John Peel's Festive Fifty, 1998-2000
Created | Updated Jul 29, 2003
Here are John Peels Festive Fifty Running from 1998-2000,for those who dont know what the festive fifty is it is the definitive list of good music as voted for by the less-pop-inclined members of Britian.
John Peel's Festive Fifty 1998
01. Delgados - 'Pull The Wires From The Wall'
02. Mogwai - 'Xmas Steps'
03. Belle & Sebastian - 'Boy With The Arab Strap'
04. Ten Benson - 'The Claw'
05. Pop Off Tuesday - 'Unwordly'
06. Cuban Boys - 'Oh My God They Killed Kenny'
07. Bis - 'Eurodisco'
08. Pulp - 'This Is Hardcore'
09. Delgados - 'Everything Runs Around The Water'
10. Helen Love - 'Long Live The Uk Music Scene'
11. Jesus & Mary Chain - 'Crackin Up'
12. Daniel Johnston - 'Dream Scream'
13. Clinic - 'Cement Mixer'
14. Badly Drawn Boy - 'I Need A Sign'
15. Cinerama - 'Kerry Kerry'
16. Plone - 'Plock'
17. L'augmentation - 'Soleil'
18. Boards Of Canada - 'Aquarius'
19. Solex - 'All Lickety Split'
20. Evolution - 'Copyright Violation For The Nation'
21. Massive Attack - 'Teardrop'
22. Spiritualized (Meltdown) - 'Oh Happy Day'
23. Solex Session - 'One Louder Solex'
24. Melys - 'Lemming'
25. Half Man Half Biscuit - 'Turn A Blind Eye'
26. Belle & Sebastian - 'Sleep The Clock Around'
27. Clinic - 'Monkey On Your Back'
28. Fatboy Slim - 'Rockafeller Skank'
29. Super Furry Animals - 'Ice Hockey Hair'
30. Billy Bragg - 'Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key'
31. Freed Unit - 'Widdershins'
32. Male Nurse - 'My Own Private Patrick Swayze'
33. Mercury Rev - 'Goddess On A Highway'
34. Elbow - 'Powder Blue'
35. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - 'Sweet Johnny'
36. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - 'Hush The Warmth'
37. Melt Banana - 'Stimulus For Revolting Virus'
38. Delgados - 'The Actress'
39. Quickspace (Session) - 'If I Were A Carpenter'
40. 60ft Dolls - 'Alison's Room'
41. Boards Of Canada - 'Roygbiv'
42. Derrero - 'Radar Intruder'
43. Hefner - 'Pull Yourself Together'
44. Rooney - 'Went To Town'
45. Soda Stream - 'Turnstyle'
46. Sportique - 'Kids Are Solid Gold'
47. Ten Benson - 'Evil Heat'
48. Autechre - 'Fold 4 Wrap 5'
49. The Fall (Session) - 'Shake Off'
50. PJ Harvey - 'Is This Desire'
John Peel's Festive Fifty 1999
50. Wheat - 'Don’t I Hold You' (City Slang)
49. Hefner - 'Hymn For The Things We Didn’t Do' (Ovni)
48. Miss Mend - 'Living City Plan' (Piao)
47. Marine Research - 'Parallel Horizontal' (K)
46. Stereolab - 'The Free Design' (Duophonic)
45. Pavement - 'Carrot Rope' (Domino)
44. Appliance - 'Food Music' (Mute)
43. Six By Seven - 'Helden' (Mantra)
42. Aphex Twin - 'Windowlicker' (Warp)
41. Badly Drawn Boy - 'Once Around The Block' (Twisted Nerve)
40. Blur - 'Tender' (Food)
39. Atari Teenage Riot - 'Revolution Action' (Digital Hardcore)
38. Melt Banana - 'Plot In A Pot' (Skin Graft)
37. Add N To X - 'Metal Finger In My Body' (Mute)
36. Broadcast - 'Echoes Answer' (Warp)
35. Smog - 'Cold Blooded Old Times' (Domino)
34. Plone - 'Be Rude To Your School' (Warp)
33. Gene - 'As Good As It Gets' (Polydor)
32. Hefner - 'I Took Her Love For Granted' (Too Pure)
31. Pavement - 'Major Leagues' (Domino)
30. Half Man Half Biscuit - '24 Hour Garage People' (Peel Session)
29. Dawn Of The Replicants - 'Science Fiction Freak' (East West)
28. Cuban Boys - 'Flossie’s Alarming Clock' (White Label)
27. Super Furry Animals - 'Turning Tide' (Creation)
26. Kraken - 'Side Effects' (Underfire)
25. Mogwai - 'Stanley Kubrick' (Chemikal Underground)
24. Super Furry Animals - 'Northern Lites' (Creation)
23. Bonnie Prince Billy - 'I See A Darkness' (Domino)
22. Hefner - 'I Stole A Bride' (Too Pure)
21. Godspeed You Black Emperor - 'Hung Over As The Oven At Maida Vale' (Peel Session)
20. Clinic - 'The Second Line' (Domino)
19. Salako - 'Look Left' (Jeepster)
18. Cinerama - 'Kings Cross' (Elefant)
17. Super Furry Animals - 'Fire In My Heart' (Creation)
16. Sonic Subjunkies - 'Do You Even Know Who You Are?' (L Light)
15. Orbital - 'Style' (Ffrr)
14. Mogwai - 'Cody' (Chemikal Underground)
13. Cinerama - 'Pacific' (Elefant)
12. Flaming Lips - 'Waiting For A Superman' (Warner Bros)
11. Half Man Half Biscuit - 'Look Dad No Tunes' (Probe Plus)
10. Low - 'Immune' (Tugboat)
09. Murry The Hump - 'Thrown Like A Stone' (Shifty Disco)
08. Flaming Lips - 'Race For The Prize' (Warner Bros)
07. Fall - 'F-Oldin’ Money' (Artful)
06. Elastica with Mark E Smith - 'How He Wrote Elastica Man' (Deceptive)
05. Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci - 'Spanish Dance Troupe' (Mantra)
04. Fall - 'Touch Sensitive' (Artful)
03. Hefner - 'Hymn For The Alcohol' (Too Pure)
02. Hefner - 'The Hymn For The Cigarettes' (To Pure)
01. Cuban Boys - 'Cognoscenti Vs Intelligentsia' (White Label)
John Peel's Festive Fifty 2000
1 'Twist The Knife' - Neko Case & Her Boyfriends
2 'Good Fortune' - P J Harvey
3 'Dr Bucks Letter' - The Fall
4 'Mistakes And Regrets' - And You Will Know Us By Trail Of Dead
5 'Come On Lets Go' - Broadcast
6 'Big Exit' - P J Harvey
7 'Greedy Ugly People' - Hefner
8 'The Light 3000' - Schneider TM KPT.michi.gan
9 'No Danger' - Delgados
10 'American Trilogy' - Delgados
11 'Dinosaur Act' - Low
12 'Day That Thatcher Dies' - Hefner
13 'I Hate Scotland' - Ballboy
14 'Accused of Stealing' - Delgados
15 'Good Fruit' - Hefner
16 'Your Charms' - Cinerama
17 'Wow' - Cinerama
18 'Mess We're In' - P J Harvey
19 'Prayer to God' - Shellac
20 'In a Beautiful Place' - Boards of Xanada
21 'Somewhere Some Night' - Laura Cantrell
22 'Ballad of Cable Hogue' - Calexico
23 'Two Librans' - The Fall
24 'Whores Hustle, Hustlers' - P J Harvey
25 'Kid A' - Radiohead
26 'Brutal' - New Order
27 'Two Seconds' - Laura Cantrell
28 'The Second Line' - Clinic
29 'Vinyl Countdown' - Cuban Boys
30 'Popping Song' - Cowcube
31 'Drug Dealer in Park' - Herman Dune
32 '24 hr Garage People' - Hmhb
33 'Wonderwall' (session) - Catpower
34 'Theme From P&P' - Cuban Boys
35 'Candyman' - Lab 4
36 'Fresher Than The Sweetness' - Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
37 'Irk The Purists' - Hmhb
38 'Witness' - Delgados
39 'Soul Boy' - Mighty Math
40 'Dress Sexy At My Funeral' - Smog
41 'Manhattan' - Cinerama
42 'Queen of the Coast' - Laura Cantrell
43 'WB' - The Fall
44 'Painting & Kissing' - Hefner
45 'Seached' - Orbital
46 'Little Boy Blue' - Bonnie Prince Billy
47 'Svefn G Englar' - Sigur Ros
48 'Idiotique' - Radiohead
49 'Fought in a War' - Belle & Sebastian
50 'Crystal Lake' - Gandaddy
John Peel's Festive Fifty 2001
1 Melys - 'Chinese Whispers'
2 White Stripes - 'Hotel Yorba'
3 Cinerama - 'Health and Efficiency'
4 Bearsuit - 'Hey Charlie Hey Chuck'
5 The Strokes - 'Last Nite'
6 White Stripes - 'Fell in Love With a Girl'
7 The Strokes - 'Hard To Explain'
8 Camera Obscura - 'Eighties fan'
9 New Order - 'Crystal'
10 Mogwai - 'My Father My King'
11 Meanwhile, Back In Communist Russia - 'Morning after pill'
12 Saloon - 'Impact'
13 Half Man Half Biscuit - 'Bob Wilson Anchorman'
14 Miss Black America - 'Human Punk'
15 Detroit Cobras - 'Shout bama lama'
16 Half Man Half Biscuit - 'Vatican Broadside'
17 Belle and Sebastian - 'Jonathan David'
18 Strokes - 'The Modern Age'
19 Pulp - 'Sunrise'
20 Squarepusher - 'My Red Hot Car'
21 Super Furry Animals - 'Rings Around The World'
22 Mogwai - 'Two rights make one wrong'
23 Cuban Boys - 'Drink, Drink, Drink'
24 Greenskeepers - 'Low & Sweet'
25 White Stripes - 'Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground'
26 Ballboy - 'They'll hang flags from cranes'
27 Lift To Experience - 'These are the days'
28 Strokes - 'New York City Cops'
29 Pulp - 'Trees'
30 The Fall - 'I Wake Up In The City'
31 Hefner - 'Alan Bean'
32 Belle and Sebastian - 'I'm Waking Up To Us'
33 Ikara Colt - 'One Note'
34 Cinerama - 'Superman'
35 Melys - 'I Don't believe in you'
36 PJ Harvey - 'This Is Love'
37 Seedling - 'Sensational vacuum'
38 Antihero - 'Who's looking out for #1?'
39 Lift To Experience - 'Falling from cloud 9'
40 Radiohead - 'Pyramid Song'
41 Ballboy - 'I've got pictures of you in your...'
42 Miss Black America - 'Don't speak my mind'
43 Shins - 'New Slang'
44 Mercury Rev - 'Dark is Rising'
45 Stereolab - 'Captain Easychord'
46 The Strokes - 'Someday'
47 The Hives - 'Hate to say I told you so'
48 Rock of Travolta - 'Giant Robo'
49 Saloon - 'Freefall'
50 Pico - 'Chard'
John Peel's All Time Festive Fifty
Compiled in December 2000
50 Pavement - ' Here' (Big Cat)
49 P J Harvey - ' Sheela-na-gig' (Too Pure)
48 Culture - ' Lion Rock' (Strange Fruit)
47 Sundays - ' Can' t Be Sure' (Rough Trade)
46 Beach Boys - ' Good Vibrations' (Capitol)
45 Beatles - ' I Am The Walrus' (Parlophone)
44 Bob Dylan - ' Visions Of Johanna' (CBS)
43 Nick Drake - ' Northern Sky' (Island)
42 Velvet Underground - ' Heroin' (MGM)
41 Beach Boys - ' God Only Knows' (Capitol)
40 Tim Buckley - ' Song To The Siren' (Straight)
39 Damned - ' New Rose' (Stiff)
38 Fall - ' The Classical' (Situation Two)
37 Jimi Hendrix Experience - ' All Along The Watchtower' (Polydor)
36 Stereolab - ' French Disko' (Duophonic)
35 Jam - ' Going Underground' (Polydor)
34 Fall - ' Totally Wired' (Rough Trade)
33 Clash - ' Complete Control' (CBS)
32 New Order - ' True Faith' (Factory)
31 Belle & Sebastian - ' Lazy Line Painter Jane' (Jeepster)
30 Pixies - ' Debaser' (4AD)
29 Sex Pistols - ' Pretty Vacant' (Virgin)
28 Joy Division - ' Transmission' (Factory)
27 My Bloody Valentine - ' You Made Me Realise' (Creation)
26 Delgados - ' Pull The Wires From the Wall' (Chemikal Underground)
25 Wedding Present - ' My Favourite Dress' (Reception)
24 Fall - ' How I Wrote 'Elastic Man'' (Rough Trade)
23 Sugarcubes - ' Birthday' (One Little Indian)
22 Smiths - ' This Charming Man' (WEA)
21 Wedding Present - ' Brassneck' (RCA)
20 Joy Division - ' She's Lost Control' (Factory)
19 New Order - ' Temptation' (Factory)
18 Only Ones - ' Another Girl, Another Planet' (CBS)
17 New Order - ' Ceremony' (Factory)
16 My Bloody Valentine - ' Soon' (Creation)
15 Joy Division - ' New Dawn Fades' (Factory)
14 Dead Kennedy' s - ' Holiday In Cambodia' (Cherry Red)
13 Capt Beefheart & His Magic Band - ' Big Eyed Beans From Venus' (Reprise)
12 Pulp - ' Common People' (Island)
11 Robert Wyatt - ' Shipbuilding' (Rough Trade)
10 This Mortal Coil - ' Song To The Siren' (4AD)
09 Smiths - ' There Is A Light That Never Goes Out' (Rough Trade)
08 Nirvana - ' Smells Like Teen Spirit' (Geffen)
07 Smiths - ' How Soon Is Now?' (Rough Trade)
06 New Order - ' Blue Monday' (Factory)
05 Clash - '(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais' (CBS)
04 Sex Pistols - ' Anarchy In The UK' (EMI)
03 Joy Division - ' Love Will Tear Us Apart' (Factory)
02 Undertones - ' Teenage Kicks' (Good Vibration)
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John Peel's Festive Fifty 1998
01. Delgados - 'Pull The Wires From The Wall'
02. Mogwai - 'Xmas Steps'
03. Belle & Sebastian - 'Boy With The Arab Strap'
04. Ten Benson - 'The Claw'
05. Pop Off Tuesday - 'Unwordly'
06. Cuban Boys - 'Oh My God They Killed Kenny'
07. Bis - 'Eurodisco'
08. Pulp - 'This Is Hardcore'
09. Delgados - 'Everything Runs Around The Water'
10. Helen Love - 'Long Live The Uk Music Scene'
11. Jesus & Mary Chain - 'Crackin Up'
12. Daniel Johnston - 'Dream Scream'
13. Clinic - 'Cement Mixer'
14. Badly Drawn Boy - 'I Need A Sign'
15. Cinerama - 'Kerry Kerry'
16. Plone - 'Plock'
17. L'augmentation - 'Soleil'
18. Boards Of Canada - 'Aquarius'
19. Solex - 'All Lickety Split'
20. Evolution - 'Copyright Violation For The Nation'
21. Massive Attack - 'Teardrop'
22. Spiritualized (Meltdown) - 'Oh Happy Day'
23. Solex Session - 'One Louder Solex'
24. Melys - 'Lemming'
25. Half Man Half Biscuit - 'Turn A Blind Eye'
26. Belle & Sebastian - 'Sleep The Clock Around'
27. Clinic - 'Monkey On Your Back'
28. Fatboy Slim - 'Rockafeller Skank'
29. Super Furry Animals - 'Ice Hockey Hair'
30. Billy Bragg - 'Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key'
31. Freed Unit - 'Widdershins'
32. Male Nurse - 'My Own Private Patrick Swayze'
33. Mercury Rev - 'Goddess On A Highway'
34. Elbow - 'Powder Blue'
35. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - 'Sweet Johnny'
36. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - 'Hush The Warmth'
37. Melt Banana - 'Stimulus For Revolting Virus'
38. Delgados - 'The Actress'
39. Quickspace (Session) - 'If I Were A Carpenter'
40. 60ft Dolls - 'Alison's Room'
41. Boards Of Canada - 'Roygbiv'
42. Derrero - 'Radar Intruder'
43. Hefner - 'Pull Yourself Together'
44. Rooney - 'Went To Town'
45. Soda Stream - 'Turnstyle'
46. Sportique - 'Kids Are Solid Gold'
47. Ten Benson - 'Evil Heat'
48. Autechre - 'Fold 4 Wrap 5'
49. The Fall (Session) - 'Shake Off'
50. PJ Harvey - 'Is This Desire'
John Peel's Festive Fifty 1999
50. Wheat - 'Don’t I Hold You' (City Slang)
49. Hefner - 'Hymn For The Things We Didn’t Do' (Ovni)
48. Miss Mend - 'Living City Plan' (Piao)
47. Marine Research - 'Parallel Horizontal' (K)
46. Stereolab - 'The Free Design' (Duophonic)
45. Pavement - 'Carrot Rope' (Domino)
44. Appliance - 'Food Music' (Mute)
43. Six By Seven - 'Helden' (Mantra)
42. Aphex Twin - 'Windowlicker' (Warp)
41. Badly Drawn Boy - 'Once Around The Block' (Twisted Nerve)
40. Blur - 'Tender' (Food)
39. Atari Teenage Riot - 'Revolution Action' (Digital Hardcore)
38. Melt Banana - 'Plot In A Pot' (Skin Graft)
37. Add N To X - 'Metal Finger In My Body' (Mute)
36. Broadcast - 'Echoes Answer' (Warp)
35. Smog - 'Cold Blooded Old Times' (Domino)
34. Plone - 'Be Rude To Your School' (Warp)
33. Gene - 'As Good As It Gets' (Polydor)
32. Hefner - 'I Took Her Love For Granted' (Too Pure)
31. Pavement - 'Major Leagues' (Domino)
30. Half Man Half Biscuit - '24 Hour Garage People' (Peel Session)
29. Dawn Of The Replicants - 'Science Fiction Freak' (East West)
28. Cuban Boys - 'Flossie’s Alarming Clock' (White Label)
27. Super Furry Animals - 'Turning Tide' (Creation)
26. Kraken - 'Side Effects' (Underfire)
25. Mogwai - 'Stanley Kubrick' (Chemikal Underground)
24. Super Furry Animals - 'Northern Lites' (Creation)
23. Bonnie Prince Billy - 'I See A Darkness' (Domino)
22. Hefner - 'I Stole A Bride' (Too Pure)
21. Godspeed You Black Emperor - 'Hung Over As The Oven At Maida Vale' (Peel Session)
20. Clinic - 'The Second Line' (Domino)
19. Salako - 'Look Left' (Jeepster)
18. Cinerama - 'Kings Cross' (Elefant)
17. Super Furry Animals - 'Fire In My Heart' (Creation)
16. Sonic Subjunkies - 'Do You Even Know Who You Are?' (L Light)
15. Orbital - 'Style' (Ffrr)
14. Mogwai - 'Cody' (Chemikal Underground)
13. Cinerama - 'Pacific' (Elefant)
12. Flaming Lips - 'Waiting For A Superman' (Warner Bros)
11. Half Man Half Biscuit - 'Look Dad No Tunes' (Probe Plus)
10. Low - 'Immune' (Tugboat)
09. Murry The Hump - 'Thrown Like A Stone' (Shifty Disco)
08. Flaming Lips - 'Race For The Prize' (Warner Bros)
07. Fall - 'F-Oldin’ Money' (Artful)
06. Elastica with Mark E Smith - 'How He Wrote Elastica Man' (Deceptive)
05. Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci - 'Spanish Dance Troupe' (Mantra)
04. Fall - 'Touch Sensitive' (Artful)
03. Hefner - 'Hymn For The Alcohol' (Too Pure)
02. Hefner - 'The Hymn For The Cigarettes' (To Pure)
01. Cuban Boys - 'Cognoscenti Vs Intelligentsia' (White Label)
John Peel's Festive Fifty 2000
1 'Twist The Knife' - Neko Case & Her Boyfriends
2 'Good Fortune' - P J Harvey
3 'Dr Bucks Letter' - The Fall
4 'Mistakes And Regrets' - And You Will Know Us By Trail Of Dead
5 'Come On Lets Go' - Broadcast
6 'Big Exit' - P J Harvey
7 'Greedy Ugly People' - Hefner
8 'The Light 3000' - Schneider TM KPT.michi.gan
9 'No Danger' - Delgados
10 'American Trilogy' - Delgados
11 'Dinosaur Act' - Low
12 'Day That Thatcher Dies' - Hefner
13 'I Hate Scotland' - Ballboy
14 'Accused of Stealing' - Delgados
15 'Good Fruit' - Hefner
16 'Your Charms' - Cinerama
17 'Wow' - Cinerama
18 'Mess We're In' - P J Harvey
19 'Prayer to God' - Shellac
20 'In a Beautiful Place' - Boards of Xanada
21 'Somewhere Some Night' - Laura Cantrell
22 'Ballad of Cable Hogue' - Calexico
23 'Two Librans' - The Fall
24 'Whores Hustle, Hustlers' - P J Harvey
25 'Kid A' - Radiohead
26 'Brutal' - New Order
27 'Two Seconds' - Laura Cantrell
28 'The Second Line' - Clinic
29 'Vinyl Countdown' - Cuban Boys
30 'Popping Song' - Cowcube
31 'Drug Dealer in Park' - Herman Dune
32 '24 hr Garage People' - Hmhb
33 'Wonderwall' (session) - Catpower
34 'Theme From P&P' - Cuban Boys
35 'Candyman' - Lab 4
36 'Fresher Than The Sweetness' - Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
37 'Irk The Purists' - Hmhb
38 'Witness' - Delgados
39 'Soul Boy' - Mighty Math
40 'Dress Sexy At My Funeral' - Smog
41 'Manhattan' - Cinerama
42 'Queen of the Coast' - Laura Cantrell
43 'WB' - The Fall
44 'Painting & Kissing' - Hefner
45 'Seached' - Orbital
46 'Little Boy Blue' - Bonnie Prince Billy
47 'Svefn G Englar' - Sigur Ros
48 'Idiotique' - Radiohead
49 'Fought in a War' - Belle & Sebastian
50 'Crystal Lake' - Gandaddy
John Peel's Festive Fifty 2001
1 Melys - 'Chinese Whispers'
2 White Stripes - 'Hotel Yorba'
3 Cinerama - 'Health and Efficiency'
4 Bearsuit - 'Hey Charlie Hey Chuck'
5 The Strokes - 'Last Nite'
6 White Stripes - 'Fell in Love With a Girl'
7 The Strokes - 'Hard To Explain'
8 Camera Obscura - 'Eighties fan'
9 New Order - 'Crystal'
10 Mogwai - 'My Father My King'
11 Meanwhile, Back In Communist Russia - 'Morning after pill'
12 Saloon - 'Impact'
13 Half Man Half Biscuit - 'Bob Wilson Anchorman'
14 Miss Black America - 'Human Punk'
15 Detroit Cobras - 'Shout bama lama'
16 Half Man Half Biscuit - 'Vatican Broadside'
17 Belle and Sebastian - 'Jonathan David'
18 Strokes - 'The Modern Age'
19 Pulp - 'Sunrise'
20 Squarepusher - 'My Red Hot Car'
21 Super Furry Animals - 'Rings Around The World'
22 Mogwai - 'Two rights make one wrong'
23 Cuban Boys - 'Drink, Drink, Drink'
24 Greenskeepers - 'Low & Sweet'
25 White Stripes - 'Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground'
26 Ballboy - 'They'll hang flags from cranes'
27 Lift To Experience - 'These are the days'
28 Strokes - 'New York City Cops'
29 Pulp - 'Trees'
30 The Fall - 'I Wake Up In The City'
31 Hefner - 'Alan Bean'
32 Belle and Sebastian - 'I'm Waking Up To Us'
33 Ikara Colt - 'One Note'
34 Cinerama - 'Superman'
35 Melys - 'I Don't believe in you'
36 PJ Harvey - 'This Is Love'
37 Seedling - 'Sensational vacuum'
38 Antihero - 'Who's looking out for #1?'
39 Lift To Experience - 'Falling from cloud 9'
40 Radiohead - 'Pyramid Song'
41 Ballboy - 'I've got pictures of you in your...'
42 Miss Black America - 'Don't speak my mind'
43 Shins - 'New Slang'
44 Mercury Rev - 'Dark is Rising'
45 Stereolab - 'Captain Easychord'
46 The Strokes - 'Someday'
47 The Hives - 'Hate to say I told you so'
48 Rock of Travolta - 'Giant Robo'
49 Saloon - 'Freefall'
50 Pico - 'Chard'
John Peel's All Time Festive Fifty
Compiled in December 2000
50 Pavement - ' Here' (Big Cat)
49 P J Harvey - ' Sheela-na-gig' (Too Pure)
48 Culture - ' Lion Rock' (Strange Fruit)
47 Sundays - ' Can' t Be Sure' (Rough Trade)
46 Beach Boys - ' Good Vibrations' (Capitol)
45 Beatles - ' I Am The Walrus' (Parlophone)
44 Bob Dylan - ' Visions Of Johanna' (CBS)
43 Nick Drake - ' Northern Sky' (Island)
42 Velvet Underground - ' Heroin' (MGM)
41 Beach Boys - ' God Only Knows' (Capitol)
40 Tim Buckley - ' Song To The Siren' (Straight)
39 Damned - ' New Rose' (Stiff)
38 Fall - ' The Classical' (Situation Two)
37 Jimi Hendrix Experience - ' All Along The Watchtower' (Polydor)
36 Stereolab - ' French Disko' (Duophonic)
35 Jam - ' Going Underground' (Polydor)
34 Fall - ' Totally Wired' (Rough Trade)
33 Clash - ' Complete Control' (CBS)
32 New Order - ' True Faith' (Factory)
31 Belle & Sebastian - ' Lazy Line Painter Jane' (Jeepster)
30 Pixies - ' Debaser' (4AD)
29 Sex Pistols - ' Pretty Vacant' (Virgin)
28 Joy Division - ' Transmission' (Factory)
27 My Bloody Valentine - ' You Made Me Realise' (Creation)
26 Delgados - ' Pull The Wires From the Wall' (Chemikal Underground)
25 Wedding Present - ' My Favourite Dress' (Reception)
24 Fall - ' How I Wrote 'Elastic Man'' (Rough Trade)
23 Sugarcubes - ' Birthday' (One Little Indian)
22 Smiths - ' This Charming Man' (WEA)
21 Wedding Present - ' Brassneck' (RCA)
20 Joy Division - ' She's Lost Control' (Factory)
19 New Order - ' Temptation' (Factory)
18 Only Ones - ' Another Girl, Another Planet' (CBS)
17 New Order - ' Ceremony' (Factory)
16 My Bloody Valentine - ' Soon' (Creation)
15 Joy Division - ' New Dawn Fades' (Factory)
14 Dead Kennedy' s - ' Holiday In Cambodia' (Cherry Red)
13 Capt Beefheart & His Magic Band - ' Big Eyed Beans From Venus' (Reprise)
12 Pulp - ' Common People' (Island)
11 Robert Wyatt - ' Shipbuilding' (Rough Trade)
10 This Mortal Coil - ' Song To The Siren' (4AD)
09 Smiths - ' There Is A Light That Never Goes Out' (Rough Trade)
08 Nirvana - ' Smells Like Teen Spirit' (Geffen)
07 Smiths - ' How Soon Is Now?' (Rough Trade)
06 New Order - ' Blue Monday' (Factory)
05 Clash - '(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais' (CBS)
04 Sex Pistols - ' Anarchy In The UK' (EMI)
03 Joy Division - ' Love Will Tear Us Apart' (Factory)
02 Undertones - ' Teenage Kicks' (Good Vibration)
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