Before The Flood

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

This is a poll about John Peel's Festive Fifty, 1976. Just tick all the songs you like from the list of 50 (counting down from #50 to #1, as it happens). I've put it up because i) I'm curious about the results, ii) I'm probably writing a pitchfork column about the F50.

[Poll #1137239]

And some more general questions I'd like to think about - they're quite big questions though:

- What does rock do better now? What does it do worse?
- How does the stuff that won respect and adoration on this poll differ from the stuff that critics and fans enjoy now (a VERY broad formulation, I know)?
- Where's the modern equivalent of the audience suggested here - Pazz and Jop? the Pitchfork Readers Poll?
- What were Poco and can we eat them?

Comments

[cis.livejournal.com]

also 'found my way upstairs and had a smoke/then somebody spoke and i went into a dream' OMG IT IS SO TOTES ABOUT DRUGZ OMG THE BEATLES SO RADICAL.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Well, yes. On the other hand, yes!

[(Anonymous)]

NB I still ticked it! I might even go back and tick 'Strawberry Fields', which maybe I don't hate as much as I thought I did on first reading the poll.

[cis.livejournal.com]

that was me obv.

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

I suspect I am not the only person who is only giving the beatles a chance on the "Ticket To Wine" ticker.