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Ok, you kids born after 1980 aren't going to remember this very well.
Kids tv today sucks, plain and simple. Take a look at the DVD shelves of "cult tv", it's rammed with Rhubarb & Custard, Battle of The Planets, Ludwig, The Goodies, Jamie & The Magic Torch, Bod, Mr Ben, The Magic Roundbout etc etc.
All quality programmes from the 1970's and early eighties that my generation was weaned on.
And yes, looking back, they were fuelled by psychodelic drug-raddled creatives that grew up in the 1960s, passing on their headtrip visions to the kids of the 1970s.
It even permeated Sesame Street.
The "1,2,3,4,5" song, complete with hardcore acid-type imagery that we lapped up like lapdog Leary's.
And here's a (remixed audio) version of that song. And anyone over 25 *still* counts to 12 in their head, same way as you go "a b c d e f geeee".
Watch, enjoy and realise why I'm the way I am and so many over 25's yearn for the days of insane, drug-fuelled programmes instead of crap like Big Brother:
freespace.virgin.net/gordon.robertson/pinballsongv3.wmv
Kids tv today sucks, plain and simple. Take a look at the DVD shelves of "cult tv", it's rammed with Rhubarb & Custard, Battle of The Planets, Ludwig, The Goodies, Jamie & The Magic Torch, Bod, Mr Ben, The Magic Roundbout etc etc.
All quality programmes from the 1970's and early eighties that my generation was weaned on.
And yes, looking back, they were fuelled by psychodelic drug-raddled creatives that grew up in the 1960s, passing on their headtrip visions to the kids of the 1970s.
It even permeated Sesame Street.
The "1,2,3,4,5" song, complete with hardcore acid-type imagery that we lapped up like lapdog Leary's.
And here's a (remixed audio) version of that song. And anyone over 25 *still* counts to 12 in their head, same way as you go "a b c d e f geeee".
Watch, enjoy and realise why I'm the way I am and so many over 25's yearn for the days of insane, drug-fuelled programmes instead of crap like Big Brother:
freespace.virgin.net/gordon.robertson/pinballsongv3.wmv
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The sagacious one wrote:
> Me?
No - I was correcting my typing mistake ... been awake for a few hours too many (see thread entitled "I've been awake for 35 hours")
> Me?
No - I was correcting my typing mistake ... been awake for a few hours too many (see thread entitled "I've been awake for 35 hours")
Timmargh wrote:
> Er ... 'your' and not 'you'.
Me?
> Er ... 'your' and not 'you'.
Me?
Er ... 'your' and not 'you'.
Test you nostalgic knowledge with a quiz-on-an-Excel-sheet ...
http://www.aqof72.dsl.pipex.com/temp/kids_tv_quiz.zip
http://www.aqof72.dsl.pipex.com/temp/kids_tv_quiz.zip
I think BBC still shows Mr Ben.
Assuming you are talking about the guy in the top hat that goes to the magic costume shop.
Assuming you are talking about the guy in the top hat that goes to the magic costume shop.
cheers goatboy, that video is quite possibly the coolest thing I've seen in ages. I used to love the ol' street.
What about count, who used to go
1 - ah ah ah
2 - ah ah ah
3 - ah ah ah
etc
What about count, who used to go
1 - ah ah ah
2 - ah ah ah
3 - ah ah ah
etc
The grouch was so mean, I always wondered what he would do if a binman tipped his bin into the back of a bin lorry... "Hey big bird, I can count to 3" Well done, Sarah. Next year, when your 27 we'll learn to count to 4, now now, don't you be worrying about complicated numbers like that...
That tune brought back a lot of memories. I used to watch Sesame Street just for that pinball bit. I thought it was cool. :)
I saw an advert on tv for an Old Skool Ibiza Something compilation.
That music, I figure, was dance at its best.
Made me feel old.
I think I'll always remember the pinball song :^)
That music, I figure, was dance at its best.
Made me feel old.
I think I'll always remember the pinball song :^)
Get down with the beat
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