Ho lee crappe.....

[wedg1e]

I was just doing a pile of ironing, listening to 'Communique', a vinyl disc of the long-playing variety, by the popular beat combo known as Dire Straits.
Upon completion of my chore, and as the last heartbeat-like drumbeats faded into the distance, I perused the cardboard sleeve wherin said gramophonic production resides during its dark slumbers, filed in a box 'midst similar audiophilic compilations.

There I happened upon the production date: 1979.

Back me fuuckwards, it's TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OLD.

That can't be right. Surely to buggery it can't be more than about a decade since I bought it? Can it?


Edit: DAMN this blasted radio keyboard... missing letters all the time... :raning:

>>> Edited by wedg1e on Monday 13th December 02:10

[EmmaP]

Did you know that 'Another Brick in the Wall' by Pink Floyd was No1 at Christmas twenty five years ago? Now we both feel old!

[shirley temple]

Scary aint it?
" You get a shiver in the dark, its raining in the park at Meantime"

they dont make 'em like that any more

Mark

[wedg1e]

EmmaP said:

Did you know that 'Another Brick in the Wall' by Pink Floyd was No1 at Christmas twenty five years ago? Now we both feel old!

Funnily enough I dragged that off the net as an MP3 and added it to a compilation for the van just t'other day. I recall wondering (in 79) what the hell the 'video' that went with it, was all about though....

Hmmm... thinking about it, 'Mull of Kintyre' must've been around the year before? Or was it even the year before THAT!? First record I ever got... still have it somewhere....

[shirley temple]

wedg1e said:

EmmaP said: Did you know that 'Another Brick in the Wall' by Pink Floyd was No1 at Christmas twenty five years ago? Now we both feel old! Funnily enough I dragged that off the net as an MP3 and added it to a compilation for the van just t'other day. I recall wondering (in 79) what the hell the 'video' that went with it, was all about though.... Hmmm... thinking about it, 'Mull of Kintyre' must've been around the year before? Or was it even the year before THAT!? First record I ever got... still have it somewhere....

Same as!! and still got it 7", somewhere!!!! Must have been earlier, 74 me thinks?
I'll have a rummage

Mark (listening to "The Mission")

[EmmaP]

Gazboy said:

EmmaP said: Did you know that 'Another Brick in the Wall' by Pink Floyd was No1 at Christmas twenty five years ago? Now we both feel old! How old are you??? (if you don't mind me asking?)

Yes I do you cheeky fecker! Thirtyfnfive.

[wedg1e]

shirley temple said:

Scary aint it? " You get a shiver in the dark, its raining in the park at Meantime" they dont make 'em like that any more Mark

In about 1976, my (ex-) mate and some of his friends used to go (underage) every Tuesday night to a club in Middlesbrough that had live acts and the beer was about 10p a pint (or whatever, cheap anyway).
One night they had been stood around talking and when they eventually went outside they came across four blokes trying to push-start a Transit van. These guys waded in and helped push, and after some fettling the van eventually started. Mate got talking to one of them, commented that he thought the band was quite good, but he'd forgotten their name.
Now I forget what the band name was, but the singer remarked that if the van hadn't started, he'd have been in dire straits, cos he had to be at work in Newcastle the following morning... a year later 'Sultans of Swing' appeared, my mate fell off his chair...

[EmmaP]

shirley temple said:

wedg1e said: Hmmm... thinking about it, 'Mull of Kintyre' must've been around the year before? Or was it even the year before THAT!? First record I ever got... still have it somewhere.... Same as!! and still got it 7", somewhere!!!! Must have been earlier, 74 me thinks? I'll have a rummage Mark (listening to "The Mission")

Nah! Not that old. Please God tell me it isn't!

[EmmaP]

Gazboy said:

EmmaP said: Gazboy said: How old are you??? (if you don't mind me asking?) Yes I do you cheeky fecker! Thirtyfnfive. I thought you were a LOT younger than that as it happens.

Filthy liar!

>> Edited by EmmaP on Monday 13th December 02:35

[wedg1e]

EmmaP said:

shirley temple said: wedg1e said: Hmmm... thinking about it, 'Mull of Kintyre' must've been around the year before? Or was it even the year before THAT!? First record I ever got... still have it somewhere.... Same as!! and still got it 7", somewhere!!!! Must have been earlier, 74 me thinks? I'll have a rummage Mark (listening to "The Mission") Nah! Not that old. Please God tell me it isn't!

Just dug it out from under a bed.



Sitting down?















1977.


I prefer the B-side... Girls' School...

[shirley temple]

you were right Wedg1e, Mull of KinTyre was '77, the horrors of my single collection will haunt me all night now, Slade '73!!! (My Friend Stan), Cliff!!

Mark

[EmmaP]

wedg1e said:

EmmaP said: shirley temple said: wedg1e said: Hmmm... thinking about it, 'Mull of Kintyre' must've been around the year before? Or was it even the year before THAT!? First record I ever got... still have it somewhere.... Same as!! and still got it 7", somewhere!!!! Must have been earlier, 74 me thinks? I'll have a rummage Mark (listening to "The Mission") Nah! Not that old. Please God tell me it isn't! Just dug it out from under a bed. Sitting down? 1977.

[shirley temple]

wedg1e said:

shirley temple said: Scary aint it? " You get a shiver in the dark, its raining in the park at Meantime" they dont make 'em like that any more Mark In about 1976, my (ex-) mate and some of his friends used to go (underage) every Tuesday night to a club in Middlesbrough that had live acts and the beer was about 10p a pint (or whatever, cheap anyway). One night they had been stood around talking and when they eventually went outside they came across four blokes trying to push-start a Transit van. These guys waded in and helped push, and after some fettling the van eventually started. Mate got talking to one of them, commented that he thought the band was quite good, but he'd forgotten their name. Now I forget what the band name was, but the singer remarked that if the van hadn't started, he'd have been in dire straits, cos he had to be at work in Newcastle the following morning... a year later 'Sultans of Swing' appeared, my mate fell off his chair...

Quality!!! I used to go to a Live music pub in Bedford, saw the Silmarillion (Marilion, pre fish) The Mish, SoM, the cure, the cult, Souixsie and loads of others in various guises, the pub has now been replaced by flats

sad times we live in

Feel almost sorry for the yoof, soul less cars, "bands" whocan dance but cant play instruments, the inability to play games that dont involve turning the telly on,

lifes been good to us tho!!

Mark

[wedg1e]

Jesus Phineas Christ.

THAT was a bloody mistake.

See, all my singles are filed in alphabetic order.... so to get to Wings I had to pass the following embarassing moments in musical history:


Europe: The final countdown (1986)

Berlin: Take my breath away (86)

Bailey & Collins: Easy Lover (84)

Bellamy Brothers: If I said you have a beautiful body would you hold it against me? (79)

Buggles: Video killed the radio star

Peter Cetera: Glory of love

Chicory tip: Son of my father (72)Climie Fisher: Love changes everything

Bobby Darin: Dream lover

Jim Diamond: I should have known better

Sheena Easton: Just another broken heart

Boris Gardiner: You're everything to me

Bobby Goldsboro: Honey (!!)

Jona Lewie: Stop the cavalry

Mental as anything: Live it up

... and that's just from the first box!!

I think maybe some of those were my ex-wife's...

[shirley temple]

donna summer, i feel love, ram jam, black betty, gary glitter, rock and roll part 1, , , , , , , , , , , ,


wheres my walking stick?

[wedg1e]

WAIT - there's more!

Mike Oldfield: Cuckoo song

John Parr: Two hearts

The Pogues: Sally Maclennane (now THAT is how toplay musical instruments!)

Prelude: Platinum blonde (aaarrrgghhhh!!!)

Prefab Sprout: When love breaks down

Proclaimers: Letter from America

Gary Puckett: Young girl

Suzi Quatro: She's in love with you

Cliff Richard: Miss you nights NOT one of mine, honest

Spandau Ballet: Muscle bound

Alvin Stardust: I feel like Buddy Holly

Status Quo: In the army now

Tenpole Tudor: Swords of 1000 men

Toto: Africa

Tourists: I only want to be with you

Toyah: Thunder in the mountains

Ultravox: Love's great adventure

Fred Wedlock: Oldest swinger in town (kind of how I feel after that bloody lot... )

[IOLAIRE]

Listen you buggers!! How do you think this makes me feel!!??
When I was 17, I had been playing guitar for 3 years and played at the 5th year school dance.
We played the covers from the charts then; I can remember the first three numbers.
Needles and Pins - The Searchers.
It's All Over Now - The Stones.
What Becomes of the Broken Hearted - Jimmy Ruffin.
No, I'm NOT telling you when it was, look it up for yourselves!

[shirley temple]

Gazboy said:

IOLAIRE said: Needles and Pins - The Searchers. I like that song- well the first 30 seconds that appeared in a Megadeth song anyway...

Heathen

[wedg1e]

IIRC Needles and pins was no. 1 when I was born... in '64!

You old git...

[shirley temple]

Gazboy said:

shirley temple said: Gazboy said: IOLAIRE said: Needles and Pins - The Searchers. I like that song- well the first 30 seconds that appeared in a Megadeth song anyway... Heathen No - About The Man- I think.

twas the man I was referin to!!