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Peel himself found these exercises “terribly self-indulgent” notes Jon Dennis in brief commentary on each album on the list. These are the albums that rose to the top for him, for reasons he declined to specify, at a particular point in time 1997 when The Guardian asked him for his opinion. In no way would Peel ever assert that these 20 records are the “20 best” of anything.

The list, below, should be read with all kinds of caveats. He even had his opinions about Steve Albini, whose brutal three-piece 80s band Big Black ranked at number 15 for their Songs About Fuc&ing on a list Peel made of his 20 favorite albums. Of course, John Peel had his opinions about music - once saying in 1978, for example, that he wished the Rolling Stones had broken up in 1965. He said when he gets a record from somebody and he doesn’t like it, he assumes that it’s his problem and that the band would not have made that record if there wasn’t something valuable about it. In an interview the year after Peel’s death, Albini ruminated on this quality in Peel:īefore he died, John Peel said something that I thought was really profound. One person who comes to mind, producer and musician Steve Albini - an early champion of too many bands to name - likes to similarly exempt himself from the process, treating his opinions about music as incidental to the vital experience of making music itself. His was an attitude shared by few in the music business.

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Yet for all of the 21st-century troubles that few riding the wave of first-dot-com-boom utopianism would have credited, we today run the risk of seeing our world as too dystopian. “A hell of a lot of things could go wrong.” You don’t say. “We’re still on the front edge of the great global boom,” we’re reminded in the piece’s conclusion. and China a “global climate change that, among other things, disrupts the food supply” a “major rise in crime and terrorism forces the world to pull back in fear” an “uncontrollable plague - a modern-day influenza epidemic or its equivalent”: to one degree or another, every single one of these ten dire developments seems in our time to have come to pass. Schwartz and Leyden do allow for darker possibilities than their things-can-only-get-better rhetoric make it seem. Some of these they enumerate in a sidebar (remember sidebars?) headlined “Ten Scenario Spoilers.” Though not included in the article as archived on Wired‘s web site, it has recently been scanned and posted to social media, with viral results. But their vision of the 21st century hasn’t proven risible in every aspect: a rising China, hybrid cars, video calls, and online grocery-shopping have become familiar enough hardly to merit comment, as has the internet’s status as “the main medium of the 21st century.” And who among us would describe the cost of university as anything but “absurd”?