1979 and more Radio One

Today is the forty-second anniversary of the launch of BBC Radio One  on September 30th 1967 and to which two years ago we wrote an entry about including a special two  record set.

In 1979 it was decided to issue a second set as of necessity only a handful of hits per year at most could of been programmed in its four sides and this is it.

As with the original Ten Years of Radio One set the cover links the stations Dj's which were classroom currency at the time to the music which several decades on takes us back to those days with pictures too.

I was by this point fifteen going on ten so I was listening to more of the specialist shows in the evenings and weekends and getting a bit more up to speed with current affairs and would borrow colourful pop music magazines and buy even the likes of Sounds and the New Musical Express following the New Wave and the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.

In the main it was a retrospective selection with more from 1969 onwards as that first set did devote a lot of space to the first couple of years music so we have a mixture of rock from the likes of the Rolling Stones and Jethro Tull, more early 1970's singer song writers, funk with soul, the ever popular euro pop of Abba and 1979's break out act Dire Straits with Sultan Of Swing which I really liked.

Being the Gurl you are

We arrive at being a Gurl with some deficits such as more couldn't care less caught in the moment attitudes from being raised initially as boys, being ridiculed for displaying a hint of our feminine nature and of course trousered attire meant we didn't have to think about our undies showing!

Thus we do badly need to be taking in hand as a gurl by girls to both teach us some of things we need to know about appropriate feminine behaviour from how it get up and sit down nicely, taking care of our appearance to how to curtsey,

And indeed as Tammy found out you learned love being the Sissy Gurl you were underneath that layer of attempted boyishness.

We are all feminine on the inside and so gurls like you ought to be included in all girls activities and have dedicated all gurl time delivered by girls.

As a gurl Michael deserved though a proper gurls name like Michelle they were to use and be called by as that gurl plus if hur wish was to play baseball with hur friends, then she should be told that will only happen in girls uniform.

Any tantrums over that need a swift hand to remind her of her status as  Gurl.

Little Sissy Gurls are always dressed as little gurls in cute socks, dresses and skirts reflecting more of their younger than their years nature and their reduced status in the feminine world, valued but never treated as fully grown up females.

Cardcaptor Sakura

I am currently enjoying this anime first show in a heavily westernized from as Cardcaptors on Children's ITV in 2002.

Sakura Kinomoto was an ordinary 4th grader until the day she opened a strange book and let dozens of powerful magic cards loose on the world. Keroberos, the Guardian of the Clow Cards, informs Sakura that it is now her responsibility to find and capture the freed cards. However, much to the reluctant Sakura's dismay, things aren't going to be easy for her; simply saying magic words and waving her wand around isn't good enough. Each card is a living, thinking, extremely powerful being. She'll have to learn to cope with her new responsibilities, as well as ordinary troubles like love, school, family, and friends. With the support of her friend Tomoyo and a young boy with powers of his own, she must learn how to use her newly awakened magical abilities to collect each card and prevent the disaster that will befall the world if she doesn't.

I was able to get this pack of two DVD's from Taiwan that has all 70 episodes on a total of 8 discs packaged in a fold out book manner with protective slip case. Although it has 8 or 9 episodes per disc the coding quality is actually very good - a par with many digital TV services - and has a excellent menu structure.

This is from the anime Cardcaptor Sakura a fantastic magical girl series from the early part of the this decade.

Dancing On The Valentine

Yes, it was 25 years ago that I bought this VHS EP video of Duran Duran performing three songs from the Seven and the Ragged Tiger album. This was video, issued by Picture Music International/EMI, was one of first to be done in stereo.
I still have my original copy in excellent condition.I guess everyone has a videotape collection and this is a part of my 'legacy' collection.

My Duran Duran VHS video collection
















The track list for this videoalbum first issued in April 1983 on VHS and Betamax is as follows:

Rio

Planet earth

Lonely in your nightmare

Careless memories

My own way

Hungry like the wolf

Nightboat

Girls on film (Night version)

Save a prayer

The chauffeur

Is there something I should know

The videos for Lonely In Your Nightmare and The Chauffeur aren't available on DVD plus the version of Girls On Film is the 18 CERT (US NG-17 version) which has been re-edited for later issues including the DVD's. This is a tape you sure need to hang on to!


























This Video came out on VHS and Betamax and is a EP meaning it has only 3 videos on it but retailed for much less than a full video back then.
Issued in 1984 it has the videos for The Reflex, Union Of The Snake and New Moon On Monday. These titles are available om THE GREATEST HITS dvd.


















This came out in 1989 and has the videos from the singles issued from Notorious and Big Thing albums. A big thing at the time was the the audio was Digitally Mastered on this release and it sounds amazing on my Hifi stereo VHS machine!


















This video is of a live concert from 1989 part of the "Skin Trade" tour and is highly recommended.VHS only release!

The Beatles Remasters are Here!

Finally after 22 years they are here.
Well I bought that Beatles in Mono box pictured above - the best part of GBP 199.98 - because it seemed to the only box of the two (there was a Stereo Box) that offered anything really essential and not otherwise available.

To start with the cds are all mono - the way many in the 1960's first heard them - and also the priority for mixing the separate tracks together by the record studios as most people bought mono records back then. Often the stereo versions had much less time spent on them so bits of the original mono mix just didn't make it into the stereo.
Most of these have been unavailable since the early 1980's (and then for a very limited time).

Then there's the packaging.
These cds have all been made in Japan with what is called a 'mini lp' form. That's to say they are made to resemble a miniature lp record sleeve using high quality card reproducing exactly the front and rear covers of the originals. There are replica inner sleeves with the designs used for each lp with the actual cd in a Mylar wallet to keep it from getting scratched.
The individual cds have original period Parlophone, Capitol and Apple label designs featured for the middle labels of the lps.
The whole cd is then packed in archive quality acid free resealable see through envelope to protect it.
The box has been carefully designed to store the discs with a slide in disc storage compartment to make getting them out to play easy.

The Discs:
Please Please Me
With The Beatles
A Hard Day's Night
Beatles For Sale
Help! *
Rubber Soul *
Revolver
Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
Magical Mystery Tour
The Beatles (Also known as the "White Album" )
Mono Masters - a compilation of singles and EP tracks issued in mono that were not on any UK studio album.

* = These have the original stereo versions also on the same disc NOT the remixes done for cd.
The transfer to cd is extremely good - something that was a problem with the original cds issued in 1987.

Stereo cds:
I mentioned the stereo box earlier on but all that gave you was a box and a DVD of mini Documentaries than were added on the CD's to play on your computer.
As it was cheaper to buy the discs separately I passed on that.
I bought the following titles:

Please Please Me
With The Beatles
A Hard Day's Night
Beatles For Sale

Those four had never been out  on cd in stereo although a Hard day's night has issues with the mastering that make no sense.

Past Masters - a compilation of mainly stereo mixes of tracks issued on 45's and EP's that didn't make the UK studio albums

The sound on that disc was much better than the previous (1987/8) editions with greater presence and low bass and it added more stereo mixes than Past Masters Volume One did. This is help me renew my appreciation of John, Paul, George and Ringo.

These come in a folding cardboard package with a booklet about the album and pictures Unfortunately the discs aren't protected from the cardboard (grrr) but you can put them in mylar rounded bottom sleeves as they will fit in the slots where the discs are meant to go.

Emulations

 Wearing 'girls' school uniform as a age dysphoric feminine sissy gurl

I'm age dysphoric, that's a fact so why shouldn't part of my gender variant expression go back in time to how it was?

A 101 of feminine school uniform for feminine boys like me to emulate in modern still a school child life based on the girls uniforms we loved at the time is a good start point in being us for the best reason.

We feel better to give free expression of the idea of us in our heads

Over the knee socks for the short skirted look

One unavoidable fact of life for me in my ' Feminine Little Sissy' side is the fascination in maintaining the look I adored as a a child, that of the short above the knee skirt with long socks that are often either colour or striking in design.

In many respects it's fortunate for me that at least a part of this aspect has become more mainstream so not only can I buy these cute girlish over the knee socks fairly easily but others are doing so to so there's less eye batting or outright ridicule as there used to be.

I just love these Grey and dusty Pink over the knee socks as they're so cute.

Available from the Sexy Minx ebay store and good local stockists.