I was gonna forward Peelie as a number 1, but feared being disregarded as a limey fool.
Sure he never made any music (Oh, hang on, what about his exquisite mandolin playing on "Maggie May"?) but you wouldn't have heard at least half the music you love if it wasn't for him

most importantly he recognised that a session fee from the BBC = expenses for a tour / equipment repair / 7" pressing costs etc. Getting a Peel session saved my financial ass a few times and kept bands going and kept bands feeling valued.
He was the best.

Bump.



I've been keeping myself busy reading the Waltermalling Mystery

I agree somewhat. I think it should be


from what I see we could continue here
1. Hendrix croaks.

0. Electrical Audio decides to host an internet forum.

-01. Keith Moon dies.

Or we could go this way.

Marlowe wrote:632. The Ovation acoustic guitar is invented
631. The Rolling Stones decide to continue making records after "Some Girls".
630. When record companies allow lawyers and accountants to make decisions regarding the music.
629. Ozzy Osbourne has current band members re-record the bass and drums on his two best albums Blizzard Of Oz and Diary of A Madman (sell your wife into slavery please!).

What say you board?

628. "Hawkwind" releases the world's most incredible misnomer of an album: "Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music" and never recovers

627. The "Butthole Surfers" record the song "Dracula From Houston"

626. Chrome falls apart (or never really congealed in the first place) & Damon Edge releases "Into The Eyes Of The Zombie King" - it all goes even further downhill from there...

625. Roky Erickson falls apart mentally and gets committed.

624. Snakefinger (aka Philip Charles Lithman) dies of a heart attack at the absurdly young age of 38(-ish?)

Yeah, Dracula from Houston is nothing like old Butthole Surfers. A cheesy and guilty pleasure indeed. Hahaha.

ReubenRemus wrote:Yeah, Dracula from Houston is nothing like old Butthole Surfers. A cheesy and guilty pleasure indeed. Hahaha.

Absolutely no 'pleasure' in hearing that lump of steaming crap... no ironic-pop pleasure, no post-hipster pleasure, no post-rock-pre-fuck-me-with-a-hyphenated-piece-of-shit-term pleasure.

In summary, no, there is no pleasure to be had from that festering shitsmear.

(unless perhaps you always disliked that band, and now you have pleasure in watching an enemy fail brilliantly... I guess I could see that as 'pleasure')

Nobody mentioned Dimebag getting gunned down onstage. If you don't like pantera or metal you should at least realize that a musician getting murdered in such a way totally eats rancid balls......... ASS!

623. Shellac rationing and the Petrillo recording ban.

My personal #1:
Aerosmith and Run DMC record "walk this way" together.
Possibly the most over-hyped, overrated shit ever. The video makes me want to kill myself.
This moment in time began the long slow sink into rap-rock garbage. I blame this horrible pairing for:
Everlast beards
Korn
Band named intentionally mis-spelled.
bands with DJs
bass guitars that sound like baseball cards in bike spokes.
years of korn rip offs in my hometown.
insane clown posse
I could go on and on.
Big, silver, tight-fitting beaded necklaces
hurricane katrina
George W. Bush (seriously he was investing oil money in adidas pants, made enough to campaign for president. read the paper people!)

If I could go back in time I would crash through the wall in that video with the kool-aid man and a bunch of C-4 explosives. I would take one for the future of man.

don't forget to add:


the revitalization of Aerosmith's career and setting in stone of their flagged rock superstardom.


Let's Start ALL our songs with the Chorus!


CRAP.