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Show[]

Name
Station
YYYY-MM-DD
  • 1987-09-16
Comments
  • Peel plays a wrong speed moment from Husker Du at the beginning of the show before correcting it.
  • Peel thinks Death By Milkfloat's Mr Obvious Wig is the best song title of the year.
  • Peel mentions that the winner of the competition for a listener to be photographed with him for the Radio One calendar is Paul Smith, who is in a band called Keeping Up With The Reagans. He mentions their dates of their concerts.
  • Peel plays a couple of tracks from the Hard As Hell! Rap's Next Generation compilation album.
  • Peel was meant to play The Price Of Love by the Depth Carge Souls, but instead plays the b-side, which he confirms later on in the programme.
  • Peel plays a track from Jerry Lee Lewis covering Roy Orbison's Down The Line.
  • Peel plays a track from Creedence Clearwater Revival covering a Bo Diddley song called Before You Accuse Me.
  • Peel plays a Polish punk track by Armia from a Polish punk compilation album.

Sessions[]

Tracklisting[]

(JP: 'Flatmates in session readers, and that's a first from them, You Gonna Cry Too, a version of that's going to be their next single')
(JP: 'I'm sorry no Smiths tracks on tonight's programme. Marketing, it's all marketing in considerations')
(JP: 'It's called Mersiyet, doubtless tribute to the global supremacy of Liverpool Football Club')
(Friday Rock Show trailer by Tommy Vance)
  • Jerry Lee Lewis: Down The Line
  • Davidsons: Middle Class / Beautiful (12" - Muscle Jerks) Cake (Peel mentions the tracks as Beautiful / Middle Class)
(JP: 'This next comes from Cameroon, that's another of the places I want to go to very much. I still desperate to get back to Japan on any enormous pretext in case any of you wants to fly somebody over there for any reason, I'm your man. I'm your great pudding')
(JP: 'And to get you in the right sort of mood for Andy Kershaw on this time tomorrow night, these are the Webster Brothers')
  • Webster Brothers: Road Of Broken Hearts
  • Tracks marked # on File 1

File[]

Name
  • 1) RF Sessions 2
  • 2) 020A-B2753XXXXXXX-0100A0.mp3
  • 3) 020A-B2753XXXXXXX-0101A0.mp3
Length
  • 1) 56:18 (21:12-23:47)
  • 2) 1:04:04
  • 3) 0:53:41
Other
Available