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16 December 1985

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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[]

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

Tracklisting[]

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)
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