Podcasts about festive fifty

Mark Hoyle in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.route-online.com/all-books/swerve https://dubsex.net/about Dub Sex are often cited as one of Manchester's greatest ‘lost' bands. Formed in the concrete landscape of 1980s Hulme, their music is appropriately raw and intense, bass-led with wiry guitar patterns swirling around the impassioned vocal style and presence of frontman Mark Hoyle.  They came to prominence over the release of five critically acclaimed EPs and mini-albums in the late 80s. John Peel picked up on them from the outset playing a demo recording of ‘Tripwire!' later describing the band on-air as “one of my very favourites”. Dub Sex went on to record 4 sessions for his BBC Radio show, the first of which incredibly aired 3 times in just 6 weeks during Feb/Mar 1987.   ‘Tripwire!' saw a formal release later in 1987 on the band's debut EP. The mini-album ‘Push' and ‘The Underneath' EP soon followed. Enthusiastic music press reviews helped the band's profile rise amongst the post-punk fraternity and incendiary live shows led to several TV appearances including BBC's influential ‘Snub TV' and Tony Wilson's Granada show ‘The Other Side of Midnight'.   By early 1989 and the release of the ‘Swerve' EP, Dub Sex had become Indie Chart regulars with ‘Swerve' also making John Peel's ‘Festive Fifty' at the end of that year.  

Andrea Parker and Paul Adams of indie legends MELYS give us the five tracks they will meet in Hell!Andrea and Paul chatted about making music as a couple, walking away from fame after their song Chinese Whispers won John Peel's Festive Fifty listener vote, and gathering moss. They also put the boot in to Hellish perennials Oasis.We're putting this out to celebrate the release of Melys's comeback single, Santa Cruz. It's a solid gold banger and it came out yesterday (Friday 29th November if you're reading this on the day it goes out.) You'll hear a little clip in the episode, which is nowhere near enough of its pop splendour; so after you've heard the interview, head over to wherever you get your music and check it out!This is the last episode of season one of Hellish. We'll be back with new damned souls in February 2025. However, that does not mean we're done with the old damned souls, or that we're completely done with 2024. Check back December 1st for another little surprise...Head to https://www.patreon.com/hellishpod to access episodes early and ad free, where you will find out which artists our guests will meet in Hell. You'll also get our two pilot episodes, and a bunch of other stuff depending which tier you pick - including the chance to come and work for Hell's H.R. department! If you just want to be nice/bribe your way out of Hell then you can also tip us over at https://www.ko-fi.com/hellishpodHellish has a bookshop! Order from https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/hellish to help us out!Find us on Spotify to hear the songs on Melys's Infernal Playlist in full, as well as the Ultimate Infernal Playlist which combines the choices of every damned soul we've met so far. https://tinyurl.com/hellishpodYou can find us/beg for absolution on social media...Instagram: www.instagram.com/hellish_podThreads: https://www.threads.net/@hellish_podFacebook: www.facebook.com/hellishpodcastBlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/hellishpod.comTwitter: www.twitter.com/hellishpodTikTok: www.tiktok.com/hellishpod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kazuko Hohki in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.kazukohohki.com/ https://www.cherryred.co.uk/frank-chickens?srsltid=AfmBOooDDNlbGuF-rplim_W0Q1z4FFliWJ_ehN3sGCtlLFB0W4kpAGNM Frank Chickens are a Japanese musical group based in London, who have performed songs mainly in English since 1982. They were nominated for the 1984 Edinburgh Comedy Award for their performance at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In the same year, their single "Blue Canary" was number 42 in BBC DJ John Peel's Festive Fifty, a poll of his listeners' favourite tracks of the year. The band recorded 28 songs over five sessions for Peel between 1983 and 1989. In 1989 they hosted a television chat show on Channel 4 entitled Kazuko's Karaoke Klub. One of the founders of the group, Kazuko Hohki performs as a theatre artist and performance artist. She also sang with the group Kahondo Style who released 'My Heart's In Motion' (1985) and 'Green Tea and Crocodiles' (1987). She is married to record producer Grant Showbiz.

Episode 933: The Listener Voted Festive Fifty One for 2023 : Part Three - Counting down from 17 to 1... PLUS Benjamin Zephaniah & Terry Hall

Episode 932: The Listener Voted Festive Fifty One for 2023 : Part Two - Counting down from 34 to 18... PLUS Benjamin Zephaniah & Terry Hall

The Listener Voted Festive Fifty One for 2023 : Part One - Counting down from 51 to 34

1987: The year of the mega-album (Bad...Faith...The Joshua Tree...Appetite For Destruction...The Zit Remedy...) big, booming, glossy pop singles, hair metal, mall pop and hip-hop. But, lurking beneath that "high '80s" sheen were some of the finest alternative songs of the O3L era. That, dear listener, is where we come in. In 1987's indie world, it didn't get much bigger than The Wedding Present, led by singer/songwriter/guitarist AND this week's Third Lad, David Gedge. The Weddoes, as they are affectionately known by fans, scored a #1 indie LP with their debut full-length, George Best, and occupied five spots (including four in the Top 10) on the legendary John Peel's year end Festive Fifty list. Over the next decade, The Wedding Present would remain a vital fixture on the scene, racking up 16 UK Top 40 hits. In 1992 alone, they tied a record set by Elvis Presley by releasing twelve Top 30 singles within a twelve-month period. Since then, the ever-prolific self-professed "workaholic" Gedge has released a consistent string of records both under The Wedding Present and Cinerama monikers, right up to the brand new Weddoes triple album 24 Songs. 24 Songs collects the twelve 7" singles (once every month) that Gedge and band released during 2022. This remarkable set is now available from Happy Happy Birthday To Me in the US and Clue Records in the UK. https://hhbtm.bandcamp.com. Come on in to the deep end...just remember that we're never gonna give you up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1987: The year of the mega-album (Bad...Faith...The Joshua Tree...Appetite For Destruction...The Zit Remedy...) big, booming, glossy pop singles, hair metal, mall pop and hip-hop. But, lurking beneath that "high '80s" sheen were some of the finest alternative songs of the O3L era. That, dear listener, is where we come in. In 1987's indie world, it didn't get much bigger than The Wedding Present, led by singer/songwriter/guitarist AND this week's Third Lad, David Gedge. The Weddoes, as they are affectionately known by fans, scored a #1 indie LP with their debut full-length, George Best, and occupied five spots (including four in the Top 10) on the legendary John Peel's year end Festive Fifty list. Over the next decade, The Wedding Present would remain a vital fixture on the scene, racking up 16 UK Top 40 hits. In 1992 alone, they tied a record set by Elvis Presley by releasing twelve Top 30 singles within a twelve-month period. Since then, the ever-prolific self-professed "workaholic" Gedge has released a consistent string of records both under The Wedding Present and Cinerama monikers, right up to the brand new Weddoes triple album 24 Songs. 24 Songs collects the twelve 7" singles (once every month) that Gedge and band released during 2022. This remarkable set is now available from Happy Happy Birthday To Me in the US and Clue Records in the UK. https://hhbtm.bandcamp.com. Come on in to the deep end...just remember that we're never gonna give you up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dolan Hewison in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.au-turn.com/about The band recorded three sessions for John Peel's radio show, the first two of which were compiled onto an album, The Peel Sessions in 1991. Their song "Big" also reached No. 14 in the Festive Fifty in 1990 and featured on the influential 1990 compilation album Happy Daze. Their lone charting success in the United States was the single "Stockholm", which reached No. 30 on the Billboard Modern Rock charts in 1993.

BTW if you listen to any of the links: Play loud (but please don't damage your ears!)Links All the Day and All of the Night:  The Kinks:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6qYstpbNu4 New Dawn Fades Joy Division: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHC2ozNKfYA New Rose  The Damned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUxFQ5QBiYk Long distance runaround  Yes:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS-k02hf-hI Roundabout  Yes:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPCLFtxpadE Little fluffy clouds   The Orb  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNfjpmvbQG0 Nelly the elephant by the Toy Dolls:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m7tPikH0UA Song 2 Blur:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz4l9_bzfZM Roots Manuva,  Witness the Fitness  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltP7L16A8Hs Rizzle Kicks   Prophet:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lLyr76L5Ic Sammy Virji.  Daga da:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9nm50vmQks Stranglers    Nice  N Sleazy:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAEM40UYKeU Nina Simone  My baby just cares for me:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZS7iKdRo5Q Strawbs   Part of the Union:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJYbFFFZwdE Queen  The Show Must Go On:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t99KH0TR-J4 Amy Winehouse You know I'm know good.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-I2s5zRbHg Grinderswitch: Pickin the Blues:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJjFWGd8iPg   

The Listener Voted Festive Fifty One, part three, the big reveal! An archive or a live broadcast on Radio23.org.

It's the Listener Voted Festive Fifty One, part two. An archive or a live broadcast on Radio23.org.

It's the Listsenr Voted Festive Fifty One, part one. An archive or a live broadcast on Radio23.org.

Looks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to.Joining Tim this time is author, restaurant critic and broadcaster Grace Dent, and they're comparing notes on what they would bring to an Ultimate Christmas Experience including the Have A Cracking Christmas At Woolworths and Christmas '82 - Today's Tesco adverts, Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer pilot The Weekenders, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie pilot The Crystal Cube, John Peel's Festive Fifty, The NME Singles Of The Year 1991, Sky Star Search, the lost Doctor Who panto episode from 1965, The Butthole Surfers appearing on Snub TV, a disastrous interview from Channel 4's Naked City, Chas'n'Dave's Christmas Knees-Up, Chorlton In The Iceworld, Banned From The Pubs by Peter And The Test Tube Babies, Weed Bus by The Stairs, and some unwelcome intrusions from Max Headroom, a shower of 'refreshed' Granada announcers and the Test Card Clown - but no Test Card Girl. Along the way we'll be testing the scientific veracity of Schrodinger's Peel Session, querying whether David Quantick is the real Santa, suffering from Hugh Laurie Seasickness, discovering the exact wrong Pulp song to serenade someone with, and calling for the immediate abolition of Sexually Assertive Butter Men.You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/.

Der Versuch unsere Radiomacher in Zeiten der Isolation via Telefon ins Radio zu bekommen. Abendmagazin in der Sommerpause. Wir senden nochmal das Interview vom 11. Februar 2021 mit Ralf Wendt, unabhängiger Vogelkundler und Autor der Radiorubrik – Vogel der Woche. Und der Wetterbericht vom 20. Mai 2021. ## Musik 1. Squarepusher – My red hot car: #20 (John Peel's Festive Fifty - 2001) 2. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – Radio Waves (Dazzle Ships – 1983) 3. Stereo Total – Du Bist Gut Zu Vögeln (Baby Ouh! – 2010) 4. SOK – Der grüne Vogel (SOK feat. Anders, Forsthoff, Gumpert, Sommer – 1994) 5. Solid C & Bobby Daley & Kool Drop – Wack Rap (BOOMBOX 3: Early Independent Hip Hop, Electro And Disco Rap 1979-83 – 2018) ## Abendmagazin Der Versuch unsere Radiomacher in Zeiten der Isolation via Telefon ins Radio zu bekommen. zur Zeit ein Testaufbau - mal sehen, was sich entwickelt.

When someone asked John Peel what the best year for music was, he said “this one”. I've been recording a podcast focused on new music for 15 years so I understand and agree with that sentiment. But, if pushed, I would choose 1982 and, it's interesting... I would be wrong! 1982 was a significant year for me musically because it was when I started listening to the John Peel radio show and broadened my musical horizons. I'd been listening to late night radio for a while, with head and radio under the covers so that my parents couldn't hear. I'd tried Peel's Radio 1 show but found it too frightening. I preferred the satirical humor and radio theatre of Radio 2 and Radio 4. But in 1982 I realized what a terrible mistake I'd made and the likes of the Farmers Boys, The Higsons and the Cocteau Twins were to be cherished, not to be frightened of. But in compiling this episode, I realize, sure... that's when it started. But it was the discovery of the Festive Fifty at Christmas time (when Peel's listeners voted for their favorite tracks of the year) that really captured my imagination. That set-up 1983 for a glorious year of musical discovery. But it all starts here, in that transition year of 1982.

The Delgados special with Emma Pollock in conversation Their first commercial release came with the inclusion of their track "Liquidation Girl" on the compilation album Skookum Chief Powered Teenage Zit Rock Angst from Nardwuar the Human Serviette. Instead of signing to a record label, the band started their own, Chemikal Underground, on which they released their own records and also some from other local bands, among them Mogwai and Arab Strap. Chemikal Underground's first release was the Delgados first single "Monica Webster / Brand New Car". The single caught the attention of BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel, and the band quickly became one of his favourites, going on to record seven sessions for his show. The cost of Chemikal Underground's second release, the single "Disco Nation 45" by Bis, left the cash-strapped label unable to afford another release by the Delgados, so their next release "Lazarwalker" came from the London-based Radar Records. Tempted by Radar to a five-album deal, the band declined, instead poaching their A&R contact, Graeme Beattie, for work at Chemikal Underground. Another single, "Cinecentre" followed in early 1996 as the band juggled work at the label with several tours, and recorded their debut album. The band released two more singles, this time taken from their album Domestiques released in November 1996. The song "Under Canvas, Under Wraps" being voted number three in John Peel's Festive Fifty that year. The band released their second album in 1998. Peloton - also a cycling reference. The single "Pull the Wires From the Wall" gave the Delgados their first hit single in the UK Singles Chart, reaching number 69.[3] The band's close relationship with Peel continued, with "Pull the Wires From the Wall" voted to number one in the Festive Fifty (it would also make the all time chart made in 2000). The Delgados' evolution continued with The Great Eastern in 2000. The record was produced by Dave Fridmann. Their next single, "American Trilogy", reached number 61 in the UK chart. Their fourth album, Hate, was released on Mantra rather than the band's own label. The song "The Light Before We Land" was used as the opening theme for the anime Gunslinger Girl, while the song "Woke From Dreaming" is played at the beginning of episode 7. The band returned to their own label for 2004's Universal Audio. The band announced they were splitting up in April 2005 due to the departure of Henderson who found it difficult "to pour so much of my energy and time into something that never quite seemed to get the attention or respect [he] felt it deserved." The four will continue to run Chemikal Underground together. Songwriters Pollock and Woodward are pursuing individual projects, while Savage will continue production duties at the band's Chem19 in a new studio. Since the band's separation, the track "I Fought the Angels" from Universal Audio has been used in the fourth episode in the second season of the Golden Globe-winning medical drama Grey's Anatomy in 2006, and in the opening scene in the series premiere of BBC Three's Lip Service in 2010. A double disc containing 29 tracks, The Complete BBC Peel Sessions, was released on 12 June 2006 in Europe, and later in the year in the United States. Woodward released his debut solo album in June 2009 under the name Lord Cut-Glass. Savage also played on the album.

The Very Things special with The Shend in conversation. When The Cravats split up in 1982, guitarist Robin Raymond (aka Robin R. Dalloway) and bassist/singer The Shend (aka Chris Shendo, born Chris Harz) formed The Very Things, recruiting drummer Gordon Disneytime (aka Robin Holland), bassist Jim Davis (guitarist with Redditch band CKV) for the first live gigs, followed by bassist Steven Burrows (aka Fudger O'Mad or Budge), who is band mate of And Also The Trees.  The band also originally had a horn section of Vincent Johnson, John Graham, Robert Holland, and Paul Green.  Debut single "The Gong Man" was released on Crass's label in November 1983, with "The Bushes Scream While My Daddy Prunes" following in June 1984, now signed to Reflex Records. A short film was made based on the latter for Channel 4's The Tube. The band's debut album was released in August 1984, after which the band was trimmed to the core trio. Several singles and EPs followed over the next few years, although a cover of R. Dean Taylor's "There's a Ghost In My House" was withdrawn in 1987 due to The Fall's version appearing at the same time.[2] By 1988 the band had split up, although they had recorded enough material for an album release on One Little Indian, the Motown-influenced Motortown. The original albums, along with a collection of non-album tracks, were reissued by Fire Records in 1994. The Very Things recorded two Peel Sessions, in 1983 and 1987, and two tracks, "The Bushes Scream While My Daddy Prunes" and "This Is Motortown" featured in the Festive Fifty. The Shend formed a new band, Grimetime, and has since gone on to an acting career, appearing in television series including EastEnders, Red Dwarf, The Bill, Men Behaving Badly, and Torchwood.  

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are Emmy-winning writer DAVID QUANTICK (Go West, The Mule, The Thick Of It, Veep, The Blagger's Guide) and blogger and author JO MIDDLETON (Slummy Single Mummy, Playgroups and Prosecco). In this episode we encounter a vicar inappropriately sponging his aspidistra, recall the postage stamps that only existed in sweetshop packets, and relive the horrors and indignities of school foreign exchanges. Along the way we discuss the Soviet space programme, the days when radio requests were sent by postcard and John Peel's missing Festive Fifty. Hide the rabbit's head behind the cruet, for the Cosmos belongs to us all. Wish you were here? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Here's a poptastic look back at some of the highs, some of the lows, and some of the Beesotted crew's fave moments of 2015 #brentfordfc

Here we are at the penultimate podcast of the year, and the one immediately preceding Christmas.  I really don't like 99% of Christmas music so there's pretty close to none of it at all on here, although I have made a couple of exceptions as a lazy sort of nod to the season.  Let's face it, if the druids can be arsed dancing about like idiots around Stonehenge and people can fall out over half-defrosted turkeys then I can probably make the effort to shove a couple of token musical nods onto a single podcast, can't I.

 I actually take a lot of this podcast from my recently-published albums of the year list, and from my as-yet-unpublished Festive Fifty, so it's a bit of a yearly roundup as well. And in fact, seeing as Christmas is a Sunday, I won't actually be posting until Boxing Day now, so this will be the last post before Christmas so umm, in the off-chance I don't bump into you on Facebook, Twitter or down the pub, I better wish you Happy Christmas now, hadn't I. 01. Tom Lehrer - A Christmas Carol (00.23)02. The Black Tambourines - Bad Days (05.09)03. The Low Anthem - Boeing 737 (10.42)04. Timber Timbre - Woman (13.31)05. Sons of Joy - Pig (20.25)06. The Japanese War Effort - Our Land Could be Your Life (24.51)07. Jonnie Common - Hand-Hand (31.37)08. Earth Girl Helen Brown - Girls of My Dreams (35.39)09. Weird Era - Garage Honeymoon (41.37)10. The War on Drugs - Your Love is Calling My Name (47.46)11. Sons of Joy - In the Bleak Midwinter (58.07)12. Sons of Joy - Coventry Carol (60.00)

The baubles in question would be twofold: Firstly, the Song, by Toad readers are awarding their own baubles for the year's musical endeavours, both in terms of anointing their song and their album of the year. And secondly, the very second I post this I am heading up into town to Kid Canaveral's Christmas Baubles, their second of what I assume will become an annual Christmas knees-up, this time hosted at Edinburgh's rather amazing Summerhall. This week on Song, by Toad I will be publishing my own top twenty albums of the year, and then moving on to the Festive Fifty - basically your average predictable blogger's December rituals.  If you don't like it I guess you're a bit stuck until the new year I'm afraid. 01. Mongrels - Massive Cunt (00.25)
02. Tom Waits - Face to the Highway (06.14)
03. Waiters - Tomorrowland (14.27)
04. King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - Bats in the Attic (Unravelled) (24.03)
05. Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat - The Copper Top (27.33)
06. Hookworms - Medicine Cabinet (34.56)
07. Grant Lee Phillips - Josephine of the Swamps (45.21)
08. The Dears - Lost in the Plot (50.49)
09. Warpaint - Billie Holiday (60.27)

The Inaugural OPPI decided I wanted, in addition to the weeklies and monthlies, something more communal to the general world: an homage show for fellow podcasters while it is unlikely that anyone who visits this backward little page would  not know the vastly more popular sites, I'm still rather ignorant of the world so my naivete allows me be ignorant of better sense - even if I know better. This one goes out to John Peel. I want to nominate John Peel as the patron saint of indie music, podcasters, and the overlooked. While Peel never (to my knowledge) had a podcast his singular taste in music, self effacing humor, and influence has left on indelible mark on the music of today.Beginning in the late sixties as a pirate radio broadcaster with his Perfumed Garden show to his death in 2003 he played music that never would have made air time otherwise. Odd and particular tracks, his vast selections always straining for that rare thing of uniqueness. His passion itself often clouded the choices he made since he valued uniqueness over quality. More personally he lit the fire for music under my ass. I came across the 1986 Festive Fifty selection by more accident than anything and immediately knew that at least 40 of the tracks I had never heard and never would have heard without the benefit of his show. And so it goes - music is shared and we all learn a little bit more about the world. Not too long after that I launched into finding out what I was missing in the music of today and quickly abandoned the comfort songs of familiarity for the jagged edge of the unknown. For all the horrible noise I've heard since then I can only blame the musicians and for ever jaw dropping and heart pounding track buried in the mess of it - I can only thank John Peel. 1. Canned Heat - Rollin' and Tumblin' aired on Perfumed Garden, 1967A nice nice tune and the sign of a quality DJ is when he plays his friends music on the air. 2. Electric Prunes - Wind Up Toysaired on Perfumed Garden, 1967What an awesome psychedelic pop song - a bit derivative but exceedingly good. Peels two cents perfect zeitgeist. 3. Marc Bolan - Hippy Gumboaired on Perfumed Garden, 1967How come I've never heard this? They should distribute this to the high schools with disproportionate drop out rates.4. Top Gear Signature TuneAfter the Perfumed Garden got closed down by the government (it was pirate after all) Peel landed a job doing the Top Gear show for the BBC. I couldn't find much about this period except for his shows signature tune.5. The Jam - Down in a Tube Station at Midnightaired on Festive 50 (F50) 1979The Jam, almost exclusively reserved for retro hipsters in Williamsburg nowadays is still a solid band well worth the 30 year hype.6. Pigbag - Papa's Got a Brand New PigBagaired on F50 1981Roiling post punk funk with ska elements and the big band sound. Ah lord we need more of this. Favorite - the Fwee whistle. More Fwee Whistle!7. The Woodentops - Well Well Wellaired on F50 1985A good driving drum line, elemental vocals, and a Casio keyboard.8. Ironmasters - The Men They Couldn't Hangaired on F50 1985I've got a soft spot for seditious folk songs. Remind me to bust out the Guthrie someday.9. Weather Prophets - Almost Prayedaired on F50 1986Aw brit pop - so good so gold. A melancholy song about near religious experience. 10. Camper Van Beethoven - Take the Skinheads Bowlingaired on F50 1986It was this song that blew my mind and drove me to worship Peels musical tastes. Such a raucous chorus, what sheer absurdity. Classic: "I had a dream - it was about nothing"11. House of Love - Destroy the Heartaired on F50 1988The sentiment of this song (if not it's execution) is well worth the time to listen to it at least three times. 12. Stump - Charlton Hestonaired on F50 1988Another wonderfully absurd piece - the fact that these folks only ever put out one album and then disbanded due to a lack of commercial interests is a clear sign of the failure of the capitalists system. Now I just have to find a re-issue and build a shrine.13. Gorkys Zygotic Mynci - If Fingers were Xylophonesaired on F50 1995A band destined for nothing more than cult obscurity. But why? Their name could never be made into a commodity.14. Cornershop - 6am Jullander Shereaired on F50 1995Mind blowing Indian Pop fusion from Leicester. If demographic change always sounded so good our world would be a lot less hateful.15. White Town - Your Womanaired on F50 1996Oh you've heard this one before? Yeah I think it dominated the airwaves for one summer. Wonderful thing. Worth the replay value.16. Hefner - Alan Beanaired on F50 2001Five stars on this - shivers and shakes down spines, feet tapping and head bopping while the refrain reminds and steels us against the troubles of it all. 17. Detroit Cobras - Alabamallamaaired on F50 2001Rock and Roll baby.18. The Fall - Theme from Sparta FCaired on F50 2003The Fall are insane, 60 some frickin albums each track unhinged in some beautiful way. The shouting of fruits by the background singers on Dr. Faustus is a good example. This song coming near the end of Peel and The Falls decade long friendship is a capstone to the efforts of DJs to play what they love and bands to play what they love. Not harmonious no - but distinct.19. CLSM - John Peel is Not Enoughaired on F50 2003From the psychedelic sixties to the hard dance of the 00's - Peel played it all. And what props he was given.20. John Peel - Talkingaired on Perfumed Garden, 1967Thanks John. For the miracle.Listen up folks, like CLSM said - John Peel is not enough. It is the duty of each of us to love and cultivate music. Throw it down and seek it out with passion. Play it loud and it fills the yawning emptiness we all have inside our alienated hearts. Play it for a friend and feel the connection of shared experience bridge the gap of our lonely islands of consciousness. Music to share is music to live by. Let's take off the headphones folks - we've all got that one golden track. Get it out there and make Peel proud.