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Name
  • John Peel's Music On BFBS
Station
YYYY-MM-DD
  • 1986-11-21
Comments
  • John reminisces about his recent visit to Japan with Janice Long: "The longer I stayed there, the weirder it got....definitely a place worth visiting if you ever get the chance. If you've not been there already, of course."
  • He also suggests, rather optimistically, that the A Witness album would make a good Christmas present for somebody.

Sessions[]

  • None

Tracklisting[]

  • John says that in a miraculous way since last week's programme he's spent 10 days in Japan, 10 days in Hong Kong and 1 day in CHine
  • Pop Will Eat Itself: Oh Grebo, I Think I Love You (7" - Poppiecock) Chapter 22 CHAP 9 $
  • Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Black Shadow (album - Your Funeral ... My Trial) Mute STUMM 34
  • John mentions that when he turned up at BFBS in Hong Kong when he got to the gate, the guy picked up the phone and said "Peelie's here" and that sort of thing sets him up for days
  • JP: 'This next is a record that I picked up in Japan by a band called Junk Schizo. I read about them...This is Black And Red
  • Junk Schizo: Black And Red (7" - Pity To The Ignorant) Doom DOOM-1 @
  • Stump: Kitchen Table (mini-album - Quirk Out) Stuff STUF/U2 $
  • JP: 'The catalogue number is STUF U2, a sentiment which I can do nothing but endorse.'
  • Wee Willie Harris: Love Bug Crawl (album - Goes Ape) Ace CHA 178 $
  • Go-Betweens: Lee Remick (album - The Able Label Singles) Situation Two SIT 44 T $ @
  • Twang: Sharp (7") Ron Johnson SIT 44 T $
  • Sarasvati: Mono-Drama (album - La Famme [Sã Têtes = 百頭女]) Wechselbalg Syndicate WT-1206 $
  • JP - "You'd imagine with an band called Sarasvati you're gonna get a lot of badly tuned sitars and lot's of twaddle out one's mind derived inaccurately from covers of Penguin books in bookshops but as you can hear that wasn't the case at all""
  • Cultural Thugs: Christians To The Lions (v/a album - Funky Alternatives Volume 1) Concrete Productions CPRODLP 001
  • John's still not heard an actual John Peel's Music on BFBS coming out of the radio - he fell asleep just before it was due on air in Hong Kong. If only he knew that it could be picked up in the UK...
  • A Witness: Red Snake (album - I Am John's Pancreas) Ron Johnson ZRON 12 $
  • Misty: Own Them Control Them (7") People Unite PU 007
  • D.R.Y. Project: Dry Battery Shock! (7" EP - Shock Obserber) LLE Label L.L.E.-3002 $
  • (JP: 'Our producer Simon tells me this is on the verge of the charts...oh well, it's too late to drop it from the programme.')
  • We've Got A Fuzzbox And We're Gonna Use It: Love Is The Slug (7") Vindaloo UGH 14 $
  • (JP: 'Letting popular records creep into the programme? That's the second one this year!')
  • Giannis Koufalitakis (Γιάννης Κουφαλιτάκης): Η Μοίρα Εις Τον Άνθρωπο (album - Σ' Είχα Λουλούδι Στη Ζωή) Margophone MARGO 8283
  • Gang Of Four: I Found That Essence Rare (12" - The Peel Sessions) Strange Fruit SFPS008 $
  • (JP: 'The end of this week's edition of John Peel's Music On BFBS. Thanks very much for listening: until next week, goodbye.')
  • Tracks marked $ also on Peel 045 (BFBS)
  • Tracks marked @ also on Punk 36

File[]

Name
  • John Peel's Music - 1986-11-21.mp3
Length
  • 00:56:09
Other
  • Many thanks to Eddie Berlin.
Available
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