Mods and Rockers

[Deleted User] · 26/12/13 - 05:17

which would you have sided with?

koantemplation · 26/12/13 - 05:22

fender101 wrote: »

which would you have sided with?

Clothes wise I prefer the Rockers, but music wise I would have preferred the Mods, so it would be difficult.

Radiomaniac · 26/12/13 - 07:06

I love both styles of music and clothes, but it'd have to be Mods, cos I am obsessed by Parkas and love all the Kinks, Small Faces and Who etc music.

spaceygal · 26/12/13 - 09:10

Mods. Love the music and fashion. I even used to have a Vespa!

soulmusic · 26/12/13 - 14:13

This was my era lol, I was definitely a mod.

mushymanrob · 26/12/13 - 14:31

someones been watching quadrophenia that was on yesterday, or tuesday,...

mods... im definately in the mod camp, fashions and music, music that i still enjoy hearing (hence the rare 60's thread) even though i was only a boy at the time.

Doghouse Riley · 26/12/13 - 16:04

"Mods" pinched the name from we "modernists," modern jazz aficionados, who wore Italian style box jackets, button-down collared shirts, thin knitted ties, tapered slacks, winkle-picker or chisel-toed Italian shoes and haunted the jazz clubs of London's West-end and Soho.

Older and hopefully perceived as more sophisticated than the average "mod," we wouldn't have been seen dead in a Parka and certainly wouldn't have had a motor bike, or a collection of unused rear-view mirrors with a scooter somewhere under them.

Troy Tate · 06/01/14 - 03:43

Mod music, Rockers bikes. Some Rockers became greasers or Hells Angels, Some Mods became skinheads for the hard ones, soul to reggae. Hippies for some of the others, drug songs by the Small Faces or Who to expanded consciousness by Pink Floyd, Beatles etc.

Disturbed · 06/01/14 - 11:29

Mod, tracksuits and parkas are more easier to wear (especially in the UK climate) than leathers and putting spikes through every orifice.

Cat Simon · 06/01/14 - 19:56

Doghouse Riley wrote: »

"Mods" pinched the name from we "modernists," modern jazz aficionados, who wore Italian style box jackets, button-down collared shirts, thin knitted ties, tapered slacks, winkle-picker or chisel-toed Italian shoes and haunted the jazz clubs of London's West-end and Soho.

Older and hopefully perceived as more sophisticated than the average "mod," we wouldn't have been seen dead in a Parka and certainly wouldn't have had a motor bike, or a collection of unused rear-view mirrors with a scooter somewhere under them.

Mod is one of those movements which constantly changes and adapts to the times, hence the name "Modernists".
That way, there are so many different facets to that particular youth cult.

[Deleted User] · 06/01/14 - 22:48

I remember a few years ago my nana asked if i was becoming a mod because i had just recently gotten into the music of the beatles, the kinks and the who. Obviously, being born in '91, i had no idea what she was talking about so she told me to watch quadrophenia.

I did some research on the mods and rockers after watching the movie and as someone has already said, i love the music of the mods but i prefer the fashion of the rockers.

Cat Simon · 08/01/14 - 19:29

Troy Tate wrote: »

Mod music, Rockers bikes. Some Rockers became greasers or Hells Angels, Some Mods became skinheads for the hard ones, soul to reggae. Hippies for some of the others, drug songs by the Small Faces or Who to expanded consciousness by Pink Floyd, Beatles etc.

From the rock'n'roll / modern jazz era of the late 50s through to the punk era of the late 70s, via Mod, Psychedelica, Hippy, Hard Rock, Heavy metal and Glam Rock, we in Britain were absolutely spoilt with music and fashion.

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