Sonic Youth Gossip - Best BBC sessions?

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Originally Posted by demonrail666

I think he lost some of his importance once Grunge and Britpop hit the mainstream in the mid 90s, being forced to celebrate a kind of obscurity-for-its-own-sake in an effort simply to stay relevant. Kershaw became more interesting for me because he was more willing to look further afield and wasn't so bound to Peel's ultimately quite post-punk-inspired idea of what cutting edge contemporary music 'should' be. But as you say, that's not to undermine his enormous importance overall. Although by the time he started championing The White Stripes I'd pretty much given up on him altogether.

Not in the same league in terms of significance, but I've always thought Janice Long has been quite overlooked; she played a vital role boosting those bands that weren't quite marginal enough for Peel but which (at that time, anyway) weren't mainstream enough for the daytime playlist, groups like The The, etc who might've otherwise found themselves lost in that massive no-mans-land that existed during the 80s, between Peel and Simon Bates. (Although, as KIS mentions, David Kid Jensen was also pretty good in that regard).

I think Peel's influence in using the live session was pretty important. And, like everyone, Peel was a massive influence on me growing up.

But yeah, I think this idea that he was the only person, even within the BBC, who did good sessions, is a bit narrow. In my time when I tuned into radio 1 (I can't have listened to it more than a handful of times since Peel's passing) there was people like Lamacq and Wiley (later just Lamacq), Annie Nightingale, Kershaw, Mary-Anne Hobbs, Mark and Lard, Westwood, Chris Goldfinger, Fabio & Grooverider... further afield on radio 3 there's shows like Late Junction, Mixing it and World routes, 2 regular jazz shows and live concerts most evenings. I'm pretty sure Bob Harris still has some worthwhile sessions on radio 2 (it's been years since I tuned in) and I know that Radio 6 has a lot (though I never listen to it). Sessions are a pretty critical part of radio culture.

I think the thing that people need to remember about Peel's sessions is that there was one every night - for every great one (Monkey Steals the Drum) there was at least one shoddy one (Isla's Set) and one alright one by a band that were forgotten in 10 minutes (Miss Black America).

I love BBC radio, by the way.

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Originally Posted by foreverasskiss

anyway...don't you function on any kind of level everyone else does here? pleh eht sselemoh.

Well, I think I don´t. As I said, I spend very little time in the internet. And in the gossibs there seem to be some "rules" that I just don´t understand.

I have been kind of "lonely wolf" all my life, but I don´t have a lots of problems when being with the other people face to face.

My function to be here is to talk SY and other music. I think many have some other functions too. It seems there´s competitions eveywhere these days. If I have understood correct, here´s also reputation list and people get higher if they get much replies. And some people seem to want be on the first places (maybe they are not serious?). To me that list is just the same, I just want to talk about music.

When I started here, I didn´t get much replies. Well I have had some, but always when I have answered maybe four times, the other one had stopped answering. Maybe that´s one of the "Rules": don´t answer same guy too many times. Anyway, if you think I´m very irritated person, you don´t have to answer me. I´m still going to make some writings about my fav artists. No-one have to read them, it´s just fun to me to write.

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Originally Posted by stu666

I don't have a rich dad, but I'm sure most credit card companies will refund you any money if yr card is used fradulently. As long as you have good internet security and are careful when you log into sites then you should be ok anyway and it will protect you if you are using mozilla, internet explorer or chrome... it sounds like you are ultra paranoid! there's crimanals everywhere, does that stop you using yr credit card in shops etc...?

Maybe I´m paranoid, but I think you are really naive, if you think most of the people just want good to you (don´t ever for example just use you) or that some company automatically help you if you´re in problems with the internet. If I went to the sites that some browser had warned me and then somebody got my credit card number and used it, I don´t believe my credit card company automatically pays the bill, specially when it´s known explorer has the lowest safety. I don´t know is it possible (because I know almost nothing about computer world) to have my credit card number if I go somewhere wrong site and afterwards buy something from the internet, but I have doubts it is. Of course I have internet security, but I don´t know does my credit card company accept the anti-virus program I use. And yes, I use very little credit card, in the internet only if I can´t get some album from my retailer or any shop from Finland. I rather be too careful than not careful at all.

There has been news for some time ago, that many Finnish people credit card numbers were used wrong in the USA. And it´s not just credit card numbers, there was also news about Facebook, that had used it´s customers information wrong way...this is the world today!

I liked the old BBC sessions thread a lot better.

^ yeah that one's good too

Sonic Youth - 1986 Peel Session http://youtu.be/dGGlcQSggRg

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Originally Posted by hipster_bebop_junkie

I liked the old BBC sessions thread a lot better.

you must spread some nostalgia around before you give it to Hipster bebop junkie again.