The Wedding Present - Complete Peel Sessions CD

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Release Date: 28 April 2008

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Disc 1 You Should Always Keep In Touch With Your Friends It's What You Want That Matters This Boy Can Wait Felicity All About Eve Don't Laugh Never Said Don't Be So Hard Hopak Give My Love To Kevin Something And Nothing Million Miles Getting Nowhere Fast Katyusha Svitit Misyats Tiutiunyk Yikhay Kozak Za Dunai Hude Dripro Hyde	Disc 2 Davni Chasny Vasya Vasyliok Zadumav Didochok Verkhovyno Why Are You Being So Reasonable Now Unfaithful Take Me Happy Birthday Zavtra Sertsem I Dusheyev Cherez Richku Cherez Hai Dalliance Heather Blonde Niagra
Disc 3 California Flying Saucer Softly Softly Come Play With Me Gazebo So Long Baby Spangle Him Or Me (What's It Gonna Be) Drive Love Machine Sports Car Go Man Go Blue Eyes Ringway To Seatal Shivers Queen Anne White Horses	Disc 4 What Have I Said Now Crushed Kennedy Bewitched Granadaland Lengthy Interview Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Kennedy Swimming Pools Movie Stars Click Click It's A Gas Spangle Gazebo Fleshworld Sucker Queen Of Outer Space Interview
Disc 5 Introduction - Peel, John Silver Shorts Love Machine Snake Eyes Sports Car Convertible Click Click My Favourite Dress Real Thing It's A Gas Skin Diving Sucker Corduroy Mini Prize Draw	Disc 6 Go Go Dancer Sports Car Kansas 2 3 Go Bewitched Venus Loveslave Real Thing Drive Montreal Come Play With Me Brassneck Crawl

Artist:	Wedding Present (The)

Description:	Of all the bands he recorded with over the years, none of them had quite as close a relationship with John Peel as the Wedding Present. He had a big hand in breaking the band and helped cultivate their development through many session performances. The exhaustive COMPLETE PEEL SESSIONS 1986-2004 collects all those shows in one beautifully packaged box set. The sheer volume of sessions the band and Peel collaborated on is staggering, and the box spreads tracks over six discs. All the touchstones of the band's inimitable career are here: the high-tension guitars of the GEORGE BEST era, the immersion into Ukrainian folk music, and the penchant for oddball covers. While the band worked with Steve Albini, who also tried to capture Peel's rawer-is-better approach, they never quite sounded as good as when they were working with the man himself. Thus, COMPLETE PEEL SESSIONS 1986-2004 is the best possible Wedding Present retrospective, even while foregoing any tracks from their studio albums. They sound looser on these sessions than they ever did in the studio, and their sometimes strange choices sound perfectly natural in a less rarified setting.

Description:

Of all the bands he recorded with over the years, none of them had quite as close a relationship with John Peel as the Wedding Present. He had a big hand in breaking the band and helped cultivate their development through many session performances. The exhaustive COMPLETE PEEL SESSIONS 1986-2004 collects all those shows in one beautifully packaged box set. The sheer volume of sessions the band and Peel collaborated on is staggering, and the box spreads tracks over six discs. All the touchstones of the band's inimitable career are here: the high-tension guitars of the GEORGE BEST era, the immersion into Ukrainian folk music, and the penchant for oddball covers. While the band worked with Steve Albini, who also tried to capture Peel's rawer-is-better approach, they never quite sounded as good as when they were working with the man himself. Thus, COMPLETE PEEL SESSIONS 1986-2004 is the best possible Wedding Present retrospective, even while foregoing any tracks from their studio albums. They sound looser on these sessions than they ever did in the studio, and their sometimes strange choices sound perfectly natural in a less rarified setting.

Publisher:	Castle Music

Review:	Q (p.136) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "The likes of 'Crushed' and 'What Have I Said Now' remain bedsit classics, with Gedge's voice a thing of atonal poignancy..."