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Peel compilation: full track listing

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Posted: 20 Sep '05, 12:20
A double-disc compilation album featuring an array of bands championed by the late John Peel will hit stores on the Monday (October 17th) following John Peel Day (Thursday October 13th).

Released through Warner Strategic Marketing, the album features the likes of the Super Furry Animals and Blur. A portion of profits will go to charities - the Salvation Army, East Anglia's Children's Hospices and the Kariandusi School Trust. Full track listing below.

CD1
Lonnie Donegan - Lost John
Tyrannosaurus Rex - Deborah
Pink Floyd - Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
Jim Hendrix Experience - Spanish Castle Magic
Van Morrison - Sweet Thing
David Bowie - Life On Mars
The Doors - Five To One
Tim Buckley - Song For A Siren
Rod Stewart/The Faces - Stay With Me
The Misunderstood - I Can Take You To The Sun
Country Joe & The Fish - Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine
Fairport Convention - Meet On The Ledge
Captain Beefheart - Big Eyed Beans From Vegas
Loudon Wainwright III - Be Careful There Is A Baby In The House
Roy Buchanan - I Am a Lonesome Fugitive
The Bonzo Dog Doodah Band - Mr Apollo
The Ramones - I Don't Want To Walk Around With You
The Clash - Complete Control
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
New Order - Ceremony

CD2
The Undertones - Teenage Kicks
Altered Images - Happy Birthday
The Smiths - How Soon Is Now
The Cocteau Twins - Pearly-Dewdrops Drops
Jesus & Mary Chain - Sidewalking
Blur - Song 2
Culture - Lion Rock
Billy Bragg - New England
Robert Wyatt - Shipbuilding
The Wedding Present - Brassneck
PJ Harvey - Sheila Na Gig
Pulp - Common People
The Fall - Theme From Sparta F.C.
Super Furry Animals - Something For The Weekend
Nina Nastasia - Bird Of Cuzco
The Delgados - Pull The Wires From The Wall
Belle & Sebastian - Lazy Line Painer Jane
Laura Cantrell - Two Seconds
Orbital - Chime
Elmore James - Dust My Blues

DiScuss: What?! No Helen Love? No Trencher? What the fuck?!

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Peel compilation: full track listing

What no Bright Eyes !?!
gay4conoroberst | 20 Sep '05, 12:25 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Why bother with this compilation CD at all?

Is Peel to become a BBC brand from the grave courtesy of 'Warner Strategic Marketing' - I hope not.
Or if he is then I at least want the Ivor Cutler box-set.
Anschul | 20 Sep '05, 23:14 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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yeah i think so too, i'll be buying it for sure
goldielocks | 13 Oct '05, 08:36 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Peel compilation: full track listing

Sounds like a good compilation to me. Can't keep everybody happy I suppose.
cadd | 20 Sep '05, 12:30 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Peel compilation: full track listing

Good point Cadd.

I mean I'd like to see Hefner on there (also surprised I can't see the Undertones) but it looks like a very good compilation and there's no way you can fit everything on.

Bet there's a sequel though...
theguywithnousername | 20 Sep '05, 12:32 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I'm surprised you can't see the undertones, too! Lots of good music, but I could probably have predicted about a third of those choices. Predictable + Peel = something not quite right. Still, it's for charity and a hell of a lot better than most indie compilations we'll see this year.
thewarn | 20 Sep '05, 12:42 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Peel compilation: full track listing

30 unlabelled demos from his collection would be a more fitting release
Recorded at the wrong speed to fit onto one CD
JustJay | 20 Sep '05, 12:40 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Peel compilation: full track listing

hehe that would be great.. wait, no Samurai Seven? Hefner? Bearsuit? Just a load of songs from bands most people have heard already?

Surely with the capacity of 2 discs, they could at least spare 30 minutes to show the world what John actually stood for.
benmarwood | 20 Sep '05, 12:45 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Peel compilation: full track listing

They're all tunes form the all time festive 50 .. i.e his listeners, not him.
RW12 | 20 Sep '05, 12:47 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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come on lets face it anyone who needs a compilation of Peel 'songs' is missing the point - so what if there's no Bright bloody Eyes on there - its not like its the only form of media out there you can hear some rather mild Yank indie on -and this thread could be endless with people saying 'what no 3 Johns, Bogshed, Yummy Fur, Truman's Water, Snow Patrol?' - remember the man dont accessorize the records he liked
prole-art-threat | 20 Sep '05, 13:23 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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You appear to be missing the point...The 'No Bright Eyes!' post was concerning Connor's rather ill-advised comments from The John Peel stage at Glasto...Something about him being a coke head...
Grammar | 20 Sep '05, 13:33 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Peel compilation: full track listing

the captain beefheart song is actually "Big Eyed Beans from Venus", and not "Vegas"...
cheepnis | 20 Sep '05, 13:42 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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You beat me to it!
congaeel | 20 Sep '05, 14:46 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I'm dissapointed theres no Napalm Death or Carcass on that. I assiocate them with Peel than a lot of the aritsts on that comp.
deathmike | 20 Sep '05, 13:47 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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What no Tystion!!!!

Not that they were the best in the world or anything, but Peely was big on getting Welsh language stuff a leg up. He picked the band to support PJ Harvey during One Live in Cardiff yonks ago too.

Ahem...: I was talking to him that night and he asked if I could send him translations of the lyrics to Tystion's latest album - Hen Gelwydd Prydain Newydd - and a few weeks later i get a hand written postcard from the guy thanking me for my troubles. Prized posession or what!
Jane-O | 20 Sep '05, 15:08 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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No Lightning Bolt either...
Brainerd | 20 Sep '05, 17:31 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Theres no S R C I just loved Black sheep and because he played it at the wrong speed last outing i love it even more. It's not a bad selection though there are a few obvious omissions.
How about when he was stealing Williams Drum n Bass and jungle records. And no tasha killer pussies or Lauren Garnier you could go on and on. As i said it 's a reasonable selection and opens the door an inch or two into alternative artists/musical genres and then allows the listener to go out and hunt down those white label demos and rarities. If you want it bad enough then you will trail around every secondhand record store untill you find it.

porcupinechild | 20 Sep '05, 17:44 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Only a portion of the profits? Not all the profits?
Teepee_uk | 20 Sep '05, 18:19 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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no half man half biscuit!?
liono | 20 Sep '05, 19:40 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Purely to be the opposite to all the other posts:

Yay for including Belle & Seb!

Yay for including Billy Bragg!

"Shipbuiding" - Woo Hoo!

And despite the fact that Pulp, Clash, Smiths, Joy Division, David Bowie and the Undertones were hardly surprise inclusions, great songs by them all!

theguywithnousername | 21 Sep '05, 00:00 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Peel compilation: full track listing

No Mogwai? I don't need to be given something in exchange for helping others, I'll be giving the £12.99 to charity instead I think.
IranDIS | 21 Sep '05, 00:26 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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lol i like the idea of 30 demos at the wrong speed on one disk, that would be quality!
blingblingbling | 21 Sep '05, 16:09 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I won't buy it as I have virtually all the material already, sure you can't fit everything on but no McCarthy,Birthday Party or Half-Man? I think cd1 is a waste of time and ought to have been crammed full of more indie jewels! And why not do a compilation of the best of the Festive 50's? And WHY can't they release all the Peel Sessions Lp's, like Wedding Present, The Fall, Joy Division etc, and who can forget the wonderful ranting verse session from the redoubtable Seething Wells? (Craig)
fieldmouse | 21 Sep '05, 18:11 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Don't worry. All the bands that are not on the compilation, but you feel SHOULD be there will eventually make it on Peel Compilation 11.
IanK | 22 Sep '05, 04:25 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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im just gonna keep my tapes of peel stuff... it does seem weird to have no half man half biscuit, mogwai or melt bannana... and i make it two dance singles - where is the gabba

shit records are always compilations - just keep buying 7" singles of new / charity shop stuff and leave the 'now thats what i call peel' to fuckers.

in fact its just nonsence trying to make a peel compilation - there is only one and its at johns house...


attitude | 22 Sep '05, 16:09 | Send note | Report this | Reply


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