Had problems with my e-mail and just found
this draft,
So a belated post.
I haven’t posted for a hell of a
long time, but this post really appealed to me.
Firstly being one of the older members (b.
1951), I grew up with Peely, from his “
I carried on listening up to the mid
‘70s then I stopped and the only band I can remember to this day which
put me off was “The boys of the Lough” (I possibly may even like
them now, who knows). Ironically I’d stopped listening just prior to
punk, however I did get to hear punk and reggae elsewhere fortunately but
probably not to such a great extent. I then rediscovered Peel in 1981 when I
heard and recorded the top 20 of the festive fifty and carried on with just the
FFs until early 1987 when I listened to most of his shows right up to his sad
demise. Again I just loved practically everything he played up until the latter
years and believe it or not I preferred the electronic techno/ drum ‘n
bass/ dance/ grime/ dubstep to the conventional guitar based bands. Ironically
John used to bemoan the fact that the FF was latterly made up of “white
boys strumming guitars”, yet he used to play the ilk of “Von
Bondies”, “The Datsuns”, “Vaults”,
“Decoration” and “The Bees” which I just simply
abhorred and in IMHO were just a continuation of “Britpop” and
hadn’t “moved on”.
To me, guitar bands had to have a
distinctive edge with raucous/melodic beautiful vocals like “King of the
Slums”, “Band of Susans”, “Clinic”,
“Solex”, “Stereolab”, “Herman Dune”, “Will
Oldham”, “Tungg”.
Phil
From:
peel@yahoogroups.com [mailto:peel@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Ian Stuart
Sent: 24 May 2012 20:03
To: peel@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [peel] Re: What was
your most hated Peel favourite band?
Hmm
I disliked lots of Peel's faves at first but they grew on me - loved the way he
championed bands who later matured - always kept me guessing and intrigued
The list of bands and genres he introduced me to is endless - so many magic
moments, Slits, Pop Group, early Scritts, The mighty Fall, Sonic Youth, Misty,
Aswad, Oval, PHJ, Fresenius Kabi, Diblo, Bhundus, Abana Banaseri, Melt Banana,
Boredoms, JUNE TABOR, Martin Carthy, John Martyn, Drum and Bass, Electro,
Dance, Weddoes, Microdisney Glad you were born in England, Tangerine Dream, Lee
Perry, Bovell, The Jury Boys, even now I am first hearing the Superqueens and
Living Ornament, Guitar Wolf, Pinetop Smith, who was that fab boogie woogie
lady? Pig's Big 78, and of course - The Native Hipsters Oh look there goes
concord again, who was it did that song went wah wah didly diddly splong with
lots of shouting? Splintered, nearly forgot Vermonster and Trumanswater, the
Saints, Dead C, Who did 'and I send my love with a Molotov cocktail?'
Gosh JP changed my life!!!!!
ian
On 23/05/2012 20:43, mr_maudlin wrote: