[peel] What was your most hated Peel favourite band?
Mike Parker
parkermike81@...
Wed May 23 16:43:43 CEST 2012
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From: "twing@..." <twing@....uk>
To: peel@yahoogroups.com
Cc: twing@...
Sent: Tuesday, 22 May 2012, 22:11
Subject: Re: [peel] What was your most hated Peel favourite band?
In-Reply-To: <1337717458.57153.YahooMailNeo@...2.yahoo.com>
Heresy time - I bloody loathe the Undertones. The fact that I'm
a glasses-wearing Terry who has a degree in maths & physics may have
something to do with it ;)
Plus, every Wedding Present song sounds to me like one of 100 variations
on Gedge growling bitterly "I lie awake at night thinking of you and him
sleeping in the bed I paid for." < HA HA, SPOT ON.
Terry Wiley
> 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@...>
> To: "peel@yahoogroups.com" <peel@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, 22 May 2012, 20:20
> Subject: Re: [peel] Re: A new England
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> [sent twice, dont think previous one got through]
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> 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@yahoo.co.uk>
> To: peel@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, 22 May 2012, 0:46
> Subject: [peel] Re: A new England
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> > 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)
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