School disco: tunes of humiliation and rejection

Heard this on the radio today... Took me straight back to being turned down by ropey lasses for a slow dance during the 'erection selections' at the end of Comp Discos... Normal routine was to take the rejection stoically, bow slightly and then the walk of shame back to my bottle of panda pops and half eaten packet of space dust...






What songs were there to cut you down when you were in school?

We used to line up to dance this. The lines used to face each other. I twice placed myself next to a girl way above my station and twice when we reached the "It's just a jump to the left!" I jumped the same way as people facing me. My whole line would jump left and I would jump right. Still, school is for learning and I learned that a mid air body slam is not a good ice breaker. I also learned that the second time you do it, no one will believe it was an accident. I also learned what Sian Robinson's mother looked like when she came to pick up her daughter who was feeling a bit sick after I caught her with a full elbowed leap into the side of the head.

ah, school disco's back in the day, pink was the rage and Bros was all the rage, girls in Cathays High used to love to dance to this... looking back at I'm not sure why!



carefree days eh....

Kamuza wrote:

We used to line up to dance this. The lines used to face each other. I twice placed myself next to a girl way above my station and twice when we reached the "It's just a jump to the left!" I jumped the same way as people facing me. My whole line would jump left and I would jump right. Still, school is for learning and I learned that a mid air body slam is not a good ice breaker. I also learned that the second time you do it, no one will believe it was an accident. I also learned what Sian Robinson's mother looked like when she came to pick up her daughter who was feeling a bit sick after I caught her with a full elbowed leap into the side of the head.

Worse still was getting a dance and then when the lights came having to walk across the floor with what looked like a fun sized Mars Bar wedged in your trouser pocket....

This thread reminded me of this video that I danced too as a young kid in the school disco.



I didn't realise how racy this video was! As a kid, you are just not interested.

Valley Trash wrote:

Worse still was getting a dance and then when the lights came having to walk across the floor with what looked like a fun sized Mars Bar wedged in your trouser pocket....

And not the kind of Mars Bar the girls ever wanted a nibble of either

Arkay v2.0 wrote:

Valley Trash wrote:

Worse still was getting a dance and then when the lights came having to walk across the floor with what looked like a fun sized Mars Bar wedged in your trouser pocket....

And not the kind of Mars Bar the girls ever wanted a nibble of either

I can just feel the lights coming up after 'I'm not in love' by 10cc

Ah yes, the quest for fingers 'n tops.
Brings back memories of this tune.....

Rhys and I must've been to the same East 17 orientated school discos. The Paget Rooms was the place for us Stanwell folk and this was one of those dancing-side-to-side-try-not-to-stand-on-her-toes-crap-slow-dance tunes.

Not humiliation or embarassment, just bitter dissappointment.

Danced to this with the cutest girl I've ever seen, Kassiopi Corfu about 1984. Afterwards under the moonlight we kissed.

Thought it was going to be the start of a beautiful holiday romance.








Next morning she flew home..................to Birmingham.
Bugger.

Screaming Blue Messiah wrote:Not humiliation or embarassment, just bitter dissappointment.

Danced to this with the cutest girl I've ever seen, Kassiopi Corfu about 1984. Afterwards under the moonlight we kissed.

Thought it was going to be the start of a beautiful holiday romance.










Next morning she flew home..................to Birmingham.
Bugger.

Did your Mam pack your suitcase perchance?

Belted chunky knits will do that to a girl...

Don't be silly Trash! It was the 80s, by that point he'd have been in pink t-shirts and white padded suits. Like this guy...

Valley Trash wrote:

Screaming Blue Messiah wrote:Not humiliation or embarassment, just bitter dissappointment.

Danced to this with the cutest girl I've ever seen, Kassiopi Corfu about 1984. Afterwards under the moonlight we kissed.

Thought it was going to be the start of a beautiful holiday romance.










Next morning she flew home..................to Birmingham.
Bugger.

Did your Mam pack your suitcase perchance?

Belted chunky knits will do that to a girl...

Birmingham?
School disco?

Surely it's against the laws and mores of the universe not to have... (even if the video was filmed in London)

Valley Trash wrote:

Screaming Blue Messiah wrote:Not humiliation or embarassment, just bitter dissappointment.

Danced to this with the cutest girl I've ever seen, Kassiopi Corfu about 1984. Afterwards under the moonlight we kissed.

Thought it was going to be the start of a beautiful holiday romance.


Next morning she flew home..................to Birmingham.
Bugger.

Did your Mam pack your suitcase perchance?

Belted chunky knits will do that to a girl...

By the 80s I had wrestled control of at least some of my wardrobe from my Mum.

Corfu 1984 was white jeans, espadrilles (without socks, obviously) and my sleeveless Adam and the Ants T-shirt.

I was looking cool.