..of Radiophonic Workshop stuff!

And probably lots of Peel Sessions.

I hope it's not just stuff that's been previously released...I'd love to get my hands on outtakes (New Order Peel Session outtakes!) and rare bits and pieces...

Rich

all the stuff that they deemed to be uncommercial in the past? There is a great deal of stuff out there already; OGWT DVDs, I'm Sorry I Havn't A Clue CDs, John Peel sessions on CD.

If so, please can I have Star Terk and The Burkiss Way?

Around the New Years Eve going from 1989 into 1990, BBC2 ran a programme on the best music of the '80s. I may be romanticizing (as I'm prone to), but I seem to recall it being focussed in-part on some of the more leftfield '80s stuff. I'd have been around fifteen, and had spent the last couple of years starting to get into what I thought were the 'cool, Indie bands' like New Order, The Smiths, Pixies and The Cure. Anyway, I've no idea what this show was called but for me it was absolutely formative as it was the first time I'd seen New Order's 'Blue Monday' TOTP appearance; the first time I'd realized the brilliance of Aztec Camera and Orange Juice; first I'd ever heard of people like Bauhaus (doing 'Bela Lugosi's Dead') and The Damned, and definitely the first time I'd realized that it was OK to love Mike Oldfield's 'Moonlight Shadow' as much as I did 'Monkey Gone to Heaven'.

But if it turns out that benevolent BBC execs don't actually mine The Word's blog for inspiration, then I'll settle for as much Old Grey Whistle Test as I can get my hands on, for the sheer Proustian rush of it all.

I'm not a great fan of the live track and that seems to be mostly what's on offer.

With a few exceptions (Bruce Springsteen) they amount to inferior muddy sounding versions of tracks we love (essentially a geographical proposition ie you had to be there)

I might download live video though which is a whole other kettle of haddock. Not sure if that's envisaged by the Beeb.

Of course there's always the otherwise unavailable cover version.......

Peel sessions that I could only read about in the 80s! I lived in Ireland and couldn't pick up BBC so I was resigned to reading the NME about upcoming sessions! I would especially like the Julian Cope ones, think they were around the time that he still wrote great pop songs! (sorry if I've offended any fans of his later stuff!!)

I want the Springsteen special that David Hepworth did around the time of Born In The USA. Had it on video for years but due to never labelling my tapes have been unable to find it ever since!

Some entire Peel shows. There's lots of kids who are now being told what a massive loss to music his death was but they're too young to have heard him on the radio. I for one would happily download and listen to a handful of classic shows from across the eras. Although it might be a bit spooky.

CUD. As any fule kno Carl and the boys rock harder than easter island head or summat....
all together now "i was a teenage stamp collector

Bogshed!

live on Peel. Awesome.

I'd love to hear those songs from sessions heard over the very crackly and distorted airwaves in the days of 247 Medium Wave.
And much more - Graham Parker; Heads, Hands & Feet & Traffic spring to mind.

...I can feel my hoarding instincts going into overdrive even now. If we're talking about streaming-only then I'll probably be more selective. But if we're talking downloads, then nothing less than every single episode EVER of OGWT will suffice. God I'm sad... There are also a lot of Glastonbury performances I'd like to have as downloaded video recordings, from Pulp's breakthrough to The Imagined Village this year.

As far as audio files are concerned, I agree with the comment above about not wanting any live recordings. As sound-only experiences, these are too muddy too often. But Peel Sessions (and other "sessions") would be well worth having. There's a handy Wikipedia list here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Peel_Sessions_artists

Better start clearting a few terabytes on iTunes, then...

Eh up! I'm old enough to remember its predecessor Disco 2.

Some time in the 80s Johns Peel & Walters did a show over several hours, featuring some of the best videos of the time. As well as the usual suspects (a-ha's "Take On Me" etc.), there were some more unusual selections that introduced me to, amongst others, Donald Fagen ("New Frontier"), Tom Tom Club ("Genius Of Love") and Miles Davis ("Tutu"). I think I saw it twice, both very late at night, and loved the whole experience of having to stay up to watch (video recorders not being a technology that reached my parents' house until the mid-nineties).

That's what I'd get, if I could.

I begn listening to John Peel circa 1972/3, and began taping them form then onwards until 1999, when I emigrated to Sydney, Australia.
I have bucket loads of John Peel sessions, from orgiinal broadcast stuff from Hatfield & The North,Gong, The Damned, Be Bop Deluxe,The Specials, Magazine, Thin Lizzy,not to mention the review he did roundabout mid/late 70s when he replayed the choicest sessions from Family, Fairport Convention, Faces, Pink Floyd, David Bowie et al.
Of course, they are all on tape, and will have begun to go "off" by now, so I too shall be spending even more money on music in the coming months/years.
Bugger!

but I lay my hat at a jaunty angle to whomever linked to the Peel Show mp3's.

THAT's why you need 80gb's!

Rispick.

Written by John Tobler, featured snippets of songs from a year interspersed with news stories & archive recordings. It went out on Sunday evenings on Radio 1 in 1980 (I think) and was the first real attempt at a UK pop history on radio. I bet it still stands up - it had an air of scholarly gravitas unknown to music radio at the time, but was great entertainment as well.

It was for Andy Kershaw's programme, and was the first I'd heard of her. It was utterly delightful, just her and her guitar singing four songs, her voice sounding beautiful, completely unstrained, which is the key. On nearly all of the records she seemed to be forcing it, and it sounded pretty unappealing a lot of the time. Of the four songs on that session, three turned up on the debut album, sounding glossed up by that bland Argent/Van Hooke production, guitar replaced by offensively hygenic keyboard washes. Yuk!

Her last album was pretty good, but it still seems to me she hasn't recovered the magic of the first session.

I cant wait for this. There's many a session I want a copy of.

Whatever happened to that wonderful idea of a BBC TV Channel that showed the BBC's music archive?? Is this the first step towards the BBC finally realising just what goodies they have in their archive??? At last :o)