Best Of Peel Vol 24

Tape

Name

• Best Of Peel Vol 24

Station

• BBC Radio One

YYYY-MM

• 1991

• Another in a continuing series of Peel compilations from the early 90s, assembled by Peel Mailing List user parkermike81.
• This one begins with the start of a show 24 February 1991 where Peel is having fun with the reverb on his microphone, and ends with two amusing clips of an alternately mad and sarcastic John.
• Featured sessions:

Thing, one and only session. Recorded 1991-02-10, first broadcast 09 March 1991. No known commercial release.

Melvins, one and only session. Recorded 1991-02-17, first broadcast 10 March 1991. All tracks except 'Way Of The World' available on 7 inch, Tanx/Tanks (Powerfist).

Tracklisting

Part 1

• Start of 24 February 1991
• Sonic Youth: 'The Bedroom (Live And Previously Unreleased) (Maxi CD-Dirty Boots)' (Geffen) 09 March 1991

(JP: 'I left my glasses at home this evening, so you may occasionally hear me peering at things in the course of this programme. Not that I really need glasses, only for seeing.')

• Thing: 'Blu 4 U' (Peel Session) 09 March 1991
• Outspoken: 'Own Enemy (7 inch)' (New Age/Conversion) 09 March 1991
• Gas Huffer: 'I Want To Kiss You (7 inch EP-Ethyl)' (Black Label) 09 March 1991

(JP: 'One of the penalties of course of middle age is that nobody wants to kiss you, at least not like that.')

• Drunks With Guns: 'WWW IX (7 inch)' (Glitterhouse) 09 March 1991
• Thing: 'Kiss The Sun' (Peel Session) 09 March 1991

(JP: 'Spunky kids. I like their style.')

• DHS: 'Holo-Voodoo (2x12 inch-House Of God)' (Hangman) 09 March 1991
• Bastro: 'I Come From A Long Line Of Shipbuilders (LP-Sing The Troubled Beast)' (Homestead) 09 March 1991
• Thing: 'All Will Be Revealed' (Peel Session) 09 March 1991

(JP: 'During the day, because I was working so desperately hard to get this programme just right for you, yes you dear listener, I didn't get a chance to read the Sunday papers much, but I did see that Prince Charles has banned aircraft from flying over his house. I think I might do that myself this summer. I suppose you get some form from the Post Office.')

• Melvins: 'Leech' (Peel Session) 10 March 1991
• Test Dept: 'New World Order (12 inch)' (Ministry Of Power) 16 March 1991

(JP: 'Listen, I may be old and in the way, but I do play you some decent records.') 16 March 1991

• Social Unrest: 'American Steel (Compilation LP-Viva Umkhonto!)' (Konkurrel) 28 April 1987

Part 2

• Thing: 'It's So Easy' (Peel Session) 09 March 1991

(JP: 'Not as rowdy a session from the Thing as I'd expected, but a fine one nevertheless.')

• DHS: 'House Of God (2x12 inch-House Of God)' (Hangman) 10 March 1991
• Melvins: 'Euthanasia' (Peel Session) 10 March 1991
• Language: 'Underwater (12 inch)' (Earth Recordings) 10 March 1991
• Sonic Youth: 'Dirty Boots/Cinderella's Big Score (Live) (Maxi CD-Dirty Boots)' (Geffen) 10 March 1991
• Melvins: 'Theme' (Peel Session) 10 March 1991
• Bongwater: 'Women Tied Up In Knots (CD-The Power Of Pussy)' (Shimmy Disc) 10 March 1991
• Melvins: 'Way Of The World' (Peel Session) 10 March 1991
• Bleach: 'Dipping (EP-Snag)' (Way Cool) 10 March 1991

(JP: 'And now time for another one from the Fall, from a cassette of the forthcoming LP (makes noises in background), bet you wish you'd got one, eh? (begins to sound somewhat deranged) I've got my little copy...it's mine, it's all mine!!!')

(JP (relating news of a free Blast First event, which is "not a kick in the teeth, more an elastic band round the testicles, and a hot iron on your face"): Doesn't really sound that much fun under those circumstances.') 16 March 1991

File

Name

• best of peel vol 24 parts 1 & 2 (with introductions)

Length

• 00:46:54, 00:47:04

Other

• Shared via Peel Mailing List.
• Many thanks to Mike.

Available

• Mooo

Footnotes