn't get the girl on the TV ad.
Phileas Fogg made those excellent hot Tortilla Chips
Carl Sagan stuck his considerable nose into space with Cosmos
The best film ever was released - Blade Runner
Vangelis was everywhere!
Marc Almond had to go to hospital to have his stomach pumped!
Donald Pleasence advertised Holsten Pils on TV - I drank a lot of it at Poly
You can make a packet of Smash in a pint beer glass from the Student Union bar
Dual turntables were 'the '
NAD amplifiers were also 'the '
I though Wharfdale Speakers were 'the ' - but they were just
Magnus Pyke starred in the Thomas Dolby video for 'She Blinded me With Science' - SCIENCE!
Genesis went mainstream with MAMA
Phil Collins threw the drumkit down the stairs on 'In the air tonight'
Phil Collins starred on Miami Vice, which was the coolest cop show on TV (even my Dad liked it!)
Miami Vice was the first show to use 'cool music' as part of the show - they did slip up with Sheena Easton though!
The Space Shuttle blew up (for the first time)
Steve Wright had a 'posse' on Radio 1
We'll leave it there for now.... 08 LR3 SE V8 - 02 D2 SE7 V8
Porsche 911 (03 996) - 2013 MINI Cooper S
13th Apr 2009 5:28 am
adam
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Location: Home and Happy
Posts: 6917
Falklands War Map - OMG
Steve - twas Pete Rhodes and I that drew it
Also - do you remember the mural that some one painted - the big kid in your year that had a beard that we called Captain Kremmen - I recall somebody drew Thunderbirds on it
Decimalisation
Two and a half pence piece!
Anglo Bubbly
Money back for lemonade bottles
Skylab
Power cuts
Dad's MkI Cortina
Grandads Vauxhall Viva
Petrol hit £1 / Gallon
Free School Milk
Tie a yellow ribbon
Envoy Henry Kissinger
Elvis Concerts (no tribute acts)
Show jumping on TV
Z-Cars
Bill & Ben or Andy Pandy
Panini World Cup 74 StickersThe older I get, the more I realise that people confuse wrinkles for wisdom
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