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

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!