Old people that were alive in the 80's I have a question

[Crip]

Did black people really carry around giant stereos and play them at full volume?  It seems conceivable but I find it hard to believe as I've never seen it.

[powercut]

yes. and here is evidence to prove it

[cridge]

yes. and here is evidence to prove it

not just black guys but all cool and hip teenagers would carry the boombox down into the shopping precinct and lay down the lino and cut windmill !!!

and ive just noticed your logo mr powercut... the face moves.....lol

[1984]

I had one, it was a classic, afaic the 80's was all about d-cell batteries 

[Tesco]

The 80's were all about moustaches, cheap cologne, those tracksuits in pastel colors and geometric shapes, golf, convertibles, moustaches, sunglasses, suits, women in bikinis, mobile phones, music with keyboards and vocals with echo, moustaches, hairstyles like A Flock Of Seagulls, and moustaches.

[Andy Payback HiFi]

Did black people really carry around giant stereos and play them at full volume?  It seems conceivable but I find it hard to believe as I've never seen it.

I find it hard to believe that the kids today are content with playing shitty mp3s through tinny mobile phone speakers. Bunch of lightweight cunts.

[DJ Ted Crilly]

Did black people really carry around giant stereos and play them at full volume?  It seems conceivable but I find it hard to believe as I've never seen it.

I find it hard to believe that the kids today are content with playing shitty mp3s through tinny mobile phone speakers. Bunch of lightweight cunts.

 

[steve rice]

During the 80's those of us that listened to sound system through the 70's  couldn't believe that people played music in the street on tinny little boomboxes ..especially with drum machine and keyboard rhythms....

80's was a bad time for music

[Snoo]

Yep here's mine (Not a pic from the 80's though)

[tko]

Not sure, I grew up in Gloucestershire, we didn't get black people until 1991

[Dub boy]

80's was a bad time for music

naaaaaaaaaaaaah

the 80's gave us sleng teng and eveything got computerized, awesome 

 

[P to the D]

I mainly lived in Long Ashton in the 80s, where ghettoblasters (and come to think of it, black guys) were few and far between. My stack stereo system was a behemoth though, and had a pillarbox red sony walkman that looked like a brick. Bigger was definitely better in the 80s.

[Andy Payback HiFi]

During the 80's those of us that listened to sound system through the 70's  couldn't believe that people played music in the street on tinny little boomboxes ..especially with drum machine and keyboard rhythms....

80's was a bad time for music

You calling me some sort of lightweight cunt? 

[steve rice]

80's was the decade when people kissed their soul goodbye.....

[steve rice]

During the 80's those of us that listened to sound system through the 70's  couldn't believe that people played music in the street on tinny little boomboxes ..especially with drum machine and keyboard rhythms....

80's was a bad time for music

You calling me some sort of lightweight cunt? 

Me sir..no sir

[Pigsgo Oink]

Not sure, I grew up in Gloucestershire, we didn't get black people until 1991

[Bios]

yeah, but in my experience it was mostly middle class white bodypoppers and breakers carrying boomboxes around. mind you i did live in worthing at the time, so that probably explains it.

bring back boomboxes  

[benji oner]

anyone remeber sashio bags?where youd put the walkman in between two speakers built into a bag..

[miss baggy]

I've got a boom ting Music Mixer at home (excuse the teddy)

[Hooty]

I saw some 80's porn on youporn the other day, it was absolutely hilarious. "Look at the bush on that!"

[sarajoy]

yeah, but in my experience it was mostly middle class white bodypoppers and breakers carrying boomboxes around. mind you i did live in worthing at the time, so that probably explains it.

bring back boomboxes  

Oh, that's sexy. Do these old things have a line in?

[Bios]

^^^^ probably some do and some don't. my dad had an old Hitachi boombox that looked really similar that used to have ins and outs.

[Yim]

Line in is extremely common on the good ones. I've picked up two from Repsycho in the last couple of years. I got a brilliant one by National Panasonic with Line in and out and it only needs 8 DD batteries to make it work!

[TIMEstretch]

Dont ferk with Radio Raheem www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsFjlLXP9GU

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/03KaCtEJbUQ&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/03KaCtEJbUQ&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;</a>

[Block Party]

Dont ferk with Radio Raheem www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsFjlLXP9GU

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/03KaCtEJbUQ&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/03KaCtEJbUQ&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;</a>

Or Gary Barlow

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/nov98/articles/gary.htm

Panasonic ghetto blaster.
"See the old tape machine in the corner, the Panasonic? I got that for my ninth birthday, and I still record all my ideas onto it when I'm writing songs. 19 years old, that is. It's the business."

[Gimme Shelter!]

The 80's were all about moustaches, cheap cologne, those tracksuits in pastel colors and geometric shapes, golf, convertibles, moustaches, sunglasses, suits, women in bikinis, mobile phones, music with keyboards and vocals with echo, moustaches, hairstyles like A Flock Of Seagulls, and moustaches.

About sums the 80's up! A BLEAK decade brightened  up  by a great couple of Northern Soul nights circa 84, Tony Clark at The Mayfair Rooms and John Stapletons night at The Western Soul Domino Club, anyone as old as me and remember them ? !!!

[FU]

Kids these days make me laugh with their stupid tinny mobiles. We had shit like this in our day!




I always wanted one of these puppies with the built in keyboard!

[Ricorb]

80's was a bad time for music

WUT?!

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/zQ00laVt62c" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/zQ00laVt62c</a>

[steve rice]

The 80's were all about moustaches, cheap cologne, those tracksuits in pastel colors and geometric shapes, golf, convertibles, moustaches, sunglasses, suits, women in bikinis, mobile phones, music with keyboards and vocals with echo, moustaches, hairstyles like A Flock Of Seagulls, and moustaches.

About sums the 80's up! A BLEAK decade brightened  up  by a great couple of Northern Soul nights circa 84, Tony Clark at The Mayfair Rooms and John Stapletons night at The Western Soul Domino Club, anyone as old as me and remember them ? !!!

I wasn't here in the 80's but i imagine those nights were an oasis for music lovers...i never went out during that decade..save for the first year or so..i saw Dobie Gray in about 81 and Ann Peebles with Otis Clay

[cridge]

I was an eighties teenager and im gonna stick up for the decade...like Tim I hail the 80's.....................

ELECTRO STREET SOUNDS LP's
THE PROPER BIRTH OF HIP HOP
BARRINGTON LEVY
SLENG TENG
BACK TO THE FUTURE
RETURN OF THE JEDI
BMX BEAT ON TV - ANDY RUFFELL / EDDIE FIOLA / HARO
MORK & MINDY
ZAMMO ON GRANGE HILL
BIRTH OF RAVE MUSIC / ACID HOUSE
DUG OUT / WILD BUNCH

IM BORED NOW..
BUT YOU GET THE PICTURE.....

[FU]

I'm glad I grew up in the 80's  Much more fun than this nanny fuckin nimby state we are in now!  Health and safety my arse!

[Ewan Hoozami]

I used to rock one... although it should be noted that my parents wouldn't buy me a proper one so I just had a tiny bright red Panasonic one that I used to swagger round Horfield with... I was a badass 9 year old... Salt N Pepa, MC Hammer, Vanilla Ice. TLC...  yeah man... Vanilla Ice - had the album on cassette 

[P to the D]

I got horribly sad the other day when I found bags of tapes that I had made myself in the 80s and early 90s; mixes I had made off the radio; 5 wanted to have a listen but realised I had nothing to play them on 

[1984]

mixes I had made off the radio; 5

have you got and Ian Rush or Ossie Ardiles classics?

[Square One]

yeah man... Vanilla Ice - had the album on cassette 

I saw him at Wembley.  And MC Hammer.

(and a dash of )

I was an eighties teenager child and im gonna stick up for the decade...

All those dismissing the 80s as crap are wrong, yo.  It wasn't all about and Spandau Ballet and espadrilles.  I love so much music (and art/films) from that time.  And boom boxes too. 

[Andy Payback HiFi]

I was an eighties teenager and im gonna stick up for the decade...like Tim I hail the 80's.....................

ELECTRO STREET SOUNDS LP's
THE PROPER BIRTH OF HIP HOP
BARRINGTON LEVY
SLENG TENG
BACK TO THE FUTURE
RETURN OF THE JEDI
BMX BEAT ON TV - ANDY RUFFELL / EDDIE FIOLA / HARO
MORK & MINDY
ZAMMO ON GRANGE HILL
BIRTH OF RAVE MUSIC / ACID HOUSE
DUG OUT / WILD BUNCH

 

I forgot all about BMX Beat. Also used to love Kick Start. Inspired me to get my first Yamaha TY80 and proceed to nearly kill myself on it at every opportunity
 

[1984]

yeah man... Vanilla Ice - had the album on cassette 

I saw him at Wembley.  And MC Hammer.

I saw him at Po-Na-Na's in Reading about three years ago. he even had DJ Earthquake and eveything!

[Block Party]

Andy Ruffell!





  Shit-hot.

Edit: http://www.andyruffell.com/Andy%20Ruffell%20Biography.pdf

DANCESTAR & MOBO AWARDS FOUNDER:

  Didn't know that!  

[Andy Payback HiFi]

Edit: http://www.andyruffell.com/Andy%20Ruffell%20Biography.pdf

DANCESTAR & MOBO AWARDS FOUNDER:

  Didn't know that!  

Haha. No way

[Block Party]

Edit: http://www.andyruffell.com/Andy%20Ruffell%20Biography.pdf

DANCESTAR & MOBO AWARDS FOUNDER:

  Didn't know that!  

Haha. No way

Crazy that his career went from teenage BMXer to TV presenter to media mogul (well sort of).

[Dan Alive!]

Andy’s events have featured some of the world's biggest names in music and
entertainment including, 50 Cent, Destiny’s Child, Tina Turner, P.Diddy, Diana
Ross, Ja Rule, Lenny Kravitz, Juliette Lewis, Lionel Richie, R.Kelly, Dionne
Warwick, Moby, Boy George, Bootsy Collins, BB King, Bono, The Edge, Fatboy
Slim, George Benson, Kool & The Gang, Santana, Jay-Z and Tony Blair.

 

[Block Party]

Andy’s events have featured some of the world's biggest names in music and
entertainment including, 50 Cent, Destiny’s Child, Tina Turner, P.Diddy, Diana
Ross, Ja Rule, Lenny Kravitz, Juliette Lewis, Lionel Richie, R.Kelly, Dionne
Warwick, Moby, Boy George, Bootsy Collins, BB King, Bono, The Edge, Fatboy
Slim, George Benson, Kool & The Gang, Santana, Jay-Z and Tony Blair.

 

He was in the Simpsons once and the Catherine Tate show, so he could be tenuosly described as an entertainer.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0086363/

[Ewan Hoozami]

yeah man... Vanilla Ice - had the album on cassette 

I saw him at Wembley.  And MC Hammer.

I saw him at Po-Na-Na's in Reading about three years ago. he even had DJ Earthquake and eveything!

No fucking way! That would be utterly 

I heard he'd gone on to sing in a thrash metal band

[Block Party]

yeah man... Vanilla Ice - had the album on cassette 

I saw him at Wembley.  And MC Hammer.

I saw him at Po-Na-Na's in Reading about three years ago. he even had DJ Earthquake and eveything!

No fucking way! That would be utterly 

I heard he'd gone on to sing in a thrash metal band

Even better http://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/music/810122-jedward-and-vanilla-ice-release-single

[Ewan Hoozami]

yeah man... Vanilla Ice - had the album on cassette 

I saw him at Wembley.  And MC Hammer.

I saw him at Po-Na-Na's in Reading about three years ago. he even had DJ Earthquake and eveything!

No fucking way! That would be utterly 

I heard he'd gone on to sing in a thrash metal band

Even better http://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/music/810122-jedward-and-vanilla-ice-release-single

  What the shitting fuck

[Block Party]

yeah man... Vanilla Ice - had the album on cassette 

I saw him at Wembley.  And MC Hammer.

I saw him at Po-Na-Na's in Reading about three years ago. he even had DJ Earthquake and eveything!

No fucking way! That would be utterly 

I heard he'd gone on to sing in a thrash metal band

Even better http://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/music/810122-jedward-and-vanilla-ice-release-single

  What the shitting fuck

I spotted it the other day, I think it went to No 2 in this weeks chart?

[SUPA!]

Did black people really carry around giant stereos and play them at full volume?  It seems conceivable but I find it hard to believe as I've never seen it.

I find it hard to believe that the kids today are content with playing shitty mp3s through tinny mobile phone speakers. Bunch of lightweight cunts.

 

[Wes G]

van dam knows all about 


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKMDJqcnUJ8