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A little sadly, and for obvious reasons, tonight I have been working through the CD and Vinyl collection we have here.

Fuck......................

dug out some old school tunes that have brought the memories flooding back.

Currently listening to some early Roxy


ahhhhhhhhhhh   classic pulling tunes


any favorites you have buried away that you have forgotten about ?

Fucking Hell

Roxy Music...............Avalon

Circa 1983 ?

Memory :

1st ever trip to Newquay with the lads from the Kinger.

1st experience with a northern bird (scared the shit out of me - could drink for England, swear more than I did and would give a blowjob on demand, anytime and anywhere)

Sex on the beach

Serious clubbing

Sailors arms  :beers:

Newquay Arms  :beers:

Berties   :shag:

Fucking happy days

I've got boxes and boxes of vinyl, and nothing to play then on.   I had a very nice amp, which blew up some years back.....I tried to get it fixed, but the parts were redundant.   Then along came CD.....somehow couldn't be arsed to get much of a CD collection going.

   I know you can get a device to turn vinyl into mp 3.....inot sure its worth the money though.

I got a Technics TT mate that just plugs into the AUX port

sorted

I've never been much of a collector and without anything to jog my memory, things I've forgotten about have a bad habit of staying forgotten. Which is a shame.

My problem is that a lot of my vinyl is in bad condition......somhow leading a reprobate lifestyle and keeping records in good condition was not compatible, also despite what may seem to be the case on here,  I try to live in the present.

Thats just criminal Benji

All of my best, and unfortunately worst, memories have some form of musical trigger

strange I know

Ive just been sat here on my own pissing myself laughing, bizarre

Thats my point

Just looked at a Bowie 33 and the cover still smells of Pernod and black.

Chalikes party, Ferndale Rd circa 1987

Hid in a wardrobe to avoid the OB

I know what you're saying Fred.....my life has a kind of personal musical soundtrack.

  Thing is though there's a lot of it  :old:   I prefer to concentrate on the most recent stuff.

I don't think my brains really wired up that way. I don't tend associate music with much else than the music. Various stages in my life over the last 6-7 years are more likely to be associated with what I was drinking and which pubs I was in at the time.

Weirdly, the years I don't remember much seem to be the ones I can't associate with a local or two. There's something grounding about having a regular drinking haunt, the NHS should put it on one of their mental health treatment programs.

There is the occasional exception, for some reason that Queens of The Stone Age song, No One Knows or whatever it's called, reminds me of Pokemon. Which is a bit bizarre and I'm not really sure why.

I know what you are saying mate

Exactly

New Order - World in motion

Obscurely does not remind me of Italia '90 but of a blonde hairdresser I was seeing at the time

Thats why I love music mate, produces all sorts of emotions / memories

I'll put on my Joy Division badge...stick on a bit I've got on the computer and join you  in listening to perhaps the greatest ever song......you know the one.

oh fuck yeah

he was taken from us too soon

Was listening to Joy Division today at work.  Too soon indeed.

Love will tear us apart

 Indeed.

Joy division are overated.

go fuck yourself muchahco

there's no excuses reg, i've got a marantz pm4400 amp and a classic national panasonic turntable kicking around you have for £50 if you promise to use it.

I love my music (despite it not being very fashionable most of the time) and spend quite a lot of time just sitting in front of my hi-fi. Mainly on Sunday mornings (ok afternoons).

I was playing some AFI earlier. It reminded me of the time I sat in front of my hi fi and listened to AFI that one time last week

Bought a dodgy Ipod earlier for £20, now I need music if anyone can recommend a site to download?

Found some Slaughter and the Dogs at the weekend...enjoyed that... :beers:

Itunes?  :wink:

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grrrr, all my music is on my PC. my CD collection is in too much of a mess to trawl through things.

there's two songs in particular that i instantly associate with my ex...one good, one bad.

random tunes remind me of periods of my life. i could probably go through my entire life using songs...

i remember being in a shack in wales on a school biology trip to the gower peninsula, all pissed up and everyone singing along really loudly to 'She's on the Phone' by St Etienne.

the gower! i went there with school. i was banished for the rest of the trip because i got in a fight.

it's all about the mud.

Tiger Feet was a classic......

refound Ian Dury - New shoes and panties the other day, now that brought back loads of misspent youth memories.

1st single I ever bought was "what a waste"

OOOh OOOh spin off thread idea - 1st single ever purchased

I went halvsies with my older sister on Elvis Costello's Oliver's Army.

Given my young age, I've not 're-discovered' music.

But there are tracks that remind me of points in my life:

Bowling for Soup - The Girl All The Bad Guys Want : Ex-girlfriend. First blowjob. Good times.

Ace of Bass - All That She Wants : First holiday to Pontins. My sister threw a chair through our chalet window.

There's one more that really gets to me, but for the life of me I can't remember what it is. I suppose that's a good thing really, because it reminds me of the day my parents split up. It would've been released around 1994/1995. I thought it was Alison Moyet but after a bit of Googling it isn't, but it's a Moyet-style female singer power ballad though.

I think my first single will probably be the most embarrassing, it was 'Snooker Loopy' by Chas 'n' Dave with 'Wallop! She's gone down' on the B Side.

Dennis Taylor singing, quality.

that was the second single I bought, I might pass the info on on my first single if the topic ever rises on here as has been suggested!  :D

I think the first single I brought may have been big red GTO by Sinitta  :oops:

god thats embarressing

First single I bought - Madness, Our House.

Might do that later.

Like the avatar BTW, was thinking of getting the book, is it any good?

Have you read
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tone-Specials-World-Flame-Wheels/dp/1900924846

That's quite good

this thread makes me respect you more.

The Ska'd for life is very very good as was the stage show of it.

And no I havent read that but I feel it will be in my wish list from the missus for xmas cheers for that!

That'll be why you played it about 5 times on the way back from Leeds then.

And I'm also guessing you have an affinity with Joe Jackson's "Steppin' Out" because apart from "World In Motion" it was on permanent repeat!

Yes mate

both ace tunes at relly good times of my life, brought great memories flooding back after a great weekend

It's always good to hear a track that you haven't heard for a long time that reminds you of the past. For me it's a great part of enjoying music.

Straight Shooter - Bad Company
Frampton Comes Alive - Peter Frampton

but then again I know you are an old bastard like me Cliff

 :wink:

Is this the coffin dodgers thread?

 :wink:

certainly is Mark

Then I'm not qualified to join in. Good day!

Good god I need to watch Logan's Run again. I've only watched it once, when I was about 11. But so many Tefers remind me of the need for drastic political change with regards to pension policy.

Im no coffin dodger yet... but i couldnt help but go away n listen to the carpenters last night after reading this... singing all day at work today to, now the customers know im weird!  :oops:

Trust me , Fred , if you've had a bad day at the office  Frampton Comes Alive at full volume will sort it out !

Oh fuck fuck fuck fuck. Don't say The Carpenters.

My mother brainwashed me with them when I was younger and I've only recently managed to get over it.

Spit spit spit. Eurgh.

Its only just begun........

Rachel loves the Carpenters. I've hidden the CD in my toolbox, no chance of her looking there.

Cliff...............you are soooooooooo right mate

My mum has very weird taste in music.

All I remember from my childhood is The Carpenters, Simply Red and UB40.

I'm surprised I'm not a queer.

Fred I'm afraid that goes above your allocated camp allowance. I'm putting you on Amber Alert.

Could be worse. Mines addicted to Cliff fucking Richard.....

 :chunder:

"Talkin' to myself and feelin' old"

It must be a woman thing haha

I listened to Frampton when you were still a tadpole mate

leave it !

Eh? It's got nothing to do with Frampton whoever or wherever that is. It's the "sooooooooo......" you should be worried about you big gay bear.

Don't make me step you up to red or we'll have to do a TEF intervention

do it to red mate

No Fred, it's a sliding scale. If you feel that you understand you're problem and need to ask for help then you can go elsewhere. Lazy gays.

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"Homer Simpson ruins my pig, Cypress Hill steals my orchestra, and now Sonic Youth is in my cooler."  :D

wise men say...

I was right on that.