Oh! The Fall John Peel Sessions box set! OH! you guys.

Disc 2
15.09.81: Deer Park – Look Know – Winter – Who Makes The Nazis?
23.03.83: Smile – Garden – Hexen Definitive Strife Knot – Eat Y’self Fitter
03.01.84: Pat Trip Dispenser – 2 x 4 – Words Of Expectation – CREEP

Disc 3
03.06.85: Cruiser’s Creek – Couldn’t Get Ahead – Spoilt Victorian Child – Gut Of The Quantifier
07.10.85: LA – The Man Whose Head Expanded – What You Need – Faust Banana
09.07.86: Hot Aftershave Bop – ROD – Gross Chapel GB Grenadiers – US 80’s-90’s
09.05.87: Athlete Cured – Australians In Europe – Twister – Guest Informant

Disc 4
31.10.88: Deadbeat Descendant – Cab It Up – Squid Lord – Kurious Oranj
01.01.90: Chicago Now – Black Monk Theme – Hilary – Whizz Bang
23.03.91: The War Against Intelligence – Idiot Joy Showland – A Lot Of Wind – The Mixer

Disc 5
15.02.92: Free Range – Kimble – Immortality – Return
13.03.93: Ladybird (Green Grass) – Strychnine – Service – Paranoia Man In Cheap Shit Room
05.12.94: M5 – Behind The Counter – Reckoning – Hey! Student
17.12.94: Glam Racket Star – Jingle Bell Rock – Hark The Herald Angels Sing – Numb At The Lodge
22.12.95: He Pep! – Oleano – Chilinist – The City Never Sleeps
18.08.96: DIY Meat – Spinetrak – Spencer – Beatle Bones N Smokin’ Stones

Disc 6
03.03.98: Calendar – Touch Sensitive – Masquerade – Jungle Rock
04.11.98: Bound Soul One – Antidotes – Shake Off – This Perfect Day
13.03.03: Theme From Sparta FC – Contraflow – Groovin’ With Mr Bloe - Green Eyed Loco Man – Mere Pseud Mag Ed
12.08.04: Job Search - Clasp Hands – Blindness – What About Us – Wrong Place, Right Time > I Can Hear The Grass Grow

Unclear but will probably be imported. This is coming out on Sanctuary, who have been getting the Castle remasters over here when not releasing it themselves, and getting it over here cheaply enough (the Hex Enducation Hour reissue I picked up at Amoeba was only $16 -- and a double disc at that).

I'll be reviewing this for the Seattle Weekly and frankly I can't wait!

I am really looking forward to hearing sessions 12-17 and 21-24 for the first time.

i remember this as if it were yesterday. wow. i must buy this.

This BBC box is pure gold!

I am hoping against hope this is a Coasters cover.

i remember this as if it were yesterday. wow. i must buy this."

I remember the two 1978 sessions as if they were yesterday.

What happened yesterday unfortunately is rather less clear.

I confidently predict that this presence or absence of this set from any individual's collection is going to rapidly become recognised as a one of the crucial defining indicators of that individual's hip quotient.

Yeah, I don't agree. It's certainly a cooler thing than the umpteenth Fall live album, but it's still peripheral to the albums proper.

I'm not sure quite what you're disagreeing with: that it should happen or that it will happen.

Fwiw I'm certainly not suggesting that I think that it should happen - but (provided it remains reasonably available) I'm convinced this box set will end up eclipsing every one of the individual albums proper as the "must own" Fall title.

1. Extricate
2. The wonderful and Frightening
3. This nations saving grace
4. The one with Glam Racket and Free Range and that...
5. other
6. other

But, yeah.

It's definitely a mistake! Some people just don't like the Fall.

Yeah I know it'sa mistake but they somehow make it work for them.

Also, Koogs didn't say he didn't like The Fall, just that these songs aren't his idea of a good Fall Peel Session

More like MES wouldn't let them re-record it, "That'll do ya bunch of fuckin' wankers, who do you think we are, fuckin' Yes?"

have just noticed that my mp3 cdr, lovingly ripped from the box at home, contains a howler of a typo in Strife Knot id3 tags...

> Still baffled as to how Koogs could be left cold-ish by at the very least New Puritan and Hip Priest

both a touch early for me, i think. first thing i bought was Bend Sinister and ended up with the previous 2 and the next 6 or 7 (with the odd gap). that's my era.

oh, btw, have people noticed the frank skinner is using No Bulbs as theme music? he did a great interview with MES a few years ago, so i guess he's a fan. wonder what he thinks of brix and her gok wan support slot...

that said, i just bought that step forward years comp and it's great. second dark age popped up on the walk home last night...

Well if that's your era you should probably give the PS version of 'Australians In Europe' a spin. 'Extraordinary' barely begins to cover it.

A whole load of biz people are Fall fans. I'm always amazed how many people revel in MES' very peculiar style of English mania.

It's like being in the Masons, it's private...

I think Skinner is a late-life convert. iirc he went Fall crazy somewhere between 5 and 10 years ago, talking about how this was the band he'd been waiting to hear all his life.

Huh. Skinner also going to become president of the Samuel Johnson Society. Good for him.

Just listened to the "New Puritan" demo from "Totale's Turn" followed by the Peel version. Thank f*ck it got a studio recording, turning it from a nice curiosity into a monstrosity. Followed by the epic "New Face In Hell" it's an amazing one-two Peel punch.

If you could distill the Fall down into one moment that would be their essence, it has to be New Puritan on the Peel Session. Its 30 years old and its still terrifying and brutal and alien and unforgiving. And wonderful.
Wotcher mean what's it mean?

^^^this is probably quite a good shout

yup

am thinking I underrated Blindness on first listen - second is pretty sensational

glad with my top-13 choices, though. maybe in a few weeks Job Search and He Pep will shuffle discreetly off

The City Never Sleeps - Huge keys this time, on some horn preset, but with a pop beat and EVEN MORE Brix! She's actually singing properly on this one too.

It's Lucy Rimmer singing on this!

Nice thread though - I've been listening to this box a bit recently. LJ - I think you must be the only person in the world who likes the Fall version of This Perfect Day.

Don't agree there, Dr C. Firstly that session version rocks, really raw and garagey - it just sounds mentally, rattlingly pissed off. Secondly the single version of it, with Smith's voice sweeping between artifically tuned at a high pitch to a low one, is great. Difficult to find, sadly.

Haven't heard the single. Weren't the Fall at a really low point when that JPS was recorded? I think it was round about the time of the US Tour fight and Nagle assault.

Blindness is monumental.

Yes, it's partly the timing of that session that makes it interesting. At the time it seemed, or certainly I felt, as if the future of The Fall was very much in doubt (perhaps this was foolish thinking in retrospect, but I remember doing a lot of head-shaking when people asked me if I thought they'd come back). There had been the spoken word record, and three gigs (of sorts) with a fill-in drummer and Julia Nagle (plus Mike Clarke as lion tamer), neither of which portended much, despite being excellent.

The session came out of nowhere really and what surprised about it was the sheer energy and violence of it. I've done this elsewhere, but in fine, it's one of my favourite Fall sessions, not least because of its unexpectedness.

Blindness wd be in a top ten Peel sessions recordings, no doubt.

It's just such a foul, alien, fuck-off piece of music. So I side with it. 'Antidotes' and 'Bound Soul One' are staggering, unclean ordeals. 'Blindness' is one of the few tracks I could have given more credit to.

Actually wait, I really liked it in my review! Fine.

Just had another listen to that session. I agree that it's pretty unexpected & not really very much like any other Fall (or any anything), but I still don't like it. MES's legendary hatred of musicians maybe made him think that he could do without them entirely around this time. The only interesting thing is the vocal-heavy mix and that sounds like it's just to hide the lack of any useful guitar to drive things along. This just feels like Repetition, Repetition, Repetition to no effect - without either the spooky, spidery groove of Hip-Priest, WMTN or A Figure Walks (say) or the tension of say Blindness, it doesn't work.

Maybe Shake-off is passable. This Perfect Day is an atrocity.

This Perfect Day - Alien, scuzzy, garage-drawl, fearless. Yes, correct, this session is SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY. It's called me from some grotesque area and it doesn't give a fuck about music. It's not music, it's poetic expression of the arts of sound. Mesh-made mad and mind-muddle mead, mode. Glugged down with a kick in the fucking pants in store, always. I know there will be one here. I gird my loins and - it kicks.

^^^is there anything about this that suggest this isn't an atrocity?

Anyway, the first two tracks off that session are the ones I really go for.

xp. True.

poetic-ah! expression-ah! Mind Muddle Mad-ah!

MES should sing your review.

There was only one song that reduced me to a helpless pile of word-association stream-of-consciousness blabbing

(ha, and that was Antidotes off that session)

Amazon have the MP3 version for £2.99 just now.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Complete-Peel-Sessions-1978-2004/dp/B00DX7Z3N6/ref=pd_ts_zgc_dmusic_digital_music_album_display_on_website_2?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&pf_rd_p=420631547&pf_rd_s=right-4&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_i=77197031&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_r=0NRY6M7XCSXY1NTM96H8

That's almost worth getting even if you have the box already!

Well that's a no brainer then.

This is my favorite ILM thread ever. And such a damn shame the lads don't record any radio sessions anymore, for anyone.

Yeah, they recorded an extra track as a prezzie for John Peel on their last ever Peel Session (as it turned out)

There was a small amount of 'other' BBC sessions (Kid Jensen or Mike Read or Janice Long or maybe Andy Kershaw), they probably should get compiled some place..

I don't suppose the links work, but here's a list of them (comments section has dates and corrections)

http://symphonyofghosts.blogspot.co.uk/2008/12/fall-live-on-wireless-non-peel-radio.html

Discovered I had a £1 download credit on Amazon I didn't know about so I got this for £1.99.

http://www.visi.com/fall/news/pics/2013-08-28_No1inthecharts.jpg

Which translates into #97 on the big chart.

Really? Hey Yeah!

Mind you, it does remind me when "Relationship and the Briefcases" got to number one in the Vitaminic "Alt/Lo-Fi" chart, because that week I bought two copies, one for me and one for the other guitarist on it.

ARE THERE ANY WHISPERS THAT THIS MIGHT COME OUT ON LP? HOW IS ONE SUPPOSED TO GET IT WITH NOTHING BUT A RECORD PLAYER? ITS NOT FAIR! PLEASE DO SOMETHING SOMEBODY

OK, check the album chart today, this could be one of them if there are some in there...

24.09.80: Container Drivers – Jawbone And The Air Rifle – New Puritan – New Face In Hell

This is quite some radio session. Didn't realize, or had forgotten, that "Jawbone" dated from the "Grotesque" era.

OK, check the album chart today, this could be one of them if there are some in there...

This could be one of what if there are which in where?

there could be some fall lps in the new album chart (published in about an hour)

and if there are some in there then one of that some in there could be the peel session box.

that seems... wildly unlikely

though tbf there are three copies from 3rd-party sellers on Amazon. If someone pays the £732 asking price that counts as 2000 sales, right?

Nothing in album or single chart that I can see

(And downloads count now, don't forget)

Ah well

(And downloads count now, don't forget)

Which e-tailers have it for download? I only tried Amazon, iTunes/Apple, 7digital and Boomkat, but I thought that should have been a representative sample

Oh, I didn't mean the peel box specifically, was just pointing out that you don't need to buy CDs for something to chart.

(In fact, don't streams also count now?)

No idea where this stuff is available. Maybe the obvious interest will mean that improves.

I'm guessing that if Discogs/second-hand sales were chart eligible, there'd be a few in this week.