Show[]
- Name
- Station
- YYYY-MM-DD
- 1982-12-16
- Comments
- Best sessions of the year were broadcast in the first part of the show, and the combined numbers 45 to 41 of the yearly and all-time Festive Fifties in the second. Until recently, only the chart rundown was available. However from early February 2010, a new recording became available, including edited highlights of the session tracks and records portion of the show.
Sessions[]
- Sophisticated Boom Boom, #1 (repeat). Recorded 1981-10-28. Available on Complete Sessions 1981 - 1983, LP, 2024 (Last Night From Glasgow).
- Three Johns, #1 (repeat). Recorded 1982-07-21. No known commercial release.
- Cocteau Twins, #1 (repeat). Recorded 1982-06-21. Available on BBC Sessions (Bella Union).
Tracklisting[]
Best sessions of the year and the odd record
- Start of show (File 1)
- Three Johns: Heads Like Convicts (Peel Session)
- Leroy Smart: Know Yourself
- Heptones: We Want It (7") The Thing
- Cocteau Twins: Alas Dies Laughing (Peel Session) (File 1)
- Sophisticated Boom Boom: Surrender To Me (Peel Session) (File 1)
- Three Johns: Pink Headed Bug (Peel Session)
- Southern Death Cult: Fatman (single) Situation 2 (File 1)
- Lone Ranger: Life In The Arena
- Cocteau Twins: Feathers/Oars-Blades (Peel Session) (File 1)
- Three Johns: No Place (Peel Session)
- The Slickers: Chuckie
- Sophisticated Boom Boom: White Horses (session) (File 1)
- Cocteau Twins: Wax And Wane (session) (File 1)
- Three Johns: Lucy In The Rain (Peel Session)
- Adicts: Four Three Two One (album - The Sound Of Music) Razor (File 1)
- Sophisticated Boom Boom: Is It About Sex? (session) (File 1)
- Bree Daniel: Oh Me Oh My () Upsetter
- Cocteau Twins: Garlands (session) (File 2)
- File 6 cuts in
- Sophisticated Boom Boom: Joe (session) (File 2)
- DVA: High Holy Disco Mass
- File 6 ends
1982 Festive Fifty: Numbers 45-41 (File 2 plays the rest of the Festive Fifty)[]
- 45 (AT): Siouxsie And The Banshees, 'Icon (LP-Join Hands)' (Polydor)
- (JP: 'I'd like to be an expert on icons, curiously enough. I think they're very beautiful things.') [1]
- 45 (FF): Simple Minds, 'Glittering Prize (LP-New Gold Dream 81-82-83-84)' (Virgin)
- 44 (AT): Sex Pistols, 'Pretty Vacant (LP-Never Mind The Bollocks)' (Virgin)
- (JP: 'Extraordinary, the number of bands who think that's what they're doing in 1982, and of course they're not by a mile.')
- 44 (FF): Shambeko Say Wah!, 'Remember (7 inch)' (Eternal)
- (JP (referring to the next track): 'One of the great records of all time.')
- 43 (AT): Specials, 'Ghost Town (12 inch)' (2-Tone)
- (JP: 'Speaking of ghost towns, tomorrow night the John Peel Roadshow is in Warrington with Frankie Goes To Hollywood. Thought you'd want to know that.')
- 43 (FF): Weekend, 'View From Her Room (7 inch)' (Rough Trade)
- (JP: 'That's one of two records in the 1982 Festive Fifty that I've never played on the radio before. Starting to think for yourselves, eh? We'll stamp that out.')
- 42 (AT): Siouxsie And The Banshees, 'Switch (LP-The Scream)' (Polydor)
- (JP: 'Taut, young, expectant muscles, I've always imagined.')
- (JP: 'Rather surprised to see this next one at 42 in our 1982 chart. No reason, I mean, it's a good record and everything, but I didn't realise it was that popular.')
- 42 (FF): Chameleons, 'In Shreds (7 inch-double A side with Less Than Human)' (Epic)
- 41 (AT): Joy Division, 'She's Lost Control (LP-Unknown Pleasures)' (Factory)
- (JP: 'Will we hear from them again in the Festive Fifty? Well, I know and you don't. Bet you can guess, though.')
- 41 (FF): Passage, 'XOYO (LP-Degenerates)' (Cherry Red)
File[]
- Name
- 1) JP19821216_01.mp3
- 2) JP19821216_02.mp3
- 3) and 4) John Peel Festive Fifty 1982 Parts 3 & 4
- 5) Peel 1982-12-16 (p).mp3
- 6) 1982-12-16 Peel Show L593.mp3
- Length
- 1) 25:30
- 2) 1:03:11
- 3) Part 3 - 0:22:26
- 4) Part 4 - 0:24:37
- 5) 1:53:50 (Full unedited show)
- 6) 0:06:23
- Other
- 1) and 2) Very good stereo sound at 256 kbps. Many thanks to Peel Mailing List member ray_b2 for uploading this show.
- Listed in The Peel Sessions, but not as part of the chart rundown.
- Originally shared via the Peel Mailing List
- 6) created from L593 of SL Tapes, digitised by Weatherman22.
- Available
- 1) mediafire
- 2) mediafire
- 3) and 4) ?
- 5) Mooo Server
- 6) Mooo
- Footnotes
- ↑ John then mistakenly gives the LP's title as 'Hold Hands'.