oldmadbadger wrote:
> "Nexie" <greenknight@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:_tdxf.38718$q4.15986@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>Cynicor wrote:
>>
>>>Nexie wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Cynicor wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Why don't you all just sit down with a nice cuppa and chat away your
>>>>>differences? BIG HUG!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I thought that's what we were doing? I have at any rate, ever since
the
>>>>Nottingham Psychiatrist Party where we all threw our shrinks into the
>>>>Trent, all we've had to moderate our psychotic tendancies is a nice
>>>>cuppa cha and a chat. And I've never been one to turn down a big hug
>>>>with a beautiful blonde. One lump or two?
>>>
>>>
>>>I have two lumps, but I'm not blonde.
>>
>>Oops! My error - a case of mistaken identity. I thought you were the
>>delectable Slipso (I'm sure she went by the name Cynicor at some point.
>>Must be the Alzheimer's setting in).
>>
>>
>>>If you get bored, you can always take my 80s music challenge.
>>>http://cynicor.blogspot.com/2006/01/smash-hits-of-80s.html
>>
>>You know, I get the oddest looks whe I say I like 80's music; sure there
>>was a LOT of dross about then, but when you think about bands like The
>>Cult, The Clash, Elvis Costello, etc. it wasn't so bad. I was going to
>>include Ian Dury, but realised that was more 70's. Now there's a decade
>>worth talking about.
>
>
> a musical pedant writes : the Clash, and Costello were definitely 70's,
i
> remember seeing both at uni and i left in 1979, the Cult, i'm not so
sure
> about ... unless of course you are referring to the mighty Blue Oyster
> Cult -
> who can forget their "Me262", "Reaper", and the unforgettable "Joan
Crawford
> Has Risen From The Grave" - they don't make records like that anymore :)
>
> are they still called "records" ? do you keep "records" on an ipod nano
?
>
> and whatever happened to the Dead Kennedys - "Kill The Poor" and the
> sweeping magnificence of "Holiday in Cambodia"
>
> i may go and cry quietly in a corner now ...
>
> DJ badger XXX
I'm sure you're right. I always was 10 years behind in my music tastes.
I grew up on Yes, Pink Floyd and the Beatles (not to mention having a
peculiar fondness for music I must have heard in the crib, including
things like Nat King Cole; the legacy of having brothers and sisters
nearly 20 years older, and parents who were adults in WWII). The Cult is
something I discovered much later, after the band ceased to be, and no,
it was The Cult (from The Southern Death Cult, via The Death Cult) not
the Blue Oyster variety - Edie (Ciao Baby), The Witch, Fire Woman, Sweet
Soul Sister, She Sells Sanctuary, etc. and it's a crime that so few
people seem to be aware of a band that's up there with Led Zeppelin, the
Floyd and the Doors in my book.
I'm not so sure about "records" (I think they died with LP's, EP's and
vinyl as terms), but albums are still alive, at least in this house.
It's funny, I have about 30Gb of music on my HD, but never listen to it.
There's something about putting a disc of plastic on a turntable and
listening to a few seconds of scratchy white noise before the music
kicks in. The question is - is nostalgia dead? Will kids grow up to be
nostalgic about their first ipod nano's?
I saw The Damned at Rock City a few years ago, and it was almost
tear-jerking to be the youngest one there at the mere age of 33. So many
old punks, still being punks (like a scene from Max Headroom); older,
wrinkled but still being true to what they believed in their youth. It
brought a lump to my throat, which I shamefully swallowed instead of
spitting at the Captain.
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