Peel Sessions

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Re: Peel Sessions

Post by budda12ax7 » Fri May 15, 2020 7:10 pm

all great stuff.....the VERY early Cure stuff is a fun listen.

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Re: Peel Sessions

Post by sammynb » Fri May 15, 2020 7:43 pm

OffYourFace wrote:
Fri May 15, 2020 6:38 pm
It's just youtube links right? So they have to search and find everything... plus it's very recent.
THIS LIST IS BEING UPDATED REGULARLY AND THERE'S MORE HERE AND EVEN MORE HERE
I think you might find that the person who runs the blog is also uploading the youtube files and has been compiling this for quite a while as some uploads date back to 2015.
If you go to the youtube channel there is a lot more, including stuff that FrankRay mentioned.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9QypD ... xkw/videos

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Re: Peel Sessions

Post by OffYourFace » Fri May 15, 2020 8:19 pm

sammynb wrote:
Fri May 15, 2020 7:43 pm
OffYourFace wrote:
Fri May 15, 2020 6:38 pm
It's just youtube links right? So they have to search and find everything... plus it's very recent.
THIS LIST IS BEING UPDATED REGULARLY AND THERE'S MORE HERE AND EVEN MORE HERE
I think you might find that the person who runs the blog is also uploading the youtube files and has been compiling this for quite a while as some uploads date back to 2015.
If you go to the youtube channel there is a lot more, including stuff that FrankRay mentioned.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9QypD ... xkw/videos
ahh ok thanks for pointing that out.

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Re: Peel Sessions

Post by spacelordmother » Wed Oct 14, 2020 9:43 am

This is INSANE.

Thanks for the share!
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Re: Peel Sessions

Post by Cornelius Plum » Wed Oct 14, 2020 10:57 am

Thank you!

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Post by cestlamort » Wed Oct 14, 2020 1:30 pm

Thanks! Some great stuff on there.

The Strange Fruit Peel Sessions 12" records (and tapes and slimline CDs) were always a great way to scratch that "I like this, where's more like it?" itch up here in the dark upper left corner of the US. At worst, alternate versions of songs you already had (often quite different and better than the official ones). I remember trying to read all the tiny band names and filing them away for next trip to the record store / random used bins. ("Undertones" - that sounds cool. "The Jam" - sounds like hippies, etc.)

I still like the how the Peel Sessions are a nice middle ground between album (what a band could be) and live (what it actually is).

p.s. alphabetizing by "The" (or first names) will always tick me off.

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Re: Peel Sessions

Post by PorkyPrimeCut » Wed Oct 14, 2020 1:57 pm

cestlamort wrote:
Wed Oct 14, 2020 1:30 pm
....At worst, alternate versions of songs you already had (often quite different and better than the official ones)...

...I still like how the Peel Sessions are a nice middle ground between album (what a band could be) and live (what it actually is)...
Really well put & exactly what I love about his sessions in general (and there were so many of them!!)
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Re: Peel Sessions

Post by s_mcsleazy » Wed Oct 14, 2020 3:27 pm

i was going to bring up that youtube channel. i know i always bring up unwound but i really love the version of kantina they did on john peel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxrDW-XuJS8

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Re: Peel Sessions

Post by Veitchy » Wed Oct 14, 2020 3:46 pm

This is a treasure trove. Great find.

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Re: Peel Sessions

Post by Cornelius Plum » Mon Oct 19, 2020 6:30 pm

Cool! Thank you.

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