The eighties, the best pop music decade?

[Taunton Blue Genie]

Not only is it a matter of personal taste but also about what music was around in our most formative years. I think TOBW may be a little unusual as, knowing his age and hoping he doesn't mind me saying, his default decade should be the 70s.

[the other bob wilson]

Not only is it a matter of personal taste but also about what music was around in our most formative years. I think TOBW may be a little unusual as, knowing his age and hoping he doesn't mind me saying, his default decade should be the 70s.

I’d agree with you there, but I thought the period of, say, 1970/75 was boring musically - I was never really into prog rock and felt too old for the glam rock thing, I probably should have been going up to Wigan every weekend, but no one I knew was into Northern Soul. Punk/New Wave was a Godsend to me, but I tended to be about five years older than the average age at the gigs I went to in the late seventies.

[bobh]

I’d agree with you there, but I thought the period of, say, 1970/75 was boring musically - I was never really into prog rock and felt too old for the glam rock thing, I probably should have been going up to Wigan every weekend, but no one I knew was into Northern Soul. Punk/New Wave was a Godsend to me, but I tended to be about five years older than the average age at the gigs I went to in the late seventies.

Chart music in the 70s was shite, all that teeny stuff, Osmonds, Bay City Rollers, don't start me on feckin' disco.
The album chart was where the good stuff was to be heard.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

I’d agree with you there, but I thought the period of, say, 1970/75 was boring musically - I was never really into prog rock and felt too old for the glam rock thing, I probably should have been going up to Wigan every weekend, but no one I knew was into Northern Soul. Punk/New Wave was a Godsend to me, but I tended to be about five years older than the average age at the gigs I went to in the late seventies.

Well some of us were into prog rock but it has to be said regarding your musical taste that Yours Is No Disgrace. Not being Lazy, you obviously discovered your own Fanfare For the Common Man via a different route so it's not a case of Us and Them or you just Counting Out Time. Being a Twentieth Century Schizoid Man it couldn't have been easy for you though.

For my part, having had a strict father who wouldn't let us change the dial on the radio, I went from having to listen to the soporific sounds of the Mike Sammes singers and Max Jaffa (on Radio 2) straight to Deep Purple, Man and Pink Floyd - and without passing through pop.

[the other bob wilson]

Well some of us were into prog rock but it has to be said regarding your musical taste that Yours Is No Disgrace. Not being Lazy, you obviously discovered your own Fanfare For the Common Man via a different route so it's not a case of Us and Them or you just Counting Out Time. Being a Twentieth Century Schizoid Man it couldn't have been easy for you though.

For my part, having had a strict father who wouldn't let us change the dial on the radio, I went from having to listen to the soporific sounds of the Mike Sammes singers and Max Jaffa (on Radio 2) straight to Deep Purple, Man and Pink Floyd - and without passing through pop.

I saw Yes at the Capitol on the day West Ham beat Fulham in 1975 Cup Final - got Us and Them and Twenty First Century Schizoid Man on that playlist I mentioned. I went through a mercifully short Mike Sammes Singers and Max Jaffa phase as well and, sadly, my old man, who did get me into Johnny Cash to be fair, was a huge fan of Roger Whittaker and his bloody whistling through much of my teens as well.

[splott parker]

60s for me, I’m amazed how I know the words to even relatively obscure 60s stuff if it comes on the wireless.

[Baloo]

60s for me, I’m amazed how I know the words to even relatively obscure 60s stuff if it comes on the wireless.

[splott parker]

Nothing wrong with calling a wireless a wireless. A television is still a television, a record player is still a record player. It’s the cat’s whiskers

[Taunton Blue Genie]

I saw Yes at the Capitol on the day West Ham beat Fulham in 1975 Cup Final - got Us and Them and Twenty First Century Schizoid Man on that playlist I mentioned. I went through a mercifully short Mike Sammes Singers and Max Jaffa phase as well and, sadly, my old man, who did get me into Johnny Cash to be fair, was a huge fan of Roger Whittaker and his bloody whistling through much of my teens as well.

What about the singing nun?

[the other bob wilson]

What about the singing nun?

Oh please, no more

[splott parker]

Oh please, no more

I’d have loved her singing ‘Ave yer gorra loight boy’ & The Singing Postman having a go at Dominica

[Whisperer]

I saw Yes at the Capitol on the day West Ham beat Fulham in 1975 Cup Final - got Us and Them and Twenty First Century Schizoid Man on that playlist I mentioned. I went through a mercifully short Mike Sammes Singers and Max Jaffa phase as well and, sadly, my old man, who did get me into Johnny Cash to be fair, was a huge fan of Roger Whittaker and his bloody whistling through much of my teens as well.

My friend Ben has a photo when he was about 5 of him holding up the FA cup….his uncle brought it home straight after the 1975 final and they played for it in the back garden.

[the other bob wilson]

My friend Ben has a photo when he was about 5 of him holding up the FA cup….his uncle brought it home straight after the 1975 final and they played for it in the back garden.

That’s great, did he win it?

[Whisperer]

That’s great, did he win it?

From the way he was smiling I think he probably did Bob.