The only one I'm surprised with is Nilsson's "Without You". It was number one for ages at the time, and I hated it as much as "Everything I do". Now, I can appreciate it more, without necessarily liking it. (The other Nilsson on is fant. btw)
Oh, and I am so "YEAH!" for the YSI's. THAKNS!
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 07:15 (nineteen years ago) link
Golinsky Brothers:http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3NGITRP1UY8I43T00VESKDP2GS
Galactic Symposium:http://s38.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0ATGKR0A2GO8711EPN7L7K1TH9
i only found the squirrels track this morning so that'll have to wait...
― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 08:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 08:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 09:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 09:19 (nineteen years ago) link
What do you mean predates Augustus Pablo? I mean what's the significance?
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 09:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 09:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 10:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 10:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 10:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 10:38 (nineteen years ago) link
alex... you hate most of these records because you've never heard of them? insane. the reason why the cult of peel is so swollen, and why people mourn his passing so much, is because he would probably have greeted a carton of 140 records he'd never heard of as a reason for celebration, because he was always interested in that which he wasn't already familiar.
the person who pointed out Peel didn't invent indie discos is my new favourite poster.
that's a weird list. the 9 white stripes singles seem too many. recently i asked someone where to start with them (5 albums yet) and that person said, they are all essential. i immediately thought fuck them then. i mean what i heard of them was ok but i'll never get 5 cds by them. if all is equally good it is also equally bad.
yeah, that doesn't make any sense to me either. but i'd say start with 'die stihl' (the 'songwriting' album) or 'get behind me satan' (my favourite, their most unhiged and also their most crafted), or track down a copy of 'handsprings', which might be the best thing they've ever done.
― foxy boxer (stevie), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 10:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 10:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― foxy boxer (stevie), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 10:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 10:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 11:01 (nineteen years ago) link
White Stripes, Hand Springs:http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=11N6E2EVBV6ES07N8XF2K56CD2
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 11:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― foxy boxer (stevie), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 14:56 (nineteen years ago) link
concerning the white stripes. i like them in theory. that hand springs song is great but i think i prefer the blues originals. e.g. i was glad to see lightnin hopkins and elmore james on the list. all this probably doesn't make sense but why should it? john peel' record box doesn't make sense to me neither. there are too many blind spots in it when it concerns my favourites. some artists i couldn't not imagine in my record box: joni mitchell, nick drake, the velvet underground, joy division, the smiths, the cure, giant sand, yo la tengo, talk talk, neil young, the field mice, lambchop, brian eno, roxy music, bob dylan, keith jarrett, pere ubu, wipers, lloyd cole, mary margaret o'hara, pixies, sonic youth, idaho, swell, red house painters, cowboy junkies, robert wyatt, pinback, aimee mann, radiohead, my bloody valentine, meat puppets, feelies, gun club, catherine wheel, new order, nirvana, smashing pumpkins, the chills, american analog set, cocteau twins, talking heads and many more.
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 15:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 15:29 (nineteen years ago) link
My box would also be different. Some from Peels, Some from yours, and a lot of stuff not so.
Still, I'm keen to hear the stuff I haven't heard, so let them roll.
Hey, if this thread eventually contains 140 YSI's then that will be the best.
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 15:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:22 (nineteen years ago) link
yes, completely. sorry if that wasn't clear!
― foxy boxer (stevie), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:31 (nineteen years ago) link
http://s20.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3TN4P4ZNJ3M2I20WFYZP2WM42Q
― everything, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 17:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 17:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 17:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 17:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― patita (patita), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 19:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 20:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stew (stew s), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 20:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― patita (patita), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 20:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 20:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― TRG (TRG), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:49 (nineteen years ago) link
If you ckick on a YSI link, do the biz, then click backarrow twice quickly, then forward arrow, you get back to the portion of thread you were looking at. If you click backarrow once, you just get left at the top of the thread.
Oh, and keep them coming obviously. I'll search out the White Stripes stuff, no-one with any Charlie Feathers?
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 06:55 (nineteen years ago) link
(why do i get the feeling that i've spent 20+ years of my life recording what are effectively novelty records off peel's show?)
― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 07:25 (nineteen years ago) link
I got the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm's take on "Heart of Glass" (done in the Jesus and Mary chain style) purely because I happened to be taping the show, and got the contact address.
The 'yeehaa' version of "Pretty Vacant" I heared once, but never traced down, until I got JP's FabricLive CD.
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 07:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 08:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 08:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 08:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 09:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 09:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 12:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 12:18 (nineteen years ago) link
What's the deal with Dreamland Express? Any leads on whether it's real or just a total mystery?
― everything, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 18:03 (eight years ago) link
I found a gig flyer with Fairport Convention and Dreamland Express, but more than that, no.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 18:07 (eight years ago) link
...which also had John Peel on the bill, right?
― everything, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 18:09 (eight years ago) link
http://www.marmalade-skies.co.uk/middleearth3sep67.jpg
― everything, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 18:11 (eight years ago) link
One of these days, I'll get Tom Ravenscroft back on the case...
― Mark G, Saturday, 6 July 2019 12:31 (five years ago) link
Hi all, My Covid lockdown project has been John Peel's record box. I've come pretty close to getting them all. I need I'm not Drinking More - Al Ferrier and Ticky Dopies/ I Saluti - Sipho Bhengu, and , of course, Dreamland Express - I think I saw somewhere that John Peel may have played the Dreamland Express tunes on his show. Is that true? Mark G, I see from a post about 5 years ago that you got hold of the Sipho Bhengu. I would dearly love to have copies of these tracks (and the rest of the Thala Thala compilation album)
If Mark G or anyone else can help me with these last few tunes that would be great. Does anyone else need any from the list?
― Alexrob, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 15:41 (four years ago) link
Just sent you a Webmail with a link to the Al Ferrier song.
― city worker, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 16:49 (four years ago) link
And..
― Mark G, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 17:17 (four years ago) link
city worker - thank you so much. I had kind of resigned myself to failure, or at the very least a long long wait to find that. Do you have any gaps in your collection? Who knows, I moght have something you're after. You're welocme to any music I have.
― Alexrob, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 23:00 (four years ago) link
Mark G, Hi. Did you send a weblink as well? It hasn't come through to me.... I have to say, I'm amazed and delighted to get these responses.
― Alexrob, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 23:02 (four years ago) link
Hi,
Not as yet, but.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 06:26 (four years ago) link
Listening to Peel's intro to a 1973 Be Bop Deluxe session and it's striking how different his on-air voice is from later years. He's even more lugubrious and deep-voiced in 1973. Anyone know if the change was intentional or just something that gradually happened?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 22 July 2020 19:27 (four years ago) link
He definitely tried his hardest to distance himself from his fluty-voiced public school hippy persona of the late 60s, I didn't know he was doing it as early as '73 though.
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 19:36 (four years ago) link
I think Marc Bolan broke his hippy heart tbh.
coulda been bowie
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 19:37 (four years ago) link
I have a theory that when he was in the process of trying to lose his hippy trappings he based a lot of his vocal mannerisms on John Walters, his producer, they could sound very similar.
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 19:43 (four years ago) link