90s music memory's my youth and cultivations

[marshbarn]

Atlantic 252?

Radio 1, 247
Luxembourg although only at night when atmosphere allowed

 

[tr250]

It is totally appropriate and a very good question. I'm just a bit jealous that you had a radio in your tractor. The ones I was allowed to drive were so rattly that you wouldn't have heard the radio (or wireless as it was in those days) if it'd had one.

Only had Lw and Mw with 2 knobs and a lot of crackleing

 

[Chae1]

Virgin 1215. Lunchtime lasted all day.

 

[tr250]

Virgin 1215. Lunchtime lasted all day.

Yup virgin or Atlantic 252 never realised anyone else listened to it until now

 

[Chae1]

Was only alternative to local radio station northsound. Always remember going to royal Welsh show and being delighted getting radio 1 on fm down south.

 

[Suffolk Serf]

Virgin 1215. Lunchtime lasted all day.

You were lucky, my first boss in the 1980's removed the radios from the tractors "You come here to work, not listen to the radio".
I thought I was going mad, rolling on a Ford 6600 singing "Come on Eileen" at the top of my voice to myself.

 

[Chae1]

Don't think Eileen would have liked it.

First tractors I remember with radios were 2040s JD, and 956xl

 

[ih1455xl]

Atlantic 252 or old man would listen to 1557 gold on a 2wd 2140 I remember straw carting to a same explorer 80 listening to mark and lard

 

[Suffolk Serf]

You were lucky, my first boss in the 1980's removed the radios from the tractors "You come here to work, not listen to the radio".
I thought I was going mad, rolling on a Ford 6600 singing "Come on Eileen" at the top of my voice to myself.

Just to put this post on topic, that boss had just given up on direct drilling (in the straw burning and Bettinson 3D style).

 

[Still Farming]

Try telling them diesel fumes were bad for you then?
No cabs .

 

[Dr. Alkathene]

1995 sting fields of gold. Constantly...

Every time I hear that song it reminds me of summer time getting in and out the Land Rover opening and closing gates for my uncle.

 

[Bury the Trash]

Just to put this post on topic, that boss had just given up on direct drilling (in the straw burning and Bettinson 3D style).

Oh ? and why did he give up on it … ?

 

[SilliamWhale]

Oh ? and why did he give up on it … ?

Missing listening to Atlantic 252!

 

[Bury the Trash]

Teach them how to diy/ build/ plumb/ sparky stuff


Missing listening to Atlantic 252!

yeah but that wouldve been better on FM

 

[Muddyroads]

Going to show my age now: everything used to stop for Simon Bates “our tune” 10.30 on radio 1. Replaced ny Ken Bruce and Pop Master these days!

 

[Bury the Trash]

 

[JAB]

Growing up I never rode a tractor that had a working radio. Or if I was driving for another farmer who had working radios he always wanted me to leave the radio off so I could concentrate on my harrow lines being perfectly straight. So I sang to myself a lot. But don't worry about your kids... here is what will replace you! Just take the whole family to the beach, listen to the radio, and watch this go round and round.

 

[clbarclay]

Growing up I never rode a tractor that had a working radio. Or if I was driving for another farmer who had working radios he always wanted me to leave the radio off so I could concentrate on my harrow lines being perfectly straight. So I sang to myself a lot. But don't worry about your kids... here is what will replace you! Just take the whole family to the beach, listen to the radio, and watch this go round and round.

Good luck persuading kids to go outside these days, even with the promise of beaches. They will be glued to a computer, probably playing a farming simulator and learning how to drive a tractor that way instead.

 

[JAB]

Good luck persuading kids to go outside these days, even with the promise of beaches. They will be glued to a computer, probably playing a farming simulator and learning how to drive a tractor that way instead.

Feeling a little cynical today?

I take an optimistic view that this digital age is going to end up just like the tower of babel.

 

[JAB]

Come to think of it... my cab-less Hesston 280 swather had the muffler two feet from my right ear, and made that low rumbling sound that's quite similar to the music kids listen to these days. When my back end got sore I could always stand up and dance to it. That's one of the benefits of cab-less. Unfortunately, all that right ear can hear these days is low rumbling sounds. Wonder why.