Old Vinyl (Part 3)

 

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

Killing Joke - Love Like Blood

Another superb single from Killing Joke, an eighties highlight.

A - Love Like Blood
B - Blue Feather (Version)

Killing Joke - Adorations

I really love a lot of Killing Joke's singles but the albums don't really stick in the memory, maybe I just need to play them over and over again which sometimes changes my opinion (worked on the last Portishead album which I wasn't keen on at first but love now).

A - Adorations
B - Exile

Ashes To Ashes - Series One

Ashes to Ashes is the follow up series to the highly rated "Life on Mars", which featured 2006 detective Sam Tyler being thrown back to 1973.
For this series replace Sam with female detective Alex Drake who is this time thrown back to 1981 to solve the mystery of her parents death.
All far fetched but good entertainment :)
Also the series featured some great 80's music, the official soundtrack only features 19 of the 66 tracks used plus some dialogue and title themes.
This should be every track that was featured, although I've read some people claim to have heard a few others (but these are those listed on the official website).

01
Ultravox - Vienna
Duran Duran - Careless Memories
Tubeway Army - Are Friends Electric
David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes
The Passions - I'm In Love With a German Film Star
The Clash - I Fought The Law
The Stranglers - No More Heroes
02
Tenpole Tudor - Swords Of A Thousand Men
Madness - The Prince
Imagination - Body Talk
The Flying Lizards - Money
Visage - Fade To Grey
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Souvenir
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Geno
Heaven 17 - (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thing
Jon And Vangelis - I Hear You Now
Dexy's Midnight Runners - There There My Dear
Chas And Dave - Gertcha
03
The Ruts - Staring At The Rude Boys
Joe Jackson - It's Different For Girls
Roxy Music - Let's Stick Together
Roxy Music - Over You
Bucks Fizz - Making Your Mind Up
Modern Romance - Ay Ay Ay Ay Moosey
Duran Duran - Planet Earth
Altered Images - Happy Birthday
The Buzzcocks - Autonomy
The Beat - Doors Of Your Heart
04
Spandau Ballet - To Cut A Long Story Short
Shakin' Stevens - Green Door
Duran Duran - Girls On Film
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Enola Gay
The Clash - London Calling
Human League - Love Action
The Teardrop Explodes - Reward
The Clash - Police and Thieves
05
Madness - One Step Beyond
Simple Minds - I Travel
XTC - Sgt Rock (Is Going To Help Me)
Killing Joke - Turn To Red
Donna Summer - I Feel love
John Davis - Love Magic
Human League - Don't You Want Me
Sarah Brightman And Hot Gossip - I lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper
Soft Cell - Where Did Our Love Go
06
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
The Skids - Into The Valley
Roxy Music - Same Old Scene
The Beat - Mirror In The Bathroom
Spandau Ballet - Chant No 1
Kim Wilde - Kids In America
Ultravox - Vienna *
The Stranglers - Golden Brown
Japan - Ghosts
07
The Clash - Police On My Back
Kate Bush - The Man With The Child In His Eyes
The Beat - Whine And Grine
Michael Jackson - One Day In Your Life
David Bowie - Fame
The Selecter - Too Much Pressure
Peaches and Herb - Reunited
Marshall Hain - Dancing In the City
Rossini - William Tell Overture
08
Tom Robinson Band - 2 4 6 8 Motorway
David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes *
Supertramp - Take The Long Way Home
Bonus TracksIntroduction Dialogue - Alex Drake
Interlude Dialogue - You're Nicked
Edmund Butt - Gene Genie (Gene Hunt's Theme)
Edmund Butt - Title Music from Ashes To Ashes
Epilogue Dialogue - Fandabydozy

Killing Joke - Empire Song

This was the first Killing Joke song I ever heard, so I assumed they were a punk band .. I was wrong.
Still my fave track of their's closely followed by Love like blood from later in their career.

01 - Empire Song
02 - Brilliant