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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: poorlulu on October 26, 2004, 09:16:00 am
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http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1157033,00.html (http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1157033,00.html)
that's a loss for british music..........
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man that is a huge loss...i loved listening to that show when i was living in the UK....truely a sad sad day
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what??? jesus, thats terrible - an amazing guy
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Wow, first Wolfman Jack, and now this shit...that is terrible.
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First Greg Shaw of BOMP! and now John Peel, the godfathers of Independent music are leaving us...
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Well he always said the best song of all time was Teenage kicks by the Undertones... Somedays I think he might just have been right.
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Originally posted by Deepak Chopra:
Well he always said the best song of all time was Teenage kicks by the Undertones... Somedays I think he might just have been right.
After BBC Radio 1 announced his passing, they played "Teenage Kicks." :(
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Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
First Greg Shaw of BOMP! and now John Peel, the godfathers of Independent music are leaving us...
Speaking of Greg Shaw, I recieve the Bomb newsletter (put out by his wife) the other day - Here it is:
For those of you who have already sent your kind thoughts, it is much
appreciated. We are putting together a web page (at Bomp.com)that is
being devoted to reflections on his work and life, including many of
the E mails that we have received, and it should be online in a few
days, Greg will be missed, but we will carry on his work....
There is much to come, including many bands that Greg signed just
before his death.
BOMP mailorder has been run by a separate staff for many years, and
the operation is ,of necessity, back up and running after a short
break last week. Thanks for all.
Best,
Suzy Shaw
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KEXP is playing several songs from Peel Sessions this morning..
www.kexp.org (http://www.kexp.org)
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It is such sad news about John Peel. :( So young. At least he was in a place that he had always wanted to visit. If I die suddenly, I want to be someplace beautiful nice. Very sad about Shaw, too.
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I think i'll listen to these today.
John Peel's All time festive 50 - Year 2000
01 Joy Division - ' Atmosphere' (Factory)
02 Undertones - ' Teenage Kicks' (Good Vibrations)
03 Joy Division - ' Love Will Tear Us Apart' (Factory)
04 Sex Pistols - ' Anarchy In The UK' (EMI)
05 Clash - '(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais' (CBS)
06 New Order - ' Blue Monday' (Factory)
07 Smiths - ' How Soon Is Now?' (Rough Trade)
08 Nirvana - ' Smells Like Teen Spirit' (Geffen)
09 Smiths - ' There Is A Light That Never Goes Out' (Rough Trade)
10 This Mortal Coil - ' Song To The Siren' (4AD)
11 Robert Wyatt - ' Shipbuilding' (Rough Trade)
12 Pulp - ' Common People' (Island)
13 Capt Beefheart & His Magic Band - ' Big Eyed Beans From Venus' (Reprise)
14 Dead Kennedy' s - ' Holiday In Cambodia' (Cherry Red)
15 Joy Division - ' New Dawn Fades' (Factory)
16 My Bloody Valentine - ' Soon' (Creation)
17 New Order - ' Ceremony' (Factory)
18 Only Ones - ' Another Girl, Another Planet' (CBS)
19 New Order - ' Temptation' (Factory)
20 Joy Division - ' She's Lost Control' (Factory)
21 Wedding Present - ' Brassneck' (RCA)
22 Smiths - ' This Charming Man' (WEA)
23 Sugarcubes - ' Birthday' (One Little Indian)
24 Fall - ' How I Wrote 'Elastic Man'' (Rough Trade)
25 Wedding Present - ' My Favourite Dress' (Reception)
26 Delgados - ' Pull The Wires From the Wall' (Chemikal Underground)
27 My Bloody Valentine - ' You Made Me Realise' (Creation)
28 Joy Division - ' Transmission' (Factory)
29 Sex Pistols - ' Pretty Vacant' (Virgin)
30 Pixies - ' Debaser' (4AD)
31 Belle & Sebastian - ' Lazy Line Painter Jane' (Jeepster)
32 New Order - ' True Faith' (Factory)
33 Clash - ' Complete Control' (CBS)
34 Fall - ' Totally Wired' (Rough Trade)
35 Jam - ' Going Underground' (Polydor)
36 Stereolab - ' French Disko' (Duophonic)
37 Jimi Hendrix Experience - ' All Along The Watchtower' (Polydor)
38 Fall - ' The Classical' (Situation Two)
39 Damned - ' New Rose' (Stiff)
40 Tim Buckley - ' Song To The Siren' (Straight)
41 Beach Boys - ' God Only Knows' (Capitol)
42 Velvet Underground - ' Heroin' (MGM)
43 Nick Drake - ' Northern Sky' (Island)
44 Bob Dylan - ' Visions Of Johanna' (CBS)
45 Beatles - ' I Am The Walrus' (Parlophone)
46 Beach Boys - ' Good Vibrations' (Capitol)
47 Sundays - ' Can' t Be Sure' (Rough Trade)
48 Culture - ' Lion Rock' (Strange Fruit)
49 P J Harvey - ' Sheela-na-gig' (Too Pure)
50 Pavement - ' Here' (Big Cat)
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What? NO Radiohead????
What a fuckin wanker.
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nice article from the post about peel.
BBC's John Peel Put His Own Spin On Rock Music
By Andrew Beaujon
Special to The Washington Post
Wednesday, October 27, 2004; Page C01
You could trust John Peel. The longtime British Broadcasting Corporation DJ, who died Monday at 65, earned his audience's respect by disregarding playlists and charts and instead playing only things he liked. That was as radical a concept in 1967, when Peel helped launch the BBC's rock station, Radio 1, as it is in today's bleak radio landscape.
That's why for many young rock groups, Peel's endorsement was tantamount to being a top pick in Consumer Reports. The Undertones' Damian O'Neill remembers feeling "a mixture of disbelief, total excitement and, of course, a large dose of trepidation" when Peel first played his group's single, "Teenage Kicks," on his show in 1978.
For American music obsessives, catching Peel's BBC World Service show on shortwave was often the only way to experience records they'd only read about. But you didn't need to have spent your adolescence hiding under your covers with a flashlight and a copy of Goldmine magazine to appreciate Peel's influence. Just tune your radio to any rock station, where you'll hear bands he relentlessly championed -- the Smiths, Joy Division and Nirvana, to name but three -- as well as innumerable artists influenced by such groups: Dashboard Confessional, Interpol and most of WHFS's regular rotation, respectively.
Then there were the Peel cult faves, groups such as the Fall, the Wedding Present and Pulp, who parlayed his approval into long careers outside the mainstream.
A "Peel Session" -- four or five songs recorded in a BBC studio at Peel's invitation -- was as much a status symbol for one of these groups as it was an act of largesse for struggling U.S. bands touring Europe, since the Beeb paid artists a fairly generous sum to be featured.
The sessions, many of which were released as records, were sometimes classic (New Order, the Cure, the Damned), sometimes forgettable (the June Brides? Half Man Half Biscuit?), but they came around like clockwork every week, as did Peel's yearly "Festive 50" roundup of his favorite records of the year.
For a man so influential, Peel was surprisingly accessible -- basically, if you wrote him, he'd send you a postcard back, often with his phone number, sometimes "signed" with a rubber stamp that read "John Peel, The World's Most Boring Man." It was the only image he ever courted: a bearded, bald music geek who only occasionally turned up at music festivals, usually in baggy shorts and a floppy hat, looking as if he'd mistakenly wandered off course during a butterfly-collecting outing.
He spent as little time in London as possible, preferring to be at home at "Peel Acres" in Suffolk with his wife Sheila, known to his listeners as "Pig" for her laugh. He reveled in raising his children, telling the Times of London once that he firmly believed that Elvis could have been sorted out by a couple weeks of accompanying Peel to the grocery store and picking the kids up from school.
Indeed, Peel never pursued celebrity, though he was one of the most famous people in Britain -- possibly the only member of the Order of the British Empire to flog an Extreme Noise Terror record on-air. He counted the late Marc Bolan from T-Rex as one of his few famous friends, and had only a nodding relationship with Mark E. Smith, with whose band the Fall he is inextricably linked, having invited the group to do some 20 "Peel Sessions" and relentlessly plugging its records.
Peel mostly stuck to radio, with brief forays into TV -- "presenting" the chart show "Top of the Pops" in the late '70s and early '80s -- and had recently signed a $2.8 million deal to write his autobiography. "He'd started it," says the Undertones' Mickey Bradley, "but knowing John Peel, it would have taken a while." Peel's folksy weekly column for the BBC's Radio Times magazine was a reliable delight, as was his most recent show, "Home Truths," a sort of "This American Life" for, you know, British people. It tackled subjects such as which English prep school had the longest-standing foreign exchange program with Germany.
All these endeavors were distractions for Peel, though, whose greatest delight was wallowing in new music, searching for gems. His most recent World Service show boasted a playlist that would drive a Clear Channel executive insane just by being read aloud: "Get Down With It" by the Woggles, "Tomorrow Morning" by someone named Chris T-T and "Fear on a Bridge" by 3 Inches of Blood.
And incidentally, the Undertones' O'Neill needn't have worried. In later years, Peel repeatedly named "Teenage Kicks" his favorite song of all time, often expressing a desire to have its first lines -- "Teenage kicks / So hard to beat" -- inscribed on his tombstone. It's hard to imagine that won't be the case, but just to be safe, a fitting tribute would be to fire the song up yourself. Then go hit a record store and look for the next great song.
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Thousands Attend Funeral of DJ John Peel
(AP, 11/12/2004 12:00 PM)
Musicians, broadcasters and hundreds of music fans gathered at an English church Friday for the funeral of John Peel, an influential DJ beloved by generations of British Broadcasting Corp. listeners.
Jack and Meg White of the White Stripes, Pulp's Jarvis Cocker and Undertones singer Feargal Sharkey were among mourners at the service for Peel, 65, who died of a heart attack last month while on holiday in Peru.
Tributes outside St. Edmundsbury Cathedral in Bury St. Edmunds, eastern England, included a wreath of yellow roses from Elton John with a card that read: "Thank you for all the great music. You were a hero for so many. Much love Elton."
Peel was a BBC fixture for almost 40 years, playing an eclectic assortment of tunes, often by unknown bands, that reflected his wide-ranging tastes. Peel promoted reggae, hip-hop and punk on the sometimes conservative BBC, and championed acts ranging from Jimi Hendrix and David Bowie to The Smiths, The Fall, and Pulp.
"John Peel was simply the most influential music broadcaster in the U.K. His support for young musicians was unique," said the BBC's director of radio and music, Jenny Abramsky.
Some 1,000 mourners filled the cathedral and hundreds more listened on loudspeakers outside. Alongside the Lord's Prayer, a choral work by Mozart and the traditional hymn "Abide With Me," the service included the soccer favorite "You'll Never Walk Alone" â?? unofficial anthem of Peel's favorite team, Liverpool â?? and Howlin' Wolf's "Going Down Slow."
After the service, Peel's coffin was borne from the church to applause and the sound of his favorite song â?? "Teenage Kicks" by The Undertones.