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The Big Takeover Show – Number 549 – July 28, 2025

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DJ Jack Rabid (song: traditional; “Scarborough Fair”)
New Model Army – The Hunt (live) (Live at SO36) recorded 2022, released 2025
Buzzcocks – Noise Annoys (live) (WNEW broadcast, The Palladium, New York, December 1, 1979)
Superchunk – Stuck in a Dream (Songs in the Key of Yikes) brand new
Nord Electric (Featuring Mark Gardener) – Loneliness For Sale (Loneliness For Sale EP) brand new
Pale Blue Eyes – Half Light (New Place) brand new
Sloan – Dream Destroyer (Based on the Best Seller) brand new
The Who – Leaving Here (Who’s Missing) recorded 1965, released 1985; Eddie Holland/Holland–Dozier–Holland cover
Black Sabbath – Paranoid (Paranoid) 1970; R.I.P. singer Ozzy Osbourne (1948-2025), age 76
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Nick Drake – Strange Face (First Sound Techniques Session) (The Making of Five Leaves Left box set; Disc One: 1st Sound Techniques Session aka The Beverley Martyn demo & Alt Takes from February 1968 to April 1969) recorded March 1968, released 2025
Bird Streets – Mistaker (The Escape Artist) brand new
Wednesday – Pick Up That Knife (Bleeds) brand new
Bloococoon – You Being You (Bloococoon) brand new
Allo Darlin’ – Stars (Bright Lights) brand new
Davy Graham – Seven Gypsies (Folk, Blues and Beyond) 1965; traditional song
Simon & Garfunkel – Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. (live) (Live at Lincoln Center, New York City, NY – January 1967) recorded January 22, 1967, Philharmonic Hall, Lincoln Center; released 2002
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Badfinger – Come and Get It (single) 1969; Paul McCartney song
The Mighty Rootsmen – Come and Get It (The Mighty Rootsmen) brand new; Paul McCartney/Badfinger cover (Featuring Toots Hibbert, Gregory Isaacs, Mykal Rose, Luciano, and Sly & Robbie)
(Toots &) the Maytals – Pressure Drop (single, Monkey Man) 1969
The Clash – Pressure Drop (b-side, “English Civil War”; Black Market Clash) 1979
Bright Eyes – 1st World Blues (single) brand new
Idlewild – It’s Not the First Time (Idlewild) brand new
Stonewall Jackson – Why I’m Walkin’ (single, The Dynamic Stonewall Jackson) 1959
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Special Set: 1979 BBC John Peel Sessions Recordings of U.K. Post-punk:
Siouxsie and the Banshees – Placebo Effect (At the BBC) BBC John Peel Session, April 9, 1979
Psychedelic Furs – Fall (The Radio One Sessions) BBC John Peel Session, recorded July 25, 1979
Buzzcocks – Hollow Inside (BBC Session) BBC John Peel Session, recorded May 21, 1979
The Damned – I Just Can’t be Happy Today (BBC Session) BBC John Peel Session, recorded October 22, 1979
Killing Joke – Pssyche (The Peel Sessions, 1979-1981) BBC John Peel Session, October 17, 1979
The Raincoats – Fairytale in the Supermarket (BBC Session) BBC John Peel Session, recorded March 6, 1979
Wire – Crazy About Love (The Peel Sessions Album) BBC John Peel Session, recorded September 11, 1979
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Shirley Collins – Hares on the Mountain (Fast Version) (single) brand new

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