Friday 13 March 2015

Things that make one feel old....

Yesterday I was in Home Bargains, and was pleased to note that whoever puts on the music to entertain shoppers whilst they peruse the extensive range of cut-price household cleaning materials and toiletries (nowt like a bit of Kool and the Gang with your Mr Muscle) was no doubt in my age group and probably indulging themselves with some memories.


(Incidentally, the best supermarket for music is Morrissons in Cromer, Norfolk - unusually light rock orientated, rather than crap pop stuff.  Lots of Steely Dan.  Yes, that was me grooving down Tinned Vegetables giving it "I've seen your picture ~Your name in lights above it", etc ) 


Anyway, as I was saying, I was at the checkout queue, still enjoying these sounds of the 70s, when someone asked the old dear behind the till the name of the particular tune that was playingShe didn't know.  I looked up and said "Liquidator by The Harry J Allstars.  I remember it from 1971." (yes, yes, I know, it actually came out in 1969).  The "old dear" smiled at me (pityingly?) and said these words:  "Oh, I wouldn't have known that, it was... before my time."


Ouch!!!!

Much though I was terrified of skinheads in the early 70s, I did kinda like some of their music.  So here's Liquidator.  


18 comments:

  1. I must say, the music in Morrisons in Cromer is fantastic! They were playing Huey Lewis 'It's Hip to be Square' the other day, and I was dancing down the aisles. Sometimes I linger just to hear the sounds. Wonder if they've got a DJ in the back room!

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    1. Isn't it just? I used to do that. Do you remember that time when we rocked out to something down the aisles in Northampton co-op?

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    2. Indeed I do, it was so funny; if they don't want people to enjoy it, why play it! Wish we lived near each other, because we'd still be doing it, no doubt!

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  2. Old dear behind the counter! You should have canned her with some peas and caused a right scene.
    I usually find if a supermarket plays anything I might like at least a bit it's as I'm leaving, never while I actually shopping.

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    1. The other day in Mozzers I hung around near frozen veg where the speaker is so I could listen to One Night In Heaven by M People.

      I don't buy tinned peas - yuck, do you????

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  3. It's music from the 60s that takes me back - but I feel sort of proud to remember flower power and the early days of the Beatles!

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    1. I do actually remember it, thought not in the same way as you, maybe, Jo, but I was born in 1959 so my childhood was in the 60s. From about 1966, sister and I were mad for Top of the Pops. I remember the GoJos and Procul Harem and Scott Mackenzie, etc! I also had a flowery floppy hat and op-art earrings. HAAAA!!!!

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    2. Margret Geraghty14 March 2015 at 03:15

      Me, too, Jo. Was just thinking last night, the 60s was the best decade in which to grow up. Mind you, I was always a Stones fan. Loved Procul Harem, Terry - and had the hat.)

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    3. Even as a child I could see that the Stones were much more cool than the Beatles, Margaret! Thanks for commenting :)

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  4. In 1969, I was fourteen and that's when I discovered rock music for myself. It was The Who's Tommy that did it. I can remember the moment I first heard it. Defining it was. Before that, my brothers were into the Stones, the Shadows and various others throughout the 60s, and of course my sister and I loved the Beatles (had our 'own' Beatle each - hers John, mine George), but that was more a sort of youthful crush. I only really appreciated their musical talents later. So I was really a 70s rock fan. What a fantastic musical era that was. Such riches and so much that was just new and so original. The 60s laid it out and it blossomed in the 70s - my opinion anyway.

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    1. That's exactly how I see it, too. The 70s was THE rock time - I was so glad that it had a resurgence in the late 80s and early 90s, with newer bands like Thunder, Great White, The Black Crowes, etc taking on where the older ones left off!

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  5. My folks brought me up listening to the bands they loved ... As such it's music I love too! It surprises people that I'll recognise those songs but I'll have no idea about the music that is currently in the charts (or even music that was popular with others my own age).

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    1. I was bought up on Wagner, Beethoven and Gilbert & Sullivan, so I kind of found my own path! But it's good when you see teenagers still appreciating Led Zep, etc :)

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  6. I went to see The Who at the Winter Gardens in Eastbourne in 1969, but my daughter still liked singing along to Squeezebox in the car on the way to school.

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    1. I very much enjoyed listening to Carmen last night, as I dare say my grandmother might have done. Good music is timeless, dude.

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  7. A good reply to the "Old Dear" is: "Oh, that's too bad." :D

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  8. Ha ha! Doubt she would have got it!

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  9. Ouch indeed! These are always sobering moments aren't they!! Made me laugh though ;-)

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