Ken Butler wrote:
> On 23 Sep 2006 09:00:19 -0700, "lardychap" <gareth_m_evans@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >Ken Butler wrote:
>
> >> Mind you, I've never really heard of the others apart from
Bananarama, on
> >> account of having stopped living in Britain in 1986.
> >
> >It was obviously a good move.
>
> But then again: Shania Twain. Celine Dion.
They get ex****ted. Although I don't mind Shania....
>
> And then again again: Great Big Sea, and various celtic-y bands from
Nova
> Scotia, Newfoundland and such places.
I hate Celtic-y bands of any flavour. They just annoy me.
>
> >> As I recall, Bananarama were around long before that (ie. back to the
early
> >> 80s or some such. Where's that Guinness Book of Hit Singles?
> >
> >They were, getting their first break with Fun Boy Three.
>
> That I remember. The Lunatics have Taken Over the Asylum, and such.
Indeedydoody. Then they fell into mediocrity never to resurface.
>
> >then they went
> >away, had fights, children, messy breakups then decided to come back
> >with a little help from Stock Aitken and Waterman's hit factory (cf
> >Rick Astley).
>
> That I didn't know (and to be honest, don't feel much the wiser
knowing).
You must remember SAW and the Hit Factory. Everything from Bananarama
to Kylie, Jason, Mel and Kim.... If you don't remember it, you've never
heard TOTP from 1986-1990. I never thought I'd see myself type this,
but "wikipedia is your friend"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_Aitken_Waterman/songs
>
> I took a box of LPs to England with me, and back again. Opened it up
today.
> Let's just say a wide variety of stuff in there. Far too much ELO, Jon &
> Vangelis and such in there,
One LP is too many.... Unless it's really early ELO with Roy Wood, who
was at Cambridge's pop in the park (and had us all singing to "I wish
it could be Christmas every day" on a July evening when it was 23C)
> and some stuff I'm even less keen to admit to.
Come on, you can't get much worse.
> But some stuff I haven't heard in years. All I need now is a turntable.
Or just a pin.
>
> >> I did find "The Master Game Book 2", though.
> >
> >that doesn't help me.
>
> Televised chess. Oh yeah. (Actually, the fun part was that you got to
hear
> the players' thoughts as they were contemplating a move, split-screen
style
> somewhat like darts (if that makes any sense)). Given that most of the
> players were from eastern Europe, their English was quite interesting,
too.
I think I might have watched that once. Now it's televised poker.
>
> >> I long for some English-style wet days. I don't think they exist in
Toronto
> >> any more.
> >>
> >
> >Nostalgia ain't what it used to be when you're as wet as a labrador at
> >a lake.
>
> The problem about shaking yourself off like a labrador is that you have
to
> clean it up afterwards.
You got married didn't you?
>
> Come to think of it, I don't have that much nostalgia for labrador-wet
> biking. I had a lot of it when I lived in Vancouver, where it does a lot
of
> raining without the rain actually hitting the ground.
Rain bad. Wind bad. Windy rain doubly bad
>
> >G - dry as a bunny girl
>
> That's nice.
I think so. "It's raining again". Do you have that on vinyl?
g - old lag girl
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