Festive Fifties

[Stuart Mackie]

any idea why the tracklistings on the Radio 1 site are so hopelessly out of
date?

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Stuart McHugh [SMTP:smchugh@...]
> Sent:	Thursday, November 04, 1999 10:30 AM
> To:	peel@onelist.com
> Subject:	Re: [peel] Festive Fifties
> 
> From: Stuart McHugh <smchugh@...>
> 
> >From: Dougal McKinnon <d.mckinnon@...>
> >
> >Anyone any strong opinions on the (tentative) decision to have two FFs
> >this year - one for 1999 and one "all-time" one?  Personally, I think
> >the latter's a mistake and will be a lot of his air-time wasted, like
> >the Peelenium (stands back and prepares to hold the jackets).
> I can see the point though, it's like an opportunity that can't be missed
> (or something) to cover all the music of the last 100 years/2000 years/all
> time. However, I'm sure many of us recall that whenever he ran parallel
> 50's before there was no chance at all of something from this year getting
> into the all-time chart as everyone's nature says 'get 6, not 4 or 5, of
> your favourites on the list'. That might not be a bad thing as when it was
> 'all-time- charts in the past they were full of stuff from the current
> year, but neither is representative.
> But I stilll think it would be interesting to see how much we've gone away
> (if at all) from the Atmosphere vs. Anarchy battles of the early 80's.
> Doesn't anyone think the Peelennium's improved vastly since we got to the
> 60's? Arnold Lane last night!
> 
> Stuart
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