[peel] John Peel tapes being uploaded to YouTube

[Mr M D Luetchford]

It makes me wonder why 1992 is so special. Although I have discovered some new sounds by listening to the tapes it is not what I would consider a great year for the show and Festive 50 doesn't fill me with any massive troubles of excitement. My personal favourite is 1982 - closely followed by 1977. Does anyone have an explanation  for 1992 and what are your favourite years, pop pickers ...

On 24 February 2016, at 15:50, "stuartb@brooks22.plus.com [peel]" <peel@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

  

Youtube user Dweemis has been continuing to upload his 1992/1993 mixtapes to Youtube. I've been busy wikifying these with his enthusiatic permission, and have set up a page listing these tapes (doubled up as a category page).

There aren't many links, and some of the tapes are running a litle fast. As 1992 is well represented already, it's been relatively easy to date the files. These are tape to tape dubs, and seem to be chronologically recorded to a degree, though sometimes it will flip back to an earlier show due to reuse of tapes, and occasionally the dubbing order of tape sides is mixed up, but certainly more chronological than the HO tapes or Best of Peel series which had a degree or randomness on a track by track basis.

This means that it has been possible to reconstruct the running order of quite a few 1992 shows, and in addition properly allocate some of the BoP and HO tracks to specific shows - I've done this down to Tape 25 so far.

The big news is that there is now content for every show in 1992! Only 2003 and 2004 could lay claim to this statistic (and that due to series record on Sky boxes which made it easier then). In truth we probably did have content for every show for a while but it's only now that we are confident enough about the dating of tracks in the BoP series, due to the extra evidence from the HO and Dweemis tapes.

There are still a few unknown tracks in there - thanks to JohnPeel3904 for identifying a few of them so far.

Stuart



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