What was your most hated Peel favourite band?

Martin martinpercival@...
Fri May 25 12:49:45 CEST 2012


The band themselves agree that "Get over you" was a better single John.

Martin

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, John Bravin <john.bravin@...> wrote:
>
> Now this is heresy, but I have long grown tired of the Undertones.
> 
> One great single "Get Over You" (worth it for the opening bar), one 
> desperately overrated single "Teenage Kicks" and then a series of 
> singles each worse than the previous  "Jimmy Jimmy", "Here Comes the 
> Summer" and "You've Got My Number (Why Don't You Use It)?".
> 
> I much preferred their reincarnation as That Petrol Emotion, or the the 
> other Ulster punk bank Stiff Little Fingers.  A little more edge that 
> still sounds exciting.
> 
> But as you can barely hear a Peel tribute without someone saying Teenage 
> Kicks I guess I am in a minority of one. Over the years he had so many 
> "My favourite song of all time" that I wonder if he ever regretted 
> getting irreversibly tied to this one
> 
> John
>






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