What should become of John Peel's record collection now?

I don't think pop music was ever meant to be a "resource" or be "curated."

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!

Neither was pop music ever meant to be a Bureau de Change.

I don't think anything you see in museums was originally "meant" to be a "resource" or be "curated".

we are all curators now.

In truth, museums are wrong.

burn all the museums down. that's my motto.

record stores ARE museums.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nN-KME0Tqw

I wouldn't go so far as to burn them down, but they have gotten above themselves in the last 150 years or so.

"record stores ARE museums."

not mine, man. everything is priced to sell. get it on out of there.

museums are shrines to the rich. you can never have too many of those.

not mine, man. everything is priced to sell. get it on out of there.

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.

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.

It's Not A Mus E Um Of Pop Music!

THIS BELONGS NOT IN A MUSEUM

\m/vsev\m/

they say damp records the past. if that's so, I've got the biggest library yet. the biggest library yet.

Site is down/broken already.

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.

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

Site was back, still did not work on IE

I can't see any Flash content on the site, although perhaps the interface is a little over-egged on the skeuomorphism front.

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.

Worked fine on Firefox on Linux yesterday. Check your setup.

They should check their setup!

was adblock...

was getting "FB not defined" as i've blocked a lot of those horrible facebook button scripts

Any technical problems I'm going to treat as a tribute to miscued records and botched segues.

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

irl lolled at the entry for Active Minds

Aw, I was thinking that'd be a good blog project, but doing it all in 24 hours seems nuts.

guessing Stubbs is a bit busy to do this on the reg tbf

We might do one or two more letters but, yeah, life and money are both too short to do the whole thing.

i feel like transcribing all the index cards, get them into computer readable form, but 100 a week is probably beyond me.

http://spinalbap.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/fearne-cottons-record-collection-goes.html

funny

The b's, the bees, the beeze...

http://thespace.org/content/s000004u/albums/recordbox.html?letter=B

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!

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 ?

Cos he had lots of records? They're only doing the first 100 from each letter.

.. and I can see Billy Bragg in the 'far right' on the "B" page...

xpost oh was that the plan? Is there a plan?

The one amazing thing about the plan is that it implies he even had 100 records by bands beginning with the letter X.

Off the top of my head, I think I can only name four bands beginning with X and two of those are shit.

I'm sure he does!

XRaySpex, XTC, "X", "Xmal Desutchland" without even trying...

that was an x-post (ha), and that's 4 bands...

hmmm.....

Oh duh, yeah I forgot three of those! I had X, X, XYZ and Xentrix

Xenophobic Gerbil

2 bands called X?

(I suppose it could happen)

There was an Australian one as well as the US one.