I feel that many of the comments, both in the main piece and the subsequent replies, do Peel a huge disservice. His main quality was that he had a genuine hunger for innovative new music and completely ignored the […]

The first one with Pink Floyd was a lifetime highlight, although it wasn’t until they came on that I could really hear anything properly. I was sitting with a group of trainee teachers, including the girl of my […]

Ooh – good one.

Without a doubt, the most dramatic one was the Island sampler called Nice Enough To Eat. As a long-term Beatles fan I’d just started buying Melody Maker and beginning to hear aout all these […]

retropath2 said, “Am slowly drinking more “tea”, preferably the ones without any actual tea in them”,

That was enough to provoke a reply. 😀 For the past few weeks I’ve hardly been able to step outside wit […]

I’m quite sure the ‘world’s scariest granny’ look is quite deliberate – probably two fingers up to anybody who suggests he should make himself more marketable. What seems so strange to me is how he really d […]

I would have thought that 21st Century Schizoid Man stands up far better than the title track. I could never understand what on earth possessed them to include that ridiculously pretentious wibble-fest throughout […]

You’ll really love this then 😀

I really think they should have found an excuse to include the live version of Billy Porter by Terry and the Idiots, from the film DOA.

I thought I might get into trouble on here if I voiced my feelings about The Who, but thankfully it seems I’m not alone. The best Who album is always going to be one that has all their chart singles on it, ending […]

This and previous comments have shown me up then. I had always assumed Bowie was mimicking Marc Bolan, but then read more recently that it actually was Bolan himself who provided the backing vocal.

This album has […]

Having just answered the question with reference to statins, I now remember my former episodes with gout, which I suffered for far too long without getting treatment. When I first limped into the doctor’s surgery […]

One of my pet hates is when you go to any kind of doctor who says, “How would you rate your pain on a scale of 1 to 10?” What a bloody ridiculous question. How are we supposed to know what a 10 is? Being fed […]

I completely agree with everybody who says avoid the 0% or low-alcohol beers and wines, which almost invariably taste awful and are cynically over-priced for gullible consumers. I’d rather go for something like a […]

Good old Bowie. You can rely on him to divide opinions and that’s exactly how he would have wanted it. I’d have left off Soul Love for a start, mainly because it doesn’t quite seem to fit in. I felt the same about […]

I count myself as a huge fan, yet I’ll probably fall out with the majority by saying that I really can’t stand Diamond Dogs. I think it’s partly the dated instrumentation and production, but I don’t think the […]

I remember buying this album because it seemed obligatory, although post-Spiders, I had doubts in my mind as to what I was actually investing in.
I remember thinking that Watch That Man seemed more of less a […]

Crikey – some odd ideas there, but that’s perfectly okay, as the whole idea is to hear somebody’s opinions from an entirely new perspective. However, the big mistake with this whole project was to begin with T […]