Peel Sessions
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Deafie
Guru
- Location
- So good they named it twice
Excellent! I had forgotten about Brand X, one of my favourite albums as a kid was Morrocan Roll.
raleighnut
Legendary Member
- Location
- One of the 'Elite'
TMIUATGA* was always a favourite track, just goes to show Philip Collins could really play drums.
* They're Making It Up As The Go Along
AndyRM
XOXO
- Location
- North Shields
Wow. Made so many musical discoveries thanks to him, what an archive!
Deafie
Guru
- Location
- So good they named it twice
I know, I heard it before I knew it was him and I can remember my surprise, he really is a great drummer!
Kempstonian
Has the memory of a goldfish
- Location
- Bedford
Thanks for posting this link, I'm going to enjoy checking out some of those bands! 
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Yes - I have been picking sessions at random and running them in another window while I work/play.
It has given me flashbacks to being a student in Manchester/Salford in the mid-1980s. When I moved there I got myself a nice flat above a newsagent on Chapel Street. My TV developed a fault in the first week I was there. I repaired it but then it burned out the motherboard about a month later so I decided to forget about watching TV altogether. I went out and bought myself a decent hifi system and listened to music every night while I studied. Weekday evenings David Jensen had a R1 show followed by 2 hours of John Peel. I don't think I missed an evening in nearly 3 years.
I could pretty much guarantee that on every Peel show there would be something that I had never heard before - and never wanted to hear again!
BUT... there would also be something amazing that I would never have got to hear otherwise.
Yes - I have been picking sessions at random and running them in another window while I work/play.
It has given me flashbacks to being a student in Manchester/Salford in the mid-1980s. When I moved there I got myself a nice flat above a newsagent on Chapel Street. My TV developed a fault in the first week I was there. I repaired it but then it burned out the motherboard about a month later so I decided to forget about watching TV altogether. I went out and bought myself a decent hifi system and listened to music every night while I studied. Weekday evenings David Jensen had a R1 show followed by 2 hours of John Peel. I don't think I missed an evening in nearly 3 years.
I could pretty much guarantee that on every Peel show there would be something that I had never heard before - and never wanted to hear again!
Sounds similar to me. I was a student in the mid to late 80s
I used to tape John Peel shows sometimes, especially the festive 50s. I listened to the tapes so much that JP’s ramblings between songs became as familiar as the songs themselves.
Even now there are some songs I can’t listen to without expecting John Peel to say something when it finishes