The 80s, myth and reality?

[Benny Holiday]

Edward said many people have contempt for their former vintage selves. I experienced this. I still see snobbery in "antique" and "vintage" areas. Total turn off. Explain to people what is correct instead of mocking them. They've all turned people off to "The Golden Era". I notice Gen Z with their love of the 70s to 00s are enthusiastic and love to share/compliment each other.

I just use all my waterfall furniture, read my history, watch my old movies, and just do me!

*sigh* Oh well, here goes. For a brief period of time in the late-70s and early 80s lip-synching was a bit of a craze here in southern California. Y'know, DJ plays a song, you get up and sing along without actually singing, pretending to be the artist singing the song. Eventually a local bar that my wife and I frequented on Friday and Saturday nights held a "Lip-Synch" contest, and I participated; I won a free drink. After the contest a man walked up to me, and...well, at the time there was a TV show called Solid Gold that promoted popular new music groups and their songs. Eventually they produced a spin-off from that called Solid Gold Hits, and this man wanted me to audition because they were going to start featuring a Lip-Synch segment on each episode. Long story short, I went to their studio, did my bit as Adam Ant, and "won" $2,500 for my troubles. It was rigged by the show's producers, but what the heck; $2,500 is $2,500. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Coolest story I've heard in a long time. The closest I ever got to being Adam Ant was wearing a stripe of white zinc cream across my nose when I did my bronze star swimming course in year seven at the beach!

Solid Gold used to play here on Sunday afternoon, maybe 5 o'clock? "With the Solid Gold Dancers!" I can still rmemeber Melissa Manchester lip syncing her bit hit You Should Hear How She Talks About You on that show.

 

[Turnip]

Remember sitting in a classroom, final tests and oral exams were passed, just finished those yearly sport contests called Bundesjugendspiele and pumped a few beers someone organized from the shop across the street.
One of us had the glorious idea to throw his bottle out of the window, unable to see where it might land.
It smashed the pathway right behind an old lady. The principal showed up, barked around a bit and threw us out of the building. School party was over, real life party began…

 

[Trenchfriend]

I don't know any songs from Adam Ant. Which should I listen to?

 

[Monte.C]

I don't know any songs from Adam Ant. Which should I listen to?

That's easy. Search "Adam Ant" on youtube.
Here, do these:
Antmusic
Goody Two Shoes
Stand and Deliver

These are the hits I'm familiar with. Took them right off my music player just now. If I'm missing any, somebody please let me know!

 

[Turnip]

The soundtrack we had running that above day has been Abrasive Wheels, Peter And The Test Tube Babies and The Exploited…

 

[Benny Holiday]

That's easy. Search "Adam Ant" on youtube.
Here, do these:
Antmusic
Goody Two Shoes
Stand and Deliver

These are the hits I'm familiar with. Took them right off my music player just now. If I'm missing any, somebody please let me know!

+ Dog Eat Dog
Ants Invasion
Kings of The Wild Frontier
Friend or Foe
Feed Me to the Lions
Desperate But Not Serious
Killer in the Home
The Magnificent Five
Jolly Roger

 

[Monte.C]

+ Dog Eat Dog
Ants Invasion
Kings of The Wild Frontier
Friend or Foe
Feed Me to the Lions
Desperate But Not Serious
Killer in the Home
The Magnificent Five
Jolly Roger

There's a real fan.

 

[rogueclimber]

That's easy. Search "Adam Ant" on youtube.
Here, do these:
Antmusic
Goody Two Shoes
Stand and Deliver

These are the hits I'm familiar with. Took them right off my music player just now. If I'm missing any, somebody please let me know!

Keep in mind there is a difference (not much) between Adam and The Ants, and Adam Ant

 

[Frunobulax]

Keep in mind there is a difference (not much) between Adam and The Ants, and Adam Ant

Not to mention Atom Ant.

 

[Benny Holiday]

Bloody hell, I'm old enough to remember him too!

 

[Monte.C]

Bloody hell, I'm old enough to remember him too!

Up and at 'em...

 

[Trenchfriend]

I know him from german kids TV in the 90s.

 

[Monte.C]

I know him from german kids TV in the 90s.

Saturday morning cartoon reruns in the 70s.
I just looked him up... We'll have to include the rest of these.
I have no idea who this Yakky Doodle creature is, but I well remember all the others.

From when cartoons were ok. Perfectly fine.

 

[Benny Holiday]

I saw some of the new Looney Tunes cartoons a little while back. Terrible. Gimme the old ones any day.

There was a Pink Panther cartoon I remember too. And Rocky and Bullwinkle. Along with all the Hanna-Barbera cartoons, those were the staple of my halcyon childhood.

 

[Benny Holiday]

What about afternoon reruns of the 1950s Superman with George Reeves? I'd get home from school, do my homework and dig the Man Of Steel.

 

[Frunobulax]

Saturday morning cartoon reruns in the 70s.
I just looked him up... We'll have to include the rest of these.
I have no idea who this Yakky Doodle creature is, but I well remember all the others.

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From when cartoons were ok. Perfectly fine.

Yakky doodle looks familiar, but I didn’t know his name.

We get a channel called MeTVtoons. Loony Toons from 8pm to 10pm every night. Uncut. I'm in heaven.

 

[Zombie_61]

Keep in mind there is a difference (not much) between Adam and The Ants, and Adam Ant

Right. Adam and the Ants was the band's name, with Adam as lead singer. Adam Ant was, and still is, the person--sort of the leader of the band, him being the lead singer, and he wrote or co-wrote most (if not all) of the songs. He's slowed down a bit over the years, gained some weight, and had some health issues (physical and mental), but he's 70 years old now. I've read he's currently touring in the UK with whichever band members he could assemble. My late wife and I saw him here in southern California several years ago; he could still hit most of the higher notes, but he didn't move around on stage nearly as much as he used to. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[Edward]

Right. Adam and the Ants was the band's name, with Adam as lead singer. Adam Ant was, and still is, the person--sort of the leader of the band, him being the lead singer, and he wrote or co-wrote most (if not all) of the songs. He's slowed down a bit over the years, gained some weight, and had some health issues (physical and mental), but he's 70 years old now. I've read he's currently touring in the UK with whichever band members he could assemble. My late wife and I saw him here in southern California several years ago; he could still hit most of the higher notes, but he didn't move around on stage nearly as much as he used to. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I last saw him in 2011, being lucky enough to be given one of a raft of tickets he donated to the Chap magazine after they interviewed him for a cover feature. Met him after the show, lovely fella. Quiet and shy offstage. (And Johnny Depp totes stole his look.) Still did all the old stuff too - a magnificent version of Stand And Deliver. Adam's solo era in the early eighties provided a lot of the early pop videos I can remember - him and Toni Basil. I remember desperately wanting one of the Mice costumes from the 'Puss n' Boots' video. I remember Swap Shop (kids' Saturday morning magazine show of a kind no longer made) gave away one of the helmets from that in a competition. Heady stuff. I hate loathe and despise eighties nostalgia, but not everything from back then was awful - even if you couldn't pay me enough to live through it again.

 

[rogueclimber]

Right. Adam and the Ants was the band's name, with Adam as lead singer.

Only three albums with the Ants though. After 82(?) he was a solo act and has been since

 

[Benny Holiday]

I got to see him live in 2012 and again in 2017. He'd slimmed down by 2017 and had a heap more energy onstage, but both gigs were brilliant and the sound was top notch. The second show he was supposed to perform all of the Kings of the Wild Frontier album, but after disappearing off stage for a couple of minutes he reappeared and performed another set of all his other hits as well.

I've got his biography and he went through some hard times with bi-polar disease. I'm glad he's still doing his thing and entertaining devotees across the UK.