01 January 1985

Show

 * Name
 * John Peel Show


 * Station
 * BBC Radio One


 * YYYY-MM-DD
 * 1985-01-01


 * Comments
 * The fifth and final part of the 1984 Festive Fifty, plus repeats of the best of the year's sessions. Currently, only the chart rundown is available (but see below).

Sessions

 * Pogues, #1 (repeat). Recorded 1984-04-10. No known commercial release.
 * Farm, #2(repeat). Recorded 1984-02-26. Available on Pastures Old And New (Fire Records).
 * Eek-A-Mouse, #2 (repeat). Recorded 1984-06-16. No known commercial release.
 * Cocteau Twins, #4 (repeat). Recorded 1984-08-29. Available on The BBC Sessions (Bella Union).
 * 3 Mustaphas 3, #3 (repeat). Recorded 1984-01-21. No known commercial release.

Tracklisting
John Peel's Festive 50 1984: Numbers 10-01


 * 10: Redskins, 'Keep On Keeping On (7 inch)' (Decca)
 * (JP: 'I've just opened a letter from an Adrian Johnson, a most congenial letter actually, from Northampton, in which he did make the point that the Festive Fifty and the broadcasting thereof is becoming rather a Christmas tradition, in the same sort of way as the Queen's speech, or something along those lines. I take your point exactly, in fact, and was very tempted not to do one this year, but when I hinted this on a programme, a lot of people wrote in and said, "You must do it, because we like to hear it, and there aren't many interesting records issued over the Christmas period", so that's why we're doing one this year. As to next year, well, we live from day to day, Adrian. Who can say?')
 * 09: Fall: 'Lay Of The Land (LP-The Wonderful And Frightening World Of The Fall)' (Beggars Banquet)
 * (JP: 'It's of some consolation to me to know that 1985 must hold some new sessions and some new records from the Fall.')
 * 08: Sisters Of Mercy, 'Walk Away (7 inch)' (Merciful Release)
 * 07: New Order, 'Thieves Like Us (12 inch)' (Factory)
 * (JP: 'There were a disproportionate number of votes for this next one, which arrived in the same week and from the same county, but at the same time, I'm too trusting a bloke to suspect any kind of an organised campaign.')
 * 06: Membranes, 'Spike Milligan's Tape Recorder (7 inch)' (Criminal Damage Records)
 * 05: Mighty Wah!, 'Come Back (7 inch)' (Beggars Banquet) (JP: 'My personal favourite of the year...should have been higher, boys and girls.')
 * 04: Cocteau Twins, 'Spangle Maker (12 inch)' (4AD)
 * 03: Men They Couldn't Hang, 'Green Fields Of France (No Man's Land) (7 inch)' (Imp Records)
 * (JP: 'It's the barely suppressed anger in that that makes it such a wonderful record for me.')
 * 02: Cocteau Twins, 'Pearly Dewdrops' Drops (12 inch-B side of The Spangle Maker)' (4AD)
 * (JP: 'I was always more of a 'Spangle Maker' man meself.')
 * 01: Smiths, 'How Soon Is Now (LP-Hatful Of Hollow)' (Rough Trade)

File

 * Name
 * ff84 Part 5
 * Length
 * 00:50:37


 * Other
 * This file appears to be unavailable to download at the time of writing.


 * Available
 * John Peel - Festive Fifty Radio Archive