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

Re: Pink Floyd vs Panda Bear

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Godspeed You! Black Emperor?

Re: Pink Floyd vs Panda Bear

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there are exceptions! But a lot of acclaimed stuff now feels personal, internalised, microgestural in a way that not much on the peel list did! Kid A changed everything d00d.

Re: Pink Floyd vs Panda Bear

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

I'd see it as more of a cyclical thing than a base micro-gestural level with occasional epic exceptions. I think you are def. on to something wrt the current obsession with the small and inwardly directed, but this has been going on for a couple of years, not a couple of decades.

The epic fightback starts here?

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

It will be interesting to see if Black Mountain become canon