oldmadbadger wrote:
> "Nexie" <greenknight@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>
>>oldmadbadger wrote:
>>
>>>"Nexie" <greenknight@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>>>
>>>
>>>>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.
>
>
> okay, stakes are raised here i can tell ... the first time i saw the
damned
> play in late 1976 in the marquee club on wardour street, i queued up two
> persons behind the great john peel as we wound our way downstairs and
the
> punks lined up to spit on him (and me, among others) since we were
clearly
> hippies (distinguished by my afghan and waist length hair and peely's
> general whatthe**** demeanour) and rat scabies (always late for a gig,
> whatever the occasion) pushed past me in his rush for the stage ...
>
> is this good enough ?
I concede without contest and bow before your anecdotal god-like
virility on trembling, piss-stained knees (that is also another story).
> oh, and when i was social sec at imperial in 1979 ... lemmy once pissed
on
> my leg in the bogs during our freshers ball ... but that's another story
...
>
> and another thing ... 1972 ... liverpool empire ... hawkwind live album
...
> space ritual ... on side 3 during space is deep, i swear you can hear me
> screaming when staysha took her clothes off ..
>
> badger XXX (feeling very old)
Leave Cips alone for 5 mins and tell me more 8)
> anyway ... today, what really pisses me off is that i introduce the
> magnificent Cips to COD playing and she beats me .. every single bloody
> game, the woman is an absolute sodding killer ... if you ever see "david
> blunkett's *****" on a COD server ... beware, she is is an assassin and
i
> hate her
Haha. Nice one Cips. Women always did have a more finely-tuned killer
instinct.
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