I just bought Haircut 100 - Pelican West - 40th Anniversary Box Set. Look at those old guys!

really makes me feel old

r1 regale us with the tales of your youth or shaking your fist at these kids at on your lawn.

Fun!

I remember seeing them LIVE at the Santa Monica Civic. Fun times.

R3: I loved, loved them. "Favourite Shirts" should have been a bigger hit stateside. Old?? They may just have forgotten to moisturize.

Oh man, Pelican West is a favorite album! I still have that vinyl and play it in the spring and summer time. Didn't VH1 do a special on the band? One of those reunite shows?

The band members seemed like good guys, all had moved on, but you knew they were bummed that their pop stardom was cut short because Nick Heyward just couldn't handle fame and he dropped out.

Nick still looks good. I used to enjoy him swinging on a rope in a loincloth in the Love Plus One video. His 1993 solo album From Monday to Sunday was very good, particularly the song Kite.

sexy!

Some of those boys look a bit light in the loafers.

Nick's greatest solo song. No question. Everything fell in line. A perfection pop song. The drumming itself is outstanding!

The greatest "summer" album ever.

Link to 'Kite' as mentioned by R7

Nick matured VERY nicely!

Back in the day I thought Nick Heyward was so so adorable. And now that I'm an old man and he's getting on up in years I still think he's so so adorable.

Nick's subsequent solo album were actually really good.

Nick's subsequent solo albumS were actually really good.

Nick looks good with glasses.

Thanks R13, Nick does look really good in that pic!

R7, I couldn't agree more. The intro to that song -- the guitar, then the xylophone, then the horns -- is one of my favorite song openings from the 80s.

I always liked my guys a little rougher, but his look in this video really dazzled me, especially the knowing look while he gives the camera. The manspreading beginning at 1:03? Heavenly.

They are old but they all look healthy and pretty good.

How can they be so old? I thought they were just beyond teenage years when "Love Plus One" was released.

One thing I loved about all of them was that they looked very clean. Not like a lot of the dirty garbage you see today.

Down to the lake I fear?

WTF?

They look nice guys at ease with themselves.

I liked them well enough but I think they had perhaps four songs I liked....trying to imagine how they get to a box set (without 7 versions of the same song, etc.)

They stole "Ai ai ai ai ai ya!" from me!

Don't forget me!

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You can listen to this album from start to finish. I wish they would put out some of the unreleased tracks from that first album.

yum-oooooooooooo

That's so true Yoko, but H 100 sang it on key and made it sound fun - not like the final minutes of a slasher film frenzy.

You are a horror, Haircut 100 are happy, peppy, make people smile. You make us cringe.

I was at Walmart today and heard "Fantastic Day" playing on the muzak feed.

Saw them live last September. It was great!

Such an underrated band

Any outtakes from the video of Nick Heyward in the Tarzan outfit on the rope swing?

At R13 it appears Hayward is wearing a pair of Shuron Freeway glasses. A design based on James Dean’s racing glasses. He is fucking adorable.

He also appears to be in shape with big guns.

One of the first 20 songs I learned on guitar was the rhythm from Love Plus One. Years after that I tried to play the bass line, and just couldn't get it right. The bass line is REALLY good.

Why did Nick go solo?

We have a 1980s retrospective bump bitch here this afternoon, getting those troll accounts ready for a MAGAT-EST weekend.