26 December 1979

Show

 * Name
 * John Peel Show


 * Station
 * BBC Radio One


 * YYYY-MM-DD
 * 1979-12-26


 * Comments
 * The third of five shows featuring the 1979 Festive Fifty.
 * Partially available as hour-long mp3 (see below) and Festive Fifty compilation (see 1979 Festive Fifty).

Sessions

 * Repeats of the year's best sessions, including (but not necessarily limited to):
 * The Chords (originally transmitted 09 July 1979 )
 * Gary Numan (originally transmitted 25 June 1979 )
 * Penetration (originally transmitted 07 March 1979 )
 * The Specials (originally transmitted 22 October 1979 )
 * Stiff Little Fingers (originally transmitted 17 September 1979 )

Tracklisting
Possibly incomplete.


 * 06:21 [opening music] Grinderswitch: "Pickin' the Blues" (Macon Tracks, 1975) Capricorn Records


 * 06:55 Stiff Little Fingers: "Straw Dogs" (Peel session)
 * 10:23 Gary Numan: "Cars" (Peel session)
 * "Ahh, we keep the hits coming on Radio One. That's Gary Numan, and "Cars", recorded back in May, the 29th of May in fact, when he was in some kind of intermediate stage between being Tubeway Army and Gary Numan."


 * 13:44 The Chords: "Maybe Tomorrow" (Peel session)
 * 17:32 Penetration: "Danger Signs" (Peel session)
 * 20:26 The Specials: "Rude Boys Outa Jail" (Peel session)
 * 23:22 Stiff Little Fingers: "Wait and See" (Peel session)
 * 28:02 Gary Numan: "Films" (Peel session)
 * 31:08 The Chords: "It's No Use" (Peel session)
 * 34:29 Penetration: "She Is the Slave" (Peel session)
 * Referred to as "Coming Up for Air" (actually the album it's from)

"on Thursday night's programme - that's tomorrow night's programme - we've got sessions from the UK Subs, the Merton Parkas, the Selecter, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Buzzcocks, Magazine, and then of course, more of the Festive Fifty. And on January the 1st we'll be ending the Festive Fifty, I mean going up to #1, and starting the new decade off in a very positive fashion with a lot of old stuff - the Police, the Beat, Lene Lovich, the Ruts, Capital Letters and the [Leyton] Buzzards." mp3 ends partway through this track
 * 36:26 The Specials: "Rat Race" (Peel session)
 * 39:48 Stiff Little Fingers: "At the Edge" (Peel session)
 * 42:51 The Chords: "Something's Missing" (Peel session)
 * 46:15 Gary Numan: "Conversation" (Peel session)
 * 53:28 Penetration: "Last Saving Grace" (Peel session)
 * 55:58 Stiff Little Fingers: "Nobody's Hero" (Peel session)
 * 60:08 The Chords: "Now it's Gone" (Peel session) [part]

1979 Festive Fifty:

These were presumably all played. #30, 28 [part], 27 - 26 & 22 are featured on the compilation.  Pink Floyd: "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" [parts I - V] (Wish You Were Here, 1975) Harvest The Undertones: "You've Got My Number (Why Don't You Use It?)" (7" single, 1979) Cooking Vinyl Public Image Ltd.: "Death Disco" (7" single, 1979) Virgin Records The Jam: "Strange Town" (7" single, 1979) Polydor
 * "Almost every track that the Jam have recorded received some votes in the Festive Fifty voting, thus emphasing, I suppose, the fact that in terms of the Festive Fifty a band with only a few popular records is liable to benefit at the expense of a band with a stack of releases."

The Clash: "White Riot" [single version] (7" single, 1977) CBS Buzzcocks: "Boredom" (Spiral Scratch EP, 1978) New Hormones Led Zeppelin: "Stairway to Heaven" (IV, 1971) Atlantic Gang of Four: "Damaged Goods" (Entertainment!, 1979) EMI The Damned: "Love Song" (Machine Gun Etiquette, 1979) Chiswick Records Siouxsie and the Banshees: "Love in a Void" (7" single, 1979) Polydor 

File

 * Name
 * FF80.2.2.mp3


 * Length
 * 62:47 (not complete show)


 * Other
 * 97,791 kB; vbr
 * Mistagged as Festive Fifty 1992 Tape 1 Side 1
 * Starts with #2-1 from the 1980 Festive Fifty


 * Available
 * Peel newsgroup