Peel Sessions [Import]

Slits | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 24, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Strange Fruit UK
• ASIN: B0000084BX
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #210,948 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Love und Romance

2. Vindictive

3. New Town

4. Shoplifting

5. So Tough

6. Instant Hit

7. FM

8. Difficult Fun

9. In the Beginning

10. Earthbeat/Wedding Song

Editorial Reviews

10 track compilation of their sessions, 1977-1981, with Neneh Cherry as backing vocalist on the three cuts from the 1981 session: 'Difficult Fun', 'In The Beginning' and 'Earthbeat/ Wedding Song'. 1998 Strange Fruit release.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A GREAT PLACE TO START, December 28, 1999

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amysamm "amysamm" (SF, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Peel Sessions (Audio CD)

The import version of The Slit's Peel Sessions includes various radio sessions which highlight many of their best moments. The versions of "FM" and "New Town" are far superior here than the Cut LP. "Vindictive" is not available anywhere else and is a Slits punk classic! This import also features versions of two tracks from their second LP "Return of the Giant Slits" ("Difficult Fun" and "Earthbeat") which is long out of print. The version of "In The Beginning" found here is a long drawn out jam which shouldn't be missed! BEWARE: There is a domestic Slits Peel Sessions also in print, but it is missing the three last tracks! Buy this one!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is probably my favorite SLITS record, March 5, 2006

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Chris bct "music everyday" (San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Peel Sessions (Audio CD)

Most bands don't do much unique on Peel shows from what my ears have heard. Typically they're just recreating what they did in the studio for their records.

That's not the case w/ the SLITS. When I heard this record it took me places musically that the SLITS had never been before, certainly as a complete record.

The Cut first album is quite something. Course, that's assuming yer into the sound these gals made. It's not your usual stuff, punk or otherwise. Sure, they existed right in the fermament of the late 70's punk scene. But they carved out a musical place that is still only theirs.

This is an invaluable release because the SLITS released so few records. I'd recommend it in a heart beat, though I'd caution you to listen to those amazon 'listen' buttons first cuz this is not automatically going to be the group you just dig. We gotta find out if yer adventrous musically or not first. If you can get into their groove, man, they did some hot stuff and here's where they really get into it most. [e-mail]

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars No hint as to their true legacy and influence, July 16, 2009

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mianfei - See all my reviews

This review is from: Peel Sessions (Audio CD)

In The Rough Guide to Rock, it was said that the Slits more than any other band placed enthusiasm above musical credibility and that they made great music in spite of not being able to play.

Whilst this is certainly true of what they did on Cut, on these first recordings the Slits were a shrill and generic punk band without any of the distinctive rhythms that made "Cut" such an interesting listen. Ari Up on these early tracks has also failed to develop the piercing vocal style and sounds like she is trying to sing rock with the most extreme shrillness imaginable: a move that can only be described as a severe failure because she sounds as if she is singing without any melody and her effort to keep up with the noisy playing of Palmolive, Viv Albertine and Tessa Politt is ineffective. Although most of the songs on "The Peel Sessions" were later reworked for "Cut", the sound is nothing like that album and has been done far too many times before.

Even the three later tracks which come from the Return of the Giant Slits era have the same problem occasionally apparent even after the Slits showed they were much more than a generic punk band of failing to gel tightly enough to be memorable. In fact, they are less catchy than the overblown, sound of the early recordings here, which does them no credit at all.

If you really want to know why the Slits were genuinely influential on some of the best artists, female or otherwise, of the 1990s and 2000s you will not find out here.