VA - Killed By John Peel

 

John Robert Parker Ravenscroft OBE (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004. He was one of the first broadcasters to play Psychedelic Rock and Progressive Rock records on British radio, and he is widely acknowledged for promoting artists working in a multitude of genres including Pop, Dub, Reggae, Punk Rock and Post-Punk, Electronic Music and Dance Music, Indie Rock, Extreme Metal, and British Hip Hop. Fellow DJ Paul Gambaccini described Peel as "the most important man in music for about a dozen years".

From the amazingly rich vaults of John Peel's BBC 1 Radio session recordings, comes one of the best Punk Rock compilations we've heard in a long while. Focusing on the less known side of the huge Peel Sessions catalog, Killed By John Peel comes stuffed to the rafters with mind blowing and little known gems from the opening track with French Synth Punk pioneers Metal Urbain and the incendiary recording of their hit E-202 to the closing with the kick ass Power Pop Punk hit She's Alarming by the Wasps, each and every single track on this monster of a record presents a band at their prime giving it all at the legendary BBC Radio 1 studios. Absolutely essential!

Killed By John Peel Vol 1 (2020)

01 - Metal Urbain - E-202
02 - The Outcasts - Gangland Warfare
03 - King - Antipope
04 - Rudi - Yummy Yummy
05 - Idiot Dancers - Jealousy
06 - The Cortinas - Further Education
07 - Alternative TV - Going Round In Circles
08 - The Skids - Open Sound
09 - Scars - She's Alive
10 - The Lurkers - Countdown
11 - The Flys - Energy Boy
12 - Funboy Five - Haircut Bob Dylan
13 - pragVEC - Bits
14 - The Wasps - She's Alarming

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