Best BBC sessions?
 

There are so many "BBC SESSION" recordings out there that I can't keep track. I know the are not streamlined, so there's no "bbc sound" or anything consistent in the production, but I still will check out a "BBC Sessions" from just about any band that i'm even remotely interested in.

So, what are your top BBC sessions? What are some that you have in your collection?

Joy Division and Dinosaur Jr are what I've been playing lately, but I'm sure there are tons out there that I'm not aware of. Please make some suggestion!! :)

Search "John Peel" and be amazed by how much this has already been talked about.

This occurred to me when I was making the thread, and I even envisioned being snarked at for not missing something, I'm sorry-- in truth I just don't know that much about John Peel honestly, despite having a number of "Peel Sessions". I know he was a british dj who, it seemed, had recorded pretty much every artist I like, but that's about it.

Are all BBC sessions Peel sessions? Not by title. But if they're all pretty much the same thing then... well. I feel quite stupid, I assure you.

:(

Wait, the Beatles BBC session was recorded long before John Peel started, surely. And the Who and Zeppelin recordings?

So... that's something, right?

I have no idea, because I don't have that many. In my collection, I think I only have JAMC, Joy Divisoin, and th' Faith Healers. I wish I had more. I like the ones I have all very much.

I'd like to get Dino Jr, Pj Harvey, and Birthday Party.

Yeah there are tons that I'm interested in and I'm always hearing of new ones that I didn't know existed.

Check out "No Bones" from Dino's sessions album.

John Peel started already in the sixties and made sessions for example with Jimi Hendrix Experience, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull and King Crimson. But there are also other BBC-sessions as just Peel-sessions, for example Bauhaus swing the heartache album includes all BBC-sessions (at least I think so).

I just noticed that Sy has also made four peel sessions. And there is no official release from them (I found 4 tunna brix and peel sessions 2 from the bootlegs). I have read here that many appreciate that tunna brix (the Fall-covers) but what about the rest? I don´t remember mentions about those others. Maybe they´re not very great because band haven´t made official release from them?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/johnpeel.../s/sonicyouth/

http://sonicyouth.utkonos.org/lossy/...20(1986-1992)/

http://sonicyouth.utkonos.org/lossle...-14.fm.flac16/

http://sonicyouth.utkonos.org/lossle...-01.fm.flac16/

and yes there are other BBC sessions other than the John Peel ones but he did the most and best ones....

check the links below


http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/showthread.php?t=2014&page=6&highlight=john+peel+s ession (I see you've posted in this thread anyway)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/johnpeel/

Thanx a lot Stu! I try to listen those in my home, I am now at work and there´s no mediaplayer in this computer.

I really enjoy those Rodan Peel Sessions tracks. Great tunes.

The only BBC Sessions I actually own are the Led Zep and Dinosaur Jr. ones.

Slightly humoring story about the LZ one. I went into a failing music store nearby at the age of 11 or something like that with five dollars or so, only enough to buy one used album. My choices eventually boiled down to the LZ BBC Sessions or a copy of Sister (it was missing the cover I think). I didn't know a thing about SY at the time, but I knew my brother really enjoyed them. But I ended up going with Led Zep instead. He ripped on me alot after that. All in all I probably made the right call, because I got into SY a year later anyway, and I probably would've never bought those BBC Sessions if I hadn't bought it then, they're good though.

I think you made a right choise. I have never bought any record that have no cover.

Never buy a record without its cover. Never.

Agreed on the Rodan comment. Highly underrated band.

The Zeppelin sessions are probably my favorite thing that band ever recorded.

Absolutely. The liner notes intro was written by Thurston himself!

Dinosaur Jr at their best, really.

:)

I have just listened the first peel sessions and it´s just great! So noisy and dirty! Cooper-cover is also very great and expressway is also little different as EVOL-version. The second is not as great in my opinion (it is coming right now) but I really consider to buy 4 tunna brix in next record happening. I hope they will release all peel sessions sometime, I think it´s very hard to find that Blast first-compilation where are two first peel sessions-songs. And I really want all those four!

Third session sounds also just great!

It's in the liner notes of the official us version of Dino's BBC.

A note about how awesome they are, signed by Thurston Moore.

E, i believe you're thinking of those "official" BBC releases that were coming out in droves in the 90s. They were kind of a "big deal" and usually came in deluxe 2CD editions. The peel sessions you have on your computer are technically boots here in the US for the most part. However john peel was a fixture in BBC radio.

Basically, all your peel sessions are BBC, bit not all those "BBC" reissues are by peel, though some do include his recordings.

My favorites from the "BBC" are Bowie at the Beeb, JD, and Pixies. All official releases. My favorite actual peel sessions are a different matter. But damn, there is a lot of both.

E. Noisefield please clear some pms...

Clear some pms? You mean erase them? Read them? I don't have many- can't be a capacity issue.

Wait. How do you know how many pms I have? :confused:

you can only store 50 private messages at one time and I was trying to send you another so that's how I know how many you have. you can always download all yr pms before you delete them so they won't be lost...

It's the norm for bonus tracks to be included on CD reissues. The bonus tracks can include sessions recorded for BBC radio DJs other than John Peel. I've heard sessions recorded for David "Kid" Jensen by bands like Killing Joke and Bauhaus, for example.

Right. Peel wasn't the only employee of the entire BBC. However, you'll find that most of the more experimental, punk, dance, and independent rock artists worked with him. He was crucial in gaining exposure for a lot of the less traditional bands that others at the BBC may have ignored.

Still there are plenty of other BBC releases out there, but the best ones are the peels.

I couldn't agree more.

Mozilla says those utkonos sites are attacking sites and not let me open them anymore. Are those 1 & 3 Peel Sessions in some other sites?

try switching to internet explorer, they work fine for me...

Andy Kershaw also had some excellent sessions. By the 90s, I'd say that in many ways he was a far more interesting DJ than Peel.

Well, I have only Mozilla...

Agreed. I'm certainly not knocking Peel because his show was a massively important part of my childhood, but his musical tastes definitely seemed to get less adventurous in the 90s (or maybe mine just got more adventurous?!).

I think he lost some of his importance once Grunge and Britpop hit the mainstream in the mid 90s, being forced to celebrate a kind of obscurity-for-its-own-sake in an effort simply to stay relevant. Kershaw became more interesting for me because he was more willing to look further afield and wasn't so bound to Peel's ultimately quite post-punk-inspired idea of what cutting edge contemporary music 'should' be. But as you say, that's not to undermine his enormous importance overall. Although by the time he started championing The White Stripes I'd pretty much given up on him altogether.

Not in the same league in terms of significance, but I've always thought Janice Long has been quite overlooked; she played a vital role boosting those bands that weren't quite marginal enough for Peel but which (at that time, anyway) weren't mainstream enough for the daytime playlist, groups like The The, etc who might've otherwise found themselves lost in that massive no-mans-land that existed during the 80s, between Peel and Simon Bates. (Although, as KIS mentions, David Kid Jensen was also pretty good in that regard).

well get internet explorer as well then, it only takes a few seconds... even if you only use it to download the files you want.

I think Mozilla is the only one that´s not cost anything.

internet explorer is free! like google chrome and all the rest. I don't know any that you have to pay for....

My explorer went out of date years ago and then Mozilla was the only free. Or then there was some other problem and I couldn´t download it. I have also heard Mozilla is safier than explorer. Maybe there aren´t any safety problems with those sites, but it´s also possible there are. Anyway I don´t like to listen music from the computer. Of course it´s sad if I never heard those great tunes again. I hope they will some time release them in vinyl!

look, I don't get what yr problem is. I've told you what you need to do... I help people on here all the time but you could easily help yrself this time by downloading internet explorer just use it to get the tracks you want then switch back to mozila. It's not gonna fuck yr computer up...

up to you man.

My problem is that I don´t want to spend too much time with the computer because I have lots of more interesting things to do in my life. Almost all the time some people or program have said "it just take a minute to you to download this" it has taken at least an hour. SYG is the only gossib where I am regulary and that´s only because SY is the most imporartant band to me. I really like those Peel tunes, but they´re still just few songs. If Mozilla doesn´t play them then it doesn´t. I don´t believe I will have ever all the stuff SY or it´s members have made anyway.

Also, there are lots of criminals in the internet (I think you know also). Maybe they can´t fuck my computer up, but they can have my personal information like the number of my credit card. Maybe you have a rich dad who pays your bills if you´re fucked up with the internet, but I have to pay my bills myself.

Originally I just asked you, were these songs in some other sites, not asked you how could I listen them from those utkonos sites. Anyway you don´t have to help me anymore

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i hope you are fucked up with the internet 3 times. and that your credit card refuses to allow you to purchase items for 10 years you ungrateful prick! :)

I don't have a rich dad, but I'm sure most credit card companies will refund you any money if yr card is used fradulently. As long as you have good internet security and are careful when you log into sites then you should be ok anyway and it will protect you if you are using mozilla, internet explorer or chrome... it sounds like you are ultra paranoid! there's crimanals everywhere, does that stop you using yr credit card in shops etc...?