The Only Ones - Peel Session 1978 

Feeling the same thing 1 year on....

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.

I was there...

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

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!!

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Remember it well. I wasthere!

Vidar Larsen it's true!!

+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

Never, Never forgotten.

Damn right.

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 !

And spooky tooth

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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).

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

​@@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".

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

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

I wish I could play that poorly.