[peel] we miss john peel - mtv2 europe

[Jan Buxton]

colin bray wrote:
> I have always felt that dedicated Peel listeners were invariably 'sound' as 
> people.
> 
> I think they are/were the nicest people out there.

I quite agree...

> Some people may dislike Peel devotees in the same way they disliked Peel - 
> mistaking eclecticism for snobbery.

...what I was getting at was not that or a tendency for eclecticism, in 
fact the opposite - a lot of 'Peel devotees' can have rather closed 
minds. Its not any more eclectic to say "it's popular, it's rubbish", 
than it is to say "it's obscure, it's rubbish". Very few Peel devotees 
actually practice eclecticism in my experience. And nice and sound as 
they are, its annoying when they something like "Love Will... is JDs 
worst record", when even if you don't see it as the classic that it is, 
it clearly can't be the worst thing they ever did.

-- 
Jan
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