Posted January 7, 200817 yr Here's the John Peel Festive 50 from 1986. 1. Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out 2. Age of Chance - Kiss 3. The Fall - Mr Pharmacist 4. Primal Scream - Velocity Girl 5. Smiths - Panic 6. Smiths - I Know It's Over 7. Smiths - The Queen Is Dead 8. Shop Assistants - Safety Net 9. Jesus and Mary Chain - Some Candy Talking 10. The Fall - US Eighties - Nineties 11. Smiths - Ask 12. Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again 13. Weather Prophets - Almost Prayed 14. Half Man, Half Biscuit - Trumpton Riots 15. The Fall - Living Too Late 16. Wedding Present - Once More 17. Soup Dragons - Hang Ten! 18. Wedding Present - This Boy Can Wait 19. Bodines - Therese 20. The Fall - Bournemouth Runner 21. Cocteau Twins - Love's Easy tears 22. Primitives - Really Stupid 23. Pastels - Truck Train Tractor 24. Billy Bragg - Levi Stubbs' Tears 25. Soup Dragons - Whole Wide World 26. The Fall - Realm of Dusk 27. Age of Chance - Bible Of The Beats 28. Wedding Present - You Should Always Keep In Touch With Your Friends 29. That Petrol Emotion - It's a Good Thing 30. Very things - This is Motortown 31. We've Got a Fuzzbox - Rules and Regulations 32. The The - Heartland 33. Freiwillige Selbstokontrolle - I Wish I Could Sprechen Sie Deutsch 34. Mighty Lemon Drops - Like An Angel 35. Smiths - Cemetry Gates 36. Wedding Present - Felicity 37. The Fall - Lucifer Over Lancashire 38. Cocteau Twins - Those Eyes, That Mouth 39. Half Man, Half Biscuit - Dickie Davies Eyes 40. Elvis Costello - I Want You 41. Billy Bragg - Greetings To The New Brunette 42. Flatmates - I Could Be In Heaven 43. Shop Assistants - I Don't Want To Be Friends With You 44. Mighty Mighty - Is There Anyone Out There? 45. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - By The Time I Get To Phoenix 46. Colourbox - The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme 47. Camper van Beethoven - Take The Skinheads Bowling 48. The Fall - Dktr Faustus 49. Mission - Serpent's Kiss 50. Pogues - The Body of an American
January 8, 200817 yr dont know much there (apart from smiths) found Age of Chance - Kiss on a blog the other week but not listened to it yet - supposed to be important to dance/sampling culture/sheffield alternative music isnt it. The The - Heartland is a great record, like the p***-stinking shopping centres line - great lyric Camper van Beethoven - Take The Skinheads Bowling and Half Man, Half Biscuit - Dickie Davies Eyes - dont know these but the names always come up in the press
January 10, 200817 yr OMG so many tracks I absolutely adore on their from the best cover ever - Kiss to prime C86 like The Flatmates to the emotional intensity of Costello's I Want You. Then you've got Fuzzbox and The The AND all The Smiths and Fall tracks. What a list. Just realised Take The Skinheads Bowling is on there as well! "You don't have to be Prince if you wanna dance You just have to get down with the Age of Chance...." Edited January 10, 200817 yr by grebo69
January 11, 200817 yr 45. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - By The Time I Get To Phoenix must be a glen campbell cover! ... how odd...
January 11, 200817 yr 45. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - By The Time I Get To Phoenix must be a glen campbell cover! ... how odd... Wasn't one of Nick Cave's early solo albums a covers album. I remember him doing an Elvis track or something.
January 11, 200817 yr Wasn't one of Nick Cave's early solo albums a covers album. I remember him doing an Elvis track or something. couldnt tell you, i know nowt about the guy, from what ive heard theres nothing that interested me enough to listen to him...lol.
January 11, 200817 yr Thank God for John Peel I say... one thing I think these days whilst leaping to change the station when Jo 'Shameless Sell-out' Wiley comes on is how absolutely utterly embarrassed and disgusted he'd have been by her shameless selling out to daytime radio. Every time I hear her play a Nelly Furtado or Kylie single I think... Jeeez..... Mr Peel must be so proud... he's probably turning in his grave right now.
January 11, 200817 yr Thank God for John Peel I say... one thing I think these days whilst leaping to change the station when Jo 'Shameless Sell-out' Wiley comes on is how absolutely utterly embarrassed and disgusted he'd have been by her shameless selling out to daytime radio. Every time I hear her play a Nelly Furtado or Kylie single I think... Jeeez..... Mr Peel must be so proud... he's probably turning in his grave right now. I remember when John Peel sat in on the lunchtime show in the early 90s once. Unlike Jo he didn't sell-out and played some of his own records amongst all the usual playlist stuff. Got one of these shows on tape somewhere.
January 11, 200817 yr I remember that, too - and he also graced Top of the Pops - best presenter ever, in fact... with his barbed, acidic comments at the crud he was forced to introduce. Remember that famous Aretha Franklin quote of his off TOTP? After a video of the dismal Aretha Franklin/George Michael duet it cuts back to Peel who said "You know, Aretha Franklin can make any old rubbish sound good, and i think she just has." on Home Truths to a listener who'd sent a shirty letter: "Thankyou for that Peter, though something in your manner suggests to me that your opinions are best viewed through the sights of a police marksman's rifle." After playing a Siouxie & the banshees 45 at 33.... "Well a killer track either way" :P I think Morrissey learned rather a lot from John Peel and his acerbic wit....
January 11, 200817 yr I remember that, too - and he also graced Top of the Pops - best presenter ever, in fact... with his barbed, acidic comments at the crud he was forced to introduce. Remember that famous Aretha Franklin quote of his off TOTP? After a video of the dismal Aretha Franklin/George Michael duet it cuts back to Peel who said "You know, Aretha Franklin can make any old rubbish sound good, and i think she just has." on Home Truths to a listener who'd sent a shirty letter: "Thankyou for that Peter, though something in your manner suggests to me that your opinions are best viewed through the sights of a police marksman's rifle." After playing a Siouxie & the banshees 45 at 33.... "Well a killer track either way" :P I think Morrissey learned rather a lot from John Peel and his acerbic wit.... jo whiley aint fit to be mentioned in the same sentance as john peel.. shes just a media whore trying to look cool and 'in' with 'da kidz', unlike peel who just was himself and it was his intellect and understanding of current music that made him popular.
January 11, 200817 yr jo whiley aint fit to be mentioned in the same sentance as john peel.. shes just a media whore trying to look cool and 'in' with 'da kidz', unlike peel who just was himself and it was his intellect and understanding of current music that made him popular. well i guess every1 in the mejja (esp those associated with indie/alt things) are mejja whores who are trying to look cool. tho the history of pop on tv (thats as in popular music and not just fizzy fizzy tweeny tweeny) has her as the music researcher/band booker of the word and so could be seen as being of some importance/having cred to do what she does.
January 11, 200817 yr Some retro 80s indie to download here http://not-rock-on.blogspot.com/2007_02_01_archive.html
January 11, 200817 yr Some retro 80s indie to download here http://not-rock-on.blogspot.com/2007_02_01_archive.html well if the line up's got Jacques Brel - Nick Drake - Scott Walker all in a line cant be a bad place :lol: all they needed was Sparks and Kraftwerk and you would have covered everybody!!!!
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