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- Free Trent Reznor tracks
You can download some free tracks from the soundtrack of The Social Network if you click here and provide your email address. Back soon!
- Fleetwood Mac: New Haven, 1975
Did you know that in 1975, 2% of all records sold in the World were Elton John LPs? Do you care? Just think about it, there were a lot of people making albums then, so 2% of all sold is pretty good. One band that probably weren’t too far behind, even if they were still yet to hit stratospheric heights, were this lot.
At that time, bands did not expect albums and singles to chart immediately, it seems amazing by modern standards to reflect on the fact that their eponymously titled album only hit the No. 1 spot on the American Billboard chart a whole year after it was released, in 1976, and that the band needed to tour to sell potential hit singles such as Rhiannon and Landslide to the fans. Again, at the time, that seemed the only way.
Here they are then, almost at the peak of their powers, in their radio-friendly glory…
Part 1
1 Station Man
2 Spare Me A Little Of Your Love
3 Rhiannon
4 Landslide
Part 2
5 I’m So Afraid
6 World Turning
7 Don’t Let Down Again
8 Hypnotized
- Peel cast: December, 2009
Here is my pre festive season podcast…
01 Too Soft – Sexy Plastic Girl
02 The Steps – Dagger
03 Phoenix – 1901
04 Julian Casablancas – Out of the Blue
05 Julian Casablancas – Left & Right in the Dark
06 DD-MM-YYYY- I’m Still in the Walls
07 Caught In Motion – On the Edge of a Dream
08 The Yellow Moon Band – Window
09 The Fall – Futures and Pasts
10 The Fall – Industrial Estate
11 The Fall – Mother sister!
12 The Fall – Rebellious jukebox
13 Kish Mauve – In my Kitchen
14 Fight Like Apes – Something Global
15 Great Lake Swimmers – Stealing Tomorrow
16 Beck – Suzanne
17 Beck – Master Song
18 Beck – Winter lady
19 James Taylor – Country Road
20 James Taylor – Knockin’ Round the Zoo
21 James Taylor – Blossom
22 James Taylor – Sweet Baby James
23 James Taylor – Carolina in my Mind
24 James Taylor – Fire and Rain
25 The Raveonettes – The chosen one
26 Echo & the bunnymen – Think I Need it Too
27 Echo & the bunnymen – Forgotten fields
- Ganja Reggae Vol. 1
I have a question for you all. I often eat dried fruits and hazel nuts in my office as this prevents me gorging on chocolate and is also quite good for you. Recently someone came into my office and helped themselves to a whole unopened bag of hazel nuts. Their intention wasn’t to hide this fact from me, they admitted that they hadn’t had time for lunch and knew I had such goodies lying around and that I don’t mind people helping themselves to the occasional nut or dried apricot. Nevertheless, they’ve made no effort to replace the bag of nuts nor do they appear likely to do so. I put it to you that frequently helping yourself to someone’s freely offered nuts is one thing, but taking a whole bag without replacing it is quite something else. A code of conduct, I feel, has been broken. Merely saying, ‘it was me‘ isn’t enough, I think you have to replace the bag. Am I, er, nuts?
Anyway, down to business. You haven’t had a reggae collection for quite a while and for that I apologize. The clocks have gone forward, I haven’t got any hazel nuts and winter is well and truly on its way, yes, even here in Istanbul winter is well and truly upon us. One thing that makes me chipper this time of year are a few tunes like this…
1 Andy Capp – Herbsman
2 Glen Brown – Collie and Wine
3 Dice and Cummie – Free the Weed
4 Bob Marley and the Wailers – Kaya
5 Carl Murphy – Lick I Pipe
6 Aston ‘family man’ Barrett – Herb Tree
7 Max Romeo – My Jamaican Collie
8 Big Youth – Half Ounce
9 Leroy ‘horsemouth’ Wallace – Herb Vendor
Listen now…
- 22nd December, 1995
New Bad Things – Like
Henry & Louis – Instilled Dub
The Fall – The Chiselers
Gagarin Kongress – Astralleib
Polvo – Bombs That Fall From Your Eyes
The Geckoes – The Old John Peel
Ken Nordine – Flesh
New Decade – Broken Keys
Girl Of The Year – Halo
Jackie And The Cedrics – Banzai Diamond Head
Prince Far I & Creation Rebel – No More War
Loren MazzaCane Connors – Stilled Wind
The Fall – This City Never Sleeps At Night
Download here.
- Efes Extra Strongly Recommended: 13th March, 1993
Right now I have a can of Efes Extra (Turkey’s finest beer offering) in one hand, the keyboard in the other, a pot of steaming hot chilli on the stove and a Fall compilation on the CD player, hopefully filtering through to my Turkish neighbours who can’t fail but be impressed by the likes of ‘Yeah, yeah, industrial estate’. I did a workshop for other teachers recently and was genuinely pleased when the Fall CD I was using for incidental background music was nicked - another one converted. Anyhows, back to business.
This show comes courtesy of dontsleepinthesubwaydarlin on the newsgroup, who has the following to say:
Session guests include Oil Seed Rape (1st session) and PJ Harvey (3rd session), John also premiers the new Fall single “Why Are people Grudgeful?” and generally appears to be having a grand old time. It’s thanks to this recording I discovered The Nectarine No 9 LP “A Sea With Three Stars”, which is one of my favorite discoveries. Hope you enjoy this recording as much as I do.
I’m sure we will. Here are details for your full downloading pleasure:
(Tape 1 Side 1) http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RFPVQ0UV
(Tape 1 Side 2) http://www.megaupload.com/?d=993XDXUS
(Tape 2 Side 1) http://www.megaupload.com/?d=E50LFQM0
(Tape 2 Side 2) http://www.megaupload.com/?d=K4F3OHNJ
- Flametune: Lyrical Source
He’s was a boy,
She’s was a girl,
Cannot make it any more obvious,
He was a punk,
She did ballet,
What more can I say.
Not a lot, it would seem. But seriously, one site that really helps me unearth gems such as this is Flametune, officially describing itself as the ‘tabs and lyrics community’ which it certainly is. Most of you who come here often enough will know of my musical, er, prowess from my remixes and other electronic efforts that I foist upon you from time to time. I do, however, appreciate the years of hard work and dedication of all you real musicians out there, which is why I like Flametune’s other facilities such as, dare I mention her name again, Avril Lavigne guitar tabs and, lest we neglect the true heroes of any band other than The Doors, Avril Lavigne bass tabs.
While I’m coming across as something of a Lavigne basher, I heavily recommend checking out the other artists on the site, Jeff Buckley being an example of another, proper favourite of mine and among the hundreds of guitar and bass tabs added constantly.
- Frankie Miller’s Year: 30th December, 1977
This Peel show is an absolute gem for many obvious reasons (look at the songs he plays), but for those of us obsessed with the annual festive fifty lists, it provides some invaluable new info regarding the mythical 1977 list. The fabulous Rocklist website (www.rocklist.net), along with John Horne’s page, was instrumental in getting me started on the road to my JP music quest, and was infamously the source of about half of Mick Wall’s banal, insipid Peel biography which, given that it was released in time for Christmas 2004, Wall must have started cobbling together within minutes of JP’s death, the bastard.
Don’t buy this…
Buy this instead…
John Peel: Margrave of the Marshes
Anyway, back to the ’77 festive chart. Very little was known about this chart, apart from rumours that one existed. Peel first did a 50 in 1976, which followed the format that later charts would use, listeners writing in with their favourite tracks, which JP would compile into a chart. Rocklist has full charts for every year bar 1977, for which it currently lists only a top 13. Well, the end-of-year show you’re about to be dazzled by confirms categorically that Peel did indeed broadcast a full festive chart at the end of 1977, although from what he says in this show, he seems merely to have chosen his favourite sixty tracks for that year.
This show isn’t Peel’s festive 60 for the year; it is the show broadcast the night after he’d completed the list. It is, however, an absolute belter, as Peel showcases his favourite session tracks of the year. This was quite an eye-opener: despite Peel’s later admission that he had tended to let punk dominate his shows during this period, there are many other genres represented, although I can’t imagine why that would surprise me to much.
Part One
The Motors – Dancing the night away
JP confirms the existence of a festive chart, a festive 60 which he appears to have chosen himself, and that this track was his number one.
Frankie Miller – Ain’t got no money
The Lurkers
Mick Wall seems to have based his lame Peel biography entirely around a two-minute encounter with Peel during which they discussed this band.
Steel Pulse – Prodigal son
Elvis Costello & the Attractions – Mystery dance
Begs for tickets for the Chelsea v. Liverpool cup match
Lone Star – Bells of Berlin
The Fabulous Poodles – When the summer’s through
The Stranglers – Bring on the nubiles
Coliseum 2 – Intergalactic strut
The Boomtown Rats – Looking after number one
June Tabor – Riding down to Portsmouth
The Slits – Love and romance
The Motors – Freeze
The Lurkers – Freak show
Elvis Costello & the Attractions
Frankie Miller – Name of the track please! Download failure at this point
Part Two
Lone Star – From all of us to all of you
Steel Pulse
The Boomtown Rats
The Slits – New town
The Fabulous Poodles – Mr. Mic
The Lurkers – Total war
June Tabor – No man’s land
The Stranglers – No more heroes
Frankie Miller – Be good to yourself
Elvis Costello & the Attractions – Red shoes
Coliseum 2 – Lament
The Motors – You beat the hell out of me
Frankie Miller
My eternal thanks to Chris Bussicott for providing this show, and for putting me in my place over the course of our email correspondence, when I suggested that getting to hear this show was right up there alongside the birth of my second son among the very good things to happen this year. Thanks for the reality check, and, admittedly less important in the greater scheme of things, for the chance to use the phrase ‘gloriously washy medium wave’ for the first time in ages.
I’d appreciate anyone downloading this show leaving a comment below to thank Chris for making this available to all of us; he went to some effort to get it onto CD and then mp3ify. Cheers fella, it’s people like you who will help us keep Peel’s legacy alive.
While we’re at it, get yourself over to so it goes site and start reading up on the history of the festive 50. Sorry I’ve not been over for a while, the day job has been inconveniently getting in the way.
Part one:
Part two:
As ever, comments attempting to correct my glaring errors are welcomed.
A special shout out to John Peel Everyday, glad to have you back in action!
Frankie Miller
- An A to D of Independent Music: 26th May, 1980
Track Listing
Athletico Spit 80 – No Room (rough trade)
The Bongos – Telephoto Lens (fetish records)
Classic example of Peel being caught by surprise by end of record
Charge – You get what you deserve (ycafo records)
Classic example of next track starting early
Cheeky – Don’t mess around (woodbine street records)
Collective horizontal – Edward’s lear (dolman records)
The Cramps – Garbage Man (illegal records)
Crash course in science – kitchen motors (gogo records)
The craw daddies – lolette (voxx records)
The cult figures – I remember (rava records)
The Ds – My toy (optimistic records)
The dambusters – Production line love (deep water records)
The deadbeats – Choose you (red rhino records)
Peel monologue on the importance of independent labels
The decorators – Twilight view (new horizons records)
The denizens – Frontier (citizen records)
Mild rant about hippies
The details – Keep on running (energy records)
Digital dance – I sleep on the waves (digital records)
Discharge – After the gig (clay records)
Despite the fact that you’ve undoubtedly never heard any of these tracks (the cramps being a possible exception) I highly recommend this show. I actually thought that I’d cracked some Peel masterplan when I was making the track listing for this one, until Peel admitted that it was a purposeful A to Z list, not that A to Zing the songs you play would be much of a masterplan. Any luck with the jelly bellies yet?
While we’re at it, although where the direct connection is I’m not sure, here’s Mrs. Ravenscroft accepting JP’s lifetime achievement award in May:
- Yank Sizzler UPDATE #2
-Diana Dors – So Little Time [1964]
-Gogol Bordello – Not A Crime [2005]
-Basement 5 – Heavy Traffic [1980]
-Katja Khudolej – Katja [2002]
-Grinderman – Love Bomb [2007]
-Alhaji K. Frimpong – Kyenkyen Bi Adi Mawu! [199?]
-The Shackeltons – Your Movement [2007]
-Meanwhile, Back In Communist Russia – Blind Spot/Invisible Bend
-Blood on the Wall – I Feel Better Now [2004]
-The Krunchies – Lost Confused [2006]
-Cat-Iron – O, The Blood Done Signed My Name [1958]
-Suzanne Vega – Stay Awake [1988]
Here’s the promo ad that appeared on MTV Turkey:
Maybe next time. Anyhows, I’m on my summer vacation throughout the month of July, so can’t promise there’ll be too many posts over the course of the next month. I’ll try my best though, so keep coming back for more goodies.
