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  • A new favorite song of mine

    very fitting for this old punk rocker who wasn't born to late!

    YouTube - Sandi Thom-I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker (With Flowers In My Hair)

    Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair
    In seventy-seven and sixty-nine revolution was in the air
    I was born too late into a world that doesn't care
    Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair

    When the head of state didn't play guitar
    Not everybody drove a car
    When music really mattered and when radio was king
    When accountants didn't have control
    And the media couldn't buy your soul
    And computers were still scary and we didn't know everything

    Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair
    In seventy-seven and sixty-nine revolution was in the air
    I was born too late into a world that doesn't care
    Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair

    When pop stars still remained a myth
    And ignorance could still be bliss
    And when god saved the queen she turned a whiter shade of pale
    My mom and dad were in their teens
    And anarchy was still a dream
    And the only way to stay in touch was a letter in the mail

    Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair
    In seventy-seven and sixty-nine revolution was in the air
    I was born too late into a world that doesn't care
    Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair

    When record shops were still on top
    And vinyl was all that they stocked
    And the super info highway was still drifting out in space
    Kids were wearing hand me downs
    And playing games meant kick arounds
    And footballers still had long hair and dirt across their face

    Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair
    In seventy-seven and sixty-nine revolution was in the air
    I was born too late into a world that doesn't care
    Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair
    I was born too late into a world that doesn't care
    Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair
    Lawren
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    There are many wonderful places in the world, but one of my favourite places is on the back of my horse.
    - Rolf Kopfle

  • #2
    Good song.
    Now I am trying to figure it out.
    I am taking it 1977 and '69, but what happened in those years that she is referring to? So many events are whirling around my mind, but the DW history teacher is out with the girls tonight, so my mind wanders alone.
    Don

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    • #3
      Originally posted by vintner
      Good song.
      Now I am trying to figure it out.
      I am taking it 1977 and '69, but what happened in those years that she is referring to? So many events are whirling around my mind, but the DW history teacher is out with the girls tonight, so my mind wanders alone.
      1969 was Woodstock, 1977 saw the release of several pivotal albums in the development of punk music. Widely-acknowledged as masterpieces and among the earliest first full-length purely punk albums, the Ramones' Rocket to Russia, the Jam's In the City, Iggy Pop's Lust for Life, the debut by the Clash, The Clash, The Damned's Damned, Damned, Damned, Wire's Pink Flag, Richard Hell & the Voidoids' Blank Generation, Elvis Costello's My Aim Is True, the Dead Boys' Young, Loud and Snotty, the Sex Pistols' Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, and Television's Marquee Moon are usually considered their respective masterpieces, and kick-started punk music as the musical genre it eventually became. The year also saw the release of debut albums by bands often associated with, if not defined as, punk, such as Talking Heads' Talking Heads: 77, Suicide's Suicide, and Motörhead's Motörhead. The year was also the year of formation for the B-52's, Black Flag, Crass, Discharge and X.

      More than you wanted to know I'm sure.
      Lawren
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      There are many wonderful places in the world, but one of my favourite places is on the back of my horse.
      - Rolf Kopfle

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      • #4
        Originally posted by vintner
        Good song.
        Now I am trying to figure it out.
        I am taking it 1977 and '69, but what happened in those years that she is referring to? So many events are whirling around my mind, but the DW history teacher is out with the girls tonight, so my mind wanders alone.
        Some things I found that took place in 1969 ......

        Charles Manson and his "family" went on a killing rampage.

        Golda Meir was named the new Prime Minister of Israel.

        Hurricane Camille hit the coast of Missippi with 180 mile an hour winds and 25 foot waves, killing 250 people.

        October 29, 1969. The ARPANET was one of the "eve" networks of today's Internet.

        Apollo 12 landed on the moon for the second time and then returned to earth.

        The Russian's Venera 5 lands on Venus in May.

        There were riots about civil rights, and Vietnam.

        Mary Jo Kopechne, drowned in brother Ted's car in Chappaquiddick.

        The Beatles made their final album, "Abbey Roads".

        The final issue of the Saturday Evening Post was published.

        The first ATM is installed by Docutel Corporation in Rockefeller Center.

        The opening of a new store called Wal-Mart!

        Yasser Arafat was named the head of the PLO by the Palestinian Congress.

        Two asassins are convicted. James Earl Ray pleads guilty to the murder of Martin Luther King. Sirhan Sirhan confesses to the asassination of Robert Kennedy.
        Angela

        If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

        BTW, I'm still keeping track of how many times you annoy me.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by lawren2
          1969 was Woodstock, 1977 saw .....
          More than you wanted to know I'm sure.
          WOW. Looks as you have been busy

          I was thinking Woodstock may have been about '69, but I was so young, sweet and innocent back then, or clueless . That has changed, I am no longer young, but and still .

          1977, I knew nothing about punk rock. Now I do. '77 is when I moved to Minneapolis, and became aware of life in the big city

          Thanks for the education
          Don

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