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entrailicus · Joined: 28 Jul 2008 Posts: 21

http://fadesinslowly.blogspot.com/2008/07/1976-revisited.html

I've always felt that '76 was important enough to warrant a 50 of its own. As we all know, this was Peel's inaugural festive offering and was an all-time best list, featuring the likes of Genesis and many others who were conspicuous by their absence from subsequent years.

I got to thinking what a fifty would have been like just for the year 1976, then thought that we could bloody well go ahead and do it, albeit thirt-odd years too late. After the unmitigated success of Steve's super-duper all-time fifty on Teenage Kicks last year, I'm going to compile all of your votes and do a series of podcasts round about the end of December / beginning of January based on your favourite records of that stupendous year.

Here's what you need to do:

-Choose your favourite 3 tracks from 1976 (they must be from that year).

-Email them to me at the special address: the1976festive50@gmail.com.

-Sit back and relax.

-Go to the pub.

-Check the blog some time towards the end of the year.

I'll only be taking entries sent to that address as I suspect this is going to be quite a task, so please don't leave your entries in the form of comments on any of the blog posts. Am I nuts for doing this. Yes, probably so.

martinw · Joined: 06 Aug 2008 Posts: 10

This a tricky year because it is pre punk and people are going to pick tracks that seemed important during and post punk. This is going to be totally different from tracks anyone including Peel would have picked in 1976 not knowing what was about to happen
Peel was always supporting what was at the cutting edge from the late 60s onwards. What was at the cutting edge varied year on year - he was as responsible for breaking Yes, Genesis and ELP as he was Fall and the Buzzcocks. Any of those years looked at afterwards would produce different tracks than they would at the time. Who can tell what tracks from this year will look important in 5 years time

entrailicus · Joined: 28 Jul 2008 Posts: 21

It seems so, but I also feel it's benefiting from people not chossing what they feel a listener to Peel's show should be voting for.

All votes are greatly welcomed, so please feel free to choose absolutely anything.