The Peel Sessions is an EP

Extended play

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 by Band of Susans

Band of Susans

Band of Susans was a noise rock band formed in New York City in 1986. It originally consisted of Robert Poss , Susan Stenger , Ron Spitzer , with Susan Lyall , Susan Tallman , and Alva Rogers . However, the band would undergo several permutations over the years, usually involving guitarists...

, recorded in 1988 and 1989 from sessions with 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...

 but not released until 1992.

The first four tracks feature the same line-up as Love Agenda

Love Agenda

Love Agenda is the second album by Band of Susans, released in 1989. Page Hamilton, later much more famous than any of the band's core members because of his work as frontman for Helmet, plays guitar on this album and some of the subsequent Peel Sessions that followed the tour to support it...

(with the latterly relatively famous Page Hamilton

Page Hamilton

Page Hamilton is a guitarist, singer and record producer, mostly noted for his work with alternative metal band Helmet...

 as one of the guitarists) but the latter two feature a line-up that never recorded any other material.

"Child of the Moon" (a Rolling Stones cover) and "Which Dream Came True" had been on Love Agenda

Love Agenda

Love Agenda is the second album by Band of Susans, released in 1989. Page Hamilton, later much more famous than any of the band's core members because of his work as frontman for Helmet, plays guitar on this album and some of the subsequent Peel Sessions that followed the tour to support it...

whilst "Throne of Blood" and "Hope Against Hope" were on the debut

Hope Against Hope

Hope Against Hope is the 1988 debut album by Band of Susans, released in 1988 on Blast First. The CD version includes their debut EP Blessing and Curse, which contains "Sometimes" and "Where Have All The Flowers Gone"...

. The other tracks Two of these are covers of Wire's

Wire (band)

Wire are an English rock band, formed in London in October 1976 by Colin Newman , Graham Lewis , Bruce Gilbert , and Robert Gotobed...

 "Too Late" and Gang of Four's

Gang of Four (band)

Gang of Four are an English post-punk group from Leeds. Original personnel were singer Jon King, guitarist Andy Gill, bass guitarist Dave Allen and drummer Hugo Burnham. They were fully active from 1977 to 1984, and then re-emerged twice in the 1990s with King and Gill...

 "I Found That Essence Rare" and were never on any Band of Susans album released on Blast First

Blast First

Blast First is a sub label of one-time independent record label, Mute Records, founded in approximately 1985. It was named after a phrase taken from the first number of the radical Vorticist journal Blast, published by Wyndham Lewis in 1914...

 or Restless Records

Restless Records

Restless Records was started in El Segundo, California in 1981 by Enigma Records and primarly released alternative, metal and punk records. Restless also licensed and released records from Bar/None Records, Metal Blade Records and Mute Records...

.

Track listing

1. "I Found That Essence Rare" (Gang of Four
   Gang of Four (band)
   Gang of Four are an English post-punk group from Leeds. Original personnel were singer Jon King, guitarist Andy Gill, bass guitarist Dave Allen and drummer Hugo Burnham. They were fully active from 1977 to 1984, and then re-emerged twice in the 1990s with King and Gill...
   
   ) - 2:41
2. "Throne of Blood" (Robert Poss) - 4:09
3. "Child of the Moon" (Mick Jagger
   Mick Jagger
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   , Keith Richards
   Keith Richards
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   ) - 4:04
4. "Hope Against Hope" (Robert Poss) - 6:22
5. "Which Dream Came True" (Robert Poss) - 6:27
6. "Too Late" (Bruce Gilbert
   Bruce Gilbert
   Bruce Gilbert is an English musician. One of the founding members of the influential and experimental art-punk band Wire, Gilbert branched out into electronic music, performance art, music production, and DJing during the band's extended periods of inactivity...
   
   ) - 3:29

Personnel

• Robert Poss: guitar
  Guitar
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  , vocals
• Susan Stenger: bass
  Bass guitar
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• Karen Haglof: guitar
• Page Hamilton
  Page Hamilton
  Page Hamilton is a guitarist, singer and record producer, mostly noted for his work with alternative metal band Helmet...
  
   guitar (tracks: 1 to 4)
• Mark Lonergan guitar (tracks: 5, 6)
• Ron Spitzer: drum
  Drum
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  s