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: The highway is your girlfriend as you go by quick

[giddyoldgoat.livejournal.com]

Jonathan Richman re-recorded ROADRUNNER in '76 (w/ a diff. Modern Lovers and no John Cale production - it isn't as hard/driving as the original, but it does have a great space-out section towards the end) and I think that's the version that Peel played a lot (there's also a ROADRUNNER THRICE from the same era, a live b-side that is worth hearing)

Re: The highway is your girlfriend as you go by quick

[koganbot]

If this is the version on Beserkley Chartbusters, it's not remotely as good as the original Modern Lovers version (even if it isn't, it's likely not remotely as good as the original Modern Lovers version). Too much into preciousness and "innocence."