16 December 1985

Show

Name

• John Peel Show

Station

• BBC Radio One

YYYY-MM-DD

• 1985-12-16

Comments

• Best sessions of the year and the start of the 1985 Festive Fifty.
• Mentions he doesn’t appear to be on Cliff Richard’s mailing list any more.
• Says he has never played two of the records on the show that are in that year’s countdown and he still doesn't have a copy of one of them. The two Sisters Of Mercy tracks in that year's F50 seem to have been the two.
• Had to get the single version of the Husker Du Track out of the BBC library after his was stolen in Amsterdam.
• Before #42: "Serves me right for saying this was my least favourite Fall track of all time...”
• Files 1 and 2 consist of a continuous section of the show from around half way through the sessions.
• File 3 contains the whole Nightingales and Triffids sessions followed by 9 of the F50 tracks, in better quality though with no JP links.
• File 8 contains only the F50 tracks with no links but of arguably better quality

Sessions

• Nightingales #7
• Men They Couldn’t Hang #2
• Triffids #2
• City Limits Crew & The Mutant Rockers (first and only session):
• Billy Bragg #4

(Please add details of any commercial release of these sessions)

Tracklisting

• Nightingales: Part-Time Moral England (Peel session) # only available on file 3)
• Triffids: Life Of Crime (Peel session) # only available on file 3)
• File 1 starts half way through next track
• Nightingales: How To Age (Peel session) #
• Men They Couldn’t Hang: Night To Remember (Don’t Pass Me By) (Peel session)
• Triffids: Lonely Stretch (Peel session) #
• Jesus & Mary Chain: Inside Me (Peel session)
• City Limits Crew & The Mutant Rockers: Sucker (Peel session)
• Billy Bragg: Jeanne (Peel session)
• Nightingales: Heroin (Peel session) #
• Triffids: Chicken Killer (Peel session) #
• Men They Couldn’t Hang: Scarlet Ribbons (Peel session) @
• Billy Bragg: The Marriage (Peel session) @
• Nightingales: First My Job (Peel session) @
• Jesus & Mary Chain: The Living End (Peel session)
• File 1 ends (last minute non-Peel content)
• File 2 4 5 and 6 start

1985 Festive Fifty: #50-41

• 50. Shop Assistants: All Day Long (EP – Shopping Parade) Subway #
• 49. 1000 Violins: Like One Thousand Violins (single) Dreamworld #
• 48. Woodentops: Well, Well, Well (single) Rough Trade # (played twice on File 5)
• 47. Robert Wyatt: Wind Of Change (single) Rough Trade #
• 46. Husker Du: Makes No Sense At All (LP – Flip Your Wig) SST
• 45. New Order: Face Up (LP - Low Life) Factory #
• 44. Primal Scream: It Happens (single - All Fall Down b-side) Creation #
• 43. Sisters Of Mercy: Some Kind Of Stranger (LP - First And Last And Always) WEA #
• 42. Fall: L.A. (LP-This Nation's Saving Grace) Beggars Banquet #
• 41. Smiths: Well I Wonder (LP – Meat Is Murder) Rough Trade #
• File 2 4 5 and 6 finish (File 2 continues through news)

Files marked # available on File 3 and @ on File 7.

File

Name

• 1) festive 50 1985 part 1(tape15a).MP3
• 2) festive 50 1985 part 2 {tape15b}.MP3
• 3) 1985-12-16 Peel Show.mp3
• 4) John Peel Festive Fifty 1985 Part 1.m4a
• 5) ff85.1.1.mp3
• 6) Festive Fifty Part 1
• 7) C054 The Peel Sessions Vol.6
• 8) 1985-12-xx Peel Show JG14

Length

• 1) 47.02 (to 46:00)
• 2) 46.53 (to 41:35)
• 3) 1:06:47
• 4) 41:52
• 5) 47:00 (to 41:46) continues with start of 28 August 1990
• 6) 41:11
• 7) 1:01:40 (to 00:09:15)
• 8) 1:26:41 (to 38:30)

Other

• Shared via Peel Newsgroup
• Files 1 and 2 - Tape 15 of Kev's Tapes. Many thanks to Kev and Julian!
• File 3 - Tapes SB473 and SB474 of Weatherman22's tapes.
• File 6. Streaming only
• 7) Many thanks to Mr_maudlin
• 8) Created from JG14 of the JG Tapes, digitised by Weatherman22. JG Tape 14 Peel December 1985 Many thanks to Jon Gemmell.

Available

• [1]
• [2]
• [3]
• [5]
• 6) patestapes
• 7) C054 The Peel Sessions Vol.6.mp3
• 8) Mooo