tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910067.post112007225674944944..comments2024-03-24T08:17:55.097-04:00Comments on BLOG TO COMM: Christopher Stiglianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17107248034597839482noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910067.post-1120171055221962602005-06-30T18:37:00.000-04:002005-06-30T18:37:00.000-04:00Maybe, but a whole lot of the "Peel Sessions" mate...Maybe, but a whole lot of the "Peel Sessions" material that crossed my ears throughout the past two decades certainly didn't come up to <STRONG>BTC</STRONG>-sanctioned aesthetics, but then again my anti-modern rock chauvinism does show through at times. I do remember seeing Peel interviewed on <STRONG>ABC's WORLD NEWS TONIGHT</STRONG> back in 1984 and being totally surprised by it, but then again the group shown recording a session tended towards the more tiresome aspects of what would soon be known as "alternative music," a genre which never did set well with me. I guess for me the height of Peel's rockism powers were the sixties and seventies, mainly because the crapola wasn't as lame as it would get in only a few short years.Christopher Stiglianohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17107248034597839482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910067.post-1120166970151094422005-06-30T17:29:00.000-04:002005-06-30T17:29:00.000-04:00"Peel went directly to the top of the BBC pops whe..."Peel went directly to the top of the BBC pops where he had a pretty good and prosperous career despite ending it all pushing some of the lamest underground-as-rock crapola you could ever dread coming across). "<BR/><BR/>Maybe it's just me, but I certainly wouldn't refer to the Libertines (RIP), probably the last band to owe their recognition to Peel, as being "the lamest underground-as-rock crapola you could ever dread coming across". They were much more of the Real Thing than the rest of the "class of 2001" . For that matter I wouldn't consider such late Peel faves as the White Stripes (who I'd really put in a different category altogether from the early 2000s retrowave) or BRMC as "the lamest crapola", whatever one thinks of them. <BR/><BR/>Interesting that the only 80s/90s major "alternative" acts whom Peel shunned as being inferior were REM in the 80s and Oasis in the 90s.....and both desperately sought his approval.....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com