John Peel's annual rundown of listeners' fifty favourite tracks of the year, 'The John Peel Festive 50' became a Christmas institution more loved than fairy lights and Christmas crackers.
This was the first Swell Maps' Peel Session on the 16th october 1978
BIG BLACK were born in 1982, instigated by Steve Albini, then a Sophomore at Northwestern University, a fanzine writer and a loudmouth. A six-song EP, LUNGS, was recorded on a borrowed 4-track for the price of one case of beer. Five years later, at the peak of their popularity, Big Black split. They never had a manager, a booking agent, a lawyer, or took an advance from their record company. They left a musical legacy dripping with power, cynicism and a sense of humour that was blacker than black. In Seattle, at their final gig, they smashed up all their stuff. In 1992 Touch and Go Records, through Southern Studios re-released the entire Big Black catalog.
Listeners of John's Radio 1 show picked the chart by voting for their three favourite tracks of the year before the end of November. The Festive 50 were then played on air.
This is split in 2 rar files.
Tracklist
3*1. Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the UK
3*2. Joy Division - Atmosphere
3*3. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
3*4. Jam - Down in the Tube Station at Midnight
3*5. Clash - White Man in Hammersmith Palais
3*6. Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia
3*7. Undertones - Teenage Kicks
3*8. Damned - New Rose
3*9. Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster
3*10. Joy Division - Transmission
3*11. Public Image Ltd. - Public Image
3*12. Sex Pistols - Holidays in the Sun
3*13. Jam - Going Underground
3*14. Joy Division - Decades
3*15. Clash - Complete Control
3*16. Stiff Little Fingers - Johnny Was
3*17. Undertones - Get Over You
3*18. Cure - A Forest
3*19. Ruts - In a Rut
2*20. Joy Division - New Dawn Fades
2*21. The Fall - Totally Wired
2*22. Joy Division - She's Lost Control
2*23. Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant
2*24. Stiff Little Fingers - Suspect Device
2*25. Sex Pistols - God Save the Queen
2*26. The Fall - How I Wrote `Elastic Man'
2*27. Stiff Little Fingers - Wasted life
2*28. Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet
2*29. Damned - Love song
2*30. Adam and the Ants - Kings of the wild frontier
2*31. Dead Kennedys - California Uber Alles
2*32. Specials - Gangsters
2*33. Public Image Ltd. - Poptones
2*34. Public Image Ltd. - Careering
2*35. Killing Joke - Requiem
1*36. Killing Joke - Psyche
1*37. Siouxsie & the Banshees - Jigsaw Feeling
1*38. The Fall - Fiery Jack
1*39. Clash - Armagideon Time
1*40. Spizz Energi - Where's Captain Kirk
1*41. Joy Division - Twenty-Four Hours
1*42. Damned - Smash it up
1*43. Teardrop Explodes - Treason
1*44. Siouxsie & the Banshees - Switch
1*45. Siouxsie & the Banshees - Icon
1*46. Clash - Bankrobber
1*47. Siouxsie & the Banshees - Hong Kong Garden
1*48. Clash - White Riot
1*49. The Fall - Rowche Rumble
1*50. Gang of Four - Damaged Goods
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Recorded: 12 Sep 1978
Issued in 2008, this 17-track collection presents the earliest radio sessions that the influential British post-punk ensemble Killing Joke recorded for the revered BBC DJ John Peel. Highlights of the compilation include fierce versions of "Wardance," "Change," and "Butcher," songs that helped to cement the group's reputation as an uncompromisingly aggressive act.
