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Name
Station
YYYY-MM-DD
  • 1978-08-08
Comments
  • Plays five tracks from the new Robin Trower album, but admits he finds it "a little tedious." Seems like the original taper thought so too, as the pause button seems to have been employed for the last three of these tracks.
  • Less understandably, the first song of the night, Hard Workin' Man by Captain Beefheart, is also cut a bit short. Read here for Ry Cooder's recollection of his reunion with the Captain for this one.
  • After the Ram Jam track, admits listeners might be thinking he's played a lot of "rather unconvincing records" that night. At the end of the show, he judges it has been "rather a dismal programme" -- but points out that even Liverpool lose sometimes.
  • The Texas Wanderers track title refers to Deep Elm, the area of Dallas where Peel would go in search of rare records when he lived there..


Sessions[]

  • All records show


Tracklisting[]

  • Captain Beefheart: Hard Workin' Man (LP - Blue Collar soundtrack) MCA
  • The Jam: David Watts (single) Polydor
  • Robin Trower: Fool / It's For You (LP - Caravan To Midnight) Chrysalis
  • The Clash: White Man In Hammersmith Palais (single) CBS
  • The Teen Queens: Eddie, My Love (LP - Alan Freed's Memory Lane) Roulette
  • Talking Heads: The Big Country (LP - More Songs About Buildings And Food) Sire
  • Half Japanese: School Of Love (EP - Calling All Girls) 50 Skidillion Watts
  • Devo: Be Stiff (single) Stiff
  • Natty Locks: Dubbin' Gold (single) Studio 16
  • Mars: 3E (single) Ze
  • The Rezillos Cold Wars (LP - Can't Stand The Rezillos) Sire
  • The Lurkers Jenny (LP - Fulham Fallout) Beggars Banquet
  • Texas Wanderers: Deep Elm Swing (LP - Stompin' At The Honky Tonk) President
  • Steve Treatment: Hippy Posed Engrosement/ Hooked On A Trend / Negative Nights (EP - 5A Sided 45) Rather
  • Graham Parker & The Rumour: Heat Treatment (LP - The Parkerilla) Vertigo
  • The Revolutionaries (Ossie All Stars): Ready Dub (LP - Leggo Dub) Cash & Carry
  • Robin Trower: My Love / Sail On / I'm Out To Get You (LP - Caravan To Midnight) Chrysalis
  • Dead Boys: Big City (LP - We Have Come For Your Children) Sire
  • Jimmy Reed Bright Light, Big City
  • (tape flip)
  • Ram Jam: Runway Runaway (LP - Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Ram) Epic
  • Culture: Holy Man Zion (LP - Harder Than The Rest) Front Line
  • DMZ: Mighty Idy (LP - DMZ) Sire
  • John Prine: Fish & Whistle (US single) Asylum
  • Stiff Little Fingers: 78 Revolution (single) Rough Trade
  • Meic Stevens: Dic Penderyn
  • Spælimenninir í Hoydølum: Bellman's Jig (LP - Spælimenninir í Hoydølum) Tutl

File[]

Name
  • Peel_19780808_most.flac
  • 1978-08-08 (All records show, Robin Tower album).mp3
Length
  • 1.41.43
Other
Available
  • (flac) via Roc
  • (mp3) [1]
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