R.I.P John Peel

[Stella Boy]

One of my best memories was when he started to play one Aphex Twin's Didgeridoo but on the wrong speed :lol:

In typical peel fashion, politely apologised, corrected it and let the bugger run. As I heard today, they should re-name the 2nd stage at Glasto after him. A fitting way to make sure his name lives on and is not forgotten.

[Traxx]

Peel session tracks all night :clap:

[miss bass]

Yeh!! I remember when he was trying to play a track on cd, and couldnt get it to work!! ' Il get it sent to me on vinyl' God bless him

I cant imagine what his close friends and families feel.

[davethedrummer]

Peel session tracks all night :clap:

just played the (mighty) fall
and now orbital!!!!

[Traxx]

Yep there is gonna be allot more corkers over the next few hours

[OriginalTechnobastard]

Last have a sticky.



RIP

[da hound]

r.i.p john

[Dabble]

Here's John Peels all time top 50 records & there are some absolute classics in there!

1. JOY DIVISION - Atmosphere
2. THE UNDERTONES - Teenage Kicks
3. JOY DIVISION - Love Will Tear Us Apart
4. SEX PISTOLS - Anarchy In The UK
5. THE CLASH - (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
6. NEW ORDER - Blue Monday
7. THE SMITHS - How Soon Is Now
8. NIRVANA - Smells Like Teen Spirit
9. THE SMITHS - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
10. THIS MORTAL COIL - Song To Thev Siren
11. ROBERT WYATT - Shipbuilding
12. PULP - Common People
13. CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & HIS MAGIC BAND - Big Eyed Beans From Venus
14. DEAD KENNEDYS - Holidays In Cambodia
15. JOY DIVISION - New Dawn Fades
16. MY BLOODY VALENTINE - Soon
17. NEW ORDER - Ceremony
18. THE ONLY ONES - Another Girl, Another Planet
19. NEW ORDER - Temptation
20. JOY DIVISION - She's Lost Control
21. WEDDING PRESENT - Brassneck
22. THE SMITHS - This Charming Man
23. SUGARCUBES - Birthday
24. THE FALL - How I Wrote 'Elastic Man'
25. THE WEDDING PRESENT - My Favourite Dress
26. DELGADOS - Pull The wires From The Wall
27. MY BLOODY VALENTINE - You Made Me Realise
28. JOY DIVISION - Transmission
29. SEX PISTOLS - Pretty Vacant
30. PIXES - Debaser
31. BELLE &N SABASTIAN - Lazy Line Painter Jane
32. NEW ORDER - True Faith
33. THE CLASH - Complete Control
34. THE FALL - Totally wired
35. THE JAM - Going Underground
36. STEREOLAB - French Disko
37. JIMI HENDREX EXPERIENCE - All Along The Watchtower
38. THE FALL - Totally Wired
39. THE DAMNED - New Rose
40. TIM BUCKLEY - Song To The Siren
41. BEACH BOYS - God Only Knows
42. VELVET UNDERGROUND - Heroin
43. NICK DRAKE - Northern Sky
44. BOB DYLAN - Visions Of Johanna
45. THE BEATLES - I Am The Walrus
46. BEACH BOYS - Good Vibrations
47. THE SUNDAYS - Can't Be Sure
48. Culture - Lion Rock
49. P J Harvey - Sheela-na-gig
50. PAVEMENT - Here


Hope you're listening to them now John..................

[davethedrummer]

yeah some wicked tunes indeed
although just to split hairs i would say that teenage kicks would be number one as he wants the lyrics on his epitaph!(according to radio 1)
g'wan john!
wot a geezer!

[Dabble]

yeah some wicked tunes indeed
although just to split hairs i would say that teenage kicks would be number one as he wants the lyrics on his epitaph!(according to radio 1)
g'wan john!
wot a geezer!

Yeah, I always thought it was Teenage Kicks & he once said he wanted it played at his funeral.

Just out of interest, here's John's favourite tunes for September played on his show, a bit of techno in there...

Singles
Tunng - 'Suprise Me 44' 7" - Static Caravan
Vitalic - 'Fanfares' 12" - Different
Sons And Daughters - 'Johnny Cash' - Domino
Martyn Hare - 'Do Not Underestimate' EP - Designer
Bloc Party - 'Helicopter' - Wichita
Jeff Mills - 'Expanded' 12" - Axis
The Caves - 'Wow Machine' - Main Spring
Prosthetic C**t - 'Nemo/Prosthetic C**t Split' 7" - Relapse
Venom - 'Mumra' 12" - Heatseeker
Tik Tok - 'The Colosseum' 12" - 2CB
Flaming Stars - 'Spilled Your Pint' 7" - Decharne
Help, She Can't Swim - 'Bunty vs.Beano' 7" - HSCS
Mutts - 'Sharks' - Fat Cat
Murcof - 'Una' 12" - Leaf
Das Bierbeben - 'Staub/Reproduction Rmxs.' EP - Shitkatapult
Sarah Nelson - 'Are You Sitting Comfortably' EP - Womb
Drop The Lime - 'The Girls' EP - Shadetek


Taken from http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/alt/john...x_sept04.shtml

[dan the acid man]

i have my hifi set to wake me up in a morning, its always on radio 1, and normally the rubbsih they play makes me doze off again, but gues what woke me up this morning................................teenage kicks
iv'e never woken up so fast, im still in shock, we are never going to hear him do a radio show again :cry:

[Stella Boy]

Woke up to The Smiths this morning :clap: . Normally it's straight to the snooze button but it brought me round straight away. It's a terrible thing that R1 has to lose it's greatest talent to be able to play stuff like that.

[Dabble]

i have my hifi set to wake me up in a morning, its always on radio 1, and normally the rubbsih they play makes me doze off again, but gues what woke me up this morning................................teenage kicks
iv'e never woken up so fast, im still in shock, we are never going to hear him do a radio show again :cry:

Yeah, it's a f**kin classic & if it wasn't for Peely then we'd of never heard it. We have so much to thank him for!

[Traxx]

Its just been announced that the new band tent at glastonbury will be renamed the John Peel stage in tribute to him. Good on em :clap:

[MARKEG]

I loved John Peel and everything he stood for. Chrissi and I had the pleasure of speaking with him on the phone and I have to say, I was blown away by his down to earth friendliness and obvious love of music. When I got into techno/house in the early 80's I didn't care about John Peel. But after getting caught by this bug of 'obscure' and 'different' music, I really started to get into his show on the Radio. When he played some of our stuff I nearly died.

I'll never forget where I was and the moment I heard the news he'd died. To me he was the best DJ in England, a true legend. John, I salute you. RIP.

[WRAGG]

Gutted!!! The guy was a legend, nuff said!!

[Dirtyacid]

:cry: im am totally gutted to here that jp has passed away he,s pioneered saw much music. i was glad that he played techno & hardcore on his show i guess that in the words of the one off radio 1 show


john peel was never enough R.I.P

[roswell]

Yes very sad news - he will be radio and radio listener's biggest loss ever :cry: