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

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.

Oops, Califone record mislabelled as Calexico...

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.

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.

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

The Ds:
http://thespace.org/content/s000004u/albums/recordbox.html?jpID=D060

this mike absalom album is so lovely!

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/

this is lovely from terry

http://thespace.org/items/e000080q

This guy had way more Sammy Hagar records than I ever would have guessed.

only four Half Man Half Biscuit albums?! im surprised

Yeah, he's got more Hall & Oates than that, must've all been on CD

'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.

This also now leaves a strange and unpleasant taste in the mouth.

hmmm yeah, i hear you

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

awesome work, much appreciated.

shocked he didn't have Los Angeles by X!