<![CDATA[Project X: Getting Festive With John Peel - Idolator Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA[Project X: Getting Festive With John Peel - Idolator Comments]]> http://idolator.com Tue, 05 Jun 2007 07:54:12 EDT Tue, 05 Jun 2007 07:54:12 EDT http://idolator.com/tunes/charts/project-x-getting-festive-with-john-peel-264477.php <![CDATA[Project X: Getting Festive With John Peel]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/charts/project-x-getting-festive-with-john-peel-264477.php#c1598426 @mrpiffin: Yeah, you are probably right, but Everett True seems to be the journalist that takes credit for in it, in the same way Jo Whiley takes credit for playing them first and Paul Ross for booking them on The Word.

Breliant

]]> 33:264477:c1598426 Tue, 05 Jun 2007 07:54:12 EDT <![CDATA[Project X: Getting Festive With John Peel]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/charts/project-x-getting-festive-with-john-peel-264477.php#c1587719 Re Nirvana thing - Wasn't Sounds the first paper to cover the (quote from BBC4 prog New York Rockers last night) 'Masters of Grunge' Nirvana, either way they were definitely the first (and last) to put Tad Doyle on the cover, whilst the other two had an all consuming obsession with The Happy Mondays.

Whilst I'm here another nuggets from the tv show last night, Nirvana were apparently 'heavily influenced' by Sonic Youth, who in turn were 'heavily influenced' by the Stooges, wasn't there a guy called Glenn Branca in there who learned them to detune their guitars, apparently not, their sound is so similar to the Stooges I'm surprised I haven't noticed it before.

mrpiffin

]]> 33:264477:c1587719 Sun, 03 Jun 2007 09:43:58 EDT <![CDATA[Project X: Getting Festive With John Peel]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/charts/project-x-getting-festive-with-john-peel-264477.php#c1572139 I too am a Fall freak, and I have to say that "Bill Is Dead" is one of the cheesiest, most un-Fall-like songs they ever recorded. I can't believe it's number one!

A couple of years ago, either Mojo or Q released a "John Peel's Festive 15" freebie that was supposedly the best of the best. There was plenty of top-shelf indie (Field Mice, House of Love), but also featured Shipbuilding by Robert Wyatt and Eat Yourself Fitter by the Fall, a far superior number.

I'm done dorking out now...

katieee

]]> 33:264477:c1572139 Thu, 31 May 2007 14:20:53 EDT <![CDATA[Project X: Getting Festive With John Peel]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/charts/project-x-getting-festive-with-john-peel-264477.php#c1568228 I was never a regular reader of the Melody Maker but they seemed to divide the paper up more equally; so mental, dance and hip hop received better coverage.

I'm sure that they scooped the NME on Nirvana (Everett True) and then spent a decade searching for the next big thing.

Breliant

]]> 33:264477:c1568228 Thu, 31 May 2007 04:01:24 EDT <![CDATA[Project X: Getting Festive With John Peel]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/charts/project-x-getting-festive-with-john-peel-264477.php#c1565907 That's interesting background. My sense is that Melody Maker was a lot more into hip-hop and non-rock stuff (Stubbs, Reynolds, etc.)--is that right?

Matos W.K.

]]> 33:264477:c1565907 Wed, 30 May 2007 19:37:15 EDT <![CDATA[Project X: Getting Festive With John Peel]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/charts/project-x-getting-festive-with-john-peel-264477.php#c1565875 @Matos W.K.: It should be remembered that a hip-hop war was raging in the pages of the NME.
The long and short of it was putting Public Enemy on the cover was bad for business; Dele Fadele quit as a staff writer over what he saw as marginalizing a popular form of music (it was the same with dance music). My memory of this time is kind of fuzzy but they did publish Fadele's resignation letter and he still reviewed for them.
Fear of A Black Planet is essentially the decade's What's Going On, tokenism. There'd be the occasional Ice Cube interview and they defended Ice T but they never really went any further. It's probably what's held back a lot of British hip hop.

Breliant

]]> 33:264477:c1565875 Wed, 30 May 2007 19:32:23 EDT <![CDATA[Project X: Getting Festive With John Peel]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/charts/project-x-getting-festive-with-john-peel-264477.php#c1565001 The list (all the lists) are linked in the second graf of the piece. P.E. placed three times total: twice in 1987 ("Rebel without a Pause" No. 14; "You're Gonna Get Yours" No. 38) and once in 1988 ("Night of the Living Baseheads" No. 50).

Matos W.K.

]]> 33:264477:c1565001 Wed, 30 May 2007 17:40:56 EDT <![CDATA[Project X: Getting Festive With John Peel]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/charts/project-x-getting-festive-with-john-peel-264477.php#c1564953 Hey Matos W.K.: Did Peel-heads give a toss about rap back in 1990? I ask 'cuz that's also the year of Fear of a Black Planet, and I'd be interested to see if, say, "911 Is a Joke" placed anywhere on the list.

Chris Molanphy

]]> 33:264477:c1564953 Wed, 30 May 2007 17:35:25 EDT <![CDATA[Project X: Getting Festive With John Peel]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/charts/project-x-getting-festive-with-john-peel-264477.php#c1564828 I always suspected that the majority of people who voted in the F50 weren't listening to the show.
Peel was like a teacher, disappointed that the kids hadn't learned a damn thing.

Breliant

]]> 33:264477:c1564828 Wed, 30 May 2007 17:21:52 EDT <![CDATA[Project X: Getting Festive With John Peel]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/charts/project-x-getting-festive-with-john-peel-264477.php#c1564250 @Matos W.K.: 37 spots behind a Steve Harley cover? Yeeps.

Ned Raggett

]]> 33:264477:c1564250 Wed, 30 May 2007 16:25:03 EDT <![CDATA[Project X: Getting Festive With John Peel]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/charts/project-x-getting-festive-with-john-peel-264477.php#c1564177 Spot-freakin'-on. His regular show was always generally amazing and the festive 50 was often a bit of a disappointment.

Wicked Zoot

]]> 33:264477:c1564177 Wed, 30 May 2007 16:19:05 EDT <![CDATA[Project X: Getting Festive With John Peel]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/charts/project-x-getting-festive-with-john-peel-264477.php#c1564017 fwiw, "Groove Is in the Heart" finished 44th in 1990's F50.

Matos W.K.

]]> 33:264477:c1564017 Wed, 30 May 2007 16:07:57 EDT <![CDATA[Project X: Getting Festive With John Peel]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/charts/project-x-getting-festive-with-john-peel-264477.php#c1563904 But it's so beautiful in autumn! Oh wait.

I remember that year Melody Maker's writers had their number one single be "Groove Is In the Heart" by Deee-Lite, which beats out everything on that list other than "Soon" in my head. And I say that as a Fall freak who loved early Ride and Weddoes and the Orb as well.

Ned Raggett

]]> 33:264477:c1563904 Wed, 30 May 2007 15:58:39 EDT <![CDATA[Project X: Getting Festive With John Peel]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/charts/project-x-getting-festive-with-john-peel-264477.php#c1563790 jackin' - fantastic reprise of my favorite Peel time of the year. I tuned out of him after I hit 16 (couldn't stand The Fall) but always came back to see what was on offer over the Xmas season. Great days indeed.

pimpmyPR

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