Ha ha, we will never agree about music then! I love Genesis (early version) Yes, King Crimson et all. I do really like good singer songwriters that seemed to blossom in the early 70's. Neil Young, CSN, Joni, Dylan, Carol King - love them all and by god them made some good music. For my part, Punk and some of the Bands in the last 70's early 80's passed me by a little - too busy with three young kids!. I did draw the line at Rick W's solo stuff though. The Knights of King Arthur on ice was even too much for me to swallow!
Sad bugger that I am, I collate play lists from the different years - us rock, uk rock, prog rock, iconic artists (bowie and the like), folk/country. Have good coverage of all the years in the late 60's, 70's and a little less thorough 80's and 90's. Thats why I think 71 is exceptional. You can come up with 10 - 20 fantastic albums for any year, but try getting to 50 and 60. Its a lot more challenging!I actually like some of Rick's solo stuff but it is a bit hit and miss; prancing on ice was a "no" even for me.
The '71 list wins by a mile so far; although I'm sure I could add albums to the '79 list that I rate highly e.g. Van Halen II. And I'm sure I could, if I had time, produce some decent length lists for other years; whether they'd quite match '71, I don't know. As you said there's no right or wrong but it's an interesting debate.
Haha, I think you've just rumbled the root of the ridicule that has plagued generations of kids:
Parents think it's like joining in a fancy dress party and consequently anything faintly similar will do to help their kids fit in; in reality it's like an unspoken code, where more exacting levels of accuracy are required and if not met, you are easily and instantly marked as an outsider and scoffed at for trying to 'get in'.
Hah, think you were hard done by eh?You could buy the rollers clothes. Everybody jumped on the bandwagon with trousers, shirts and jumpers. As you can imagine they were even more popular up here as they were Scots.
I always wanted a pair of the white flares with the tartan down the side. My mum, who couldn't sew for toffee, decided she would see a strip of tartan on a pair of trousers I already had. Go mum!
You can imagine how much of a pathetic imposter **** I looked in them. If I had worn them outside I would have been in a fight roughly every 12 minutes.
They never saw the light of day. I wish I had taken a photo of me in them though. I could have used it as my central piece of evidence at my mothers trial for crimes against fashion and reality.
For the reason I could never get the roller gear, I had to kid on I hated them. I certainly hated the breeks my ma cobbled together. She thought they were great. I told her she should wear them then.
I got a clip for my cheek. :)
My wee ma was the height of nothing, but she took shit off no one. Not even secret Roller fan kids who thought she was literally insane and could sew jack shit.
Her cooking was even worse than her tailoring.
But that's another story.
What were they thinking Batman?Hah, think you were hard done by eh?
My mum knitted me a Batman outfit.
It was pretty cool until it rained.
Scarred me for bloody life and made me what I am today.
Thats an impressive collection. Over how many years have you put that together?It depends on first release, condition etc etc but yes, he probably is rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
I have just over a thousand. Slowly building my collection.
God fucking well knows. All my mates had proper shop bought ones. Even my Batarang was two pieces of card stuck together with a penny cellotaped into the middle. Poor? I used to sleep in a cardboard box in corridor.What were they thinking Batman?
God fucking well knows. All my mates had proper shop bought ones. Even my Batarang was two pieces of card stuck together with a penny cellotaped into the middle. Poor? I used to sleep in a cardboard box in corridor.