30 December 1995

Show

 * Name
 * John Peel Show


 * Station
 * BBC Radio One


 * YYYY-MM-DD
 * 1995-12-30


 * Comments
 * The second and final half of the Festive Fifty: currently, only some 78 minutes of a 2-hour show are in circulation.

Sessions

 * None

Tracklisting

 * 26: Dick Dale, 'Nitro' (Peel Session)
 * (JP (obviously so overcome by his hero's playing that he temporarily enters a time warp): 'Man of the year for me...taken from one of our sessions, we had a couple during the year, and hopefully there'll be loads more in 1966.')
 * 25: Tindersticks, 'My Sister (LP-Tindersticks)' (This Way Up)
 * (JP: 'Would I be giving anything away if I said that's the longest track in this year's Festive Fifty, but only just?')
 * 24: Fall, 'Don't Call Me Darling (LP-Cerebral Caustic)' (Permanent)
 * (JP: 'One or two scratches on that, but that demonstrates that it's much played and much loved.')
 * 23: Dreadzone, 'Little Britain (CD-Second Light)' (Virgin)
 * 22: Tricky, 'Black Steel (CD-Maxinquaye)' (Fourth & Broadway/Island)
 * (JP: 'I was going to say that this is the highest placed tune that I've never played before, but it wouldn't be quite right, there is one more.')
 * 21: Bluetones, 'Slight Return (7 inch)' (Superior Quality Recordings)
 * (JP: 'From the first moment you heard that, you felt that you'd known it all of your life.')
 * (5.30 p.m. news)
 * 20: Elastica, 'All-Nighter (CD-Elastica)' (Deceptive)
 * 19: Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, 'If Fingers Were Xylophones 7 inch)' (Ankst)
 * 18: Catatonia, 'Bleed (CD Maxi single)' (Nursery)
 * (JP: 'The highest-placed record that I've never played on the radio before. Someone will write in and say, "Yes you did", but I really don't think that I did, because I don't actually own a copy of it. I've heard it numerous times on the Evening Session, but never played it meself, I think.')
 * '17: PJ Harvey, 'Down By The Water (CD-To Bring You My Love)' (Island)
 * 16: Dreadzone, 'Fight The Power 95-Dreadzone Remix (12 inch-Maximum E.P.)' (Virgin)
 * (JP gives a complete rundown from 50 upwards)
 * 15: Bluetones, 'Bluetonic (7 inch)' (Superior Quality Recordings)
 * 14: Zion Train, 'Dance Of Life' (live from the Camden Festival)
 * (JP: 'The Festive Fifty, which comes to you live from Peel Acres. Live indeed to the extent that, although I don't want to sound too folksy, but at one stage of the programme, I actually ran across the road to the hen house in the field opposite and closed the door so that the foxes couldn't get in during the night.')
 * 13: Supergrass, 'Alright' (Peel Session)
 * 12: Pulp, 'Mis-Shapes (LP-Different Class)' (Island)
 * 11: PJ Harvey, Send His Love To Me (LP-To Bring You My Love)' (Island)
 * (JP: 'Really hate these long fades. When I was a boy, I never knew what to do with the end of 'Hey Jude!', because obviously that goes on and on for ever, for those of you old enough to remember it.')
 * (JP: 'I was going to get our Flossie to come in and do the numbers from 10 to 1, but she's found something she prefers on television. Absolutely typical.')
 * 10: Long Fin Killie with Mark E. Smith, 'Heads Of Dead Surfers (7 inch)' (Too Pure)

File

 * Name
 * ff95.2.1, ff95.2.2
 * Length
 * 00:50:00 (this show recording starts at 00:22:06), 00:48:41


 * Other
 * Above recording ends at number 10


 * Available
 * Links currently unavailable


 * Footnotes