[HN Gopher] John Peel Sessions
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John Peel Sessions
Author : termau
Score : 42 points
Date : 2020-05-11 21:35 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (davestrickson.blogspot.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (davestrickson.blogspot.com)
| jjgreen wrote:
| Holy crap, what a goldmine, thanks for posting that!
| cptnapalm wrote:
| I had heard of Napalm Death, but couldn't find anything until I
| happened across the Peel Sessions at Tower Records. Loved it.
| Nobody else did.
| ArtWomb wrote:
| Epic. Have been searching for this master list for awhile ;)
| Myrmornis wrote:
| Wow what a crazy goldmine. E.g. `Pulp - Peel Session 1981` that
| is some pretty old Pulp.
| lihaciudaniel wrote:
| Thank you this is why I love hacker news I can find good music
| macca321 wrote:
| wow
| reedwolf wrote:
| My favorite of these was the Velocity Girl session.[0]
|
| Recommended for fans of shoegaze, dreampop, etc.
|
| Edit: Just noticed that list doesn't include the VG session. You
| can listen to it on YouTube:
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| [0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3hE5alv55E
| adfm wrote:
| Victim's Family (US) John Peel session # 1. 11th July 1989
| (Restored & mastered)
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fegGi0sd2aU
| glitcher wrote:
| Maybe add this link to that site's comments and perhaps it will
| get added.
| glitcher wrote:
| Also My Bloody Valentine from 1988:
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtsOqxnZPto
| Theodores wrote:
| The BBC should 'reissue' these paying the rights holders
| accordingly. Right now musicians are not getting revenue from PRS
| as no pubs/shops are playing music right now.
|
| Some 'Peel Sessions' got released on 'Strange Fruit' including
| the seminal 'the orb' epic track "A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating
| Brain That Rules From The Centre Of The Ultraworld (Loving You)"
| that was put together by Jimi Cauty, who subsequently left 'the
| orb' to be one half of The KLF. Hence the Peel session of The Orb
| and the original pressing of the aforementioned track were the
| only truly awesome stuff they released.
|
| Incidentally this excellent blogpost of Peel Sessions does not
| include this particular 1989 classic.
|
| Note that first time round you would wait until Thursday 11 p.m.
| to tune in to John Peel on FM radio and record the good stuff
| with a spare cassette. You might record over that cassette a week
| or two later. Everything could be ordered through an independent
| record shop if you wanted it for real, expect one of a thousand
| pressings though.
|
| You would need to remember names of artists and their tracks from
| the radio, no rewind unless you had that tape running.
| Discographies didn't exist like now so you never knew if an alias
| of an artist was the artist you knew already or a new one.
|
| I respect people that piece all of this together today, however,
| somewhere in the BBC they have this archived and they could sort
| out the licensing problems the way it works on streaming
| platforms.
|
| Licensing problems are mostly due to defunct labels and who gets
| the royalties. For instance, if in 1988 'A Guy Called Gerald' was
| part of '808 State' on the 'Creed' label, then, in the Peel
| session, if it get replayed, where does the money go? The other
| members of the group went to be signed by ZTT leaving A Guy
| Called Gerald to do his own stuff in a different direction. The
| Peel session fell in-between albums with tracks from the old and
| the new. Sorting out the monies is tricky for the BBC to do but
| YouTube manage monetisation easy enough.
| kt103099 wrote:
| And... they're gone. Starting to be DCMA'd one by one.
| mindslight wrote:
| Seriously. Imagine if these had been curated and hosted on a
| public network, instead of a proprietary platform where
| exposure means death. lynx -dump | youtube-dl it is.
| anaphor wrote:
| the embed links don't seem to work with youtube-dl very well,
| I wrote a python script to convert them (in the sibling
| comment to this)
| anaphor wrote:
| You're welcome
| https://gist.github.com/weskerfoot/fc073b38d35e94c27c3444cb2...
| (yes it's hacky, I did it in 5 minutes)
|
| I'm running it as I type this to back them up before they all
| get removed.
| glitcher wrote:
| Awesome list! I'm sure there are many more out there somewhere,
| hopefully this can grow as more recordings surface?
|
| Brings me back the glory days of labels like Too Pure and Strange
| Fruit :)
| aidos wrote:
| That's great. Most people probably haven't spotted it (took me a
| few years to clock the connection) but Tom Ravenscroft (on radio
| 6) is his son. As you'd expect, he has a fairly encyclopaedic
| knowledge of music and you'll always pick up good stuff on his
| shows.
| Phemist wrote:
| Slightly off-topic: I had no idea opening a youtube link with
| /embed in the right part the URL would make the video go to full
| screen in the browser window, and thus get rid of the UI noise
| that is youtube in 2020. I should make this happen for all
| youtube.com links I open, it's quite a pleasant experience.
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