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RIP John Peel. John died on 26th October in Peru. He will be sadly, sadly missed. Our condolences and best wishes to his family and friends.

Here are some free and legal mp3 downloads of songs that John Peel has featured on his Radio 1 show recently. All these tracks have been made made available by the bands or record labels themselves, they don't involve Kazaa or anonymous postings to alt.binaries.sounds or anything like that. The idea is that if you like the track, you'll buy some of their records, which seems pretty sound to me.

N.B. The list is now split into three: 2002-3 2001 2000 and earlier.

  • Click on the band name to see their website, or the song name for the mp3.
  • Links to other John Peel / music related websites at the bottom of the page.

    • This site is permanently "under construction" - if you find a track that's been on the show freely and legitimately available for download somewhere, please email me the url so I can add it to the list, and credit you in the changelog. After all, the more people listen to this music, the better the world becomes. And please let me know if a link is broken, too. Cheers.

    By the way, I don't make money out of this site in any way, and it's also totally unofficial and nothing to do with the BBC. Why the greeting in French? It's a long story...

    The full chronolgical list:

    BandTrackFirst Played
    People Like Us Dolly Pardon 10th Nov 2004
    Ballboy The Art of Kissing 7th Oct 2004
    Bearsuit Chargr 28th Oct 2004
    Guided by Voices Everybody Thinks I'm A Raincloud (When I'm Not Looking) 10th Aug 2004
    The Aphrodisiacs If You Want Me 3rd Aug 2004
    Bobby Conn We Come In Peace 12th Feb 2004
    Mountain Goats Palmcorder Yajna 20th Jan 2004
    Dead Combo You Don't Look So Good 14th Jan 2004
    Johnny Farmer I've Been A Fool 14th Jan 2004
    Robert Belfour Black Mattie 13th Jan 2004
    20 Miles Place Called Hell 8th Jan 2004
    AGF Private Birds 6th Jan 2004
    The 7-10 Splits I Love Your Mum 16th Dec 2003
    Young People Ne'er Do Well 4th Dec 2003
    The Shins Kissing The Lipless 4th Dec 2003
    Bearsuit Itsuko Got Married 1st Oct 2003
    Electrelane On Parade 16th Sep 2003
    An Albatross Revolutionary Politics of Dance 9th Sep 2003
    Camera Obscura Teenager 28th Aug 2003
    Thermals No Culture Icons 20thh Aug 2003
    The Gossip Don't Make Waves 3rd July 2003
    Bearsuit Tiny Barnes 27th May 2003
    Noxagt Cupid Shot Me 13th May 2003
    Laura Cantrell Indoor Fireworks 8th May 2003
    Low Flying Owls Georgie Shot Johnnie 1st May 2003
    V/VM Lady In Red 30th Apr 2003
    The Playwrights Television in Other Cities 29th Apr 2003
    Bearsuit The Weight Of It 24th April 2003
    Mogwai Hunted By A Freak 16th Apr 2003
    Die Monitr Batss Spread Your Legs Release The Bats 3rd Apr 2003
    Tarwater vs Rechenzentrum Treptow 25th Mar 2003
    Stephen Malkmus Do Not Feed The Oyster 18th Mar 2003
    The Midnight Evils Gone To The Dogs 11th Mar 2003
    Mr Airplane Man Red Light1 25th Feb 2003
    The Crimea Fred Flintstone / Baby Boom (live acoustic)
    (session in Wales version)     		5th Feb 2003
    Immortal Lee County Killers II Shitcanned Again1 22nd Jan 2003
    Martin Bonnier Disko 7th Jan 2003
    Jeff Hanson Hiding Behind The Moon 2nd Jan 2003
    Dawn Parade The Hole In My Heart 26th Dec 2002
    J Mascis I Feel Like Going Home (session) 28th Nov 2002
    J Mascis Alone (session) 28th Nov 2002
    J Mascis Everybody Lets Me Down (session) 28th Nov 2002
    J Mascis Freak Scene (session) 28th Nov 2002
    Broken Family Band Behind The Church 27th Nov 2002
    Skill 7 Stamina 12 3rd Disco from Home 13th Nov 2002
    Soledad Brothers Teenage Heartattack 6th Nov 2003
    Soledad Brothers Going Back to Memphis 6th Nov 2003
    Beatbox Saboteurs Mf Knees Up 5th Nov 2002
    People Like Us I'm 89 5th Nov 2002
    Laura Cantrell Conqueror's Song 22nd Oct 2002
    Mr Airplane Man Uptight 17th Oct 2002
    Beatbox Saboteurs Seaside 16th Oct 2002
    Yeah Yeah Yeahs Machine 16th Oct 2002
    Laura Cantrell When The Roses Bloom Again 16th Oct 2002
    Cherry Valence Sweat, Sweat, Sweat 10th Oct 2002
    People Like Us Millennium Dome 8th Oct 2002
    Part Chimp Iron Pond 1st Oct 2002
    The Duprees You Belong To Me 27th Sep 2002
    J Mascis and The Fog Everybody Lets Me Down 24th Sep 2002
    Ballboy Avant Garde Music 11th Sep 2002
    People Like Us Ursula Fahrt Ski 11th Sep 2002
    People Like Us In The Panto 10th Sep 2002
    Ikara Colt Panic 9th Sep 2002
    Half Man Half Biscuit Peel Session 3rd Sep 2002
    Lightning Bolt A Diet Of Grapes And Nuts 3rd Sep 2002
    Laura Cantrell All the Same To You 29th Aug 2002
    The White Stripes Jimmy the Exploder
    (played as part of set from Reading Festival)    		 27th Aug 2002
    The D4 Get Loose1 21st Aug 2002
    Tender Trap Emma 8th Aug 2002
    Bearsuit Disembowel the Demonkind 1st Aug 2002
    Gerty Farish Robert Parrish 1st Aug 2002
    The Caretaker Date With An Angel 3rd July 2002
    Butterflies Of Love The Mutation 10th July 2002
    Murcof Marmol 3rd July 2002
    Miss Black America White Noise Inc.1 3rd July 2002
    The Caretaker Cloudy, Since You Went Away 3rd July 2002
    Gary Numan Rip 25th June 2002
    The Pattern Fragile Awareness 20th June 2002
    The Gossip Ain't It The Truth 20th June 2002
    Biffy Clyro Joy Discovery Invention 19th June 2002
    M.A.S.S. Hey Gravity 19th June 2002
    Olneyville Sound System Immigrant Radio 13th June 2003
    Sex Clark 5 Fist Heart, Mighty Dawn Dart 11th June 2002
    Oxes I'm From Hell, Open A Windle 5th June 2002
    Oxes ..And Giraffe, Natural Enemies 5th June 2002
    The Caretaker We Cannot Escape The Past 28th May 2002
    Ward Sesquipedalian Origins 28th May 2002
    Rothko Red Cells 22nd May 2002
    The Come Ons Red Lips and Fingertips 9th May 2002
    Pink and Brown So Long Special Treat 5th May 2002
    Oxes Half, Half and Half 1st May 2002
    Pretty Girls Make Graves If You Hate Your Friends, You're Not Alone 30th Apr 2002
    Nina Nastasia This Is What It Is 11th Apr 2002
    Ikara Colt Pop Group (you'll be asked for an email address first) 7th Mar 2002
    Fog Truth and Laughing Gas 26th Feb 2002
    Bearsuit Drinkink 27th Feb 2002
    Burnt By The Sun Famke 26th Feb 2002
    The Loves Just Like Bobby D1 14th Feb 2002
    Call and Response Rollerskate7 12th Feb 2002
    Bobby Conn Winners7 12th Feb 2002
    Pinhole Is This The End? 7th Feb 2002
    Gas Huffer Aldedly Blues 7th Feb 2002
    Fatal Flying Guiloteens Call The Draw 5th Feb 2002
    Soledad Brothers Break'em On Down 31st Jan 2002
    Capitol K Pillow 31st Jan 2002
    McClusky To Hell With Good Intentions 31st Jan 2002
    I Am Robot And Proud Saturday Afternoon Plans 30th Jan 2002
    Total Sound Group Direct Action Committee Anymore Than I Do 30th Jan 2002
    Cornelius Point Of View Point 29th Jan 2002
    Ballboy Dumper Truck Racing 24th Jan 2002
    Golden Boy feat Miss Kittin Rippin Kittin 23rd Jan 2002
    Bearsuit Stop What You're Doing What You're Doing Is Wrong 23rd Jan 2002
    Mr Airplane Man Black Cat Bone 17th Jan 2002
    Hefner When Angels Play Their Drum Machines
    (Mothership Mix)    		 16th Jan 2002
    Murcof Memoria 16th Jan 2002
    For songs first played in 2001, click here. For songs first played in 2000 and earlier, click here

    More John Peel / Music Links:

  • Official John Peel Website - often has Realaudio format recordings of recent live sessions.
  • Unofficial John Peel Playlist Archives going back to 1992.
  • Listings of all the Festive Fifties ever, going back to 1976.
  • Lots of these mp3s are hosted at epitonic, mp3.com, vitaminic and AudioGalaxy, good places to look for music.
  • Matador Records mp3 archive, including tracks by Yo La Tengo, Stephen Malkmus and The Wisdom Of Harry.
  • Lots more Hood mp3s here, including a lot of live recordings.
  • Cityslang mp3 page, featuring To Rococo Rot, Sebadoh, Salaryman and Schneider TM amongst others.
  • The Bearsuit mp3 page.
  • Arab Strap mp3s on the discoboys unofficial Arab Strap page.
  • More songs by The Chemistry Experiment here.
  • Loads of Hole mp3s, including many exclusive and live tracks. Their version of "Baby Blue" is particularly good.
  • Punk label Relapse records have loads of tracks available for free download here.
  • Sound clips on the Pickled Egg page, including tracks by 100 Pets that have been featured on the show recently.
  • Rare Hefner songs in downloadable RealAudio here.
  • Pre Fuse 73 mini site, with a downloadable mp3 and RealAudio mix.
  • RealAudio live set by Rapture.
  • Rechenzentrum did a session in January - follow this link to a track to download, although it hasn't been played by JP yet
  • Probably the best Tompaulin website, with mp3 clips. The band have just recorded another session for the John Peel program, not sure when it's going out yet.
  • Bootlegs Into that Picasio Pied Piper / Axel F track? Your essential site for more cut up pop madness is Boom selection.

    Please email me if you know of another link that should be on this list.

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    Graham Steel

    Footnotes

    Session Track1
    This was a track played by the band in session on the program, but the mp3 isn't the session version, it's the album version.
    Miss Black America tracks6
    This is an acoustic version as played on X-CEL FM. More Miss Black America mp3s here.
    Rory Phillips mix tracks7
    Played as part of a mix set by DJ Rory Phillips