nino_savatte
No pasaran!
Terrible music? There was some great music in the 80s. The Specials, The Beat, The Au Pairs... I could list some more.
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Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
Musically the 80s started in 1982. After the punk/post punk/new wave renaissance had withered away and the man was back in charge.
cantsin
Well-Known Member
bunnymen,cure, aztec camera etc kiiling joke
1986 - Farley Jackmaster Funk - Love Can't turn Around - UK #1
1988 - ? Acid 'Ouse
Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
there was some goods stuff obv - but the mainstream was shit. look at what was in the top 10 between 78 and 82 and compare with 82 - 89. And the bunnymen and the cures best stuff was pre 82.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
the mainstream is always shit and if you've heard of it they aren't cool anymore
/hipster
/hipster
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Mainstream stuff in 1981 was fantastic!
Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
that was my point.
to get back on topic - I blame the immigrants/muslims/romanians etc.
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaata, The Fall, Teardrop Explodes... oy, sorry for derailing the thread.
mystic pyjamas
Don't call us,we'll call you.
Don't think it's a reflection at all of the 70s and the NF.
Like it or not UKIP are becoming more accepted by the mainstream and are not regarded as thuggish or even as racist as the NF were.
Also I would put money on UKIP being a more permanent feature of the British political landscape.
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
UKIP's success is the reason why racist language has been legitimised. Now I recognise that Thatcher had done this previously by stealing the NF's clothes, but UKIP are the inheritors of her mantle.
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
Pop Will Eat Itself, The Smiths, The Redskins, The Cocteau Twins, Jesus and Mary Chain...?
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
I am not sure that racist language has been legitimised. The majority of people I know who think immigration should be more controlled and resent , as they see it, as people arriving to the country having never contributed getting benefits are not racist in any way.many of them have mixed families or actually have non British heritage and live side by side with people from all over the place. None of them are saying ' if they are black send them back'
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Actually there was a whole swathe of music that was both popular and oppositional to the man in charge. I wouldn't subscribe to a history of music based on Top of the Pops 2.
articul8
Dishonest sociopath
Big Shakey fan then?
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Fucking right - and in a non-ironic way. Best singer for a genuine Commy rockabilly band ever.
articul8
Dishonest sociopath
Shaky was a young commie?! You learn something every day
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
one of my favourite pub quiz questions, 'Which welsh communist had a number one hit about lesbians in the 1950's?'
articul8
Dishonest sociopath
what was that? Green Door?!
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Tell him what this ol' house is really about.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
surely everyone knows it is a metaphor for the attempted crushing of Cuba under the jackboot of yankee imperialism
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
You see, how little you know articul8 - and how little you don't realise that you don't know.
Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
TOTP 2 !!!! I WAS THERE MAN!!!!!
And yes there was some decent music - but it didn't trouble the charts or get played on the radio much. E.g - the biggest alternative band of the later 80s - The Smiths - only had 1 top ten hit. The likes of the specials and the jam had a whole string of top 5 hits and a few no 1s. From about 1982 you had to dig out the good stuff - you didn't hear it on daytime radio, or playing in shops or in the background on eastenders etc.
I just can't see what is racist about the contributory principle in relation to benefits, either oneself or historically through family paying in, etc, this is common across the EU, I know when I cited this a couple of years ago on here, that was the gist of the response.
dennisr
the acceptable face
(((((((((Julio Iglesias)))))))))))
ddraig
kicking against the pricks...
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
Fred Wedlock still takes some beating.
malatesta32
Not Serb. No, Really!
visage, ultravox, duran duran, spandau ballet, sheen easton, all brilliant!
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