Post by pieter on Jan 13, 2023 9:49:30 GMT -7
The Young Ones is a British sitcom written by Rik Mayall, Ben Elton, and Lise Mayer, starring Adrian Edmondson, Mayall, Nigel Planer, Christopher Ryan, and Alexei Sayle, and broadcast on BBC Two for two series, first shown in 1982 and 1984. The show focused on the lives of four dissimilar students and their landlord's family on different plots that often included anarchic, offbeat, surreal humour. The show often included slapstick gags, visual humour and surreal jokes sometimes acted out by puppets, with each episode also featuring a notable selection of guest stars and musical numbers from various performers.
The Young Ones helped bring alternative comedy to British television in the 1980s and made household names of its writers and performers. The show became a notable icon of 1980s British popular culture, and it received its own game and a home-media release while becoming the first non-music-related programme to appear on MTV in the United States in 1985. The show was voted number 31 in the BBC's Best Sitcom poll in 2004.
The Young Pieter of course was a great fan of the Young Ones, because they were to opposite to average and ordinary people. I loved their Anarchist, raw, energetic and absurd behavior, disliking the dull, provincial life in the South West. Being excited about Punk Rock, rioting Squaters who fought with the police and thus anything not mainstream, belonging to no group or subgroup. Harbour/port town influences for sure. Lot's of harbour folks, local Skinheads, Punks and sort of Mods or Nozems of that time ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nozem ), the Greasers in the USA and Teddy Boys in the United Kingdom. Punk rock and thus the Sex Pistols, MC5 and Iggy, the Stooges, Television, Patti Smith, the Ramones, the Saints in Brisbane; Exploited, the Clash, and the Angry Samoans in California belonged to that. The DIY (Do it yourself) subculture which was brought forward by the punk movement of the 1970s.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_it_yourself
Motörhead (/ˈmoʊtərhɛd/) were an English rock band formed in London in 1975 by Lemmy (lead vocals, bass), Larry Wallis (guitar) and Lucas Fox (drums). Lemmy was also the primary songwriter and only constant member. The band are often considered a precursor to the new wave of British heavy metal, which re-energised heavy metal in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Most often classified as heavy metal, Motörhead has been credited with being part of and influencing numerous musical scenes, thrash metal and speed metal especially. Lemmy, however, always insisted that they were a rock and roll band. He said that they had more in common with punk bands, but with their own unique sound, Motörhead is embraced in both punk and metal scenes. Their lyrics typically covered such topics as war, good versus evil, abuse of power, promiscuous sex, substance abuse and, most famously, gambling, the latter theme being the focus of their hit song "Ace of Spades".
P.S.- Later I saw the shadow side, the alcohlism, drugs, Anarchist Autonomen subculture with it's violent nature in the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark and etc.
A young man wants energy, dynamism, has a radical nature, is restless and always competes with or resists the old man and authority. A Young man doesn't accept boundaries and has a certain trait of borderline taking huge risks. In America such a young man is called 'A rebel without a cause'. Rebel Without a Cause is a 1955 American coming-of-age drama film about emotionally confused suburban, middle-class teenagers. A Young man first resists authority and later learns that authority is needed for social order and the rule of law.
