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Post by audrey notwhatsheusedtobe on Aug 19, 2004 13:48:56 GMT
Can anything compare to the delight of a free flexidisk?
I am of course referring to the ancient times when it was not compulsory to attach a CD/beach bag/pair of flip flops to all magazines. Very occassionally you would get a free flexidisk, which was a very flimsy 7" single. I can't remember for the life of me the actual tracks of any I had, although the Smurfs and Haircut 100 (not together - now THAT would be fusion) might have featured.
Oh and of course the magazine Flexipop was based entirely around the concept.
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Post by klee on Aug 19, 2004 14:01:18 GMT
I got a flexi disk on the front of the very first issue of the Glo friends comic. I played it twice and my six year old self was hugely drawn to the number's cuteness and catchiness.
So be kind to all the flowers and the trees
something somethin something birds and bees
Funnily enough, the record soon mysteriously disappeared from my parents' record cupboard and no matter how hard I looked, I never saw it again. Spooky, eh?
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Post by Sparkle on Aug 19, 2004 20:30:30 GMT
GLO FRIENDS! I had forgotten them. Now I am singing the advert music in my head.
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Post by Lita on Aug 24, 2004 12:06:47 GMT
I used to love Flexidiscs. It was a flexidisc that gave me first taste of Soul II Soul, which I was very very excited about.
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Post by ladytrol on Oct 4, 2004 12:47:12 GMT
I remember a Michael Jackson megamix one with bits of tracks from his "Bad" album shoddily put together. I should dig it up and put it on Ebay.
Bring back the flexidisk, the campagne starts here.
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Post by marknyc on Oct 4, 2004 13:39:48 GMT
I used to make my parents buy me Keyboard magazine so I could get the cool equipment demo flexi every month.
I still have the vocoder one somewhere.
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Post by Poptastic! on Feb 11, 2005 19:27:35 GMT
Bring back the flexidisk, the campagne starts here. Isn't that French for countryside? Jessica |
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Post by ladytrol on Feb 28, 2005 19:58:15 GMT
Ja, und?
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Post by Annette on Mar 16, 2005 18:02:51 GMT
I think we got some free on the front of Frosties once. I remember you had to put a penny on some of them, to weigh them down.
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Post by dentons on Sept 3, 2005 13:20:22 GMT
I had those. Frosties had Don Pablo's Animals, Hi Tek 3 feat Ya Kid K, Lonnie Gordon and someone else. I also had one free with Keith Chegwin's Party Games on, and a Five Star one (from Number One magazine). I think I also once found a New Kids On The Block one in a record from a carboot
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Post by Geo on Sept 7, 2005 19:12:11 GMT
I had the one from Frosties too..Lonnie Gordon-tastic!
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Post by Golden Meg on Apr 11, 2006 15:42:45 GMT
I had those. Frosties had Don Pablo's Animals, Hi Tek 3 feat Ya Kid K, Lonnie Gordon and someone else. I also had one free with Keith Chegwin's Party Games on, and a Five Star one (from Number One magazine). I think I also once found a New Kids On The Block one in a record from a carboot Frosties also did that rubbish Thunderbirds R Go one from around the same era (1989/90 if I'm not mistaken). You had to cut around the disc with scissors and then somehow punch a hole in the middle. If the hole was too small the record wouldn't revolve properly and would sound weird. If it was too big it would wobble around and get damaged. If you bent the record in the punching process, then you might as well just forget it! Oh the hassle. |
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