Always a smashed mirror image of Orange Juice ,they pasted the shards back in the frame like a cut-up sonic novel,confusing the human need to look for patterns in chaos.
Compare these versions to the studio equivalents released on vinyl, and you will see there was indeed method in the madness;they were actually repeatable compositions and not bags of random noise with a re-used title after all?!
These ardent northern left-wingers also had a sense of humour(!), which downgraded their genius in the music aficionados rigid scale of 'good'.
These sessions included a couple of tongue-in-cheek cover versions,or conversions, including one of Wham's atrocious "Wake me up before you go-go"; which refers to the bands early 'fake news' release that they were once Wham's backing band.This was quickly taken as 'fact' by the man in the pub,to become an indie myth. Be careful when you mix humour with music.....it can destroy you.....and invariably does.Intelligence is needed.
Track listing:
1st Peel Session 16/07/1984
1. Breath Of A Nation
2. Debra
3. Man Of Few Syllables
4. Sargasso
5. All The Irish Must Go To Heaven
6. New Way
7. Chanel Samba
8. These Boots Are Made For Working
9. Earsore
10. Let's Rewrite The American Constitution
11. Cat With Cholic
12. Every Conversation
13. Sink (Get Out Of The Ghetto Blues Part 1)
14. Xpqwrtz (Pronounced Tshh!)
15. Three On Baffled Island (The Hard Rock Movement)
16. Testament To The Slow Death Of Youth Culture
(Wake me up when its all over)