Peel Sessions

Magazine | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 24, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 2008
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Caroline
• ASIN: B001FW8EGE
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #228,516 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

All Music Guide

"The Peel Sessions disc is the real meat. Four sessions yield 15 thoroughly exciting songs. Everything is delivered with excellence... some versions might be preferable to their album counterparts..."

Product Description

Formed by original Buzzcocks lead singer Howard Devoto, Magazine featured a line-up that included John McGeoch, who later joined Siouxsie & The Banshees, and Barry Adamson who became a key member of Nick Cave's Bad Seeds before launching a critically praised solo career.

Magazine's combination of punk rock's nervous energy and art rock's experimentalism pushed the boundaries of music. Little wonder that this top post-punk group has been cited the by today's top post-rock group, Radiohead as an infl uence, (performing "Shot By Both Sides" on the Kid-A tour), as well as U2's The Edge, Blur, Maximo Park, Manus, Manic Street Preachers, Elastica, Morrissey (who covered "A Song From Under The Floorboards"), and both Ministry and Peter Murphy who each covered "The Light Pours Out Of Me."

These John Peel Sessions tracks, never before released in the US, provide fascinating, live in-the-studio versions of Magazine's hits as well as many tracks only released as singles. Of particular interest is the song "Boredom," which Howard Devoto originally sang on the debut Buzzcocks single when he was that group's lead vocalist.

Customer Reviews

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An Exact Replica, November 24, 2008

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Nicholas Wilhelmy (La Crosse, WI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Peel Sessions (Audio CD)

This album is essentially a stand-alone version of the third disc of Magazine's out-of-print boxed set. When I put the CD into my computer to rip it to iTunes, it recognized the disc as "Maybe it's Right to Be Nervous Now (Disc 3)." This edition contains no bonus tracks, no re-remastered sound (it sounds fine as it is), and no special essays in the liner notes. It's a pretty bare-bones package, but that doesn't matter.

What matters is that a comprehensive document of Devoto & Co.'s excellent John Peel performances are available again, and any fan that missed out the first time gets a second chance.

3 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Re-hashed Magazine, January 10, 2009

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Dino "Dino" (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Peel Sessions (Audio CD)

I was disappointed with this purchased because it's CD3 of "Maybe it's right to be nervous now" , just titled differently , a great 3 CD Box Set of which I already have. I thought it was a totally different Magazine CD that I didn't have. They should've just re-issued the 3 CD import. I should've checked it before I purchased it. Anyway, I can give it to a friend who don't have the box set. So if you have the 3 CD box set, you don't need to have this one.