'The 80s and other reminiscences'

Started by MAtT, July 18, 2020, 12:21:12

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Ulrich

I don't wanna interrupt your exchange here, but: would you both agree if we move the "chat" part (which has nothing to do with Cure songs/lyrics) into the "off topic" section?
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SueC

No worries from my side!  :)  What about you, Matt?  Any suggestions for a title for the chat part? I'm out of ideas and I'd hate to constrain the new thread to a title... :angel

PS: If I was dull and unimaginative (and I will be until I eat chocolate eclairs) I could suggest Chat Arising From "All Mine Lyrics (1982 05 05 De Doelen, Rotterdam, Netherlands)" - but that would be dull and unimaginative...
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MAtT

QuoteI don't wanna interrupt your exchange here, but: would you both agree if we move the "chat" part (which has nothing to do with Cure songs/lyrics) into the "off topic" section?

Sure, go for it!

And I will be finishing my reply Sue, just my mixture of laziness (natural) and business (forced, I'm job hunting at the moment as I was made redundant from my IT job after three months of furlough - not a bad thing, but still a pain now I have to get my ass in gear!)....

Title... um, 'The 80s and other reminiscences'?!?

Oh, and I forgot to say in a previous post, "Reading" is pronounced 'redding' :)
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SueC

Sorry to hear about the redundancy - happened to Brett mid-house-build (highly convenient) and upped the stress for a while until he found a suitable replacement.  The people at his new place are nicer though.  Hopefully you will land on your feet too.  Best of luck to you!

Thanks again for an interesting chat. :cool  Hope we'll see more of you here.

PS:  Got any dressing-up photos, @Ulrich?  Or anyone else?  :winking_tongue
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Ulrich

Quote from: MAtT on July 29, 2020, 11:11:08Sure, go for it!

Title... um, 'The 80s and other reminiscences'?!?

Great that you came up with a title, as I'd been already wondering how to title the new topic! :smth023
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Ulrich

Quote from: SueC on July 29, 2020, 11:42:33PS:  Got any dressing-up photos, Ulrich?

Not really. Matt's photos from the 80s reminded me of me trying to have such a haircut too (circa 1989)... inspired by the "new wave" and all that.



(Enjoy it while you can, I might delete it one day...)
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word_on_a_wing

You all sharing your photos inspired me to look through some old photos. Here are two pictures I found of me at 16y/o. I missed out on being a teen in the 80s, but here I am in the mid90s a grungy little thing, with dyed hair and trenchcoat. The first one is me in ultra serious mode (😂) and the second one not so much

Me at 16y/o x2 pics
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Ulrich

Thanks for sharing the pics, woaw.

Some time ago we had a topic, in which I shared a few memories from the 80s:
http://curefans.com/index.php?topic=8741.0

Quote from: undefinedThe Cure - Untitled (the whole album often reminds me of the summer of '89, but this song in particular; I was hanging about with not much to do and rather melancholy at the time - school was over, love lost, what comes next?)

The Cure - Snakepit ("Well I'm out in a car and it's just full of stupid girls" is part of the lyrics - and this is exactly what it reminds me of!! :-D)

The Sound - Sense of purpose (will always remind me of the times around 1987, when I listened to this and lots of other new wave/(post-)punk/gothic music with some friends, while we were driving to or trying to find places where this kind of music was played... yeah we had some long journeys...)
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SueC

You two are such champions, @Ulrich and @word_on_a_wing:heart-eyes  :heart-eyes  :heart-eyes

Thank you for posting past photos - it's much less scary when other people do it too.  :smth023

Hahaha, @Ulrich - I guess being able to edit posts indefinitely makes it less "risky" to put silly pictures on.  On the other hand, don't both of you feel that having a couple of decades between the present and the photos lends one a little bit of...immunity? 

:rofl  Brett just said I should save a copy of your photo now, and make it my avatar!  Evil curmudgeon, I'm not going to do that, but it's funny anyway...

PS: Some funny pics, this time for logged-in people only.  Brett doesn't like putting any kind of "product" in his hair, but his hair naturally gets like that anyway, like with the wind behind him (that's from our wedding, haha, he saw it and said, "dandelion!"), or first thing in the morning.   :lol:
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Ulrich

Nowadays, like most people who grew up in the 1980s, I look back on those days fondly...
But, on second thought, it wasn't always that easy or "golden" as it may seem in retrospect.
(In my memory now, the 80s were good & nice, but also there was fear of a nuclear war etc.!)

Here in the forum, I've already told the tale of how I discovered The Cure (and other bands from the "new wave" era) around 1985.
Now it may look like this was the "golden era" of those bands (and it was in many ways), however the radio waves and music shows on television were dominated by other musicians (pop, new romantics, heavy metal, rap and whatnot...)
Some friends at school liked bands such as The Cure; but many were into U2, BAP (German rock band from Cologne) or Dire Straits or Iron Maiden or whatever. (I listened to those as well, but the new wave stuff was much more "my" own thing.)

With the music I liked, I soon realised, there was some kind of "prejudice": these bands sold many records, but they weren't played on the radio as much as others. Same goes for discos and clubs, the "dance" music which was on there, wasn't much to my taste at all.

In 1987 I got my driver's licence and with some friends (who were also into post-punk, new wave, gothic and such) we were on a "mission" to find the places where such music was played. I do remember driving to Heidenheim, but I don't remember the name of that disco we went to, they were playing stuff like The Sisters Of Mercy ("Alice") and so on.

We also tried other places, but sometimes it was the "wrong" night and they played the usual "disco" music.  :disappointed:

I do remember driving to Kirchheim/Teck one night to the "CafĂ© Klatsch" and there they played The Clash ("Should I stay or should I go"), which was cool (keep in mind: this was before the song was re-released and became a big hit in 1991)!  :cool

One "mistake" I made at the time was: I never went to concerts often enough. (We did go to see a German band called "The Multicoloured Shades" though in Ulm in 1987 - they played some kind of "punky/psychedelic" garage rock music.)
Nowadays driving to Stuttgart or other towns is a "normal" thing for me, back then it seemed like a "big journey" and I was under-experienced when it came to the traffic in big towns. Plus the tickets seemed rather expensive (looking back, of course they were ridiculously "cheap" back then)!
Thus, I missed some gigs I should've gone to (some I didn't even know of, others I knew but couldn't go).  :'(

That was about to change in the 1990s, when I finally got round to see some of my "faves", first of all The Cure (1992), Iggy Pop (1993), The Damned (1994), and even Pink Floyd (1994) and many more over the years.  :happy
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MAtT

Hi again everyone - can anyone tell me how to access posts you've saved as drafts? I started on a further reply a while back and want to finish it, but can't find the draft!
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Ulrich

Quote from: MAtT on August 08, 2020, 15:59:54can anyone tell me how to access posts you've saved as drafts?

You go to the top, click on your (nick)name on the left, then a little window appears, you choose & click "forum profile", then you'll get just this (your forum profile). There you choose "profile info" and then you get a handful of possibilities, one of which is "show drafts". (Unless it's too long ago, they should still be there.)
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SueC

Oh, and if you like using emojis  :cool  :evil:  :angel  :1f62d:  :winking_tongue  :1f635:  then don't post from draft because they malfunction - just select all and copy, and paste your text into a "new" window below the topic you're replying to, and then your emojis will work properly.  :beaming-face

Hoping your hunting is going well, Matt!  :)
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SueC

@Ulrich, I'm trying to interview Brett to get some 80s reminiscences from him, but he didn't start going to concerts till the 1990s himself, and he says:  "Well, the 80s were all bad.  It was a worthless decade.  There were some good films I guess.  Some good comic books, but musically, it was the trough before the peak.  Yeah, the 80s - what were they good for?"

Please note, it's early morning here and my husband is not a morning person.  The only reason his eyes are open is that it's raining - when there's morning sunlight he screws them tightly shut while squirming and muttering, "Not the light, not the light, get it away from me!"  So your chances of getting sensible, unbiased discourse out of him are at a low ebb at this time of day.  In fact, it's taken a little training from my side to get him to cease his prior depressing habit of several years of waking up with the words, "I hate people!"  :1f635:

Please also note, his opinions and mine only partially overlap.  :angel

When the 90s happened, I turned off contemporary radio and started listening to classical music instead.  Grunge was not for me, it gave me a rash.  Of course, grunge was not all there was, but it was all over the contemporary music stations, including the "alternative" stations for goodness' sake.  And yes, I do indeed like some 90s alternative music as well.

More of Brett on the 80s:  He was watching Countdown in the very early 80s - for those of you who've not seen it, it was a highly grating music show.  I was gonna say muzak but Brett immediately accused me of character assassination and opined, "Well, they did actually support Australian artists, much good it did them, but they were basically a Top-40 show.  Most of the 80s music was basically like The Wiggles with big hair and bad synthesisers.  The absolute highlight of Countdown was them showing a trailer for The Empire Strikes Back, which was a big deal for me."

I watched Countdown myself for a couple of years in the mid-80s, because it was the only music show on, and they occasionally showed things I liked, such as the clips for Tom Petty's Don't Come Around Here No More and Thomas Dolby's Hyperactive and She Blinded Me With Science, and some non Top-40 stuff, and some interviews - and being pre-Internet, you were dependent on TV and radio for stuff like this.  Nowadays you can just find what you like without having to also put up with excruciating things.

By the way, NZ band Split Enz were doing things with hair way before many other people were.  Here's a 1976 album cover.


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MAtT

Quote from: Ulrich on August 08, 2020, 18:15:13
Quote from: MAtT on August 08, 2020, 15:59:54can anyone tell me how to access posts you've saved as drafts?

You go to the top, click on your (nick)name on the left, then a little window appears, you choose & click "forum profile", then you'll get just this (your forum profile). There you choose "profile info" and then you get a handful of possibilities, one of which is "show drafts". (Unless it's too long ago, they should still be there.)

Great, thanks for this! And your advice too Sue. Will be back in touch...
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