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[Steve Watts]

AndyTBTG said

> I tend to agree, although I like alot of the other dance stuff he
> plays. I'm reminded of the early 90's and mid 80's when all your
> "traditional" Peel listeners would moan about the amount of
> bleepy-bleepy music or the amount of rap he was playing, and then we
> all (well some of us at least) got to like it and realised the old
> fellah was right all along.
> 
> What I also don't understand at the moment is him playing the
> Bluetones and Gene, although the recent Gene stuff has been quite
> good. Or am I just forcing myself to like them because Peel plays
> them? Oh bugger, Peel fan dilemna! I'm confused!


This has always been my main criticism of Peel as well. I can 
tolerate the rap and bleepy stuff (in fact I've been starting to 
enjoy some of it myself) as it's slightly leftfield in the same way 
as the other stuff he plays, and it ain't gonna get played on many 
other shows, but the Bluetones??! To me that's Evening session 
music and gets far too much airplay as it is. Is this just the indie 
snob side of me showing through, or do other listeners also feel that 
he's wasting valuable airtime when he plays those bands?


  -=steve=-
how many more frames before you realise
the painted airhead just doesn't suit you