Last week, the Sunday Times ran an article about John Peel's special secret record box containing his favorite bits of wax. A documentary titled John Peel's Record Box airs on Channel 4 later this month. I love that The Times published a list of all 142 singles. From the article:
The first thing that strikes you about the full list is how little of the grinding dark-core, impenetrable electronica and twisted ultra-noise that he loved to champion – "The unpleasant and disorientating racket", as he once described it – actually found its way into his heart. There's a lot of old-school soul there, such as Eddie & Ernie, OV Wright, Johnnie Taylor and Ann Peebles, and plenty of reggae: Lee Perry, Andy Capp, Blood Fire Posse and Izzy Royal. Indeed, if a theme emerges, it's that he truly loved music that was simple. He seems to have had a bit of a thing about two-piece outfits, or raw, basic tracks with straightforward lyrics: Al Casey's Surfin' Hootenanny, five Charlie Feathers singles, Don French's Lonely Saturday Night and an astonishing 12 tracks by the White Stripes.
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