Wednesday 30 March 2011

30 Day Song Challenge - Day Fifteen ... A song you liked in high school

I'd say all of the songs I liked in high school I still like. I might have gone off the boil for some of them but I still like them.
When I were but a teenage bimbet I was listening to Mike Oldfield, Sky, Queen and Long John Baldry. Probably not the usual teenage taste of the time. However, I wasn't above a bit of rampant musical commercialism either (anyone who thinks or says they are is a liar who is trying too hard to be cool or interesting, in my experience) and I remember really liking Billy Idol's version of "Mony Mony". And I still do. He may be a bit of a prick now and then but he done some good'uns and you can't argue with his sales figures. Particularly, IMHO, the live version of this, a big hit in 1987 when I was fifteen. This is the official video which doesn't feature the audience participation that has become a tradition at Billy's concerts. ;)

4 comments:

  1. Hello! Haven't been in comms for literally years and years - we used to chat about phones and stuff on usenet (I was agentmark at the time I think). Wondered what happened to you, Badrats led me here....

    Billy Idol was always a bad influence on me simply for coining the phrase "So let's sink another drink / 'cause it'll give me time to think.". Thirty years of hangovers later I figured Billy wasn't actually a real neuroscientist.

    I see life is still giving you stick, which is bad, but you still manage to rock, so that's good. Some important things have come together there, you're in a band, got a fiance and even an iPhone!
    My kids are growing fast (one hits the teens next year - woot), wife gone blonde, I've gone grey. Still wasting time mucking about with tech. The Dreadnought of life moves on...
    Take care gal, Mark x

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  2. Dude ! Great to hear from you after all this time. How the devil are you ??
    It was really nice to find your comment - this is the sort of blast from the past I welcome. You on teh facebook ? x

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  3. Wow! It's good to hear from you too. How nice!
    Ah, facebook - well, sort of. I lost the will to post there in January, far too many of my relatives had found me. Now when I log in it's like I've walked into some awkward family get-together where nobody has had the decency to die or get born an integer number of years previously. Maybe I need to activate my "Masuka Dan" profile and stay incognito this time?
    Yes, maybe facebook. I'll drop you my details a bit later, got to go stop my car getting clamped now. Brill to hear from you!

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  4. Well I've surfaced on facebook again but you're not immediately findable (good work). Can you mail me and I'll friend you up? I'm masukadan at a popular google-based mail service. See you soon!

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