Peel Again - a List

It occurred to me that people in the States may not know how important John Peel was, as he didn't broadcast in the States. If you can imagine a situation where 90% of music coming out of Britain in the 60's and 70's didn't exist, then you get some idea of how significant Peels attitude was.
Other new music he introduced us all to was American, like Love, some was Deutsch like Can, he was a broad church of the new.
Even though he carried on to the present day championing music from many genres, he was most seminal in the 60's and 70's, and on into the new music revolution of the post 70's period in the UK. So, listing a few groups we may never have heard of without him, here's a general list off the top of [my] several head[s]:

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60's - 70's
Hendrix
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
Yardbirds
Free
Sly and the Family Stone
Faces
Traffic
Linda Lewis
Van der Graf Generator
Bonzo Dog Do Da Band
King Crimson
Curved Air
Medicine Head
Soft Machine
Wild Man Fisher
Captain Beefheart
Man
Family
T Rex [from Johns Children onwards]
Tangerine Dream
Can
Amon Duul
Faust
Bowie
BeBop Deluxe
Love
Tim Buckley
Nick Drake
Leonard Cohen
Roy Harper
John Martin
Pentangle
Sandy Denny
Loudon Wainwright III
Fairport Convention
Mike Oldfield
Gong
Pink Fairies
Pretty Things
Crazy World of Arthur Brown/Kingdom Come
Hawkwind
White Noise


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/...other brilliant ska and 'black' music of the day

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70's - 80's

Patti Smith
Johnny Thunders
Iggy Pop
Richard Hell and the Voidoids
The Clash
Generation X
The Damned
The Buzzcocks
X-ray Specs
Dead Boys
Penetration
The Vibrators
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Television
The Jam
The Pistols
The Slits
The Adverts
Wreckless Eric
The Raincoats
Gang of Four
The Mekons
The Saints
The Ruts
Stiff Little Fingers
The Skids
The Undertones
Elvis Costello
Nick Lowe
The Pogues

The Normal
Robert Rental
Throbbing Gristle
Ivor Cutler
Magazine
XTC


Joy Division
Echo and the Bunnymen
The Human League
Teardrop Explodes
Wah! Heat
The Camelions
The Cure
Depeche Mode
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
A Certain Ratio
Young Marble Giants
Working Week
Scritti Politti
Comsat Angels
New Order
Bauhaus
Minimal Compact
Big In Japan
Psychedelic Furs
The Only Ones
John Cooper Clarke
Thomas Leer
DAF
The Fall
The Smiths
Dead Kennedys
Black Flag
Nick Cave + Birthday Party/Badseeds
Crass
The Exploited
Half Man Half Biscuit
The Swinging Laurels
Johnathan Richman


Subway Sect
Blurt
Swell Maps
Fire Engines
Josef K
Orange Juice
Kleenex
Pop Group
Cabaret Voltaire
Pere Ubu
Dislocation Dance
Pigbag
The Higsons
Rip Rig and Panic
Furious Pig
Diagram Brothers
Heaven 17
Associates
Pale Fountains
Everything But the Girl


..
/Bob Marley
/The Chieftains [Traditional Folk - a favourite of his at this period]

/untold amounts of fantastic Dub / Reggae
King Tubby
U-Roy
I-Roy
Black Star Liners
Lee Perry
Dennis Brown
Burning Spear
The Mighty Diamonds
Inner Circle
The Upsetters
Augustus Pablo
Pablo Moses



Misty in Roots
Black Uhuru
Dennis Bovell
Steel Pulse
Black Slate
Aswad


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then later:

Sonic Youth
Pixies
Mudhoney
Napalm Death
Nirvana
Dinosaur Jnr


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This is not meant as a definitive list, this is just an idea. Feel free to add in the comments stuf I've left off, which is a lot.

John Peel is Dead

We will never be the same, he changed us all. He is the one person responsible for the majority of cultural change in Britain over the past thirty years, and he is dead. The music industry will never see his like again, as the mould was broken after him. Unique, and true, and always interested. A rare spirit in a selfish world.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3955289.stm

Payola surfaces again

I've just heard that several major record labels including BMG, EMI and UNIVERSAL have been served writs to hand over all sorts of documents concerning promotion and sales of records. The monopolies people have decided to have another good look at the payola systems that run in the music business.
We over in Blighty have been watching the rise and rise of ClearChannel and it's not a pretty sight. Of course, while the courts are looking into whether or not the big record companies keep out all the litle fish by foul means, they wont even be looking at the 'sanctioned' methods by which 90% of record makers are almost totally excluded from the main arena. Don't confuse this with the weak moan from many 'indy' or 'dance' acts, when they discover the crap track they've worked on for months isn't going to light up the galaxy. That's just crap music. But if you think about the bigger picture, the 'main arena' is surprisingly limited both in styles and 'artists'. That's the closed market in action. Ask anyone in the States, they will tell you that ClearChannel own 90+% of radio stations, venues etc and therefore control totally who gets what with regard to promo. Not to mention the closed shop of touring companies or the army of 'paid off' journalists and promoters, everyone existing in a mutual comfort zone of not biting the hand that feeds them.

Does anyone seriously believe that the investigations will make any difference at all? Methinks not.

Blogger in Bad Shape?

The past few days/weeks have been a real pain to use Blogger. Is it just me? Blogger seems to be creaking under the weight of all these 10,000 new blogs a day stuf. Is it constantly slow/stuck/stuck whilst publishing when people are using it?

Ive seen posts on other blogs here and there about it being sh*t, and someone actually moving their blog to another host altogether, so what's up guys?

Is Blogger dying?

Marc Almond in Bad Shape

Poor old Marc was riding pillion [on the back] of a motorbike in central London on Sunday, and got mashed up in a crash. Sounds a bad one, as he is critical/stable, and the guy driving the bike is also badly injured....wish him well, he's one of the good ones.


yahoo news link

Techy Tweeks

Iv've been looking at a few fun java things recently, to bring a bit of life to an arts site that needs a certain formalness, but also needs some movement and style. I found a nice little code in the javascript vault, [his codes can be a bit cumbersome for serious stuff, but there are good things in there], it scrolls images in a page, without need for anything except they all be in the same folder with the html. Nice. Works reasonably well with dialup too, if you keep the number of images down. Using the target name, it can fade the images from one to the next in IE, whereas netscape and the rest see images swapping. Either way, it's a change from only using flash, and then nobody being able to save and print the images. For an 'educational' site, it brightens up proceedings alot, methinks. As I need to cover a large amount of information and images, it makes sense to use a .js and just change the image addresses, saving to each folder as I go along. Neat and faster to make than flash for all the information involved.

Ive zipped it if anyone wants it:

fadingjavazip

Razghul Infinite Flash

Great Showckwave/Flash tile thingy form ice.org - thanks to spamnet for finding this - once youve got the download, and you need shockwave to see this, its a looping forward journey, using your up and down arrows. The usual top level of artwork from the contributors over at ice, it really is very impressive indeed........have a look at the rest of the site too, the finished tile 'quilts' are especially good.



http://razghul.ice.org/misc/zoom/zoom.htm - zoom flash.....

that link seems to have died under the wieght of bandwith so heres the new link

http://zoomquilt.nikkki.net/zoom

http://tiles.ice.org/index_completed.php? - tiles.....

Money with Menaces - the new face of Music

This makes me sick. Just as the high level judges in the courts of America are starting to realise how unfair and unjust the whole downloading/being sued by a mega company situation is for the average downloader, along comes the ever slothful BPI [British Phonographic Industry] and trys to put the frighteners on anyone in Britain who may download music. Saying they have 'no choice' but to catch the evil kids who make their collections 'available on the internet', because their profits are so down, and its obviously all the evil mp3 sharers fault. Now, as anyone knows who is involved in this area, profits are actually UP in alot of cases, and much research has already gone on to indicate that the most popular mp3 downloads actually seem to create more legitimate sales for those artists, the stance of the BPI seems truly incredible. As an excuse to their money hungry bosses at the evil empire of music, the saddo A&R people are using any reason they can find for appalling sales of crap like Robbie [can he be serious?] Williams et al, who nonone in their right mind ever thought would sell to the Yanks...and now doesn't even sell to the poor old gullable Brits.

When they come knocking on my door, they had better be prepared for a full on grown up fight - thats if I can raise the squillions of dollars to fight their lies and bullshit in a court of law. How come, as all the technology was being created, noone thought to tell these idiots what was about to happen??? My theory is the conspiracy of brainy techs against the fatf**ks who run the music biz. They just didnt tell them - hahahahahahahaha. They didnt deserve to know, if they were all that stupid and self important. I know I am living with the newspeak thought police when I read stuff like the items below, as I am old enough to have watched this happening for many years, and it was obvious to me what was going to happen, so why on earth wasnt it obvious to the industry?? And if downloading actually creates sales, what the hell are they so worried about? The Means of Production that's what. We all know how to make our own mp3's, of any kind of music too - original, new artists, oldie stuf, anything. We just don't need them anymore, and they are shitting themselves. Hurrah I say, with mucho gusto.

And dont forget, the majority of artists get hardly any money for their efforts, so downloading makes little difference to them - contrary to what these idiots in the industry tell you. I know, Ive seen it with my own eyes.

The record industry has depended on gullable youth markets and a stranglehold on the means of production, but now the young ain't so gullable, and the means of production are available to anyone. They are doomed.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/041007/140/f42yt.html

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13232341,00.html

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1154562,00.html

Indoctrination of America's youth successful

So today the radio were in Texas, interviewing amongst others a few students from the university in Houston. I was alarmed by what I heard. When talking about Iraq, all the kids started to refer to the Draft, and that they would go and fight for their country - of course - no matter what their political persuasion or position on the war. They said it was their duty as American Citizens. I was afraid for them, as they have been led down a murky road where truth is lie and lie is truth. The duty of any citizen in a free country is to protect democracy, the rights of the individual and the protection of those weaker than oneself. It is not to follow blindly any doctrine or leader, when that doctrine is so flawed. [Refer to Nazi Germany here please.] There is a fine line between patriotic strength and overpowering totalitarianism. Where is the dissent in the States? Argument seems confined to the peripheral issues, not the life threatening ones. I couldn't believe what I was hearing when the young men interviewed were all so keen to 'serve'. It was chilling indeed.

To quote Bush - 'You can fool some of the people all of the time - these are the folks to concentrate on'.

Ha ha ha the Roon

I meant to do this yesterday, but didn't get round to it. It's a bit stupid, but I made it to send to a mate after the match, [for all you foreigners, the 'match' was Man U debut by the great Rooney, a godhead amongst humankind], so here is a little momento of his genius......

I know it's a bit sad to post about football, but hey, there you go.