Well January is always a quiet month so now is the time for me to finally get to grips with John Peel's Record Box. This was the box of 142 singles and EPs that John kept with him most of the time, reputedly these were his favourite singles. This Christmas felt strange without his festive 50 (yes, I know there was a OneMusic festive 50 but it wasn't the same) and this list gives us Peel fans something to dig our teeth into.
The full list is here. I wouldn't go as far as describing the box as 142 slices of 3minute pop songs - you don't have to look too hard to find singles that disprove that!
As for my personal collection I only have a battered copy of Laurie Anderson's 'O Superman' (an 8 minute A-side for starters!) and Pavement's rare 'Demolition Plot J-7' (a six track EP), although I have a lot of the tunes on CDs. It was exciting that even as a long-term listener of Peel's show there were a lot of titles here I didn't recognise. Consequently they could be hard to track down. Time to delve headlong and get searching for some of these songs.....
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