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in: 1991, Available online, Mixtape

Best Of Peel Vol 40

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Tape[]

Name
  • Best of Peel Vol 40
Station
  • BBC Radio One
YYYY-MM
  • 1991-12-00
  • Another in a continuing series of early 90s Peel compilations assembled by Peel Mailing List user parkermike81.
  • Session featured:
Red Ninja, one and only session. Recorded 1991-10-22, first TX 01 December 1991.

Tracklisting[]

Part One

(JP: 'As I mentioned at the start of the programme, I'm doing tonight's programme in an unfamiliar studio, something which is normally reserved for Radio 2 programmes, and obviously as a consequence of this, the technology of it all is very different to that whioh I'm accustomed to. Back at Radio 1, in the real world, they have enormously loud speakers,for which I'm very very grateful, because I always feel that these programmes ought to be the aural equivalent of driving a blazing car into the Armed Corps at 175 m.p.h., and the speakers here, even when they're cranked up as high as they'll go, it's a bit like a butterfly farting in a neighbouring county or something like that. It's going to be particularly frustrating on this next record.') 30 November 1991
(JP: 'That I think you could describe as an instrumental with blood-curdling howls.') 30 November 1991

Part Two

(JP: 'It's the time of the year in which you get curious printed Christmas cards from people that you've never heard of, and you can see no reason why they've written to you. I mean, here's one from Louise, Kieran, Joanne, Malcolm, Vladimir, Nicholas, Debbie: they've all signed this card and it says, "Happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year from all at Bulgarian Vintners." [2] It's nice of them to think of me at this time of the year, but next time just a skipload of your products, I think. Skip the card.')
(JP: 'I think I'll leave my clothes on, if it's all right with you, and I suspect that it would be.')

File[]

Name
  • best of peel vol 40 (with introductions)
Length
  • 00:47:11, 00:46:34
Other
Available
Footnotes
  1. ↑ John wonders what had happened to volumes 1-3: EMI released them at the rate of one a year from 1988.
  2. ↑ This site gives some background to the company, who are apparently so forward-looking that they were online some 80 years before the Internet was invented.
  3. ↑ For an explanation of why he never donates signed photographs, see 30 December 1990.
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