For many fans of FMU, John Peel needs no introduction. As a champion of adventurous taste on BBC Radio 1 for decades, Peel's one of our patron saints. Thanks to the liberal funding policies for the arts across the pond (as opposed to here in America...Mayday...Mayday...), John Peel's entire record collection is being digitized and released online. Many are available for free streaming and detailed info is available for the rest.
Click here to see the Peel Archives online. Hate to draw attention away from FMU, but crap, this will easily take up your entire day and totally mess up your work productivity (if you aren't chronically jobless...Mayday...Mayday). Today all the records starting with "A" are streamable, and it looks like a letter will be released for listening every week.
Also!! Bonus points. In the left of the Peel archives homepage, under the speaker...what's that?? A wfmu bumper sticker! Screencap's to the left...
Not actually listenable...but an interesting browse through, nonetheless.
Posted by: mOgs | May 01, 2012 at 12:20 PM
@mOgs...oh, you're right! Only some of them are streamable. I just happened to click through ones you could listen to and assumed it was the case for all of them...will edit this post.
Posted by: Nat | May 01, 2012 at 12:28 PM
It seems to be tied in to Spotify. Perhaps if it's available on Spotify, it's available? Could someone confirm?
Posted by: Kay | May 02, 2012 at 10:54 AM
It's not the entire collection - each week the first 100 albums for each letter of the alphabet is being upload, until October when the current funding runs out. Our liberal art funding this side of the pond is not that great! Hopefully more funding can be found to extend the project, but even this small insight into the collection, with limited streamed items, is fascinating.
Posted by: kelvin | May 02, 2012 at 03:18 PM
Could be they are still working out the kinks for the first go...
Posted by: krebstar01 | May 02, 2012 at 03:32 PM
i'm dismayed: it would be great if the archives weren't tied to spotify, which requires a facebook account. some (perhaps many) fans of this resource, may not have, nor want, facebook! i giant bronx cheer for that snafu!
boooooooooooo!
Posted by: brian | May 05, 2012 at 01:58 PM
Could be they are still working out the kinks for the first go
Posted by: Spotify | October 16, 2012 at 05:25 PM