Sabresonic
Justified & Ancient
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How did no one laugh at GNC comment back in 2014......thats made my dayRuss Abbott's cover of Atmosphere was a lot more fun than the original.
How did no one laugh at GNC comment back in 2014......thats made my dayRuss Abbott's cover of Atmosphere was a lot more fun than the original.
How did no one laugh at GNC comment back in 2014......thats made my day
Now my bus pass is free!
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How did no one laugh at GNC comment back in 2014......thats made my day
Thats made my day THANK YOU
That is spectacular!And the reverse ..
NICE ONEAnd the reverse ..
I could never understood the fashion of the 70s Football Hooligan as at the start of the 70s say 70/71 and maybe 72/73 opp North but as I said at the start of the 70s it was still like the 60s with smart 3 button suits and the Skinhead, Suedehead look but then it went all flares, long shirt collars and long hair look of the Bootboy and the only thing they kept from previous youth culture was the DM's.I was aged 10-20 in the decade of the 70's - not all dark by any means. But what dominated the news in the early years were football hooligans, fighting on the terraces, ubiquitous stanley knives and Intercity trains getting their seats ripped up. It got more upbeat as I grew older.
Yes we have had that look for a long time sadly.
The carpet is way too plain though. It should match the suite.I have managed to locate the spirit of the 1970s, distilled in physical form:
From the 1977 Montgomery Ward Catalog: '
'Festive Floral Print Sofa'
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Too much politics and not enough Spangles.Interesting opinion piece by Polly Toynbee in the Guardian the other day. The 1970s weren’t quite as bad as you were told by the Thatcherite spin of the 1980s (and ever since). Certainly fits more with my recollections:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeand...-really-like-living-back-in-the-1970s-i-wish-
I was a similar age in the 70s. I remember the strikes, football hooligans and so on but for me too it was a good decade. I think it depends on age rather than era -I am sure my parents were more concerned with the headlines of the day but for me it was all about leaving school, getting my first 16er special moped, getting a job and freedom to get out in the world without having to go everywhere with mum and dad. Call me shallow but I certainly didn't go moping around worrying about the threat of nuclear war and so on like the talking heads on those TV shows like to tell us (even though many weren't even born then! )I was aged 10-20 in the decade of the 70's - not all dark by any means. But what dominated the news in the early years were football hooligans, fighting on the terraces, ubiquitous stanley knives and Intercity trains getting their seats ripped up. It got more upbeat as I grew older.
T’was ever thus...Too much politics and not enough Spangles.
I wore skinny jeans and jumpers. Exactly the same as I wear now. And boots.Subcultures were big in the '70s. Not that most people walked arming looking like the photos we see of them from the time
Football hooligan 'tribes', Skinheads, hippies/'freaks', music-based fan groupings - all were very popular with sociologists and photographers who made a living from describing and depicting them.
In photos from the time we see advertising images, carefully organised and posed scenes, opportunistic shots taken with the subjects' co-operation and some rare truly spontaneous portraits.
Most 1970s teenagers dressed conservatively and had haircuts acceptable at school or work.
If you were to believe the music programmes nowadays you would assume that virtually every teenager was a punk but certainly in my town they were a tiny minority, most of us wore 'normal ' clothes -jeans etc. You would see the odd little group of punk rockers but they were only like the Goth's or Hippy's and far from the norm.Subcultures were big in the '70s. Not that most people walked around looking like the photos we see of them from the time
Football hooligan 'tribes', Skinheads, hippies/'freaks', music-based fan groupings - all were very popular with sociologists and photographers who made a living from describing and depicting them.
In photos from the time we see advertising images, carefully organised and posed scenes, opportunistic shots taken with the subjects' co-operation and some rare truly spontaneous portraits.
Most 1970s teenagers dressed conservatively and had haircuts acceptable at school or work.
Exactly my point!I wore skinny jeans and jumpers. Exactly the same as I wear now. And boots.
I also think it depends on the age you were in the 70's. I went through my teens, and therefore it felt like a time of impending possibilities - friendships, relationships, jobs, earning my own money and deciding what I wanted to do with my life. For the generation above it was probably quite frightening in the late 70's, as punk was so televised and hooligans and rioting were what made the news.
People quietly going about their usual business with no real concern as to which decade they were in didn't make headlines.
Yup, it was all a moral panic. The subcultures were a tiny minority.If you were to believe the music programmes nowadays you would assume that virtually every teenager was a punk but certainly in my town they were a tiny minority, most of us wore 'normal ' clothes -jeans etc. You would see the odd little group of punk rockers but they were only like the Goth's or Hippy's and far from the norm.
Exactly my point!
Our poor Dads had spent the '60s trying to keep the dreaded Permissive Society from the door and then the tabloids started with the violent sex-mad drugtaking '70s.
One of the music/dress-based crazes was the Rod Stewart malarkey.
He remains unforgiven here for ruining whole swathe of otherwise reasonable boyfriend material by inducing them to wear baggy blue jeans with tartan scarves and tam o'shanters. I was NOT walking down the street with someone who was dressed like THAT.
The tartan was a crossover with the Bay City Rollers fans who wore white denim with the tam o'shanters etc.
As a young teenager I'd look around and shake my head.
Yes, the Faces were a brilliant band and 'Stay with me' is still one of my favourites from the era. I hate it when artists like Rod Stewart and even (sobs loudly) Bryan Ferry bring an album out of 'Classic songs' or duets - to me it seems they have run out of ideas.At leat Rod was a real R&B singer back then.
Yup, Ferry's Smoke Gets In Your Eyes is very high kitsch even for him.Yes, the Faces were a brilliant band and 'Stay with me' is still one of my favourites from the era. I hate it when artists like Rod Stewart and even (sobs loudly) Bryan Ferry bring an album out of 'Classic songs' or duets - to me it seems they have run out of ideas.
Yes, but I'd see the Hamish hat and think oh good Lord, no...At leat Rod was a real R&B singer back then.