Armstrong played for decades dude.Quote:
Originally Posted by ruthless rocco
Elvis, duh.
Um Caitlyn Jenner?
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Armstrong played for decades dude.Quote:
Originally Posted by ruthless rocco
Elvis, duh.
Um Caitlyn Jenner?
So Elvis was rock and roll @El Kabong ?
YesQuote:
Originally Posted by ruthless rocco
So you've chosen a white guy who stole rock and roll from the blacks and turned it into a white commodity, Louis Armstrong who was considered by many blacks to have had pandered to the whites to further his career rather than speaking out against injustices, and a man why transitioned into a woman.Quote:
Originally Posted by El KabongArmstrong played for decades dude.Quote:
Originally Posted by ruthless rocco
Elvis, duh.
Um Caitlyn Jenner?
Brilliant!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IC3areNetIQuote:
Originally Posted by ruthless roccoSo you've chosen a white guy who stole rock and roll from the blacks and turned it into a white commodity, Louis Armstrong who was considered by many blacks to have had pandered to the whites to further his career rather than speaking out against injustices, and a man why transitioned into a woman.Quote:
Originally Posted by El KabongArmstrong played for decades dude.Quote:
Originally Posted by ruthless rocco
Elvis, duh.
Um Caitlyn Jenner?
Brilliant!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_dqfeYWsXc
Your idiotic opinion on Elvis is yours to have.....by yourself
Louis Armstrong is the greatest jazz musician to have ever set foot on God's green Earth and I don't give a good God damn what anyone else says about him.
Oh you took the "Caitlyn Jenner" mention seriously....maybe you ARE as dumb as I thought
1980s was a decade of great transition.
Electronics, technology made the greatest leaps for the average citizen.
Analog gave way to digital.
Radio for many was a.m. Mid 80s more music could be heard on f.m.
Americans IMO would lose her dominance of manufacturing to Mexico
Electronics to Asia.
Mom & Pop (family owned) were eviscerated by warehouse-type stores like Sam's Club to Walmart.
1980s IMO was the final decade of soliciting speciality stores like the butcher for meats. Groceries from a local grocer, fish from the fish market.
Medication from your neighborhood pharmacists who knew your whole family, and ailments.
Nick knack & novelty items from small chains known as five & dime stores like Ben Franklins to Woolworth's. By 1990...none of these businesses existed..at least in my home state.
It was the early 1980s ...final time the milk man would drop milk off at the door step next to the juice man's bottles.
Coca cola had glass bottles returnable 10 & 25 cents . I used to make 10 sometimes $20 on returning.
Today I hear 10 bags of aluminium cans won't get you that.
Technology from an optimistic POV- a company called Apple was quickly becoming a household name.
Record's & albums were giving way to cassettes.
Advanced technology was having a cassette deck that change sides without having to physically take the tape out, then flip it around!!!
CDs would come in that same era.
And when the walkman was introduced? A hand carried battery operated cassette deck you could put on your belt buckle while working/jogging???? That shit was amazing!!!
I was the sixth grader AV aka audio visual monitor who would leave class to show movies to 1st & 2nd graders. It was a damn reel to reel tape.
By Junior high 7tg grade I saw some shit called a VHS tape. OMG!! No need to run the tape feed through the machine to the empty reel?:oo Sometimes the tape would jam\crinkle up, so I had to know how to splice.
Shux...not with this small plastic case with a mechanism toforward .. And..get this: Reverse!!!;DD
History shows microwave ovens for sale in the 70s... Most people didn't start buying them until late 70s early 80s.
Having a microwave oven in 1982...we felt like we were literally on the brink of Star Trek come to life. Then my cousin mid 80s...showed me he bought called a pager, aww shit!!! Next year he had...a (mobile) cell phone. So small..it could fit in a shoe box. Oh yeah...the 80s was a time of transition!!!
Now you tell us what it was like to live in the 90's. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by VG_Addict
It's his turn!!!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by MasterNow you tell us what it was like to live in the 90's. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by VG_Addict
Was reminded of some seriously cuffed jeans today via FB, man I had a short period where I put Kevin Bacon to shame ;D
let me start Tyson comeback, Bowe v Holyfield, Spice Girls, OASIS, Blair government knocking out Thatcher,Quote:
Originally Posted by SlimTraeIt's his turn!!!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by MasterNow you tell us what it was like to live in the 90's. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by VG_Addict
Weekday - Get up, get dressed and eat breakfast. Walk to school, even if it was further than a mile away!! Do as you're fucking told all day long or you'd get a clump. Get home, play football with your mates until it gets dark, go home, watch whatever TV channel your dad was watching, stay up for midweek sports special if you were lucky.
Weekend - wake up, get dressed and eat breakfast and be out the house by 9 am at the latest. Fill the day with bike races around the block, building dens, having fights with whatever was growing down the local fields (a damson in the face fucking hurts) and playing football. Going home for lunch optional, popping home for five minutes to eat dinner was a requirement although it didn't have to be your house you went to. Building ramps, boxing on street corners, getting hold of a slither of lino to break dance. A bottle of squash was all you needed to get through the day.
Yeah it was fucking awesome.
Made my kids watch Back to the Future, Karate Kid and Rocky 3 and 4 as homage to the great 80's.
Thatcher and Reagan.......it was heaven
Side note on Elvis ...AND advice to the young blood here.
I can kick myself ...if I could. My grandfather told his grandkids on a juke joint in the big town of Tupelo. He lived in Okolona Ms.
On several occasions a young white kid would peer through a side \back window where blues player threw down. The kid named Elvis.
When he moved forward to Milwaukee, he and my grandmother use to babysit a kid to help pay for their one room in the back. He became a great jazz singer named Al Jareau.
Today my grandfather's memory is pretty much history. I wish I could've tape recorded his stories.
Young guys . value your elders. Never know whose paths they may have crossed.
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Originally Posted by El KabongThe 1980's were fucking great! Just as the 1920's truly opened the 20th Century, the 1980's closed the chapter on the century in much the same manner. Brilliant new art, music, literature, movies the world was on the upswing so it seemed and then along came the 1990's where it was like people got tired of success and became self destructive.Quote:
Originally Posted by VG_Addict
The 2020's are going to be fucking amazing though
Not the greatest start ;D
Just ordered an 80's Jigsaw puzzle for the Mrs. Everyone loves nostalgia and the decades that define their youth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86CZQGdxyMs
I neglected to mention I played a shat ton of Galaga..and I was damn good at it ;D
Everyone claims to have grown up in the best era - and understandably so- but I honestly believe if it came down to it with an expert panel to weigh up the evidence etc etc the 80s would come out on top.
Perfect blend of kids still going out all day long and the home computer revolution just kicking off with great TV and VHS, arcade games that were simple but awesome and football pre the Premier league era when money killed the game as we know it.
You just don't see kids or any more on their own in groups building dens, playing football in matches that lasted hours. Parents just don't let them out of their sight any more - and though I've no kids I fully understand that too.
We were around for the birth of the Internet, this wonderful thing (?) that changed society - history will continue to judge if it was for the good.
Oh to be 13 again in 85.....
Thanks for that me and the Wife enjoyed the old ad's.Quote:
Originally Posted by Beanz
I feared music from the eighties would infect and ruin music for all time. Fortunately little remnants of eighties music exists. Ha ha heavy metal.
No fan of Bananarama you eh ;DQuote:
Originally Posted by walrus
actually liked those chicks at one point
No but I’m a flock of seagulls groupieQuote:
Originally Posted by SpicoliNo fan of Bananarama you eh ;DQuote:
Originally Posted by walrus
actually liked those chicks at one point
Thank god there was still some good music being made in the eighties
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAtoXmH5dVw
Here is how disco effected the Grateful Dead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKwpfYX-0rs
Can't knock the Stones they carried over decades..and decades. I listened to any music I could get my hands on in the early 80's. I remember getting Undercover right next to Talk Talk Talk, a Peter Gabriel and Women and children First for a Bday ;D. Even Jagger tried to adapt to some influences of the time, for a bit.Quote:
Originally Posted by walrus
Yeah no doubt, the dead is well toyed around with the sound on touch of grey. I just think there was a lot of bad music made in the eighties and nineties that I didn’t think would last. Fortunately I was right. As with most things there are exceptions.Quote:
Originally Posted by SpicoliCan't knock the Stones they carried over decades..and decades. I listened to any music I could get my hands on in the early 80's. I remember getting Undercover right next to Talk Talk Talk, a Peter Gabriel and Women and children First for a Bday ;D. Even Jagger tried to adapt to some influences of the time, for a bit.Quote:
Originally Posted by walrus
The 1980's were different for everyone but for me along with the two-tone revival and BMX's there was the excitement of the Electro Street Sounds Cassettes. A strip of vinyl put down outside your local C and A ( were they all over the UK?) and your Ghetto Blaster and local crews would try out their moves to what became hip hop. Making mega mixes with a double cassette boom box and experiments with synths and recording ended up becoming a huge part of my life both academically and just as a jobbing producer, DJ and Musician. Lots of people dismiss the 80's for music but in many ways it was an amazing decade everything from the birth of Dance and electronic mainstream to Punk, Funk, Reggae, Industrial,Ska,Thrash and Metal bands cherry picking each other and the decades that went before setting up the conditions for Rave Culture, Grunge, Brit-Pop and the more mainstream Indie stuff that dominated the 90's
This one Electro 4 was massive check out Herbie Hancock and RUN DMC at 21:52
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwZDfaVplHk
What's not to like? They did 3 songs for the soundtrack of National Lampoon's Fraternity Vacation, an underrated 80's classic.Quote:
Originally Posted by SpicoliNo fan of Bananarama you eh ;DQuote:
Originally Posted by walrus
actually liked those chicks at one point
Breakdancing and hip hop culture also cemented the growing importance of sportswear as fashion in the UK. Adidas were massive but it also paved the way for Dia Dora , Fila, Sergio Tacchini and a lot of the football 'casuals' culture that followed. Everyone must remember local gangs and football firms wearing them long before Stone Island etc. Rave really helped smash a lot of the bollocks in the 90's and again that and the shoegaze retro guitar led stuff likethe Stone Roses just would not have happened without the 80's , sampling culture and the post punk experiments that brought song writing back to the fore.
Just before the 80's hit over here
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d8/b6...481a004205.jpg
I was young, but I consider it the last decade when England was truly English. The music was often not so great due to production, but there was good music. I loved the 90's when it came to music and was lucky enough to be around when great guitar music was back again and I was old enough to delve into the 1970's and before that the 1960's. I will never forget buying Lou Reed's Transformer album on vinyl. Albums need a big cover. I love Lou Reed. I would always go for vinyl and would be perusing those albums for hours at a time. The modern albums were CD, but those vintage albums had to be vinyl. I guess the 90's were my discovery years. I worked all those early hours and was late for school all because I wanted that music. It was more expensive then too! Kids today are spoiled and great music does not sell.
Sorry I am in the wrong decade here. The 1980's? I was young. I guess it was Fraggle Rock and He Man. Bad production even on the good music. England was green and tree less, but I would ride my bike for hours and hours exploring and climb trees and play football to avoid the attention of girls.
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Originally Posted by Gandalf
You are obsessed.
Can you not post without it being about promoting you racist claptrap?
No
Didn't think so.
Only Fools and Horses and how it all was then. That is England for me. I watch that series and that is the England I remember. I never lived in a flat, but the general ambience and the look of the streets. It is lovely. Thankfully I was too young to like Bowie in that decade. I may never have become a fan.
Only Fools and Horses is a case in point. It is very English and there is Denzel, Rodney has a thing for Asian birds and has a black friend and they like to have a curry. It is a more homogeneous England though. Does that upset you? I consider it rather English. I am sorry if you are offended by Englishness.
It is true though. The UK was demographically altered forever through decades of open borders. It was a very different England in the 1980's. It is just a demographic reality. It was much more English. Go to London today and it is not the city of the 1980's. John Cleese would argue it is not English.
I loved Lou reed. That album I think it was magic and loss where he was writing about seeing his friend die of cancer was just an emotional album. Velvet underground, good stuff. IMO nothing is better than good old American blues. Johny Lee Hooker omg I read a book about him and apparently he shot dope everyday for fifty years. He got clean in his 70’s and he was so bad he gave his daughter control of his money and she would only give him enough for a pack of cigarettes. But the talent that man had. Willie Dixon, holy cow. Just so much good music around. Of course I’m a Dylan fanatic whom you said you don’t like but the guy has now been writing and performing for six decades. I think one of his first gigs was opening for John Lee hooker in nyc but I’d need to double check that. So much good music I can go on foreverQuote:
Originally Posted by Gandalf
I have about 15 Dylan albums, so I wouldn't say I don't like him. I think he has about 10 albums up there with any others. My wife doesn't like him, but I do. I just think he made his share of albums I am not into during the 1970's and 1980's. Blood on the Tracks was splendid though. The 60'and mid 90's on were sublime. I suppose Dylan is more an aquired taste for some.Quote:
Originally Posted by walrusI loved Lou reed. That album I think it was magic and loss where he was writing about seeing his friend die of cancer was just an emotional album. Velvet underground, good stuff. IMO nothing is better than good old American blues. Johny Lee Hooker omg I read a book about him and apparently he shot dope everyday for fifty years. He got clean in his 70’s and he was so bad he gave his daughter control of his money and she would only give him enough for a pack of cigarettes. But the talent that man had. Willie Dixon, holy cow. Just so much good music around. Of course I’m a Dylan fanatic whom you said you don’t like but the guy has now been writing and performing for six decades. I think one of his first gigs was opening for John Lee hooker in nyc but I’d need to double check that. So much good music I can go on foreverQuote:
Originally Posted by Gandalf
A lot of greats went off in the 80's. Bowie, McCartney, Dylan, Young, they just seemed a bit lost. I am glad I wasn't so young during that period. They got the mojo back in the 1990's.
HolyHelz now that's just whack. Ffs it looks like the exact same guy. I feel a serious Run DMC jam circa 86' coming on ;DQuote:
Originally Posted by Beanz
We owe Blood on the tracks to a divorce that really did a number on Dylan but served his fans well. I think idiot wind may be my favorite song on that album. I took my wife to see Dylan, she couldn’t understand a word he sung but she was blown away by the music. He just released that song about Kennedy’s shooting I have a feeling we may get another tour if the wuhan tang calms down or at least another album. Or cd or digital release whatever we do now.Quote:
Originally Posted by GandalfI have about 15 Dylan albums, so I wouldn't say I don't like him. I think he has about 10 albums up there with any others. My wife doesn't like him, but I do. I just think he made his share of albums I am not into during the 1970's and 1980's. Blood on the Tracks was splendid though. The 60'and mid 90's on were sublime. I suppose Dylan is more an aquired taste for some.Quote:
Originally Posted by walrusI loved Lou reed. That album I think it was magic and loss where he was writing about seeing his friend die of cancer was just an emotional album. Velvet underground, good stuff. IMO nothing is better than good old American blues. Johny Lee Hooker omg I read a book about him and apparently he shot dope everyday for fifty years. He got clean in his 70’s and he was so bad he gave his daughter control of his money and she would only give him enough for a pack of cigarettes. But the talent that man had. Willie Dixon, holy cow. Just so much good music around. Of course I’m a Dylan fanatic whom you said you don’t like but the guy has now been writing and performing for six decades. I think one of his first gigs was opening for John Lee hooker in nyc but I’d need to double check that. So much good music I can go on foreverQuote:
Originally Posted by Gandalf
A lot of greats went off in the 80's. Bowie, McCartney, Dylan, Young, they just seemed a bit lost. I am glad I wasn't so young during that period. They got the mojo back in the 1990's.