The Six John Peel Sessions is a 2-CD compilation album by The Flaming Stars

The Flaming Stars

The Flaming Stars are an English underground garage punk band. The Flaming Stars can be compared to artists such as the Tindersticks and The Bad Seeds.-History:...

. They went on to do a 7th Session after this was released. John Peel

John Peel

John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE , known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004...

 himself provided some sleeve notes. The album is dedicated to Ian Dury

Ian Dury

Ian Robins Dury was an English rock and roll singer, lyricist, bandleader and actor who initially rose to fame during the late 1970s, during the punk and New Wave era of rock music...

, who had recently died. As per usual for these Sessions, the versions are of course live in the BBC studios and thus different from any of the source albums and singles.

Session 1 (7/9/95)

1. "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye"
2. "The Face on the Bar Room Floor"
3. "Broken Heart"
4. "Like Trash"
5. "Tub's Twist"

Session 2 (20/4/96)

1. "Forget My Name"
2. "Downhill Without Brakes"
3. "Who's Out There?"
4. "Back of my Mind"
5. "3AM on the Bar Room Floor"

Session 3 (19/3/97)

1. "Bury My Heart at Pier 13"
2. "Just Too Bad"
3. "Sweet Smell of Success"
4. "London After Midnight"

Session 4 (21/10/97)

1. "Better Than That"
2. "Blood Money"
3. "The Street That Never Closes"
4. "New Hope for the Dead"

Session 6 (20/6/99)

1. "Lit Up Like a Christmas Tree"
2. "Breaking Down"
3. "What Do I Get?"
4. "Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones"
5. "The Last Picture Show"