Which are John Peel's 140 fave albums?

think i need to cool down maybe

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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, 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

the link just ain't working for me…

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

http://johnpeeleveryday.blogspot.com/

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.

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

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

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.

A little while ago, I started a thread about 'your singles box' which came to mind while watching the doc last night. Alongside the rare singles (VU, Mutantes, Monks) theres oddities like Cheech and chong, the Move's "I can hear the grass grow" funnily enough, and "Afternoon of the rhino".

I'd hate to have that selection as being truly representative of my taste, but then it wouldn't all fit into one box. Much like there being no Fall in this one.

nice to see sheila in The Vaults t-shirt. (in the book it mentions that john had planned to wear one when they got to machu picchu knowing that there'd be a lot of pictures taken there, his way of getting them exposure)

first time i'd seen moving footage from the wedding as well.

oh, and the Ken Colyers Jazzmen thing would appear to be the one that isn't the Capri track, but the other one.

"More than two billion records and CDs have gone missing from personal record collections in the UK, fuelling digital music sales, according to research. The survey of 1,000 adults found theft or friends failing to return CDs contributed to depleted collections."

Huh, tell me about it.....