good to see aereogramme in there!

That'll be "joy divison" as in "joy division oven gloves" then? Not just an error copied and pasted from the R1 website?

Anyway, i'll stop being pedantic for a second to ask about no. 17: Laura & Ballboy - 'I Lost You But I Found County Music'
I remember them playing the night peel died and thinking how beautiful a song it was. Can anyone give me more info - is it a cover? and is that the single the only place it was released?

Oh and, was it just my sleep deprieved state that had me thinking Mr. Da Bank kept calling the bloc party album "the silent album"?

Mountain Goats in top 50!!!!!!!!! Result.

well done to welsh bands Kentucky AFC and Texas Radio Band, both of whom made top50.

Bearsuit ALL THE WAY BABY.

11. Bloc Party - 'Helicopter' (LP- Promo) - (Wichita)
12. Texas Radio Band - 'Chwareon Bwtleg Pep Le Pew' (LP- The North South Divine) - (FF Vinyl)
13. Martyn Hare - 'Do Not Underestimate' (4.55) (12") - (Designer)
14. Cinerama - 'It's Not You It's Me' (7") - (Go Metric! Records)
15. Aereogramme - 'The Unravelling' (LP- Seclusion) - (Undergroove)
16. PJ Harvey - 'The Letter' (CD Single) - (Island)
17. Laura & Ballboy - 'I Lost You But I Found County Music' (CD Single 'Past Lovers) - (Sl Records)
18. Jawbone - 'Jack Rabbit' (LP- Dang Blues) - (Loose)
19. DJ Distance - 'Ritual' (EP- Closer Than You Think) (CDR) - (Lix Recordings)
20. Bloc Party - 'Banquet' (LP- The Silent Album) - (Wichita)
21. Ballboy - 'The Art of Kissing' (LP- The Royal Theatre) (SL Records)
22. The Black Keys - 'Ten AM Automatic' (CD Single) - (Fat Possum)
23. PJ Harvey - 'Shame' (CD Single) - (Island)
24. Decoration - 'It Tried It, I Tried It, I Loved It' (CD Single) (White Label)
25. 65 Days of Static - 'Retreat! Retreat! (LP- The Fall of Math) - (Monotreme)
26. McLusky - 'That Man Will Not Hang' (LP- The Difference Between Me And You Is That I'm Not On Fire') - (Too Pure)
27. Listen With Sarah - 'Animal Hop' (White Label)
28. XBooty - 'O Superman' (12") - (White Label)
29. Digital Mystikz - 'B' (12") - (DMZ)
30. The Black Keys - 'Girl Is On My Mind' (CD Single) - (Fat Possum)
31. Art Brut - 'Formed A Band' (CD Single) - (Rough Trade)
32. The Delgados - 'I Fought The Angels' (LP- Universal Audio) - (Chemikal Underground Records)
33. Shitmat - ''There's No Business Like Propa' Rungleclotted Mashup Bizznizz' (LP- Full English Breakfast) - (Planet Mu)
34. Magic Band - 'Bug Eyed Beans from Venus' - (Peel Session)
35. Jon E Cash - 'International' (12") - (Black Ops)
36. Wedding Present - 'Interstate 5' (CD Single) - (Scopitones)
37. Tunng - 'Tale from Black' (LP- This is…. Tunng - Mother's Daughter and Other Songs) - (Static Caravan)
38. Melys - 'Eyeliner' (CD Single) - (Sylem)
39. Decoration - 'Joy Adamson' - (Peel Session)
40. Cornershop presents Bubbley Kaur - 'Topknot' (CD Single) - (Rough Trade Records)
41. Calvin Party - 'Northern Song' (LP- Never As Black) - (Probe Plus)
42. Plasticman - 'Cha' (12") - (Terrorhythm)
43. Kentucky AFC - 'Be Nesa' (LP- Kentucky AFC) - (Boobytrap)
44. Bloc Party - 'Little Thoughts' (CD Single) - (Witchita)
45. Aphrodisiacs - 'If U Want Me' (CD Single) - (SL Records)
46. Mountain Goats - 'Your Belgian Things' (LP- We Shall All Be Healed) - (4AD)
47. Magic Band - 'Electricity' - (Peel Session)
48. Ella Guru - 'Park Lake Speakers' (LP- The First Album) - (Banana Recordings)
49. Ballboy - 'I don't have time to stand here with you fighting about the size of my dick' (LP- The Royal Theatre) - (SL Records)
50. The Vaults - 'No Sleep No Need' (10") - (Red Flag)

65daysofstatic in the top 25. how i love the peel show & their listeners...

Well done the mighty Fall. Puzzled at the lack of 'Blindness', but there you go.

Good list. And good on Bloc Party for being in it three (!) times! Ah...I'll miss Peel!

Well done Ballboy for 3 in the top 50.

Very good live band, go if you get the chance.

The show may be carrying on in the new year, if enough people want it to.

Art Brut? Why?

I think the right person would be Lamacq, that's the only way he could stay a regular feature of Radio 1, otherwise he would just move to 6 Music or Radio 2.

i wasn't too keen on rob da bank at first, but im enjoyin his shows now... i think he's posibly the man for it.

i can't see lamacq being up for playing some of the more obscure stuff to be honest.

just the thought of zipper zane gettin it makes me want to smash my radio as a precautionary measure....

i cant believe the wedding present song only made no. 36, its brilliant.

they seem to have one world on the peel slot this week coming which im quite happy about as they have a tendency to feature great music. i remember peel saying once it was his favourite show other than his own on radio 1.

I agree that John Kennedy is the man for the job.... but I also feel maybe Radio has had its day and someone could come up with the true answer to our cravings upont the twizzlenet

Melys at 38 - top notch
did you know they were actually the most peel sessioned band of recent times?
And they were no 1 a couple of years ago
Melys introduced me to the great man on 2 occasions - both memorable
The first was in Groningen in northern holland and the second was when they were doing a live session in maida vale - John Peel was much more interested in Liverpool winning the UEFA cup than starting his show... he popped out of the TV room at the studio started a recording of old session and came back to watch the rest of extra time
Liverpool won 5 - 4 or something silly and he was like an excitable child throughout his show afterwards...
He was amagic man and his enjoyment of music and life was obvious, I hope I can keep as happy and excited as he was

Good to see Brainlove makes an appearance at number 9 in the chart!

Good result for Aereogramme, too. Superb band, especially live.

"i can't see lamacq being up for playing some of the more obscure stuff to be honest. "

I think he could well surprise you, given the chance.
Years ago Lamacq was more a champion of the unknown (both bands and new independent labels). I just don’t think that has been so much his remit in recent years.
Although Peel ended up a big Camera Obscura fan and gave them a huge amount of exposure, it was originally Lamacq that picked up on them and gave the first couple of singles their first Radio1 airing. He also was near enough the only dj to give their more experimental (then) stable mates Mac Meda airplay (a band that were never going to exactly have mass appeal!)


Although I don’t think anyone will have quite the same passion for new music as Peel had…