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

[kevin beech]

Cranberries ... !!!

Very early stuff sounded like the Sundays so I can see the appeal

kev.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ben Harrison 
  To: peel@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 3:53 AM
  Subject: Re: [peel] Re: What was your most hated Peel favourite band?


    
  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
  >
  >