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Old Sep 28th 2017, 7:45 pm
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Originally Posted by Oakvillian
It's in mine specifically because we had a bizarre general-studies course that was taught by one of the music staff, and I remember we had to make a themed mix-tape for homework. My subject was "war" so I had Frankie Goes To Hollywood's B-side remake of the Supremes' "War - what is it good for," y well....
Love that Frankie track, especially with the Ronald Reagan type overdub. Still gets lots of airtime chez Shard.
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Old Sep 28th 2017, 8:01 pm
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Originally Posted by dave_j
I seem to remember that Desert Island Discs played all sorts of music.
Why no classical?
I played the violin at school and was in the school orchestra. I didn't much care for classical music at the time though.
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Old Sep 28th 2017, 8:07 pm
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Originally Posted by Atlantic Xpat
...I took the thread to be songs that specifically remind you of school rather than "best songs" of the era.
Either, really, but there's probably not much that would make one think of school that came from another time compared to what one heard regularly at the time.

Grange Hill or Please Sir theme music?
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Had a look at the posts on this cringe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Old Sep 28th 2017, 8:13 pm
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Originally Posted by Canuck74
Had a look at the posts on this cringe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Your tastes as perfect then as they are now?
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Old Sep 28th 2017, 8:17 pm
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Originally Posted by Oink
Set Adrift On Memory Bliss - PM Dawn
Great track. Have a version on a compilation CD which is superb, and I've been trying hard to find on Spotify, but no luck. Just a flatter version which is a re-recording. Wonder where the original is ?!?

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Originally Posted by Canuck74
Had a look at the posts on this cringe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My tastes changed a fair bit when I hit my later teens, but this thread isn't about that time...

So enlighten us - what were your favourites when you were at school?

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Originally Posted by Siouxie
My tastes changed a fair bit when I hit my later teens, but this thread isn't about that time...

So enlighten us - what were your favourites when you were at school?

I well recall my sister going, seemingly instantly from Wham to full on goth, purple tassly skirts, sister of mercy and all. It was quite the transformation.
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Originally Posted by Siouxie
later teens, but this thread isn't about that time...

Isn't it? I went for age 17,18. Not much left of the teens after that.

Now when I was about 9 The Troggs were on TOTP, Rolling Stones, Dusty Springfield. Beatles I suppose. I liked Perry Como then too.
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Originally Posted by Siouxie
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Originally Posted by bats
...I went for age 17,18. Not much left of the teens after that.
I suppose it depends when you left school and whether/when anything of particular note (travel, romance etc) happened.

I left school at 16 so I still had three teen years left and new found wealth with which to experiment with. Sounds like drugs.

I had my pocket money at school but it went no further than an occasional single. I wanted to see David Bowie but at the time I was dependent on parents for an advance of pocket money. They didn't approve of him so wouldn't do it.

But they didn't mind doing it for the Beatles 67-70 compilation because they were respectable.

It was with great glee when I swapped it for Bowie's Aladdin Sane. That showed them

When I started work my wages meant that I could go down to Virgin Records shop in town (before it became Mega) and listen to LPs and actually buy them, exposing myself to something more than just singles.

For me, there was then a change in my late teens.
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Originally Posted by BristolUK
I suppose it depends when you left school and whether/when anything of particular note (travel, romance etc) happened.

I left school at 16 so I still had three teen years left and new found wealth with which to experiment with. Sounds like drugs.

I had my pocket money at school but it went no further than an occasional single. I wanted to see David Bowie but at the time I was dependent on parents for an advance of pocket money. They didn't approve of him so wouldn't do it.

But they didn't mind doing it for the Beatles 67-70 compilation because they were respectable.

It was with great glee when I swapped it for Bowie's Aladdin Sane. That showed them

When I started work my wages meant that I could go down to Virgin Records shop in town (before it became Mega) and listen to LPs and actually buy them, exposing myself to something more than just singles.

For me, there was then a change in my late teens.
I'm liking this idea of new found wealth! I've never had much exposure to music so my knowledge and liking of it is limited. Much more limited now!
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Originally Posted by Canuck74
Had a look at the posts on this cringe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well to be fair, teh way I saw this post was that it isnt a about "all time great tunes"....or even your favourites, its about the tunes that remind you of your school days....so there is definitely going to be some cringey cheese in there! lol
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