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Two songs from The Slits tonight, to remember Ari Up who passed away two weeks ago. Interesting to hear the difference between the Peel session in September 77 and the 'Cut' LP in 1979. The Dennis Bovell production is always given a lot of credit for the sound of 'Cut' but listening to the rawer Peel session (produced by Tony Wilson, who shares the name but not the fame of the late Manchester Mogul) I wonder if a different version of 'Cut' , with more fuzzy guitars, would have been just as good. There's a wonderfully vitriolic by a former ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ engineer about the Slits Peel session which says that they couldn't tune their own guitar. That could be true, so credit to the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ engineer who tuned it for them. That's why The Slits paid their licence fee.

Sex Pistols - Satellite
Slits - Typical Girls
Gorillas - Gatecrasher
The Fall - Shoulder Pads Number 1
Dead Kennedys - California Uber Alles
John Otway - Baby's In The Club
Slits - Love Und Romance (Peel Session)
Angelic Upstarts - Police Oppression
Microdisney - Sun
? & The Mysterians - Can't Get Enough Of You, Baby
ÌýCortinas - Heartache
ÌýRevillos - Motor Bike Beat
ÌýHalf Man Half Biscuit - Trumpton Riots
June Brides - Heard You Whisper
ÌýBuzzcocks - Times Up