Which are John Peel's 140 fave albums?

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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 (eighteen years ago) link

here is come together.

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

Big Stick - Drag Racing:

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

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

no that wasn't clear at all!

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

buzzcocks - ever fallen in love

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

the beatles - octopus's garden

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

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

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

the beatles - something

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

(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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

(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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

(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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

Smaller zips:
http://s58.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3HWVXGUEJ035U16U6Q6GYBNPXV
Alan Price Set - I Put a Spell on You
Cat Power - Headlights
Charlie Feathers - Get With It, Nobody's Woman, Wild Wild Party, Tongue Tied Jill
Don French - Lonely saturday night
Elmore James - Standing at the crossroads
Laurie Anderson - O Superman
MC5 - Borderline

http://s58.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2URFVXC9G84TP1HHQ4E21TMHZC
Nilsson - Without You, Everybody's Talkin'
O V Wright - That's how strong my love is
Paul Revere & The Raiders - Him or me - what's it gonna be?
Sheena Easton - 9 to 5
Status Quo - Down down
Soledad Brothers - Sugar & spice, Johnny's death letter (with Jack White)
The Move - I Can Hear The Grass Grow
+ Extra exclusive bonus track! Elmore James - The sky is crying

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 27 October 2005 07:31 (eighteen years ago) link

This is a great great list. The Users and Some Chicken recds are great and I'm so pleased to see The Factory's 'Path Through The Forest' and Andy Capp's 'Popatop' in there. One wierd thing - the Eddie and Ernie single 'I Believe She Will' is not from 1984, more like 1967, I'd say. Maybe a re-press?

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 27 October 2005 07:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Did somebody say "Path Through The Forest"?

http://s58.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1M733JQ6HE5YH2Z9QZQ7CXO1PC
Clefs of Lavender Hill - Stop! - Get a ticket
Johnny Fortune - Dragster, Soul surfer
Idle Race - Here we go round the lemon tree, My father's son
Andy Capp - Popatop
The Factory - Path through the forest
MC5 - Looking At You
Jody Reynolds - Endless Sleep
Johnny Adams - I Wish It Would Rain
Electro Hippies - Mega-armageddon death (Yes, it really is that short)

Sorry about the two duplications with koogs, but the zip was already made and time was tight. This be a better "Popatop", not sure.

11 more this evening, and then I'm done.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 27 October 2005 08:01 (eighteen years ago) link

(can you post that bonus track individually (or email it) please. i don't want to download the other 7 tracks again.)

(also, which 11 more?)

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 27 October 2005 08:19 (eighteen years ago) link

I can post it individually this evening, but not before. Same goes for the track listing for the other 11. (But 3 of them are the Upholsterers EP - yeah, MORE Jack White...)

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 27 October 2005 08:29 (eighteen years ago) link

I didn't post "Dead Leaves" as my version has a glitch in it.

Also, don't seem to have "Candy Cane Children", "The Story of the Magi/Silent Night", "Hello Operator", "Jolene" or "The big three killed my baby" here.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 27 October 2005 08:35 (eighteen years ago) link

(cool, just trying to reduce overall work involved)

i make that 62 tracks so far, and just over 3 hours...

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 27 October 2005 08:40 (eighteen years ago) link

There's a slight similarity between that Yardbirds track and Franz Ferdinand's "Tell Her Tonight", isn't there?

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 27 October 2005 10:25 (eighteen years ago) link

the version of 'you're pretty good looking' on the 7" runs jack's voice through some weird vocoder effect, not unlike Cher's 'believe' or roy vedas's 'fragments of life'

― foxy boxer (stevie), Thursday, 27 October 2005 13:27 (eighteen years ago) link

It had been years since I'd heard Easton's "9-5" (thus my dismissive remark way upthread). I listened about 8 times last night - it's a great song!

― TRG (TRG), Thursday, 27 October 2005 13:30 (eighteen years ago) link

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