Me too! Except apart from having a sister or anyone being thrown out of a house. But I used to love Tom Robinson as a kid...My sister was thrown out of the house because I used to go around singing Tom Robinson's 'Glad To be Gay' at the top of my voice when I was seven lol.
sounds like Kajagoogoo you're not admitting to then.
Never actually liked one of their records but when Too Shy was number one, my family stayed at the same hotel as them when we were on holiday in Cornwall and they were on tour. It was VERY exciting to see real popstars with funny hair. I told people they were my favourite band but actually they weren't.
I did buy Rock Me Amadeus which was pretty awful, and quite a few Level 42 records which is about the most uncool thing you can admit to ever having liked these days....
Me too! Except apart from having a sister or anyone being thrown out of a house. But I used to love Tom Robinson as a kid...
Grey Cortina and Martin were always my favs as a younger. I still have the War Baby EP kicking around somewhere, I should get that on...Lol that's funny. I can still sing it all n all, though I prefer 2,4,6,8 nowadays
there is actually quite a great 12" mix of too shy' - the 'midnight mix', mixed by the guy who wrote madonna's first track 'everybody', quite Detroity.
I used to know all the words to War Baby. I didnt particulary like it but it was on Charthits 83 and it was easier to listen to the whole thing than mess about fast forwarding etc.
I hated music up to the age of 15. Refused to listen to any of it, argued vociferously against its ability to communicate anything...
Theres a nice rework of Lessons in Love out at the mo. Well, it's big oonsty club fare, but I like it.Level 42
Sorry but I actually loathe that kind of thing.
I can detect no emotion in it, do you think the guys making it were thinking of anything except the money?
Just my taste v yours but there you go.
@Swears
I knew music was important when my mum played me "The Hippy Hippy Shake" by Typhoons (Woolworths covers band) and "King Creole" by Elvis Presley aged about 3 or 4. I checked this week and my mum still has the records. I totally loved dancing to them, going crazy.
As far as playing a record over and over and listening hard, I guess it was Tour De France and then Man Machine (yes I know I bought them in the wrong order but I was only 5 when Man Machine came out.... and when I was 10 it was Nice Price £2.99!!)
Another funny memory - going into school the day after Duran Duran were on TOTP with "the reflex" and everyone going "fle-fle-flex!" because none of us had heard edits before, it was totally new and weird. "Close To The Edit" the following year was a total headfuck, and then "19"...... sounds that nobody had heard before.
I wonder if moments like that will come again in electronic sound?