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12 minutes ago, RedLionLad said:

 

So, Skinhead: to start with, something fairly positive/enjoyable/legal/harmless, broadly speaking; before being hijacked/ infiltrated by angry white males who think it's all about them thus spoiling it for the majority and then driving it underground where a nasty subculture for "like-minded" sorts festers. And then later still, enjoying something of a renaissance of sorts, where middle-aged white males reminisce about the good old "glory days."

Sound familiar?

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8 hours ago, Portland Bill said:

Just watched it, was an excellent programme, thanks for the heads up mate :yes:

Watched it also. That programme sums up why FV was part of football culture.really well. Recommend the young uns who don’t understand watch it also as everything some of us have posted in this thread is in the programme.

On a side note, I saw Pauline Black and The Selector, and if you get the chance go and watch them because they are excellent live still. She still has a fab voice live plus there music helped define the 80s for me!

I loved my highly polished, cherry 10 hole DMs 

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7 minutes ago, GasDestroyer said:

Forget the lead singer black guy’s name in The Specials but pretty sure he died young. They were superb! Thanks for posting BS4.

Like the way they encourage the crowd to join them on the stage. Note the fashion styles!

My favourite video on YouTube!

Neville Staples & Lynval Golding were the two guys in The Specials and are both happily still with us. I saw the Neville Staples Band last year down in Looe as it goes, they were excellent.

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1 hour ago, GasDestroyer said:

Forget the lead singer black guy’s name in The Specials but pretty sure he died young. They were superb! Thanks for posting BS4.

Like the way they encourage the crowd to join them on the stage. Note the fashion styles!

My favourite video on YouTube!

Saw the Specials at Bristol Locarno in ( roughly!) 1981, at one point there was more of the crowd on the stage than in the arena!!

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I'm going out tonight
I don't know if I'll be alright
Everyone want's to hurt me
Baby danger in the city
I have to carry a knife
Because there's people threatening my life
I can't dress just the way I want
I'm being chased by the national front
Concrete jungle, animals are after me
Concrete jungle, it ain't safe on the streets
Concrete jungle, glad I got my mates with me
I won't fight for a cause
don't want to change the law
Leave me alone, just leave me alone
I want to get out on my own
I'm walking home tonight
I only walk where there's lots of lights
In the alleys and the doorways
Some throw a bottle right in your face
Concrete jungle, animals are after me
Concrete jungle, it ain't safe on the streets
Concrete jungle,
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We should start an OTIB Old School music thread! Music defined football in the 80s! You only have to read RedLionLad’s lyrics from Concrete Jungle.  Ghost Town was exactly the same. Inner city Britain was badly run down 

This town, is coming like a ghost town
All the clubs have been closed down
This place, is coming like a ghost town
Bands won't play no more
too much fighting on the dance floor
 
Do you remember the good old days
Before the ghost town?
We danced and sang,
And the music played inna de boomtown
 
This town, is coming like a ghost town
Why must the youth fight against themselves?
Government leaving the youth on the shelf
This place, is coming like a ghost town
No job to be found in this country
Can't go on no more
The people getting angry
 
This town, is coming like a ghost town
This town, is coming like a ghost town
This town, is coming like a ghost town
This town, is coming like a ghost town
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26 minutes ago, GasDestroyer said:

We should start an OTIB Old School music thread! Music defined football in the 80s! You only have to read RedLionLad’s lyrics from Concrete Jungle.  Ghost Town was exactly the same. Inner city Britain was badly run down 

This town, is coming like a ghost town
All the clubs have been closed down
This place, is coming like a ghost town
Bands won't play no more
too much fighting on the dance floor
 
Do you remember the good old days
Before the ghost town?
We danced and sang,
And the music played inna de boomtown
 
This town, is coming like a ghost town
Why must the youth fight against themselves?
Government leaving the youth on the shelf
This place, is coming like a ghost town
No job to be found in this country
Can't go on no more
The people getting angry
 
This town, is coming like a ghost town
This town, is coming like a ghost town
This town, is coming like a ghost town
This town, is coming like a ghost town

Rat Race by the Specials is equally brilliant imv:

You're working at your leisure to learn the things you'll need 
The promises you make tomorrow will carry no guarantee 
I've seen your qualifications, you've got a Ph.D. 
I've got one art O level, it did nothing for me
Working for the rat race 
You know you're wasting your time 
Working for the rat race 
You're no friend of mine
You plan your conversation to impress the college bar 
Just talking about your Mother and Daddy's Jaguar 
Wear your political T-shirt and sacred college scarf 
Discussing the worlds situation but just for a laugh
You'll be working for the rat race 
You know you're wasting your time 
Working for the rat race 
You're no friend of mine
Working for the rat race 
You know you're wasting your time 
Working for the rat race 
You're no friend of mine
Just working at your leisure to learn the things you don't need 
The promises you make tomorrow will carry no guarantee 
I've seen your qualifications, you've got a Ph.D. 
I've got one art O level, it did nothing for me
Working for the rat race 
You know you're wasting your time 
You're working for the rat race 
You're no friend of mine
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This sums it up for me.......

"Down In The Tube Station At Midnight"
 

The distant echo -
of faraway voices boarding faraway trains
To take them home to
the ones that they love and who love them forever
The glazed, dirty steps - repeat my own and reflect my thoughts
Cold and uninviting, partially naked
Except for toffee wrapers and this morning's papers
Mr. Jones got run down
Headlines of death and sorrow - they tell of tomorrow
Madmen on the rampage
And I'm down in the tube station at midnight

I fumble for change - and pull out the Queen
Smiling, beguiling
I put in the money and pull out a plum
Behind me
Whispers in the shadows - gruff blazing voices
Hating, waiting
"Hey boy" they shout "have you got any money?"
And I said "I've a little money and a take away curry,
I'm on my way home to my wife.
She'll be lining up the cutlery,
You know she's expecting me
Polishing the glasses and pulling out the cork"
And I'm down in the tube station at midnight

I first felt a fist, and then a kick
I could now smell their breath
They smelt of pubs and Wormwood Scrubs
And too many right wing meetings
My life swam around me
It took a look and drowned me in its own existence
The smell of brown leather
It blended in with the weather
It filled my eyes, ears, nose and mouth
It blocked all my senses
Couldn't see, hear, speak any longer
And I'm down in the tube station at midnight
I said I was down in the tube station at midnight

The last thing that I saw
As I lay there on the floor
Was "Jesus Saves" painted by an atheist nutter
And a British Rail poster read "Have an Awayday - a cheap holiday -
Do it today!"
I glanced back on my life
And thought about my wife
'Cause they took the keys - and she'll think it's me
And I'm down in the tube station at midnight
The wine will be flat and the curry's gone cold
I'm down in the tube station at midnight
Don't want to go down in a tube station at midnight
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Went to leeds i think in 72 when the miners were striking to watch the facup replay.When our coach turned into the ground it was attacked by a mob of savage leeds fans,but the driver managed to park up,thinking this was a rough place me and my mate decided to go in the stand for safety.We sat in the front of the stand with our city scarves on(big mistake) only to be attacked by      aprox 50 leeds fans who were on the terracing below us.we kicked and punched numerous leeds fans as they tried to scale the wall up .to the stand.After we got the better of them we retreated to a bar in the leeds stand.Watched a great game and city won 1-0, got chased by what seemed hundreds of leeds fans back to the coach after the game,what an experience to watch a game of football.

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Specials were Coventry.

These WERE Bristol City.

Down the town it's Friday night
See a band get in a fight
Flash of steel, end of fun
Growing up has just begun

More young blood, every night, ok
Life down the drain
More young blood, every night, ok
Isn't it a shame
More young blood, every night, ok
Spilt in the streets
More young blood, every night

Down to football here we go
Tried to find last years foe
They live behind a different scarf
So we fight them for a laugh

More young blood, every night, ok
Life down the drain
More young blood, every night, ok
Isn't it a shame

Vice Squad

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2 hours ago, GasDestroyer said:

This should be a stickie MODS!

Sh*t - that was another music defined era. We were so lucky to have lived all this music. 

Kinell, too much quality music from that time period.

Cut My Hair, 5:15, Pinball Wizard, Real Me, Going Underground, Eton Rifles, Down in the Tube Station at Midnight, Desdemona, Midsummer Night Scene

Didn't live through it but always been obsessed with it. Even Pink Floyd were doing their best shit at that time, golden era really.

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19 minutes ago, ZiderEyed said:

Kinell, too much quality music from that time period.

Cut My Hair, 5:15, Pinball Wizard, Real Me, Going Underground, Eton Rifles, Down in the Tube Station at Midnight, Desdemona, Midsummer Night Scene

Didn't live through it but always been obsessed with it. Even Pink Floyd were doing their best shit at that time, golden era really.

Dr Feelgood, SAHB, Roxy, Bowie, The Who, Mott, Bob Marley & so many more.

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1 minute ago, BigTone said:

Dr Feelgood, SAHB, Roxy, Bowie, The Who, Mott, Bob Marley & so many more.

Honestly almost all of it was brilliant. Can look back on it with their albums now but to have been able to see the Who in their pomp would've been amazing.

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