18 December 1992

Show

Name

• John Peel Show

Station

• BBC Radio One

YYYY-MM-DD

• 1992-12-18

Comments

• The beginning of the year's Festive Fifty.
• Entry #48 is the first of seven records in the chart not previously played on the programme.

Sessions

• Pavement, #1 (repeat). Recorded 1992-06-23. Available on Slanted & Enchanted: Luxe And Reduxe (Matador).
• Terry Edwards, #1 (repeat). Recorded 1991-12-15. Available on Birth Of The Scapegoats (Hux).
• Klezmatics, one and only session (repeat). Recorded 1992-07-14. No known commercial release.
• Half Man Half Biscuit, #5 (repeat). Recorded 1992-06-02. No known commercial release.

Tracklisting

• Elmore James: 'Stranger Blues'
• (JP: 'I think for once I won't tell you the story of the first time I heard that...In case you're wondering, well, probably, why we never indulge in any of that kind of DJ chit-chat, you know, when Tommy Vance hands over to me, it's cos I'm intimidated by the fact that he always says, (affects deep growl), "Now it's eleven o'clock", and then I come in with (affects high-pitched BBC whine), "Thank you, Tommy", in that sort of voice, and I just feel really inadequate, frankly.')
• Half Man Half Biscuit: '4AD3DCD' (Peel Session)
• Gunshot: 'Killing Season (12 inch)' (Vinyl Solution)
• Pavement: 'Kentucky Cocktail' (Peel Session)
• Terry Edwards: 'Four' (Peel Session)
• Papa San: 'Price Increase (Compilation LP-Muslim)' (Exterminator)
• Klezmatics: 'Honikzaft' (Peel Session)
• Teenage Fanclub: 'The Concept (CD single)' (Virgin)
• (11.30 p.m. news: some Albanian children have been refused entry to the UK for Christmas, during which they were going to see Manchester United play)
• Huggy Bear: 'Sizzlemeat (EP-Kiss Curl For The Kids Lib Guerillas)' (Wiiija)
• (JP: 'It makes you proud to be British, doesn't it, keeping those Albanian children away? That's the Christmas spirit, 1992-style. On the other hand, I suppose, taking them to see Manchester United is a little tough.')
• Terry Edwards: 'Lubbock Texas' (Peel Session)
• Half Man Half Biscuit: 'Floreat Interior' (Peel Session)
• Awali Banane: 'Fatumata (CD)'
• (JP: 'If I live to be 100, which is frankly pretty unlikely, I shall never tire of that.')
• Pavement: 'Secret Knowledge Of Backroads' (Peel Session)
• 150 Volts: 'Hi I'm Chucki (Wanna Play?)-Shut Up'N'Dance Remix (12 inch)' (Ruff Quality Recordings)
• Bivouac: 'Fishes (12 inch-Abc)' (Elemental)
• (JP: 'Those are the Bivs, as they're known to their trillions of fans worldwide.')
• Klezmatics: ? (Peel Session)
• (JP: 'I assume the titles here are in Yiddish, and as I don't know anybody who speaks Yiddish, I can't actually tell you what they are with any authority, but suffice to say those are the Klezmatics, and if they come this way again, they will most assuredly be in session again.')

The Festive Fifty Of 1992: Numbers 50-39

• (JP: 'You may recall last year, if you're a regular listener, that I abandoned the Festive Fifty in a fit of pique. Well, it was a bit more than that. The letters weren't really coming in in sufficient quantity to make it worth doing, so about half way through it I abandoned it, although a chart for last year has actually been compiled by a listener in Sheffield. Last time I spoke to him, he wasn't actually sure what his own name was: this is true. So perhaps I'd better not credit him by name 'cos it might cause even greater confusion. But at some stage I shall let you know what the Festive Fifty for last year was, for those handful of demented folk who'll be quite curious to know. But we move on, obviously, to the Festive Fifty for 1992, and we start in time-honoured tradition with the fiftieth record, which goes something like this.')
• 50: Fall, 'Birmingham School Of Business School (LP-Code: Selfish)' (Fontana)
• (JP: 'Yes, listeners, we're into the Festive Fifty, in which we shall meet lots of old friends and stop for a sandwich and a mug of ginger beer along the way.')
• 49: Verve, 'All In The Mind (Maxi)' (Hut)
• (JP: 'I always get really nervous each year when the Festive Fifty comes round, if indeed it does come around, because I always think I'm going to do something really ludicrous, like play the wrong track, or instead of playing something by, say, the Fall, putting in a record by John Cougar Mellencamp or something, and not noticing, and have you all laugh at me. In this year's Festive Fifty, I think there's a record number of records that I've never played on the radio previously: seven, in fact, altogether in the Fifty, and this is the first of them.')
• 48: Sugar, 'Helpless (LP-Copper Blue)' (Creation)
• 47: Pavement, 'Conduit For Sale! (LP-Slanted And Enchanted)' (Matador)
• 46: Wedding Present, 'Falling (7 inch-B side of Silver Shorts)' (RCA)
• (JP: 'I'm tempted to say that somebody in our house must have been like trying to play that on the dishwasher or something. Absolutely incredible: the worst pressing I think I've ever heard! I mean, I played it during the year and it was alright, so what's happened to it in the meantime I simply don't know...it actually sounded like it was a cylinder, not even a 78. I apologise for that, and I hope it hasn't spoiled your enjoyment of the programme, listener.')
• (A wrong speed moment. (JP: 'Everything is going wrong. You see, I shouldn't have said that I dreaded doing the Festive Fifty because I feared that things were going to go wrong, because as soon as I said that, obviously, they start to go wrong.'))
• 45: Buffalo Tom, 'Taillights Fade (Maxi)' (Situation Two)
• 44: KLF vs Extreme Noise Terror, '3 A.M. Eternal (7 inch)' (KLF Communications)
• (JP: 'A great moment. Only 2 minutes and 45 seconds of it, but it was excellent stuff.')
• 43: Drag Racing Underground, 'On The Road Again (LP-Big Stick)' (Albertine)
• 42: Pavement, 'Circa 1762' (Peel Session)
• 41: Wedding Present, 'Sticky (7 inch)' (RCA)
• (JP: 'That was a rather less than wonderful pressing as well. Perhaps we've got stylus trouble here at 1FM, I don't know.')
• 40: Ride, 'Leave Them All Behind (12 inch)' (Creation)
• (JP (while the next track plays on regardless): 'That gave me the opportunity to pop out into the corridor for a little deep knee-bending.')
• 39: Boo Radleys, 'Lazarus (12 inch)' (Creation)

• (1 a.m. news)

File

Name

• a) 18th December 92 Parts 1 & 2
• b) F50_1992_1a, 1b, 2a & 2b

Length

• 00:46:37, 00:46:54

Other

• a) Starts with Gunshot track and cuts out after FF #42.
• b) Complete show

Available

• a) Part 1, Part 2
• b) IAP's Tapes