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I want Smash Hits, TOTP and the SUNDAY night top 40 chart countdown

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Charley1988 · 27/10/2019 12:42

Just that really.AIBU?

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JustDanceAddict · 27/10/2019 15:38

I loved it all too. Smash Hits was the best magazine! I’m so glad I was a teen then in a lot of ways.
Mind you, I have a DD who is v into certain bands and singers now, there’s quite a sub-culture around music etc on SM that obviously we didn’t have in the 80s.

I was also thinking of the holiday programmes of old, used to love Wish You Were Here.

ChicCauldron · 27/10/2019 15:57

I remember Neil Tennant as a Smash Hits journo. It might have been Neil who wrote a review of a Prince single, Gotta Stop Messin Around. The review read 'too true, Prince' Grin

I have mentioned on another thread recently that I will be accompanying my DD to a Billie Eilish concert next year - my parents never did that for me I just had to wait until I could go with my friends on my own! Have also seen the Vamps, Little Mix and Union J. No sitting with her finger on the record button on a Sunday evening for her doesn't know she's born

ChicCauldron · 27/10/2019 15:59

Oh, and another late 70's/early 80's magazine out at the same time as Smash Hits was Flexidisc. As the name indicates, you got a flexidisc on the front of each issue. Better than the endless lipbalms, makeup and fluffy purses on the front of DD's magazines.

Echobelly · 27/10/2019 16:11

I think it is a shame that there is nothing like TOTP or pop magazines that can be seen around the house and anyone can look at anymore, because it all means generational cultures are shifting further apart.

Even if it meant Dad coming in and going 'What's this rubbish?' or 'What do those idiots think they look like?!', the fact was progs like TOTP and magazines meant parents had an obvious window on what kids were into, it was kind of a shared cultural space. Whereas now we're all living in separate worlds on separate screens, with media channels that are geared to our specific demographic, and as a parent it's much harder to have an idea what your kids and young people in general are into, because you won't even know necessarily where they are consuming their media.

NB, it's still absolutely kids' right to like whatever they like, but it seems a bit sad to me that their world is becoming so separate.

demelza82 · 27/10/2019 16:29

Absolute Radio 90s do top 40s from the 90s on Sunday afternoon s

ControversialFerret · 27/10/2019 16:42

I loved Smash Hits. Very funny, quite dry humour. Way ahead of its time and such a shame there's nothing like it anymore.

LoisWilkersonsLastNerve · 27/10/2019 17:08

I just want to be back in the 80's. Full stop Halloween Grin

Victorybird · 27/10/2019 17:12

@CalamityJune that's interesting about heat because I used to like it in the early days - I never thought about it having the same kind of tone but you're right; it did. I can still remember one night going home from work, all serious suit and lk Bennett shoes and stopping at a kiosk in the tube station for heat and a chocolate bar. It was my guilty pleasure. Another woman looking similar to me was doing the same thing and we caught each other's eye and gave a little conspiratorial grin.

@Echobelly I agree about the individual way that people access media now. It's a shame.

Pinkkahori · 27/10/2019 17:15

My oldest dd is 13 now. She's not very interested in music at the moment.
It sometimes makes me a bit sad. At that age my sister and i were obsessed with TOPT, Number One magazine and Smash Hits.
We listened to the radio constantly and had a room full of posters.
Dd doesn't have anything like that in her life.

pippitysqueakity · 27/10/2019 17:18

@ChicCauldren, having taken my daughter to music festivals this summer because she was too young to get in, I feel your pain. Hopefully this is the teenage equivalent of building memories. Or something...

Jue01 · 27/10/2019 17:19

What memories - I absolutely adored Nick Heywood - entered a dance competition at 15 - danced to Favourite Shirt - and won !!

Fishflame · 27/10/2019 17:24

I miss those awful but wonderful summer shows that they had in the 70s and 80s... Summertime Special and the like.

Miss TOTP too

ALongHardWinter · 27/10/2019 17:28

It would be nice to see them return,but only if it was with the music and bands of the 80s! None of this modern day crap. sound like I'm about 90 years old

Almostfifty · 27/10/2019 17:54

Jackie. I miss Jackie. What a fabulous magazine it was.

DaveCoachesgavemetheclap · 27/10/2019 18:00

Jackie was briiliant. I used to love Fab 208 & Blue Jeans as well. I used to dream of having a boyfriend called Steve or Greg like the dishy fellas in the photo stories 😁

Almostfifty · 27/10/2019 18:04

I'm sure Paul Young did one of the photo stories. I love him.

HappyHarlot · 27/10/2019 18:06

I watch old re-runs of TOTP on bbc. They're on iplayer too.

weeblefeet · 27/10/2019 18:17

Jackie, Patches, Blue Jeans, Girl, I bought them all before progressing to Just 17 and Mizz.

ManonBlackbeak · 27/10/2019 18:21

YANBU. I miss Smash Hits, Top of the Pops, Saturday morning kids TV, CD.UK, Noels House Party, Gladiators. Just the 90's in general really.

BlackType · 27/10/2019 18:26

"Lots" of "these".

I made a "pilgrimage" to the Carnaby St "office" in about 1983. Grin

Graphista · 27/10/2019 18:34

Jackie and blue jeans I loved then progressed onto just 17, 19, then more (position of the fortnight Grin) then Cosmo etc

LOVED magazines, think the internet has kinda buggered them now though. My dd doesn't see the appeal at all.

This thread has prompted me to download kindle app on new phone as I just remembered I get free mags with prime

MabelFurball · 27/10/2019 18:51

I had Blue Jeans and sometimes SH. My bedroom walls were covered in pop posters. I liked Duran Duran and David Bowie best. Like someone said upthread, my brain is mainly filled with 80s lyrics.

Charley1988 · 27/10/2019 18:52

"Love" it Blacktype

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Graphista · 27/10/2019 18:56

This months prima has a wham! Photo spread and interview with Lenny Henry - 80's tastic!

managedmis · 27/10/2019 18:58

The 80's were amazing, let's face it

Fuck today

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