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    #62
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,378 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    Luxie wrote: »
    Also (IF I remember correctly TOPT/Beeb refused to show the video for Two Tribes, it was shown regularly on MT USA presented by Vincent Hanley (Fab Vinnie, remember him?)
    Ah, poor ole Vinnie! God, that show was the highlight of my week. Remember the Two Tribes video, 2 guys in Regan and Brechnev masks knocking nine bails outta eachother in a boxing ring.

    Do you remember the countless nine inch* remixes of Two Tribes?

    *Anyone under 30 will need to google nine inch
    ** not a euphamism


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    #63
    Luxie
    Registered Users Posts: 707 ✭✭✭Luxie


    Dudess wrote: »
    Despite its perceived "sauciness" (the word "sex", that's about it) the sentiment of it was an endorsement of monogamy (height of the AIDS panic). A decade later, George Michael was in a very public open relationship... :pac:

    I know, it was still banned on account of its perceived 'filth and durt' content at the time though. :pac:


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    #64
    Stained Class
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,808 ✭✭✭Stained Class


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    "Oh yes, it's Auldies night
    and the feelin's right
    Oh yes, it's Auldies night
    Oh, what a night... "

    Pensioners just wanna have fun!!!!!:pac:


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    #65
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    foxinsox wrote: »
    @ Latchy..

    I so bet you had the ol Flock of Seagulls haircut.. :p
    I know I did at some stage..
    Oh no Foxy .... I was more a cross between the Jam ( without the mod haircut ) Dire straits ( work that one out ) Depech Mode and a few others to boot but your talking to a man who also liked Status Quo to so my musical tastes ( like today ) / image /clothes style ....... were all over the place :p


    G'night Foxy and tks for the link which am going to look at now o/


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    #66
    Luxie
    Registered Users Posts: 707 ✭✭✭Luxie


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    Ah, poor ole Vinnie! God, that show was the highlight of my week. Remember the Two Tribes video, 2 guys in Regan and Brechnev masks knocking nine bails outta eachother in a boxing ring.

    Do you remember the countless nine inch* remixes of Two Tribes?

    *Anyone under 30 will need to google nine inch
    ** not a euphamism

    It was genuinely a sign of the times back then, back in 1984 we were wondering when, not if, the world would be obliterated by nuclear war. I remember my brother explaining this to me when he was 16 and I was 10.

    Bastard, I was scared of my life we'd all die for at least three years after that.


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    #67
    Luxie
    Registered Users Posts: 707 ✭✭✭Luxie


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    Ah, poor ole Vinnie! God, that show was the highlight of my week. Remember the Two Tribes video, 2 guys in Regan and Brechnev masks knocking nine bails outta eachother in a boxing ring.

    Do you remember the countless nine inch* remixes of Two Tribes?

    *Anyone under 30 will need to google nine inch
    ** not a euphamism

    LOL, none of us had satellite back then, MT USA was essential watching.


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    #68
    foxinsox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,080 ✭✭✭foxinsox


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    Ah, poor ole Vinnie! God, that show was the highlight of my week. Remember the Two Tribes video, 2 guys in Regan and Brechnev masks knocking nine bails outta eachother in a boxing ring.

    Do you remember the countless nine inch* remixes of Two Tribes?

    *Anyone under 30 will need to google nine inch
    ** not a euphamism

    If I'm late for work in the morning, I'm blaming all ye aul ones :rolleyes:

    I think it's gas the way you/we have to explain things like:

    tape recorder
    single
    nine inch
    cassette
    Brechnev (probably)
    Reagan (maybe)

    One of my favourite possessions was the 9" of New Order's Blue Monday..

    We may be older now..
    but jaysus lads we were cool :cool:


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    #69
    AnonymousPrime
    Registered Users Posts: 196 ✭✭AnonymousPrime


    philstar wrote: »

    but why? its just about relaxin & chillin isn't it


    And laser beams.


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    #70
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,378 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    Some of the remixes really scared the schite outta me with the public safety announcement voiceover.


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    #71
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Luxie wrote: »
    Yep but it was denied vehemently at the time. Aids was still 'new' when he died.

    I used love Fab Vinnie RIP.

    Ireland was still a relatively conservative place back then as far as telling it as it is . Aids like many other things was something people didn't like to talk openly about, specialy when it concerned ' one of their own ' .


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    #72
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    foxinsox wrote: »
    One of my favourite possessions was the 9" of New Order's Blue Monday..
    :eek:
    /orgasms

    Oh my god, that public safety campaign: "When you hear the attack warning siren..." :eek::(


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    #73
    foxinsox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,080 ✭✭✭foxinsox


    Latchy wrote: »
    Oh no Foxy .... I was more a cross between the Jam ( without the mod haircut ) Dire straits ( work that one out ) Depech Mode and a few others to boot but your talking to a man who also liked Status Quo to so my musical tastes ( like today ) / image /clothes style ....... were all over the place :p


    G'night Foxy and tks for the link which am going to look at now o/

    ah, I couldn't leave just yet :p


    I was a mod - I liked and still listen to The Jam, The Who

    I was a punk - Sex Pistols, SLF, The Clash

    I was a Curehead - The Cure, Echo & the Bunnymen

    I was a New Romantic - Heaven 17, Flock of Seagulls, Human League, Soft Cell, Depeche Mode

    I went through a metal stage - AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Meatloaf

    I was quite the confused kid :confused:


    I also went on a big Anti-Nuclear Protest (CND) with my mother somewhere...
    We did all think we would die by nuclear annihilation!!!


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    #74
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,378 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    foxinsox wrote: »
    ah, I couldn't leave just yet :p


    I was a mod - I liked and still listen to The Jam, The Who

    I was a punk - Sex Pistols, SLF, The Clash

    I was a Curehead - The Cure, Echo & the Bunnymen

    I was a New Romantic - Heaven 17, Flock of Seagulls, Human League, Soft Cell, Depeche Mode

    I went through a metal stage - AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Meatloaf

    I was quite the confused kid :confused:

    Don't forget DuranDuran. It's too late to deny it now!


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    #75
    Luxie
    Registered Users Posts: 707 ✭✭✭Luxie


    Latchy wrote: »
    Ireland was still a relatively conservative place back then as far as telling it as it is . Aids like many other things was something people didn't like to talk openly about, specialy when it concerned ' one of their own ' .

    Last series, I remember him looking awful, but it wasn't even Ireland not acknowledging what he died of, Ireland didn't even want to acknowledge his sexuality.


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    #76
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,378 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    Dudess wrote: »
    :eek:
    /orgasms

    Oh my god, that public safety campaign: "When you hear the attack warning siren..." :eek::(
    I'm listening to it now and the siren still makes me feel freaked.


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    #77
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    foxinsox wrote: »
    I was a Curehead - The Cure, Echo & the Bunnymen

    I was a New Romantic - Heaven 17, Flock of Seagulls, Human League, Soft Cell, Depeche Mode
    Aw... I loved all that stuff and hated being a bit young for it.


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    #78
    foxinsox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,080 ✭✭✭foxinsox


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    Don't forget DuranDuran. It's too late to deny it now!

    :rolleyes:

    I didn't forget I just didn't know which genre to put them in :confused:
    and didn't want to put them in the wrong one..

    :D

    Poor Fab Vinnie..I used to love his show..


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    #79
    Luxie
    Registered Users Posts: 707 ✭✭✭Luxie


    Luxie wrote: »
    Last series, I remember him looking awful, but it wasn't even Ireland not acknowledging what he died of, Ireland didn't even want to acknowledge his sexuality.

    Granted I was fourteen myself, but I had no idea he was a mere 33 when he died :eek:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Hanley


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    #80
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,378 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    foxinsox wrote: »
    :rolleyes:

    I didn't forget I just didn't know which genre to put them in :confused:
    and didn't want to put them in the wrong one..

    :D

    Poor Fab Vinnie..I used to love his show..
    You're busted, you old New romatic!

    Yeah, loved Vinnie.


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    #81
    Stained Class
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,808 ✭✭✭Stained Class


    Luxie wrote: »
    Also (IF I remember correctly TOPT/Beeb refused to show the video for Two Tribes, it was shown regularly on MT USA presented by Vincent Hanley (Fab Vinnie, remember him?)

    Yeah, I remember that alright.

    Used to watch MT USA every Sunday back then.

    In 1984 I was 15 BTW.:)

    The videos I seem to remember frm that show were.

    1 T.V. Dinners - ZZ Top

    2 Love is a battlefield - Pat Bennetar

    3 Dancing in the dark - The Boss


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    #82
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    Luxie wrote: »
    Also (IF I remember correctly TOPT/Beeb refused to show the video for Two Tribes, it was shown regularly on MT USA presented by Vincent Hanley (Fab Vinnie, remember him?)

    and if memory serves me right, mt usa showed the full version of china girl by David Bowie, with bowie "riding" yer one on the sea shore with his boney white arse on display to the world:eek:

    and this on a sunday afternoon on holy catholic RTE, and we'd be having the granny around for tea:o


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    #83
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    foxinsox wrote: »
    ah, I couldn't leave just yet :p

    Had a feeling you might still be here to :p

    I was a mod - I liked and still listen to The Jam, The Who

    I was a punk - Sex Pistols, SLF, The Clash

    I was a Curehead - The Cure, Echo & the Bunnymen

    I was a New Romantic - Heaven 17, Flock of Seagulls, Human League, Soft Cell, Depeche Mode

    I went through a metal stage - AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Meatloaf

    I was quite the confused kid :confused:


    You just named part of my record/tape collection back then to :)The 80s was kinda confusing ,like unless a did hard punk , everybody seemed to like a bit of everything which was kinda cool ,kinda me then and now .

    I also went on a big Anti-Nuclear Protest (CND) with my mother somewhere...
    We did all think we would die by nuclear annihilation!!!
    We did indeed ,that's what was on most peoples minds and I remember the big CND protest in UK with people storming the wire at the bass were the US military were storing the Nukes .It all seems like only yesterday .

    Remember Paula Yates and the tube ? . That was groundbreaking tv then :D.


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    #84
    Luxie
    Registered Users Posts: 707 ✭✭✭Luxie


    Stained Class wrote: »
    Yeah, I remember that alright.

    Used to watch MT USA every Sunday back then.

    In 1984 I was 15 BTW.:)

    The videos I seem to remember frm that show were.

    1 T.V. Dinners - ZZ Top

    2 Love is a battlefield - Pat Bennetar

    3 Dancing in the dark - The Boss
    Desert Moon by Denis de Young.

    I would have no idea who Denis de Young (not sure if that's even right) if it weren't for MTUSA


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    #85
    Stained Class
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,808 ✭✭✭Stained Class


    Dudess wrote: »
    Aw... I loved all that stuff and hated being a bit young for it.

    Well I lived thru it & it didn't seem so good at the time.

    Like you, I looked back to an earlier time & was into The Beatles,The Who, Kinks et all..


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    #86
    foxinsox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,080 ✭✭✭foxinsox


    fryup wrote: »
    and if memory serves me right, mt usa showed the full version of china girl by David Bowie, with bowie "riding" yer one on the sea shore with his boney white arse on display to the world:eek:

    and this on a sunday afternoon on holy catholic RTE, and we'd have the granny around for tea:o

    I so remember that..

    I was in love with Bowie at the time..

    No matter how hard my father tried to explain that Bowie was in fact older than him (my father)..

    I was having none of it..

    I wanted to marry Bowie live happily ever after..

    Welcome to the new aul ones who have joined in our
    "aul ones are cool hijacked thread" :D


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    #87
    Luxie
    Registered Users Posts: 707 ✭✭✭Luxie


    Pfff, this was the only YT clip I could find.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJmBngCe99w

    Be quiet youngards, we lived thru a 'nice' recession. :pac


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    #88
    Rubberlegs
    Registered Users Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭Rubberlegs


    My first music memories are Marc Bolan and Adam Ant on TTP. To this day I'm a sucker for a guy wearing eyeliner:p. Always wished I'd been just that bit older in the 80s, to dress up and go to discos. I still have the very first Hits album on vinyl and Wham Make it Big. Tell ya music today isn't a patch on the 80s...


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    #89
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    Stained Class wrote: »
    Well I lived thru it & it didn't seem so good at the time.

    Like you, I looked back to an earlier time & was into The Beatles,The Who, Kinks et all..

    same here, i didn't take much heed of 80s music back in the 80s, i was mainly into 60s stuff Beatles, Stones and all

    its only in recent years that i've really began to appreciate it


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    #90
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,378 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    Stained Class wrote: »
    Well I lived thru it & it didn't seem so good at the time.

    Like you, I looked back to an earlier time & was into The Beatles,The Who, Kinks et all..
    Yup, we used to say "wish I'd been a teenager in the 60's". I remember my aunt telling me back in the 80s that she's seen the Beatles in the cavern and thought they were rubbish.
    Seriously.


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    #91
    Misanthrope
    Closed Accounts Posts: 613 ✭✭✭Misanthrope


    It is a satirical treatise of the shortfalling of British Rail, with strong allusions to limited destinations and delayed arrivals, both of which were controversial issues for the company as it attempted the leap from a nationalised industry to a privatised one.

    Holly Johnson and his buddies were from Liverpool which at this time suffered, as a result of Thatchers regional prioritisation practices,the worst effects of British Rail's gross inadequacy and negligence.


    Edit: I just discovered it's actually about dudes F**king other dudes.


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