🎶 …do lyrics get any better than this? 🤣… “He's got a fur lined sheepskin jacket, my ma said they cost a packet...” - The Undertones - My Perfect Cousin
#punk
1980 🤘
@Feargal_Sharkey
@MickeyUndertone
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🎶 “They smelt of pubs & Wormwood Scrubs & too many right wing meetings…” - The Jam - Tubestation - 1978 -
#mods
#punk
absolute perfection 🤘 …how many of today’s songs will you remember word perfect 45 years late 🤷♂️ 🎶
🎶 I love that punk can transcend generations. These guys are embracing punk and absolutely nailing it!! 🤘Students of Cleveland School of Rock performing Waiting Room by Fugazi in 2018 - credit to
@MWConcertVideo
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🎶 “I give a little muscle and I spend a little cash, but all I get is bitter and a nasty little rash...” - Squeeze - Cool For Cats - 1979 🤘 …not sure who the dancers are, but they are loving it 🤣🎶
🎶 Remember John Peel’s Festive 50? Used to love it. Here’s the top 20 from 1978. Lots of
#punk
The great man once said “All I ever wanted to do was hear music that I like and play it to other people” …same 😁🤘 🎶
🎶 “Naked woman, naked man
Where did you get that nice sun tan?…” - The Specials - Stupid Marriage - on the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1979
#ska
#twotone
#ogwt
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🎶 Start your weekend with that shy legend Dave Thomas (frontman of Pere Ubu) singing Waiting For Mary - what a performer! (...and yes, that is Debbie Harry on backing vocals) 🤘
#nightMusic
1989 🎶
🎶 “Heartbeat, increasing heartbeat,
You hear the thunder of stampeding rhinos, elephants and tacky tigers…This Town Ain’t Big Enough for Both of Us - the Mael brothers & Sparks - 1974 - such a good band🤘🎶
🎶 “Enjoy yourself, it’s later than you think!…” by - never have these words been more true, rest in peace Terry xxx 🥲 - The Specials… up close & personal.
#twotone
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#ska
(Here’s the full 4 min vid: ) 🎶
🎶 Here’s a short clip of Althea & Donna live at One Love Peace Concert in Jamaica in 1978 - Uptown Top Ranking
#reggae
(without that awful totp orchestra) 😎🎶
🎶 “I'm in distress, I need a caress, what do I get? I'm not on the make, I just need a break, what do I get?…” - Buzzcocks - What Do I Get? - 1978
#punk
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🎶 Pauline Black of The Selecter, Suggs of Madness & Neville Staple of The Specials behind tour bus at start of Two Tone Tour in Brighton, October 1979. Photo by Chalkie Davies ⬜️⬛️🤘🎶
🎶 Superb Motörhead/Biggie mashup by the rather talented Lewis Floyd Henry… a few years back, down Brick Lane, London 🤘 (full vid on my Instagram account ) 🎶
🎶 “Heartbeat, increasing heartbeat,
You hear the thunder of stampeding rhinos, elephants and tacky tigers…This Town Ain’t Big Enough for Both of Us - the Mael brothers & Sparks - 1974🤘🎶
🎶 “Time to straighten right out… ahhh, ahhh…” - The Specials & Rico - A Message to You, Rudy - on the Old Grey Whistle Test back in 1979
#ska
#twotone
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