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.

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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

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

But I don't trust that reassuring framework; I don't trust the methods by which it was built, I don't trust the values it espouses, I don't trust the claims it makes about being definitive. Picking something out of the canon is likely to be as random and risky as walking into a shop and picking up any given new novel. Which means that when I want to get a broad idea of something I'm back where I started: pick Novel X or Album Y, whether in canon or not, with no idea whether I'll like it.

(though with modern novels, and contemporary music, the path through tends to be things like peer-recommendations, awareness of scenes; which is why I guess I favour them more.)