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

More Grace

[koganbot]

Er, that song I called "Grace" is actually called "Lather."

More Grace (but not more "Lather"):

Jefferson Airplane "Greasy Heart"

Jefferson Airplane on American Bandstand "White Rabbit" (again) and "Somebody To Love"

Jefferson Airplane "Hey Frederick"

Jefferson Airplane "Eskimo Blue Day"

Great Society "White Rabbit" circa 1965 (Grace's previous band, though the vid confuses things by showing clips of the Airplane in 1969)

Couldn't find a couple of my favorites, "Rejoyce" and "Sunrise" (the latter by Jefferson Starship, but the versions on YouTube are with someone other than Grace singing)

I can definitely hear a lot of Jefferson Airplane in Fleetwood Mac's "Gold Dust Woman" and the live version of "Rhiannon" that I keep linking.