Which are John Peel's 140 fave albums?

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I hear Dan Brown is following up the "Da Vinci Code" with a book about the quest to find the "first ever dub track"

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 10:43 (twenty years ago)

(by which i mean if all is equally good it is also equally bad doesn't make any sense to me)

― foxy boxer (stevie), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 10:43 (twenty years ago)

The Legion of Super-Heroes AND The Mighty Avengers!

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 10:58 (twenty years ago)

I like that Mighty Avengers song, I remember JP playing it late '99 when he was playing songs from all the years of the 20th century.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 11:01 (twenty years ago)

Right, just to prove a point:

White Stripes, Hand Springs:
http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=11N6E2EVBV6ES07N8XF2K56CD2

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 11:43 (twenty years ago)

you are doing the lord's work there, mark...

― foxy boxer (stevie), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

fittingly, Stripes neophytes could do little better than checking out the band's two sessions for Peel

― foxy boxer (stevie), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

alex... you hate most of these records because you've never heard of them?
i didn't say that, foxy boxer. you interpret my words. and you interpret them very badly. it's more like if someone chooses his 140 favourite singles and there are only about ten i know and maybe two or three i love why should i bother about the rest. john peel's and my taste seem to be too disparate. maybe it has to do that i am more the album guy (that's where the fault in the thread title comes from) who somehow has never got rid of that prejudice against singles and top 40 stuff i have from the mid 70s when i discovered bands like pink floyd and genesis whom i don't care about too much today. the weird thing is that i used to like blues a lot and still do though i hardly ever listen to it. i also like world music and reggae but rarely listen to it. john peel's record box is very personal. but as i said in my last post i am still curious about it. i listened to the eleven songs mike posted and i appreciated some of them. especially the users, the upsetters, the misunderstood, the yardbirds, some chicken and don covay. and the golinski brothers.

concerning the white stripes. i like them in theory. that hand springs song is great but i think i prefer the blues originals. e.g. i was glad to see lightnin hopkins and elmore james on the list. all this probably doesn't make sense but why should it? john peel' record box doesn't make sense to me neither. there are too many blind spots in it when it concerns my favourites. some artists i couldn't not imagine in my record box: joni mitchell, nick drake, the velvet underground, joy division, the smiths, the cure, giant sand, yo la tengo, talk talk, neil young, the field mice, lambchop, brian eno, roxy music, bob dylan, keith jarrett, pere ubu, wipers, lloyd cole, mary margaret o'hara, pixies, sonic youth, idaho, swell, red house painters, cowboy junkies, robert wyatt, pinback, aimee mann, radiohead, my bloody valentine, meat puppets, feelies, gun club, catherine wheel, new order, nirvana, smashing pumpkins, the chills, american analog set, cocteau twins, talking heads and many more.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

I hope you enjoy writing lists cos I think that was meant for Lex not you :(

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

That's all fine. That's your box. xpost

My box would also be different. Some from Peels, Some from yours, and a lot of stuff not so.

Still, I'm keen to hear the stuff I haven't heard, so let them roll.

Hey, if this thread eventually contains 140 YSI's then that will be the best.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

yousendit doesn't work right now. any other upload suggestions? i can only contribute three items. the laurie anderson song, the buzzcocks song and the three beatles songs.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

here is come together.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

I hope you enjoy writing lists cos I think that was meant for Lex not you :(

yes, completely. sorry if that wasn't clear!

― foxy boxer (stevie), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

Big Stick - Drag Racing:

http://s20.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3TN4P4ZNJ3M2I20WFYZP2WM42Q

― everything, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

no that wasn't clear at all!

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

buzzcocks - ever fallen in love

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

the beatles - octopus's garden

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

boards of canada - aquarius (but please get their new one. it's astounding.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

the beatles - something

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

laurie anderson - o superman. that's all i can do for you in this thread.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

http://s43.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2SINJZAXOW5N92DBCZFHRN8IK6
Bafflin Smoke Signals - Lee Perry

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

everything posted to this thread so far, minus the Beatles tracks:
http://s47.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1J7PE5VKGIFND0DN0W7ORXNTKQ

― patita (patita), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

what is that, patita? nothing to add? just subtracting? that's poor.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

Enjoying these MP3s hugely. Heard a few of them but some are entirely new to me. Absolutely wonderful stuff, not a duff track so far.

― Stew (stew s), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

well, I'd put it together for myself with the couple of tracks I had already (dupes from here, unfortunately), also knowing that I have the Beatles on another machine. my intent was to make a playlist from these to listen to tonight. I then realized I might as well post the link here for others. sorry if that was bad form, I didn't intend to offend.

― patita (patita), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

No, it's good form. Saves a load of extra clicking, and it also ups the number of available slots from Yousendit.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

(Also, YSI-ing major acts like the Beatles isn't perhaps such a great idea.)

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

A million thanks to everyone who's been YSI-ing these! I'd contribute myself, unfortunately everything I have from the list is on vinyl and I've no idea how to digitize it.

― TRG (TRG), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

Funny thing:

If you ckick on a YSI link, do the biz, then click backarrow twice quickly, then forward arrow, you get back to the portion of thread you were looking at. If you click backarrow once, you just get left at the top of the thread.

Oh, and keep them coming obviously. I'll search out the White Stripes stuff, no-one with any Charlie Feathers?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 06:55 (twenty years ago)

Squirrels: Oz on 45
http://s41.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2PS3U81W3WY731PXZSZ5SOG7RG

(why do i get the feeling that i've spent 20+ years of my life recording what are effectively novelty records off peel's show?)

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 07:25 (twenty years ago)

Because otherwise you'll never get to hear them again.

I got the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm's take on "Heart of Glass" (done in the Jesus and Mary chain style) purely because I happened to be taping the show, and got the contact address.

The 'yeehaa' version of "Pretty Vacant" I heared once, but never traced down, until I got JP's FabricLive CD.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 07:29 (twenty years ago)

I found some Charlie Feathers last night - sounded good. If I find time this evening (questionable as I'm out to see Mark Thomas & Rob Newman, yay Political Comedy!), I'll sort something out.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 08:15 (twenty years ago)

(have just been through my lists of stuff he's played in the last couple of years and there are about 10 others that haven't been posted yet that i have (no Charlie Feathers though). this may take a while...)

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 08:37 (twenty years ago)

Party of Special Things to do (for youse)
http://s52.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2RT6OEX1SNEVC3RF9NTYNGV8T5

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 08:56 (twenty years ago)

Ashtray Heart
http://s55.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3RLLCMEG0JG2T1L53LHR9W6VQT

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 09:38 (twenty years ago)

And finally, off the Beefheart Tribute single:
China Pig.
http://s55.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2I7HJ62MVXOTH1ZJP5Q88BCTL2

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 09:48 (twenty years ago)

Hotel Yorba:
http://s60.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0B01WT6GC66O62DITKKNIJ80Y9

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 12:13 (twenty years ago)

Lord send me an angel
http://s60.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3KQP8FTO6GOKH03FCQED2NE272

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 12:18 (twenty years ago)

I like the fact that Paul Morely namechecked Melanie, even if it is her "novelty" single.

and Sheena EASTON is ACE! How could you NOT like 9-5?!?!?

Mike T-Diva, I am intrigued by your taste in music. I wish my computer could cope with You Send It and I'd go and listen to some of those MP3s.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

(Also, YSI-ing major acts like the Beatles isn't perhaps such a great idea.)
you may be right there mike, it was the completist in me who uploaded those songs. ysi only offers a maximum of 25 downloads. this doesn't really do harm to anyone.

and sorry for my not so nice comment upthread, patita. i wasn't in a good mood last night.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

I understand your motive, alex in manhattan, so no harm. hope things are better for you now.

I'd given some thought to burning the mp3s to cds and making a few nice little boxes for them as gifts for fellow music lovers. silly, but it might be fun.

― patita (patita), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

i wish i'd be in manhattan. but i am only in frankfurt, germany. main is the river -hattan stands for the only german skyline.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

Here's a zip file containing Alan Price, Cat Power, Charlie Feathers (Get With It, Nobody's Woman, Wild Wild Party, Tongue Tied Jill), Don French, Elmore James, Laurie Anderson, MC5, Nilsson (WY/ET), OV Wright, Paul Revere, S.Easton, S.Quo, Soledad Brothers (JDL/S&S), The Move.

http://s57.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=033RKO1KJQCOU3J8QZ9GGB6P4D

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

At this rate, Mike will have the entire 142 songs posted by the weekend! Thanks (once again).

― TRG (TRG), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 22:06 (twenty years ago)

that ZIp YSI won't work for me. Thank you for doing this.

― Cunga (Cunga), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)

It gave me problems - aborted twice, probably because it's a really large file - but eventually worked.

― TRG (TRG), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I got the zip from another computer. Thanks again.

― Cunga (Cunga), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 22:38 (twenty years ago)

Whoever you are that brought these blessings to our humble home, godspeed!

― douglas eklund (skolle), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

ah, sorry to drop the i on you, alex! that's what I get for trying to read after crunching numbers all day.

― patita (patita), Thursday, 27 October 2005 00:58 (twenty years ago)

001 Surfin' Hootenanny (this is fantastic, the guitar mimicry)
002 Don't Play Blue Eyes (beware, digital clipping = horrid sound)
004 Popatop (played in last night's bbc6 thing)
022 Stop! Get A Ticket
024 Sugar Bee (this also good)
044 Lemon Tree
(i have a theoretical 17 more at home, all played on his shows in 2003 and 2004, although i think a couple of them are duplicates with mike's above (cheers mike))

http://s39.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0FTQFSCJ8MR572KYBYPVGSM04K
(about 10M of file, zipped)

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 27 October 2005 07:03 (twenty years ago)

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I think Marc Bolan broke his hippy heart tbh.

― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 19:36 (five years ago)

coulda been bowie

― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 19:37 (five years ago)

I have a theory that when he was in the process of trying to lose his hippy trappings he based a lot of his vocal mannerisms on John Walters, his producer, they could sound very similar.

― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 19:43 (five years ago)

five years pass...

John Peel Auction Lot 11: Dreamland Express:

DREAMLAND EXPRESS - EMIDISC 7" ACETATES - LOST 60'S ROCK - x 3 very scarce and widely undocumented material from late 60's band Dreamland Express, who briefly met John Peel when they supported Fairport Convention and Middle Earth, a night he was DJing at. These will need a deep professional clean, as they've been poorly stored - however we can see that they remain in clean condition otherwise. Titles include 'Visions', 'Flying Tree' and a untitled OAK disc

So, not "Groovy/UFO" unless the Oak disc is/are those songs, but it's currently at £180

Just confirms that Dreamland Express are (as we suspected) something to do with Karel Fialka, and played the gig supporting Fairport Convention which John Peel DJ'ed at.

― Mark G, Thursday, 30 April 2026 09:53 (one month ago)

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