In September 2014, TheSpace and JohnPeelArchive websites launched a new Record Boxes series, featuring selections from John Peel’s record collection by key music figures.
The series is unrelated to John Peel's Record Box, a wooden box of favourite singles that became the subject of a TV documentary in 2005, or the Peel's Record Box monthly lists of current favourite singles and albums that the DJ submitted to the BBC Radio One website from 2002.
The eighth record box in the series focused on the Eighties and was compiled by Bella Union label head and former Cocteau Twins bassist Simon Raymonde.
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Selections
Artist | Release | Label | Year | Link | Video
(LPs) (index cards missing)
- Singers & Players: Revenge of the Underdog (Situation 2, 1982) [1]
- Special AKA: In The Studio With (Two Tone, 1984) [2] [3]
(7" singles)
- Birthday Party: The Friend Catcher (4AD, 1980) [4] [5]
- Cabaret Voltaire: Seconds Too Late (Rough Trade, 1980) [6]
- Ian Dury & The Blockheads: Sueperman's Big Sister (Stiff Records, 1980) [7] [8]
- Drowning Craze: Storage Case (Situation 2, 1982) [9]
- Sugarcubes: Birthday (One Little Indian, 1987) [10] [11]
- Public Enemy: Fight The Power (Motown, 1989) [12]
(2x7")
- Robert Wyatt: Shipbuilding (Rough Trade, 1983) [13] [14]
(EPs)
(12" singles)
- Associates: White Car (Situation 2, 1981) [17] [18]
- Grandmaster Flash: The Message (Sugar Hill, 1982) [19]
- New Order: Blue Monday (Factory, 1983) [20]
- Scritti Politti: Faithless (Rough Trade, 1982) [21] [22]
- Stone Roses: She Bangs The Drums (Silvertone, 1989) [23] [24]
(2x12")
- A Certain Ratio: The Double (Factory, 1981) [25] [26]
