[peel] Re: Derby Box begins..

[RobF]

Well the same argument must go for Lou Reed, Bob Dylan, Neil Young etc.
None of them could "sing" in conventional terms.

As for the 1978 observation - you're dead right, and it is fascinating. I
think that what actually happened was that his Friday night show went to
Tommy Vance in late 1978 and TV started off playing a similar mix of rock
and post-punk - and over the next year they both changed to be more
specialised. I think Peel was generally quite honest in his remit that he
stopped playing stuff when he felt it was getting better served elsewhere.
The same went for a lot of the post-punk bands that achieved mainstream
success.

On 13 December 2014 at 22:10, thebarguest@... [peel] <
peel@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> Many thanks guys, these tapes are actually better audio quality than if
> the BBC released (edited) versions!! My faves so far are the 78 shows where
> Peely is really being himself, playing the best of the "old school" like
> BJH as well as the new DIY new-wave (great to hear "Chairs Missing" when it
> was new). In 79/80, sadly, he became a bit Maoist/Stalinist by only playing
> new-wave, which of course, begs the age-old "Peel" conundrum/question - was
> his playlist his own, sincere choice of the best recent releases or was it
> geared just to keep him the mythical guru of pure "new" music ?
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> Having seen/heard Morrissey and Bragg circa 1983 recently, I thought -
> "God, they can't sing for toffee, their success must have been 90% down to
> fashion"... Although I do think  "The Queen Is Dead" is a great album !!!
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