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panik ([personal profile] panik) wrote2008-01-17 07:55 pm
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Dear God Almighty...

I don't  know if anyone else is watching BBC4; Top of the Pops, an end-of-year retrospective show from 1978. Now, I'm old enough to remember the seventies - it was Glam Rock and Punk and Disco, wasn't it? Dear God; so far we've had Grease and The Brotherhood of Man! O: - and The Smurfs and Mull Of f***ing Kintyre!! (how can we make this bloody awful dirge of a song even worse than it already is? I know, let's add some bagpipes!) and Noel sodding Edmonds in flares.

And just when you thought it couldn't possibly get any worse... Matchstalk men and bleedin Matchstalk Cats n Dogs.

I mean, as if we didn't have enough to put up with with the rubbish piling on the streets, the power cuts, the dead rotting unburied in the morgues, the Winter of Discontent and all the rest....

Has my memory been playing tricks on me? Was it really this bad?
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[identity profile] snailbones.livejournal.com 2008-01-17 08:08 pm (UTC)(link)
LOL - quick - turn it off!
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[identity profile] fluterbev.livejournal.com 2008-01-17 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Has my memory been playing tricks on me? Was it really this bad?

I'm afraid it really was that bad! Which is why, around the same time, I completely stopped listening to popular music and threw myself wholeheartedly into traditional music.

Well, there were noteable exceptions, of course ::points to icon and genuflects::
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[identity profile] aerianya.livejournal.com 2008-01-17 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
The clothes were worse.... and the hair, dear god the HAIR!

[identity profile] luicat.livejournal.com 2008-01-17 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, thank goodness I missed this!
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[identity profile] mab-browne.livejournal.com 2008-01-18 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
I remember 1976 better. Did you watch Morecambe and Wise? They often had the Nolan Sisters, with their bright shiny tight pants and shaggy dog does, warbling away - 'I'm in the mood for dancing, romancing..." The favourite song to sing on the bus on the way to Home Ec when I was twelve was 'Billy, don't be a hero' by Paper Lace. Ah me. Happy days. ;-p

[identity profile] callistosh65.livejournal.com 2008-01-18 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
Was it really this bad? 'Fraid so. And we all thought we looked so cool at the time. I remember begging my mum to make me brown and orange flared dungarees with a huge orange heart on the bib, so that I could be as hip as my friends. Oy. And don't even ask about my tartan Bay City Roller phase..

[identity profile] miwahni.livejournal.com 2008-01-18 11:49 am (UTC)(link)
LOL ing! Mull of Kintyre, the song that was stuck in my mind for six bloody months in 1996 - god knows why - until I was ready to scoop my brain out through my ears, just so I didn't have to hear it any more. Ugh!
Apart from that, the 70s were a lot of fun. I still love flares and platform shoes, and longish hair on guys. And I have Led Zeppelin playing in my car at the moment.

[identity profile] suemc.livejournal.com 2008-01-18 01:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes it really was like that, although I was no longer a teen and well into amateur dramatics, so I didn't notice it much.

[identity profile] arnie1967.livejournal.com 2008-01-18 07:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Yep, it was that bad. Which is why it's a bad idea to watch *any* nostalgia shows about the 70s (or 80s, come to that).

I reckon we all have selective amnesia. That's why we only remember the good stuff.

Except for Noel Edmonds in flares. I never managed to shake that memory off. ::retreats to behind the couch::
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