When did you become a pethead?

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When did you become a pethead?

#1 Post by ceejay »

Looking at the board I see a lot of young new fans who have just become or not long discovered the boys... Aww bless, so I`d like to know when you all became addicted to PSB. Myself since the age of 12, am now 32 :-/. So only 20 years lol.. It was the very first time they played West End Girls vid on Top Of The Pops. As soon as it came on I just got up and started dancing. Didn`t even watch the vid lol, I was just hooked on the song.
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#2 Post by Enrique »

Fan since Suburbia; diehard fan since It's a sin, Rent... :roll: 20 years fan also! :lol:
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I was actually standing in the place I first heard 'The full horror' yesterday. A school reunion :lol:

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#4 Post by DavePSB »

I think it was 1989, when I was 8. My cousin got me hooked, as whenever I visited my relatives, he would often play Actually on tape.

17 years for me then.

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#5 Post by Ghost within this house »

Spring '88

so 18 years! I have finally come of age as a Pethead :lol:
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Re: When did you become a pethead?

#6 Post by Suburban_Boy »

For me it was when I heard Please being played on tape at a friends house, soon after it had been released. His older brother had bought it. My mates were all playing pool or whatever, and I just sat and listened to the whole album, I was hooked!

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#7 Post by Being boring »

I liked 'Se a vida e' in 1996, but my music teacher at school (and cornet tutor today) was a big fan. He got me tickets to see them at Keele University in 2002. After that concert, I bought the Please and Very Further Listening CDs from HMV and the rest is history. So I was 15 when I got hooked.

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#8 Post by MissTrickyDisco »

Somewhere around the 1988 mark. Didn't become hooked, lined and sinkered until 'Very' though ;)
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#9 Post by TrasTornado »

Since Very. But after I found who they were and when I knew some of the older songs were theirs, noticed Domino Dancing and others as my *childhood sountrack*. That made love them, as the GREAT VERY did also.
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#10 Post by westendboy87 »

I've liked their main hits (West End girls, So Hard) since I was in 9th grade, so that was about, hmm, 6 years ago. I became the hardcore fan I am today at around the time Disco 3 came out. One day I was bored and just started downloading all of their songs, now I'm a fiend and own 90 percent of their albums (I'm missing Relentless as well as about half of the CD singles).

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#11 Post by dannii »

don't attack me when I tell you this
I haven't even heard of them until I heard Flamboyant... :lol:
I'm a big fan of house, techno and trance music since 2000 and I liked Tomcraft a lot.
And I heard ''Flamboyant'', then ''Miracles'', got more interested, got myself ''PopArt'' and then i became a real fan.
so, it's been 2 years now and I manged to catch up with everything they've done so I'm surely not a newbie in their music

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#12 Post by b@man »

It was 1986 when we first get cable tv and i saw suburbia ( i don`t know why this was the only video and song of course which got the most attention to me out of all others videos played on mtv). I can remember singing the song in silence on the way to school. The i saw west end girls and i notieced that it is also from PSB.After that i saw love comes Quickly and i tried to like these songs (these both songs didn`t attract me like suburbia but they were from the same band).
Then i had a friend who played always cassettes which had extended version of songs (it was 1987 the glory time of extended version). So i borrowed me the disco LP and taped it.The first i bought was Always on my mind remix 12" becuse i liked the melody very much. Then i bought Actually and after a while please. So i get hooked in 1987 ( i was 13). that`s 19 years.

I want to know if someone became a fan most recently perhaps through PopArt with flamboyant or miracles?

What interests me the most if someone will get a fan through I`m with stupid. Will it be a person who is also 13 like i was back in time because the song and the music sounds young. Or do you think that the people who getting fans nowadays are older than way back in time???

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#13 Post by MissTrickyDisco »

dannii wrote:don't attack me when I tell you this
I haven't even heard of them until I heard Flamboyant... :lol:
I'm a big fan of house, techno and trance music since 2000 and I liked Tomcraft a lot.
And I heard ''Flamboyant'', then ''Miracles'', got more interested, got myself ''PopArt'' and then i became a real fan.
so, it's been 2 years now and I manged to catch up with everything they've done so I'm surely not a newbie in their music
I'm a hard techno and dance music fan as well and I just love how they also keep to that scene in their remixes :)
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#14 Post by dannii »

b@man wrote:I want to know if someone became a fan most recently perhaps through PopArt with flamboyant or miracles
lol; i just wrote that I did above your post :roll:

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#15 Post by b@man »

dannii wrote:
b@man wrote:I want to know if someone became a fan most recently perhaps through PopArt with flamboyant or miracles
lol; i just wrote that I did above your post :roll:
Yeah i saw it after i finished typing. It took me a while writing this text. But i find this interesting because i can`t imagine that there will be new fans through their most recent music.

Hope we get new fans thruogh stupid.

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