tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7633543688149775322.post5150875859337262741..comments2024-03-28T11:03:53.842+00:00Comments on My Top Ten: The Top Ten Songs I Hated When I Was A Kid... #3Rolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02103804480646939038noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7633543688149775322.post-35774354251307353942017-03-18T11:01:11.829+00:002017-03-18T11:01:11.829+00:00I love the new look and very apt tagline - suits t...I love the new look and very apt tagline - suits the whole premise of your revitalised blog much better. (Doing the maths you are on target for 200 posts this year if you keep it up!)<br /><br />Amazingly stuck with TOTP right from 1964 (very blurry memories obviously) right through to 2006, so kept up with the charts that way. Yes we watched it right through the desperate wilderness years but then started watching with darling daughter as she grew up, so know all about the pop hits of the early noughties. Lost the plot regarding the Top 40 after 2006.<br /><br />Interesting that you say you were 15 when you lost interest as that was also the year I would have stopped religiously recording the charts in notebooks. Maybe it's teenage hormones that make us so attuned to music when we are 12-15 and behave a bit ridiculously about it (especially if you are a girl) - At 16 we're a bit more developed and real life relationships become more important, and, those pesky exams take up so much of our time.<br /><br />As for the music of 1987, it wasn't all SAW as that was the year I came to live in the Scottish Highlands and there were just so many great Scottish and Celtic bands around then that we were able to go and see live, so a bit of a golden age for me. <br /><br />If you are no longer going to "irk the musos" perhaps you can no longer be my blogging buddy as I'm sure I unwittingly irk them with just about every post I write! Alysonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671033552961486737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7633543688149775322.post-55250529465665149342017-03-17T22:37:59.058+00:002017-03-17T22:37:59.058+00:00I was long gone by 1987, but I remember this song....I was long gone by 1987, but I remember this song. Hated it. I must have checked out of Top 40 in 1984 because the hits from '83 immediately come to me... Dexys, Bowie, Pretenders, Human League, Clash, Madness, Kinks... but it 's much tougher to recall the next year. Makes sense. I was 13 the summer of '83, and my tastes were going through a change about then. Starting buying records like crazy. Love this series, Rol.Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04321051045499549249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7633543688149775322.post-598331669565674172017-03-17T21:59:00.334+00:002017-03-17T21:59:00.334+00:00You're right, Brian, looking back we can alway...You're right, Brian, looking back we can always find good stuff. But it stopped being in the mainstream. It only returned to the mainstream (as you rightly point out) in the Britpop era, but that became a blessing and a curse. I think for me, being a couple of years younger than you at the time and not yet ready for the alternative scene, I just wanted some decent pop music like I'd had throughout the early 80s. '87 was bad, but '88 - '90 were living hell. I can see the bright shoots of recovery looking back now, but at the time... it was horrible!Rolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02103804480646939038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7633543688149775322.post-40427144592802806362017-03-17T21:47:42.669+00:002017-03-17T21:47:42.669+00:00Thank you, JC. I'm presuming you remember well...Thank you, JC. I'm presuming you remember well enough that, for me, there is no finer compliment.<br /><br />I am, however, not worthy.Rolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02103804480646939038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7633543688149775322.post-31279886747439318982017-03-17T20:13:48.521+00:002017-03-17T20:13:48.521+00:00You cite the main one's for me too - Jennifer ...You cite the main one's for me too - Jennifer Rush and Elaine Paige/Barbara Dickson inflicted the first blow, most of 1987 effectively killed my love for the charts.<br />I'll go so far as to suggest 1987 was the nadir of the musical times - blandness, boredom, looking backwards and PWL - I was 17, I wanted so much more.<br />In fairness, there was some good stuff about, just (very) rarely being pumped from Radio 1 or other chart based radio formats.<br /><br />Can I do a bit of self promotion?<br />Here's my take on it: http://rigiddigithasissues.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/1987-what-fk-is-going-on.htmlRigid Digithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16757290844359368792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7633543688149775322.post-398602445662504752017-03-17T19:21:16.515+00:002017-03-17T19:21:16.515+00:00"the years when music should have meant the m..."the years when music should have meant the most to me, and the charts kept kicking me in the balls."<br /><br />Genius. Simon Armitage would be proud of that line.<br /><br />JCAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7633543688149775322.post-2852595193990304512017-03-17T18:53:50.083+00:002017-03-17T18:53:50.083+00:00Cheers, Martin. I look forward to reading that.Cheers, Martin. I look forward to reading that.Rolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02103804480646939038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7633543688149775322.post-85380930678455343452017-03-17T15:37:55.708+00:002017-03-17T15:37:55.708+00:00Funnily enough, my next post at New Amusements (co...Funnily enough, my next post at New Amusements (coming soon, possibly even this evening) touches on the musical wasteland that was 1990, how the tail-end of the 80s was such a fallow period.<br /><br />I'm with you on this though. And even more so on the brilliant version of I Know Him So Well on the beyond-brilliant Inside Number 9.Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05267504526414194713noreply@blogger.com