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Post by jefflynnenut on Dec 8, 2014 0:51:47 GMT
The only part I love about the 1970's was the invention of prog/AOR rock, nothing more nothing less... According to you, you were only born in the mid ninties?!!!! It's like nam.....you weren't there man, you don't know what it was like!!!! I have jeans older than you bro!!!! Bahahaha!
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Post by Horacewimp on Dec 8, 2014 8:42:17 GMT
The only part I love about the 1970's was the invention of prog/AOR rock, nothing more nothing less... Don't forget the Ford Cortina
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Post by PowWow on Dec 8, 2014 10:20:59 GMT
The only part I love about the 1970's was the invention of prog/AOR rock, nothing more nothing less... According to you, you were only born in the mid ninties?!!!! It's like nam.....you weren't there man, you don't know what it was like!!!! I have jeans older than you bro!!!! Bahahaha! Well you bearly reached the age of 3 when you got to the tail end of the 70's! And Horacewimp please, the Ford Capri is where it's at!
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Post by Horacewimp on Dec 8, 2014 10:26:06 GMT
According to you, you were only born in the mid ninties?!!!! It's like nam.....you weren't there man, you don't know what it was like!!!! I have jeans older than you bro!!!! Bahahaha! Well you bearly reached the age of 3 when you got to the tail end of the 70's! And Horacewimp please, the Ford Capri is where it's at! I had a white Ford Capri but that was in the 1980s.
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Post by Buttler on Dec 8, 2014 14:31:59 GMT
Hi Jeff, first of all thank you for starting this thread. I could have written it myself, let me explain you why. I was born in 1976 too ( ), spent my childhood watching japanese cartoons (Mostly robots like Goldrake, Mazinga, etc.) and TV series like " Starsky and Hutch" and " Quantum Leap", playing with my Commodore computers (C64/Amiga 500/Amiga 1200). Life was beautiful, and not just because I was young, everything was different and better, and I must confess, I was happy. What can I see now? A desert, and no one can stop the advance of it. Nowadays society is all messed up, overpopulation, pollution, wars, climate change/global warming, global economic crisis, and so on. I gotta be honest, there's just no hope. I'm sorry
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Post by jefflynnenut on Dec 8, 2014 14:35:57 GMT
What I hate about the world today is the blame culture, why does everything that happens have to be dissected in so much detail and somebody blamed for absolutely everything. Can't people accept that things happen and there is nothing we can do about it, maybe t's due to the 24 hour news channels and the Internet and the fact they need something to report upon or they would lose there jobs. When I was little you could only get news from newspapers and later while I was at school John Cravens Newsround, I remember seeing the Challenger shuttle disaster on Newsround, it was the first time I had seen anything like that happen live. The same was for music news I would get Record Mirror and later Smash Hits (they printed song lyrics which was great I'd cut them out to keep in the single sleeve) it must have been really hard for bands to get information out to potential fans back then, although because of this fashions wouldn't change so quickly due to the lack of available information. Flexi disks!!!!! I'd love to have them again!!! Orange, yellow, green and blue....sometimes purple!!!! And if you really looked after them you could get 18/20 plays!!!!
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Post by PowWow on Dec 8, 2014 14:44:59 GMT
You mean those flimsy vinyl-like discs that magazines back in the day used to give them away for free?
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Post by Horacewimp on Dec 8, 2014 14:50:04 GMT
1976 you are still youngsters, try being born in 1963.
To quote Monty Python:
We never had a cup, but would drink out of a rolled up newspaper or suck on a piece of damp cloth.
We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip and got woke up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! We called it our House, well, when I say 'house' it was only a hole in the ground covered by a sheet of tarpaulin, but it was a house to us.
We used to 'ave to get up out of the hole at twelve o'clock at night and lick road clean wit' tongue, eat a handful of 'to gravel and work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work.
And you try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe you.
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Post by Horacewimp on Dec 8, 2014 14:52:00 GMT
I've still got a few flex discs somewhere in the loft, had to weigh them down with 10p coins to stop them jumping
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Post by jefflynnenut on Dec 8, 2014 15:55:44 GMT
Pow it just dawned on me.....I have jeans that are older than you Bahahahhah!
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Post by jefflynnenut on Dec 8, 2014 16:01:32 GMT
I've still got a few flex discs somewhere in the loft, had to weigh them down with 10p coins to stop them jumping Ye man! I remember getting "Bark at the moon" by Ozzy and "Kiss me deadly" by Lita ford and both bloody scratched by some snotty ass teen with something sharp cause they couldn't afford it obviously! Shop keeper was well pissed off! all the Metal hammer and Kerrange mags had to be sent back!!! I got me pocket money back but I was well upset I never got the two flex's back! GRRRRRRR. Gas with the 10p piece on the stylus head! to stop em skipping! I had a flexi with Van Halen "Jump" on one side and TOTO "Africa" on the other! That was class...
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Post by jefflynnenut on Dec 8, 2014 16:05:03 GMT
Hi Jeff, first of all thank you for starting this thread. I could have written it myself, let me explain you why. I was born in 1976 too ( ), spent my childhood watching japanese cartoons (Mostly robots like Goldrake, Mazinga, etc.) and TV series like " Starsky and Hutch" and " Quantum Leap", playing with my Commodore computers (C64/Amiga 500/Amiga 1200). Life was beautiful, and not just because I was young, everything was different and better, and I must confess, I was happy. What can I see now? A desert, and no one can stop the advance of it. Nowadays society is all messed up, overpopulation, pollution, wars, climate change/global warming, global economic crisis, and so on. I gotta be honest, there's just no hope. I'm sorry You're right bro!!!! Over population is a prob....Thats why I have started back up my "serial killer" alter ego. Time to take the Chainsaw and clawhammer back out of retirement and head back down to the oldfolks home... crossbones
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Post by Horacewimp on Dec 8, 2014 16:06:28 GMT
I remember having Toyah, OMD and Nash the Slash "Swing Shift" discs.
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Post by Helmut83 on Dec 8, 2014 16:09:37 GMT
As my nickname says, I was born in 1983 so my childhood (the part I can remember most) and teenage took place in the '90s. I am not really sure if I would be so nostalgic and pesimistic as you JLN and Buttler are, but there are a few points in which I would agree:
1) Music: since the early '00s, music has turned into absolute crap. I barely like anything that came out during the last 15/12 years and I think there's not even one band that is around today that I like. It seems like everything has been done already and all the good music possible already written.
2) Pollution/desertification/global warming: I have to agree with you on this one, Buttler. This tendency is only accelerating and it is very worring. I love cold weather (well, not the poles' weather of course) and I hate the heat, and during the last winters we barely had a couple of cold days in Buenos Aires, while summers have turned into living hell, with temperatures that (I can remember) were very uncommon only 20 years ago. Last December was the hottest month ever in BA since there are temperature registers.
As long as China keeps on polluting like they do, we are doomed. And another worrying thing is how the deserts are growing each time bigger.
3) The degree of freedom: I'm going to get my hands dirty here and get into politics. Ever since the '90s ended, it has been a global tendency (with very few exceptions) to go in the direction of authoritarian governments which, with the excuse of looking after the poor, cut off all kind of liberties and rights that the citizens used to have and confiscate an each time bigger part of their work's product.
Those are the main things I lament and I think were better before. Then, I think nowadays we are full of tecnological advances that make life much easier, like internet, cell phones, etc...
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Post by PowWow on Dec 8, 2014 17:20:52 GMT
Actually I believe that the degree of freedom has improved over the years the the advent of social media etc
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