Nuggets 146b – LoFi

Nuggets 146b - lofi web

As promised, a second lofi fix. It may just be because I have yet to thrash this one (146b) as much as 146a – but to my ears it’s the better mix.

Again, not a Festive 50, but I pulled out some old tapes I have of Peel for a listen. Sad / curious to relate that the tunes in this mix would not have sounded out of place in his show from 1980. I console myself with the thought that good music endures, and that the current lofi fad reminds us how good that music is / was. Alternatively my efforts to broaden my musical horizons have been a complete failure…

Track 22 is from the Festive Fifty for 1980 by John Peel – no time for the song by the Helicopters that Peel introduced – on the CD at least – but you can listen to the unedited track below…

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my first post – Nuggets 146a

Nuggets 146a - LoFi

Noodling, thrashy and slightly psychedelic.

My first post. I just finished Nuggets 146a – it’s a lowfi one with bits of everything. Not too sure about the cover, it’s Peel for godsake. A bit clichéd. C’est la vie, Peel hasn’t featured before and this is number 146 (or rather 146a). It’s no festive 50 (which, spookily, continues), but its great.

Why 146a? Well, I usually get down to a shortlist of about 30 to 40 tunes, and thin them down to 24/25. That is all you can fit on a cd. This time round I ended up with about 40 good songs, and I thought that I would shoot for the moon and make 2 cds…