[peel] Re: What was your most hated Peel favourite band?

[Mike Parker]

Stereolab phil? are you kidding? these were my 2nd worst after the wedding present who i remind everybody again, david gedge can`t sing for toffees.


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 From: Phil Edwards <festive50@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: peel@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Saturday, 14 July 2012, 23:11
Subject: RE: [peel] Re: What was your most hated Peel favourite band?
 

  
Had problems with my e-mail and just found
this draft,
So a belated post.
 
 
I haven’t posted for a hell of a
long time, but this post really appealed to me.
Firstly being one of the older members (b.
1951), I grew up with Peely, from his “ Perfumed Garden ”
days on Radio London and in those days I just loved practically everything he
played.
I carried on listening up to the mid
‘70s then I stopped and the only band I can remember to this day which
put me off was “The boys of the Lough” (I possibly may even like
them now, who knows). Ironically I’d stopped listening just prior to
punk, however I did get to hear punk and reggae elsewhere fortunately but
probably not to such a great extent. I then rediscovered Peel in 1981 when I
heard and recorded the top 20 of the festive fifty and carried on with just the
FFs until early 1987 when I listened to most of his shows right up to his sad
demise. Again I just loved practically everything he played up until the latter
years and believe it or not I preferred the electronic techno/ drum ‘n
bass/ dance/ grime/ dubstep to the conventional guitar based bands. Ironically
John used to bemoan the fact that the FF was latterly made up of “white
boys strumming guitars”, yet he used to play the ilk of “Von
Bondies”, “The Datsuns”, “Vaults”,
“Decoration” and “The Bees” which I just simply
abhorred and in IMHO were just a continuation of “Britpop” and
hadn’t “moved on”.
To me, guitar bands had to have a
distinctive edge with raucous/melodic beautiful vocals like “King of the
Slums”, “Band of Susans”, “Clinic”,
“Solex”, “Stereolab”, “Herman Dune”, “Will
Oldham”, “Tungg”.


Phil
 
 

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From:peel@yahoogroups.com [mailto:peel@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Ian Stuart
Sent: 24 May 2012 20:03
To: peel@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [peel] Re: What was
your most hated Peel favourite band?
 
  
Hmm

I disliked lots of Peel's faves at first but they grew on me - loved the way he
championed bands who later matured - always kept me guessing and intrigued

The list of bands and genres he introduced me to is endless - so many magic
moments, Slits, Pop Group, early Scritts, The mighty Fall, Sonic Youth, Misty,
Aswad, Oval, PHJ, Fresenius Kabi, Diblo, Bhundus, Abana Banaseri, Melt Banana,
Boredoms, JUNE TABOR, Martin Carthy, John Martyn, Drum and Bass, Electro,
Dance, Weddoes, Microdisney Glad you were born in England, Tangerine Dream, Lee
Perry, Bovell, The Jury Boys, even now I am first hearing the Superqueens and
Living Ornament, Guitar Wolf, Pinetop Smith, who was that fab boogie woogie
lady? Pig's Big 78, and of course - The Native Hipsters Oh look there goes
concord again, who was it did that song went wah wah didly diddly splong with
lots of shouting? Splintered, nearly forgot Vermonster and Trumanswater, the
Saints, Dead C, Who did 'and I send my love with a Molotov cocktail?'

Gosh JP changed my life!!!!! 

ian 


On 23/05/2012 20:43, mr_maudlin wrote: 
  
>Shall I be the one person to stand up for the Wedding
Present? I'm really surprised at the number of people who didn't seem to care
for them, and presumably Cinerama as well (as the boy Gedge's voice was much
higher in the mix). Oh well, nowt so queer as folk.
>
>No band in particular stands out as a turn off for me, it was mainly the dush
dush dance stuff that left me cold, and led to me actually missing some shows
from 2000ish onwards, where it seemed to be filling up the programmes.
>
>MarkC
>
>--- In peel@yahoogroups.com,
MARK LUETCHFORD <M.Luetchford@...> wrote:
>>
>> I've changed the message title as I'm enjoying this and wanted others to
take part.
>> 
>> It would be truly amazing  if everybody here loved every thing he
played - surely that's the point. He played what he liked -not what he was told
to play - and you could make your own mind up. I think he would have been
mystified if someone claimed to have exactly the same musical taste as himself.
He would have just been sad if people stopped listening to new music - I
remembered he likened it to films once - why get stuck watching the films that
were made up until you are 25.
>> 
>> if you want to see a backlash try this for size - I find most of the
repetitive beat/dance/rave/ house/acid music (eg a whole genre) he played
unlistenable but used to grin and bear it from the late 80s in the hope of
hearing  a gem and when it almost completely took over his show - or at
least seemed to - I even gave up listening for a while then missed his
contribution to my musical history/present too much. 
>> 
>> ....and as for Captain Beefheart I only like a very few of his offerings
at the more commercial end of his repertoire. I ocassionally get my copy of
Trout Mask out to give it a spin but still don't get it. Maybe one day I will.
>> 
>> I thought the weddies finest hour was their ukranian stylings - seemed
pretty mediocre to me apart from that and their first album.
>> 
>> 
>> So that's me consigned to the back of the Peel Musicology Class
>> 
>> Mark
>> 
>> PS has Steve got a thing against Steveless because of their name? The band
were ok but thought the name was genius.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ________________________________
>> From: Mike Parker <parkermike81@...>
>> To: "peel@yahoogroups.com"
<peel@yahoogroups.com> 
>> Sent: Tuesday, 22 May 2012, 20:20
>> Subject: Re: [peel] Re: A new England
>> 
>> 
>> Â  
>> [sent twice, dont think previous one got through] Â  Â  Â 
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
          Good to hear steve, I was beginning
 to think my comments were far too contraversial 
>> for others to have an opinion on, well at least it momentarily shook up
the 
>> group from a state of stunned silence, thanks for instigating the mild
backlash ha. Â 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ________________________________
>> From: so_it_goes_2512 <so_it_goes_2512@...>
>> To: peel@yahoogroups.com 
>> Sent: Tuesday, 22 May 2012, 0:46
>> Subject: [peel] Re: A new England
>> 
>> 
>> Â  
>> > Ah ok ,well while i`m coming out all guns blazing i do really think
the wedding present were probably the biggest mistake peel made in getting
behind, did thoroughly decent bloke and mate cloud peels judgement?there
awfull, just listen to mr gedge`s voice, he cant sing for toffees,that awfull
whine,i just don`t get the popularity with that band. anybody else think peel
got it badly wrong in championing any particular band?
>> 
>> Hi buddy, having seen them twice and played their stuff to death, I can't
go along with you on that one, but again it's only personal opinion, as I
repeatedly had to point out to those who bit my head off for negative write-ups
of Melt Banana and Radiohead on Teenage Kicks. Those two would definitely be my
bete noires, and while I'm at it, please add Sheena Easton, Racing Cars, the Incredible
String Band and Steveless to the list of those acts John loved but which make
me want to stick my head in the microwave every time he plays them.
>> 
>> All the best
>> Steve (TK)
>>