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Random reminescenes?

illmatic

13:34 / 21.10.03

Following Sax's point in the 1996 thread, I wonder if there is a way for starting/structuring threads to share reminesences. Anything beyond year-specifc might be too broad. I'd love to be prompted to remember all sorts of forgotten crud from the early 80's. Which most of you young whippersnappers are probably too young to remember.

Any ideas? C'mon, help your grandad.

Eloi Tsabaoth

13:39 / 21.10.03

It sounds like a good idea, but then before you know it we'll have Stuart Maconie and Kate Thornton posting here going 'I remember Space Hoppers! You would sit on them and jump up and down. And there was a face on the front.'

spidermonkey

16:40 / 21.10.03

It sounds like a good idea, but then before you know it we'll have Stuart Maconie and Kate Thornton posting here going 'I remember Space Hoppers!

You're just jealous because you can't remember space hoppers!

...........or most of your childhood.

I reckon it was because all the most interesting stuff was going on inside your own head.

Back on track... I like the idea lllmatic (especially since I live in the past all the time anyway) but I think year-specific would be way too broad. Maybe the best way to do it would be for one person to begin a thread on a specific reminesence and see where it goes from there....you know like, first day of school etc.

But then we kind of do that anyway.

gingerbop

23:13 / 21.10.03

I went to Legoland in Denmark when I was 2, and the teeny houses were bigger than me. Only thing I remember pre-3.

Saveloy

14:00 / 23.10.03

Ah, I remember when Stuart Maconie was all fields. Nostalgia programs were made out of balsa wood and pram wheels in them days.

How about we use a thread for the posting of misc. memories, actual facts etc and set up a site (I've got a blog that I'm not using) for collating them by year?

Another thing I'd like to see: I remember one of the music mags doing a graphic timeline thingy which showed how all the different genres of dance or ambient overlapped. You had the years running left to right, and a coloured band for each genre placed in the appropriate time zone. I think they faded in or out where no specific start or end date could be set. I'd like to see this done for everything else. You know, everything that ever happened.

Not Here Still

18:23 / 23.10.03

Saveloy; that was Select magazine.

I used to have that timeline thing as part of a collage on my bedroom door when I were a young 'un. I think I've got a photo or two of that door somewhere; that's a historical document in itself. Everyone from Sven Vath to the Stone Roses, a Kurt Cobain 'shot in the head' skateboard, the Prodigy to a True Romance promo on there. I loved that door.

Of course, Select magazine itself is a mere nostalgic memory now; that magazine was massively influential on me, looking back; cooler than Q, more in depth than NME, covered indie and dance. And, gawd forbid, Stuart Maconie used to write for it too..

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