John Peel - 14th February 1979

Featuring Joy Division and Generation X in session.

Part 1

Part 2

The Skids - Into The Valley (Virgin)

Generation X - Paradise West (Peel Session)

The Lurkers - Just Thirteen (Beggars Banquet)

Joy Division - Exercise One (Session)

Neon Hearts - Popular Music (Satril)

Paragons - The Tide Is High (Treasure Isle Records)

Ry Cooder - How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live? (Reprise)

Sham 69 - Questions And Answers (Polydor)

Monochrome Set - He's Frank (Rough Trade)

Generation X - Love Like Fire' (Session)

Bill Nelson's Red Noise - Out Of Touch (Harvest)

Bill Nelson's Red Noise - A Better Home In The Phantom Zone (Harvest)

Bill Nelson's Red Noise - Substitute Flesh (Harvest)

Joy Division - Insight (Session)

Joe Jackson - Pretty Girls (A+M)

Chrome - Abstract Nympho (Siren)

The Ruts - In A Rut (People Unite)

Earth And Stone - Sweet Africa (Cha Cha)

Generation X - Night Of The Cadillacs (Session)

Frank Zappa - Rat Tomago (CBS)

Duane Eddy - Hard Times

Joy Division - She's Lost Control (Session)

The Undertones - Get Over You (Sire)

Destroy All Monsters - Bored (Cherry Red)

Stiff Little Fingers - Law And Order (Rough Trade)

Spies - The Young Ones (Virgin)

Generation X - English Dreams (Session)

Lee Perry - Captive (Upsetter Records)

The Cure - 10:15 Saturday Night (Fiction)

Joy Division - Transmission (Peel Session)

O Level - Everybody's On Revolver (Kings Road Records)

The Skids - TV Stars (Virgin)

John Peel - 13th February 1990

Featuring Benny Profane in session.

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The Jesus Lizard - 7 Vs 8 (Touch And Go)

Benny Profane - Hey! Waste Of Space (Session)

Kings Of Oblivion - Keep The World (In Your Face)

Def Jef - Poet With Soul (Delicious Vinyl)

Benny Profane - When It All Kicks In (Session)

The Fall - I'm Frank (Cog Sinister)

Renegade Soundwave - Probably A Robbery [12 Gauge Turbo] (Mute)

New Pardesi Music Machine - Pardesi Pind Wich (Star)

Benny Profane - Jerk To Jesus (Session)

MC 900 Ft. Jesus with DJ Zero - Real Black Angel (Nettwerk Europe)

The Pale Saints - Language Of Flowers (4AD)
Benny Profane - Time Bomb (Session)

John Peel - 9th February 1981

Featuring sessions from Comsat Angels and Section 25.

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The Four Bucketeers - Water Is Wonderful (CBS)

Angelic Upstarts - Kids On The Streets (EMI)

Ruts DC - Different View (Virgin)

Comsat Angels - Be Brave (Session)

Cuddly Toys - Astral Joe (Fresh)

Jimi Hendrix Experience - Hey Joe (Polydor)

The Heptones - Streets Of Gold (Tom Tom)

Section 25 - One True Path (Session)

Echo And The Bunnymen - Do It Clean (Korova)

Mentatz - Dead To The World (Naff)

Grateful Dead - Bertha (Warner Bros)

Depeche Mode - Photographic (Some Bizzare)

Comsat Angels - Eye Of The Lens (Session)

Night Doctor - Just Enough (Race)

Henry Spaulding - Cairo Blues (Yazoo)

Wilko Johnson - Cairo Blues (Fresh)

Section 25 - Babies In The Bardo (Session)

Delmontes - Tous Les Soirs (Rational)

Eric "Monty" Morris & Drumbago All Stars - Humpty Dumpty (Trojan)

Liliput - Eisiger Wind (Off Course)

New Age Steppers - Stop, Right There (On-U Sound)

The Revillos - Hippy Hippy Sheik (Dindisc)

Comsat Angels - At Sea (Session)

Lovely Bodies - Swelter In The Shelter (Narcissus)

Mekons - Karen (Red Rhino)

John Peel - 8th February 1990

An edited show featuring session tracks from New Fast Automatic Daffodils.

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Galaxie 500 - Blue Thunder (Rough Trade)
Mc 900 Ft Jesus and DJ Zero - Shut UP (Nettwerk Europe)
The Telescopes - To Kill A Slow Girl Walking (What Goes On)
The Fall - Chicago, Now! (Cog Sinister/Fontana)
Zulu Warrior - Warrior Style (WAU! Mr Modo)
The Family Cat - Rocks Off (Imaginary)
Meoss - ? (Selfish)
The Corn Dollies - Map Of The World (Midnight Music)
MC 900 Ft Jesus and DJ Zero - Talking To The Spirits (Nettwerk Europe)
New Fast Automatic Daffodils - Man Without Qualities II (Session)
Akash - Laal Kurti (Star)
DVC - Mortal Constrictor (Manufacture Sound Output Company)
Brighter - Noah's Ark (Sarah)
M-80's - You've Been Told (Get Hip Recordings)
Innocence - Natural Thing
Stump Wizards - Eerie (Get Hip Recordings)

John Peel - 7th February 1980

Featuring session from Original Mirrors.

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Spizzenergi - Where's Captain Kirk (Rough Trade)

Elvis Costello And The Attractions - Black And White World (F-Beat)

The Specials - Stupid Marriage (Two-Tone)

Original Mirrors - Boys Cry (Session)

Girlschool - Emergency (Bronze)

Angelic Upstarts - Out Of Control (Warner Bros.)

Peter Touch - Return Of Al Capone (Unity)

Public Image Ltd - Careering (Virgin)

Strokes - I Am A Plastic Carrier Bag (Translobe Earways)

The Vapors - Turning Japanese (United Artists)

Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats (Industrial)

Lee Scratch Perry - Cane River Rock (Black Art)

Slight Seconds - Puppet On A String (Object Music)
Original Mirrors - Reflections (Session)
Swell Maps - Let's Build A Car (Rough Trade)
Al Green - Tired Of Being Alone (Hi Records)
Reducers - Airwaves (EMI)
Captain Beefheart - Owed T'Alex (Virgin)
Augustus Pablo - Jah Dread (Greensleeves)
Durutti Column - Katherine (Factory)
Wreckless Eric - A Popsong (Stiff)
Bauhaus - Dark Entries (4AD)
UK Decay - Middle Of The Road Man (Plastic)
Hans-A-Plast - Man Of Stone (Lava)
Stiff Little Fingers - At The Edge (Chrysalis)
Original Mirrors - Flying (Session)
Freddie McKay - It Ain't Easy (Matador)

John Peel - 6th February 1979

Featuring sessions from Molesters and Gang Of Four.

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Sham 69 - Questions And Anwswers (Polydor)
Terry Reid - Stop And Think It Over (Capitol)
Molesters - Miss USA (Session)
Joe Jackson - Got The Time
Gang Of Four - 05:45 (Session)
Bill Nelson's Red Noise - Don't Touch Me I'm Electric (Harvest)
Bill Nelson's Red Noise - For Young Moderns (Harvest)
Bill Nelson's Red Noise - Stop Go Stop (Harvest)
DEB Players - Murder! (DeB Music)
Molesters - PMW/Young And Rich (Session)
Boys - The First Time (Polydor)
Cream - Sunshine Of Your Love (Polydor)
Gang Of Four - I Found That Essence Rare (Session)
The Skids - TV Stars (Virgin)
Jimmy Riley - Complain (Yes Label)
Roger Chapman - Midnight Child (Acrobat)
Richard Hell and The Voidoids - The Kid With The Replaceable Head (Radar)
Bobby Henry - Headcase (Oval Records)
Stiff Little Fingers - Barbed Wire Love (Rough Trade)
Molesters - Latex Darling (Session)
Gang Of Four - At Home He's A Tourist (Session)
Kevin Coyne - The World Is Full Of Fools (Virgin)
Vice Creems - 01-01-212 (Cherry Red)
Chrome - Half Machine Lip Moves (Siren)
Piranhas - I Don't Want My Body (Attrix)
Molesters - What's The Time (Session)
Lew Lewis Reformer - Lucky Seven (Lew Records)
Fatman Riddim Section - Celebration Dub (Top Rankin Sounds)
Gang Of Four - Return The Gift (Session)
Sham 69 - I Gotta Survive (Polydor)

John Peel - 2nd February 1981

Featuring sessions from 21 Guns and The Cure.

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Point Fives - Stabbed (White Elephant)

Partizans - Partizans (A-Noys)

21 Guns - 21 Guns (Session)

The Mekons - I'm So Happy (Red Rhino)

Elvis Costello And The Attractions - Strict Time (F-Beat)

Robert Johnson - 32-20 Blues (Vocalion)

The Cure - All Cats Are Grey (Session)

Duran Duran - Planet Earth (EMI)

Kick Partners - Steel Workers (Revolution)

Cuddly Toys - Astral Joe (Fresh)

Penetration - What's Going On (Virgin)

21 Guns - Dark Night (Session)

Be-Bop Deluxe - Axe Victim (Harvest)

Red Noise - Art / Empire / Industry (Harvest)

Interview with Bill Nelson

Bill Nelson - Room With Brittle Views (Les Disques Du Crépuscule)

The Cure: Forever (Session)

The Undertones - What's With Terry? (Sire)
The Undertones - More Songs About Chocolate And Girls)

Exploding Seagulls - Ring Pull / Take 5 (White Elephant)

New Age Steppers - Crazy Dreams And High Ideals (On-U Sound)

Misty In Roots - See Them Ah Come (People Unite)

The Cure: Holy Hour (Session)

The Fall - Various Times (Step-Forward)

John Peel - 1st February 1997

Featuring Propellerheads in session.

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Suns Of Arqa - Tabla School (Rountrip)

Kenickie - Come Out Tonight (BBC Worldwide)

G.L. Crockett - It's A Man Down There (4 Brothers)

Jimmy Reed - I'm The Man Down There (Vee Jay)

Crispy Nuts - PIggy (Cowpat Records)

Orbital - The Tranquiliser Busy Tranquilising (Feedback Communications)

Moonkyte - Happy Minstrel (Mother)

Grouch - Smile (PPP)

Alpha Omega - Realism (Reinforced)

Lugworm - Sweaty Says (Teen C Recordings)

Appleorchard - Sadness (Rumblestrip)

Bis - Sweet Shop Avengerz (Wiiija)

Jean Baron - Mami Lolo (Jimmy's Productions)

John Davis - I'll Burn (Shrimper)

Beatnik Filmstars - Favourite Stuff (Mobstar)

Propellerheads - Take California (Session)

Propellerheads - Bring Us Together (Session)

East River Pipe - Lonely Line Away (Shinkansen)

Pavement - Ode To Begin (Domino)

The Orb - Ubiquity (Island)

Spare Snare - Action Hero (Wabana Ore Ltd)

Mahogany - Nelly Van Doesburg (Burnt Hair)

John Peel - 31st January 2002

Featuring Ladytron in session.

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Soledad Brothers - Break 'Em On Down (Estrus)

Regis - Get On Your Knees (Downwards)

Come Ons - Needle In A Haystack (Sympathy For The Record Industry)

Errol Bellot And Dixie Peach - Rastafari Is The Way (Jah Tubbys)

Ladytron - Zmeyka (Session)

Antihero - MTV (White Label)

Kicks And Rock - 5 DJ Jingles (Howlin')

The Byrds - Eight Miles High (CBS)

High Dependency Unit - Schallblüte (Flying Nun Records)

James Ruskin - The Chase (Blueprint)

Heads - False Heavy (Sweet Nothing)

Ladytron - Holiday 601 (Session)

James Carr - I Don't Want To Be Hurt No More (Kent)

Spare Snare - Calling In The Favours (Bad Jazz)

The Parkinsons - Angel In The Dark (Fierce Panda)

State Street Ramblers - Stomp Your Stuff (Vocalion)

They Come In Threes - Too Far To The East (Queue Records)

Tungsten And Morph - Paranormal Formation Records)

Ladytron - Another Breakfast With You (Session)

Cocoa Tea - No War (Togetherness)

Boy Cartographer - Pacific Coast Nowhere (White Label)

Hector Collectors - Your Nazi Boyfriend (Jam Jar)

DJ Shufflemaster - Experience [Surgeon Remix] (Tresor)

Mclusky - To Hell With Good Intentions (Too Pure)

Buff Medways - Archive From 1959 (Smartguy)

Pitman's Gramophone Course Of Typewriter Keyboard Instruction - Record 3

Jimmy 'Soul' Clarke - [I'll Be Your Champion] I'll Be Your Winner (Goldmine Sevens)

Ladytron - Discotraxx (Session)

Alkaline Trio - Private Eye (B-Unique)

Capitol K - Pillow (White Label)

John Peel - 30th January 1980

No sessions in this show but plenty of top tunes.

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Selecter - Everyday (Two-Tone)

Bet Lynch's Legs - Ghost Riders In The Sky (Absurd)

Insex - Inner Sanction (Dining Out)

Errol Schorcher - Frog In A Water (Tipper)

Golinski Brothers - Bloody (Attrix)

Cockney Rejects - New Song (EMI)

Accidents - Blood Splattered With Guitars (Hook Line 'n Sinker)

Future Bodies - Terrorist (Final Alternative)

Metropak - You're A Rebel (PAK)
Larry And Lloyd - Monkey Spanner (New Beat)
Spasms - It Never Happens Like It Does On The Telly (Ellie Jay)
The Mental - Off The Rails (Kamikaze Pig)
The Only Ones - Trouble In The World (CBS)
Channel One All Star - Burial (Channel One)
Any Trouble - Yesterday's Love (Pennine)
Creature Beat - She Won't Dance (Puritan)
Exposure - Style And Fashion (Acute)
The Selecter - Too Much Pressure (Two Tone)
Orior - Elevatuion (Crystal Groove)
Martian Schoolgirls - Life In The 1980's (Red Planet)
Elvis Costello - Love For Tender (F-Beat)
White Heat - Nervous Breakdown (Vallium)
Akrylykz - Spyderman (Double R)
Rattling Throntons - The Letter (Beat Street)
Magazine - Song From Under The Floorboards (Virgin)

John Peel - 26th January 1997

Featuring Kenickie in session.

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Bis - Sweet Shop Avengerz (Wiiija)

Faust - Eroberung Der Stille, Teil I (Table Of Elements)

Guided By Voices - If We Wait (Matdor)

Westside - The Evolution (Rinse Out)

Uruesi Yatsura - Strategic Helmets (Che')

Howlin' Wolf - Down In The Bottom (Chess)

Superstar Disco Club - Postcodes From The Edge (Che')

God's Boyfriend - I Don't Wash (Fierce Panda)

Taiyo - Taiyo (Matsuri Productions)

Kenickie - Come Out Tonight (Session)

Kenickie - Scared Of Spiders (Session)

Kenickie - Acetone (Session)

Kenickie - Can I Take You To The Cinema (Session)

Restless Mashaits - Lion Dubwise (Addis Records)

Byzar Phylyx - (Asphodel)

Pram - Omnichord (Wurlitzer Jukebox)

The Hollies - Look Through Any Window (Parlophone)

Magicdrive - Mammogram (Fierce Panda)

The Black Dog - Big Issue Live Mix

Transmission - No Direction (Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers)

Bis - I'll Get Back To You (Wiiija)

Pipe - Glide (Jesus Christ)

Tasha Killer Pussies - Hoover Baby (Bag)

Roy Milton - RM Blues (Indigo)

Bouncing Souls - Mommy, Can I Go Out And Kill Tonight (Caroline)

 Decoder - Fog (Hardleaders)

John Peel - 12th January 1992

Featuring Silverfish and Mercury Rev in session.

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Dead Moon - Get On Board (Tombstone)

Dennis Alcapone - Run Run (Coxsone)

Thousand Yard Stare - Comeuppance (Stifled Aardvark)

Silverfish - Jimmy (Session)

The Undertones - Jimmy Jimmy (Sire)

Lord Finesse - Return Of Funky Man (Giant)

Attwenger - ? (Trikont)

Suffocation - Synthetically Revived (Nuclear Blast)

Mercury Rev - Chasin' A Bee (Session)

Mind, Body And Soul - White Rabbit (MBS)

Hail - Tar Pits (ReR)

Blofields - The Dog Is DEad (Throb)

Silverfish - Crazy (Session)

King Tubby - Rebel Dance (Trojan)

Lucien Bokilo - Leonore (Jimmy's Productions)

Piss - Straight Line (Selfish)

Multiplex - Civilised Society (Selfish)

 Mercury Rev - Syringe Mouth (Session)

Hard Knocks - Strictly From The Bronx (Wild Pitch)

Dickless - Sweet Teeth (C/Z)

Superchumk - Throwing Things (City Slang)

70 Gwen Party - The Psycho Beat (Snape)

Silverfish - Vitriola (Session)
Gospel Fish - Too Much Gun Talk (Fashion)
Mercury Rev - Coney Island Cyclone (Session)
Mike Mongoshi and Lazy Bones - ?
Splintered - Candleskin (Dying Earth)
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Love In A Void (Strange Fruit)
Calamity Jane - Shark (SMR)
Ween - Sorry Charlie (Shimmy Disc)
Apache Indian - Don Raja (Sure Delight)
Bang Bang Machine - Geek Love (Jimmi Kidd)
The Valentines - That's It Man (Self Released)
Sofa Head - Mommy Hurt My Head (SMR)
Shut Up And Dance - The Green Man (Shut Up And Dance)
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Rain [I Want A Divorce] (Virgin)
Silverfish - Rock On (Session)
Daniel Johnson - My Life Is Starting Over (Shimmy Disc)
Salt Tank - Pressure Drop (4 Real Communications)
 Mercury Rev - Frittering (Session)
Distorted Pony - Pillar Of Salt (Bomp!)
Zimbabwe Cha Cha Cha Kings - South Africa
William Bell - Quitting Time

John Peel - 11th January 1990

Featuring the ever wonderful Sofa-Head in Session

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Ride - Chelsea Girl (Creation)

Bluejean - Acizd Maddness (City Limits)

Sofa-Head - It Doesn't Work (Session)

The Sundays - Here's Where The Story Ends (Rough Trade)

Exodus Sound Blast - Simbiso (Gramma)

Genital Deformities - Back To Reality (Fair  Dinkum)

3rd Bass - Product Of The Enviroment (Def Jam)

Terminal Cheesecake - Ceiling On Fire (Wiiija)

Sofa-Head - Invitation To Dinner/Infanticide (Session)

Out Takes - Overcast Black Grass (Fourth Floor)

Birdland - Wanted (Lazy)

Jimmy Whelan, Pete Quilty And The Notts County Choir - County's The One For Me (Confection)

The Fall - Telephone Thing (Cog Sinister/Fontana)

Warlock Pinchers - Where The Hell Is Crispin Glover (Boner)

Sofa-Head - Fill (Session)

When People Were Shorter And Lived Near The Water - Voodoo Woman (Shimmy Disc)

Anthony Malvo And Collin Roach - Run Run (Jammy's)

Tribal House - Motherland (Pow Wow)

Shine - Bite The Apple (Wilde Club)

A Witness - I Love You, Mr Disposable Razor (Strange Fruit)

Merino Brothers - Riquezas De La Vida (Globe Style)

Poor Righteous Teachers - Time To Say (Profile)

Sofa-Head - Valium Housewife (Session)

Jeff Barnes - One Thousand Tons Of Version (Trojan)

John Peel - 10th January 1979

Featuring sessions from The Cure and Elvis Costello.

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Jerry Lee Lewis - Hello Josephine (Sun)

Mahotella Queens - Igula Lamasi (Virgin)

Elvis Costello And The Attractions - Radio Radio (Session)

J Geils Band - I Could Hurt You (Session)

The Parrots - Larger Than Life (Attrix)

The Cure - Fire In Cairo (Session)

George Perkins And The Silver Stars - Cryin' In The Streets (Silver Fox)

The Shirkers - Drunk And Disorderly (Limp)

Michael Black - Out Of Love (Flagman)

Elvis Costello And The Attractions - I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself (Session)

Generation X - King Rocker (Chrysalis)

Throbbing Gristle - Dead On Arrival (Industrial Records)

The Cure - Boys Don't Cry (Session)

The Boys - I Don't Care (Nems)

Kleenex - Hedi's Head (Rough Trade)

Gary Moore - Flight Of The Snow Goose (EMI)

The Residents - Birthday Boy (Ralph Records)

Muddy Waters - Long Distance Call (Vogue Coral)

Elvis Costello And The Attractions - Stranger In The House (Session)

The Cure - 10.15 Saturday Night (Session)

Winston Edwards And Blackbeard - Downing Street Rock (Studio 16)

Pathetix - Aleister Crowley (No Records)

Public Image Limited - Attack (Virgin)

O Level - Everybody's On Revolver Tonight (Kings Road Records)

John Peel - 9th January 1980

Featuring Spizz Energi in session.

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Holly And The Italians - Tell That Girl To Shut Up (Oval)

Spizz Energi - Where's Captain Kirk? (Session)

Ranking Dread - Super Star (Freedom Sounds)

The Chefs - Food (Attrix)

Disco Students - South Africa House (Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!)

Cabaret Voltaire - Silent Command (Rough Trade)

The Revillos - Motor Bike Beat (Snatzo)

Spizz Energi - Intimate (Session)

Simple Minds - Film Theme (Arista)

Simple Minds - Calling Your Name (Arista)

Simple Minds - Scar (Arista)

The Fegs - Mill Street Law And Order (Groucho Marxist Record Co-Op)

Mystic Eyes - Elaine (Warrior)

Spizz Energi - Touched (Session)

Eddie Lang And Lonnie Johnson - Two Tone Stomp (Parlophone)

The Specials - Stupid Marriage (2 Tone)

Ignerents - Radio Interference (Ace)

The Urge - Revolving Boy (Consumer Disk)

Tygers Of Pang Tang - Don't Touch Me There (Neat)

Standing Flat - Date Ripper (Mun?)

Negatives - Mon£y Talk (Aardvark)

The Negatives - Love Is Not Real (Look)

Upsetters - Keep On Skanking

John Peel - 4th January 1990

Featuring the magnificent Tunnel Frenzies in session.

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The Great Leap Forward - Heart And Soul (Communications Unique)
Warlocks Pinchers - Back In Black (Boner)
Albert Ammonds - Swanee River Boogie
Tunnel Frenzies - Fast Dream Speeding (Session)
Pinchers - Blinking Something (Greensleeves)
Tad - Wood Goblins (Glitterhouse)
How II House - Time 2 Feel The Rhythm (Outer Rhythm)
The Sundays - You're Not The Only One I Know (Rough Trade)
Verbal Assault - Exile (Konkurrel)
Speed Limit - Jimmy (Gramma)
Dog Bowl - Starving For Love (Shimmy Disc)
Tunnel Frenzies - Drowning School (Session)
Crooked Jack At The Kiwi Tavern - Raith Rovers (Confection)
Blake Babies - Cesspool (Mammoth)
Depth Charge - Bounty Killer (Vinyl Solution)
Melvins - Kool Legged (Tupelo)
Miracle Legion - The Backyard (Making Waves)
Lee Scratch Perry and The Mad Professor - Pirates (Ariwa)
Tunnel Frenzies - Turn The Screw (Session)
Joe Simon - You Keep Me Hanging On (Charly)
3rd Bass - Sons Of 3rd Bass (Def Jam)
The Sundays - My Finest Hour (Rough Trade)

John Peel - 28th December 1978

Featuring numbers 25-11 of the Festive Fifty of 1978 along with session tracks from Magazine, Alternative TV, Penetration and The Slits.

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Magazine - The Light Pours Out Of Me (Session)

Penetration - Future Daze (Session)

Alternative TV - Release The Natives (Session)

Magazine - Touch And Go (Session)

Magazine - My Mind Ain't So Open (Session)

Slits - Instant Hit (Session)

Penetration - Movement (Session)

Penetration - Stone Heroes (Session)

Alternative TV - Nasty Little Lonely (Session)

Magazine - Definitive Gaze (Session)

Slits - FM (Session)

Penetration - Vision (Session)

1978 Festive Fifty

25. Elvis Costello - Watching The Detectives (Stiff)

24. Jam - Down In The Tube Station At Midnight (Polydor)

23. Clash - Police And Thieves (CBS)

22. Siouxsie And The Banshees - Hong Kong Garden (Polydor)

21. Van Morrison - Madame George (Warner Bros.)

20. Rezillos - I Can't Stand My Baby (Sensible)

19. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird (MCA)

18. Sex Pistols - Holidays In The Sun (Virgin)

17. Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet (CBS)

16. David Bowie - Heroes (RCA)

15. The Clash - White Riot (CBS)

14. Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven (Atlantic)

13. The Damned - New Rose (Stiff)

12. Buzzcocks - Boredom (New Hormones)

11. Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster (Rough Trade)

John Peel - 27th December 1978

The second 1978 Festive 50 show which also features sessions from X-Ray Spex, Buzzcocks and Steel Pulse.

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X-Ray Spex - I Am a Poseur (Session)

Buzzcocks - Noise Annoys (Session)

Steel Pulse - Macka Splaff (Session)

X-Ray Spex - Art-I-Ficial (Session)

Buzzcocks - Walking Distance (Session)

Steel Pulse - Handsworth Revolution (Session)

X-Ray Spex - Identity (Session)

Buzzcocks - Late for the Train (Session)

Steel Pulse - Jah Pickney - R.A.R. (Session)

X-Ray Spex - Genetic Engineering (Session)

1978 Festive Fifty

40. The Stranglers - London Lady (United Artists)

39. The Who - My Generation (Brunswick)

38. Siouxsie And The Banshees - Overground (Polydor)

37. Elvis Costello - Alison (Stiff)

36. Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone (CBS)

35. The Motors - Dancing the Night Away (Virgin)

34. Siouxsie And The Banshees - Helter Skelter (Polydor)
33. The Stranglers - No More Heroes (United Artists)

32. The Stranglers - Hanging Around (United Artists)

31. Derek And The Dominoes - Layla (Polydor)

30. Buzzcocks - Moving Away from the Pulsebeat (United Artists)

29. Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond [parts I - V] (Harvest)

28. Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing (Vertigo)

27. Ian Dury - Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll (Stiff)

26. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run (Columbia)

John Peel - 26th December 1978

This was the first of four shows counting down the 1978 Festive 50.

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The Misunderstood - I Can Take You To The Sun (Fontana)

The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again (Track Record)

Little Feat - Long Distance Love (Warner Bros.)

The Doors - Riders On The Storm (Elektra)

The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever (Parlophone)

The Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar (Rolling Stones)

Poco - Rose Of Cimarron (ABC)

Free - All Right Now (Island)

Jimi Hendrix Experience - All Along The Watchtower (Track Record)

Derek And The Dominos - Layla (Polydor)

Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven (Atlantic)

1978 Festive Fifty

50. Siouxsie And The Banshees - Metal Postcard [Mittageisen] (Polydor)

49. Thin Lizzy - Emerald (Vertigo)

48. Neil Young - Like A Hurricane (Reprise)

47. Flying Lizards - Summertime Blues (Virgin)

46. Bob Dylan - Desolation Row (Columbia)

45. The Sex Pistols - EMI (Virgin)

44. The Jam - In the City (Polydor)

43. Siouxsie And The Banshees - Jigsaw Feeling (Polydor)

42. Siouxsie And The Banshees - Mirage (Polydor)

41. Siouxsie And The Banshees - Switch (Polydor)

John Peel - 20th December 2001

A fantastic Christmas show broadcast live from Peel Acres with session tracks from Lianne Hall, Camera Obscura, Cowcube and Melys

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Mud - Lonely This Christmas (RAK)

Lightnin' Hopkins - Merry Christmas (Bluesville)

Hellacopters - Cold Night For Alligators (White Jazz)

Lianne Hall - In The Bleak Midwinter / Soul Kid (Session)

Human League - All I Ever Wanted [Alter Ego Remix] (Klang Elektronik)

Buck Owens And The Buckeroos - Blue Christmas Lights (Capitol)

Peel Acres Choir - Ding Dong Merrily On High

Clinic - Welcome (Domino)

Dreadzone - Digital Mastermind (Ruff Life)

The Hottentots - Flame of Desire

Bellringers - Hark The Herald Angels Sing / Come All Ye Faithful / I Saw Three Ships

The Uniforms - This Is This, This Is Nothing Else

Camera Obscura - Happy New Year / Little Donkey (Session)

Tamlins And Trinity - Silent Night (MC Productions)

Peel Acres Choir - The Holly And The Ivy

Hefner - All I'll Ever Need (Too Pure)

Cowcube - Christmas Record (Session)

Cornershop - Lessons Learned From Rocky 1 To Rocky III [Cowcube Remix] (Wiiija)

Peel Acres Choir - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

Low - Just Like Christmas (Jeepster)

Maloko: In the Midnight Hour  London)

Melys - Chinese Whispers / Silent Night (Sessions)

John Fahey - Silent Night (Ace)

DJ Rupture - Peonie Peonie (Soot)

Peel Acres Choir - Deck The Halls

DJ Shufflemaster - Annex 4 [Fourthinter-Narita Remix] (Tresor)

Okkervil River - Listening To Otis Redding At Home During Christmas (Jagjaguwar)

Otis Redding - Ole Man Trouble (Volt)