Pick One: a track you wouldn't have heared if not for John Peel

Except I would have heard it eventually when someone gave me the EPs.

Except maybe they wouldn't have given me the EPs if it weren't for Peel.

But cutting out lots of middlemen, I'll go for the Sound Corruption EP by Echo Park. Peel played a track called "Needled" and in time-honoured rtadition, I scrawled the details down on the nearest thing (a cookery book) and found it in an independent record shop. Go Chalkys! Go Echo Park! Go Peel!

Soft Machine - "Moon In June" (Top Gear version)
Vive La Fete - "Noir Desir"

Hey, I was just gonna write exactly the same sentence!

Gosh. He really did make some memorable radio.

I still eat pork sausages, though, rwillmsen.

Fairly obviously. Hey you mix CD makers, make this the last track on your next one...

to answer the Q : 1986 : Age of Chance - Kisspower 12" - was never released due to exceess of massive rock/dance samples.

and this was the most interesting if not the most relevant...

> There's an amazing song that he called "Big Band House" that he played once in Decemeber 1998. still can't get it out of my head and it delights and infuriates me that I'll never know who it was by. But he did, and saw the brilliance of it and I think I almost prefer the fact that it was my one hearing of it.

er, get one google? http://irdial.hyperreal.org/www/Aquareg1.htm (ties in with the irdial thread that also popped up today)

> And the Native Hipsters - that Concorde thingy

first heard this back when saturday afternoon radio 1 was worth listening to (mark ellen had a program, john walters was on it a lot talking about ART!). yes, there goes concorde, flying again. found it seconf hand in a record shop going out of business sale in hemel hempstead along with half a dozen other great things that i didn't have the cash for and no way of getting the cash before the shop closed for good.

anyway, was something that he played once which was dance of the sugarplum fairy mashed together with darth vader's theme from star wars. someone will now google this and make me look like an idiot.

Nightmare!

this is also the time i saw that demo copy of an orchids lp complete with note from clare to 'steve & jo' (lamacq and wiley supplementing their bbc wages i suppose)

didn't hear 'bafflin smoke signals' until the peel box copy myself. there have been great things in that, the Tribute album and the Big 78s compilation that i've never knowingly heard him play before. 'Cutting Razor' and 'Cast Iron Arm' for two.