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Fuck, that is awful - the only decent DJ left at Radio 1 has now gobne. The only man I ever heard use the word "Anal **** " on mainstream radio. A true maverick, a gent, a star. And a big loss.
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He was still finding musical gems right up until the end. I think some hillbilly rock stuff by someone called 'Moosejaw' was the last thing I bought (well downloaded) on his recommendation.
I can't think of anyone in British music with even a 10th of his credibility, especially since he's been broadcasting forever and a day.
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cripes. i rarely listened to his show because so much of it was (to my ears) unlistenable tripe, but at least it was the right kind of unlistenable tripe. i am very sad that there will be noone on radio 1 playing the right kind of unlistenable tripe any more.
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Oh man. I was thinking how I don't much listen to young people's music on the radio, but if I regained the urge that Peely would be on there somewhere.
If Stephen Fry could be my sleb uncle, I'd have John Peel as my sleb Dad.
And 65 is way not old.
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Didn't Dang say Screamadelica was rubbish? You wouldn't have caught Peely sprouting nonsense like that.
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In between its usual diet of Eric Prydz and Robbie Williams, the dire local radio station that drones in work has just played Teenage Kicks (The Undertones version). Universally respected was Peely, it seems.
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Hmpf. Since I first heard about this (from the showbiz reporter at the Press Association) I've descended into a worse and worse mood. I had actually mulled over "what will happen if John Peels dies" when I saw him in lachrymose form on Things I Wish I'd Known at 20. He has always been kind of like 'the father of the House' of alternative music in this country - a pretty much unique position of cultural influence and in a strange way reassuring to have there.
So. Even more depressing than the news that Thorn'll be 30 in just three years.
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Late 80s: I used to listen to Peel in bed, half-asleep, on the grimy little clock-alarm my mum and dad got me for my O level results: one night, dazed on two halves of Guinness and one rum-and-black, it seemed I was receiving alien music signals from other parallels. Peel had been playing "You Trip Me Up" by the Marychain and "Birthday" by the Sugarcubes. Many teens, of course, will have the same story, but that's part of his legacy. As above, thanks John
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Radio 1 has been fucking great this evening though. I am taping the tribute session (first tape I've made in maybe 5 years!) and will file it along with Peel's Festive Fifty from Christmas 1992.
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oh! 1992 was when bang bang machine was number one! all day i have been trying to find geek love on the internet because it is the only time i can actually remember listening to peel and having the oh my god what the fuck is this? headswivel- openmouthed at the radio moment that everyone else is going on about. and its one of the best records ever made but i dont own it and i cant find it on the internet. if you record it onto tape for me kovacs john peel will smile down on you from heaven.
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I'm sorry but when I said 1992 I was just being sketchy...it could have been 1991 I'm afraid I think the #1 in the Festive Fifty I taped was something pretty familiar to me (maybe the Fall, from the Extricate album? Does that date it more accurately?) and I have never heard of Bang Bang Machine.
I'm also sorry because I was misleading in another way, viz. I don't really know where the Festive Fifty tape is. I haven't seen it for years.
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Pssst, DD. Geek Love was a rare as rocking horse shit record. It was a limited edition white vinyl and Peel liked it so much that he dubbed it 'awesome piece of musical history' apparently.
I met Bang Bang Machine after one of their gigs and was so drunk I fell off a chair as they signed a poster for me. Shame they didn't keep going really, but they started to sound a bit feeble as they progressed.
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To add to your frustration, I just had an e-mail pinged back at me, that I had mailed to a guy who knew the band and had the full version on MP3.
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Interesting how so many of the tributes to Peel strike the same notes... compare this from Dave Peschek in today's Guardian with my para above.
quote:Extreme Noise Terror, whose splenetic hail of gargling, garbled noise came, mercifully, in bursts of rarely more than a minute, making the unlistenable listenable; the Cocteau Twins and My Bloody Valentine, woozy and dislocated and alien and strange - sexual in a way I couldn't even comprehend as sexual then beyond simply feeling it.
Most extraordinary, and still - to this day - capable of inducing a tidal wave of goosebumps, was Birthday, by the Sugarcubes. Of course, they came from Iceland - of course! Where else would something this peculiar come from? Where else would you hear it? Number one in Peel's Festive 50 that Christmas and nothing could have beaten it. That sensual, overwhelming, wordless glide in the chorus; a singer called Byork or Byerk or whatever - who cared - she could make that sound! Oh, god. The sound of a heart being torn open in the best, most jubilant way. Rapture so intense it must surely be forbidden, heard under the covers, in the dark, alone.
One lonely teenage boy was never the same. Thanks, John.
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