To not want BOYZONE or worse SUSAN BOYLE for Mother's Day

[Charly123]

Every year I get a CD - every year I drop great hints - every year they are ignored and every year I have to act as if it's the greatest gift in the world.

Hawkwind - I have these:

1971 In Search of Space
1972 Doremi Fasol Latido
1974 Hall of the Mountain Grill
1975 Warrior on the Edge of Time
1976 Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music
1977 Quark, Strangeness and Charm - my favourite
1978 25 Years On Â? Hawklords

Only saw them on their Hawklords in 1978/9 tour, as was too young before that - brilliant.
I buy CDs, have hundreds and hundreds.

I have told them I want a cd of cello music and they dont believe me,'Dont be silly Mum you know you only like folk music!'Thing is I heard an 'expert' on Antiques Roadshow trying a cello and I loved the music-oh recognised it and suggested to dc for M Day.
I feel stereotyped
Why not cds?Whats wrong with them?Do you mean an ipod thingy instead?I wouldnt know how to start.

Oooh, Malovitt, you mean you don't have Sonic Attack?
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Now this has to be the freak-out-any-journos thread of the day, a sudden convention of Hawkwind fans on MN? Try Boden-ing that ya bastards!

Oh YEAAAHHHHHH!

malovitt - that's quite a collection! Are they your favourite band, or do you have as much of others catalogues too? Most of my music buying was as a student, and they are all on audio cassette, for listening to on an oldfashioned Walkman But now I mostly listen in the car and that doesn't have a cassette deck any more so I am slowly having to replace stuff with CDs. I just can't get into buying music without a physical medium - the idea of not having an actual thing, preferably with sleeve-notes, is too much to bear.

I guess that's the difference between us oldsters and the "digital natives" these days . I feel so old sometimes...

No, they're not my favourite favourite band, but really remind me of being a young teen before getting into punk/gothy music.

I've gone through all my vinyl and cassettes and replaced them with CDs now. Can't quite get rid of my old records though, they're in the loft. Had a disaster and lost all my downloaded music when my computer went a bit haywire, so like to have the cd to back it up.

I may be old, but still go out at least once or twice a week to see a live band if I can.