20 December 1979

Show[]

Name

John Peel Show

Station

BBC Radio One

YYYY-MM-DD

1979-12-20

Comments

The first of five shows featuring the 1979 Festive Fifty.
Complete show available from the Derby Box. Some tracks appear on a compilation tape (file (a) below).
Peel describes the Misty session as "one of my favourite sessions of all time."
"About six weeks ago I invited listeners to nominate their three favourite tracks of all time, and I would say that - and I'm guessing - I would say that about 7000, 8000 people responded"
Tracks marked § appear on file (b), not in broadcast order

Sessions[]

Repeats of the year's best sessions, including:

Cockney Rejects (originally transmitted 15 August 1979^[1])
Jam (originally transmitted 05 November 1979^[2])
Killing Joke (originally transmitted 29 October 1979^[3])
Misty In Roots (originally transmitted 13 June 1979^[4])
Skids (originally transmitted 07 May 1979^[5])
The Undertones (originally transmitted 05 February 1979^[6])

Tracklisting[]

Files c and d start of show

JP: "Good evening to you boys and girls. As we stumble towards the end of what has been another vintage year for music we repeat some of our finest sessions from the year. Namely those from Misty, the Jam, Killing Joke, the Skids, Cockney Rejects and the Undertones. And in the second hour of the programme we start working our way up the festive fifty, starting... at number fifty. How did you guess?"

Cockney Rejects: East End (Peel Session) §
Jam: Thick As Thieves (Peel Session) §
Misty In Roots: Oh Wicked Man (Peel Session)
Killing Joke: Malacious Boogie (Peel Session)
Killing Joke: Wardance (Peel Session)

JP: "This next is for the staff of the NME 'cos this week's issue is a gem, despite never mentioning these programmes and I can't offer anyone a warmer compliment than playing them a track by my favourites."

Undertones: Listening In (Peel Session)
Skids: Withdrawal Symptoms (Peel Session)
Cockney Rejects: Flares 'n' Slippers (Peel Session) aborted due to technical problem
Misty In Roots: Babylon's Falling (Peel Session)
Jam: The Eton Rifles (Peel Session)
Killing Joke: Nuclear Boy (Peel Session)
Skids: War Poets (Peel Session) (tape flip on file c)
Cockney Rejects: Flares 'n' Slippers (Peel Session) §
Cockney Rejects: Are You Ready To Ruck (Peel Session) §
Misty In Roots: Rich Man (Peel Session)
Undertones: Family Entertainment (Peel Session)
Undertones: Billy's Third (Peel Session)
Killing Joke: Psyche (Peel Session)
Jam: Saturday's Kids (Peel Session) §
Cockney Rejects: They're Gonna Put Me Away (Peel Session)
Skids: Masquerade (Peel Session)
Skids: Hymns From A Haunted Ballroom (Peel Session)
Misty In Roots: Salvation (Peel Session)
Jam: When You're Young (Peel Session) § (File c cuts out mid-track)
Undertones: Here Comes The Summer (Peel Session) §

1979 Festive Fifty[]

Buzzcocks: 'What Do I Get? (7 Inch)' (United Artists)
The Clash: 'Police & Thieves (LP-The Clash)' (CBS)
Siouxsie and the Banshees: 'Hong Kong Garden (7 Inch)' (Polydor)
The Ruts : 'Babylon's Burning (LP-The Crack)' (Virgin)
Siouxsie and the Banshees: 'Helter Skelter (LP-The Scream)' (Polydor)
The Stranglers : 'No More Heroes (LP-No More Heroes)' (United Artists)
Siouxsie and the Banshees: 'Playground Twist (LP-Join Hands)' (Polydor)
The Cure : '10:15 Saturday Night (LP-Three Imaginary Boys)' (Fiction)
Siouxsie and the Banshees: 'Jigsaw Feeling (LP-The Scream)' (Polydor)
The Mekons : 'Where Were You? (7 Inch)' (Fast Product)

Tracks 49-48, 47 and 44 appear on file a. Tracks 50, 49-48, 47, 45 and 44 appear on file b.

File d end of show

File[]

Name

a) 1979_Festive_Fifty_Part_1.mp3
b) JP19791220.mp3
c) John Peel 1979-12-20 incomplete.mp3
d) 1979-12-20 John Peel Radio 1 DB137+DB138.mp3

Length

a) First 16:45 only
b) 00:37:27
c) 01:16.24
d) 01:59:20

Other

a) Runs slowly
b) Made from a composite of file (a) and additional off-air recordings, all speed-corrected; 192k stereo mp3. Lots of hiss!
c) AM mono recording of sessions only. File created from T197 and T199 of 400 Box, digitised by Dr_Mango
d) Created from DB137 and DB138 of Derby Box, digitised by RF

Available

Notes[]

↑ Ken Garner, The Peel Sessions (BBC Books, 2007) ISBN 978-1-8460-7282-6, p. 268
↑ Garner (2007) p. 297
↑ Garner (2007) p. 300
↑ Garner (2007) p. 310
↑ Garner (2007) p. 330
↑ Garner (2007) p. 342

[1] Ken Garner, The Peel Sessions (BBC Books, 2007) ISBN 978-1-8460-7282-6, p. 268

[2] Garner (2007) p. 297

[3] Garner (2007) p. 300

[4] Garner (2007) p. 310

[5] Garner (2007) p. 330

[6] Garner (2007) p. 342

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