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
20 comments:
Spread the goodies..... the more people who have these the better the world will be.
I was that masked uploader several years ago and I still have the original cassettes on my desk in front of me. There were at least ten shows recorded for Virgin and these are shows 2, 5 & 10
I don't have a definitive tracklist to hand but corrections off the top of my head - 19/2/80 side 1, track 2 the band is "Clock DVA". The Cabaret Voltaire track on show one is called "Kirlian Photograph"
Enjoy everyone.
Haze
Thanks Haze, I can't remember where loads of my acquired stuff came from? blogs, torrents, newsgroups, borrowed CD's etc so I'll thank you now for these in case I didn't at the time :)
Now I'm gonna have to search for the other seven.
Thanks for the updates, I should have known Clock DVA and Kirlian sounds better than "curly and" :)
No thanks necessary, I'm just doing my job ;-)
I used to work at Virgin, I blagged these three tapes and my friend grabbed some of the others. Sadly I lost contact with him years ago. I haven't seen any of the other tapes since.
Excellent stuff. Cheers for putting this up Lee and well done Haze for doing a great job.
PS The Mekons song is called "Trevira Trousers" and is off their 1st album
Thanks Longy :)
and thanks to you and Haze for the corrections, now edited :)
Haze, do you have a blog or did I get these from another source?
Hi Lee, nice blog by the way.
I start planning a blog ever other week and then the real world and work get in the way and nothing happens.
I uploaded these to UKNova in the Peel frenzy that followed his death. We all hoped that it would jog someone's memory and the others would surface. Sadly five years later these seem to be the only ones out there.
Hi Lee, (nice blog by the way)
Every now and then I plan to start a blog and then real life (and work) gets in the way and nothing happens. One of these days, maybe.
Thanks Haze, yes shame none of the others have appeared and believe me I have been looking, I'm sure I would have found them as I was used to cover all bases for old and rare stuff from that era.
Oooh. these look tasty - looking forward to cranking them up.
Much thanks!
I always thought Sound and Fury by Phillip Rambow was a great song so thank you.
Lovely stuff and great memories, many thx
great blog....wonder if any readers can help me identify a track?year 1980-ish...approximate lyrics:
I don't get on with my mum
I don't get on with my dad
they get me up in the morning
but I keep them awake at night...(awesome tortured sax solo)in the style of Neon/Don't eat bricks.....John played it just once
Not one I'm familiar with anon but maybe someone else might know it?
Did a google and just came up with someone asking the same question (maybe you?) in 2007 on a new wave forum, and no one seems to have replied :(
cheers for these.cant believe i only noticed this post now!
Hi - do you still have these Peel Virgin tapes? No links but would love to hear them
All three are listed on the John Peel Wikia and the links should still work. I'll go check in a minute... This link should take you right there. http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Search?search=Virgin+in-store&fulltext=Search&ns0=1&ns14=1#
Enjoy,
Haze
Well done Haze :)
Can't believe anyone still looks at this blog as I have neglected it badly and all my links are dead and gone.
4 of the 6 files appear to be live and I'm going to have a look around that site and more for the rest of these, just in case we ever find all the missing ones :)
I got an email notification that someone had commented so I popped along to see what was happening. I must admit I don't have much time for mining the blogsites anymore.
I'll get those wiki pages updated with working links
Haze
If you're interested in all stuff Peel, the people who started the wikia are from https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/peel
It's a bit quiet in there at the moment but livens up when anyone finds a new recording
Haze
Yeah I got the e-mail as well :)
I will give it a look, have scaled down all my music searching over the years as I think I have enough to last me till I die ...
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