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

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

Peel regularly cited his enmity with Tony Blackburn, his conviction that in the future Iron Butterfly and It's A Beautiful Day and so on would be adored and revered by millions whereas the likes of Marvin Gaye, the Supremes, Smokey Robinson and so on would be forgotten, as evidence that you shouldn't trust his (Peel's) judgement.