22 December 1990

Show

 * Name
 * John Peel Show


 * Station
 * BBC Radio One


 * YYYY-MM-DD
 * 1990-12-22


 * Comments
 * Features repeats of best sessions of the year and the first part of the 1990 Festive Fifty.
 * John claims to have been the first DJ to play the Deee-Lie track on the radio.
 * The session tracks are played back to back without comment.

Sessions

 * Barkmarket, #1 (repeat). Recorded 1990-09-30. no known commercial release.
 * MC 900 Foot Jesus & DJ Zero, one and only session (repeat). Recorded 1990-02-18. No known commercial release.

Tracklisting

 * Fall, 'Don't Take The Pizza (12 inch-High Tension Line)' (Cog Sinister via Fontana)
 * High Risk Group, 'Flag' (Harriet)
 * Capital Punishment Organisation, 'Somethin' Like Dis (LP-To Hell And Black)' (Capitol)
 * Barkmarket, 'Happy' (Peel Session)
 * Barkmarket, 'Pencil' (Peel Session)
 * Barkmarket, 'The Patsy' (Peel Session)
 * JP: 'Really was an excellent session. I like all that scuffling that goes on at the beginning and end of each of the tracks as well.'
 * John Boksingo Et La Groupe Laquetto, 'Don Carle' (Soweto)
 * Galaxie 500, 'Hearing Voices (LP-This Is Our Music)' (Rough Trade)
 * Lard, 'Mate Spawn And Die (LP-The Last Temptation Of Reid)' (Alternative Tentacles)
 * Even As We Speak, 'Bizarre Love Triangle (EP-Nothing Ever Happens)' (Sarah)
 * MC 900 Foot Jesus & DJ Zero, 'Truth Is Out Of Style' (Peel Session)
 * MC 900 Foot Jesus & DJ Zero, 'Slippin' (Peel Session)
 * MC 900 Foot Jesus & DJ Zero, 'Real Black Angel' (Peel Session) (tape flip somewhere in the middle of this session)
 * Bleach, 'Wipe It Away (12 inch EP-Eclipse)' (Way Cool)
 * Success, 'Tripwire (12 inch)' (Ozone Recordings)
 * JP: 'I've just opened a card from Davy and Stella, not sure where they came from, or where it came from anyway, and this says, I think in Davy's handwriting, "I expect the Festive Fifty will be a load of piss again". Now, this is obviously a rather cynical view of the way things are going to work out. I mean, hip-hop has become much more a part of the pop mainstream in the past year. 1990's clearly been the year of dance, reggae's been on the up during the year, there's been a lot of world music...it gets played everywhere, and people are much more broad-minded...I was disappointed with last year's Festive Fifty, because it did, by and large, consist of attractive white folks strumming guitars: a lot of records that I liked a great deal myself, I won't deny that, but there is a wide range of stuff. So, how is this year's Festive Fifty going to work out?'

1990 Festive Fifty


 * 50: Inspiral Carpets, 'Beast Inside' (Peel Session) (N.B. Unusually, JP does not announce this fact)
 * JP: 'Actually sounded quite seasonal, that, what with the bells and everything.'
 * 49: Pixies, 'Dig For Fire (LP-Bossa Nova)' (4AD)
 * 48: Pixies, 'Alison (LP-Bossa Nova)' (4AD)
 * JP: 'This year, it was my intention during these programmes to broadcast some of my favourite tracks. I mean, this is self-indulgent, but this is the season of the year for self-indulgence, I suppose. So I sat down to try and work out, as people who send in their Festive Fifty entries have to do, what my Festive Fifty entries would have been. This is absolutely true, I got it down to 160 tracks, and this was having excluded 20 LPs. I thought, "Well, I can't put all of 'Extricate' or the Babes In Toyland or Mad Cacherel LP in there, so I'll kind of eliminate them from consideration, and just do other tracks from sessions or singles, or from other LPs that weren't wholly good". As I say, I got it down to about 160, and I thought, "I'll broadcast some of these instead". But, by the time I'd got all the sessions sorted out, and the Festive Fifty, plainly there was no time to do any of this. But if I had put together some kind of, like, Festive Twenty, this would have been in it.'
 * 47: Farm, 'Groovy Train (7 inch)' (Produce)
 * JP: 'As I've remarked before in the course of these programmes, few things in the year have given me greater pleasure than the success of the Farm, who've made three absoutely classic singles. Even if they never made another one, they could rest on those laurels, I think. They're records that people will still be listening to with pleasure many years from now.'
 * 46: Farm, 'Stepping Stone (7 inch)' (Produce)
 * JP (referring to the next record): 'I was very pleased to see this get into the Festive Fifty: it would have been in mine, I think.'
 * 45: Bastro, 'Nothing Special (7 inch)' (Clawfist)
 * 44: Deee-Lite, 'Groove Is In the Heart' (Elektra)
 * 43: Teenage Fanclub, 'God Knows It's True'
 * 42: Orb, 'Little Fluffy Clouds'
 * 41: Fall, 'Chicago, Now!'

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