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22 January 1985

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Show[]

Name
Station
YYYY-MM-DD
  • 1985-01-22
Comments
  • Peel talks about the first Elvis Presley LP: "I remember getting the LP when it first came out. The effect on me was quite remarkable. I can't describe it to you really because I couldn't describe it to myself. But it was remarkable nevertheless. Quite transformed my life in a way."

Sessions[]

Released on "Radiation: BBC Recordings 84-86" NMC / Neptune Records.

Tracklisting[]

  • (JP: 'For those of you who were listening to Janice on medium wave, isn't she terrific? I love the way she always leaves just a couple of seconds of dead air before the pips start. Got a lot of stirring tunes in tonight's programme, plus a session from Cabaret Voltaire. No time for messing about. I'm a twentieth century boy - only just, mind you. These are the Replacements.')
  • Replacements: 20th Century Boy (LP - La Vie En Rose) New Rose
  • Smiths: The Hand That Rocks The Cradle (LP - The Smiths) Rough Trade
  • (JP: 'Caused a big scandal when that first came out, cos one of the popular papers said it was about spitting upstairs on the bus. There was a lot of trouble.')
  • Carlton Lafters: Choo Choo Reggae (7") Junjo
  • Frank Chickens: We Are Ninja (single)
  • Cabaret Voltaire: The Operative (session)
  • (JP: 'Sounds much more muscular than it did the first time we broadcast it perhaps that's because I've got the cans turned up louder or something.')
  • Shirelles: Last Minute Miracle (LP - Soulfully Yours) Kent

(tape cut)

  • Triffids: Old Ghostrider (LP - Treeless Plain) Hot Records
  • Fire Engines: Candyskin (7" single) Pop Aural
  • (JP: 'I've been trying to keep up with my New Year's resolution to keep up with things, if you see what I mean, with tapes and letters and new records, as they come in. So to that end, this evening I've listened to some 100, 150 demo tapes, I would imagine. If only one of them had been as good as that I should have been well pleased.')
  • Misty In Roots: Wandering Wanderer (12")
  • (JP: 'I have to admit that I prefer that sort of thudding, rather dense sound they used to have a few years ago, but that will still do nicely.')
  • Husker Du: Pride (LP - Zen Arcade) SST
  • Trouble Funk: Let's Get Hot (LP - Drop The Bomb) Sugar Hill
  • Skids: Of One Skin (cut)

(tape flip / cut)

File[]

Name
  • 1) 1985-01-22 John Peel BBC Radio 1 (incomplete).mp3
  • 2) 1985-01-xx-02-xx Peel Show JG03
Length
  • 1) 1:32:10
  • 2) 1:29:53 (23:22- 36:32)
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