Hippies! New Model Army Are Hippies!

[patrick65]

It's often misleading to stick a label on a band...

[Master Ray]

To which I can only add...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLPSxS_QeEQ

 

[Anna Woman von NRW]

 

[Pol]

Cartman rocks

[Master Ray]

Best hippie ever!

(it'll confuse the **** out of folks from outside the UK, but anyone from the 80's will love it... can you believe it, a top 5 hit?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB0UZN83N-w

 

[ruckedout]

Let's put this into proper time context. Acoustic guitars were the tools of hippies. Donovan, The Beatles with their "Mother Nature's Son," The Mamas and the Papas, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Crosby Stills Nash...all hippies, all strumming their acoustic guitars.

Now after the '60s and that hippy flower power nonsense faded, the only acoustic guitars on Earth were played by country western artists, the solo Beatles, and Jimmy Page. That was it. Punk came around, disco...and thankfully the acoustic guitar was set aside with love beads, acid, and lava lamps.

So in the early/mid '80s I am into this band New Model Army. Great rock band. Yeah, in the pictures I saw of them I saw that they had long hair and wore blue jeans. Hmmm. Thought that was a bit strange, but I just ignored that. Then I go to my music store and buy their new release, something called "The Acoustic E.P." Huh? I put it on my turntable and it is the band singing along to strumming acoustic guitars! HIPPIES! I knew these guys were hippies!

I laughed to myself. Hippies after all. You know The Clash had not one acoustic guitar on their albums. The Specials, none. Joy Division, none. The Gang Of Four, New Order...short hair and no acoustic guitars. I loved all those bands, so imagine my surprise when I played "The Acoustic E.P" for the first time. Hippies! For those that weren't around then, have to remember this acoustic release by NMA was years before MTV's unplugged. Years before acoustic guitars were seen as normal tools for rock bands. I now sure do give NMA a lot of credit for being so far ahead of the curve with this acoustic E.P., but back then when I first bought it...HIPPIES!

Well, I gave the acoustic E.P. a good listen and sure enough, I loved it. "Better Than Them" may be played on the same instrument The Cowsills used, but it sure wasn't hippy music.

I am new to this forum and want to say that nearly 30 years after that "New Model Army are hippies!" moment, I still follow the band, still love them, still buy all their releases. And, yes, I am still waiting for their "The Sitar E.P."

Not sure about the Hippy thing or acoustic guitars however i do have an opinion on The Clash. Do you not think Sandinista was a bit of weird album compared to Give em Enough Rope or London Calling ?

Be honest now, when you first bought that album (which i did on vinyl many years back), did you not think what the **** is this, where is the band aggressiveness that i know and love, and how are the fans going to spit at the band continually when "Rebel Waltz" is played live?

[Pol]

I really disliked Sandinista when it came out and definitely thought what the Fck is this. I still don't like it.

[Amandistan]

Sandinista was the best Clash album by far. It was all over the musical spectrum and really long. 


Hippies and punks are the same! If given to me I would try LSD right now as well as other mind altering drugs. Since a month ago when first trying weed from a pipe, I have basically been stoned half of the time since. 

[lotus]

Sandinista was the best Clash album by far. It was all over the musical spectrum and really long. 


Hippies and punks are the same! If given to me I would try LSD right now as well as other mind altering drugs. Since a month ago when first trying weed from a pipe, I have basically been stoned half of the time since. 

[lotus]

so where is my posting I was writing before?
Try it again:
Perhaps Hippies and punks are the same to you - weed and lsd aren`t!! Even people without problems may have some - you never know the quality you get, and after taking it, there`s no way out!! Beeing on an horror trip instaed of feeling well will change your life definitly and not for the better way. Don`t try to test it alone or better - don`t test it and enjoy the weed and try to find a low level to keep your life in a balance
Take care of you !!!

[lotus]

Best hippie ever!

(it'll confuse the **** out of folks from outside the UK, but anyone from the 80's will love it... can you believe it, a top 5 hit?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB0UZN83N-w

 

Steve Winwood (Traffic) I though was first and the top 5 hit?

[lotus]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a77yHpjdUtU
Hole in my shoes 1969

[Anna Woman von NRW]

If given to me I would try LSD right now as well as other mind altering drugs. Since a month ago when first trying weed from a pipe, I have basically been stoned half of the time since. 

Be very careful honey that's entering a whole different game and from afar would suggest you proceed with upmost caution. I'm a hippy, that's said with love.

[Shush]

so where is my posting I was writing before?
Try it again:
Perhaps Hippies and punks are the same to you - weed and lsd aren`t!! Even people without problems may have some - you never know the quality you get, and after taking it, there`s no way out!! Beeing on an horror trip instaed of feeling well will change your life definitly and not for the better way. Don`t try to test it alone or better - don`t test it and enjoy the weed and try to find a low level to keep your life in a balance
Take care of you !!!

That is very sound advice. Amanda, make sure you read this one !!!!

[JohnnyM]

New Model Army used to do a "Hippies with Attitide" tshirt about Impurity sort of time.