seveninchesofpleasure: Boom Boom Acka Lacka Lacka Boom It was a night like this, 22 years ago… Picture the scene… October 1987. I lived and breathed the Sinclair Spectrum. I read Sinclair User, Your Sinclair and Crash. I used to exchange Sinclair User POKE cards at school. I had a stack of C15s with copied games that would clatter about in my bag. For my birthday it’d (recently) become tradition that I went to the PCW Show at Olympia.  This year it was so popular they’d had to move it to Earl’s Court.  My dad took me on one of his annual access visits (my parents were married & lived together, it was just that unusual to go anywhere with only my dad) and we drove from Gloucester to LONDON. Although I lived in London from 2001-2006 if I ever took a clunky old district line train with a wooden floor anywhere near Earls Court, I was transported back in time to the 80s. A distant, slightly wistful look would spread across my face, and inside my head Was (Not Was) would open the door, get on the floor and walk the nostalgic dinosaur. I have to say this nostalgia trip is the main reason for my liking this song.  It doesn’t fit the pattern. But what it does have is the spirit of a one-off novelty song, and if there’s one thing I liked it was a novelty song. Things I learned at the time: The band members were brothers. The name Was (Not Was) was a reference to how to pronounce their family name. Things I learned since: Neither member was called Was, nor were they brothers. They reappeared in 1992 with “Shake Your Head” produced by Steve ‘Silk’ Hurley and featuring Ozzy Ozbourne and Kim Basinger. Were it not for the Internet I’d have thought I dreamt this. Date: October 1987 Highest Chart Position: 10 Read through my misguided seven inch collection over at http://seveninches.tumblr.com

seveninchesofpleasure:

Boom Boom Acka Lacka Lacka Boom

It was a night like this, 22 years ago…

Picture the scene… October 1987. I lived and breathed the Sinclair Spectrum. I read Sinclair User, Your Sinclair and Crash. I used to exchange Sinclair User POKE cards at school. I had a stack of C15s with copied games that would clatter about in my bag. For my birthday it’d (recently) become tradition that I went to the PCW Show at Olympia.  This year it was so popular they’d had to move it to Earl’s Court.  My dad took me on one of his annual access visits (my parents were married & lived together, it was just that unusual to go anywhere with only my dad) and we drove from Gloucester to LONDON.

Although I lived in London from 2001-2006 if I ever took a clunky old district line train with a wooden floor anywhere near Earls Court, I was transported back in time to the 80s. A distant, slightly wistful look would spread across my face, and inside my head Was (Not Was) would open the door, get on the floor and walk the nostalgic dinosaur.

I have to say this nostalgia trip is the main reason for my liking this song.  It doesn’t fit the pattern. But what it does have is the spirit of a one-off novelty song, and if there’s one thing I liked it was a novelty song.

Things I learned at the time: The band members were brothers. The name Was (Not Was) was a reference to how to pronounce their family name.

Things I learned since: Neither member was called Was, nor were they brothers. They reappeared in 1992 with “Shake Your Head” produced by Steve ‘Silk’ Hurley and featuring Ozzy Ozbourne and Kim Basinger. Were it not for the Internet I’d have thought I dreamt this.

Date: October 1987

Highest Chart Position: 10

Read through my misguided seven inch collection over at http://seveninches.tumblr.com

seveninches

5 notes

Show

  1. crouchingbadger reblogged this from seveninches and added:
    misguided seven inch collection over...http://seveninches.tumblr.com
  2. seveninches posted this