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

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

HEY THAT'S MIA!!!!! Gosh how did she ever hear a fantastic rhythmic hook in that. Am torn between being more impressed with 'Bamboo Banga' and disliking MIA a bit more for using this as a foundation.

(I don't like it. The voice! Aaagh. And the groove just...stays where it is and doesn't change.)

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

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Haven't you ever had a slight head cold and then written the best song ever? (I picked it for my fave!)