Nostalgia gets better with time

All the recent musical flashbacks to the 80s, along with a few "snowdays" and a good bit of industrial action is getting me all excited about the things i did and didn't do "back in the day". I have general obsession with music from the 80s (OK to be fair the 70s and 90s get a pretty good look in too) and it is great to find things that were once loved and bring them back into my life. One such instance is a favoured tune from Alphaville. Big in Japan is hardly likely to win awards for innovation or technical mastery but they did capture the zeitgeist (look at me with words beginning with z :-) ) of the era. I foolishly had a read of the lyrics and figured that some things are best left alone. "Big in Japan, be tight ..." i mean really.



I have picked out the bits of vinyl that are required and will be posting an 80s mix in the next couple of weeks. I will try and sidestep the likes of Wham and Duran Duran to give you the electro-synth pop vibe that has stuck with me all my life.

One good thing about looking back is the chance to adopt something you never watched or knew about but on finding it wish like mad you could have been a fan of at the time. This exulted position this week rests with "Shark Hunter". With lead man Franco Nero and classic Italian electronica Shark Hunter is "doing alright". The only difficulty was trying to choose which clips to post.





Where i didn't watch Shark Hunter i did watch Man from Atlantis. Admittedly i watched in a French and never understood a word of what was said but ... it did mean that i still have an affectation for making a crazy underwater swimming motion. To this day i will still swear i swim faster using this technique which is now excuse for looking like an utter prat.



To round off nostalgia Sunday is a clip from my all time favourite cartoon, "Battle of the Planets". I am embarrassed to say that my first ever crush was for some pencil drawn girl coming from the mind of a geeky cartoonist. But hey, to this day Princess is still hot.



Have fun