Wrist guards

caron-a wrote:
as an aside, have you noticed all the scarves, skinny ties, waistcoasts, etc in the shops. Are we back in the eighties???

Thats been coming over the past couple of years TBH Caron. Skinny ties were in the shops last summer, and waistcoats have been back in for a couple of years - not my thing really. Cardigans are also very en vogue at the moment. I had a Pringle one back in the mid 80s when Casuals were at their peak; those were great days with all the sports wear breaking into fashion.

I was on youtube the other day looking for old 80s music that I could remember, and found some brilliant stuff:

Simple Minds: New Gold Dream, The American, Love Song
Nu Shooz: I cant wait
Sugar Hill Gang: Rappers Delight
Kim Wilde: Cambodia
Tenpole Tudor: Swords of a thousand men
A Guy called Gerald: Voodoo Ray
Stevie V: Dirty Cash
Loads of Alphaville stuff (I loved Alphaville)
Blondie: Union city blue
Yazoo: Dont Go
Martha & The Muffins: Echo Beach
Lene Lovich: Lucky Numbers
The Passions: I'm in love with a German film star
Mann Parrish: Hip Hop Be Bop Dont Stop
Some Imagination hits

I could go on.....i was like a kid in a sweet shop!!

Ahhhhhhhhh Utube,My OH keep`s threatening my favourites with the DELETE button.
The Undertones
Big Country
Japan
Simple Mind`s
Bauhaus
siouxsie and the Banshee`s
Anything that took my ear tbh,Punk,HipHop,New romantic.


AJ Adele

Tony_H wrote:

caron-a wrote:
as an aside, have you noticed all the scarves, skinny ties, waistcoasts, etc in the shops. Are we back in the eighties???

Thats been coming over the past couple of years TBH Caron. Skinny ties were in the shops last summer, and waistcoats have been back in for a couple of years - not my thing really. Cardigans are also very en vogue at the moment. I had a Pringle one back in the mid 80s when Casuals were at their peak; those were great days with all the sports wear breaking into fashion.

I've noticed, it's mad, Tears for Fears stuff. The biggest shock was definitely the Big Country scarf!

Tony_H wrote:I was on youtube the other day looking for old 80s music that I could remember, and found some brilliant stuff:

Simple Minds: New Gold Dream, The American, Love Song got it
Nu Shooz: I cant wait
Sugar Hill Gang: Rappers Delight need it
Kim Wilde: Cambodia got it
Tenpole Tudor: Swords of a thousand men need it
A Guy called Gerald: Voodoo Ray
Stevie V: Dirty Cash
Loads of Alphaville stuff (I loved Alphaville)
Blondie: Union city blue got it
Yazoo: Dont Go
Martha & The Muffins: Echo Beach got it
Lene Lovich: Lucky Numbers
The Passions: I'm in love with a German film star got it
Mann Parrish: Hip Hop Be Bop Dont Stop
Some Imagination hits got it

I could go on.....i was like a kid in a sweet shop!!

AJ - don't talk to Tony about Japan, he doesn't get them. they're one of my personal favourites but one of the best songs of the era has to be She Sells Sanctuary by the cult???

Theres a difference between not getting them and simply finding them rubbish, which they were.
BTW, Simple Minds early stuff was by far their best: I Travel, Life in a Day, New Gold Dream, Sons and Fascination, etc. Those were the days when Jim Kerr, as Skidaddle so perfectly put it, had hair like a telephone!!!! Then they went all poppy and rubbish.

First gig I went to: Echo & The Bunnymen, De Montfort Hall, Leicester, 1983.

Tony_H wrote:Theres a difference between not getting them and simply finding them rubbish, which they were.
BTW, Simple Minds early stuff was by far their best: I Travel, Life in a Day, New Gold Dream, Sons and Fascination, etc. Those were the days when Jim Kerr, as Skidaddle so perfectly put it, had hair like a telephone!!!! Then they went all poppy and rubbish.

First gig I went to: Echo & The Bunnymen, De Montfort Hall, Leicester, 1983.

Its true - he did. When I told you that in Sauze I honestly thought you were going to have a seizure, you laughed so much.

I have on my iPod -

Speed Your Love To Me
Up on the Catwalk
Glittering Prize
Promised You a Miracle
Someone Somewhere in Summertime

all of which are fantastic.

"Belfast Child" is an example of their latter day crap.

I believe they lost it after Waterfront. Up on the Catwalk is a prime example of what I mean.

81 82 83 84.....

Tony_H wrote:Theres a difference between not getting them and simply finding them rubbish, which they were

As I think I've said before - sacrilegious!!!

Simple Minds on my ipod are:

Waterfront
Love Song
Someone, somewhere in summertime
Promised you a miracle
glittering prize (best by far)

Other good ones that may bring back memories:

Dog eat dog - adam and the ants
reward - teardrop explodes
fade to grey - visage
sound and vision - bowie
wishing (if I had......) - flock of seagulls
hey little girl - icehouse
souvenir - omd

and on the cheesy side:

love is a battlefield - pat benetar
round and around - jaki graham
searching - luther
eyes without a face - billy idol

I can feel an ipod session coming on :D

caron-a

You may like my favourite playlist -

The Story of the Blues - The Mighty Wah
Feels Like heaven - Fiction Factory
Wishing (If I had...) - Flock of Seagulls
Love is a Wonderful Colour - The Icicle Works
Party Fears Too - The Associates
The First Picture of You - The Lotus Eaters
Enola GAy - OMD
Fade To Grey _ - Visage
Glittering Prize - Simple Minds
Heart of Glass - Blondie

And for cheese -

When Love Breaks Down - Prefab Sprout.