Which are John Peel's 140 fave albums?

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Is there any chance that one of the folks who's actually able to see the documentary could record it and share with us locationally challenged (perhaps via a torrent)?

DomesticEmpire, you spoil us! Many thanks!

patita (patita), Sunday, 13 November 2005 03:18 (twenty years ago)

I've got the torrent now, but its numbers don't match with alex in mainhattan's system nor with the Times article!! waaah. In any case, I think the torrent actually goes up until ALMOST a week ago, which means I can be as up to date as anyone on this page can possibly be by just sitting around and letting everyone else do all the work of hunting these things down. I have, however, done the work of renumbering everything in the torrent to match alex and the times' way.. i'll upload what i've got somewhere, if people would like?

xposts: wow, neat! unfortunately, YSI is giving me SERVER BUSY errors on every link i click GERR HATE HATE HATE.

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 13 November 2005 03:42 (twenty years ago)

hmm strange, that last link works fine, the others still say busy

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 13 November 2005 03:47 (twenty years ago)

aaaand it's back

altho, cristian, i've tried two unrar programs now, and your .rar files won't expand in either of them

RAARRRRR

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 13 November 2005 04:08 (twenty years ago)

could anyone repost

electro hippies peel session
Hentchmen feat. Jack White - Some Other Guy
Hentchmen feat. Jack White - Psycho Daisies
Andre Williams & 2 Star Tabernacle - Lily White Mama & Jet Black Daddy
Larry Bright - Mojo Workout:
Lightnin' Hopkins - Glory Be
The Nightcaps - Nightcap Rock
Big Stick - Hell on Earth
Mr. Airplane Man - Hangin' Round My Door

or am i being terribly rude and self-centered and there's another distribution method i haven't picked up on yet?

i have to imagine the white stripes-heaviness of this box is the result of some story that may forever remain obscure.

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 13 November 2005 04:19 (twenty years ago)

cristian, forget it, the rars are fine

think i need to cool down maybe

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 13 November 2005 04:24 (twenty years ago)

The Electro Hippies Peel Session
http://s55.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0BIAWN5MN15Y52LRMQL8LLPYS5

Hentchmen feat. Jack White - Some Other Guy
Hentchmen feat. Jack White - Psycho Daisies
Andre Williams & 2 Star Tabernacle - Lily White Mama & Jet Black Daddy
Larry Bright - Mojo Workout:
Lightnin' Hopkins - Glory Be
The Nightcaps - Nightcap Rock
Big Stick - Hell on Earth
Mr. Airplane Man - Hangin' Round My Door
http://s55.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=06KWSZ7ZL6G4W0PSSBZAIZM29K

Stoecker, Sunday, 13 November 2005 04:46 (twenty years ago)

ooh and stoecker with the save! terrific. more than just one second of the electro hippies! although that might be just the thing to have in the midst of a mammoth comp like this. when i was first reading this thread, i must admit i was like "pah, spreadsheets! where you put the 'the'" -- ridiculous! -- but you can see how canons are formed -- so we can have some way to keep track of things. my own file organization pet peeve -- that i like everything in one massive folder -- is getting scratched nicely, here, too

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 13 November 2005 04:58 (twenty years ago)

http://docsouth.unc.edu/sfc/goldband/images/photos/p-3128-v.jpg
al ferrier looks like he's ready to bop!

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 13 November 2005 05:29 (twenty years ago)

Repost reqest list! (I was late to the party!)

The Users - Sick of you
Ann Peebles - I can't stand the rain
The Misunderstood - I can take you to the sun
Yardbirds - Happenings ten years time ago
The Upsetters - Bucky skank
Don Covay - It's better to have
The Quads - There must be thousands
Some Chicken - New religion
Stanley Winston - No more ghettos in America
The Freshmen - You never heard anything like it
Mel and Tim - Starting all over again
White Stripes, Hand Springs, Ashtray Heart
Big Stick - Drag Racing:
buzzcocks - ever fallen in love

Paul Lawton (Quartermass), Sunday, 13 November 2005 05:59 (twenty years ago)

http://www.this.is/drgunni/ann%20peebles.jpg
ann peebles vs. rain

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 13 November 2005 06:16 (twenty years ago)

083B Scrugg - Only George

http://s20.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=01B3UG27NCZDY15DUGBOW421AZ

colinthom, Sunday, 13 November 2005 11:47 (twenty years ago)

thanks a lot colinthom.

it's not important at all (tracer hand mentioned the subject) but that scrugg song was 087B according to the original numbering used in the times article upthread. i personally like that system, cds peel had several copies of count several times. using that system would leave "holes" in the sequencing from 001 to 142
as peel had less than 142 different singles in his wooden box but i don't see this as a problem. on the opposite there is a certain charm to this "imperfect" numbering i find.

alex in mainhattan (alex63), Sunday, 13 November 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)

Tracer, it's long thread so I don't expect you to have caught this. I renumbered the tracks in the torrent because there were some omissions and errors in the Times article. They also alphabetized some of the tracks kinda counterintuitively (to me), particularly bands with "The" at the beginning of their name.

Do what you want with them. Just thought you should know why they're different.

Stan Meissner, Sunday, 13 November 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

The Meow single is incredible! I like Neko Case and everything, but she ought to abandon this solo thing and reform Meow!

TRG (TRG), Sunday, 13 November 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

i have to imagine the white stripes-heaviness of this box is the result of some story that may forever remain obscure.

Nothing obscure there: His son Tom said it was because they were a recent obsession. He said something about how in ten years he might have removed them all and replaced them with something else. Anyway, don't know why people find it odd that he liked them so much.

TRG (TRG), Sunday, 13 November 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

did you read my last post, stan? the original numbering is not wrong (except that thing about two or three alphabetical mistakes). it's just different.

alex in mainhattan (alex63), Sunday, 13 November 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

The XL Capris B side is making its way from Australia, and I'll post it as soon as it arrives.

patita (patita), Sunday, 13 November 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

hey paul, a little birdie told me there might be a YSI on its way soon with those reposts

yeah, re numbering, i guess we're all going to have our own little idiosyncratic way of doing things, there's just nothing else for it unless someone came in at the very beginning and laid down the law about it, which would have been nice, but also not quite in the spirit of things. i mean it wouldn't be right for it all to be easy and organized, now, would it!

in some bizarre psychosis, i actually went and found sleeve art for everything through "N", missing only about 15 songs. if people want, i can make a zip of that stuff and post it somewhere, too.

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 13 November 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

fwiw, i doubt don covay's "leave him, part 2" was on the single. i suspect it only appeared on the album, but it's hard to tell. it is certainly a redundant piece of music.

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 13 November 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

here are the covers/whatever you call the inside circle of a 7" i've got so far -

http://s54.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0NABPRQPGK9X278BH8Z488INE

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 13 November 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

and i am missing FAR more more 15 songs..

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 13 November 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)

x-post: thanks

i'd be interested in those sleeve covers/art, tracer. any possibility of yousending them? i started looking for covers as well but i wasn't very successful. and got bored soon. where did you search? i just tried google image search and ebay.

alex in mainhattan (alex63), Sunday, 13 November 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

that's the link, alex - click it!

yeah, i don't have any magic answer, i've just got a lot of free time this weekend. it is pretty crazy the stuff you find looking for stuff like this, though. for instance, pocket fishrmen may still be available on ebay here - http://cgi.benl.ebay.be/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=17646&item=4738445494&rd=1

also, this case study from the columbia law school web site about the legal disputes around "mojo workout" looks utterly bananas - http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/law/library/cases/case_Strachborneoarc.html

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 13 November 2005 21:26 (twenty years ago)

for paul lawton and anybody else.. look what i found - http://s54.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3SCA26QHFVWM103X4B9PAGZ3KF

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 13 November 2005 21:33 (twenty years ago)

The Scrugg A-side ("Will The Real Geraldine...") is available on "Lavender Popcorn", a CD compilation of John Kongos material:

http://www.sanctuaryrecords.co.uk/index.php?action=showproduct&productid=32854&l1=3&l2=0&l3=0&rt=&lastpage=

And I see the Gene Dozier song "Give The Women What They Want" is listed as the B-side somewhere here. Don't know if that's true but it's definitely the song that Peel considered the A-side – I remember him playing it following his broadcast of the Peelenium for 1975 (or thereabouts). It has an almighty funk groove and is worth tracking down. The song was originally recorded by the Isley Brothers circa 1969, but I don't think any version has seen the light of day on CD.

And what happened to the Toggery Five single? -
http://www.guardian.co.uk/friday_review/story/0,,362115,00.html

Felix M (Kimble), Monday, 14 November 2005 02:09 (twenty years ago)

"Within this sacred box, there's a Jagger-Richards composition, I'd Rather Be Out with the Boys, by mid-1960s Manchester no-hit wonders the Toggery Five"

Felix, that's a valid point. As we know this record box was its 'nth incarnation following the loss of several over previous years and it might just be that this Toggery Five single was one one he'd not got around to replacing yet. I suggest we add this to the list a recording that old was hardly going to suddenly fall out of favour with the man.

DomesticEmpire (johnpeeleveryday.blogspot.com), Monday, 14 November 2005 02:40 (twenty years ago)

I just bet ya supergrass was in there, in fact i know it!

Mon Star2 (hydraulis2), Monday, 14 November 2005 02:44 (twenty years ago)

I'd had my eye on that Pocket Fishrmen single on ebay, but was hoping to check local sources before going that far.

patita (patita), Monday, 14 November 2005 04:34 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, I was looking at this particular auction (same seller has multiple copies at different prices):
http://cgi.ebay.com/Pocket-Fishrmen-The-Leader-is-Burning-7_W0QQitemZ4767199096QQcategoryZ306QQssPageNameZWD1VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

thanks for putting together the cover art! I'd not thought of that before, but it's a good source of information/context of these records. I guess we can try to fill in the gaps there as well.

patita (patita), Monday, 14 November 2005 04:50 (twenty years ago)

Yo, Alex, no I didn't even see your last post. But to be clear, there was one error that the "holes" didn't account for. There was actually one error I found. I went so far as to include an HTML listing of all that in the torrent. But I found the biggest problem I had was with the "The" bands, not the holes.

Stan Meissner, Monday, 14 November 2005 04:52 (twenty years ago)

Actually, I don't even remember what I thought the error was. Doesn't matter anyway. As I said, the alphabetization issue was what bugged me most, not the numbering.

And yeah, for the record, I was aware that Peel had duplicates, smarty pants.

Stan Meissener, Monday, 14 November 2005 04:55 (twenty years ago)

As a figure of speech, the concept of having, or not having, one's MOJO working is not something in which any one person could assert originality, or establish a proprietary right. See infra, p. 1404, et seq.

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 14 November 2005 05:13 (twenty years ago)

003A - Alan Price Set - I Put A Spell On You
006B - Ann Peebles - I've Been There Before
011B - Boards of Canada - Chinook
095A - Stanley Winston - No More Ghettos in America
http://s38.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2CU50Y35G81MT2WX7OZB22UDJL

Stoecker, Monday, 14 November 2005 08:26 (twenty years ago)

> whatever you call the inside circle of a 7"

that'll be 'The Label' 8)

peel is also being inducted to music hall of fame some time this week, there's a 3 hour show on ch4, about 10 minutes of which will be worth watching.

koogs (koogs), Monday, 14 November 2005 10:19 (twenty years ago)

The Peel "Box" Documentary will be on Ch4 tonight, so tape/DVD it and add it to your box, you people.

mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 14 November 2005 10:29 (twenty years ago)

The Negatives - Stakeout.

By my reckoning, 108B on the original list :-}

http://s20.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0WEZ7ET0EH5M62F65F9B7UJMDE

c.t., Monday, 14 November 2005 11:23 (twenty years ago)

082B - Rod Bernard - Pardon Mr Gordon

http://s20.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1DL13CJ07EOHP3M3VGG96G8BOU

c.t., Monday, 14 November 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)

excellent work everyone…

any chance of a repost of
137: Rocket 455 - "Santa Ain't Comin Home For Christmas"?

the link just ain't working for me…

keefus (keefus), Monday, 14 November 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

Just saw the tracklisting for that show, above. He kinda liked "There's a man down there" there's another version of that track on there...

mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 14 November 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

repost:
137: Rocket 455 "Santa ain't comin home for christmas"

http://s42.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1IYKZ8G9J45VN0QQJWSOPD7T58

dumdum, Monday, 14 November 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

you're a star dum dum!

keefus (keefus), Monday, 14 November 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

Latest post has a couple of fine photographs of the box in John's home studio to download...

http://johnpeeleveryday.blogspot.com/

DomesticEmpire (johnpeeleveryday.blogspot.com), Monday, 14 November 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

Thanks Tracer Hand!!!

Paul Lawton (Quartermass), Monday, 14 November 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

you're welcome!

just to be clear about that sleeve art, i only included sleeves that i was reasonably sure were the actual singles themselves, rather than comps, albums, CDs, etc.

usually i really don't go for adding art, etc but it seems really nice with this project, as most of them are harshly-lit scanned photos of old dinged up seven inches.

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 14 November 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

Could someone please report The Dirtbombs - Cedar Point '76

(the link didn't seem to work for me. Thanks!)

tim h, Monday, 14 November 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

I can repost in a few hours if somebody hasn't beaten me to it by then. Fyi - for slsk'rs, every song that's been posted here is available there. A few different people have everything (or almost everything).

Thank you Domestic Empire for posting that show and pointing out the images of the box itself!

TRG (TRG), Monday, 14 November 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

Repost: Dirtbombs - Ceder Point '76
http://s29.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0N24D8FWV2IMX2KCR1R3N4BNXJ

Paul Lawton (Quartermass), Monday, 14 November 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

REPOST:
The Dirtbombs - Cedar Point '76
http://s51.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2H8R9HEUSO35J1F5RM4LJDZGLP

Can people print REPOST so we can see at a glance it's a reposting request? Cheers :)

LOL - Paul you beat me to it you crafty bugger! Might as well post this now anyway.

DomesticEmpire (johnpeeleveryday.blogspot.com), Monday, 14 November 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

Hey, is the torrent still going/updated? If not, is there any hope of getting those .zips of it up again on YSI? Even broken into halves, it would be handy (since I missed a couple days and now am faced with many, many files to get through YSI...)

js (honestengine), Monday, 14 November 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)


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