Last modified: Sun Nov 28 13:38:08 GMT 2004 - Details of new tracks in the changelog.

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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 Napster 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.

    • BandTrackFirst Played
    Arab Strap Love Detective 28th Dec 2000
    Ballboy Olympic Cyclist 12th Dec 2000
    The Flaming Stars You Don't Always Want What You Get 6th Dec 2000
    Electric Music AKA The First Day Of Nothing 30th Nov 2000
    Schneider TM The Light 3000 22nd Nov 2000
    Mighty Math The Futurist 21st Nov 2000
    Low Dinosaur Act 7th Nov 2000
    ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead Mistakes and Regrets 7th Nov 2000
    Nectarine No. 9 Constellations Of A Vanity 21st Sep 2000
    Topper Newid Er Mwyn Newid
    (left click on the link, then click on )    		 21st Sep 2000
    Godspeed You Black Emperor Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
    (part of Storm)    		 19th Sep 2000
    The Aislers Set Hit The Snow 14th Sep 2000
    Topper Dolur Gwddw
    (left click on the link, then click on )    		 5th Sep 2000
    Swearing At Motorists Flying Pizza 5th Sep 2000
    Shellac Watch Song 30th Aug 2000
    Saloon Electron
    (left click on the link, then click on )    		 29th Aug 2000
    Garlic Slave To The Summer, Son 25th Aug 2000
    Jack Drag 1000 Dancing People 24th Aug 2000
    Monkey Steals The Drum Disco Kill (Demo version) 17th Aug 2000
    Pluto Monkey Joe Meek 15th Aug 2000
    Monkey Steals The Drum Chinese Burns 2nd Aug 2000
    Sex Clark 5 She Don't Care Aboout Time 26th July 2000
    Death Cab For Cutie For What Reason 23rd May 2000
    JL Hymn 18th May 2000
    Caretaker Rangefinding
    (left click on the link, then look for the little down arrow and click on it)    		 3rd May 2000
    Aerogramme Zionist Timing1 4th May 2000
    Helen Love Shifty Disco Girl
    (left click on the link, then look for the little down arrow and click on it)    		 3rd May 2000
    Persil Agony Aunt (session) 12th Apr 2000
    Persil 33 (session) 12th Apr 2000
    Persil Happy (session) 12th Apr 2000
    Persil Snakes And Ladders (session) 12th Apr 2000
    Gorky's Zygotic Mynci How I Long1
    (follow the link and click on )    		 4th Apr 2000
    Ballboy I Hate Scotland 21st Mar 2000
    Jameson Black Dairy Squeeze
    (left click on the link, then click on )    		 1st Mar 2000
    Laura Cantrell Churches Off The Interstate 29th Feb 2000
    The Delgados American Trilogy 16th Feb 2000
    Hefner Christian Girls 10th Feb 2000
    Appliance Personal Stereo (live version) 3rd Feb 2000
    Appliance Slow Roller (live version) 3rd Feb 2000
    Pluto Monkey Jetstream 3rd Feb 2000
    Mortician Zombie Apocplypse 2nd Feb 2000
    Six By Seven Eat Junk Become Junk 1st Feb 2000
    Stumble How Many Times Do I Have To Kill You Before You're Dead
    (if you have trouble with this link, try going here and then selecting the track to download)    		 18th Jan 2000
    Jameson Eraser
    (left click on the link, then click on )    		 18th Jan 2000
    First played in 1999
    Hefner The Hymn For The Cigarettes 1999 F50 no.2
    Clinic The Second Line 1999 FF no 20.
    Hefner I Took Her Love For Granted
    (left click on the link, then click on )    		 1999 F50 no.32
    Tarwater All Of The Ants Left Paris 4
    Ballboy Donald In The Bushes With A Bag Of Glue 2nd Dec 1999
    Saloon Futurismo
    (left click on the link, then click on )    		 17th Nov 1999
    Quickspace They Shoot Horses Don't They 29th Sep 1999
    Solex Athens, Ohio 28th Sep 1999
    Solex Pick Up
    (left click on the link, then look for the little down arrow and click on it)    		 11th Aug 1999
    Gorky's Zygotic Mynci Spanish Dance Troupe 4th Aug 1999
    Guided By Voices Teenage FBI
    and a live version at CBGBs    		 3rd Aug 1999
    Badly Drawn Boy Once Around The Block 21st July 1999
    Mir Eugene
    (left click on the link, then look for the little down arrow and click on it)    		 14th July 1999
    Calexico Stray 15th June 1999
    Kind Of Like Spitting Birds Of A Feather 10th June 1999
    Pavement Spit On A Stranger 1st June 1999
    Solex Randy Costanza 25th May 1999
    Reviver Gene Just For You
    (left click on the link, then look for the little down arrow and click on it)    		 12th May 1999
    Appliance Food Music (live version) 23rd Mar 1999
    Melys Lots of tracks, all Peel favourites
    (on mp3.com - left click on the link to see the list of available tracks)    		 -
    Even earlier stuff...
    Mercury Rev Goddess On A Hiway (Live) 1998 FF No. 33
    Mus Nautila 3rd Dec 1998
    Tarwater The Watersample 15th Oct 1998
    Tarwater Visit (To Rococo Rot mix) 29th Sep 1998
    Agoraphobic Nosebleed Vexed 6th Aug 1998
    Hood Boer Farmstead (live version) 5th Mar 1998
    Mineral Parking Lot 18th Feb 1998
    Joan Of Arc The Hands 20th Aug 1997
    Spare Snare Bugs
    (left click on the link, then look for the little down arrow and click on it)    		 4th Feb 1995
    Chumbawamba Enough Is Enough 1993 FF No. 1
    Pavement Here (Peel session) 10th Oct 1992

    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.
  • 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.
  • Das Katerer links to many good bands' collections of live, unreleased and b-side mp3s here. Featured bands include Yo La Tengo, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh, Guided by Voices and many others.
  • 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.

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

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    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.
    Tarwater - All Of The Ants Left Paris4
    Almosy certainly part of the set Tarwater played live on the show on 27th October 1999. Absolutely definitely on the album "Animals, Suns and Atoms" that John Peel recommended in the May 2000 Record Box.