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Show[]

Name
  • John Peel's Music On BFBS
Station
YYYY-MM
  • 1986-01
Comments
  • Dates deduced from Peel's comments.

Sessions[]

  • None

Tracklisting[]

09 January 1986 (BFBS)

(JP: 'Stanley wanted me to play the first single from Talking Heads, and as far as I know, this was the first one.')
(JP: 'I was tempted latterly to sing along with that, but I think you'd have spotted the join.')
(JP: 'Next week we'll strive for an intensely raucous edition of John Peel's Music From BFBS. Those were the Moodists, ending this week's programme.')

11 January 1986 (BFBS)

  • Quads: 'There Must Be Thousands (7")' (Big Bear)
(JP: 'Still sounds wonderful to me.')
(JP: 'From their début LP, which I recommend to you: if you haven't already got it, at least try and hear it all the way through because, quite clearly, when they first started out, more than a certain amount of critical acclaim followed by the inevitable backlash. But I do think it's one of those LPs people will listen to in three or four years' time and say, "Actually, that was extraordinarily good!", as indeed it is.')
(JP: 'From here, it looks as though 1986 might be alright, musically at least.')

18 January 1986 (BFBS)

  • Styng Rites: 'Baby's Got A Brand New Brain (7")' (Snaffle)

File[]

Name
  • Peel 026
Length
  • 00:28:09
Other
  • Many thanks to the taper
Available