28 December 1978

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Contents 1 Show 2 Sessions 3 Tracklisting 4 File 5 Notes

[edit] Show

Name

• John Peel Show

Station

• BBC Radio One

YYYY-MM-DD

• 1978-12-28

Comments

• Third of four long-lost shows featuring the 1978 Festive Fifty.

[edit] Sessions

• "More of the year's hottest sessions"

• Alternative TV (originally transmitted 27 July 1978^[1])
• Magazine (originally transmitted 20 February 1978^[2])
• Penetration (originally transmitted 10 July 1978^[3])
• The Slits (originally transmitted 22 May 1978^[4])

[edit] Tracklisting

• 00:00 [opening music] Grinderswitch: "Pickin' the Blues" (Macon Tracks, 1975) Capricorn Records

• 00:30 Magazine: "The Light Pours Out of Me" (Peel session)
• 05:12 Penetration: "Future Daze" (Peel session)
• 09:28 Alternative TV: "Release the Natives" (Peel session)
• 14:59 Magazine: "Touch and Go" (Peel session)
• 17:53 Magazine: "My Mind Ain't So Open" (Peel session)
• 20:23 The Slits: "Instant Hit" (Peel session)
• 23:04 Penetration: "Movement" (Peel session)
• 26:12 Penetration: "Stone Heroes" (Peel session)
• 29:43 Alternative TV: "Nasty Little Lonely" (Peel session)
• 34:15 Magazine: "Definitive Gaze" (Peel session)

Referred to as "Real Life" (actually the album it's from)

"I must admit I am looking forward to 1979, I mean I think 1978's been a great year with some extravagantly good records, and I find that I drive a little slower now when on my way home just to be on the safe side because there are things like the Fall LP to look forward to and more gigs with the Molesters and so on, you must be careful you know."

• 38:40 The Slits: "FM" (Peel session)
• 42:18 Penetration: "Vision" (Peel session)

1978 Festive Fifty

25. 46:02 Elvis Costello: "Watching the Detectives" (7" single, 1977) Stiff Records
24. 50:21 The Jam: "Down in the Tube Station at Midnight" [single version] (7" single, 1978) Polydor
23. 54:28 The Clash: "Police & Thieves" (The Clash, 1977) CBS
22. 60:35 Siouxsie and the Banshees: "Hong Kong Garden" (7" single, 1978) Polydor
21. 63:44 Van Morrison: "Madame George" (Astral Weeks, 1968) Warner Bros. Records

    #21 in 1976

20. 73:51 The Rezillos: "I Can't Stand My Baby" [single version] (7" single, 1977) Sensible Records
19. 76:49 Lynyrd Skynyrd: "Free Bird" [album version] ((pronounced 'lĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd), 1974) MCA

    #20 in 1976

18. 86:16 Sex Pistols: "Holidays in the Sun" (Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, 1977) Virgin Records
17. 89:47 The Only Ones: "Another Girl, Another Planet" (The Only Ones, 1978) Columbia
16. 93:02 David Bowie: ""Heroes"" [album version] ("Heroes", 1977) RCA
15. 99:20 The Clash: "White Riot" [album version] (The Clash, 1977) CBS
14. 101:40 Led Zeppelin: "Stairway to Heaven" (IV, 1971) Atlantic

    #1 in 1976

13. 110:26 The Damned: "New Rose" [single version] (7" single, 1977) Stiff Records
12. 113:30 Buzzcocks: "Boredom" (Spiral Scratch EP, 1977) New Hormones
11. 116:30 Stiff Little Fingers: "Alternative Ulster" (Inflammable Material, 1979) Rough Trade

• 119:15 [closing music] Grinderswitch: "Pickin' the Blues" (Macon Tracks) Capricorn Records

[edit] File

Name

• Peel 78 part 3.mp3

Length

• 1:59:53

Other

• Shared via Peel Newsgroup. Many thanks to Bill!
• 168,607 kB; 192 kbps

Available

• [1]

[edit] Notes

1. ↑ Ken Garner, The Peel Sessions (BBC Books, 2007) ISBN 978-1-8460-7282-6, p. 252
2. ↑ Garner (2007) p. 305
3. ↑ Garner (2007) p. 317
4. ↑ Garner (2007) p. 330