Posts by Peter Darlington
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Dazed and Confused is a great movie. I dunno whether it was growing up in Blenheim 25 years ago or if it's similar for the whole of the country but that whole summer nights, out in cars, heavy rock, beer and herb, not much happening thing is a great nostalgia trip for us old buggers.
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It was, and I can put my hand up and say that was my idea. Phonogram who distributed it has to be forced into it very reluctantly. You did well to find a new copy in the 1980s too, only 500 were pressed in early 78. It was gold in AK by 81 and I was going to do a 7" repress of both Reptiles singles as a doublepack but for some reason never got around to it...
Excellent, really nice to know some of the history behind it. I've always been hacked off I didn't snag a single copy of Saturday Night as well.
I think I got it in either 1982 or even 83. It may have been a copy at the Uni of Canterbury Book Shop with Steve Birss behind the counter. I remember Vince Oi from The Johnnys (Chch) offered me $100 for it in 1984.
I like to dream that it has some value nowadays. It's still in very nice nick.
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... try telling that to today's kids, Grand-dad
Don't worry, there'll be a select few that catch the bug.
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I'm lucky enough to own dozens of originals from the same period, piccy sleeves etc...one of the benefits of age, Jam, Clash, Damned, Ramones, all the early Pistols (EMI NZ Anarchy)
I remember being at Camden market in the mid-late '80s and they had a huge selection of classic punk vinyl singles and I'd gaze at them sweaty-palmed knowing I couldn't buy any of them because (a) I had no money and (b) I was basically living out of a bag. I do still have a few tucked away in the record collection though.
One thing I do have is an original 12" of The Suburban Reptiles "Megaton" single that I bought in Christchurch in the early '80s (may have even been off Roger). I'm sure someone told me this was NZ's first 12" single but have no idea whether that's actually true or not?
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On it's original 7" with Killing An Arab on the flip, it's one of the 70s great singles IMO...and I'd argue they never bettered it. Pop perfection.
Completely agree. I can remember that single well although never owned it. I do have a mate though, who has a lovely collection of vinyl punk singles by the likes of UK Subs, The Damned, Subway Sect, Clash and loads more. Proper works of art.
For a more up to date fix, there's a fantastic punk/new wave compilation called "1-2-3-4 Punk & New Wave 1976-1979" 5 CD's of stone cold classics and a load of lesser known stuff that I imagine would be extremely hard to find elsewhere. So for every Sex Pistols and Ramones tune there's "19 & Mad by Leyton Buzzards or "I'm In Love With Margaret Thatcher" by the Not Sensibles, "F*ck Off" by the The Electric Chairs and "Gabrielle" by The Nips.
The more oblique end of the scale is well covered too by Wire, Swell Maps, Pere Ubu etc...
As well as The Cure, of course.
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10:15 Saturday Night is such a great tune. A lovely piece of original punk/new wave niceness.
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Re: Hamish McKay
For all of his crapness and rubbish commentating, the most unforgivable thing he's ever done was admit on TV3 sports back in May that he's a Hammers fan. Dude, that's just hurtful, he looks totally Chelsea to me.
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On a lighter note:
I don't ever ROFL, but I came pretty close to it with this statement in the weekend's Sunday Star-Times:...
"I don't know why it is, but I definitely haven't noticed any gay couples coming in who are local. I think Mikey Havoc only said what he did because gay rhymes with Gore."Heh, me too. I don't know if there's a single word in the English language that rhymes with Gore as well as gay does.
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I remember being surprised that the strap hurt more than the cane, as the strap was delivered to under-form 1s and the cane was introduced at form 1 and above. I always presumed the teachers had a cleverly worked out system of graduated pain dispensing, so that as our immunity built up they could counter this with by cranking up the volume. We used to look forward to when we'd be old enough to get the cane, to test our burgeoning manly skills against the next level. Well, we didn't have Playstation in those days.
It was mildly amusing to find they'd got it the wrong way around. Interestingly, this revelation freed me from any fear of further punishment at the same time as my behaviour improved. I was in Form 2 and got a form teacher that I really liked, as simple as that.
I also remember girls could be strapped but not caned. All very bizarre.
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Mine also, and if you missed it, someone on TV.com has lovingly transcribed it here. Brings new meaning to the name Pearl Jam.
You too? Phew, I just presumed I was some kind of lamo for never realising what the term meant, despite the band being around for centuries.