[peel] Festive 50 - 2004

[Jan Buxton]

On Saturday, January 01, 2005 4:30 PM [GMT+1=CET],
simon smith <moomin@...> wrote:

> In message <00c001c4ef86$62f0a250$2e90220a@...>, Jan Buxton
> <janb@...> writes
>> Well much as I really liked some of the things Peel brought to us
>> (Hefner, B+S, HMHB, that Caroline Martin record in the FF etc etc), I
>> also felt he played a lot of completely unlistenable rubbish.
>
> I've heard that said a million times about the Peel show and normally
> I think I know what people mean - Melt Banana or the Swans for
> example. However I'm not sure what was 'unlistenable rubbish' in this
> year's festive fifty - it seemed generally pretty melodious and
> conventional to me, apart from the Magic Band I suppose.

There wasn't any unlistenable rubbish in the FF IMO either. The above 
comment was meant to refer to the general Peel show. What I would say 
about this years FF is that there was a lot of unremarkable, listen once 
and forget it, mediocre music by bands frankly lucky that Peel existed 
(the Magic Band one of the exceptions). I've heard more interesting 
records on daytime (Nightbreed - Pack Of Wolves for instance).

-- 
Jan