Secret Affair-Crap Not Crap?

[discokermit]

78 actually.

massive twat.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

I wonder if Secret Affair know how much anger and dissent the mention of their name inspires?

 

[Grandma Death]

Utter crap. As was the entire "Mod revival.'

I mean, the whole point of being a "mod" was to be modern. So the very idea of a "mod revival" is an oxymoronic absurdity.

I find it unsurprising that the OP should have been an adherent of such stupidity.

Fuck off Dwyer!

 

[THINK!]

The 60s certainly had some heavy duty members amongst the 'hard mod' gangs. This was very prominent scene in London. Many of these geezers became first wave skins.

The 60's- there was no conection between the Mods of the sixties and "mod" revival, it's like comparing, for example, Vikings and people who dress up as vikings today. The real and the ridiculous.

 

[editor]

The 60's- there was no conection between the Mods of the sixties and "mod" revival...

Yes, that's right. No connection at all!

LOL.

 

[THINK!]

Yes, that's right. No connection at all!

LOL.

Dressing up is not the same as being the real thing. I had a cowboy outfit when i was a little kid, i'v never rustled a cow in my life or used as six-shooter or shot a red indian, you ar dim, Editor.

 

[editor]

you ar dim (and immature), Editor.

You're priceless.

 

[THINK!]

You're priceless.

Thank you.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

The 60's- there was no conection between the Mods of the sixties and "mod" revival, it's like comparing, for example, Vikings and people who dress up as vikings today. The real and the ridiculous.

You're assuming the Mod scene had completely died out by 1978 and all of it's participants had denounced it. This is just not true.

A Mod Scene continues to this day, the revival was just a moment in which it achieved greater attention, followers, bands for a short time, and then it died down again to it's regular pace

Many scenes still exists quite healthily out of the gaze of the media and public eye, and the mod scene is one of these with plenty of bands up and down the country performing at Mod and Scooter weekenders etc.

Personally I wouldn't want to attach myself to any scene or culture, or to the strict rules and regs that go with them in terms of fashion etc, so I dip in and out of the Mod/Skin/Ska scenes and just do my own thing in terms of clothes. I like to keep smartish, but not to the letter.

I've always found the Mod scene a bit of a ponces palace tbh - too much attention to detail, more style than substance, so while I like the clothes and the music, I couldn't be doing with the people too much.

My biggest issue with all the scenes is that they get a bit trapped by the past, when they could be progressive. The Mod revival, at least, benefitted from the injection of punk and it's politics, as did Two Tone and Oi, whereas today a lot of Ska bands play it by numbers, much as many of the Mod bands wanna sound like The Creation.

 

[trevhagl]

i am always wary of people who call any scene "dead" as they seem to be ready for the next big thing, no matter how crap it may be (remember New Romantic!!)

 

[Nanker Phelge]

i am always wary of people who call any scene "dead" as they seem to be ready for the next big thing, no matter how crap it may be (remember New Romantic!!)

Some scenes would have been better off never having been born

 

[ALondonStation]

Punk isn't dead! Oops. Wrong thread. It'll be along shortly after this one, I'm sure.