UnquietDreams
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That scent still takes me back to a very specific time. And to a specific person, my friend Jerry. Smell is the only since that bypasses the thalamus and accesses memory directly.
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SalaciousMonkey22
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for a second, I am not kidding, I thought your friend was Jerry Smell and thought “what are the odds?”
But yeah just that picture takes me back to my dorm balcony.
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Flashback indeed.
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Day 25: A song from the 80s
Slave The rolling Stones
Slave The rolling Stones
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Day 25: A song from the 80s
Obscure English youth subculture, 1980s version. Herberts - people who didn’t really associate with any subculture, yet were there for the punk, Oi! And ska music; and also maybe for the fighting or adventure.
Cockney Rejects were/are one such group. Altho they had a massive skinhead following, they rejected all political ideologies, esp the violent right. Their number one ideology was that they were working class. They were also unapologetic fans of West United and were involved in various hooligan gangs and firms that supported west ham.
My wife and I got to meet them through a friend whose cousin was their current bass player (RIP Tony). When I asked Stinky Turner about the top of the pops incident below, he just said “We spent the morning in a pub drinking ciders. Vince (bass player here), must’ve had fifteen of em that morning.”
They also mercilessly gave me shit about having “Nikki fookin Manaj” on my playlist. They also broke my balls over going to see Billy Bragg the next night. “Tell that prick, he owes me 20 fuckin quid.”
I did ask Billy Bragg the next night abt the money. He had no recollection of it!
A very memorable evening after the show, to be sure!
Cockney Rejects - I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles
Obscure English youth subculture, 1980s version. Herberts - people who didn’t really associate with any subculture, yet were there for the punk, Oi! And ska music; and also maybe for the fighting or adventure.
Cockney Rejects were/are one such group. Altho they had a massive skinhead following, they rejected all political ideologies, esp the violent right. Their number one ideology was that they were working class. They were also unapologetic fans of West United and were involved in various hooligan gangs and firms that supported west ham.
My wife and I got to meet them through a friend whose cousin was their current bass player (RIP Tony). When I asked Stinky Turner about the top of the pops incident below, he just said “We spent the morning in a pub drinking ciders. Vince (bass player here), must’ve had fifteen of em that morning.”
They also mercilessly gave me shit about having “Nikki fookin Manaj” on my playlist. They also broke my balls over going to see Billy Bragg the next night. “Tell that prick, he owes me 20 fuckin quid.”
I did ask Billy Bragg the next night abt the money. He had no recollection of it!
A very memorable evening after the show, to be sure!
Cockney Rejects - I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles
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Day 25: A song from the 80s
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Day 25: A song from the 80's
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Day 25: A song from the 80's
Still going...Ain't I a Lil' Devil.
Still going...Ain't I a Lil' Devil.
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That was some incredible punk!! Thank you for sharingDay 25: A song from the 80s
Obscure English youth subculture, 1980s version. Herberts - people who didn’t really associate with any subculture, yet were there for the punk, Oi! And ska music; and also maybe for the fighting or adventure.
Cockney Rejects were/are one such group. Altho they had a massive skinhead following, they rejected all political ideologies, esp the violent right. Their number one ideology was that they were working class. They were also unapologetic fans of West United and were involved in various hooligan gangs and firms that supported west ham.
My wife and I got to meet them through a friend whose cousin was their current bass player (RIP Tony). When I asked Stinky Turner about the top of the pops incident below, he just said “We spent the morning in a pub drinking ciders. Vince (bass player here), must’ve had fifteen of em that morning.”
They also mercilessly gave me shit about having “Nikki fookin Manaj” on my playlist. They also broke my balls over going to see Billy Bragg the next night. “Tell that prick, he owes me 20 fuckin quid.”
I did ask Billy Bragg the next night abt the money. He had no recollection of it!
A very memorable evening after the show, to be sure!
Cockney Rejects - I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles
And a lovely story to boot!
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Day 25: A song from the 90's
More punk!! It took a while for me to warm up to Michael Graves replacing Danzig. It was such a dramatic shift in tone for the band that it feels like two completely different ones which, as I've come to terms with, is fine!
Here, with a music video directed by none other than George A Romero!
Misfits - SCREAM!
Points total: 4!
More punk!! It took a while for me to warm up to Michael Graves replacing Danzig. It was such a dramatic shift in tone for the band that it feels like two completely different ones which, as I've come to terms with, is fine!
Here, with a music video directed by none other than George A Romero!
Misfits - SCREAM!
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I’m not gonna lie… I thought this was an Aaron Carter original
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It was a fun weekend. The rejects wanted us to come to Boston where they were playing AND premiering their biopic, East End Babylon. But we had tix for the Billy Bragg show in Baltimore the next nite.That was some incredible punk!! Thank you for sharing
You won’t find a funnier and nicer bunch of guys. Made is feel like we were in the band.
We did a double a few years later. the Who at the Nassau coliseum and then the rejects the next night in Brooklyn.
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The original original was The Strangeloves in 1965.I’m not gonna lie… I thought this was an Aaron Carter original
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Day 26: A song from the 90s
Hauntingly beautiful, and heartbreaking, especially if you have ever lost someone to illness or age.
"From the back of your big brown eyes
I knew you'd be gone as soon as you could
And I hoped you would
We could see that you weren't yourself
And the lines on your face did tell
It's just as well
You'd never be yourself again"
I lost my grandfather to Alzheimer's. By the end, it was a relief -- he was almost never himself. But his last night he held my nephew, his first grandson, and knew him. And he looked me in the eyes, lucid for the first time in weeks, and told me how much he loved me.
I can make it to the first timpani notes before I break.
"Magic," Ben Folds
+1 for "magic," for 4 total.
"You're the magic that holds the sky up from the ground..."
Hauntingly beautiful, and heartbreaking, especially if you have ever lost someone to illness or age.
"From the back of your big brown eyes
I knew you'd be gone as soon as you could
And I hoped you would
We could see that you weren't yourself
And the lines on your face did tell
It's just as well
You'd never be yourself again"
I lost my grandfather to Alzheimer's. By the end, it was a relief -- he was almost never himself. But his last night he held my nephew, his first grandson, and knew him. And he looked me in the eyes, lucid for the first time in weeks, and told me how much he loved me.
I can make it to the first timpani notes before I break.
"Magic," Ben Folds
+1 for "magic," for 4 total.
"You're the magic that holds the sky up from the ground..."
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Day 26: A song from the 90's
1999 - "She's So High" - Tal Bachman
"She's blood, flesh, and bone" - +1!
1999 - "She's So High" - Tal Bachman
"She's blood, flesh, and bone" - +1!
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Day 26: A song from the 90's
+1 for (non-Halloween) bones.
+1 for (non-Halloween) bones.
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I really liked this band. Thought they’d have been bigger….
They did out out a few more records tho.
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Day 26: A song from the 90's
If only the Spawn movie had been as good as its soundtrack.
If only the Spawn movie had been as good as its soundtrack.
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Day 26: A song from the 90's
Some more non-Halloween bones but still score one more point for a grand total of 2!
Little Bones - The Tragically Hip
Some more non-Halloween bones but still score one more point for a grand total of 2!
Little Bones - The Tragically Hip
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Day 26: A song from the 90s
(just realized I was supposed to be doing a Halloween scary and candy theme… ooops, day late and a dollar short)
Sticking with the theme of British subcultures and associated music… Acid House was huge, but more of a late 80s thing. Mods, Teddy Boys and Soul Boys, Ravers, punks and skinheads were all back in fashion.
BritPop was flourishing, acid house, drums n bass, techno, psych were the big underground things. Indie music was taking off too.
I tried the acid house scene, but it wasn’t for me. It didn’t resonate at all, and I felt like an outsider. (20 years later, I’d find that the music was pretty fucking amazing and that maybe I missed out.)
Football casuals became the new look for the troublemaking hooligans going to games. in the 60s and 70s, it was pretty easy for authorities to identify the mods, suedes and skinheads who were looking for trouble.
In the late 70s, the football casual look to prominence. To most every day people people wearing designer, clothes and hats, might not look like troublemakers. The look morphed in the 80s, 90s and into the 00s and today.
The 90s look was characterized by Stome Island (hats, sweaters, track jackets and shirts), but any designer look was very in. Aquascutum, adidas and Lacoste. This sounds like a bunch of dandies, but you would not want to meet these guys in all likelihood.
Their choice of music range from standard pop to indie and Britpop songs.
Ocean Colour Scene - The Day We Caught The Train
(just realized I was supposed to be doing a Halloween scary and candy theme… ooops, day late and a dollar short)
Sticking with the theme of British subcultures and associated music… Acid House was huge, but more of a late 80s thing. Mods, Teddy Boys and Soul Boys, Ravers, punks and skinheads were all back in fashion.
BritPop was flourishing, acid house, drums n bass, techno, psych were the big underground things. Indie music was taking off too.
I tried the acid house scene, but it wasn’t for me. It didn’t resonate at all, and I felt like an outsider. (20 years later, I’d find that the music was pretty fucking amazing and that maybe I missed out.)
Football casuals became the new look for the troublemaking hooligans going to games. in the 60s and 70s, it was pretty easy for authorities to identify the mods, suedes and skinheads who were looking for trouble.
In the late 70s, the football casual look to prominence. To most every day people people wearing designer, clothes and hats, might not look like troublemakers. The look morphed in the 80s, 90s and into the 00s and today.
The 90s look was characterized by Stome Island (hats, sweaters, track jackets and shirts), but any designer look was very in. Aquascutum, adidas and Lacoste. This sounds like a bunch of dandies, but you would not want to meet these guys in all likelihood.
Their choice of music range from standard pop to indie and Britpop songs.
Ocean Colour Scene - The Day We Caught The Train
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