Around the time of britpop I was doing my a-levels.
I was always about three steps to the side and one back from any current music scene (until I got into house music and followed djs like Alistair Whitehead, Graeme Park and John Digweed around clubs in the midlands). I usually had the greatest hits of various early eighties bands in my walkman.

The one album that does define that time for me though is Parklife. It was one of those albums that got passed around and played at loads of parties and in the common room so it always takes me back to that time. There are some great tracks on there that hold up for me outside of the nostalgic context.

Alt: Any time that involved wenches, good helmets/wigs and quaffing
( Bill Clay a.k.a. Claudio, Wed 27 Jul 2011, 23:47, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

I know that place!

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 27 Jul 2011, 23:48, Reply)

Take me home, Cappy!

( Bill Clay a.k.a. Claudio, Wed 27 Jul 2011, 23:51, Reply)

I'm afraid you must leave dignity
and civilised society behind. Bring mead
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 27 Jul 2011, 23:54, Reply)

They sell Mead In borough Market
I found it at the weekend, they want £9 a bottle the thieving toe-rags, but it is my favourite brand so will buy it when I get desperate.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 27 Jul 2011, 23:57, Reply)

Moniak?
that's the going rate for it nowadays
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 27 Jul 2011, 23:58, Reply)

Nope
this stuff www.bestcellars.co.uk/files/533703_DSC0066.jpg goes for £7.50 in Dorcet
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Thu 28 Jul 2011, 0:01, Reply)

is it a dry one?
it looks a similar colour to Moniak
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 0:02, Reply)

Not sure
not good with wine lingo, I'd say sweet, calls it a desert wine on the website.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Thu 28 Jul 2011, 0:05, Reply)

probably like the christmas ones they do round here
the dry ones are more the kind of thing you can drink lots of. It's got enough sugar in it to make everything hilarious, though.

I have never seen my parents drunk but at my wedding my dad slurred "..thish mead shtuff ish quite schtrong" and got mixed up between my mum and her twin sister.
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 0:07, Reply)

Or so he says...

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Thu 28 Jul 2011, 0:08, Reply)

*shudder*

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 0:09, Reply)

"I short I wash sheeing double"
"Sho I groped bosh of you jusht to be shure honesht!"
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Thu 28 Jul 2011, 0:12, Reply)

if you'd met my mum and her sister
right now you would be trying to pour bleach into your ear so you never had to think again
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 0:14, Reply)

Luckily I haven't
but you have.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Thu 28 Jul 2011, 0:15, Reply)

:(

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 0:16, Reply)

Your so lucky
in line with my resolution I totally ninjaed most of that post out of existence about a second after I posted it.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Thu 28 Jul 2011, 0:17, Reply)

I would have been forced to link you to pictures
of them on facebook. You'd never sleep again
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 0:18, Reply)

Again. I must refrain from commenting further.
so I shall just say I am sure they are both lovely ladies and I wish them only the best.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Thu 28 Jul 2011, 0:20, Reply)

I think you've pulled
Quick, before he come to his senses!
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 27 Jul 2011, 23:54, Reply)

*bundles clay into van*

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 27 Jul 2011, 23:55, Reply)

Don't for get the chloroform

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 27 Jul 2011, 23:56, Reply)

delicious

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 27 Jul 2011, 23:57, Reply)

Hey, I didn't agree to help you with your sofa
*puts the lotion on his skin*
( Bill Clay a.k.a. Claudio, Wed 27 Jul 2011, 23:58, Reply)

It puts the mead on it's skin or it gets the hose again.
Edit: Sneaky ninja, or am I going blind?
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 27 Jul 2011, 23:59, Reply)

I don't like where this is heading
Edit: Yes, sneaky ninja seconds after posting
( Bill Clay a.k.a. Claudio, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 0:00, Reply)

how have I never licked mead off a naked man?
surely this would happen just by accident at some point
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 0:00, Reply)

+ honest m'lud

( Bill Clay a.k.a. Claudio, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 0:02, Reply)

Run Bill
I'll distract her with something shiney
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Thu 28 Jul 2011, 0:11, Reply)

*heads for the hills*
.
..
...
*gets out of breath*
...
..
.
*heads for a gastropub*
( Bill Clay a.k.a. Claudio, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 0:14, Reply)

gonna have to use some leet tracking skilllz here

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 0:15, Reply)

*waves shiny thing*

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Thu 28 Jul 2011, 0:16, Reply)

oooo shiny!

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 0:18, Reply)

*throws shiny the opposite way from Bill*
Run man, you can make it.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Thu 28 Jul 2011, 0:18, Reply)

*hypnotised by shiny*

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 0:22, Reply)

*hypnotised by shiny*
Goddammit!
( Bill Clay a.k.a. Claudio, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 0:30, Reply)

haha

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 0:32, Reply)

Oh Cavey
you've never lived.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Thu 28 Jul 2011, 0:07, Reply)

I no rite!
I did once give a guy a pretend gold coin to chew the hangnail that had been bugging me. That's not the same
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 0:08, Reply)

Again, they call me the creepy one?
Jeez cavey.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Thu 28 Jul 2011, 0:10, Reply)

it was just expedient

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 0:11, Reply)

Paying men for odd favours
Damn you are doing Rory's rep the world of good. I think you get it from your dad.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Thu 28 Jul 2011, 0:13, Reply)

I should do more of that shit
I need to get in some trouble this summer. I'm getting old and boring
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 0:23, Reply)

you can join me and BGB
and probably a few others but I forget who, in the Mid-life Crisis Club. we'll all get ill-advised tattoos and silly haircuts band generally tit about.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Thu 28 Jul 2011, 0:26, Reply)

booked in for a tattoo at 3pm tomorrow
or today as it's after midnight
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 0:27, Reply)

and with that thought, it's time for bed.

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Thu 28 Jul 2011, 0:29, Reply)

it's not boobs

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 0:29, Reply)

I meant it being after midnight
but it totally should be. Congrats on the job my friend, you earned it, not get some sleep.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Thu 28 Jul 2011, 0:31, Reply)

thank you
for once I will admit, I probably did deserve this. Fucking scary now though

night
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 0:32, Reply)

First day at school is always scary
..but getting there in the first place is awesome. well done.

I was facing redundancy about four months back but managed to get a better payed job closer to home after the first interview I hooked. Prior to that it was the scariest time in my life thus far, the thought of not being able to provide for my wife and kids and keep a roof over our heads was terrifying.
( Bill Clay a.k.a. Claudio, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 0:36, Reply)

ah, I'm just being a dumbass
I've been doing the job for a year and a half, I'm more scared because it's the thing I want and I'm not used to that happening. I have no idea how to deal with it. Also first full time permanent job in 10 years - there's no quick get out here.

as I said, I'm being a twat about it, it's awesome really
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 0:38, Reply)

anyway
wah wah wah. I should sleep now
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 0:42, Reply)