Was anyone on here into any of the subcultures when they where youger, or are you still into it?
I was a skinhead/punk, i liked bands like Madness, Bad manners, The clash etc.
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I was a bit of a New Wave girl
*runs & hides*
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Hmmmm.. What bands did you like?
TheDrivenSnow in reply to
Gosh... You're taking me back a bit... OMD, The Cure, Human League, Blondie, Scritti Politti, The Associates, Blondie,... Shall I stop?
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I liked them but didnt admit it at the time 
Only stop if you want to 
TheDrivenSnow in reply to
Not cool enough for you, I bet 😋
I shall consider myself stopped ☝️🤯
(You've actually stirred some great memories, so thanks 🏅)
in reply to TheDrivenSnow
I saw OMD a few months ago, it was the best gig ever.
Oh dear!
Are we going to see them?
it would be great lol 
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I liked all those bands and many others besides. I likes Punk,Mod, Motown, Disco, New Wave, Northern Soul, What didn't I like, Not a lot. Even Leo Sayer had a knee tapping beat to his music, if you listened long enough. xx
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Sorry to but in , I'm like you, I liked a wide variety. I liked the ones you liked. Did you like Meat Loaf, Marrilion but I also liked ABBA and Gilbert and Sullivan- we did some of his musicals at school!! Take care and stay safe. Love and hugs Lynne xxxx 😘
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I'm a big Marillion fan these days, although I prefer their stuff with Hogarth from 89 until now, than the Fish era.
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I went to see them with my brother and his mates in the late 80s, fantastic!! Stay safe Lynne
I was a mod! Crumbiest, Levi and braces with a Ben Sherman shirt obviously 🙄
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Boooo! 😉
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Do hippies count?
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Yes 😁
I was a hippy -- or at least, my understanding of what was a hippy -- though I was born a bit late, being in my first decade when hippies where at their height. I still am in many ways. Or am I confusing my introversion with hippy-ism? No matter: The medications of my past 16 years with PCa have allowed me to have a lush head of hair, which I still wear long.
I listen to anything now days too, metal and classical etc.
I must have been manic depressive, I loved Leonard Cohen, and Fado.
Leonard Cohen, that's not being depressive, that's being a person who enjoys good lyrics: Suzanne and, The Sisters of Mercy for starters.
I was a MOD. Tuned Lambretta GT200, Mohair suit, Parka with a big bullseye on the back, going to a disco in Bournemouth at the weekend and dancing all night, Brighton or Torquay at Bank Holidays. Music: Gino Washington, Sam and Dave, Small Faces, listening to Radio Caroline and Emperor Rosko. Then moved on to listening to John Peel and West Coast music. Still a fan of West Coast, good guitar players - not me despite buying a PRS and HeadRush Gigboard recently - good times 😊
We used to see The Small Faces at Wimbledon Palais and I saw Geno Washington once "Geno Geno" I liked Georgie Fame too have seen him a few times recently it brought back happy memories
I'd forgotten about Emperor Rosko I loved Radio Caroline
I remember the boys all wearing the mohair suits and the parkas it was such a great look
They definitely were good times
There was a programme about Ready Steady Go! (RSG) about a week ago. Cathy McGowan was a natural for RSG, the boys fancied her and the girls envied her hair and dress sense. Top Of The Pops was all about the Top 40 whereas RSG was The Who and the Stones.
Those were the days before suedes and skins when the boys backcombed their hair and fixed it with hairspray (yeah me too). I used to wear 501s and Fred Perrys - still do - or Ben Shermans, but my Brighton days were usually camo jeans, suede boots, white tee, cropped hair.
Mod girls looked great in Mary Quant dresses and bobs, dancing "mod rock"
My parka also had GT in big white letters on the back. The ex-boyfriend of a girl I was going out with used used white adhesive tape to change it to GIT. I must admit I found it funny too.
Hello john-boy-92
What fantastic memories
I look back and think my only "worries" then were what to wear and where to go It was a fabulous time
My husband went to RSG every week and on that programme the other week saw him dancing in the audience Do you remember the New Year's Eve RSGs ?
It's interesting you say you still wear the Fed Perry's and Ben Sherman's as I think that Mod smartness stays with us do you ?
Oh I love the story of GIT that's so funny 😂
Happy Times 🛵
My smarter MOD days meant that my casual wear later became Levi 'Staypressed stone coloured parallels, sand suede boots and good quality polos or tees. Levis parallels disappeared to my summer wear is stone coloured good quality chins or MUSTO shorts.
Until my neurologist told me to slow down after a stroke, I throughly enjoyed Spin classes with great music: "dance on those pedals!". including Fat Boy Slim. Then again, I loved Body Balance classes, yoga classes that included chanting - my neurologist later said no inverted poses - that music was a modern take on the Woodstock era. My current home play list for the rowing machine includes Bryan Adams, Blackberry Smoke, AC/DC and even even Dua Lipa (I'm "down with the kids" LOL). Music-wise I saw concerts until recently. Many sound board guys have a good bane, then get too enthusiastic mid-way and turn it up too loud: I have tinitus from years of dancing by the house PA. Someone replied here about female artists, I recall seeing a great concerts by Mary Chaplin Carpenter, also Bonie Raitt. My love of a wide range of music started with listening to Bill Haley, moved on to playing Beatles and Hollies etc in a band, I always liked rock so that moved on to Eric Clapton, Country Rock, Blues, where it's stayed, along with Italian Opera. Mucic was the catalyst for rockers, MODS, Hippies, Skins, Punks , Goths, it never leaves us. From time to time female fashion and makeup looks back to the MOD days.
Stay well!
Yes, that was me too! Probably saw you at some of those seaside resorts. Loved my Lambretta but into cars soon after turning 17.
Wife and I were both mods and listened to all the same music as you’ve mentioned. We are both 70 now. Fond memories, thank you.
I used to call myself ‘Mod Rocker’ 😂 loved motorbikes but dressed like a mod! Spent many many nights in my then boyfriend’s shed while he rebuilt his Triumph Boneville polishing every nut and bolt with Silvio autosol - never forget that first ride in the back of it when complete! Or the clip round the ear from my dad for being on it🤣🤣🤣
Blondie, The Jam, Sex Pistols, Heaven 17, Human League, Dead Kennedys and my favourite Bowie. Bit of a mix! I've loved reading these posts. Thank you. X
I own every Moody Blues album. Is that bad ???
Spent my music in the 70s going to see Motörhead, Saxon, Hawkwind I’d see them at the home of music..Hammersmith Odeon. Also went to see imagination much to my girlfriends disgust as they were one of her favourites but a free tickets a free ticket. Also went to quite a few proms including one of the “last night “
Not sure how you’d characterise that lot.
Also managed to see Queen several times plus guns n roses too.
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I saw so many great bands at the Odeon, we use to drink in The George on the Broadway.
Very good.
I was a young teenage hippy. Lots of flowers and beads..... I desperately wanted to leave the north of England and go to San Francisco.
john-boy-92 in reply to
When I moved on to John Peel, I had long hair (for then), a droppy moustache and long sideburns, loons, chrome yellow wooden soled clogs; I think that at some point I had a kaftan(!). Eventually we a did a fly drive to the West Coast including San Fancisco. Driving through California and the Western States listening to the Eagles et al on the car radio is etched in my memory.
Dickydon in reply to
Agree.
San Francisco was def the place to be in the 70’s Scott McKenzie’s hit San Francisco epitomised the 70’s in all its hippiefied glory as well as Mathew Southern Comfort’s version of Woodstock. The US in my opinion was the place to be in the 70’s. All the classic cars and muscle cars; the drive throughs. Most of the culture, fashions etc etc came to the UK via the American airbases back then as everything at the bases, Mildenhall, Lakenheath, etc etc as there were many bases in the 70’s, was like being in a small US town... even driving on the right.
I was a hippy and still am I suppose.
A lot of the things we believed in are now mainstream, the environment, vegetarianism, veganism, love not war ( if only)
My music was and is Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell etc but also Led Zeppelin AC/DC and all things heavy,
I was a MOD had a Lambretta also used it in the film Quadrophenia where i got payed £15 a day plus free board ,after that northern soul (wigan casino , torch ,lots of others venues crazy times ) keep the faith
Happy days
Wow to be in Quandrophenia what amazing memories you must have
Must have been fantastic to go to Wigan Casino
I was a skinhead age 10 (1971) crombie, monkey boots as they didnt make Doc Martens small enough then, jeans and braces. The first ever record I brought was Double barrel Dave & Ansil Collins, still got it. We then went onto being 'suede heads' smarter dressed mohair jackets (my mum made mine she was brilliant at sewing) we were also football yobos and had a very strict dress code.
A lot of my friends were 3-4 years older than me, they were then getting into rare soul music. I was going to wigan casino age 14 (1975) full length leather coats, 501's addidas tshirts, brogues.
Then punk hit 1977 i was 16 , i loved the ska & soul music but punk was more me. By then i was good at sewing, so i made my own clothes and altered charity shop stuff. I learnt to knit and made a fortune down the kings road making mohair spider web jumpers £30 a time. I still went to soul alnighters at weekends but during the week punk. We were spoilt with clubs in London, late 70's i was also into the Irish music in kilburn and camden saw the pogues and christy moore in pubs those days. Brilliant days, I use to cut most the lads hair, lol i did excellent mohawk and flat top, no training, we went to a club called the Klubfoot Hammersmith broadway, 80's are a blur, i loved the 90's, music was really good, indie really found its niche, i didnt do raves as hated the electronic monotonous music.
Im still in touch with all my old mates from those days, I am back to wearing my hair 1/4" all over as its quick and easy at 60 years old.
2Tone and reggae when I was young. Now I have a much more eclectic taste but still love roots reggae. Was due to see Lee Scratch Perry soon(for the nth time) but obs now cancelled.
I have a lovely memory of going to see Bad Manners when young, not being able to see due to the crowds and being lifted up on to the shoulders of a skinhead who saw my dilemma and there I stayed for the remainder of the gig. Happy days!
Don’t you think music spoke more back then and there were sub-cultures? That does not seem to be the case now. We need more Joe Strummers!😊😊
Hello what a brilliant subject thank you
I was a Mod and it one one of the best times
I went to places like Hammersmith Palais The Croydon Suite and Streatham Locarno for the record nights We hitched everywhere which I can't believe now but we never once had any trouble
I had a long suede coat others had leather and I saved up to buy Ravel shoes
Clothes and music were everything I loved all the imported American soul and Motown
The programme to watch was Ready Steady Go and us girls all dreamed of being Cathy McGowan we all copied her look Before I met my husband he went to see RSG every week and a couple of weekends ago they showed a special programme on BBC 4 about it and we saw him dancing in the audience !
It was a great time and I still love the music
In this lockdown we are dancing round to Northern Soul and Motown
Thanks for bringing back such happy memories 😍
I lived in Malta and went around with the Rifffs scar band, you should have a listen to them x
in reply to Sunderland65
I might look them up... thanks.
Lol I was a mod then I became a skin
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You became sensible you mean..
Nuttyshirlz in reply to
lol I did but if I wasn’t a skin wouldn’t have met my ex hubby and had our two sons but my ex hubby still goes to shows he was at madness show last year lol
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Thats amazing that music brought you both together in a way.
I still go to Madness and The Selecter gigs when they come my way..
Nuttyshirlz in reply to
lol yes he also did ub40 my poor lads had to grow up with it lol
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Your youngsters had good vibes to grow up to then
I'm a Goth and I have been since I was 18, now 38!!
Started pre-teen with Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, Billy Fury, then teenage Rolling Stones, Deep Purple, never ever Beatles! Grew into Guns 'n' Roses, Bon Jovi, Metallica, and their ilk, back to Deep purple (perhaps never left - I do have all their albums), Lynryd Skynryd, etc, tried a few things along the way when my kids were teens and twenties but nothing really stuck; cannot do this modern stuff where no-one seems to play a real instrument
Greying Goth in dress style, interspersed with leather and denim
Unfortunately, headbanging is out of the question now as my arthritic, fibromyalgic, corpulent body that turns 72 on 30th April, rebels at such violent activity; anything too loud brings on a wee headache, too
I'm pretty much the same as you, I was 72 in February!
What a great subject for a post. Thank you, that's really brightened the day
Beatnik here...I'm quite old at 73....Bob Dylan, the Beatles, Barry McGuire (Eve of Destruction) Ban the bomb badge...eclectic mix of 60s music
I was second generation Mod but love all types of music, I even dipped into rocknroll when I bought a big bike, and I’m a devout Queen fan, but currently Northern Soul is my bag, Pre-Covid-19 my family and friends would all attend gigs up and down the country including the World Northern Soul Dance Championships that are held in Blackpool Tower each November, I’ve never done any good, but my son has managed twice to win a lanyard for getting to the second last round of 6 from hundreds of competitors.
But me deep down, I am and always will be a Mod. “ITS A WAY OF LIFE”
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I have watched it on youtube, its very good.
This is fantastic!! Thank you
I was at the later part of the Teds, velvet collar jacket, long sideburns and DA..... somehow I also had a large Handlebar moustache which joined the sideburns.... ha ha
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Sounds very interesting
It was at the time nearly 60 years ago, nothing is as much fun as we had then!
My mom was a beatnik so I grew up in that (poetry readings, late nights, low tables & siting on the floor, writing, meditating) culture in California. When I was a teen - I loved pop - Sonny & Cher concert when I was 11, the Monkees. I was a peace activist (anti-Vietnam conflict), fought for immigrant rights, the Redwood forests: Peter Paul & Mary, Ronnie Gilbert etc. Confirmed hippy - started natural foods when I was 18 (and never left), vegetarian to vegan, raised my kids that way. Came out in my 30’s and listened to Holly Near, Tret Fure, Cris Williamson, Meg Christian, Tracy Chapman, Melissa Etheridge, ... Been with my wife for 33 years, she’s GramB and I’m Gamma to our grandkids who are teaching us new kid music and we’re teaching them music from our era. Today: Mary Gautier, Brandi Carlisle, those on the above lists and too many more to list. I’m still a hippy - if that’s what they call us these days - at 69 years, still meditating, still writing, still eating organic fresh food, still rocking to women’s music, yeah.
Life is difficult these days and music elevates.
p.s. I ended up working for the VA, helping combat veterans re-store(y) their lives. Many Vietnam vets still struggling and the combat continues and contemporary combat vets are still suffering.
Amkoffee in reply to
Did you ever listen to Shawn Phillips? He was a favorite of mine back in the early 70s.
If you has to ask, youse'll never know the delight.
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If its that delightful maybe you could share it with us all..
I guess I'll always be a dead head...
I'm going to age myself but I was a hippy.
I went through each of them iam music mad but in my early teens I just couldn't make mi mind up I used to put food colouring in my hair and pad lock round neck in me punk days dockers 18 holes and braces wi piolet jacket then I became a oi boy half punk half skin listening to groups like Exploited then mod wi Parker and beer mat what my dad pinched from local for me but b4 all that was the bryl cream and me big blue swade beatles crushes shoes and bootlace round neck what a good topic to bring up am now remembering looks like old 45s are coming out
Exactly as I done. Born in 65, I was brought up on music from the 50’s onwards but chose my own(ish) direction due to the company I kept.
Skin, Punk, Mod and straight through to now, still a Mod but right on top of the Northern Soul movement .
Hi yes i think i was a bi of a loner in as much as i rode a lambretta ld but wore denems on stainless steel sun glasses.I Had friends in both mod a rocker groups and wore the preverbial white t shit and biker jacket and boats I hated the beatles but loved the stones and the animals . I thought leonard Cohen records were sold with a free packet of razor blades to put your self out of your miseryI HAD A VERY ECCLECTIC TASTE IN MUSIC ops! sorry for shouting!! reggae soul rock country etc etc .i grew up with frankie valey the four tops del shannon elvis et al Radio caroline, john peel les cousins soho! But you try telling them the dont believe yer!!! good days eh?
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