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

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.

there are two different 'Bad Company's in that list so...

Guessing he wouldn't have the XX album.

Xiu Xiu, Xennakis

The XX album probably past the first 100 of "X" anyway.

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/

Not trying to plug the site btw, I just love Babes In Toyland so much.

Guessing he wouldn't have the XX album.

pretty far-fetched "guess"

both Xs are p good sometimes

I need Scott or someone to tell me who Babe Ruth and/or Back Door were.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPVI73Ocxg8

i think he would have had trouble picking up that XX record back in 09

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

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...

Man, I had no idea that Hatfield was such a funky place in the 70s.

The Badgeman! Unsung heroes of the Salisbury scene....

this record is sick:

http://www.discogs.com/BCKid-Stop-Those-MFs/master/45045

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.

Even in death, Peel is still inspiring and sharing his great love of music. It's a joy to see.

C are up:
http://thespace.org/content/s000004u/albums/recordbox.html?letter=C

C is up, rather

Looks empty to me!

Nice big chunk of Cabaret Voltaire

That Cactus World News album is terrible though

Only goes up to Cameo, so Captain Beefheart just squeezed out

or do people file him under 'B'?

That Randy California album is great, 'Downer' is such a mean-sounding song.