The kids don't have an issue with my trend. They reckon it's the wrong sort of trend. I always remind my kids that we are reasonably young in comparison to the parents of their friends. Some of which are the same age as my parents!
As a kid I was raised on bob marley and pink floyd etc, wasn't really into music though, not until I was about 16 did I really start to buy music and seek it out and that was like you, only I hated dancehall at the time. Ragamuffin i was not
I was a JUNGLE generation teen.
As a kid I liked Duran Duran and in the background a fan of George Michael. I didn't buy music till I was 16 and kept up with the charts. I also preferred to buy from independent record shops. It's a shame that there aren't many around now. As a kid I had to contend with waiting for the chart countdown on Sunday to record the songs and then try to fade out the DJ towards the end of the song.
Speaking of dancehall and ragamuffin. Remember that bigot Shabba Ranks, I wonder what happened to him?
Designer clothes, sunglasses in club to hide ecstasy eyes, and jungle music thrumming through my entire body.
Being a good Muslim, I was never into drugs or dancing in clubs etc. Although I had a weakness for designer clothes which I've not quite grown out of yet. Do you remember the brand "Naff Naff"? I don't think it was designer, it was popular though.
My childhood was He-man, shera, thundercats, wonder woman, watching the superman movies and trying to balance my body on chairs with a tea towel as a cape so i could fly too.
Yep, remember all of those cartoons. My favourite was Dungeons and Dragons. The little dungeon master used to annoy me with his riddles. For some reason, I recall that once films like Superman premiered on the TV. They never stopped broadcasting them every xmas!
Breakdancing to the film breakdance and trying to do Turbo and Ozone's moves and failing miserably with a rag/bandana tied on my head
Ah yes. I wanted the track suit and the Addidas trainers. I wanted the "Jheri curl" back then. Although as a nine year old in 1983 it would have looked silly. By the time I was old enough, it was way out of fashion.
Kinghtrider, the A team, the original battlestar galactica, chips, tron. MONKEY MAGIC....never could make up my mind if buddha was a girl or boy back then.
Most of these serials have been repeated on Sky and Cable some time or another. I started watching Knightrider and the A Team on one of the channels once and just stopped realising how crap it was. Also watching them again would have spoiled the nostalgia. As a kid I could never work out why my parents wanted to watch the seven-o-clock news on channel four rather than such a brilliant show like the A Team! I now see where my parents were coming from when my missus and me want to watch the news and the kids look on in outrage as to how and why the Disney channel loses out.
Then the RnB and jungle phase.
Loved RnB and still do. Did you ever buy the compilation set called "Pure Swing"?
Also boyz in the hood and all those gang banging movies for me too .
I had all those movies on VHS and my bedroom had a massive cinema poster of New Jack City.
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