Old people in Europe/Listening to the Family Cat

[hirez]

I are recently discovered quite a large pile of Peel programmes on that there internets. This is a happy thing, but made me wonder about stick-waving at young people and the inevitable hatefulness of modern music

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[lee_chaos]

Agreed; I still think there is a place for good radio & journalism by way of a filter for all the choice we now have.

In the meantime, try plugging Late of the Pier into Spotify/LastFM and see if that bridges the gap.

[hirez]

The thing I didn't mention is that I had space in my head to actually pay attention to music.

There's too much noise now.

[reddragdiva]

I stopped paying serious attention to music around early 1992.

Now playing catchup on the early 1980s.

[liz_lowlife]

Oh yes! Seconded with Late of the Pier!
There are a lot of bands out there just as good as them also, but you have to trawl through the Zane Lowe-esque trash to find them.

[moral_vacuum]

"I remember when it was all fields (of the nephilim) around here..."

[reddragdiva]

It's somehow heartwarming to listen back and realise this stuff was actually 99% shit.

[reddragdiva]

All the NME I read in Australia in the 1980s didn't make sense until I listened to Peel shows from the 1980s.

NME just wrote about whatever Peel played. That's it. That's the entire thing.

Where were the particular stashes of Peel you found, perchance?

[hirez]

'John Peel torrent compilation' is a handy search term. Probably.

[liz_lowlife]

I shall make it my mission young Hirez, to build you a little compilation CD that I can give you at Whitby (assuming that you are going) with the intention of giving you hope that there is still some outstanding music out there.
Would you like that?

[hirez]

That's a lovely idea. Yes.

[liz_lowlife]

Then consider it done. :o)