guessing Stubbs is a bit busy to do this on the reg tbf
― listicular fortitude (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 3 May 2012 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
http://spinalbap.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/fearne-cottons-record-collection-goes.html
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 4 May 2012 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
funny
― koogs, Friday, 4 May 2012 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
.. 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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
I'm sure he does!
XRaySpex, XTC, "X", "Xmal Desutchland" without even trying...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 10:50 (eleven years ago) link
that was an x-post (ha), and that's 4 bands...
hmmm.....
― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 10:51 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
Xenophobic Gerbil
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 10:54 (eleven years ago) link
2 bands called X?
(I suppose it could happen)
― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 10:57 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
there are two different 'Bad Company's in that list so...
― koogs, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 11:01 (eleven years ago) link
Guessing he wouldn't have the XX album.
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 11:07 (eleven years ago) link
Xiu Xiu, Xennakis
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 11:11 (eleven years ago) link
The XX album probably past the first 100 of "X" anyway.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 11:14 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
pretty far-fetched "guess"
both Xs are p good sometimes
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 11:50 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPVI73Ocxg8
― cinco de extra mayo (loves laboured breathing), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:55 (eleven years ago) link
i think he would have had trouble picking up that XX record back in 09
― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:56 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
this record is sick:
http://www.discogs.com/BCKid-Stop-Those-MFs/master/45045
― get wolves (get bent), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 03:52 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
C are up:http://thespace.org/content/s000004u/albums/recordbox.html?letter=C
― Goodbye 20th Centipede (NickB), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 09:57 (eleven years ago) link
C is up, rather
Looks empty to me!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 09:58 (eleven years ago) link
Nice big chunk of Cabaret Voltaire
That Cactus World News album is terrible though
― Goodbye 20th Centipede (NickB), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 10:00 (eleven years ago) link
Only goes up to Cameo, so Captain Beefheart just squeezed out
― Goodbye 20th Centipede (NickB), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 10:02 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
Oops, Califone record mislabelled as Calexico...
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 10:27 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
this mike absalom album is so lovely!
― Impetuous hybrid (Matt P), Monday, 4 June 2012 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
this is lovely from terry
http://thespace.org/items/e000080q
― Crackle Box, Thursday, 14 June 2012 16:11 (eleven years ago) link