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

[RobF]

Ah at last - White Stripes. Always hated them. Jack White's subsequent
career has proved me right I feel. And unlike Gedge you can't even argue
that he's a decent bloke because he comes across as an utter wanker

On 25 May 2012 13:07, apoplexia <apoplexia@...> wrote:

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> I only had a couple of years of listening to Peel "live" on BFBS while I
> was living in Cologne in the late 90s, early 2000s, but there are a number
> of bands that I discovered and loved (went and saw the White Stripes in a
> tiny dive on the basis of just one or two songs I'd heard him play). And,
> in general, he played very little stuff that I actively disliked, and in
> many cases even brought me around to genres that I'd otherwise have
> dismissed out of hand.
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> That said. The Laura Cantrell years? God, I just couldn't stand those
> tedious weepy country stylings of hers, and there was definitely a period
> (listening via this group mostly), where there are a lot of songs by her.
> Also never really saw "Teenage Kicks" as more than an average pop song at
> best.
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> Rich
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> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Martin <martinpercival@...> wrote:
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>> The band themselves agree that "Get over you" was a better single John.
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>> Martin
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>> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, John Bravin <john.bravin@...> wrote:
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>> > Now this is heresy, but I have long grown tired of the Undertones.
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>> > 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)?".
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>> > 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.
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>> > 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
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>> > John
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