sleevenotes, etc with sweary quote

steve saipanda@...
Thu Feb 24 04:49:39 CET 2011


Just rechecked the discogs link given on the wiki and mega-zoomed in - definitely a naughty word. According to discogs, this is a 1985 version. Maybe they "de-cleaned" it up from the 1980 version?

SW

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "ken" <ken_garner@...> wrote:
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> maybe they cleaned it up to this version sometime...
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> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "ken" <ken_garner@> wrote:
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> > I am looking at my cppy of Upside Your Head right now, Mark, and the quote from Peel given on my pressing (1980) uses the word "funk" not "fuck". Sorry.
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> > ken
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> > --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "Mark" <markonnewsgroups@> wrote:
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> > > I could have sworn I'd kept my old copy of Charly Records' Jimmy Reed compilation "Upside Your Head", but it's not with the others so I'll have to quote from memory.  
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> > > Anyway: not quite what you were looking for, but on the back of the sleeve Cliff White mentioned that he had failed to commission sleevenotes from a couple of Famous People, one of whom was revealed to be John Peel.  John Peel's only surviving contribution is this quote: "The thing I've always liked about Jimmy Reed's music, Cliff, is that it's such great music to fuck to."
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