From: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org (oppositeview-digest) To: oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Subject: oppositeview-digest V6 #122 Reply-To: oppositeview@smoe.org Sender: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk oppositeview-digest Thursday, October 28 2004 Volume 06 : Number 122 Today's Subjects: ----------------- OV: Re: Peelie [NIGELBLUES@aol.com] RE: OV: Re: Peelie ["Joe Brady" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 02:56:28 EDT From: NIGELBLUES@aol.com Subject: OV: Re: Peelie In a message dated 27/10/2004 10:00:31 GMT Standard Time, owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org writes: From: "Jane Armstrong" Subject: OV: OT RIP John Peel Just seen that John Peel has died of a heart attack whilst on holiday in Peru. He's been so important in the careers of so many of my favourite bands, and whilst I didn't always agree with his tastes and opinions, he's been a big part of my life. My condolences to Sheila and the kids.... Jane I have to endorse Jane's posting here with one slight disagreement. I don't think anyone could agree with all of Peel's tastes - he did after all cover 5 decades and embraced just about every genre of music but that was what made him so wonderful, that he introduced us to tall this stuff and we could take or discard what we liked. Goodbye Inspiration, Voice of a Generation. As Stiff Little Fingers recently sang paying tribute to Joe Strummer but those sentiments apply equally to this great, great name. Like many here, I suspect, I grew up listening to Peelie. I sometimes think my mother wondered why I was always sneaking up to my bed at 10pm and had a bulge on my sheets. The truth was much more sebversie than she realised - I had my transistor on listening to Peelie! His shows introduced me to the groups, songs, sounds and influences that became to the background to my life. Used to make sure I was always home by 10pm if out and always under the sheets for 2 hours of teenage bliss. Loads of shows I recorded and I still got hundreds of sessions of tape completewith the obligatory FM hiss. Some wonderful stuff. It was punk that drew me to Peelie. Everyone reminisces about Teenage Kicks but he got me into New York Dolls and Ramones before them. To listen out for these songs that I loved, I also had to listen to other music I would never have bothered with but grew to love. Reggae was a music form that held no interest tome but Peelie forced us to listen to Misty In Roots, Third World and was single-handedly responsible for bringing Althea and Donna'sUp Town Top Ranking to the world. The Police came into existence due to that, The Clash experimented with different styles because that's what Peelie taught us. If he loved a song, he played it again straight afterwards, how I loved that. He also championed Welsh groups, and groups from every region of the country. It was the only show that gave us identity. Weren'tyou proud when you heard a Peel session with a group from your area even if you felt it was shit? Magic. He brought glam rock to the table before punk, ska afterwards, hiphop, BritPop and evenin recent times, he was stilldoing it. Coldplay and Keane came into being via Peelie long before they were offered contracts. His shows always had a laidback humour and you felt like he was your mate. All my diverse music tastes today, including my loe of Dels, comes from that man becuase he encouraged me to listen to new music, different music and forget what the radioplayed or what was in the charts. To this day, I still get a small glow when I see/heara group months before anyone else. In an era when d.j's just play what they're told and only seem to know what is promoted to them rather than bring their own influences to the table, he remained a pioneer. Great man and legend and he will always be that. RIP Peelie - thanks for what you gave me and made me, you'll never realise how much. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 09:29:46 +0100 From: "Joe Brady" Subject: RE: OV: Re: Peelie Great Post Nigel.. R.T.I.D"Dont be fooled by imitations We are the hoops that rock the nation..." >From: NIGELBLUES@aol.com >To: oppositeview@smoe.org >Subject: OV: Re: Peelie >Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 02:56:28 EDT > >In a message dated 27/10/2004 10:00:31 GMT Standard Time, >owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org writes: > >From: "Jane Armstrong" >Subject: OV: OT RIP John Peel > >Just seen that John Peel has died of a heart attack whilst on holiday >in Peru. He's been so important in the careers of so many of my >favourite bands, and whilst I didn't always agree with his tastes and >opinions, he's been a big part of my life. > >My condolences to Sheila and the kids.... > >Jane > > > >I have to endorse Jane's posting here with one slight disagreement. I don't >think anyone could agree with all of Peel's tastes - - he did after all cover >5 decades and embraced just about every genre of music but that was what made >him so wonderful, that he introduced us to tall this stuff and we could take >or discard what we liked. > >Goodbye Inspiration, Voice of a Generation. As Stiff Little Fingers recently >sang paying tribute to Joe Strummer but those sentiments apply equally to >this great, great name. > >Like many here, I suspect, I grew up listening to Peelie. I sometimes think >my mother wondered why I was always sneaking up to my bed at 10pm and had a >bulge on my sheets. The truth was much more sebversie than she realised - I >had my transistor on listening to Peelie! > >His shows introduced me to the groups, songs, sounds and influences that >became to the background to my life. Used to make sure I was always home by >10pm if out and always under the sheets for 2 hours of teenage bliss. Loads of >shows I recorded and I still got hundreds of sessions of tape completewith the >obligatory FM hiss. Some wonderful stuff. > >It was punk that drew me to Peelie. Everyone reminisces about Teenage Kicks >but he got me int o New York Dolls and Ramones before them. To listen out >for these songs that I loved, I also had to listen to other music I would never >have bothered with but grew to love. > >Reggae was a music form that held no interest tome but Peelie forced us to >listen to Misty In Roots, Third World and was single-handedly responsible for >bringing Althea and Donna'sUp Town Top Ranking to the world. The Police came >into existence due to that, The Clash experimented with different styles >because that's what Peelie taught us. > >If he loved a song, he played it again straight afterwards, how I loved >that. He also championed Welsh groups, and groups from every region of the >country. It was the only show that gave us identity. Weren'tyou proud when you >heard a Peel session with a group from your area even if you felt it was shit? > Magic. > >He brought glam rock to the table before punk, ska afterwards, hiphop, >BritPop and evenin recent times, he was stilldoing it. Coldplay and Keane came >into being via Peelie long before they were offered contracts. > >His shows always had a laidback humour and you felt like he was your mate. >All my diverse >music tastes today, including my loe of Dels, comes from that man becuase he >encouraged me to listen to new music, different music and forget what the >radioplayed or what was in the charts. To this day, I still get a small glow >when I see/heara group months before anyone else. > >In an era when d.j's just play what they're told and only seem to know what >is promoted to them rather than bring their own influences to the table, he >remained a pioneer. > >Great man and legend and he will always be that. > >RIP Peelie - thanks for what you gave me and made me, you'll never realise >how much. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MSN Premium gives you PC protection, junk-mail filters, advanced communication tools and great software like MSN Encarta. Premium. Click here for a FREE trial! ------------------------------ End of oppositeview-digest V6 #122 **********************************