Re: O/T If music be your love..... : Fri Apr 06, 2018 10:06 am  

Governments manipulating outcomes never. Regarding the Sex Pistols, I remember me and our kid with britches with the trouser legs fastened with cord and safety pins with the Album Never Mind The B#@%*#ks blaring out ...oh to be young again

Re: O/T If music be your love..... : Sat Apr 07, 2018 4:58 am  

JINJER wrote:

Your mention of the demonisation by the government reminds me of The Sex pistols and "God save the queen", the powers that be changed the rules at the time to avoid the Pistols getting to number one in the charts. Here's a quote from the Independent

Not only did the public have difficulty hearing the single, they also had trouble buying it. WH Smith, Woolworths and Boots refused to stock it. Many people bought it in Virgin's own stores. It came into the chart at No 10 and looked as though it would be at the top during jubilee week itself.


Anxious to avoid that, the authorities came to an instant decision: shops which sold their own records could not be included in the chart. Hence, Virgin's sales for the crucial week were ignored for the purposes of compiling the chart, and Rod Stewart stayed at No 1 with "I Don't Want To Talk About It".

Yeah, there were a few tracks that they tried to ban on the radio etc. in the late 80's/90's.

There was one that someone made using the famous line from blockbusters, basically a dance track then some random bloke would say, 'can I have an E please Bob' which was basically the verse for the track

The biggest att, which they went after the hardest, which in turn made it an even bigger seller was D-Mob – ‘We Call It Acieeed’. It was 1988 and the government were shatting themselves for some reason

The best one and was from the last 90's that many must have seen & was probably worth a bit of the 'only watch after 9pm' was The Prodigy – ‘Smack My Bitch Up’ from 1997. Crazy video but yet very clever imo

Re: O/T If music be your love..... : Sat Apr 07, 2018 9:27 am  

Shifty Cat wrote:

Yeah, there were a few tracks that they tried to ban on the radio etc. in the late 80's/90's.

There was one that someone made using the famous line from blockbusters, basically a dance track then some random bloke would say, 'can I have an E please Bob' which was basically the verse for the track

The biggest att, which they went after the hardest, which in turn made it an even bigger seller was D-Mob – ‘We Call It Acieeed’. It was 1988 and the government were shatting themselves for some reason

The best one and was from the last 90's that many must have seen & was probably worth a bit of the 'only watch after 9pm' was The Prodigy – ‘Smack My Bitch Up’ from 1997. Crazy video but yet very clever imo

I was a punk in my youth and loved every second of it, at the time it felt so rebellious, when you look back it was just a youth movement really.
I was too old when the rave scene came around but as a youth I'd have loved that. I worked with a guy and his son got arrested for organising a rave, it was under the M62 near Horbury bridge I think. His dad was playing merry hell at work and I was like "gooood lad".

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Re: O/T If music be your love..... : Sun Apr 08, 2018 9:21 am  

I was never rebellious enough for some of the music you guys are talking about. I love the music looking back. I never got punk (and I was too young really anyway) but equally some punk bands seem quite tame when you look back. When the Clash were at the height of their powers they were a rebelious and new punk band but you hear them on Radio 2 now.

Saying that, The Clash for me stays around because of the quality of the music and lyrics. It's not just old guys wanting to relive their rebellious teens, songs like London Calling and Rock The Casbah could easily be covered by the Script or the Killers now and go straight to the top. Covering or re-issuing the Sex Pistols wouldn't get a play anywhere in my opinion. They were of their time and that time has gone.

One of the best examples of how I liked music when I was younger is the Jam. I think I mentioned them earlier.
When you look at the early performances of the Jam, they are full of angry young man angst, and it kind of put me off them, but they changed slightly as I went through my teens and Jam/Style Council/Weller jumped to one of my favourite band/solos. Funny how the image can change your perception of the music.

I've never been frightened to go see whatever it is I want to see though, whether popular with my friends or not. I have tickets to see both Kylie and Shania Twain now.

Re: O/T If music be your love..... : Sun Apr 08, 2018 9:31 am  

Out of interest why did the "angry young man angst" put you off the Jam?

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Re: O/T If music be your love..... : Sun Apr 08, 2018 10:16 am  

JINJER wrote:

Out of interest why did the "angry young man angst" put you off the Jam?

I just wrote a really long reply and then clicked on a pop up which lost my page. It was a masterpiece of writing that will be lost forever.

I can sum it up though by saying I was just not that kid. I was born in 68 so quite young as they built their rep through the 70s. I wanted to be John Travolta then rather the angry young man (the irony being that JT was an angry young man in his own right in SNF). I was the 'nice' kid not the rebellious kid.
In the 80s the revolution for me was all about the Miners Strike and Mandela and Live Aid. The music of change was much more mainstream in that time and although I was very engaged, I wasn't suffering from any of the issues at that time. I come from a mining background but my parents weren't in that industry at all, so I felt strongly about it but I wasn't affected by it.
I think music at that time was my escape rather than my voice of rebellion and the angry young man.

Looking back now, I can judge the music on it's merits so music I might have missed first time round like the Clash are at the top of my list now.

I have to say a good friend of mine who sadly passed away before his time used to do an excellent Weller on stage. He was the most unlikely guy to even sing along in a crowd but when pushed up front in the rugby club with his guitar to some strange maybe even patronising looks, he did 'Down At the Tube station' as well as I have ever heard it with all the relative passion and skill of Weller. People never looked at him the same. It's a great memory, so the Jam have a special place for me, even though I wasn't there at the beginning.

Re: O/T If music be your love..... : Sun Apr 08, 2018 12:20 pm  

PopTart wrote:

I just wrote a really long reply and then clicked on a pop up which lost my page. It was a masterpiece of writing that will be lost forever.

I can sum it up though by saying I was just not that kid. I was born in 68 so quite young as they built their rep through the 70s. I wanted to be John Travolta then rather the angry young man (the irony being that JT was an angry young man in his own right in SNF). I was the 'nice' kid not the rebellious kid.
In the 80s the revolution for me was all about the Miners Strike and Mandela and Live Aid. The music of change was much more mainstream in that time and although I was very engaged, I wasn't suffering from any of the issues at that time. I come from a mining background but my parents weren't in that industry at all, so I felt strongly about it but I wasn't affected by it.
I think music at that time was my escape rather than my voice of rebellion and the angry young man.

Looking back now, I can judge the music on it's merits so music I might have missed first time round like the Clash are at the top of my list now.

I have to say a good friend of mine who sadly passed away before his time used to do an excellent Weller on stage. He was the most unlikely guy to even sing along in a crowd but when pushed up front in the rugby club with his guitar to some strange maybe even patronising looks, he did 'Down At the Tube station' as well as I have ever heard it with all the relative passion and skill of Weller. People never looked at him the same. It's a great memory, so the Jam have a special place for me, even though I wasn't there at the beginning.

99 red balloons was a No1 during the strike just a bit of useless information

Re: O/T If music be your love..... : Fri Apr 13, 2018 9:28 am  

That's tickets sorted for Killing Joke!

Re: O/T If music be your love..... : Fri Apr 27, 2018 12:14 pm  

UK Subs tonight! I know there's a game on but was pre-booked, thought it was all going great when the game was on Sunday as I'm in Leeds on the night for Gomez, hotel booked!

Please don't be messaging the score, will watch as soon as I get home.

Re: O/T If music be your love..... : Fri Apr 27, 2018 3:04 pm  

NEwildcat wrote:

UK Subs tonight! I know there's a game on but was pre-booked, thought it was all going great when the game was on Sunday as I'm in Leeds on the night for Gomez, hotel booked!

Please don't be messaging the score, will watch as soon as I get home.

Similar with me, booked tickets for the Angelic upstarts ages since, they then changed the day, Upstarts instead of Trin. Cel a vie.