John Peel never liked Spiritualized. I remember in his 1997 festive 100 or whatever, the only song by Spiritualized was the title track from LAGWAFIS and it was at 98 or something in the rundown. Also, he seemed to dislike Spacemen 3. I have a theory about Peel: He really disliked musical ambition in rock and roll bands. think about all the shitty little wanky tinpot lo-fi bands he'd rave about, whose songs lasted thirty seconds and were about raping chickens or something impossible to air on daytime radio. He was a kind of massive post-punk snob - after his early, seventies phase when he was really into all these incredibly, mortifyingly embarrassing prog rock bands like Yes, he had a 'revelation' when punk came along, and disavowed all bands that sounded vaguely proggy. From then on he only listened to punk, post-punk and incredibly, comically lo-fi bands. He settled into this deep rut where he raved about anything that was lo-fi. Likewise, anything that was maximalist and ambitious, and had a shred of pretension, seemed to almost anger him. I was never much of a fan of his show although he'd sometimes play some great stuff, seemingly by accident. The stuff he actually liked was invariably fetal-position virgins in sheds mumbling about something random. He was a kind of proto Nathan Barley - his absolutely ideal band would be some rail thin guy in glasses, with hair like cousin It in the Addams Family, who'd come out with an electric guitar and jam a spoon into the fretboard for three minutes. Spiritualized were too obviously, vastly great for his tastes.
@@thesprawl2361 I rarely post here but that comment deserves applause. There was John Peel, and then there were the producers of his shows, who actually got these sessions in whilst he mumbled about how great the latest band called Nonce or Bingo or The Imperial Binbags or whatever were.
@@79damienc I never liked Peel very much. He hated music with any ambition so naturally he hated Spacemen and Spiritualized. I heard some lovely stuff on his show, but then I heard equally lovely stuff on other DJs' shows on Radio 1, like Mary Anne Hobbs, or Mark Lamarr, and they were never feted as some kind of talent-spotting genius like Peel was. Nothing inherently wrong with The Fall, but the fact that they were Peel's favourite band tells you a lot about his parochial mindset and dismal, lo-fi worldview.
Took me ages - in the state I'm in, the blind, sick, done state I'm in (and there's not a thing I wanna do about it, mind) - to work out what LAGWAFIS stood for. I always understood - from my restrcitive single sex boys' border/borstal school upbringing - that you didn't use letters for determiners such as And, er, and, In, which would mean I was looking for LGWAFS. So, The Sprawl, when you put LAGWAFIS, I was right spun up and out. Felt like I was walking with Jesus - and he didn't know either cos when he went to Nazareth School For Celestial Boys, they taught the same as wot I learnt. Y'know, determiners and all that. (This isn't too bad so far, for a boy from a state school off a housing estate, is it?!) Er, where wuz we? Yeh, all I really meant to say wuz what an acronym that is! LADIES AND GENTLEMEN WE ARE FLOATING IN SPACE = LAGWAFIS! Ffs, Jason, why couldn't you just stick with short little album names like Pure Phase (PP) or Lazer Guided Melodies (LGM) in order for us to acronymise them. Like LADIES AND GENTLEMEN (LAG). Or Took Too Much Dope (TTD). Or I Love Kate (ILK). Or, ok, if it has to be, Bloody Fu**ing Hell Is This The Best Music We All Listen To When We're All Doped Out Of Our Minds Or What Man? (Yeah) BFHITTBMWALTWWADOOOFMOWM(Y).
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drums on walking with jesus there are madd
The announcer stating Pure Phase isn't interesting at the beginning is a hoot.
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Peel:" Not terrifically interesting." - What???
I know. What the hell was that comment?
John Peel never liked Spiritualized. I remember in his 1997 festive 100 or whatever, the only song by Spiritualized was the title track from LAGWAFIS and it was at 98 or something in the rundown.
Also, he seemed to dislike Spacemen 3.
I have a theory about Peel:
He really disliked musical ambition in rock and roll bands. think about all the shitty little wanky tinpot lo-fi bands he'd rave about, whose songs lasted thirty seconds and were about raping chickens or something impossible to air on daytime radio.
He was a kind of massive post-punk snob - after his early, seventies phase when he was really into all these incredibly, mortifyingly embarrassing prog rock bands like Yes, he had a 'revelation' when punk came along, and disavowed all bands that sounded vaguely proggy. From then on he only listened to punk, post-punk and incredibly, comically lo-fi bands.
He settled into this deep rut where he raved about anything that was lo-fi. Likewise, anything that was maximalist and ambitious, and had a shred of pretension, seemed to almost anger him.
I was never much of a fan of his show although he'd sometimes play some great stuff, seemingly by accident. The stuff he actually liked was invariably fetal-position virgins in sheds mumbling about something random. He was a kind of proto Nathan Barley - his absolutely ideal band would be some rail thin guy in glasses, with hair like cousin It in the Addams Family, who'd come out with an electric guitar and jam a spoon into the fretboard for three minutes.
Spiritualized were too obviously, vastly great for his tastes.
yeah, that's a pretty shitty way to introduce something on your show.
@@thesprawl2361 I rarely post here but that comment deserves applause. There was John Peel, and then there were the producers of his shows, who actually got these sessions in whilst he mumbled about how great the latest band called Nonce or Bingo or The Imperial Binbags or whatever were.
@@79damienc I never liked Peel very much. He hated music with any ambition so naturally he hated Spacemen and Spiritualized.
I heard some lovely stuff on his show, but then I heard equally lovely stuff on other DJs' shows on Radio 1, like Mary Anne Hobbs, or Mark Lamarr, and they were never feted as some kind of talent-spotting genius like Peel was.
Nothing inherently wrong with The Fall, but the fact that they were Peel's favourite band tells you a lot about his parochial mindset and dismal, lo-fi worldview.
Stay With Me is still one of the most gorgeous things ever written, and it's nowhere near being the highlight of LAGWAFIS
Live, and with the orchestra and singers, is a beautiful psychedelic lullaby
Took me ages - in the state I'm in, the blind, sick, done state I'm in (and there's not a thing I wanna do about it, mind) - to work out what LAGWAFIS stood for. I always understood - from my restrcitive single sex boys' border/borstal school upbringing - that you didn't use letters for determiners such as And, er, and, In, which would mean I was looking for LGWAFS. So, The Sprawl, when you put LAGWAFIS, I was right spun up and out. Felt like I was walking with Jesus - and he didn't know either cos when he went to Nazareth School For Celestial Boys, they taught the same as wot I learnt. Y'know, determiners and all that. (This isn't too bad so far, for a boy from a state school off a housing estate, is it?!) Er, where wuz we? Yeh, all I really meant to say wuz what an acronym that is! LADIES AND GENTLEMEN WE ARE FLOATING IN SPACE = LAGWAFIS! Ffs, Jason, why couldn't you just stick with short little album names like Pure Phase (PP) or Lazer Guided Melodies (LGM) in order for us to acronymise them. Like LADIES AND GENTLEMEN (LAG). Or Took Too Much Dope (TTD). Or I Love Kate (ILK). Or, ok, if it has to be, Bloody Fu**ing Hell Is This The Best Music We All Listen To When We're All Doped Out Of Our Minds Or What Man? (Yeah) BFHITTBMWALTWWADOOOFMOWM(Y).
@@anthonyherniman6332 That was the most entertaining reply I've read in a while
Kudos my fellow nutjob
nice one !
Y no los hubiese dejado entrar al estudio John, a los falsos velvet undergrounds