John Peel - For Virgin Record Stores

Let's get some credibility back to this blog, these are really good.
Picked these up from somewhere (big thanks to Mr Original uploader, whoever you were) about 3-4 years back and only recently gave them a good listen, brilliant stuff from John Peel. All tapes recorded for use in Virgin record stores in 79/80 each one contains about an hour of current (at the time) releases with some great fill-ins by JP.
Not 100% sure of some of the band names and titles just going on what it sounds like to me.

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For Virgin Record Stores 16/10/79

First up is one listed as being recorded 16th October 79.
Good selection here with 3 Specials tracks and the brilliant "Turn to red" by Killing Joke as well as some good ones I didn't know before like the Capital Letters and Freshmen tracks.

Great lines from Peel in this one include -
On Killing Joke "it could be Public Image having a joke at our expense except I don't think Public image are as good as that"
On the Girl track "Here's your chance to bang your head against something solid and immovable, a member of the Virgin staff perhaps"

(Part One)
Specials - Stupid Marriage
Killing Joke - Turning Red
Sneak Preview - Slugweird
Capital Letters - Unemployed
Home Service - Wake Up
Girl - My Number
Cabaret Voltaire - Kirlian Photograph

(Part Two)
Specials - Dawning Of A New Era
Freshmen - You've Never Heard Anything Like It
Pink Military - Spellbound
Jackie Lee - Do The Duck
Killing Joke - Are You Receiving
Phillip Rambo - The Sound And The Fury
Secret Affair - Let Your Heart Dance
Specials - Too Much Too Young
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For Virgin Record Stores 05/12/79

Second of three of these Virgin stores tapes, another excellent selection with a few well known names thrown in.
Best Peel comments on this one - On U2 "A Boomtown Rats for the 1980's", and "wait until you hear the other side of the tape .. absolute crap".

(Part One)
U2 - Out Of Control
Kid Thomas - Rocking This Joint Tonight
Clash - Rudy Can't Fail
Beat - Tears Of A Clown
Ruefrex - One By One
Michael Campbell - Dubwise?
Capital Punishment - Save Your Kisses For Me
Undertones - Baby It Hurts

(Part Two)
Beat - Ranking Full Stop
Delta Five - Mind Your Own Business
Mikey Dread - Saturday Night Style
Clash - Working For The Clampdown
Screaming Jay Hawkins - I Put A Spell On You
Mekons - Trevira Trousers
Derrick Morgan - Moon Hop
Rentals - New York
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For Virgin Record Stores 19/02/80

Here's number three, another random selection of old and new from Peel.
This one had more tracks that I didn't know than the others but still worth listening to.
I guess these were done in one take as the Stunt Kites record gets stuck halfway through which isn't a good advert for a record shop.
The first track which sounds like it's from an early Jackie Chan movie is actually the 1979 German Eurovision song contest entry!! obviously Peel wasn't aware of this as he says it's "a wildly over the top record from Hong Kong".
Best Peel comment on this one - "buy, buy and then fuck off out of the shop"

(Part One)
Lamb - Dschinghis Khan
Clock DVA - Brigade
Derrick Morgan - Moon Hop
Bodies - Art Nouveaux
Selecter - Every Day
Cuff Links - Guided Missiles
Any Trouble - Yesterday's Love
Stunt Kites - Beautiful People
Burning Spear - Getting From Bad To Worse

(Part Two)
Jimmy Reid - Shucks Hush Your Mouth
Vice Versa - Genetic Warfare
Misfits - Horror Business
Paul Williams - House Rocking
Tiller Boys - Big Noise From The Jungle
Sugar Minott - Carry Me Gone To Jailhouse
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Happy House
I'm So Hollow - I Don't Know

Led Zeppelin - IV

The fourth of Led Zeppelin's untitled albums and one that most people will know even if they don't follow the band due to including the track that most people will associate with them "Stairway to Heaven", it also includes all time greats "Black Dog" and "Rock and Roll" and five other great tracks although I'm not a fan of "The Battle of Evermore".
I still have this on vinyl which I think I kept because it came on pink vinyl (see below) and I hoped it would be worth something one day :)

Useless info - I downloaded well over 100 different versions of Stairway to Heaven from the WMFU blog a few years back, and about 10 were really good :)

01 Black Dog
02 Rock And Roll
03 The Battle Of Evermore
04 Stairway To Heaven
05 Misty Mountain Hop
06 Four Sticks
07 Going To California
08 When The Levee Breaks

Boot Sale Tales

I went out Sunday morning to a boot sale for the first time in over a year determined to buy some more vinyl, always in the hope of coming across someone selling the stuff I sold about 20 years for a pittance.
It was looking like a waste of time for the first 2 hours as every stall I went to that had boxes of vinyl were asking stupid prices for some poor quality stuff :(
One stall had a load of 12" singles and after going through the lot found only 2 that I might have bought in amongst a pile of crap, "how much" I asked, "a pound" she replied, "each?" "pound each" "anything off I buy a few?" "pound each" she says giving me a dirty look, now probably 95% of what she was selling you'd find in any charity shop for 10p.
The next one had some singles all in tatty covers and mostly scratched, "how much" "from a pound" was the reply, I saw a copy of Dr Feelgood's milk and alcohol on brown vinyl I'd sold my copy many years back when I was broke, "is this a pound" I asked "no that one's 3 quid" I was told :(

The boot sale was close to ending and I saw a box of singles with no covers, I was told they were 50p each, I said in that state the box full was only worth a pound and to my surprise he accepted it :) now most of them are virtually unplayable but 4 T-Rex singles for a pound seemed reasonable to me.








As I was walking back to the car one last stall had a box of albums, I started looking through and saw a few good ones and was told they were 4 for a pound, while going through them he said I could have the lot for £3 :)
So £3 straight in his hand and I got 82 albums and a laserdisc!! which works out at about 4p each, about half of them are by artists I have liked so it was well worth it, mainly 80's bands like Tears for fears, Human league, OMD, Erasure, China Crisis, Christians etc, although if I hadn't spotted the Yachts album I might have walked on and missed out.