[peel] Re: Festive Fifty Holy Grails

[rockerq@...]

I guess maybe they thought that having The Fall at number 1 would be a 
fitting tribute to the recently deceased?

Rocker

> <<Hmm - well I know there was a strong contingent of Fall fans who thought 
> that the 2004 posthumous F50 with Sparta FC at #1 was a case of mistaken 
> identity.
> 
> Sparta had been been #2 in the previous year's F50, having been first 
> broadcast as part of the Feb 2003 Peel Session and then officially released on "The 
> Real New Fall LP" in October 2003.
> 
> Although it then came out as a single in 2004, a lot of Fall fans couldn't 
> believe it was voted so highly again the following year particular as the 
> track "Blindness" which was performed in the 2004 Peel Session had been singled 
> out for high praise amonst the Fall cognoscenti and plenty of people admitted 
> voting for it as their #1. Yet it didn't make an appearance in the 50 (nor 
> did any other Fall track)
> 
> Could be a load of conspiracy theory nutters, but I guess that the winter of 
> 2004 was a weord time for those left in charge of the F50..>>