Showing posts with label alternative. Show all posts
Showing posts with label alternative. Show all posts
#8: White Virgins - Turn Off The Lights (2016)
My #8 of 2016 comes courtesy Netflix (and dreary UK TV). One evening with nothing else else decent on UK TV I turned to Netflix, and came across the Belgian movie 'Belgica'. If yu haven't watched it, do so soon. You will have to sit through sub-titles, but my god, it's incredible! Everything else explains from there. White Virgins files, like The Shitz and Erasmus, in the Soulwax stable out of Ghent, Belgium.
Bastille - Of The Night (2013)
Bastille - Of The Night (2013)
UK#2, BE#2, IRL#2, HUN#3, AUS#6, DE#10, AT#17, DK#22, ES#23, CH#28, SVK#33, SWE#39, US#46, NL#88
PLB - My Prinz Luitpold Bad years... (1990-1992)
Just after the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the East German economy collapsed, widely expected as it happens, but hindsight can be a beautiful - as well as ugly - thing, eh?!!
Searching for a job was the equivalent to searching for the proverbial needle in a haystack.
Left with few options, I looked further than the immideate (i.e. 200 miles) surroundings of my home town Rostock and outside the box (i.e. what else can I do?) and found - wahey! - a job as an apprentice in a hotel in the deepest Bavaria - the PLB, officially known as the Prinz Luitpold Bad in Hindelang, near Oberstorf, the most southern community in Germany. I left my parent's home on 9 August 1990 and cut right across my Fatherland.
Life was hard on an apprentice's wage, but better than sitting around at home on the dole.
My school-English was enormously beneficial - I could hold conversations about the Communist Party, the Anti-Nuclear-Movement - and various other enthralling topics...
To cut a long story short, I soon befriended these foreign workers, mostly English-speaking students on their 'Year Out' between A-Level and University. We had lots of parties in the staff building called 'Freiheit'(Freedom) just behind.
That was the time I learned my real English. Two, three months and the language was there - but Boy! - wasn't learning the sense of humour difficult! (it poses a challenge to this very day, LOL).
Anyway, the parties we had were fantastic; this is when I first learned about 'Indie' and 'Madchester'. These tracks will stay in my memory forever...
Happy Mondays - Step On
The Charlatans - The Only One I Know
Inspiral Carpets - She Comes In The Fall
Soup Dragons - I'm Free
EMF - Unbelievable
Primal Scream - Loaded
The Farm - All Together Now
James - Sit Down
Stone Roses - Fools Gold
The Cure - A Forest (from the Remixed album)
Left with few options, I looked further than the immideate (i.e. 200 miles) surroundings of my home town Rostock and outside the box (i.e. what else can I do?) and found - wahey! - a job as an apprentice in a hotel in the deepest Bavaria - the PLB, officially known as the Prinz Luitpold Bad in Hindelang, near Oberstorf, the most southern community in Germany. I left my parent's home on 9 August 1990 and cut right across my Fatherland.
Life was hard on an apprentice's wage, but better than sitting around at home on the dole.
To cut a long story short, I soon befriended these foreign workers, mostly English-speaking students on their 'Year Out' between A-Level and University. We had lots of parties in the staff building called 'Freiheit'(Freedom) just behind.
That was the time I learned my real English. Two, three months and the language was there - but Boy! - wasn't learning the sense of humour difficult! (it poses a challenge to this very day, LOL).
Anyway, the parties we had were fantastic; this is when I first learned about 'Indie' and 'Madchester'. These tracks will stay in my memory forever...
Happy Mondays - Step On
The Charlatans - The Only One I Know
Inspiral Carpets - She Comes In The Fall
Soup Dragons - I'm Free
EMF - Unbelievable
Primal Scream - Loaded
The Farm - All Together Now
James - Sit Down
Stone Roses - Fools Gold
The Cure - A Forest (from the Remixed album)
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