Start of show: "A second early tonight. Can they never get anything right? In tonight's programme, we've got the Samurai Seven in session, and the All-Time Festive Fifty, the top five."
Sessions
Samurai Seven, #2. Recorded 1999-11-28. No known commercial release.
(JP: 'Earlier on upstairs in the Radio 1 office, the Evening Session people were playing records very loudly (as they so often do, frankly) and I just put on the Embalmer LP and reduced them to silence.')
New Order: 'Brutal (Soundtrack LP-The Beach)' (London)
JP (on the origin of Pink Floyd's 'Atomic Heart Mother'): "I was there, because I compared the programme in which it was played for the first time... When they came in to play it, they hadn't got a title for it - they'd only just written it - and I went out and got a copy of the London evening paper and we went down there and went through newspaper headlines trying to find one that would be an appropriate title for the piece. And it was all that kind of "Vicar In Tug Of Love Mercy Dash to Palace' kind of stuff, and then there was the story about somebody who had been fitted with a pacemaker and the headline was 'Atom Heart Mother', so the piece became 'Atom Heart Mother'. A little rock 'n' roll history there, for Dave in Colorado."
Black Science Labs: 'Fingerprints (12 inch-white label)' (Certificate 18)
(JP: 'And it's now time for the top five records in your All-Time Festive Fifty, and for those people who continue, I think deliberately, just to be provoking, misunderstand what the Festive Fifty's all about, these are the listener's choices, not mine, so, er, here we go.')
05: Clash, '(White Man)' In Hammersmith Palais (7 inch)' (CBS)