John Peel - 22nd May

Featuring Guana Batz and Three Mustaphas Three in session.

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Guana Batz - The Overture (Session)

Portion Control - Go Talk (Illuminated)

Ted Wallace And His Campus Boys - ?

DCL Locomotive - King Midas In Reverse (Reflex)
Sly + Robbie - Sleeping Beauty (Taxi)

Guana Batz - King Rat (Session)

Cocteau Twins - Millimillenary (4AD)

The Redskins - It Can Be Done (Decca)
Dickie Williams - Tee Na Na (VIN)

Three Mustaphas Three - Jingle / Theme Tune (Session)

Siouxsie And The Banshees: Throw Them To The Lions (Polydor)

Fenton Smith: Boom It Up (Fashion)
Robert Wyatt And Hugh Hopper - Amber and The Amberines (Rough Trade)

Self Abuse - Soldier (Radical Change) 

Camp Sophisto - Auftakt

Guana Batz - Night Watch (Session)

Shriekback - Clear Trails (Y Records)

Three Mustaphas Three - To Tilefono Tis Xenitias (Session)

The Smiths - Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now (Rough Trade)

The Inca Babies - ? (Black Lagoon)

Ramming Speed - When You Walk In The Room (Attic)

Guana Batz - No Particular Place To Go (Session)

The Fire - Mothers And Sons

The Bloods - Button Up (Exit International)

Three Mustaphas Three - Belz / A Chilling Tale Part 3 (Session)

Die Zwei - ? (East West Trading Company)

John Peel - 26th April 1984

Featuring sessions from And Also The Trees and The Frank Chickens.

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Echo And The Bunnymen - Thorn Of Crowns (Korova)

The Frank Chickens - Yellow Toast (Session)

The Farmer's Boys - Apparently (EMI)

And Also The Trees - There Was A Man Of Double Deed (Session)

Last Poets - Long Enough (Kee Wee)

The Cure - A Forest (Fiction)

Mighty Diamonds - Mary Mack (Bad Gong)

The Cult - Spiritwalker (Situation Two)

The Frank Chickens - We Are Ninja (Session)

Tiny Town - Know Better (Elastic)

And Also The Trees - Wallpaper Dying (Session)

Echo And The Bunnymen - The Yo Yo Man (Korova)

And Also The Trees - Impulse Of Man (Session)

Frank Chickens - Blue Canary (Session)

Three Johns - Zowee (Abstract)

Tools You Can Trust - Show Your Teeth (Red Energy Dynamo)

Delta Skiffle Group - Skip To My Lou (Esquire)

The Frank Chickens - Dream Theatre (Session)

Echo And The Bunnymen - Nocturnal Me (Korova)

John Peel - 12th December 1984

Featuring sessions from Eton Crop and The Pogues.

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African Connection - Dancing On The Sidewalk

Action Pact - Keep It Lickin' Over (Fallout)

Jah Warriors - Apartheid (A Record Company)

The Pogues - Danny Boy (Session)

Conway Twitty - Danny Boy

Celibate Rifles - Wild Desire (Hot)

Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved A Man [The Way I Love You] (Atlantic)

Eton Crop - Get Something For Doing Nothing (Session)

Banksters - Demented Sounds (New Rose)

Half Pint - One In A Million (Greensleeves)

Naked Prey - The Story Never Ends (Down There)

The Pogues - Sally McLannen (Session)

Pornosect - Disinformation (Abstract)

The Fall - Elves (Beggars Banquet)

Eton Crop - Snobhill (Session)

Swallow - Satan Comin' Down (Charlie's)

Robert Wyatt And Others - In The Dark Year (Re)

The Pogues - The Navigator (Session)

Copulation - Quickleim (Helvete)

Echo And The Bunnymen - The Yo Yo Man (Korova)

Foyer Des Arts - Ein Haus Den Knochen Von Cary Grant (ARO)

Don Carlos - Lazer Beam (Burning Sounds)

John Peel - 22nd May 1984

Featuring Guana Batz and Three Mustaphas Three in session.

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Guana Batz - The Overture (Session)

Portion Control - Go Talk (Illuminated)

Ted Wallace And His Campus Boys - ?

DCL Locomotive - King Midas In Reverse (Reflex)
Sly + Robbie - Sleeping Beauty (Taxi)

Guana Batz - King Rat (Session)

Cocteau Twins - Millimillenary (4AD)

The Redskins - It Can Be Done (Decca)
Dickie Williams - Tee Na Na (VIN)

Three Mustaphas Three - Jingle / Theme Tune (Session)

Siouxsie And The Banshees: Throw Them To The Lions (Polydor)

Fenton Smith: Boom It Up (Fashion)
Robert Wyatt And Hugh Hopper - Amber and The Amberines (Rough Trade)

Self Abuse - Soldier (Radical Change) 

Camp Sophisto - Auftakt

Guana Batz - Night Watch (Session)

Shriekback - Clear Trails (Y Records)

Three Mustaphas Three - To Tilefono Tis Xenitias (Session)

The Smiths - Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now (Rough Trade)

The Inca Babies - ? (Black Lagoon)

Ramming Speed - When You Walk In The Room (Attic)

Guana Batz - No Particular Place To Go (Session)

The Fire - Mothers And Sons

The Bloods - Button Up (Exit International)

Three Mustaphas Three - Belz / A Chilling Tale Part 3 (Session)

Die Zwei - ? (East West Trading Company)

John Peel - 26th April 1984

With sessions from And Also The Trees and The Frank Chickens.

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Echo And The Bunnymen - Thorn Of Crowns (Korova)

The Frank Chickens - Yellow Toast (Session)

The Farmer's Boys - Apparently (EMI)

And Also The Trees - There Was A Man Of Double Deed (Session)

Last Poets - Long Enough (Kee Wee)

The Cure - A Forest (Fiction)

Mighty Diamonds - Mary Mack (Bad Gong)

The Cult - Spiritwalker (Situation Two)

The Frank Chickens - We Are Ninja (Session)

Tiny Town - Know Better (Elastic)

And Also The Trees - Wallpaper Dying (Session)

Echo And The Bunnymen - The Yo Yo Man (Korova)

And Also The Trees - Impulse Of Man (Session)

Frank Chickens - Blue Canary (Session)

Three Johns - Zowee (Abstract)

Tools You Can Trust - Show Your Teeth (Red Energy Dynamo)

Delta Skiffle Group - Skip To My Lou (Esquire)

The Frank Chickens - Dream Theatre (Session)

Echo And The Bunnymen - Nocturnal Me (Korova)

John Peel - 24th April 1984

Featuring sessions from Del Amitri and Billy Bragg.

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Les Calamités - Toutes Les Nuits (Red Rose)

Del Amitri - Heard Through A Wall (Session)

Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys - The Twin Guitar Special

Eek-A-Mouse - Gunshot A Cry (RAS)

Billy Bragg - St Swithins Day (Session)

The Cramps - You've Got Good Taste (Red Rose)

Jonny Bankcheck - The Runaway (Memo)

Percy Sledge - True Love Travels On A Gravel Road (Charly)

Del Amitri - Crows In The Wheat Field (Session)

Die Zwei - Grapsch [The Communist Party Mix] (Mercury)

Cold Dance - Choice (Xcentric Noise)

Sugar Minott - Frontline (Power House)

Billy Bragg - Lover's Town (Session)

Attrition - Monkey In A Bin (Recording Union)

Kid Thomas - Wail Baby Wail (JSP)

Screaming Tribesmen - Igloo (Sonics)

Minuteman - Voodoo Slaves (Sonics)

Del Amitri - Breaking Bread (Session)

The Dells - My Life Is So Wonderful (Kent)

Golden Palominos - Clean Plate (OAO)

Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Love Has Got A Gun (ZTT)

Billy Bragg - The Myth Of Trust (Session)

Mad Professor - Claps Like Thunder (Ariwa)

Sound - Golden Soldiers (Statik Records)

News From Babel - Black Gold (Re)

Orson Family - River Of Desire (Red Rose)

Del Amitri - Deceive Yourself In Ignorant Heaven (Session)

Bobby Foster And His Orchestra - Angel Of Love (Red Lightning)

Billy Bragg - To Have And Have Not (Session)

Folk Devils - Hank Turns Blue (Ganges)

John Peel - 19th December 1984

A Festive Fifty show featuring session repeats from Ivor Cutler, Men They Couldn't Hang, Folk Devils and Guana Batz.

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Men They Couldn't Hang - Green Fields Of France (Session)

Guana Batz - Night Watch (Session)

Folk Devils - Broken Head (Session)

Ivor Cutler - Jelly Mountain (Session)

1984 Festive Fifty: Numbers 40-31

=39. Cocteau Twins - Beatrix (4AD)

=39. Flesh For Lulu - Subterraneans (Polydor)

38. Cocteau Twins - Pandora (4AD)

37. The Jesus And Mary Chain - Upside Down (Creation)

36. The Smiths - Reel Around The Fountain (Rough Trade)

35. Robert Wyatt - Biko (Virgin)

34. Berntholer - My Suitor (Blue Feather)

33. This Mortal Coil - Another Day (4AD)

32. Yeah Yeah Noh - Bias Binding (In Tape)

31. Propaganda - Dr. Mabuse (ZTT)

John Peel - 27th September 1984

Featuring sessions from The Smiths, The Mighty Wah! and Cocteau Twins.

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Feargal Sharkey - Listen To Your Father (Zarjazz)

Toyan - Ram Dance Master (Power House)

Birthday Party - King Ink (4AD)

Mighty Wah! - Weekends (Session)

Mighty Wah! - Yuh Learn (Session)

Mighty Wah! - Better Scream (Session)

Mighty Wah! - Basement Blues/The Tory Of The Blues (Session)

Berntholer - My Suitor (Blanco Y Negro)

Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel - Water Torture (Self Immolation)

Dead Can Dance - Carnival Of Light (4AD)

Tripple B Co. & Precious Metal - Nursery Chrymes (Dangerous Jams)

Cocteau Twins - Pepper Tree (Session)

Cocteau Twins - Peep Bo (Session)

Cocteau Twins - Otterley (Session)

Cocteau Twins - Whisht (Session)

Staples Singers - Slippery People (Epic)

Fini Tribe - Cathedral (Finiflex)

Beauty Contest - The Beast (What's So Funny About..)

Freddie McGregor - Across The Border (Big Ship)

The Fall - New Fiend (Beggars Banquet)

Chakk - Out Of The Flesh (Mix II) (Doublevision)

Smiths - Rusholme Ruffians (Session)

Smiths - Nowhere Fast (Session)

Smiths - How Soon Is Now (Session)

Smiths - William It Was Really Nothing (Session)

Jerry Lee Lewis: Swinging Doors

400 Blows - Declaration Of Intent (Illuminated)

Juggernauts - Come Throw Yourself Under the Monstrous Wheels Of The Rock And Roll Bandwagon As It Approaches Destruction (Supreme International Editions)

Journey - Winds Of March (Allied Productions)

John Peel - 19th July 1984

Featuring in session from Papa Levi and Pink Peg Slax.

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Pink Peg Slax - Bippo Bippo [Bop Man Bop] (Session)

Red Guitars - Steeltown (Self Drive)

Papa Levi - Bonnie And Clyde (Session)

The Human League - Being Boiled (Fast Product)

Divine Sounds - What People Do For Money (Streetwave)

Brilliant Corners - Tangled Up In Blue (SS20 Records)

Junior Parker - These Kind Of Blues (Vocalion)

Everything But The Girl - Mine (Blanco Y Negro)

Pink Peg Slax - Lonely Afternoon (Session)

Skeletal Family - So Sure (Red Rhino)

Art Farmer And Donald Byrd - Contour (Prestige)

Play Dead - Isobel (Clay Records)

Papa Levi - The Hit (Session)

The X Men - Do The Ghost (Creation)#

The Leuven Brothers - I'm Changing The Words [To My Love Song] (MGM)

Pink Peg Slax - Self Pitying Stand (Session)

Public Image Limited - 1981 (Virgin)

Frankie Paul - Slave Driver (Channel One)

Killing Joke - A New Day (EG)

Spike In Vain - E.K.G. (Trans Dada Records)

Papa Levi - My God My King (Session)

The Blubbery Hellbellies - The Green Green Grass Of Home (Upright Records)

The Frank Chickens - Blue Canary (Kaz Records)

Cleveland Crochet - Sugar Bee (Goldband)

Microdisney - I'll Be A Gentleman (Rough Trade)

Amaswazi Emvelo - Mkhuzeni

John Peel 29th February 1984

Featuring sessions from Misty In Roots and Tools You Can Trust.

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The Chameleons - A Person Isn't Safe Anywhere These Days (Statik)
Tools You Can Trust - Show Your Teeth (Session)
Girls Of The Golden West - That Silver Haired Daddy Of Mine (Bluebird)
Dead Can Dance - Ocean (4AD)
Misty In Roots - The Wanderer (Session)
Dion - The Wanderer
23 Skidoo - Coup (Illuminated)
The Fire Engines - Meat Whiplash (Pop Aural)
D.O.A. - D.O.A. (Alternative Tentacles)
Tools You Can Trust - The Feud (Session)
Dave Bartholomew - Who Drank My Beer When I Was In The Rear (Imperial)
The Wake - Something Outside (Factory Benelux)
Misty In Roots - West Livity (Session)
The Cramps - New Kind Of Kick (Illegal)
Tools You Can Trust - Houses And Tools (Session)
Neil Tucker - Breathing (Middle Earth)
Surudan Adwele - Yo' Pop Music (Stern's)
The Smiths - Suffer Little Children (Rough Trade)
Don Carlos - Them Say (Dove/Wambesi)
Felt - Mexican Bandits (Cherry Red)
Minutemen - I Felt Like A Gringo (SST)
Tools You Can Trust - Houses And Tools (Session)
Two Sisters - Right There (Streetwave)
Danglers - Derek (Total Lack)
Misty In Roots - City Running (Session)
Dirty Rotten Imbeciles - Running Around (R Radical)
The Fall - Room To Live (Flying Nun)
Matuka Mareka - ?

John Peel 17th July 1984

Featuring a session from The Frank Chickens. Kazuko from the band is in the studio to have a chat about Japanese music.

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The Frank Chickens - Shell Fish Bamboo (Session)
Skeletal Family - Theme From Batman (Red Rhino)
Missing Presumed Dead - My Little Sister's Turning Into Duane Eddy (Sequel)
Siouxsie And The Banshees - We Hunger (Polydor)
Dub Set - Night Time Flesh Beat Rhythm (Elektra)
Sandii And The Sunsetz - Walk Away (Yen)
Makoto Inoue - Battle In Space
Jun Togawa - Tamahime-sama
Maki Asagawa - ?
Musumi Hara - Da Da Da (Yupiteru)
Masumi Hara - Umi De Kurasu (Yupiteru)
23 Skidoo - Language (Illuminated)
Eric Bubble - ? (Connection)
In Excelsis - Love Lies (Jungle)
Hardcore - Dirty (Self Released)
Lonesome Pine Fiddlers - Will I Meet Mother In Heaven
The Hit Parade - Forever (JSH)
King Sunny Ade And His African Beats - Ase (Island)
Echo And The Bunnymen - Seven Seas (Korova)
The Clovers - In The Morning Time (Atlantic)
The Woodentops - Plenty (Food)

John Peel - 4th December 1984

Featuring sessions from The Triffids and Float Up CP.

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The Gun Club - Preaching The Blues (Lolita)

Lime Spiders - Slave Girl (Citadel Records)

Nat Cole Trio - Honeysuckle Rose (Affinity)

The Triffids - Monkey On My Back (Session)

Maxi Priest and Caution - Should I [Put My Trust In You] (Level Vibes)

Blitz - Someone's Gonna Die (No Future)

D St and Jalal - Mean Machine (Celluloid)

Float Up CP - Sexy Bushes (Session)

A Primary Industry - Perversion (Third Mind Records)

Connie And Babe - Dark Waters (Rounder Records)

The Jesus And Mary Chain - Upside Down (Creation)

Junior Brammer - Man Stop Fight A Dance (Powerhouse Records)

The Triffids - Field Of Glass (Session)

Enemy Within - Strike (Rough Trade)

Our Heroes - [Now The] Scars [Are Healing] (Icon Records)

Rip Rig And Panic - Bob Hope Takes Risks (Virgin)

Float Up CP - You Make Me Wet (Session)

Newtown Neurotics - Suzy (No Wonder)

Souzy Kasseya - Uta Ndima Tony (Earthworks/Rough Trade)

Del Fuegos - Call My Name (London)

Joe Tex - Hold What You've Got (Atlantic)

The Triffids - Bright Lights, Big City (Session)

Sonny Rollins and Modern Jazz Quartet - The Stopper (Ojc)

Linkmen - Manic Depression (Kitchenware)

The Flying Lizards - Purple Haze (Statik)

The Go-Betweens - Part Company (Sire)

Professor Nuts - Crisis (Gorgon)

Float Up CP - Pray For This (Session)

Pete Best Beatles - Alamein Train (Strine Music)

Ledernacken - Ich Will Dich Essen (Strike Back)

John Peel - 2nd July 1984

Not much remains of Peel on this edited recording, in fact that might be an overstatement!

Featuring tracks from the two sessions Frankie Goes To Hollywood recorded for the program in 1982 and 1983. 

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Shooting Creek - ?

Albert - Ammons - Monday Struggle

The Actives - Wait And See (Quiet)

Laibach - Sila (L.A.Y.L.A.H. Antirecords)

Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Two Tribes (Session)

Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Two Tribes (Carnage)

East Bay Ray - Trouble In Town (Alternative Tentacles)
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Get It On (Session)
X-Men - Do The Ghost (Creation)
Party Day - The Spider (Party Day)

John Peel - 3rd September 1984

Featuring session tracks from Alien Sex Fiend and Sid Presley Experience.

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Nightcaps - Wine, Wine, Wine

Chinese Gangster Element - World's On Fire (1 In 12)

Hot Syndicate - Take Me Back (Sun Burn)

Alien Sex Fiend - In God We Trust (Session)

The Mighty Wah! - Weekends (Beggars Banquet)

Tales Of Terror - Hound Dog (CD Records_

The Skatalites - Dick Tracy

Sid Presley Experience - Can't Leave Her Alone (Session)

Rhythm Master - Rhythm Magic (Mosaic)

The Go Betweens - Part Company (Sire)

Simple Simon - Foreign Mind (Rosie Uprising)

William Ravenscroft - Happy Birthday Daddy

The Smiths - William, It Was Really Nothing (Rough Trade)

John Peel - 12th December 1984

With sessions from The Pogues and Eton Crop.

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African Connection - Dancing On The Sidewalk

Action Pact - Keep It Lickin' Over (Fallout)

Jah Warriors - Apartheid (A Record Company)

The Pogues - Danny Boy (Session)

Conway Twitty - Danny Boy

Celibate Rifles - Wild Desire (Hot)

Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved A Man [The Way I Love You] (Atlantic)

Eton Crop - Get Something For Doing Nothing (Session)

Banksters - Demented Sounds (New Rose)

Half Pint - One In A Million (Greensleeves)

Naked Prey - The Story Never Ends (Down There)

The Pogues - Sally McLannen (Session)

Pornosect - Disinformation (Abstract)

The Fall - Elves (Beggars Banquet)

Eton Crop - Snobhill (Session)

Swallow - Satan Comin' Down (Charlie's)

Robert Wyatt And Others - In The Dark Year (Re)

The Pogues - The Navigator (Session)

Copulation - Quickleim (Helvete)

Echo And The Bunnymen - The Yo Yo Man (Korova)

Foyer Des Arts - Ein Haus Den Knochen Von Cary Grant (ARO)

Don Carlos - Lazer Beam (Burning Sounds)