A US radio company has bid "over £1 million" for JOHN PEEL’s record collection, it has been reported.
The collection, which features tens of thousands of records, is said to be "priceless" by manager Clive Selwood.
"A US radio company has offered us over £1 million. The British Library are also interested," he explained to The Mirror, although it is unclear what will happen to the records.
"There are tens of thousands of records. It’s got all his annotations on it – three asterisks meant the record must be played. He had to extend his house in Suffolk to hold them all."
It was announced on Tuesday (October 26) that the legendary BBC DJ died from a heart attack while on holiday in Peru.
(NME)
So...... What should happen to the vast record collection of John Peel. Should it remain as a family ornament or should it be sold to the highest bidder?
― herbalizer12 (herbalizer12), Friday, 29 October 2004 13:09 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 29 October 2004 13:12 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Formerly Lee G (Formerly Lee G), Friday, 29 October 2004 13:19 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 October 2004 13:20 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 29 October 2004 13:22 (8 years ago) Permalink
― briania (briania), Friday, 29 October 2004 13:23 (8 years ago) Permalink
Ya gotta start somewhere.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 October 2004 13:24 (8 years ago) Permalink
― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 29 October 2004 13:24 (8 years ago) Permalink
― jim (jim5et), Friday, 29 October 2004 13:25 (8 years ago) Permalink
― briania (briania), Friday, 29 October 2004 13:27 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Guy Beckett, Friday, 29 October 2004 13:32 (8 years ago) Permalink
Liverpool University has the The Institute of Popular Musichttp://www.liv.ac.uk/ipm/
About:
The Institute of Popular Music (IPM) was established in 1988 and it remains the only academic centre in the UK created specifically for the study of popular music.
It specializes in the provision of popular music teaching, research, information and archives, and it has a growing national and international reputation.
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 29 October 2004 13:53 (8 years ago) Permalink
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 29 October 2004 13:56 (8 years ago) Permalink
I didn't think he'd been looking too healthy recently....
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:03 (8 years ago) Permalink
Yup. Got to do something with all theose millions that just keep on flooding in from AMG.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:05 (8 years ago) Permalink
Twos.
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:06 (8 years ago) Permalink
I would happily share. In fact, if Radio 1 had any spare air time . . .
― Formerly Lee G (Formerly Lee G), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:07 (8 years ago) Permalink
If only. ;-)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:13 (8 years ago) Permalink
― lukey (Lukey G), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:13 (8 years ago) Permalink
― well, okay, Friday, 29 October 2004 14:17 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:17 (8 years ago) Permalink
You don't actually think this thread has any resonance with the Peel estate do you?
Anyway, digitise idea - very urgent and key.
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:20 (8 years ago) Permalink
I'm a-scared that this "US radio company" is in fact Clear Channel, who'd likely melt all of the records down to make unsafe toys for children in Guatamala.
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:22 (8 years ago) Permalink
― m. (mitchlnw), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:24 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:26 (8 years ago) Permalink
So, I say again: Twos.
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:31 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:54 (8 years ago) Permalink
Welcome to the British Library Sound Archive, one of the largest sound archives in the world. Opened in 1955 as the British Institute of Recorded Sound, it became part of the British Library in 1983.
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 29 October 2004 15:00 (8 years ago) Permalink
"We must do everything in our power to disallow the public any opportunity to hear this music collection and have more evidence that present commercial radio is crap."
― MattLauer, Friday, 29 October 2004 15:08 (8 years ago) Permalink
― piscesboy, Friday, 29 October 2004 15:13 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Friday, 29 October 2004 15:19 (8 years ago) Permalink
NOT BONHAMS.
I cannot stress this enough.
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Friday, 29 October 2004 15:34 (8 years ago) Permalink
I absolutely agree. The thought of an American radio company buying his collection makes me feel sick to my stomach.
― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Friday, 29 October 2004 15:37 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 October 2004 15:40 (8 years ago) Permalink
British Library/National Sound Archive is a good one if it were to go somewhere outwith the family.
Or else a huge car boot sale out the back of Peel Acres.
― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 29 October 2004 16:35 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 29 October 2004 16:59 (8 years ago) Permalink
― autovac (autovac), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:25 (8 years ago) Permalink
It's records, man. He'd prob understand.
― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Saturday, 30 October 2004 00:24 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Sunday, 31 October 2004 10:42 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Sunday, 31 October 2004 10:44 (8 years ago) Permalink
The broadcaster John Peel held discussions with the British Library about leaving his extraordinary record collection to the nation prior to his death last week.
The Radio 1 DJ, one of the most influential figures in music over the past four decades, amassed an unrivalled array of vinyl, CDs and tapes from around the world. His exhaustive collection, made up of many of the bands he loved such as the Fall, the Undertones and obscure African acts as well as early demos from bands that went on to make it big, ran to hundreds of thousands, all carefully stored in alphabetical order.
It would be the biggest and most important batch of material ever deposited with the national Sound Archive, which is held by the British Library. It is not clear what will happen to Peel's collection because his will has not yet been made public, if indeed he made one.
Peel's widow, Sheila, and other members of the family are still in Peru, where he died of a heart attack on Monday while on a working holiday. They are arranging the return of his body and are expected back in the UK early this week.
The archive's curator for popular music, Andy Linehan, visited the DJ at his home in Suffolk to examine the stack of music which had to be housed in a purpose-built extension owing to its size. "It's a fantastic collection. The nature of the material that was sent to him was the kind of stuff that we couldn't possibly get hold of," he said.
The Sound Archive, largely housed at the library in St Pancras, London, runs to around 2.5 million important recordings. Unlike the library of print publications, there is no legal requirement to deposit material, so it relies on donations and acquisitions.
Peel had been a tireless champion of new music from the days of mid-1960s psychedelia when he first began broadcasting in the UK as a pirate DJ. His enthusiasm helped many of the world's biggest bands find an audience, including Led Zeppelin, Nirvana and the White Stripes, during his 37 years at Radio 1.
His death at 65 left the music world in mourning and prompted glowing eulogies from those who are indebted to his patronage such as Elvis Costello, Feargal Sharkey and Jarvis Cocker. His friend Roger McGough yesterday presented a special edition of Home Truths, the Radio 4 series Peel created looking at the quirks and strains of family life. It featured some of the most memorable moments from the show.
Peel's long-time manager, Clive Selwood, confirmed the discussions with the British Library. "The idea certainly had favour with him, but we'll just have to see what happens. We would have to act in the best interests of the family. It should stay in England, but I've got to try to look after the interests of the family. This was his great asset. He was never a great saver of money." 1 November 2004 14:56
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― herbalizer12 (herbalizer12), Monday, 1 November 2004 06:54 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Bimble (bimble), Monday, 1 November 2004 08:53 (8 years ago) Permalink
John Peel’s record collection to become an “online interactive museum”
http://www.factmag.com/2012/02/23/john-peels-record-collection-to-become-an-online-museum/
― Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Thursday, 23 February 2012 16:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
..won't actually be able to play any of the records... but..
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 February 2012 17:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
I miss this man.
― Turrican, Friday, 24 February 2012 01:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
HOLY SHIT U GUYS
http://www.thestoolpigeon.co.uk/features/news-john-peel-archive-to-go-online-may-1.html
THE FIRST 100 records from John Peel’s personal record collection will be online as of tomorrow (May 1).The records are being archived as part of an online museum project called The Space, which hopes to digitise the entirety of the late Radio 1 DJ’s whopping vinyl stash — some 25,000 vinyl LPs, 40,000 vinyl singles
The records are being archived as part of an online museum project called The Space, which hopes to digitise the entirety of the late Radio 1 DJ’s whopping vinyl stash — some 25,000 vinyl LPs, 40,000 vinyl singles
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Monday, 30 April 2012 12:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
Wonder what sort of order they're going to do these in?
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Monday, 30 April 2012 12:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
Update: According to The Independent [via Twitter], the collection will not – as was previously claimed – be streamable
Anyways...http://thespace.org/
― Mark G, Monday, 30 April 2012 12:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
awwww :(
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Monday, 30 April 2012 12:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
So what's the point, then?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 30 April 2012 15:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
"This is one of the greatest libraries ever. PS the books are all encased in glass."
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Monday, 30 April 2012 16:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
This is what FACT said, guess we'll find out tomorrow:
It will, however, showcase Peel’s meticulous cataloging system he had where, for each record, he would “type out a filing card for every album. Starting in 1969, he made a postcard-sized card for each new LP, and inscribed the name of the album; the name of the band and all the tracks.”In the words of Sheila Ravenscroft, John Peel’s widow, “Even just within those first 100 records from each letter, I think people are going to be very interested as to what’s in the collection. I think they will be amused and intrigued by it.“There’ll be information about the record sleeve, front and back, all the information about the record itself, as well as whether John rated the album or not.”“Then out of those first 100, we’ve chosen one artist that we’re honing in on, that we’re going to do a special thing on each week.”
In the words of Sheila Ravenscroft, John Peel’s widow, “Even just within those first 100 records from each letter, I think people are going to be very interested as to what’s in the collection. I think they will be amused and intrigued by it.“There’ll be information about the record sleeve, front and back, all the information about the record itself, as well as whether John rated the album or not.”
“Then out of those first 100, we’ve chosen one artist that we’re honing in on, that we’re going to do a special thing on each week.”
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Monday, 30 April 2012 16:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
Well, this is all quite neat to look at, but the actual content seems to be a bit like a card file version of discogs.com but with a lot less detail.
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 09:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
Ha, they have AMT listed as Acid Mothers Today
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 09:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
Maybe there is some mystical aspect at being able to view this stuff that I'm failing to grasp.
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 09:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
So, you have to watch the video to find out what, exactly, they are going to do with it.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 09:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
I do appreciate the spotify link to Mike Absalom who I always meant to check out but kept forgetting about.
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 09:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
eh -- "this is one of the greatest libraries ever but we haven't digitized all the books so the website is just a catalogue, what were you expecting" -- the curatorial issues don't really work the same way. i wonder what percentage of the 25,000 LPs + 40,000 singles is actually not available in digital form already somewhere.
― thomp, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 09:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
Among the first artists are Abba, ABC, AC/DC and Adam & The Ants.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-17894985
BBC getting a great handle on his role as champion of the obscure and unsung.
― Touché Gödel (ledge), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 09:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
huge copyright problems with just digitising these albums and putting them online, am surprised anyone thought that they would. (actually, i'm not, kids today...)
― koogs, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 10:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah seriously wtf?
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 10:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
actually, there must be records in there that are out of copyright, most of Pig's Big 78s for instance. and those British Hit Parade 1961 compilations on amazon suggest that anything before 1961 is fair game... (although i think the rules have just changed again, thanks Cliff)
― koogs, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 10:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
a lot of people are gonna be disappointed to find out it mostly contains grindcore. not me.
― kid steel (cajunsunday), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 11:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
Does 20,000 albums seem, um, not that many? Or am I massively underestimating how 'many' that is?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 11:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
it means of all the albums he heard every year from his fifteenth birthday from his death, he found 400 that he thought were worth keeping
― thomp, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 11:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
until his death, even
Kept Scoundrel Days, binned Hunting High & Low
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 11:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
so, ten a week then.
I can only imagine the volume he 'rejected' then, how do you get rid of those sorts of quantities of stuff?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 11:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
leave them in a box at maida vale for people to take? i dunno, it doesn't seem that tough
― thomp, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 11:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
anyway, what this demonstrates is that john peel's average critical nous over a lifetime should be ranked at .4 peak weingartens
I guess, mainly because I'm imagining these all being sent to "Peel Acres" as was.. (xposT)
― Mark G, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 11:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
i see there are spotify links provided for most records so its not as useless as people are saying - there was no possible way they'd ever have the cash and time to clear every one of those records.
― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 12:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
so am i missing the part where you can look at front and back covers and info on records? the record spine thing is annoying.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 13:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
16,573 of them are Fall records.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 13:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
so am i missing the part where you can look at front and back covers and info on records?
You have to click on them!
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 13:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
i did. i'll try a different browser.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 13:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
i guess if yer gonna own just one roy acuff record, that's the one.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 13:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
NERD RAGE - is this in the order he left them in, or is it meant to be alphabetical? Because I've just clicked through Acceleradeck-Abyssinians-Accrington Stanley, and now I'm cross.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 13:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
ah, okay, works with firefox. pictures are too small though. and taking pictures of the inner sleeves is kinda crazy. nice closeups of the labels would have been urgent and key as people like to say.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 13:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
> how do you get rid of those sorts of quantities of stuff?
he used to give them away in competitions, several feet at a time. the play / blog / radio show 'john peel's shed' was written by one of the winners (and is great btw)
― koogs, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 13:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's a lot less than I would have expected. As for singles, I believe that before he had to sell them all off due to his contretemps with the Inland Revenue, Mike Read's collection went into six figures.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 13:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think the thing with showing the inner sleeves is that he's written on the track playing times on them.
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 13:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
right, i kinda got that, but its a missed opportunity to have nice pictures of record labels that have never been photographed...
― scott seward, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 13:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
> ah, okay, works with firefox.
not here. ok in chrome though. odd.
― koogs, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 13:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
That website is useless, I keep navigating around it and I never find anything. Suspect it's a browser issue and it bugs me how website developers can't make sure their sites work across browsers.
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 13:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
Thing is, nine times out of ten I want to hear something I don't go rifling through my collection but find it online. I guess that's the "future" of record collecting in a nutshell.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 13:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, and eight years ago too.. Downloading tracks cuz you can't be bothered to look for in your own collection Blues...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 13:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
and yeah, you're right. even without the audio it's a worthwhile project. but as a music lover, I'm just reflexively bitter that copyright law will prevent it from being the resource it could be in my lifetime. sure, you can get most of it online right now... but not all of it, and it certainly isn't curated.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 14:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
So basically it's not a resource.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 14:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
I don't think pop music was ever meant to be a "resource" or be "curated."
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 14:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
Pop music, no.
Then again, Pop music has currency whereas not all music does.
e.g. the number of people who complained about RedNex' "Cotton Eye Joe" being 'turned into' a dumb ol' dance number from the 'historic' early americana of the original. Forgetting that back then it was a dumb ol' dance number even then!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 14:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
Neither was pop music ever meant to be a Bureau de Change.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 14:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
I don't think anything you see in museums was originally "meant" to be a "resource" or be "curated".
― Touché Gödel (ledge), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 14:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
we are all curators now.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 14:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
In truth, museums are wrong.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 14:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
burn all the museums down. that's my motto.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 14:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
record stores ARE museums.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 14:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Touché Gödel (ledge), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 15:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
I wouldn't go so far as to burn them down, but they have gotten above themselves in the last 150 years or so.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 15:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
"record stores ARE museums."
not mine, man. everything is priced to sell. get it on out of there.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 15:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
museums are shrines to the rich. you can never have too many of those.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 15:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
the defining characteristics of a museum are not its collection being permanent or priceless. a record store, to me, is exactly what a museum of pop music would look like, not some rock n roll hall of fame sort of thing.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 15:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
there should be no "museum of pop music," it's a contradiction in terms.
Scott - wish more record shop owners in London subscribed to your way of thinking.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 15:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's Not A Mus E Um Of Pop Music!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 15:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
THIS BELONGS NOT IN A MUSEUM
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 16:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
\m/vsev\m/
― emil.y, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 16:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
they say damp records the past. if that's so, I've got the biggest library yet. the biggest library yet.
― Choc. Clusterman (contenderizer), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 16:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
Site is down/broken already.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 09:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
don't like the flash aspect of it. plus the index cards are just photos of cards - not searchable. someone needs to do a mashup.
― koogs, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 10:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
A Tent is a gem, so the site has already introduced me to one thing. Post-punk chillout, pre-post-rock style.
http://open.spotify.com/artist/4UpplhXmvjfGVEz2wkBYmH
― bendy, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 19:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
Site was back, still did not work on IE
― Mark G, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 22:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
I can't see any Flash content on the site, although perhaps the interface is a little over-egged on the skeuomorphism front.
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 3 May 2012 09:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
you are right, it is html. doesn't work in firefox on linux either and i don't have any other alternative installed.
in fact, this morning it's not even working on chrome, when it was yesterday.
every click is trying to contact twitter.com for some reason, and i think that's failing.
― koogs, Thursday, 3 May 2012 09:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
Worked fine on Firefox on Linux yesterday. Check your setup.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 3 May 2012 12:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
They should check their setup!
― Mark G, Thursday, 3 May 2012 12:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
was adblock...
― koogs, Thursday, 3 May 2012 12:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
was getting "FB not defined" as i've blocked a lot of those horrible facebook button scripts
― koogs, Thursday, 3 May 2012 12:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
Any technical problems I'm going to treat as a tribute to miscued records and botched segues.
― bendy, Thursday, 3 May 2012 13:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
fun. and handier than the the peel site. maybe he'll do the whole alphabet.
http://thequietus.com/articles/08697-john-peel-collection-record-review
― scott seward, Thursday, 3 May 2012 15:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
irl lolled at the entry for Active Minds
― listicular fortitude (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 3 May 2012 15:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
Aw, I was thinking that'd be a good blog project, but doing it all in 24 hours seems nuts.
― emil.y, Thursday, 3 May 2012 16:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
guessing Stubbs is a bit busy to do this on the reg tbf
― listicular fortitude (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 3 May 2012 16:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
We might do one or two more letters but, yeah, life and money are both too short to do the whole thing.
― Conan The Asshander (Doran), Friday, 4 May 2012 07:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
i feel like transcribing all the index cards, get them into computer readable form, but 100 a week is probably beyond me.
― koogs, Friday, 4 May 2012 08:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://spinalbap.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/fearne-cottons-record-collection-goes.html
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 4 May 2012 14:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
funny
― koogs, Friday, 4 May 2012 15:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
The b's, the bees, the beeze...
http://thespace.org/content/s000004u/albums/recordbox.html?letter=B
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 10:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm glad the Belching Penguin record was mis-filed or else we would never have heard of them and that would've been a great shame. Belching Penguin!
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 10:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
Right, it seems to be working on my browser.
Um, how come each letter seems to only go up to the lower reaches?
i.e. A goes up to Ad for "Adam and the ants", B -> "Ba" = Bailey Brothers ?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 10:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
Cos he had lots of records? They're only doing the first 100 from each letter.
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 10:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
.. and I can see Billy Bragg in the 'far right' on the "B" page...
xpost oh was that the plan? Is there a plan?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 10:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
The one amazing thing about the plan is that it implies he even had 100 records by bands beginning with the letter X.
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 10:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
Off the top of my head, I think I can only name four bands beginning with X and two of those are shit.
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 10:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm sure he does!
XRaySpex, XTC, "X", "Xmal Desutchland" without even trying...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 10:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
that was an x-post (ha), and that's 4 bands...
hmmm.....
― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 10:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh duh, yeah I forgot three of those! I had X, X, XYZ and Xentrix
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 10:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
Xenophobic Gerbil
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 10:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
2 bands called X?
(I suppose it could happen)
― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 10:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
There was an Australian one as well as the US one.
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 10:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
there are two different 'Bad Company's in that list so...
― koogs, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 11:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
Guessing he wouldn't have the XX album.
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 11:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
Xiu Xiu, Xennakis
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 11:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
The XX album probably past the first 100 of "X" anyway.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 11:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
Should mention that the featured band this week is Babes In Toyland and there's a five minute video about them if you go in the front way: http://thespace.org/
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 11:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
Not trying to plug the site btw, I just love Babes In Toyland so much.
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 11:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
pretty far-fetched "guess"
both Xs are p good sometimes
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 11:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
I need Scott or someone to tell me who Babe Ruth and/or Back Door were.
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
― cinco de extra mayo (loves laboured breathing), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
i think he would have had trouble picking up that XX record back in 09
― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
A disco cover of Babe Ruth's "The Mexican" appeared in the late 1970s, performed by the Bombers. This version inspired an electro/freestyle cover produced by Jellybean Benitez in 1984, for which he managed to recruit Haan on vocals - the cover subsequently becoming noted for its popularity as an underground dance hit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babe_Ruth_(band)
xp
― cinco de extra mayo (loves laboured breathing), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think it was also used as one of the breaks in 'Planet Rock' though Rev or Alex in Montreal (who introduced the song to me in outloud) probably knows more about that than I do...
― cinco de extra mayo (loves laboured breathing), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
Man, I had no idea that Hatfield was such a funky place in the 70s.
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 13:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
The Badgeman! Unsung heroes of the Salisbury scene....
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 13:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
this record is sick:
http://www.discogs.com/BCKid-Stop-Those-MFs/master/45045
― get wolves (get bent), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 03:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
abwarts are amazing! ex-members of neubauten. kind of no wavey.
i checked out a: grumh's 'no way out'. which is industrial as fuck electronic music. a bit screamy and harsh but im getting into it.
― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 10:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
Even in death, Peel is still inspiring and sharing his great love of music. It's a joy to see.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 13:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
C are up:http://thespace.org/content/s000004u/albums/recordbox.html?letter=C
― Goodbye 20th Centipede (NickB), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 09:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
C is up, rather
Looks empty to me!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 09:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
Nice big chunk of Cabaret Voltaire
That Cactus World News album is terrible though
― Goodbye 20th Centipede (NickB), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 10:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
Only goes up to Cameo, so Captain Beefheart just squeezed out
― Goodbye 20th Centipede (NickB), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 10:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
or do people file him under 'B'?
That Randy California album is great, 'Downer' is such a mean-sounding song.
― Goodbye 20th Centipede (NickB), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 10:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oops, Califone record mislabelled as Calexico...
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 10:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
Sure you've already discussed this upthread, but are the index card numbers just Peel's chronological handiwork? We seem to get into the 20000s around the mid-'90s.
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 10:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, I think he started numbering in the late sixties (?), so all the ones bought prior to that are in alphabetical order, and everything bought subsequently just gets the next number as it comes thru the door.
― Goodbye 20th Centipede (NickB), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 10:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
Everett True tries his hand at what David Stubbs started a couple of weeks ago by doing the 'C's:
http://thequietus.com/articles/08799-john-peel-record-collection-everett-true
― Goodbye 20th Centipede (NickB), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 16:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
The Ds:http://thespace.org/content/s000004u/albums/recordbox.html?jpID=D060
― Heaven knows I'm thirsty and miserable now (NickB), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 09:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
this mike absalom album is so lovely!
― Impetuous hybrid (Matt P), Monday, 4 June 2012 17:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
Don't think anyone's mentioned this, they are scanning a bunch of letters and other ephemera from Peel's collection as well:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnpeelarchive/
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 12:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
this is lovely from terry
http://thespace.org/items/e000080q
― Crackle Box, Thursday, 14 June 2012 16:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
This guy had way more Sammy Hagar records than I ever would have guessed.
― Zaireeka Badu (NickB), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 09:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
only four Half Man Half Biscuit albums?! im surprised
― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 09:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, he's got more Hall & Oates than that, must've all been on CD
― Zaireeka Badu (NickB), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 10:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
'X' shelf was a bit sparse after all:
http://thespace.org/content/s000004u/albums/recordbox.html?jpID=X
Wouldn't mind that Xhol record, could take or leave most of the rest of it.
― Superphysical Resurrection (NickB), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 10:26 (8 months ago) Permalink
This also now leaves a strange and unpleasant taste in the mouth.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 13:04 (8 months ago) Permalink
hmmm yeah, i hear you
― Superphysical Resurrection (NickB), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 13:13 (8 months ago) Permalink
for anyone still following this, i've been making playlists of the spotifyable stuff.
here's the big a-x one.
http://open.spotify.com/user/grannykart/playlist/7e2UT382pTSwuFcgQSLJAj
here's a "best of" with 130 tracks (there will be more when y and z are posted):
http://open.spotify.com/user/grannykart/playlist/3c6GRo8jtVwikKMfhoYByc
― sriracha bishop (get bent), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 18:25 (8 months ago) Permalink
awesome work, much appreciated.
― Spectrum, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 19:04 (8 months ago) Permalink
shocked he didn't have Los Angeles by X!
― rap game klaus nomi (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 19:06 (8 months ago) Permalink