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The John Peel Sessions 1979-1983

The band's six sessions for John Peel, gathered on a 2019 release.
Echo & the Bunnymen, 2019

Released
2019
Type
compilation

The Bunnymen recorded six sessions for John Peel between 1979 and 1983, the first while they still used a drum machine. The 2019 compilation gathers them over four sides. It opens with Read It in Books, credited to McCulloch and Julian Cope, and I Bagsy Yours, the early title of Monkeys, and closes with My Kingdom. The BBC's page for the 1983 session lists the line-up as McCulloch, Sergeant, Pattinson and de Freitas, with Nocturnal Me, Watch Out Below, Ocean Rain and My Kingdom.

Track listing

  1. Read It in Books2:29
  2. Stars Are Stars3:05
  3. I Bagsy Yours2:52
  4. Villiers Terrace4:13
  5. The Pictures on My Wall3:06
  6. All That Jazz2:54
  7. Over the Wall4:49
  8. All My Colours4:27
  9. That Golden Smile4:25
  10. Heaven Up Here4:45
  11. Turquoise Days3:57
  12. Taking Advantage4:15
  13. An Equation3:49
  14. No Hands3:10
  15. Silver3:48
  16. Seven Seas4:00
  17. The Killing Moon3:36
  18. Nocturnal Me4:14
  19. Watch Out Below2:47
  20. Ocean Rain3:49
  21. My Kingdom3:59

More from Echo & the Bunnymen

Crocodiles (1980), Heaven Up Here (1981), Porcupine (1983), Ocean Rain (1984), Songs to Learn & Sing (1985), Echo & the Bunnymen (1987), Reverberation (1990), Evergreen (1997), What Are You Going to Do with Your Life? (1999), Flowers (2001), Siberia (2005), The Fountain (2009), Meteorites (2014), The Stars, the Oceans & the Moon (2018)

Sources

  1. The John Peel Sessions 1979-1983 (master release), Discogs
  2. Keeping It Peel: Echo & The Bunnymen, 1983 session, BBC Radio 1
  3. Echo & the Bunnymen, Wikipedia