Which are John Peel's 140 fave albums?

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.

White Stripes, Hand Springs:
http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=11N6E2EVBV6ES07N8XF2K56CD2

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.

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.

yes, completely. sorry if that wasn't clear!

http://s20.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3TN4P4ZNJ3M2I20WFYZP2WM42Q

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?

(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?)

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.

and Sheena EASTON is ACE! How could you NOT like 9-5?!?!?

Mike T-Diva, I am intrigued by your taste in music. I wish my computer could cope with You Send It and I'd go and listen to some of those MP3s.

and sorry for my not so nice comment upthread, patita. i wasn't in a good mood last night.

I'd given some thought to burning the mp3s to cds and making a few nice little boxes for them as gifts for fellow music lovers. silly, but it might be fun.

http://s57.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=033RKO1KJQCOU3J8QZ9GGB6P4D

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.

Hi,

Not as yet, but.

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?

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.

I think Marc Bolan broke his hippy heart tbh.

coulda been bowie

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.