Start of show: 'Hi, John Peel here, the DJ with the filmstar looks.' Peel starts with a very long track indeed (but see note below) and announces a competition to win Strange Fruit cassettes of Peel Sessions: the listener is expected to write down the first and last records played in every programme of that week.
John apologises for speaking through his nose: he had a cold over the weekend, with 'lots of phlegm.' Due to this, he spent a lot of the weekend listening to records: the results of which influence the playlist.
Sessions[]
Great Leap Forward, #1. Recorded 1987-05-24. No known commercial release.
Big Flame, #4 (repeat). Recorded 1986-05-04. No known commercial release.
Tracklisting[]
(File 1's first track is Neil Young's song 'Cortez The Killer'. This appears to have been edited into the tape: the version Peel claims to have played was from the 1975 LP 'Zuma', a studio recording, but this version is live and three times longer. It may actually be the live cover by Buit To Spill. NB: It sure sounds like the Built To Spill version...except Built to Spill didn't form for another 5 years.)
(JP: 'I saw him (Neil Young) at the end of last week. First half was fairly awful, but the second half was really good.')
(JP: 'It's interesting, actually, how many people, when you're talking to them about what you do, you know, say to you, "Do people ever offer you money for playing records?" I can quite honestly say that, in all the time I've been doing this, which is a jolly long time, 26 years or something like that, nobody's ever offered me any money at all. If I sound disappointed, it's because I'm disappointed, really, I suppose. People say to me occasionally, "Of course, you must be taking backhanders", but it's true, it's never happened.')
Billy Bragg: 'A Change Is Gonna Come (6-track EP)' (free with Wake Up magazine, distributed by Backs/Cartel)
(JP: 'Listening at the weekend to older records, which I don't often get the chance to do, but every once in a while you need to put one on, just to kind of remind yourself of what things were like, you know what I mean, as a barometer by which you can assess the newer pieces. I must confess that, again, nothing that I listened to at the weekend really matched up to this: but it would take some doing.')