27 December 1989

Show

The fourth part of the 1989 Festive Fifty, plus session repeats.
The number 16 entry is said by Peel to be 'Tony's last-minute edit mix, exclusive to this programme', but this appears to be a joke, since no trace can be found of this version.
The number 14 track is the LP version of the session track 'Take Me I'm Yours', which had made the previous year's chart at number 4.

Inspiral Carpets, #3. Recorded 1989-08-17. No known commercial release.
Filthkick, #1. Recorded 1989-08-15. No known commercial release.
Happy Mondays, #2. Recorded 1989-02-21. Available on The Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit).

Inspiral Carpets: 'So This Is How It Feels (Peel Session)'
808 State: Donkey Doctor (CD-Ninety )' (ZTT)
Happy Mondays: 'Do It Better (Peel Session)'
Filthkick: 'Lynching Party/Bar Room Brawl/A A (Peel Session)'
Bhundu Boys: 'Chimbira (CD-Pamberi! )' (WEA)
Inspiral Carpets: 'She Comes In The Fall (Peel Session)'
Happy Mondays: 'Tart Tart (Peel Session)'
Crystal Vortex: 'Money You Are My Slave (12" )' (B Ware)
Filthkick: 'Between The Lines/Meat Rack (Peel Session)'
Zaiko Langa Langa: (Unidentified Track)
Inspiral Carpets: 'Sun Don't Shine (Peel Session)'
Home T, Cocoa Tea & Shabba Ranks: 'Pirates' Anthem (Skull & Crossbones Mix) (LP-Holding On)' (Greensleeves)
Happy Mondays: 'Mad Cyril' (Peel Session)
Filthkick: 'The Harder You Fall/Drowning In Affluence (Peel Session)'
Public Enemy: 'Welcome To The Terrordome (vocal) (12")' (Def Jam)

(JP: '(At number 20), a record which I thought was a really good record, but it's been by and large assumed that it wasn't a good record at all.')

(JP: 'I should be very unhappy if he unbent enough to do a session for us in 1990. I think it's time he rejoined the human race, really.')

(JP: 'I see that one has agreeable singalong potential, anyway.')

16: Mudhoney, 'You Got It (Keep It Outta My Face) (LP-Mudhoney)' (Sub Pop)
15: Cud, 'Only A Prawn In Whitby (LP-When In Rome, Kill Me)' (Imaginary)
14: Wedding Present, 'Take Me! (LP-Bizarro)' (RCA)
13: Jesus & Mary Chain, 'Blues From A Gun (LP-Automatic)' (Blanco Y Negro)
12: Dinosaur Jr., 'Just Like Heaven (7 inch)' (Blast First)
11: Pale Saints, 'Sight Of You (12 inch-Barging Into The Presence Of God)' (4AD) (JP actually starts to play Dinosaur Jr's 'Throwdown')