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Big Black - BBC Radio Peel Session 1987

Ripped from a dubiously sourced cassette tape of unknown but fuzzy lineage. The only Big Black Peel Session was recorded in Chicago, rather than the usual Maida Vale studios, for broadcast on the 6th May 1987. It doesn't feature on the Keeping It Peel archive, but here it is anyway. There was also a 7" vinyl bootleg which I don't have.

01 Dead Billy
02 Ugly American
03 Newman Generator
04 L Dopa

Ugly Americans

Big Black - The Hammer Party

Ripped and normalised from a compact disc album released on Homestead Records (HMS 044-2) in 1986 to high quality lossless flac audio. Fine compilation of the first three Big Black EPs released to feed from the commercial success of Atomizer. Those lucky enough to buy the originals clearly knew they were onto a good thing. The rest of us had to make do with this compilation. Call me difficult, but I always preferred Big Black's edgy, almost minimalist early recordings to the more acclaimed later releases.
1 Steelworker
2 Live In A Hole
3 Dead Billy
4 I Can Be Killed
5 Crack
6 Rip
7 Cables
8 Pigeon Kill
9 I'm A Mess
10 Texas
11 Seth
12 Jump The Climb
13 Racer X
14 Shotgun
15 The Ugly American
16 Deep Six
17 Sleep!
18 The Big Payback

Three Men and A Roland TR-606

Big Black - Live In Heaven

Ripped from a compact disc album released on Oblivion Records (ORCD 9104) in 1991 to high quality lossless flac audio. Albini and chums live on stage at the Paard Van Troje in November 1986.

1 Fists Of Love
2 Fists Of Love
3 L-Dopa
4 Big Money
5 Dead Billy
6 Cables
7 Pigeon Kill
8 Passing Complexion
9 Kerosene
10 Jordan Minnesota
11 Bad Penny
12 Deep Six
13 R.I.P.
14 Rema Rema