How many Gen Xers know the lyrics to the MASH theme song?
It may have been produced during the Boomer years but as a certified Genx-er I can tell you I watched it in reruns for years. I can sing the theme song word for word still.
Iâm working on a project that is MASH related/inspired
I wanted to use some of the text from the novel, but when I looked for it at our library, I found that although they had multiplied copies of the show on DVD, they did NOT have the book
âMay have been produced in the boomer generationâ is the entire point of this exercise between @sphere and I, wouldnât you say? I have enjoyed and continue to enjoy learning of the generation xâs shit in this thread as I had actually missed experiencing the original gen X cultural input for the most part.
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I canât remember if 3â compact discs were posted already. These two are circa â89-â90.
I was trying to track down everything I could find by UK group, Lies Damned Lies, and found these on ebay. Not sure if maybe @Zuckerzeit has heard of them? They had only a single release on Siren Records before going independent.
When I was at the Ad Agency, we had mini CDs that were about the size of a business card; we had digital demos/portfolio of our company on them
Something like this
I donât remember the capacity, exactly, but it didnât fit much, so we had to be âefficientâ with what was on there for them to be effective, from a Sales perspective - which our owner was NOT, and the execution failed miserably
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I remember these being used as electronic business cards, but they came and went pretty fast.
This is gonna HIT my South Jersey peopleâs - I JUST discovered this guy; we may have partied at City Gardens?
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The bad doesnât ring a bell but some of the individual members do. They all released music under different guises in the early â80âs. A âsuperâ group of sorts.
Charlie Divine and Dot Irvine recorded under the name Talking Drums. Richie Steven released a few random balearic tunes and dub stuff under the name Dubversive with Boy George. Will check them out.
Their Discogs page. https://www.discogs.com/artist/1143175-Lies-Damned-Lies
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I had acquired Talking Drumsâ LP Reassembly on vinyl quite awhile back, but I only found out about Courage last week when poking around Discogs and Spotify. Iâm glad that LDLâs major releases from their own Sticky Music label - but not their Siren debut - are all available on Spotify, as well as the Talking Drums releases.
I didnât know about the membersâ other collaborations so Iâll have to check into those, thanks.
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I went to a parentally run private school from grade 1 to 13. I donât recall knowing anybody at school who had divorced parents. Mostly we were kids of European immigrants. Not a sincle suicide in all my years in school among my classmates. A fair number of kids chaffed against parental restrictions. There were problems but they seem kinda trivial compared to the challenges todayâs kids face.
Talking Drums â Courage featured in Computer Incarnations for World Peace comp back in 2007 selected by Ăźber diggers Jazzanova / Sonar Kollectiv and Gerd Hanson . The tracks were either insanely expensive or impossible to find at the time.
https://www.discogs.com/release/953318-Various-Computer-Incarnations-For-World-Peace
It contains a lot of interesting tracks from the early 80âs if interested in that period.
e.g. Will Powers was a project by music photographer Lynn Goldsmith which also included Sting and Robert Palmer form the album Dancing for Mental Health
The title track Computer Incarnations for World Peace is by Jean Luc Ponty the French violinist / pioneering electric violinist.
Secret Touch were part of the Street Soul scene from the late 80âs in the UK.
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I noticed that compilation included The Fixx, one of my favorites from that era, and the dub version is on YT. Iâll have to seek out the other stuff, too.
I also found an original pressing of Courage on ebay, but vinyl isnât really my thing, and it is a bit pricey. I bought the Bandcamp version instead. Courage | Talking Drums
Earth is beginning to heal.
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The Dub version of the Fixx is a great track. Slick production and sounds. It needs an extended version. Too short : ). Rupert Hine produced for a few big names. That 12â is still good value. Can pick it up sub $10 still. Didnât realize the Fixx had such a prolific back catalogue. Will Keep an eye out for them. The OG of Courage seems to be sought after and very pricey. Prices are high despite a reissue released in 2018.
I am hot and cold with vinyl. Handy for ripping good quality âŚWAVs and 320 kbpsâŚ. not very handy for the amounts of times I have moved around in the past. Seeing peoples listening rooms on SM full of vinyl, turntables and speakers etc does make me want to keep collecting and design a nice listening space eventually. Vinyl was definitely my Gen X thing. 1988 to prob 2007 when it became no longer practical. Still picked up a good few since.
Itâs probably old news to many, but for those who recall the movie Breakin, did you know Jean Claude Van Damme had his first film credit in it?
The latchkey kid thing was from about age 5 for me. Parents were both off to work before I left for school. Finished breakfast, locked up the house and walked to school.
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