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

[Ben Harrison]

I didn't know them in the omnipresent context you speak of ... but I
have this impression I saw them too often as a support band to people
i liked. Too often --- that could have been once of course!

On 9/28/12, februarycallendar <antoniaforestforever@...> wrote:
> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Ben Harrison <abcdetc@...> wrote:
>>
>> Cranberries ... !!!
>>
>> Or were they good when he played them?
>
> The aforementioned 17 Oct 92 has the original release of "Dreams", and to my
> ears it sounds no better in that context than when it became omnipresent on
> Virgin, ILR, the intro of Grandstand etc. two years later.
>
> Self-hating ex-public schoolboys in England tend to have a misguided
> weakness for a romantic concept of Irishness or Scottishness or Welshness -
> I've been there myself (though without the public school bit) because it
> seems more "authentic" than their own identity and enables them to express
> their latent ruralist yearnings without seeming Daily Mailish or nostalgic
> for the British Empire.  I suspect that's why the music press went wild for
> the Cranberries, however briefly, though I'd never have put Peel in that
> category.
>
> RPC
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