I like the Who but "Tommy" wasn't my favorite. I was always more partial to Quadrophenia with their "rock opera" albums...but maybe that's because I like the film Quadrophenia more than the Tommy movie, which had that cheesy, late '60s flavor...like a long Monkees episode.
I've never actually seen either film. I've seen bits of both {going right back to 1976} but neither ever interested me.
During the lockdown I've had to go to my local bikeshop a couple of times and on one of the occasions, I heard the owner telling a customer that bikes were out of stock and he didn't know when they'd be back in.holy shit the bike racks at the stores be empty!
Orson;4536460 Quadrophenia was 1979 and even disppeared in a flash. Dreary films and dreary music can only be tolerated for so long. 1978 to 1980ish is an era we best never revisit.......unless we intend to do ourselves in. Listening to that crap will surely help us on our way.[/QUOTE said:If you just focus on that part...yeah, kinda dreary...but I like the period it covers, that Mod vs Rockers thing, and also that it was shot in black & white.
I've always been partial to B&W movies...like all the old movies from '30s/'40s/'50s...but I really like the ones that cover the early '60s, and the ones that came out of England/Ireland that cover the post WWII years in the late '50s and early '60s all have a certain dark vibe to them...usually about working class people trying to get by in a very minimalist way.
Oh...I generally like most good movies, regardless of the period or the years they were made...and I also really like the epic movies, in color and "big" cinematography....but even it's something "quirky", as long as it draws you in, I'll watch most any kind of movies.
What I find less and less appealing are the predominantly computer generated movies. There's some that are meant to be fantasy (like the Rings trilogy) but I don't care when they just let the graphics people fill in all the shots, and there's no cinematography to speak of...which tends to be most movies these days.
Also getting pretty bored with all the "Marvel" superhero crap...it's so done to death, that it's of no more interest to me...and don't get me started on the zombie and vampire garbage. I mean...ENOUGH already...please...no more walking dead, blood sucking, flesh eating crap. Once you've seen about a thousand of themevery nuance has been covered.
Right now I'm watching an old B&W British movie from 1962..."The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner"...which I haven't seen in like a million years.
Talk about a somewhat dreary movie, but there's something more there under the superficially gloominess.
One thing that always sticks out with the old movies from the '40s/'50s/'60s...is how the young people in their teens and twenties all wore jackets and ties most of the time when they went out ...and of course, adults were always dress like that, at work and at home. It was only under certain circumstances that people didn't dress neat and trim. They took note of their appearance, especially when in public. You didn't see any "Walmart shopper" dress codes back then!
If you just focus on that part...yeah, kinda dreary...but I like the period it covers, that Mod vs Rockers thing, and also that it was shot in black & white.
I've always been partial to B&W movies...like all the old movies from '30s/'40s/'50s...but I really like the ones that cover the early '60s, and the ones that came out of England/Ireland that cover the post WWII years in the late '50s and early '60s all have a certain dark vibe to them...usually about working class people trying to get by in a very minimalist way.
Oh...I generally like most good movies, regardless of the period or the years they were made...and I also really like the epic movies, in color and "big" cinematography....but even it's something "quirky", as long as it draws you in, I'll watch most any kind of movies.
What I find less and less appealing are the predominantly computer generated movies. There's some that are meant to be fantasy (like the Rings trilogy) but I don't care when they just let the graphics people fill in all the shots, and there's no cinematography to speak of...which tends to be most movies these days.
Also getting pretty bored with all the "Marvel" superhero crap...it's so done to death, that it's of no more interest to me...and don't get me started on the zombie and vampire garbage. I mean...ENOUGH already...please...no more walking dead, blood sucking, flesh eating crap. Once you've seen about a thousand of them
Right now I'm watching an old B&W British movie from 1962..."The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner"...which I haven't seen in like a million years.
Talk about a somewhat dreary movie, but there's something more there under the superficially gloominess.
One thing that always sticks out with the old movies from the '40s/'50s/'60s...is how the young people in their teens and twenties all wore jackets and ties most of the time when they went out ...and of course, adults were always dress like that, at work and at home. It was only under certain circumstances that people didn't dress neat and trim. They took note of their appearance, especially when in public. You didn't see any "Walmart shopper" dress codes back then!
They were my first television love. I was watching their show from when it first came out here in late~ish '66 or early~ish '67. I just loved Mickey Dolenz because he was called Mickey. I was obsessed with the name Mickey when I was 3 and 4. I think it was Mick Jagger that did that because I liked the Stones' "Get off of my cloud" when I was 2 !
I remember all of them. I always thought Tingha and Tucka were called Tinker and Tucker ! I vaguely remember Willie Wombat from that show. Thinking about it, they weren't the only koalas on British TV at the time because I remember one that used to hang around with Rolf Harris called Kuji {Coojee ?} bear.
I'm going to slightly disagree with you there. I don't remember any music to Tingha and Tucka but all the other shows you mentioned had memorable theme tunes. The fuzz guitar on "Roobarb" was legendary, not to mention that cool harmonica. I'd've been proud to have written that theme. And as for the Banana Splits theme, that's one of my favourite pieces of music. Now there's a melody to kill for and a bass line to fly a person to the moon, it's just so cool. I think that maybe we underestimate just how much our musical tastes and songwriting may have been informed by some of theme tunes of programmes we used to watch back when we were knee high to a.....giraffe.
I remember all of them. I always thought Tingha and Tucka were called Tinker and Tucker ! I vaguely remember Willie Wombat from that show. Thinking about it, they weren't the only koalas on British TV at the time because I remember one that used to hang around with Rolf Harris called Kuji {Coojee ?} bear.
Skippy and Flipper I remember as a kid in Birmingham. We moved to London in '69 and it was shortly after that we discovered the Banana Splits and Scooby Doo, both of which played an enormous part in my childhood when I was 7 and 8. Great, great programmes and a serious highlight of the week. In those days, you'd only see most shows once a week and then that episode never again, unlike todays rolling repeat culture where you might catch a particular episode of a programme for kids 21 times in a week.
I probably became a jeans and T shirt guy because of Shaggy.
Roobarb I discovered just as started I secondary school in '74. My school was a long way away from where I lived and it used to take me ages to get home but on this particular day, I got home by 4.25 or so which was unheard of then and just happened to catch Roobarb and I thought it was brilliant. The next day at school I told anyone that would listen about it and for the 74/75 year, ours was a Roobarb school. So many of us would walk around talking like Custard the cat, saying "bardo" {ie, "I know" !}. On and off that happened for a couple of years ! We were so stupid !!
I'm going to slightly disagree with you there. I don't remember any music to Tingha and Tucka but all the other shows you mentioned had memorable theme tunes. The fuzz guitar on "Roobarb" was legendary, not to mention that cool harmonica. I'd've been proud to have written that theme. And as for the Banana Splits theme, that's one of my favourite pieces of music. Now there's a melody to kill for and a bass line to fly a person to the moon, it's just so cool. I think that maybe we underestimate just how much our musical tastes and songwriting may have been informed by some of theme tunes of programmes we used to watch back when we were knee high to a.....giraffe.
HR Puff'n'Stuff used to slightly freak me out. It was a rather weird show and Witchy Poo was the stuff uncomfortable nights were made of. The kids on the estate {projects to you Americans} I used to live on used to sing to the theme tune of HR Puff'n'Stuff a little ditty that went "HR padded bra/doesn't matter what size you are/24 or 26/don't use them often or they'll......"How about HR Puff-n-Stuff? Odd show, but entertaining. Oh, and Lancelot Link - The Secret Chimp!
My humble beginnings were in Aston when it was a slum although we just missed the slummy bit then some years later they did a slum clearance and that particular place ceased to exist. Then we moved to a house that was full of mice and opposite a school before ending up in Edgbaston in a place I really liked that had the Grand Union canal at the back of the communal garden. I was sad to leave Brum.....until I left ! Once I realized we were moving to a flat with lifts I was in 7th Heaven !I was from Brum but lived out in another town. All my family from there. Witton road and Kingstanding, Perry Bar. We both escaped.
...he's asking the rioters and looters to tell our state and local governments how to implement changes...?...and all they are saying is "defund the police". That way it will be open season all the time....a perpetual "Purge"...which is what many of those people want. No cops anywhere.
So he gives them a pass...but now wants to crack down on people standing too close to each other while having a beer and burger.
