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

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

the idea that julie burchill bears no responsiblity for what lex calls the "current situation" -- given that she is/was BY FAR THE MOST SOUGHT-AFTER AND ADMIRED POP WRITER OF HER DAY -- is as goofy as the idea that the best way to study pr understand the past is to know absolutely nothing about it: julie b's militant parochialism is EXACTLY the element in her critical armoury that was most widely adopted first by the MM kru and then (in their wake, and more parochial still) britpop