The Only Ones - Peel Session 1978

[@larrypollard8116]

These guys were way before their time, The Beast is today's reality. Still have their original Lp's.

[@peterfreeman6677]

Another Girl Another Planet is one of the greatest songs ever written. It's great to have it on a Peel session.

[@rebelsage3158]

Feeling the same thing 1 year on....

[@Beneluxer]

This is great! It's wild how much more vibrant the Peel versions are, but I think the Peel version of Oh, Lucinda (Love Becomes a Habit) is the best song ever. I would literally listen to that song over and over again for hours on my red Sony Discman while I was walking across Manhattan trying to find a job, homeless, sleeping on my friend's sofa.

[@alanmcewan2520]

Music to take chemo to me tonight🤣 I've sang these songs for nearly 50 years and did my own wee homage in 1985 n #27 of deadbeatfanzine.blogpsot. they played the Astoria in Edinburgh in 1979 I think and it was a ridiculous price like 50p. Edinburgh was so lucky when I was growing up. I remember doing a cover of no peace for the wicked. The only one we could play at full speed - all these conversations are a joy to read. Rabbit holes full of joy. The production has been mentioned and it's so true of many of Peelys sessions. Oh Lucinda such a great track. I rate all the albums highly. I had to, I bought them but even serpents shine its a classic. And Peter P has a great ear worm in that new work. I'm sure a lot of you have heard it. Brilliant stuff thanks for posting sharing and communicating. The sound is all.

[@floydyopz]

Glastonbury '79, "The Only Ones are on stage!" running like mad across the field with Johnny and Allan to get to the front as 'Another Girl, Another Planet' swirled out across the small crowd.... Forgotten? I don't think so.

[@Psymon-F-C]

I was there...

[@undergrounddaddy1]

really great the way you describe,,,and forgotten?,,,, No Freaking Way,,,,,,, still regulars on many speakers,,,they belonged to the very best ever,,,,,, and still activ,,,,Pete Perretts solo album is really high class

[@stevehastings5161]

I have listened to all of The Only Ones Peel Sessions & Full-Length Albums countless times over & over again & they are an Incredible New Wave/Power-Pop Rock Band that formed & submerged from the very beginning of The Punk Rock Scene in The U.K. from 1976 to 1980! I used to have all of their Full-Length Albums on Original Vinyl Records many years ago.While listening to this particular Peel Session,I was digging thru one of my very dusty Milkcrates of Extremely Rare Vinyl Records & found my Very First Promotional Vinyl Copy & Record of The Only Ones First Album "Special View" On C.B.S.Records! What A Gem! & Great Album! I do not remember the exact dates? Or times? Because a lot of my really old ticket stubs from the Live Concerts I attended in the past, the ink washed off & disappeared somewhere? I think I saw The Only Ones Live with The Records+The Boomtown Rats+Squeeze+Tom Robinson Band+The Motors @ a couple of different venues & shows back in late 1977 to 1980!!

[@jokohomo9591]

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[@stonemaze9925]

Remember it well. I wasthere!

[@vidarlarsen748]

Four great songs from a nearly forgotten and extremely underrrated band.

[@lucapasseroni6371]

Vidar Larsen it's true!!

[@leethomas255]

+Gianluca Passeroni very true, growing up in the 70s punk era uk, I heard loads of 'punk' band, mostly rubbish, but sometimes they got lucky, at the cost of very talentated & underated band like the Only Ones. Thanks for this down load, brings back happy memories

[@elliottvictor]

Never, Never forgotten.

[@floydyopz]

Damn right.

[@frflinstone]

No band that ever wrote and recorded "Another Girl Another Planet" will be forgotten, maybe ignored a bit but thanks to Peter Perret's brilliant "How The West Was Won" I, at least, have rediscovered the Only Ones and am listening (and buying) to all their stuff again !

[@AnnieDelico]

One word sums up this band's music ... *Brilliant* ... I had never heard of them back in their heyday but a Sydney (Australia) band called *The Professors* played *Another Girl, Another Planet* in about 1979. I only found *The Only Ones* recently on KZbin and I'm SO glad KZbin's so savvy with matching up similar bands & artists nowadays, or else I probably wouldn't have found these fabulous music clips!

[@d0nnyr0n]

RIP Mike Kellie A true legend.

[@mariopollano]

"No Peace For The Wicked" is the perfect song

[@1956Jambo]

AGAP is possibly my favourite song of all time - and every time you hear it played live John Perry improvises the solo around the recorded version to make it the same but brilliantly different! 3 minutes of genius! 🎶🎶🎶

[@richardfinlayson1524]

Great version of another girl another planet. What a great song.

[@benhalloren7599]

Peter Perret wrote it!

[@isobelR1618]

Best lyrics, voice, guitar, oh The Only Ones ... and I ken John Peel and I love him - and thank you, too :D

[@LarzGustafsson]

Clearly underrated band. Top combo!

[@fredrikmoback146]

Brilliant guitars, bass and drums :)

[@iancrause1856]

One of the very greatest of all rock and roll bands and one of the few you could say whose music chimed with the wider canon of the arts, especially romanticism. Properly great stuff.

[@fatbhoy2002]

Love it!

[@charlesandrews1334]

All the songs are brilliant, but Miles From Nowhere is my fav.

[@lismoeff]

1. Another Girl, Another Planet (0:07)

[@looking4themagic]

my birthday 45 years ago

[@drstevie]

So good. Beyond .

[@marksaltveit]

Holy FUCK this is awesome.

[@franksteyn]

One of the best bands I've ever seen,Mike Kellie was from "another planet"..

[@robertommundsen9155]

And spooky tooth

[@juliomurillo2346]

Excelente cuantos recuerdos hermosos.

[@drstevie]

Immense.

[@andrewarthurmatthews6685]

Yes I too was at Glasto 79, well to be frank I was working it , back stage power and lighting not to mench keeping the massive , outrageously over the top generator topped up with diesel over the whole weekend. Yes the Only Ones took no prisoners that or any other day. Fine playing, excellent lyrics driven by one of the best 60’s and 70’s drummers ; what’s not to like ? Also on that weekend were the mighty Doll By Doll , much underrated and much missed.

[@banjojon7169]

I gots to find me some Doll by Doll it looks like

[@Kevla74]

Unreal

[@banjojon7169]

Best! Bon Scott AC/DC, these guys, Johnny Thunders! YESSSSSS! the Kinks, Sonics, shit... There are a bunch... But these guys rule

[@CatoMinor]

They remind me a lot of Tom Verlaine's Television

[@nolagospeltracts8264]

Replacements turned me on to this band.

[@steveritt]

RIP Koulla, added the sublime "Woo oh!"

[@Hugh-wh7eu]

Don't think I can hear Koulla on these recordings Steve. Isn't the "woo hoo!" Peter? I love Koulla's backing vocals on You've got to Pay and a few seconds at the end of Someone who Cares.

[@steveritt]

@@Hugh-wh7eu Yeah PP here but on the single, Koulla I. Guess

[@Hugh-wh7eu]

Ah, got you Steve. Never thought about that, but listening back, could be.

[@sawbonesquad4876]

The Beast is a great song too, best version of Another Girl Another planet though

[@incunabula777]

Agree

[@scottsutherland9126]

Capital versions, all!

[@bartonted]

Ha. Only Ones - they are the best. An Australian guy loves you [2023] and loves your solo stuff. I like your dark ideas, [stop being lazy] make another record. !!! If you have to say something, wake the world up! punk was a step up that mostly workked . PUSH the envelope!

[@gasutrias9961]

😍

[@AleisterMeowley]

I love that there’s a Peel session for these guys but, for one reason or another, they can’t really keep up with the drummer

[@faulifauli638]

really nice ... sometimes it sounds like VIOLENT FEMMES ... maybe only his voice !?! i like it !

[@arthurbergmann8219]

there isno cure

[@Jlipnicki]

I saw them at the Leeds Sc-Fi Festival 1979 where all the so-called post-punk bands played and they were outstanding. Perrett once said ' don't knock the dole, money for drugs ' Not sure what drugs he was on. Could afford a few pints.

[@hannahgrahame]

Not sure what drugs he was on? Is this sarcasm?

[@edwardclah2813]

Im surprised marvels gotg haven't even consider another girl another planet. Great song found this band last year.

[@hannahgrahame]

Thank god mass media keep their greasy hands off our counter-culture

[@sloppy_hand]

why the most beautiful lyrics ever written are almost always about a drug as wicked as heroin?

[@Spectrescup]

According to Peter, nothing on the 1st album, with the obvious exception of the Beast, were about heroin. As a kid, I thought they all were, but it's easy to mistake love songs for heroin songs (and I don't mean that fatuously). The 3rd album has more stuff (Oh Lucinda) that are much more obviously about the stuff.

[@Spectrescup]

Also, I mind the desfription of heroin as 'wicked' enormously superficial. Almost all the things you no doubt consider wicked are by-products of other things (notably it's illegality).

[@johnflushing9328]

Because it brings such intense feelings of love and hate...

[@hannahgrahame]

​@@johnflushing9328fair point. It's a lazy songwriter's shortcut. Like when Jeffrey Lee Pierce wanted to express fierce desire he wrote "She's like heroin to me".

[@lucalone]

sadly this the best this band has ever done!!! by far!

[@kevin285]

But nobody done anything better. If they are To be judged by this one song then they reached perfection

[@akiuliano]

The Mighty Lemon Drops does AGAP proper. Best version of the remakes by far.

[@hannahgrahame]

The Mighty Lemon Drops might rate at Wolvehampton's 34th best ever band. Hardly deserve mention in this august company.

[@basedenjoyer157]

Dinosaur Jnr , just ripped these guys off , daylight robbery.

[@deantown6601]

Guitar is poor on this recording.

[@SimplyReg]

I wish I could play that poorly.