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Anyone else Gen-X (+/-) ; or nostalgic for these particular decades past ?

Including later / current media that reflects this earlier era ?

Please feel free to post *media / comments
- If not - no worries

*Media - Please not too graphic/ gore / spiders / snakes / insects


There's no posting format - just a stream of consciousness


*PS : Apologies for poor communication lately - trapped in catatonic state


Van Morrison - Astral Weeks


If I ventured in the slipstream
Between the viaducts of your dream
Where immobile steel rims crack
And the ditch in the back roads stop
Could you find me?
Would you kiss-a my eyes?
To lay me down
In silence easy
To be born again
To be born again
From the far side of the ocean
If I put the wheels in motion
And I stand with my arms behind me
And I'm pushin' on the door
Could you find me?
Would you kiss-a my eyes?
To lay me down
In silence easy
To be born again
To be born again
There you go
Standin' with the look of avarice
Talkin' to Huddie Ledbetter
Showin' pictures on the wall
Whisperin' in the hall
And pointin' a finger at me
There you go, there you go
Standin' in the sun darlin'
With your arms behind you
And your eyes before
There you go
Takin' good care of your boy
Seein' that he's got clean clothes
Puttin' on his little red shoes
I see you know he's got clean clothes
A-puttin' on his little red shoes
A-pointin' a finger at me
And here I am
Standing in your sad arrest
Trying to do my very best
Lookin' straight at you
Comin' through, darlin'
Yeah, yeah, yeah
If I ventured in the slipstream
Between the viaducts of your dreams
Where immobile steel rims crack
And the ditch in the back roads stop
Could you find me
Would you kiss-a my eyes
Lay me down
In silence easy
To be born again
To be born again
To be born again
In another world
In another world
In another time
Got a home on high
Ain't nothing but a stranger in this world
I'm nothing but a stranger in this world
I got a home on high
In another land
So far away
So far away
Way up in the heaven
Way up in the heaven
Way up in the heaven
Way up in the heaven
In another time
In another place
In another time
In another place
Way up in the heaven
Way up in the heaven
We are goin' up to heaven
We are goin' to heaven
In another time
In another place
In another time
In another place
In another face

 

[psp3000]

I am not a part of that generation but I am very excited for this thread because its right up my alley :D

here's some stuff:

My Retro TVs a site that has sites dedicated to commercials from the 50s to the 00s

British Pathe archival footage they have a youtube channel as well I enjoy their 50s and 60s fashion and culture videos

a list of some of my favourite shows and films that I recommend/ that I am nostalgic for:

Spoiler: list

The Twilight Zone
Green Acres
Barbarella
The Holy Mountain
Hausu
Tales From The Crypt
Parents
Belladonna of Sadness
Eraserhead
Blue Velvet
Heavy Metal
Spicy City
Fritz the Cat
Hey There Good Lookin'
Fire and Ice
Wizards
The Fantastic Planet
Rock and Rule
Wait Until Your Father Gets Home
Pee Wee's Playhouse

 

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Thank you so much for those excellent resources + very kind reply @psp3000

I grew up with :
Twilight Zone
Green Acres !

 

[loyalskateboard]

I have always enjoyed this performance.

 

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Nick Drake - Time Has Told Me


Time has told me
You're a rare, rare find
A troubled cure
For a troubled mind

And time has told me
Not to ask for more
Someday our ocean
Will find its shore

So I'll leave the ways that are making me be
What I really don't want to be
Leave the ways that are making me love
What I really don't want to love

Time has told me
You came with the dawn
A soul with no footprint
A rose with no thorn

Your tears they tell me
There's really no way
Of ending your troubles
With things you can say

And time will tell you
To stay by my side
To keep on trying
'Til there's no more to hide

So leave the ways that are making you be
What you really don't want to be
Leave the ways that are making you love
What you really don't want to love

Time has told me
You're a rare, rare find
A troubled cure
For a troubled mind

And time has told me
Not to ask for more
So someday our ocean
Will find its shore

 

[mia.wallace]

Love classic cinema. Some favorites from the 1950s below

All About Eve
A Streetcar Named Desire
North by Northwest
Sabrina
Strangers on a Train
Sunset Boulevard
To Catch a Thief
Vertigo

 

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Fleetwood Mac - Dreams

 

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[psp3000]

I love when trends reapeat themselves especially in fashion

 

[psp3000]

 

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[mia.wallace]

 

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Trouble
Oh trouble, set me free
I have seen your face
And it's too much, too much for me

Trouble
Oh trouble, can't you see
You're eating my heart away
And there's nothing much left of me

I've drunk your wine
You have made your world mine
So won't you be fair
So won't you be fair

I don't want no more of you
So won't you be kind to me
Just let me go where
I'll have to go there

Trouble
Oh trouble, move away
I have seen your face
And it's too much for me today

Trouble
Oh trouble, can't you see
You have made me a wreck
Now won't you leave me in my misery

I've seen your eyes
And I can see death's disguise
Hangin' on me
Hangin' on me

I'm beat, I'm torn
Shattered and tossed and worn
Too shocking to see
Too shocking to see

Trouble
Oh trouble, move from me
I have paid my debt
Now won't you leave me in my misery

Trouble
Oh trouble, please be kind
I don't want no fight
And I haven't got a lot of time

 

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[psp3000]

thought you all might enjoy her channel
Erin Parson's Makeup

 

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Bobby Vinton - Sealed With A Kiss

 

[LoiteringClouds]

Concorde (supersonic airliner)

Produced: 1965 - 1979
First flight: 2 March 1969
Introduction: 21 January 1976
Retired: 24 October 2003 (last commercial flight)

An outdated dream in timeless beauty - she has a unique delta wing for a civilian aircraft. In 21st century, we don't need a plane which can travel New York JFK and London Heathrow in less than three hours, because Wifi is everywhere and we can work from anywhere, but when I was 5, she was a dream aircraft came from a video game.
She had a lot of problems - sonic booms, bad fuel/overall economy, safety issues and much more - but that's what made this airliner unique - it's a pure dream of supersonic flight.

The existence of Concorde shows how much human beings love vehicles they created.