Back in the day
Whilst walking to the metro this morning, a random thought from childhood appeared in my befuddled brain. It was of building a treehouse with bits of wood and corrugated iron "down the dene".

What random memories of childhood do you have? What takes you back to them?

Alt Q:
Pick a song that reminds you of a particular person/place and tell the group about it
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 12:51, 187 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Falling down the stairs cartwheel fashion, aged about three.
The smell of blood usually sets it off.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 19 Apr 2011, 12:53, Reply)

Being bathed in a big plastic tub as a toddler.
My mother told me we went on a barge holiday to the Norfolk broads when I was young but I have absolutely no recollection of it at all.
( girlinthehole, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 12:57, Reply)

It was much more likely a narrowboat than a barge
Tsk
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 12:58, Reply)

She's Northern, though
she could very well have had family boating holidays on coal barges.
( Kroney, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 12:59, Reply)

Whatever it was I can't remember any of it.
Drugs are bad mmkay.
( girlinthehole, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:00, Reply)

As is South Park
and all those who quote it
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:02, Reply)

Better than the Simpsons though

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:24, Reply)

No it isn't
By any definition of the word
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:26, Reply)

South Park is excellent.

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:27, Reply)

We did a few years of Norfolk Broading
as a kid. Roys of Wroxham and coots are all I can remember from it
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:09, Reply)

Everybody in Wroxham works for Roy
He's like an inbred Donald Trump
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:17, Reply)

There's a type of bush that flowers at this time of year
that never fails to make me think of being a kid. It's got a very distinctive smell. It's called a Flowering Currant, which seems weird as I've never seen one with any currants on it.
( Kroney, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 12:54, Reply)

First trip to the cinema to see Return of the Jedi
The memory specifically relates to hearing a lad a few rows down proclaim "Euuuwuwwuurghhh!" when Vader takes his helmet off. Amazingly, watching Star Wars Episode VI sets this off.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 12:55, Reply)

First trip to the cinema to see Return of the Jedi
The memory specifically relates to hearing a lad a few rows down proclaim "Euuuwuwwuurghhh!" when Vader takes his helmet off. Amazingly, watching Star Wars Episode VI sets this off. + and uses 'the force'
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:05, Reply)

Are you on some sort of dare?
Not since Heaven's Gate have I seen so much effort for so little return
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:10, Reply)

The smell of falling leaves
always reminds me of being a child.

But don't trust my memory. The other day, I mentioned an incident when I was about 13 where my parents forgot to pick me up from a train station after school. Being terminally stupid, I just read a book for a few hours before realising this. When I finally phoned at about 8, turned out it was my brother's bday party and they'd forgotten. Both of them firmly refuse to believe that this ever happened.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:00, Reply)

I would trust your own memory on this one
Such an event is much more likely to be memorable to you than them.

Also, hi *waves foppishly*
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:04, Reply)

It was just a bit weird
surely one of them should've had at least a trace memory.

And hello to you too. I hear you're the person to complain to about Glee
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:05, Reply)

Yes I am
Knock yourself out
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:06, Reply)

I saw it yesterday
what on earth is it with making Santana a lesbian?
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:09, Reply)

Santana has plastic melty-face.

( Kroney, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:10, Reply)

I have several theories
1) They've mix'n'matched everyone in the group as far as they can and have to start doing same-sex ones now
2) It was a desperate attempt to pull in more (straight) male viewers
3) They were running short on storylines and conjured a completely pointless one straight from the brainpan of a 13-year-old boy
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:11, Reply)

I'm opting for the third one
it doesn't even make sense. Also it makes me pointlessly annoyed
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:13, Reply)

Me too
If you're going to introduce the notion of them being lesbians, at least let's see them make out
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:19, Reply)

I remember seeing hummingbirds in the flowerpots on my walk to school
smell of hot tar and jasmine takes me back to that time.

Honey sandwiches remind me of being in school in England.

Alt: Dreaming of You by the Coral reminds me of happy times in a cottage in the middle of nowhere.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:02, Reply)

Hot tar reminds me of school, too.
They'd always start tarring the roofs after Easter round my way.
( Kroney, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:04, Reply)

It's a mixture between visiting La Brea and it being so hot the tarmac would melt.

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:05, Reply)

Fishing for Sticklebacks!
Ooh, and there was a patch of wasteground called Sandy Banks that had a large hill in the middle with really steep sides - 45 to 60 degrees - that had various trails worn into it from BMX riding. We'd spend hours there seeing who'd risk the steepest runs on our knackered Grifters.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:02, Reply)

Sticklebacks.
This is how you remind me.....
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:06, Reply)

LTI

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:07, Reply)

Remain on the internet.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:08, Reply)

In the words of 'Winner Takes Alls' Geoffrey Wheeler.
We have a difference of opinion.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:10, Reply)

I remember a conversation that still makes me laugh.
after a friends dog ate a whole loaf of bread they said then drank soo much water.
Another friend said, "I'm not suprised after eating a whole loaf of bread, she was probably a bit parched."

Which I found possibly the most hilarious thing anyone had ever said, I nearly fainted laughing, I know it's not funny to anyone else.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:03, Reply)

As long as you know that, that's fine.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:08, Reply)

It wasn't even that funny to the people there apart from me.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:10, Reply)

my friend once thought her dog was dying
because it was so lethargic and thirsty. turned out the little fucker had somehow got under a bed and into a suitcase to hoon off a few pounds of dried shrimps that she was taking home to her parents.

why? why would ANYONE eat dried shrimps?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:11, Reply)

Not unless they came with foam bananas.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:13, Reply)

or mushrooms

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:14, Reply)

Or those little fried eggs you get with your Haribo.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:15, Reply)

or some cola bottles

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:16, Reply)

Fizzy Cherry Cola Bottles
The gold standard of Haribo
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:17, Reply)

eugh
I don't like cherry. But the fizzy cola bottles were good.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:18, Reply)

Fizzy cola bottle or the regular ones.
I can never decide which is my favourite.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:17, Reply)

fizzy
Case closed
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:20, Reply)

Don't mention Haribo.
I've got a half uneaten bag in my work drawer I'm trying to ignore.
( girlinthehole, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:32, Reply)

The song part was from a discussion regarding like/dislike of rap and hip hop
on the Sunderland footy group. One of my mates mentioned the Arrested Development song Mr Wendall, which instantly took me back to being filthy with a french lady in her car. I was most pleased by this
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:03, Reply)

The only musical memories I have are of listening to John Peel late at night in bed as a teenager.
His voice was so soothing.


Oh and me and my sisters making a dance up to 'Hey baby I'm your telephone man', to perform in front of my mum.
( girlinthehole, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:05, Reply)

His accent was entirely fake, you know.
He assumed it in the mid-60s when he worked as a radio DJ in the US and claimed to be a friend of The Beadulls.

I'm not judging, though, Peel was excellent.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:07, Reply)

The Beadulls?
Were they that bunch that played one-handed guitar?
( Kroney, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:08, Reply)

Very good.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:10, Reply)

Wasn't the Radio One Rock Show on before him with TOMMY VANCE

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:09, Reply)

You mean Richard Anthony Crispian Francis Prew Hope-Weston?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:10, Reply)

Yeah that fucker, I remembered the ROCK WAR that used to be on that show showcasing up and coming talent
I Lolled at how shit they always were
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:12, Reply)

Depends which epoch
For me it was Steve Lamacq on before Peel.
( Kroney, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:11, Reply)

You can guess peoples' ages by finding out which Epoch of Peel
they remember.
( Kroney, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:12, Reply)

I was a late 80's early 90's Peel fanbwoi

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:14, Reply)

Early eighties plus for me.

( girlinthehole, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:16, Reply)

i used to love "long wave radio atlantic 252"
in hindsight the reception was shit and they played the same song 15 times an hour.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:20, Reply)

Kiss 102 in Manchester with Matt Thompson used to be where it was at

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:23, Reply)

but then it turned into galaxy
and promptly became a clone of key 103.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:30, Reply)

I remember that, it just happened one day, and all the decent dj's were fucked off. Sad times.
I was surprised that they didn't have James Stannage on the twats
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:34, Reply)

My brother used to send me cassettes of 808 State's show on Key 103
They were legendary in Winchester. Any time there was any piano or singing he'd edit it out so it was HARDCORE ALL THE WAY.

I still have a few of the tapes: 'Steamin' Tunes vols 1-7'
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:40, Reply)

Viking Radio 303 in Leeds
With the filthy-voiced Canadian woman on after midnight.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:40, Reply)

I was about '96 to '01

( Kroney, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:17, Reply)

Never listened to his show much
but I bought the Peel Sessions 12"s. for a fair few bands inc Jesus & Mary Chain and Napalm Death
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:24, Reply)

Yeah a real treasure trove, off the top of my head I've got a few orbital ones, dinosaur jnr, dreadzone

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:28, Reply)

I saw Dinosaur Jr on the Rollercoaster tour supporting the JAMC.
They were awful. Which was a shame.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:37, Reply)

My bro saw them along with people like Mudhoney and Nirvana.
All shit, apparently.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:38, Reply)

I've seen Mudhoney a couple of times and they were excellent.
Missed out on Nirvana though, just before they hit big. Could've got in on the guest list at the Riverside in Newcastle (I'd done some work experience for them and payment was in kind). Because I'd never heard of them I declined.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:41, Reply)

You missed fuck all.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:47, Reply)

I quite like Mudhoney :((((

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:59, Reply)

I saw Mudhoney in a little club in... Fuck, I have no idea. Nottingham or somewhere.
They were shit then too.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:42, Reply)

They did one of those 'play a so-called classic LP in its entirety' thing in Camden
a year or so back - my bro went. They were off stage by 9pm. Cunts.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:46, Reply)

If it was Superfuzz Bigmuff (or is it the other way around?)
I'm not surprised.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:57, Reply)

Could have been.
I can still hear Vance's voice in my head as it was so distinctive.
( girlinthehole, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:12, Reply)

Lol he ended up washed out on Radio Marbella or something like that

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:13, Reply)

I think most DJs of the era just faded away into obscurity.

( girlinthehole, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:15, Reply)

Did the angry DJs 'cross fade' away into obscurity?

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:16, Reply)

Excepting the further adventures of Andy Kershaw, I believe he's currently out of prison

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:17, Reply)

Hell, he went a bit pear shaped didn't he.

( girlinthehole, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:17, Reply)

At least he has the notoriety of being the Isle of Mans resident nutter

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:20, Reply)

All that African bollocks that he used to play (along with Peel on occasion) was excruciatingly shit

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:21, Reply)

*shakes hands*
Fucking utter shite.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:25, Reply)

Apart from Everrett.
The lolwhacky goon.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:19, Reply)

It's Thursday night at 8 o'clock and can't you hear the chimes?
They're telling you to take an easy cha-a-air.
Settle by the fireside, pick up your Radio Times
The Kenny Everrett Show is on the a-a-air,
The Kenny Everrett Show is on the aaaair.

(from memory)
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:44, Reply)

if he tells you to start burning stuff
it's time to see someone about that
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:15, Reply)

Haha!

( girlinthehole, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:17, Reply)

presumably it was his soothing voice
that talked you into bed in the first place?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:35, Reply)

The Gentle Art of Making Enemies by the mighty Faith No More
Was the first song I ever played as a DJ, and I have every intention that it will be my last. Reminds me of the Waterfront Norwich, a shithole of a club which I have spent far too many extremely happy hours in
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:07, Reply)

Faith No More
are fucking excellent! Angeldust is one of my top 5 albums of all time
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:08, Reply)

My all-time favourite band, innit
Funnily enough I was asked for my favourite album the other day and cited The Real Thing. Not sure if this is necessarily accurate without protracted scientific analysis, but it's certanly the closest thing to a perfect album I've ever heard (in terms of not having a single duff track)
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:13, Reply)

I remember that coming out
and meeting them at Our Price in Newcastle. Signed 12" of From Out Of Nowhere
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:16, Reply)

*involuntary leg-spasm of intense jealousy*
Well played
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:19, Reply)

I was 15 and somewhat star struck
They were all very nice
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:21, Reply)

I never even saw them live
*dies inside*
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:22, Reply)

You're jealous of Sportscow coming out?
there there, we'll keep your little secret!
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:22, Reply)

You are obsessed with me being a bum bandit

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:25, Reply)

there's no smoke without (a ring of) fire

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:28, Reply)

My arse is southbound traffic only
cheeky
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:29, Reply)

Just like the M1

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:31, Reply)

3 lanes wide too

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:32, Reply)

Just to clear a few things up here
The Real Thing is one of the best albums of all time - better than Angel Dust. A complete ground-breaker.

I've seen FNM 3 times - the first time in the Edinburgh Venue (about the size of my garden shed) in 1990 (I think). I stood next to 'Big Sick Ugly' Jim Martin in the gents' kharzi. A huge bloke with a 10-gallon hat, leather waistcoat and sheriff's badge, standing having a piss with his hands on his hips. A cool guy.

I await some imaginative strikethroughs for this.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:41, Reply)

what's that little thing between your bottom lip and your gum?
well I don't have one because my cousin Kimberly kicked me in the face when I was little
the cunt

alt: "I Go Back" by Kenny Chesney reminds me of my cousin [Kimberly's brother], that song came out the summer he died. It's basically about songs that remind him of his past.
A part of the song says "I go back to a pew, preacher and choir, singin' bout God, brimstone and fire and the smell of sunday chicken after church, I go back to the loss of a real good friend and the sixteen summers I shared with him, now 'Only the Good Die Young' stops me in my tracks"
( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:09, Reply)

Your teeth?

( Kroney, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:18, Reply)

your teeth are in your gum, not between them...
oh wait...I forgot this was a UK site...
( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:20, Reply)

Hah!
touche.
( Kroney, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:21, Reply)

Comfortably numb
Reminds me of a beer festival I was at a couple of years ago. It was the evening of a blazing summer's day without a cloud in the sky. I was happily drunk in the garden of a tiny, thatched roof pub looking out over cornfields, churches and trees while talking to an attractive barmaid... Then the band started playing comfortably numb. I think I could have died happy.

Stormy May Day by AD/DC always takes me back to hurtling through the Cairngorms first thing in the morning with the sun coming up, on my way to go skiing.
( Hdjejjwsjdjjf LOOK, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:09, Reply)

"don't speak"
reminds me so vividly of the love-of-my-life when i was about 21 and i knew the 3 years was coming to an end. it sounded like gwen was inside my head singing everything i was thinking. except, you know, more eloquently and beautifully, the stunning bitch.

i couldn't even listen to the opening chords of that song for YEARS after we split up!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:17, Reply)

You're older than I thought then
Also: much, much more emo
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:20, Reply)

It is AA's alter ego

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:20, Reply)

i am about 137 today
i am spending my entire day bickering with clients over tiny bills.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:23, Reply)

I honestly thought you were younger than me
Given that I only had pictures to base this on, there's probably a compliment in there somewhere
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:25, Reply)

A compliment to the makers of photoshop? ;)

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:27, Reply)

*loves df*
*hates na*
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:29, Reply)

Awwwww man
I'll add you to the list:

caveduck
FrisbeeQC
RSwipe
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:36, Reply)

cha
for real
I thought she was younger than me
( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:30, Reply)

*loves kristine too*
the one good thing about fat is that it pushes out the wrinkles.

trufax.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:32, Reply)

oh shut it
I really honest to god thought you were like 25
( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:35, Reply)

OLDER?
fucking hell, I think I was about 30 when don't speak came out.

Also, Gwen Stefani looks like a boy, there is something seriously wrong with people fancying her.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:37, Reply)

You know some weird boys

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:38, Reply)

she has absolutely no tits or arse. At all.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:39, Reply)

having just googled
it turns out I too was 21. Fucking hell, has it really been that long?

my second point is still valid however.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:39, Reply)

i know just what your saying

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:20, Reply)

Never been a fan of Stefani.
Didn't mind her in the video to that song, but that's because she was wearing a sun dress and sun dresses = phwoar.
( Kroney, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:20, Reply)

I agree with this phwoar statement
but I'm not sure why
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:21, Reply)

Neither do I - I thought you were a chutney ferret.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:22, Reply)

Show me a man who doesn't think girls in sun dresses are sexy
and I'll show you a bender.
( Kroney, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:22, Reply)

points at....
they are not obvious like suspenders or something clevage-y that's all
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:25, Reply)

They aren't, i agree
but summer's not my favourite month for nothing.
( Kroney, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:25, Reply)

*pervy fives*

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:27, Reply)

It depends on the girl, really.
Gwen Stefani may be one thing; Beth Ditto is quite another.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:26, Reply)

That would be more gazebo than sundress

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:28, Reply)

Billy Smart's fucking circus, more like.

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:30, Reply)

Hahahahah excellent

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:30, Reply)

I can only say gazebo in a Welsh accent

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:33, Reply)

I bet you can also do it in a 'comedy' Rapanese accent too.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:34, Reply)

She needs a fucking slap
Ms Foxtrot bloody loves her. I am completely bewildered as to her appeal. She's not even hot.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:21, Reply)

err
yes. yes she is.

i don't munch rug, but even i'd consider lying down on that one in front of the fireplace.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:24, Reply)

She is probably as smooth as a duck egg anyway

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:25, Reply)

You get a click for that

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:28, Reply)

Ew! she wears far too much makeup all the time and she's plain without it.

( girlinthehole, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:30, Reply)

man
i wish i were that plain!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:32, Reply)

fucking hell
she looks like a pre-pubescent boy who's been at his hooker mum's makeup. Wouldn't touch her with Monty's and Chompy pushing.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:42, Reply)

For some reason egg whites and sea salt remind me of my uncle Jim's
1977 by Ash reminds me of driving across the Canadian Rockies, truely one of the most beautiful places on earth.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:20, Reply)

Is that because your uncle Jim
bribed you with egg whites and sea salt after he ripped your anus to shreds with his savage cock when your parents were out that time?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:31, Reply)

Best Summer EVA!

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:33, Reply)

Alt: Bombscare by Two Bad Mice
transports me instantly to an amalgamation of about 50 different raves in 1991. The tune was my favourite of the time and was a guaranteed drop at least once at each do. NB: NOT New Order *pokes tongue out at MB*. 'Pure' by GTO takes me back to the Camelford Free Festival in Cornwall, 1990 - it was the first time I'd seen a 'rave' sound system at a hippie festival and I remember hallucinating like a fucking loon to the sound of this tune (yes, MDs, shut up, I know).

The entire of Fish Rising' by Steve Hillage takes me back to my mid-late teens in Winchester, I'm sorry but once again it's MD related. Sat in pal Yeti's bedroom gazing in wonderment at....the back of his bedroom door. For about three hours.

'The Wanderer' by Dion and the Belmonts and pretty much anything by The Beach Boys reminds me of childhood family holidays and 12 hour drives in my father's shitty Renault 4 which reeked of petrol. This applies to pretty much all 50s rock'n'roll and surf music.

The end.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:21, Reply)

What about Symphony No. 32 in G major, "Overture in the Italian style", K. 318 (1779)
Think that was top of the hit parade when you got your first pube
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:24, Reply)

Sympathy reply.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:28, Reply)

thanks
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:34, Reply)

The Animals, House of the rising sun
Takes me back to being twelve and sitting by the seafront at Walton-on-the-naze, eating cod and chips. One of the shops had rigged some speakers up, and somehow the song was just right for that moment.
( Hdjejjwsjdjjf LOOK, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:24, Reply)

My niece's godmother
is Chas Chandler's daughter. She's also a bit hot.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:24, Reply)

I had to read this twice before deciding not to call you a nonce

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:26, Reply)

Godmother's mother
was also a former Miss England, and when I met her at the Christening, was still pretty fit as well.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:29, Reply)

Bit of an Animal?

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:26, Reply)

Is he not dead?
If not, please fix me up with a meeting so I can embrarrassingly go on (and on) about Hendrix and not mention The Animals once?

Ta
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:27, Reply)

I'm sure he died a few years ago

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:28, Reply)

I think so too.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:28, Reply)

No, he's well rotten now.

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:28, Reply)

He's joined The Pistols?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:28, Reply)

Don't be silly.
Buzzcocks
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:30, Reply)

The story I like about house of the rising sun
Is that it's a very old song, which lots of people have recorded. Bob Dylan had a version out at one point, the arrangement of which came from a guy he knew called Dave van Ronk. Dylan asked Ronk if he could record the song and release it, to which Ronk replied that he wanted to release it himself. "Too late" replied Dylan. "I already have". Ronk had to stop singing it because people were accusing him of copying Dylan's version. Ronk had the last laugh though - when the animals released their version, Dylan had to stop singing it as he was accused of copying them.
( Hdjejjwsjdjjf LOOK, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:31, Reply)

Abridged version: Bob Dylan was and is a cunt.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:33, Reply)

Not only that, but a Jewish cunt at that

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:36, Reply)

HE KILLED JESUS!

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:38, Reply)

YEY!

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:40, Reply)

Can someone explain why people like him so much?
i honestly know very little about him or his music
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:37, Reply)

I like him a lot
Listen to this song. If you don't like it, it's probably safe to say you're not going to like most of his stuff.

Edit: Mostly he's famous as a songwriter - if you don't like the way he sings, there are hundreds of cover versions out there. For instance, it was him who wrote "All along the watchtower", although he admitted Hendrix's version of it was better than his.
( Hdjejjwsjdjjf LOOK, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:39, Reply)

I like Subterranean Homesick Blues and nothing more.
A few years ago they had 'Dylan Night' on BBC2 so I thought I should give him a second chance in case I'd been wrong all these years - nope. 20 minutes of his whiny shitty singing and 'asthmatic on life support' harmonica 'playing' and off it went. Fucking appalling. The Byrds did some decent covers of his stuff as of course did the Almighty Jimi, but as a performer I can honestly say I'd rather watch paint dry.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:42, Reply)

He actually made a name as a performer before he started writing his own songs
I think the reason he was successful there was that he was a folk singer, and when he was starting out there were very proscribed ways to sing folk songs. It wasn't so much that he was a fantastic performer, it was that he was different.
( Hdjejjwsjdjjf LOOK, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:47, Reply)

If I 'performed' whilst straining for a massive shit it would be 'different'*...but it'd still be bollocks.
He was popular because his whiny 'protest' shit struck a chord with the early-mid 60s US college crowd who turned their noses up at electric blues or rock'n'roll performers because they weren't 'authentic'. He was seen as a God for similar reasons by the middle class CND badge-wearing proto-vegetarian student wanker crowd over here. Anyone who thinks Joan pissing Baez is anything other than a tedious, proselytising cunt-face should be beaten in the eyes with a claw hammer.

* not from GG Allin but, you know...
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:49, Reply)

This is merely my opinion, of course.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:53, Reply)

I think you're 98% right
the only thing you're wrong is liking that song
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 14:04, Reply)

That'll do for me.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 14:08, Reply)

'Can You Dig It' by The Mock Turtles
always reminds me of the day I did a charity parachute jump.

'Tubthumping' by Chumbawumba reminds me of the time I narrowly missed out on my 1st ever 50 when I was caught on the boundary on 47. Fuckit.

'Black' by Pearl Jam - first heard it 10 minutes after I'd been elbowed by my first love - by telephone. The cow.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:53, Reply)

Chumbawumba rate a full 10/10 on the 'Complete Cunts' scale.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:54, Reply)

Shut it, 2 Jags.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:55, Reply)

Kajagoogoo lolz

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:57, Reply)

hush hush.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 13:58, Reply)

Everytime I hear '80s Bon Jovi, I think of being a kid and living with my aunt and uncle and they had a giant Jon Bon Jovi poster in their bedroom

( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 14:01, Reply)

with my aunt and uncle and they had a giant Jon Bon Jovi poster in their bedroom

on a prayer
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 14:05, Reply)

Stay precisely where you are, on the internet.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 14:07, Reply)

Locked in a dead thread?

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 14:08, Reply)

*rolls eyes*

( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 14:08, Reply)

*rolls joint*

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 14:09, Reply)

If I went out with Bella you could call me 'Rolls Boyce'
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 14:09, Reply)

I don't understand this meme.

( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 14:15, Reply)