The Smiths - 3rd most played band in John Peel's Festive 50s

I can't stand The Clash. Sorry, just can't stand them. I guess Peel wasn't big on The Cure. They're tremendous and I'm surprised they didn't make this list, or graph, whatever this is. Also, I just noticed Pavement is in this graph. Yuck, not one musical note that they've ever conjured up has ever excited me. Incredibly overrated band.
 
pavement are awesome and so are his first three solo albums. type slowly and shady lane are songs i could play at any time or place
 
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pavement are awesome and so are his first three solo albums. type slowly and shady lane are songs i could play at any time or place


Well, I'll have to try and give them another chance. I haven't listened to them for five or six years. My former co-worker Jeremy made me a mix-CD of them, and some other artists, and I just didn't care for it. It has been well, I guess seven years now. I'll try and give them another chance.
 
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The Clash are bloody awful.
Crap, charmless, witless, pseudo-punk, cockney bollocks.
 
theyre a band that has kinda two phases. the first three albums are the literate lo-fi pop albums which i like but are kinda just ok to me though crooked rain crooked rain is the best of them by far. think the pixies sonic youth go to the beach with weezer and uncle tupelo (later wilco). then they released brighten the corners and terror twilight which ditch the lo-fi for some more jazzy indie rock textures and poetry which i love. also give the solo album face the truth a try (i think it a meditation on death and a midlife).


pavement - brighten the corners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MxfZBuhoHQ
 
theyre a band that has kinda two phases. the first three albums are the literate lo-fi pop albums which i like but are kinda just ok to me though crooked rain crooked rain is the best of them by far. think the pixies sonic youth go to the beach with weezer and uncle tupelo (later wilco). then they released brighten the corners and terror twilight which ditch the lo-fi for some more jazzy indie rock textures and poetry which i love. also give the solo album face the truth a try (i think it a meditation on death and a midlife).


pavement - brighten the corners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MxfZBuhoHQ

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I can't stand The Clash. Sorry, just can't stand them. I guess Peel wasn't big on The Cure. They're tremendous and I'm surprised they didn't make this list, or graph, whatever this is. Also, I just noticed Pavement is in this graph. Yuck, not one musical note that they've ever conjured up has ever excited me. Incredibly overrated band.

The Cure did do numerous Peel sessions from 79 up to 85...I think they did at least 4 or 5 sessions
 
Pavement is a very intelligent band. You need to "get it" before you can enjoy them. And all their albums are growers. You will not dig them if you are not prepared to "listen".

I can tell you this much; once you "get it" even the off-kilter noise and ramshackle riffs will be music to your ears. Much like noise from Sonic Youth, but SY is more abrasive while Pavement is more whimsical.

Easy Albums are Brighten the corners and Terror Twilights. Harder Albums are Slay Tracks EP and Slanted and Enchanted. Best Albums are Crooked Rain and Wowee Zowee.




Well, I'll have to try and give them another chance. I haven't listened to them for five or six years. My former co-worker Jeremy made me a mix-CD of them, and some other artists, and I just didn't care for it. It has been well, I guess seven years now. I'll try and give them another chance.
 
Bang f***ing Band, the mighty Fall!

Peely had all his favourite records in a special box and he had a separate special box just for his favourite Fall records.
 
only the first two maybe three pavement albums sound anything like the fall, brighten the corners and terror twilight dont. really they dont sound like the fall either, theyre much more sonic youth meets the velvet underground (a good thing). thurstun moore actually walked into a record store playing early versions of slanted and enchanted songs and was like this is my band, sounds like my band, did we record this? funny. crooked rain crooked rain is amazing but wowee zowee isnt my fav though im a huge fan of all there albums. much prefer brighten the corners and ill post the two songs i mentioned above just to show how not like the fall they sound.

pavement - type slowly (one of my favs from this album)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egS5AjIZbzo

pavement - slady lane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N6PZ5YRQAQ
 
John Peel was in Dallas the day JFK was assassinated.
He can be seen very briefly in the footage of the Oswald press conference at the police station - the one where Jack Ruby is standing at the back of the room and mysteriously corrected a statement about the name of the communist group that Oswald supposedly belonged to (how did Ruby know??? etc *conspiracy face*).
 

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