Radio 1 Sessions (Inspiral Carpets)

Infobox Album |
Name = Inspiral Carpets Radio 1 Sessions
Type = Live album
Artist = Inspiral Carpets


Released = start date|1996
Recorded = UK
Genre = Rock, Indie
Length =
Label = Strange Fruit
Producer = Various
Reviews =
Last album ="Inspiral Carpets The Singles" (1995)
This album ="Inspiral Carpets Radio 1 Sessions" (1996)
Next album ="Cool As" (2003)

"Radio 1 Sessions" is a compilation of live recordings by British band Inspiral Carpets, for various shows on BBC Radio 1. It was released on Strange Fruit Records in May 1999. Various tracks on the album had already been released before, but this was the first collection of the band's output for the radio station.

The first four tracks were originally released on 12" and CD in 1991 through Strange Fruit (SFPS 072). Tracks 14-17 were released with the limited edition version of "Devil Hopping" in 1994.

Track listing

CD: Strange Fruit / SFRSCD082 (UK)

# "Out Of Time" (2:00)
# "Directing Traffic" (2:20)
# "Keep The Circle Around" (3:20)
# "Gimme Shelter" (3:20)
# "Sun Don't Shine" (3:32)
# "She Comes In The Fall" (5:04)
# "Song For A Family" (2:55)
# "This Is How It Feels" (2:56)
# "Beast Inside" (4:35)
# "Smoking Her Clothes" (3:48)
# "Two Worlds Collide" (4:32)
# "Sleep Well Tonight" (5:01)
# "Butterfly" (3:07)
# "Saturn 5" (3:52)
# "The Way The Light Falls" (4:37)
# "Party In The Sky" (3:41)
# "I Want You" (3:02)
# "Born Yesterday" (4:37)
# "Cobra" (2:00)
# "I Don't Want To Go Blind" (4:22)
# "Paranoid" (3:33)

* Tracks 1 to 4 recorded for the John Peel Show 26th March 1989.
* Tracks 5 to 8 recorded for the John Peel Show 17th August 1989.
* Track 9 recorded for the John Peel Show 20th May 1990.
* Tracks 10 to 13 recorded for the Evening Session 29th February 1992.
* Tracks 14 to 17 recorded for the Evening Session 8th December 1993.
* Tracks 18 to 21 recorded for the Mark Radcliffe Show 13th June 1994.