23 December 1990

Show

 * Name
 * John Peel Show


 * Station
 * BBC Radio One


 * YYYY-MM-DD
 * 1990-12-23


 * Comments
 * The second part of the year's Festive Fifty, pefaced by records and session repeats.
 * The first few minutes of the programme are missing from this recording.

Sessions

 * Farm, #5 (repeat). Recorded 1990-05-06. No known commercial release.

Tracklisting

 * Melvins: 'Sweet Young Thing (Ain't Sweet No More) (split 7 inch with Steel Pole Bath Tub)' (Boner)
 * (JP: 'People have offered me money for that, but not enough.')
 * Ini Kamoze: 'Another Sound' (Selecta)
 * Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy: 'Famous And Dandy (CD maxi single-(What Will We Do To Become) Famous Like Amos & Andy)' (Workers Playtime) (JP mistakenly refers to it as 'Fine And Dandy')
 * (JP: 'What's happening in this programme, in case you weren't listening last night, or didn't hear the beginning of this one, is three sessions, which I shall broadcast in their entirety and without interruption from myself, unless something goes wrong, and then the Festive Fifty, numbers whatever I said before, 38 to 27. That'll start around midnight, you know, a few minutes after midnight, and the reason I'm doing it that way rather than in blocks of ten, as was orginally announced, with a twenty on the final programme next Sunday, I mean today week, is because...well, you'll see why later. If you listen to the whole Festive Fifty, you'll understand why, but it just wouldn't work out correctly. And then in between these things. some of the records that I liked most during the year. Like this.')
 * Atavistic: 'You Too, Can Be Mainstream (LP-Vanishing Point)' (Profane Existence)
 * Farm: 'Groovy Train' (Peel Session)
 * Farm: 'Very Emotional (Ballad To Ray Toohey)' (Peel Session)
 * Farm: 'I Don't Know' (Peel Session)
 * Farm: 'Family Of Man' (Peel Session)
 * (JP: 'I look forward to hearing a great deal more from them in 1991, 92, 93, 94. 95, as far as you like, really.')
 * (JP: 'It's been a kind of rum day because I've been stuck in London all day, and really it's no place to be at this time of year, particularly on a Sunday I think, this close to Christmas, but obviously my situation is a great deal better than that of a lot of other people who are stuck in London as well. I woke up this morning, as you can perhaps tell, with something of a cold, and just in time for Christmas. Isn't that typical? I would do though, wouldn't I really? I went for a bit of a wander this afternoon, feeling a bit fed up. I went along Oxford Street, and this bloke just said, "Merry Christmas, John!", as people do, as he went by, and it was one of those things that sets you up, really, for the rest of the day.')
 * Crime Stoppa: 'Don't Touch Crack (7 inch)' (Mixing Lab)
 * (tape flip)
 * Lard: 'Can God Fill Teeth? (LP-The Last Temptation Of Reid)' (Alternative Tentacles)
 * Zero Zero: 'Thank God For Evil (12 inch)' (Minimal)
 * (Among others, JP reads out a Christmas card from Rocker)
 * Drag Racing Underground: 'Hellfire (7 inch-Drag Racing Underground)' (Snakeskin)
 * Silk Tymes Leather: 'Taking No Shorts (LP-It Ain't Where Ya From...It's Where Ya At)' (Geffen)
 * Frankie Paul & Stingerman: 'Beautiful Girls' (Exterminator)

John Peel's Festive Fifty 1990: Numbers 38-27


 * 38: Babes In Toyland, 'House (7 inch)' (Sub Pop)
 * 37: Spiritualized, 'Any Way That You Want Me (7 inch)' (Dedicated)
 * 36: Sundays, 'Here's Where The Story Ends (LP-Reading, Writing And Arithmetic)' (Rough Trade)
 * 35: Fall, 'Telephone Thing (LP-Extricate)' (Phonogram)
 * (JP: 'I'm only being nice and kind and cuddly because it's Christmas. In the New Year I shall go back to being grumpy and bad-tempered and ignoring all of the phone calls.')
 * 34: Shamen, 'Pro-Gen (12 inch)' (One Little Indian) unknown remix: length approximately 5:28
 * (JP; 'Ben phoned up from Berkhamsted in Hertfordshire to remark, amongst other things, that there seems to be amazingly little rap, African music and reggae in the Festive Fifty. So far, I said to him, so far. Up until now, the only thing that comes close, really, is Chuck D's contribution to the Sonic Youth record. But who knows what's to come? I know what we've got to come, but you don't, at the moment.')

File

 * Name
 * 23rd December 1990 Parts 1-3
 * Length
 * 00:42:13
 * 00:43:38
 * 00:31:49


 * Other
 * Rather subfusc quality in Part 1.


 * Available
 * Part 1, Part 2, Part 3