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08 August 1988

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Show[]

Name
Station
YYYY-MM-DD
  • 1988-08-08
Comments
  • Peel says he's got 22 days to his birthday.
  • Peel says his favourite record at the moment is the Siddeleys' Are You Still Evil When You're Sleeping?
  • Peel mentions his holiday in St. Lucia over ten years ago, where he felt guilty in that outside the beach area, there was poverty, in reference to the Kendell Smith's Dry Land Tourist track on the show.
  • Peel mentions the single version of Jesus And Mary Chain's Side Walking is currently his favourite single of the year.
  • Peel plays a Pink Floyd track after he mentioned that he had to write an article about them in a London evening newspaper. The track 'Fearless' contains a sample of You'll Never Walk Alone, an anthem for Liverpool Football Club, which Peel supports.

Sessions[]

Tracklisting[]

(JP: 'These guys really know how to rock, that's the Jesus And Mary Chain in session, Coast To Coast, is the title of it, and in 1970, there was an earlier Coast To Coast, produced by myself, and this is by Medicine Head, and it features the well known painter, Nick Cudworth at the piano')
(JP: 'A letter from Pete and Jill, formerly of Berlin, who seem to be travelling around the world at the moment, and good luck to them, and they write to me though, it just says at the top, the land of Southend United, which must mean Southend, and if it's just the case, I wish they could get in touch with me, I like to see them again, but they've recently been in Egypt, very decently sent me copies of the Egyptian Top 40, one assumes this could be quite interesting, but as you just hear, it isn't terribly. The one they sent me for July 29th, number 1, Circle In The Sand, Belinda Carlisle, number 2, Dirty Diana, Michael Jackson, number 3, The Blood That Moves The Body, A-Ha, and then it's Kylie Minogue, Wet Wet Wet, Foreigner, Heart, Whitney Houston, Taylor Dayne, Debbie Gibson and so on and so on, and all the people you might expect, but at number 32, the Anfield Rap, Liverpool Football Club, extraordinary stuff you see, presumably, there is also a kind of indigenous Egyptian music chart which I've not been sent. Don't tell me this is the kind of stuff that they play all the time there, it would be horrible')
(JP: 'My favourite hip hop records, whatever we've been calling them this week, tends to be kind of slow and grumpy, like this one')
(JP: 'This one's for the Pig if she's listening, it's Elmore James')
(JP: 'Elmore James of course and Coming Home of course, which I should be doing in 12 minutes time')

Tracks marked # on File 3

Tracks marked @ on File 4

File[]

Name
  • 1) 020A-B3079XXXXXXX-0100M0.mp3
  • 2) 020A-B3079XXXXXXX-0101M0.mp3
  • 3) john peel show tapes 7a 1988
  • 4) 1988-08-01-08-xx Peel Show LE015
  • 5) 1988-08-08 Peel Show LE661
Length
  • 1) 0:58:02
  • 2) 0:59:57
  • 3) 0:46:13 (from 39:37) (to 42:27 unique)
  • 4) 1:36:27 (1:01:39 - 1:17:29)
  • 5) 2:02:31 (to 1:56:24)
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