Class of '73 (or '74 or '83 or '69 or or or)

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Who in ILE was born in what year? When we've sorted it out we can work out by science which year was best (by adding up ILE postings ha).

Nick and Cabbage and me are all 1973 babies. Goo.

― Tom, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

1982: The year of the CD (according to HarperCollins "word of the year" yearly competition).

Who's the youngest here? More to the point, who's the oldest?

― David., Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm a 60s baby! yay 1969.

― Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Youngest regular = Maria I think (still?). Oldest = Gale.

― Tom, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I - like an awful lot of us - was born in 1973.

― Pete, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

1983

― Graham, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

1973 was the year to be (born).

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

1968. Hrev-ouh-loo-shahn, etc.

― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

1975. When 'Stand by your Man' was at number one. Cripes.

― Emma, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

1981. We should have a thread to post baby pictures.

― Sarah, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh god she's trying to turn it into SINSI TAH!

― N., Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was born on the EXACT DAY of the Manson 'Helter Skelter' murders. (Also, I looked up 'Your Birthday in History', and saw '9 August 1945, a nuclear bomb was dropped on Nagasaki')

― dave q, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's scary how many Sinsitahrines there are around here. I've counted four already.

― David, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

FOUR? More like FOUR HUNDRED.

― N., Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't say that, you're scaring me!

Fact: I joined sinister for about 2 weeks in 1997...

― Nicole, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was born on May 1st 1968. I think there was a war on somewhere then. Which was cool.

― DV, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Or was it 1998? Whatever year Diana died, because I remember them all going on about that and it bored me silly.

My faulty '73 factory installed memory fails me here.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

There are four sinister types on this thread alone, oop, no, 5 maybe.

― chris, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Another Mayday baby! Why didn't you say so on that other thread. Huzzah!

Nicole, why do you torment me so?

― N., Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

1976 - Year of the Dragon!

― jel, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Das ist worrying, ja? Ja!

― David, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

1970.

I was a sinisterine (briefly) in 1998 and then resubscribed in May 2000 and have never looked back.

― MarkH, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have never been a member of S_______.

― Tom, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

really? I thought you had????

― chris, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

April 5th 1979.

― Anna, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought that was someone pretending to be Tom. Did we ever find out who?

― MarkH, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have never been a member of sinister either...though I nearly went to a met up thing around x-mas 1999 with some friends (don't know if it was sinister per se, just belle and sebastian). I think I have counted up to to 8 or 9 people from there (saw the photo album).

― jel, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

First I saw "Class of '73" & thought, yeah, that's for me, I did my 'A' Levels in that year!

Then Pete remarked "I - like an awful lot of us - was born in 1973"
Ulp. 17 year gap.

But I am on Sinister (& have been for nearly 4 and a half years)

― David, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mark H is right - somebody pretending to be me joined! It was quite exciting, I heard about it from a suspicious Honey who had been alerted by Carsmile. But my own conscience is clear.

― Tom, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm not on Sinister any more. MENTALISTS. I also deleted IRC from the computer at home to keep me free from the anger inducing vomfest that is the #sinister chatroom. If you don't know what I'm on about, thank your lucky stars. I had such an argument with someone I was left shaking in rage.

― Sarah, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I knew about that, but I thought it was in the dim and distant past.

― chris, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

And anyway Nick I only want baby pictures cos I WAS SUCH A CUTE BABY! The last thing I want is for ILE to go all Sinister on my (and your) ASSES.

― Sarah, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ahem, the people on Sinister and on here of course are not mentalists ahem ahem.

― Sarah, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

thankyou Sarah, that needed saying.

― chris, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

1971. Nothing much happened that year.

― Kim, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know what you're on about Starry and I want you to email me right now and tell all. You know the addressXoR. Also I have a proposition for some nightlife unless you and Mr T are still too poor this week.

― Tom, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Nicole is making it up! I've just looked back at the archives for the 3 1st August and 1 st Sept 1997 and the remarkable thing is that no one even mentions Princess Diana. They're just talking about the Pastels!

― N., Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

April 10, 1977

― Michael Bourke, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Are you at work or at home? Strictly speaking I am too poor but I am walking halfway to work each day to save money so that can easily be beer money.

Eeep sorry Cabbage I didn't mean to offend if I was going that way - it's just that it makes me angry the way some people have been treated and... well let's just say that there was a time when if anyone had said to me 'it's just a mailing list' I would have laughed - and now I've reached the time where that's JUST what it is and it's a big, BIG relief.

Then again I am constantly in an existential crisis! What fung!

― Sarah, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was not! I remember reading some boring emails about that (and admittedly some other baw-ring stuff) and thinking, if I wanted to hear about crap like that I would stick to reading Teen magazine's advice column...

But I guess it would have to have been an indie advice column so I was mistaken all the same.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Count yerself another sinister kid, because here I am. Um, I was born in 1980 - year of the monkey.

― Mandee, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm at work - I wouldnt have been cryptic abt my email if it was home cos it's on the bottom of every post as attested by the mountain of share tips and teeny porn spam I wade through every evening.

― Tom, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

1973, year of the ox.

― Samantha, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

SEVENTY FREE!

sidethread. 73 is the year of the Ox- I know a story about how the chinese years got numbered - Rat comes before Ox. I haven't got a clue what happens after that. what I got told is that Buddha called all the animals and asked them to come to him, like a race. So Ox, being all strong and that, is making great headway and looks like he's going to win when, at the last, he comes to a river in which is the island where buddha sits. Ratty hitches a lift on Ox's shoulders, and hops off on the other side and so wins the race. I like this story cos I love all things Rat, but I'd like to know the rest of it. I am sure each animal has a story relating to where they came in the race. If anyone knows it I'd like to hear.

― misterjones, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was born in 82. Which means I will be RINGLEADAH of YOUF to purge boomers and X-ers.

― Tim, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

1974 - year/eye of the tiger

― Jonnie, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Y'know, maybe I've unfairly tarnished Sinister's rep, because fanks to Nick's link my memory has been refreshed and it doesn't look like that was the list that annoyed me at all. But what list was it? I was on at least two others at the time and unsubscribed from them all when I was in a particularly snarky/fed up mood. I'm suspecting it was Pulp's list...

― Nicole, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That crazy Chinese race in full.

― N., Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

n, you are speedy and resourceful, neither of which are Ox traits. Have you been lying about your age?

thanks!

― misterjones, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am a seventyfree boy, but I am a rat, what with being born in the first week of the year and everything.

― chris, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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25 January 1964. Birthday shared with Robert Burns, Somerset Maugham and (more pertinently in my case) Virginia Woolf.

(also Alicia Keys but I prefer to keep quiet about that one...)

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 21 January 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)

15 July 1966. Share birthday with Ian Curtis, Johnny Thunders and Alicia "Ack-shon" Bridges

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 21 January 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)

(off the top of my head, mine's shared with Natalie Imbruglia and Charles Lindbergh)

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 21 January 2005 13:06 (twenty years ago)

This is a pseudonym, but 23 August 1980-year-that-God-made-me anyway. Keith Moon and Shaun Ryder seen.

― Miles Finch, Friday, 21 January 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

I'm a 5th October 1980!

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 21 January 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

Did anything of note happen in world events in 1980? It seems like sucha boring year to be born. I can't even think of any music I like from that year.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 21 January 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

Ronald Reagan got elected (bummer) and the whole post-punk/last-days-of-disco scene really started shakin'(non-bummer). And hip-hop started to step outta the Bronx slowly but steadily. A great (musical) year to call yr own!!

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Friday, 21 January 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

December 28th 1957!

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Friday, 21 January 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

But it's such an inbetweeny year for music. Even my beloved Tom Waits broke off his album-a-year tradition to wait for 1983's Swordfishtrombones.
I never could get into the whole post punk thing and it seems all the important stuff got going about 1981/82 anyway.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 21 January 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

1964 - dragon (wood)

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Friday, 21 January 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

Another 1971 in da house.

FACT: I was born May 24, 1971, exactly 30 years after Bob Dylan.

Eat THAT, hometoast.

― The Mad Puffin, Friday, 21 January 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

MORE 60s BABIES (so I can feel young again) PLZ!!!!

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 21 January 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

xxxx-post:

Hey, who you callin' 'old' (upthread)? 40 is the new 30. Specially for us flower children.

― Yr3k (dymaxia), Friday, 21 January 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

1961

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 21 January 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

Yet another member of the 1973 club.

― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Friday, 21 January 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

Do those of you born in 1975 and after claim to remember the seventies?

My beloved was born in 1978 and a lot of our conversations about the past ultimately devolve around the problem that I remember the seventies and she does not.

― The Mad Puffin, Friday, 21 January 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

March 1974 reprazent.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 21 January 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

1980. year of monkey.

which is great because monkeys are the best! intelligent, mischievous, influential, but um, easily confused. also if you are a rat (1972, 1984) or a dragon (1964, 1976) we should get together and have sex because we get along well. but if you are a tiger (1974 or 1986) it means we should not get together or have sex because we are incompatible. sorry markc

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 21 January 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

1973 for me.

― KeithW (kmw), Friday, 21 January 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

i was always pissed about being the year after the rat but before the tiger and being some pussy animal instead. i'm not sure what, phil help me out here, and can we have sex

― John (jdahlem), Friday, 21 January 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

1972. other years are bunk

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 21 January 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

The year of "Telstar," the Original Mets and the Cuban missile crisis. Good times!

I have (stained) underwear older than some of you punks.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 January 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

1985? that means you're an ox. my chinese takeout menu says you are bright, patient, and inspiring to others. also you'll make an outstanding parent. marry a snake (1965, 1977, 1989) or a cock (1969, 1981). the sheep (1967, 1979) will give you trouble

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 21 January 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

the sheep (1967, 1979) will give you trouble

I imagine you saying this in the accent of Aberdeen.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 21 January 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

FACT: I was born May 24, 1971, exactly 30 years after Bob Dylan.

FACT: My birthday appears in the lyrics of a Bob Dylan song. Not only that, my sister's birthday (not the same day) does as well (different song).

Eat THAT, hometoast.

mmm, marmalade-y

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 21 January 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

well ok, not the years, but you know what i mean

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 21 January 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

1966. I was born on the exact same day as CNN anchor Rudi Bakhtiar. Also born the same month as me: Julianna Margulies, Dikembe Mutombo, Kurt Browning, John Cusack, J.J. Abrams, Mike Tyson. Extend it by a few days and I'd get to count Helena Bonham Carter, Eric Cantona, Janet Jackson, and Moises Alou.

― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Friday, 21 January 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

I often think of you as Canton-esque!

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 January 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

I am 1983! But I was convinced I was a Rat. Possibly people lied in order to mock me.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 21 January 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

all the cool kids in my class were rats, man

phil thank you v much but CAN WE HAVE SEX

rudi bahktiar is really hot

― John (jdahlem), Friday, 21 January 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

October 23, 1974.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 21 January 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

August 5, 1977

Pretty slim pickins celeb-wise:

Maureen (Marsha Marsha Marsha!!)McCormick born on August 5, 1956

Tawny Kitaen (aka the girl on the jaguars in the whitesnake video who went on to beat up her MLB pitcher husband and take one of the ten scariest mugshots of all time) born on August 5, 1961

Patrick Ewing born on August 5, 1962

Jonathan Silverman born on August 5, 1966

Also Neil Armstrong and Loni Anderson...ugh.

― Ash (ashbyman), Friday, 21 January 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

October 23, 1974. Yes, it seems Tantrum and I were born on exactly the same day.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Friday, 21 January 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

October 23, 1974. Yes, it seems Tantrum and I were born on exactly the same day.

Odd.

I find, increasingly, that I'm part of an in-between generation that:

a) is old enough to have grown up on our parents' classic rock records
b) is young enough to have embraced house, techno, hip-hop, indie, grunge, punk, etc.
(Check all that apply.)
c) is generally overeducated and underpaid
d) is the prototype for a certain kind of "all-about-me" middle-class cluelessness that is even more prevalent in our younger brothers and sisters

... all of which would explain why I hang out online as much as I do.

Anyway, cheers, Pears.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 21 January 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)

"all-about-me" middle-class cluelessness

Not a great virtue, but still better than "all-about-me" upper-class viciousness.

But yeah. I'm right there with you.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Friday, 21 January 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

Aug 30, the 82!

I am so glad that there are not too many born after that. Those who are, you make me feel old.

I'm exactly the same age as Andy Roddick, to the day. I'm not proud of that.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 21 January 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)

yeah wot teeny said.

July 6, 1972

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 21 January 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)

You're bitching about Loni Anderson?

Teeny and I have Nancy Reagan, GW Bush and Sylvester Stallone.

OH THE MOTHERFUCKING HUMANITY.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 21 January 2005 23:19 (twenty years ago)

June 22 1975, exactly 21 years before the release of Quake.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 21 January 2005 23:42 (twenty years ago)

I'm slightly disturbed by the fact that half the people on ILX were born in the same year as me and seem to live in the same part of north London as me.

― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Friday, 21 January 2005 23:45 (twenty years ago)

Do those of you born in 1975 and after claim to remember the seventies?

Kind of sort of. I don't remember the decade, but I remember some things from the 70s -- I remember waiting in line for gasoline, and riding my Big Wheel around the driveway while they talked about the hostages on the radio, although I guess that was actually 1980 -- and of course, in the early 80s the half of daytime television programming that wasn't soap operas was made up of syndicated 70s television. So I grew up watching The Courtship of Eddie's Father and The Hardy Boys and whatnot.

And my parents were in their late 30s when they adopted me, so the kids I spent most of my time with when I was very young (my parents' friends' kids) were all much older than me, so I was exposed to a lot of Shaun Cassidy posters and got hand-me-down Keep On Truckin' T-shirts and whatnot.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 21 January 2005 23:51 (twenty years ago)

I have determined that 21 Jump Street occupies the same part of my 1979 girlfriend's television-viewer consciousness that Knight Rider occupies in mine.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 21 January 2005 23:52 (twenty years ago)

(Like there's a We Fight Crime With Style And Haircuts niche that both shows evolved to fill, see. Hello, Fastlane -- sorry, this pond's been fished clean.)

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 21 January 2005 23:53 (twenty years ago)

reppin' 1986 right here.

― stephen morris, Saturday, 22 January 2005 00:06 (twenty years ago)

1966, in Bolivia, one year almost exactly before Che Guevara was killed there.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Saturday, 22 January 2005 03:02 (twenty years ago)

November 8 1963, youngsters. I was two weeks old when JFK was killed.

― Curious George Rides a Republican (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 22 January 2005 03:14 (twenty years ago)

November 3rd, 1973...
-- Pleasant Plains /// (acewhiskeyinexil...), January 21st, 2005 12:57 AM. (Pleasant Plains ///)

Same Birthday, only 1953. (Jesus H.!!)

― jim wentworth (wench), Saturday, 22 January 2005 05:12 (twenty years ago)

14th August 1980, hello monkeys. Born 33 years after the birth of Indian Independence. This year Czeslaw Milosz died on my birthday. Last year the power went out in half the US.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Saturday, 22 January 2005 05:27 (twenty years ago)

I don't remember a single thing about the '70s. How could I? I spent less than a week in that decade. My earliest rememberances took place in the very early '80s, but I only really started remembering a ton of stuff in vivid detail right around '85 - '86.

Oh, and 1986?!?!?! I used to babysit kids who were born in '86!!

(Ha ha ha ha, I know it's such a comparatively tiny gap age-wise, but, um, damn, I'm not used to the whole "I used to babysit kids your age and now here you are, all grown-up and stuff" thing.)

― Samantha Baker (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 22 January 2005 07:33 (twenty years ago)

denton welch died when he was 33. so did jesus.

― youn, Saturday, 22 January 2005 08:35 (twenty years ago)

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