Mods v. Rockers

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Poll Results

Option	Votes
Mods	27
Rockers	12

― Brio, Friday, 12 June 2009 14:57 (sixteen years ago)

Is this some kind of snub?

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 12 June 2009 15:00 (sixteen years ago)

That second from right looks like he's wearing a fez - is this standard mod clobber?

― Bill A, Friday, 12 June 2009 15:01 (sixteen years ago)

xp: By which I mean, mods can't even vote in this poll due to the image.

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 12 June 2009 15:03 (sixteen years ago)

The fez-esque hat is intriguing.

― Brio, Friday, 12 June 2009 15:08 (sixteen years ago)

in the context of this board, the thread title takes on weird poptimist/rockist connotations.

― bendy, Friday, 12 June 2009 18:04 (sixteen years ago)

for some reason, we can vote in this one

― sorry i poisoned u with nachos :( (HI DERE), Friday, 12 June 2009 18:08 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.oldpolicecellsmuseum.org.uk/images/uploaded/scaled/21.jpg

― leavethecapital, Friday, 12 June 2009 18:09 (sixteen years ago)

no love for teds?

― bitchtime cowards (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 12 June 2009 18:35 (sixteen years ago)

voted mods cuz "rockers" in this case are brit dress-up ding dongs not real 50s greasers

― bitchtime cowards (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 12 June 2009 18:36 (sixteen years ago)

That one rocker is taking on ALL the mods, though.

― Keith, Friday, 12 June 2009 18:37 (sixteen years ago)

Rockers. Because I am a brit dress-up ding dong.

A woman in an op-art dress give me a hard time about this at a garage rock gig a couple of years ago, so there are still people out there that actually give a shit about it.

― Soukesian, Friday, 12 June 2009 19:10 (sixteen years ago)

Such great photos from that era too - the poll picture, with seemingly unperturbed OAPs lapping up the atmosphere is especially good. The rocker lad's style seems anachronistic, like fez boy; he's wearing what looks like winklepickers and a skinny tie. I assume the hard-and-fast rules of mod and rocker fashion were still malleable back then?

― Bill A, Friday, 12 June 2009 19:31 (sixteen years ago)

Mockers

― President Keyes, Friday, 12 June 2009 20:05 (sixteen years ago)

rocker looks sorta uk punk/proto-goth

mod on the left has sweet shades (vuarnet?)

― guammls (QE II), Friday, 12 June 2009 20:20 (sixteen years ago)

Mods were classy, even though the music made by mods was usually better than the music listened to by mods.

Rockers were just a bunch of pathetic 50s nostalgics, and music began in 1963.

― Geir Hongro, Friday, 12 June 2009 22:17 (sixteen years ago)

Mods were classy, even though the music listened to ~~made~~ by mods was usually better than the music ~~listened to~~ made by mods.

That was fiddly, but it had to be done.

― Mark G, Friday, 12 June 2009 22:50 (sixteen years ago)

Rockers were ~~just a bunch of pathetic~~ 50s nostalgics~~, and music began in 1963~~.

That was easier...

C'mon Geir, you a 60s nostalgic, so what's pathetic about it?

― Mark G, Friday, 12 June 2009 22:52 (sixteen years ago)

The 50s were worthless while the 60s were great. England is superior to America!

― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 13 June 2009 19:18 (sixteen years ago)

Now of course this mods vs. rockers thing is a bit pointless because the people with the best taste - the Beatles fans - were neither.

― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 13 June 2009 19:20 (sixteen years ago)

...those were called little girls.

― nicky lo-fi, Saturday, 13 June 2009 19:32 (sixteen years ago)

i think mod chicks were hotter. voted mod.

― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Saturday, 13 June 2009 19:40 (sixteen years ago)

Mods easy but I bet the fucking greasers walk this shit.

― Calling from a Balti Hotel (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 13 June 2009 19:42 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.boudnik.org/~cos/music/JethroTull/Photos/too_old_cartoon1.jpg
http://www.boudnik.org/~cos/music/JethroTull/Photos/too_old_cartoon2.jpg

― Keith, Saturday, 13 June 2009 19:51 (sixteen years ago)

Gene Vincent vs The Who. Impossible to choose = no vote.

...and music began in 1963.

LOL? Rong.

― f1f0 (Pashmina), Saturday, 13 June 2009 21:06 (sixteen years ago)

Jennifer Herrema imo

― what u arrestin me for, innit (╓abies), Monday, 15 June 2009 03:07 (sixteen years ago)

I love the old folks sitting on the bench in that top photo: "Ooh, err. That wasn't very nice!"

― Alex in NYC, Monday, 15 June 2009 11:44 (sixteen years ago)

Well, I suppose if you got through blitz, you aren't going to let a little punch-up ruin your bank holiday.

― Soukesian, Monday, 15 June 2009 15:42 (sixteen years ago)

The 50s were worthless while the 60s were great. England is superior to America!

― Geir Hongro, Saturday, June 13, 2009 7:18 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

geir perfectly sums up why he's wrong about everything.

― Bitchtime Producto (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 15 June 2009 16:12 (sixteen years ago)

I love the old folks sitting on the bench in that top photo: "Ooh, err. That wasn't very nice!"

^^^ Said in voices of Python members in drag.

― Chubby Checker Psycho (Pancakes Hackman), Monday, 15 June 2009 17:42 (sixteen years ago)

Is Geir invoking Larkin back there?

― DJ MARTIAN IS A KING AMONG MEN. Dan Perry, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 (DJ Mencap), Monday, 15 June 2009 18:58 (sixteen years ago)

my foot up his ass, is what he's invoking

― Vokuhila (latebloomer), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 05:11 (fifteen years ago)

j/k violence is never the solution

― Vokuhila (latebloomer), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 05:14 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

Mods, then.

― Mark G, Thursday, 18 June 2009 08:38 (fifteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/20/71479287_6a9674a92e_o.jpg

― what u arrestin me for, innit (╓abies), Thursday, 18 June 2009 09:12 (fifteen years ago)

(tho you should probably vote for rockers)

― what u arrestin me for, innit (╓abies), Thursday, 18 June 2009 09:14 (fifteen years ago)

(xxxxpost) "joke violence" = some guy dressed like one of the Ramones vs those "nutty" boys Madness...

― snoball, Thursday, 18 June 2009 09:15 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Thursday, 18 June 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

WE ARE THE MODS WE ARE THE MODS WE ARE WE ARE WE ARE THE MODS

― The "Confirm" button from the hilarious Suggest Ban page (Noodle Vague), Friday, 19 June 2009 07:14 (fifteen years ago)

suck it rockers

― BLEAT THE MEATLES. PARADE. (jjjusten), Friday, 19 June 2009 07:15 (fifteen years ago)

be bop a lula she's my baby

― Keith, Friday, 19 June 2009 07:19 (fifteen years ago)

u damned goth buncha turtlenecked librarians

― what u arrestin me for, innit (╓abies), Friday, 19 June 2009 07:52 (fifteen years ago)

This is a black day for kickass.

― what u arrestin me for, innit (╓abies), Friday, 19 June 2009 07:53 (fifteen years ago)

No way dude goths are totally next gen rockers.

― The "Confirm" button from the hilarious Suggest Ban page (Noodle Vague), Friday, 19 June 2009 08:07 (fifteen years ago)

Sorry, I got emotional.

― what u arrestin me for, innit (╓abies), Friday, 19 June 2009 08:10 (fifteen years ago)

fifteen years pass...

some great footage of rockers getting it on to Bo Diddley in London in 1972:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdIvYLQeN-M

― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Saturday, 4 January 2025 21:07 (five months ago)

well rockers and teds tbf. how did we get from these freaks to fucking showaddywaddy in two short years?

― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Saturday, 4 January 2025 21:11 (five months ago)

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