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

[Mike Parker]

Good post mark which I can relate to as the stuff peel was playing a couple of years before he died was the worst for me, safe formulaic with not so much danger and bite in the music, almost big stagey glastonbury feel to the whole show by then rather than more inclined to be of an oddball nature and what difficult music he did play like steveless seemed almost like a novelty act rather than a threat, in fact by 2003 I was missing so many of his shows that I feared it was only a matter of time before I stopped listening completely, without sounding harsh as peel changed my life for the good growing up but how strange now that I discovered this group i`m enjoying his old shows more as a result of his death,I often dreamed whilst hating the 2003 shows that I would somehow come across his 80`s shows once again and remembering the sheer excitement I recall now in hearing extracts from those tapes.that dream is still being realised, may it continue........  


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 From: MARK LUETCHFORD <M.Luetchford@btopenworld.com>
To: "peel@yahoogroups.com" <peel@yahoogroups.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, 22 May 2012, 21:10
Subject: [peel] What was your most hated Peel favourite band?
 

  
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.




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 From: Mike Parker <parkermike81@...m>
To: "peel@yahoogroups.com" <peel@yahoogroups.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, 22 May 2012, 20:20
Subject: Re: [peel] Re: A new England
 

  
[sent twice, dont think previous one got through]                                                                                                                                                             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.  




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 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
 

  
> 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)