22 December 1983

Show

 * Name
 * John Peel Show


 * Station
 * BBC Radio One


 * YYYY-MM-DD
 * 1983-12-22


 * Comments
 * The second instalment of the 1983 Festive Fifty, prefaced by session repeats. Currently, only the chart rundown is available edited together with portions of other shows.
 * Number 37 marks the first occasion a session track has been included in the chart: Peel states that in all previous cases, a record was played for each entry.

Sessions

 * Unknown

Tracklisting

 * 40: Fall, 'Wings (7 inch-double A-side with Kicker Conspiracy)' (Rough Trade)
 * JP: 'And they may easily reoccur in our little Festive Fifty. Isn't it fun, eh? Great.'
 * 39: S.P.K., 'Metal Dance (12 inch)' (Desire)
 * JP: '...and that's at 39 in our Festive Fifty. I say, our Festive Fifty, it's actually your Festive Fifty. I mean, I don't even put a vote of my own in. Perhaps I should have done, but it wouldn't have made much difference. There was one thing I could have done, because there were two near the top which were very close together, and in fact if I'd voted for one of them it would have moved it up a place: but does it really matter? Probably not.'
 * JP: 'This one's for the Laird, who I know is driving home at this moment listening to the programme, and he's very tired, as indeed I am. It's funny, because obviously you're not supposed to say that. You're always supposed to be bright and breezy, O.K.! really on top of everything! on wonderful Radio One. But obviously there are quite clearly times when you get tired, and after doing Top Of The Pops is one of them, because you have two complete runthroughs of the programme before you actually do it, and it's very hot, and you expend a great deal of nervous energy. By the time you've finished, you're actually feeling quite drained. All you want to do is go down to the pub and have a drink, and then go home and go to bed, by and large. But of course, it's always a pleasure to commandeer a radio programme for you.'
 * 38: Cocteau Twins, 'Hithertoo (EP-Sunburst And Snowblind)' (4AD)
 * JP: 'This is the first of our session tracks to make it into the Festive Fifty, and this is most gratifying.'
 * 37: Sophie And Peter Johnston, 'Television/Satellite' (Peel Session)
 * 36: Luddites, 'Doppelganger (EP-Strength Of Your Cry)' (Xcentric Noise Records)
 * 35: Fall, 'Kicker Conspiracy (7 inch-double A side with Wings)' (Rough Trade)
 * JP: 'It's always a great comfort to me as a rock'n'roll traditionalist to hear a little whistling, and there is some on that, as I'm sure you've noticed.'
 * 34: Tools You Can Trust, 'Working And Shopping (7 inch)' (Red Energy Dynamo)
 * 33: Smiths, 'Handsome Devil (7 inch-B side of Hand In Glove)' (Rough Trade)
 * JP: 'We've got two firsts here. One, the first German band in the Festive Fifty, and the second, the first record which I may have to take off halfway through, because I've just noticed, there's some kind of ghastly deposit in the middle of the record.' (He manages to play it without having to do this.)
 * 32: Xmal Deutschland, 'Qual (7 inch)' (4AD)
 * 31: Chameleons, 'Second Skin (LP-Script Of The Bridge)' (Statik)

File

 * Name
 * JP_FF/ff83.2.mp3
 * Length
 * 01:43:50 (the portion of the file containing this show's material begins at 00:41:43 and ends at 01:30:38


 * Other
 * This file contains content from other shows.


 * Available
 * John Peel - Festive Fifty Radio Archive