Godzilla has rampaged into the building and

brought us a special 1 hour Peel Inspired Vinyl

collection broadcast! and yes you can hear the

crackles as the needle dances along with the

groove....

Godzilla's Tracklisting &

Blurb....

Here's the format for the listing: Artist - Title - Label - format - LP taken

from if relevant. 7 = 7 inch single, 12 = 12 inch single, LP = LP. There are no

CD tracks on this compilation. You will hear crackles.

Grinderswitch - Pickin' The Blues - Capricorn - 7

Eater - Michael's Monetary System - The Label - 7

Bill Nelson - Youth Of Nation On Fire - Mercury - 7

The Higsons - I Don't Want To Live With Monkeys - Romans In Britain - 7

Surface Mutants - Somewhere Strange - Rock Steady - 12

The Fall - City Hobgoblins - Rough Trade - 7

Il y a Volkswagens - Kill Myself - Mechanical Reproductions - 7

Fad Gadget - Insecticide - Mute - 7

Die Doraus & die Marinas - Fred vom Jupiter - Mute - 7

Ultravox - Young Savage - Island - 7

The Human League - Empire State Human - Virgin - 7

Henry Hall Orchestra - Waiting At The Gate - Music For Living - 7

Spizzenergi2 - Work - Rough Trade - 7

Can - I Want More - Virgin - 7

Joy Division - Novelty - Factory - 7

Bill Nelson's Red Noise - Revolt Into Style - Harvest - 7

Culture - 2 sevens Clash - Strange Fruit - 12

Au Pairs - Armagh - Human - LP - "Playing with a Different Sex"

Fire Engines - Candy Skin - Pop Aural - 7

Splodgeness Abounds - Yarmouth 5-0 - Sound for Industry - Flexidisc

I guess that there are thousands of people who, like me, owe a lot of their

taste in music to John Peel. What I got out of it was the awareness that a

piece of Indian music sounds great sandwiched between a punk record and

a slab of heavy dub. I have never known a DJ play such an astonishing

variety of music. The fact that he played it on Radio 1 is even more

incredible.

Although I continued to dip in and out of Peely's show until his untimely

death, my main listening years were between 1976 and 1983. It was my good

fortune that this was a great time for British music as punk had happened

and people were left with not only a feeling that they could do ANYTHING

but that THEY could do anything. It was as much fun to try to find

something that John Peel wouldn't play as to hear what he did.

This selection is a bunch of records that I went out and either bought or

ordered after hearing them on his show. It's not meant to be representative

of his programme - no one else could do that - it's representative of his

influence on me at that time. I should also explain that I did this comp

pissed - that's how Bill Nelson got on twice.

I wanted to finish with a flexi that John played which made me spit my beer

out in hysterics. It's perhaps fitting that the bloody thing slowed down, stuck

and then jumped to the end. I always used to laugh when that sort of thing

happened live on his shows. Who's laughing now, eh, Peely?

Godzilla 2005