1976 Festive 50

[thebarguest]

Given the dire state of rock/pop/indie music over the past, what, 8 
years, one wonders why there hasn't been a new punk-esque shake-over ?

Do we need a McClaren-type shyster ? Is there nothing new under the
rock/indie sun ? ........

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, John Bravin <john.bravin@...> wrote:
>
> I'm listening to some of the older shows where Peel invited 
listeners to 
> choose their selection of the best music they would pick as 
> representative of the 10 years of the John Peel Show on Radio 1 - a 
kind 
> of pre-Festive Fifty.  Regarding the comment on 1976 below (and 
bearing 
> in mind the listener shows were broadcast in September before the 
punk 
> explosion took off), he actually comments on the fact that "almost 
all 
> of shows compiled by listeners ignore the years 1973-1976 which he 
> describes as 'fallow years'".  Very perceptive given what happened 
a few 
> months later.
> 
> I can remember the excitement generated when Bob Marley released 
his 
> Live at The Lyceum album (actually in Dec 1975) but I didn't really 
hear 
> it until 1976.  Although that wasn't Punk there was a feeling that 
it 
> was breath of fresh air, and for a few months it was the hottest 
sound 
> around. It certainly influenced Peel as he started playing some 
> interesting non-pop reggae culminating in his championing of the 
Misty 
> in Roots Live at the Countervision album four years later. And it 
> certainly influenced some of the Punk movement.
> 
> John
> 
> dunelm61 wrote:
> >
> > Which is all fine and dandy except that (whisper it) nobody was
> > actually listening to those records in 1976!
> >
> > 1976 can be summed up in three words which will strike fear into 
the
> > heart of anyone of my age and in themselves are enough to explain 
why
> > punk had to happen: Frampton Comes Alive.
> >
>