you favorite era for Music

Tashyboy said:
Deffo 80's. When you had a choice between, punk, northern soul, new romance, Motown, soft and heavy rock, re emergence of mod and rock and roll music. Forget the music which ever kind you followed. There was the fashion that went hand in hand with it.
For the last 20 years when ave been down town on the beer. Looking around hardly anyone dresses hand in hand with there music. Everyone looks similarly dressed.
Back in the mid eighties I went to me aunties who lived north of Portsmouth
( Horndean) Me and Missis T went shopping in Pompey. I bought some new romance gear and looked the danglies. The fashion was two years ahead of Mansfield. First night out in Mansfield I was stopped more times and asked where I got my gear from. You knew how people dressed what music they liked.
80's all the way.
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I was a new romantic for a while. Got fed up getting a kicking from skinheads on the tube home each week so ditched it for two tone
 
mainly 60s 70s for me but I have a love of a lot of genres.

in my teens Friday nights it was down the disco with a lot of Stax and Tamla Mowtown.

Sunday Nights it was at pub venues with the likes of Fleetwood Mac, Chicken Shack, Cream, John Mayall

At home it was listening to Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and various underground/prog rock bands.
 
Interesting thread and for me, very, very difficult to answer. I enjoy to so many different things but don't see that as bad. I'll go for 80's and 90's as it was my formative era and I love so many acts from that time (Joy Division, Smiths, Cure, REM through to virtually all the 'indie' stuff of the early 90's) but tbh I would have loved to have lived through the emergence of stuff such as Elvis, Dylan, Marley and Motown as this was really what set off the chain reaction (see what I did there?!) to influence much of what I listen to now.

These days I'm happy listening to anything from Woodie Guthrie to Prydz. Do miss my goth days as well, Fields of the Nephilim* anyone? :thup:

* Just read the rest of the thread - how in the name of all that is holy are the Neph mentioned three times on a golf forum??? :eek:
 
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Spear-Chucker said:
Interesting thread and for me, very, very difficult to answer. I enjoy to so many different things but don't see that as bad. I'll go for 80's and 90's as it was my formative era and I love so many acts from that time (Joy Division, Smiths, Cure, REM through to virtually all the 'indie' stuff of the early 90's) but tbh I would have loved to have lived through the emergence of stuff such as Elvis, Dylan, Marley and Motown as this was really what set off the chain reaction (see what I did there?!) to influence much of what I listen to now.

These days I'm happy listening to anything from Woodie Guthrie to Prydz. Do miss my goth days as well, Fields of the Nephilim* anyone? :thup:

* Just read the rest of the thread - how in the name of all that is holy are the Neph mentioned three times on a golf forum??? :eek:
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make that 4 then, as i think Stevenage's finest are still going:rofl:
 
Spear-Chucker said:
Interesting thread and for me, very, very difficult to answer. I enjoy to so many different things but don't see that as bad. I'll go for 80's and 90's as it was my formative era and I love so many acts from that time (Joy Division, Smiths, Cure, REM through to virtually all the 'indie' stuff of the early 90's) but tbh I would have loved to have lived through the emergence of stuff such as Elvis, Dylan, Marley and Motown as this was really what set off the chain reaction (see what I did there?!) to influence much of what I listen to now.

These days I'm happy listening to anything from Woodie Guthrie to Prydz. Do miss my goth days as well, Fields of the Nephilim* anyone? :thup:

* Just read the rest of the thread - how in the name of all that is holy are the Neph mentioned three times on a golf forum??? :eek:
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The Neph are one of the best live band acts I've seen. Last Exit for the Lost is a masterpiece and when I make it onto Desert Island Discs that will be one of my tunes !!!!! I was about 18 months too late (too young) for proper Sisters of Mercy times too but I still watch their show at the Royal Albert Hall with awe. Wish I was there !!!!! Never wore all the clobber but "goth" , i hate that term, is probably where my true roots are. Sisters, FOTN, Mission, Bauhaus, All About Eve, Cure, early Cult, plus Balaam , Salvation etc . Nowadays it's worth checking out some of the The Eden House's work. I don't suppose "spear chucker" has any relevance or is a nod to Kirk Brandon's finest ?????
 
Apart from the 80 though i do like 60's stuff as well, i suppose that comes from my liking of Indie Guitar music.

Beatles, Stones, Kinks Etc. not to forget the stuff i didn't discover till the 80's

The Velvet Underground, MC5, Buffalo Springfield and the Byrds
 
drewster said:
I did mate, Hifi Sean !!!! He's changed a bit!!!!
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that would be an understatement lol. He's doing some good stuff as well. met up with him at one of his sets last year and he still has all his Soup Dragons gear. Was even record of the week on Radio2

Can't believe i just typed that about radio 2, my 80's self would be appalled :rofl:
 
patricks148 said:
make that 4 then, as i think Stevenage's finest are still going:rofl:
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I'm so heartened to hear they're still going, very tempted to dig out my motorbike boots, cover myself in flour and get along to a gig ;)

drewster said:
The Neph are one of the best live band acts I've seen. Last Exit for the Lost is a masterpiece and when I make it onto Desert Island Discs that will be one of my tunes !!!!! I was about 18 months too late (too young) for proper Sisters of Mercy times too but I still watch their show at the Royal Albert Hall with awe. Wish I was there !!!!! Never wore all the clobber but "goth" , i hate that term, is probably where my true roots are. Sisters, FOTN, Mission, Bauhaus, All About Eve, Cure, early Cult, plus Balaam , Salvation etc . Nowadays it's worth checking out some of the The Eden House's work. I don't suppose "spear chucker" has any relevance or is a nod to Kirk Brandon's finest ?????
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Lol, my forum name was given to me for far more boring reasons for that - a nod to Spear of Destiny would be much cooler. Probably. :o:cool:

Quite envious you've seen them, they were legendary in the day for putting on a tremendous show... Totally agree about Last exit for the Lost, that's an epic song as are virtually all the tracks from that album. It still gets a play a couple of times a year along with Carved in Sand and Floodland.

Will look into The Eden House this weekend then, cheers for the tip :thup:
 
HomerJSimpson said:
I was a new romantic for a while. Got fed up getting a kicking from skinheads on the tube home each week so ditched it for two tone
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That's why we took over beating you up at Chessington each week in our Thursday night "football" encounters
 
Gonna buck the trend and not say 80s or 90s, even though my school years were in the 80s...I'm going for 00's. Most of the stuff I listen to now is from that era and newer. Of course, I do dip in to the classics occasionally.
 
I take the best bits of any era. There is just as much innovative and exciting music being made now as there was in any decade, it's just a case of seeking it out.
 
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