Which are John Peel's 140 fave albums?

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With the exception of a few tracks, and with forthcoming contributions from Bob, Kevin and a few others, I think we are getting into the realms of the ridiculous in terms of the availability of this music. It will be interesting to see how this progresses from here.
I do have the Anemic Boyfriends and Clague singles but the condition of the vinyl is appalling (they were only ones i could find) and it's a bit of an insult to the artist to post them up. The Ken Colyer Exa 31 is on its way, as is the Big Three seven, so I will be able to post those up too when I get a chance. I'll do the missing Clefs of Lavender Hill B Side as I have a copy of that one now as well. Unfortunately though, I think it's a case of wishful thinking for this to be completed by Christmas but you never know.....

― Matt Hodge, Monday, 12 December 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

It's a good day for the project ...

Clague (Siren) B side - I Wonder Where
http://s56.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=24DPR4AKUD52W16SRTGOB0YW9D

― TRG (TRG), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 00:17 (twenty years ago)

Yes, what Andrew Sherman said about anon_andrews' post, please!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 03:09 (twenty years ago)

This may be totally irrelevant. I am looking at a picture of a Subway Sect show from 1976 at the 100 Club in London. Behind the band is a poster of upcoming shows, and the eye is drawn to an upcoming show: The Sex Pistols playing with Chris Spedding, the Clash, and the Damned. The next show? Ken Colyer's Jazzmen.

― Cam Patterson (Cam), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 04:58 (twenty years ago)

but i reposted that, tracer. and the ysi is still working.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 06:34 (twenty years ago)

grovelling repost request...

anyone able to repost these that i seem to have missed?

bill oddie - on ilkley moor
white stripes - rated x
white stripes - bowling ball ruth

thanks!

― whatever (boglogger), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 09:32 (twenty years ago)

is that your real email address?

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 11:06 (twenty years ago)

hey there
can anyone confirm (or deny!) that we're still looking for 125 rizzo 'cathy' as part of the 'it take's two' ep?
it seems to jump on & off 'wants' lists!

great effort everyone

― keefus (keefus), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

We all need Rizzo.

― TRG (TRG), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

damn right!

― keefus (keefus), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

does anyone know how long "Santa aint coming for christmas" should be. I have both a 4:30 and 2:34 version

― Matthew Walker (thatkid225), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

got it, alex! thank you!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

The version of the MC5's "Looking at You" in the torrent is the wrong version. The one in the torrent is from the Jon Landau-produced Back in the USA (1970), and it's not nearly as bad-ass as the original "A-Square" single version (which is what was in Peel's box).

http://s39.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=20Y5RW8HK4F012IPK57I3SZ4Z1

This one was ripped from a Rhino comp called The Big Bang! Best of the MC5 (EAC/Lame --alt-preset standard).

― elvissinatra (elvissinatra), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

You're right, that version is better. I assume it's the same one from the Roir release, know if that's true? I always thought every version from the Roir release was superior to the other ones.

― TRG (TRG), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 01:46 (twenty years ago)

the version of borderline on bootleg cd called thunder express i think is the a-square b side its 3.14 min long
im on waitlist for it will post

new version of looking at you sounds so much better thanks for that es

― ezone, Wednesday, 14 December 2005 03:10 (twenty years ago)

details

http://www.jungle-records.demon.co.uk/jungle/freudcd071.htm

― ezone, Wednesday, 14 December 2005 03:23 (twenty years ago)

mc5 borderline

http://s42.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3SHEUHQFWBT1G01G1OBEG7PNXN

― ezone, Wednesday, 14 December 2005 05:11 (twenty years ago)

amazing cover art on that mc5 single

http://makemyday.free.fr/a1.htm

― ezone, Wednesday, 14 December 2005 05:27 (twenty years ago)

Ooh, I've been unable to download this week. I'll need to catch up in a bit.

Yeah, I suspected that version of "Borderline" was off the live album, not the single.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 09:57 (twenty years ago)

I've caught up now, apart from the Al Ferrier ones that expired before I saw them.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 15 December 2005 10:49 (twenty years ago)

REPOST!!

al ferrier a+b

http://s36.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1BJINQFF68GSS2FLBB4OD1J5EW

http://s31.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=31GEWU39GONQK1A219V2X631E7

― keefus (keefus), Thursday, 15 December 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)

Thank S!

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 15 December 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

One More .... Rizzo - Cathy

http://s49.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0BWPGPCAIBGJ30QX8PFS0SIFQ6

― ezone, Thursday, 15 December 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

thanks ezone!

― whatever (boglogger), Thursday, 15 December 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

Hi,

I am still around & have purchased about 40 of the Peel singles on vinyl. Precious ones I have so far are The Factory, Boards of Canada & 3 of the 5 Charlie Feathers. Some of the rarer White Stripes stuff is really going to cost!! I have now worked out that I can play the vinyl into my Tascam digital recorder & then burn it onto CD & then upload. I have the songs on MP3 Windows Media Player. How do I attach to this email please!!!

Regards

Bob

― Bob Robinson, Thursday, 15 December 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

Here you go Bob:
http://www.yousendit.com/howdoesitwork.aspx

Youjust need to know where the song file is stored on your machine, and browse to the file through YSI.

You can then take the link that's given after a successful upload and paste it in the message here.

― patita (patita), Thursday, 15 December 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

This is a test upload & not JP related. This band only ever sold 60 copies of their single in the UK. Yet one of those copies made it to a radio station in New York & received regular airplay so that are known by a few fans in the USA. Hope you enjoy it.

Bob

http://d52.yousendit.com/D/10MFAOCAKNU9J05VG0EZ8RG1WR/BFTE.wma

― Bob Robinson (rob1nson), Thursday, 15 December 2005 22:46 (twenty years ago)

http://s45.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2DW0Q030VMILG2AJK14NM8N0Y7

― Bob Robinson (rob1nson), Thursday, 15 December 2005 22:55 (twenty years ago)

OK I am happy now. The second link seems to have worked. Forgive my uploading Boys From The East. I thought they were a fabulous little group from Bradford UK who had zero success in the uk in the early 1980's. By a miracle they seem to have been noticed in new York USA, which I only picked up from the ebay link below. (The band had no idea about this until I spoke to a member last week) By way of reparation, I will upload the Mighty Avengers & G L Crockett B Sides at the weekend. Roshell Anderson is on the way.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4797725547&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1

― Bob Robinson (rob1nson), Thursday, 15 December 2005 23:12 (twenty years ago)

could we have another link to aldo's torrent? pretty please?

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 15 December 2005 23:43 (twenty years ago)

> By way of reparation, I will upload the Mighty Avengers & G L Crockett B Sides at the weekend. Roshell Anderson is on the way.

curses. my last day with decent net access until the new year and you go and do this! argh. 8)

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 16 December 2005 09:33 (twenty years ago)

It ended up not working for anybody, so I'm going to retry it tonight.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 16 December 2005 09:46 (twenty years ago)

great work bob,
not wishing to sound picky, but is there any way of saving the files as mp3 rather than wma?

― keefus (keefus), Friday, 16 December 2005 10:19 (twenty years ago)

OK, attempt 2.

http://s43.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=25YD0QA9KDMQC2QWO4YSDN8ZIT

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Saturday, 17 December 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

Hopefully this should be the Mighty Avengers & G L Crockett. Sorry files are WMA as I don't know hoe to convert to MP£. All this techy stuff is new to me!!!

http://s40.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=096PEF6PUY8B62ZEH6OEU80VMQ

http://s40.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0ZXM62M4G29KY1U53LBEC9CC1M

― Bob Robinson (rob1nson), Saturday, 17 December 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

I'm not seeing any peers on the torrent--anyone else having luck?

― patita (patita), Saturday, 17 December 2005 22:55 (twenty years ago)

Hey Bob - can I help you get some MP3s out?
What software are you using to record from vinyl?

― Yoz, Sunday, 18 December 2005 02:43 (twenty years ago)

Hi Yoz,

It is quite a long route. I record the vinyl into a TASCAM digital recorder. I then very slightly mix it to try get it as clear as possble. I can't get rid of background crackle though if it is there on the record. I then burn a CD & upload the CD onto my PC via Windows Media Player. I can then upload to yousendit. My son has an MP3 player & he might be able to assist. I suppose he can record the CD I have burned into MP3 & if I can the upload the MP3 onto my PC, the problem should be solved.

Regards

Bob

― Bob Robinson (rob1nson), Sunday, 18 December 2005 10:57 (twenty years ago)

I am sulking this morning because I got outbid on Sasha Caro despite having bid £51 (It is worth £25). If only the purchaser knew how many people he has deprived of a bit of Xmas happiness!! Oh Well, if at first you don't succeed & all that!!

― Bob Robinson (rob1nson), Sunday, 18 December 2005 11:00 (twenty years ago)

I just found this page for the first time and the different links to different songs is a bit overwhelming!

Is there much chance of the whole collection being put together into one torrent or something?

thanks

― Mark Fairlie, Sunday, 18 December 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

Hey Bob - Those sound great, thanks for getting them up!!

Mark - there is a torrent (not sure it's working right now), scroll up or use 'find on page.' Also, a lot of people have them all at Slsk. But yeah, you have options in terms of getting them all at once.

― TRG (TRG), Sunday, 18 December 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

Bob -

The entire thing, except for the last ten or so, is available as two torrents here:
http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/peelbox

The remaining tracks will be torrented soon - I was waiting for more to trickle in...

― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Sunday, 18 December 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

(and if the torrent doesn't work, email me - If my PC is off, there may not be other seeders right now...) right.knewitATgmail.

― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Sunday, 18 December 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

Bob,
I highly recommend taking a look at this page:
http://www.br0wn.co.uk/vinyltocd.htm

It talks about plugging the turntable directly into the PC, but you can do that with the TASCAM, or even rip WAV files off the CDs and pull those into Audacity. (I would use DBPowerAmp - www.dbpoweramp.com - to do the ripping, it's fast and easy. Just make sure you rip to WAV format at 44.1khz in full stereo.)

That page also has some recommendations of software for the removal of vinyl noise.

Once you've got the WAV in a decent state, Audacity can export MP3 - just make sure you download the lame_enc.dll file and tell Audacity it's there. Then save the MP3s as 192 Kbit/s or higher.

This tutorial is pretty good for getting started with Audacity:
http://www.edhsonline.org/other/audacity/

― Yoz, Monday, 19 December 2005 01:22 (twenty years ago)

i have managed to purchase software called Magix. this allows me to import from CD clean up crackle & clicks etc & export as MP3 I will reload the tracks in a cleaned up state shortly.

Bob

― Bob Robinson (rob1nson), Monday, 19 December 2005 23:02 (twenty years ago)

I have managed to purchase software called Magix. this allows me to import from CD clean up crackle & clicks etc & export as MP3 I will reload the tracks in a cleaned up state shortly.

Bob

― Bob Robinson (rob1nson), Monday, 19 December 2005 23:02 (twenty years ago)

sounds great bob
your efforts are much appreciated!

― keefus (keefus), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

yes, excellent work Bob!

would it be impolitic to contact the winner of the Sasha Caro? I haven't been able to come to a decision on it myself.

― patita (patita), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

i would say: go for it!
i'm sure whoever they are, they would be interested in this project and could be persuaded(!!)

― keefus (keefus), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

damn, apparently you can only send a message if you're the seller, or if that person has any active auctions (he doesn't). ah well.

anyone else have ideas?

― patita (patita), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

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