I miss this man.
― Turrican, Friday, 24 February 2012 01:47 (twelve years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
awwww :(
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Monday, 30 April 2012 12:59 (eleven years ago) link
So what's the point, then?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 30 April 2012 15:29 (eleven years ago) link
"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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
Ha, they have AMT listed as Acid Mothers Today
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 09:08 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah seriously wtf?
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 10:21 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
16,573 of them are Fall records.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 13:13 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
i did. i'll try a different browser.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 13:25 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
> 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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
> ah, okay, works with firefox.
not here. ok in chrome though. odd.
― koogs, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 13:42 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
So basically it's not a resource.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 14:12 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
we are all curators now.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 14:48 (eleven years ago) link
'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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
hmmm yeah, i hear you
― Superphysical Resurrection (NickB), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 13:13 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
awesome work, much appreciated.
― Spectrum, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
shocked he didn't have Los Angeles by X!
― rap game klaus nomi (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 19:06 (eleven years ago) link