Any mods / ageing mods out there?

[The Large One]

No, not those neo-Nazi bastards who pry into your PM box here on NSC.

I've got some Dobie Gray (who? - if you're a mod, you'll have heard of 'I'm In With The In Crowd') on iTunes on at the moment, and it took me back 20 years to the Scooter dos we used to go to, all slip-sliding across the floor to Northern Soul or Motown, skanking to Robert Marley or the Harry J All-Stars, and these were old records at the time!

So what kind of mod were you, what did you prefer? What was the ONE dance track that always got you up and bopping (cos that's what mods can do - dance. Bit of soul? Ska/Bluebeat/Two-Tone? Jazz? Britbands?

My top 5 'mod' tunes

Northern: Out On The Floor - Out On The Floor
Motown: Shake Me, Wake Me (When It's Over) - Four Tops
Ska: Elizabethan Reggae - Boris Gardiner
Jazz: Blow Up - James Taylor Quartet
Britband: Making Time - The Creation

Just curious, like. Smart.

 

[Gully]

Not a mod, but I am partial to a bit of ska from time to time, keep hoping in vain for a revival.

 

[Muhammad - I’m hard - Bruce Lee]

rockers rule

 

[Yorkie]

20 years? Mods were just copycats then.

The real mods were 40 years ago.

 

[simon swagbag]

My top 5 'mod' tunes

Northern: Out On The Floor - Out On The Floor
Motown: Shake Me, Wake Me (When It's Over) - Four Tops
Ska: Elizabethan Reggae - Boris Gardiner
Jazz: Blow Up - James Taylor Quartet
Britband: Making Time - The Creation

Just curious, like. Smart.

Northern: Frank Wilson - Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)
Motown: The Velvelettes - Needle In A Haystack
Ska: Dave & Ansell Collins - Double Barrel
Britband: Small Faces - Whacha Gonna Do About It.

 

[Stinky Kat]

20 years? Mods were just copycats then.

The real mods were 40 years ago.

thats like saying real brighton fans are only from brighton

you cant help where or when you were born

Teenbeats circa 1979 rule

 

[Hatterlovesbrighton]

Instead of "Childish Ramblings" could we not have a section called "Mid-life crisis ramblings"

 

[The Auditor]

Teenbeats circa 1979 rule

Strength of the Nation ......lies in its youth !

 

[The Large One]

Instead of "Childish Ramblings" could we not have a section called "Mid-life crisis ramblings"

Oi! Who's having a mid-life ramble? My main concern is that I can't do handstands on the dance floor any more...

Hrumph.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Was never a mod but had a soft spot for Secret Affair and their bigmouth leader Ian Page

 

[Franks Wild Years]

I was never a mod neither, but these days I find myself dressing in a mod stylee. Love a bit of ska n'all.

 

[REDLAND]

Not a mod, but I am partial to a bit of ska from time to time, keep hoping in vain for a revival.

Get ya self out to New York dude, its never dwindled one iowta ..

If not check out The Slackers proper 'modern' ska ...

 

[The Face]

I like to think of myself as a mod. Even though I'm only 18 years old ha!

I have a vespa, can recite Quadrophenia quote for quote, wear Fred Perrys and worship The Who but that doesn't necessarily make me a mod I guess. More of a revivalist!

My top mod choons would be something like..

Northern ~ R. Dean Taylor - There's A Ghost In My House
Motown ~ Martha Reeves - Heatwave
Ska/Roots ~ Des Dekker - Israelites
Britband ~ The Kinks - Big Black Smoke

 

[aftershavedave]

northern: do the 81: candy and the kisses; give me just a little more time: cotb
motown (well stax anyway): rescue me: fontella bass
ska: not really my bag but guns of navarone
jazz: i prefer my jazz to be jazz not JTQ stuff, so crescent: john coltrane
britband: waterloo sunset: kinks; revival - frustration: purple hearts

 

[The Large One]

motown (well stax anyway): rescue me: fontella bass

Chess (a blues label), if you really to get pedantic.

 

[Woodingdean Gull]

Must confess to being there in the early days, some of my favourites:-

‘Can’t explain’ - The Who (and most of their other stuff)

‘I can’t help myself (sugar pie honey bunch)’ – Four Tops

‘What'Cha Gonna Do’ – Small Faces

‘Times are a changing’ – Dylan

‘Baby, baby’ – The Supremes

‘I’m in with the in crowd’ - Dobie Gray

Most Beatles, Stones, Hollies and Kinks stuff

 

[aftershavedave]

Chess (a blues label), if you really to get pedantic.

get you!