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

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah I'm aware that this is just how punk is taught in schools (IE how it was taught behind the sheds a generation ago) rather than how it actually worked.

Also also I'm not saying that they were swept away, but they don't seem to be here in the first place*! I'd be curious to see a '75 - are we getting a '77 at some point, Tom?

An obvious hole in my argument = Pink Floyd.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

75 didn't exist - this was the first one he did.

I don't intend to do any more really, maybe the "all time" 1982 one to demonstrate how well punk 'worked' on the Peel audience.