John Peel - 22nd December 1983

 This show contains the second installment of the 1983 Festive 50 plus sessions from Sophie And Peter Johnston, Microdisney, Eton Crop, The Three Johns, Craig Charles and Test Department.

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Test Department - Shockwork (Session)
Sophie And Peter Johnston - One Face (Session)
Craig Charles - Party Night (Session)
Microdisney - Sleepless (Session) 
The Three Johns - A Public Song For A Friend Under Suspicion Of Fire Bombing A Private Shop (Session)
Eton Crop - He Didn't Say Anything (Session)
Test Department - State Of Affairs (Session)
Craig Charles - Oh To Be In England (Session)
Sophie And Peter Johnston - Paradise (Session)
Microdisney - Before Famine (Session)
The Three Johns - Son Of Mud (Session)
Craig Charles - In The City (Session)
Test Department - Hunger (Session)
Sophie And Peter Johnston - Rain (Session)
Eton Crop - Gay Boys On The Battlefield (Session)
Microdisney - The Moon (Session)
The Three Johns - The Day Industry Decided To Stop (Session)
Craig Charles - Thought It Was (Session)
Eton Crop - Explain (Session)
The Fall - Wings (Rough Trade)
S.P.K. - Metal Dance (Desire)
Cocteau Twins - Hitherto (4AD)
Sophie And Peter Johnston - Television/Satellite (Session)
Luddites - Doppelganger (Xcentric Noise Records)
The Fall - Kicker Conspiracy (Rough Trade)
Tools You Can Trust - Working And Shopping (Red Energy Dynamo)
The Smiths - Handsome Devil (Rough Trade)
Xmal Deutschland - Qual (4AD)
The Chameleons - Second Skin (Statik)

John Peel - 24th December 2003

Featuring the first part of the 2003 Festive Fifty.

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The Fall - Last Commands Of Xyralothep Via M.E.S. (Action)

Dez Williams - Sleeping On The Job (SCSI-AV)

Damon Albarn - Half A Song (Honest Jon's)

Mangi Mahal - Kalli Takkarein (Kismet)

Vaults - I'm Going (Red Flag)

Freddy Fresh - You Can See The Paint (Howlin')

Blizzard Boys - Ain't No Stoppin This (Blizzard Tracks)

Camera Obscura - Keep It Clean (Elefant)

Super Furry Animals - Slow Life (Epic)

Grandmaster Gareth - Dr. Dre Buys A Pint Of Milk (Awkward)

Hyper Kinako - Tokyo Invention Registration Office (GoJohnnyGoGoGoGo)

Belle And Sebastian - Stay Loose (Rough Trade)

The Golden Virgins - Renaissance Kid (Rex)

The Keys - Strength Of Strings (Too Pure)

Broadcast - Pendulum (Warp)

Cat Power - Werewolf  (Matador)

Ballboy - Born In The USA (SL)

Radiohead - There There (Parlophone)

The French - Gabriel In The Airport (Too Pure)

M.A.S.S. - Live A Little (Mandita)

The Black Keys - Have Love Will Travel (Fat Possum)

Neulander - Sex, God, Money (Disko B)

Maher Shalal Hash Baz - Open Field (Geographic)

Amsterdam - Does This Train Stop On Merseyside (Beat Crazy)

Camera Obscura - Suspended From Class (Elefant)

Architecture In Helsinki - The Owls Go (Trifekta)

Half Man Half Biscuit - It Makes The Room Look Bigger (Probe Plus)

The French - Porn Shoes (Too Pure)

The Fall - Green Eyed Loco Man (Action)

Los Straitjackets - Here Comes Santa Claus (Yep Roc)

John Peel - 26th December 2000

Featuring the first part of the Festive 50.

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Ash - Shining Light (Infectious)

Kosmic Kommando - Fantasy Friction Channel (Rephlex)
Calexico - Gift X-Change (Jeepster)
Prince Malachi - Not Far To Go (Xterminator)
Marlowe - Moments (Probe Plus)
Stevie F - Reaction Overdrive (Big Balloon)
Domestic 4 - Cut The Tape (Liquefaction Empire)
Centromatic - Most Everyone Will Find (Munich)
Digital Science - Psychopath (Nile)
Grandaddy - The Crystal Lake (V2)
Belle And Sebastian - I Fought In A War (Jeepster)
Radiohead - Idioteque (Parlophone)
Sigur Ros - Svefn-g-englar (Fat Cat)
Bonie Prince Billy - Little Boy Blue (Western Vinyl)
Orbital and Angelo Badalamenti - Beached (FFRR/London)
Hefner - Painting And Kissing (Too Pure)
The Fall - W.B. (Eagle)
Laura Cantrell - Queen Of The Coast (Spit And Polish)
Cinerama - Manhattan (Cooking Vinyl)
Smog - Dress Sexy At My Funeral (Domino)
Mighty Math - Soul Body (Different Drummer)
The Delgados - Witness (Chemikal Underground)
Half Man Half Biscuit - Irk The Purists (Probe Plus)
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Fresher Than The Sweetness In Water (Mantra)

John Peel - 28th December 1978

Featuring numbers 25-11 of the Festive Fifty of 1978 along with session tracks from Magazine, Alternative TV, Penetration and The Slits.

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Magazine - The Light Pours Out Of Me (Session)

Penetration - Future Daze (Session)

Alternative TV - Release The Natives (Session)

Magazine - Touch And Go (Session)

Magazine - My Mind Ain't So Open (Session)

Slits - Instant Hit (Session)

Penetration - Movement (Session)

Penetration - Stone Heroes (Session)

Alternative TV - Nasty Little Lonely (Session)

Magazine - Definitive Gaze (Session)

Slits - FM (Session)

Penetration - Vision (Session)

1978 Festive Fifty

25. Elvis Costello - Watching The Detectives (Stiff)

24. Jam - Down In The Tube Station At Midnight (Polydor)

23. Clash - Police And Thieves (CBS)

22. Siouxsie And The Banshees - Hong Kong Garden (Polydor)

21. Van Morrison - Madame George (Warner Bros.)

20. Rezillos - I Can't Stand My Baby (Sensible)

19. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird (MCA)

18. Sex Pistols - Holidays In The Sun (Virgin)

17. Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet (CBS)

16. David Bowie - Heroes (RCA)

15. The Clash - White Riot (CBS)

14. Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven (Atlantic)

13. The Damned - New Rose (Stiff)

12. Buzzcocks - Boredom (New Hormones)

11. Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster (Rough Trade)

John Peel - 27th December 1978

The second 1978 Festive 50 show which also features sessions from X-Ray Spex, Buzzcocks and Steel Pulse.

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X-Ray Spex - I Am a Poseur (Session)

Buzzcocks - Noise Annoys (Session)

Steel Pulse - Macka Splaff (Session)

X-Ray Spex - Art-I-Ficial (Session)

Buzzcocks - Walking Distance (Session)

Steel Pulse - Handsworth Revolution (Session)

X-Ray Spex - Identity (Session)

Buzzcocks - Late for the Train (Session)

Steel Pulse - Jah Pickney - R.A.R. (Session)

X-Ray Spex - Genetic Engineering (Session)

1978 Festive Fifty

40. The Stranglers - London Lady (United Artists)

39. The Who - My Generation (Brunswick)

38. Siouxsie And The Banshees - Overground (Polydor)

37. Elvis Costello - Alison (Stiff)

36. Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone (CBS)

35. The Motors - Dancing the Night Away (Virgin)

34. Siouxsie And The Banshees - Helter Skelter (Polydor)
33. The Stranglers - No More Heroes (United Artists)

32. The Stranglers - Hanging Around (United Artists)

31. Derek And The Dominoes - Layla (Polydor)

30. Buzzcocks - Moving Away from the Pulsebeat (United Artists)

29. Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond [parts I - V] (Harvest)

28. Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing (Vertigo)

27. Ian Dury - Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll (Stiff)

26. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run (Columbia)

John Peel - 26th December 1978

This was the first of four shows counting down the 1978 Festive 50.

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The Misunderstood - I Can Take You To The Sun (Fontana)

The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again (Track Record)

Little Feat - Long Distance Love (Warner Bros.)

The Doors - Riders On The Storm (Elektra)

The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever (Parlophone)

The Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar (Rolling Stones)

Poco - Rose Of Cimarron (ABC)

Free - All Right Now (Island)

Jimi Hendrix Experience - All Along The Watchtower (Track Record)

Derek And The Dominos - Layla (Polydor)

Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven (Atlantic)

1978 Festive Fifty

50. Siouxsie And The Banshees - Metal Postcard [Mittageisen] (Polydor)

49. Thin Lizzy - Emerald (Vertigo)

48. Neil Young - Like A Hurricane (Reprise)

47. Flying Lizards - Summertime Blues (Virgin)

46. Bob Dylan - Desolation Row (Columbia)

45. The Sex Pistols - EMI (Virgin)

44. The Jam - In the City (Polydor)

43. Siouxsie And The Banshees - Jigsaw Feeling (Polydor)

42. Siouxsie And The Banshees - Mirage (Polydor)

41. Siouxsie And The Banshees - Switch (Polydor)

John Peel - 19th December 1984

A Festive Fifty show featuring session repeats from Ivor Cutler, Men They Couldn't Hang, Folk Devils and Guana Batz.

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Men They Couldn't Hang - Green Fields Of France (Session)

Guana Batz - Night Watch (Session)

Folk Devils - Broken Head (Session)

Ivor Cutler - Jelly Mountain (Session)

1984 Festive Fifty: Numbers 40-31

=39. Cocteau Twins - Beatrix (4AD)

=39. Flesh For Lulu - Subterraneans (Polydor)

38. Cocteau Twins - Pandora (4AD)

37. The Jesus And Mary Chain - Upside Down (Creation)

36. The Smiths - Reel Around The Fountain (Rough Trade)

35. Robert Wyatt - Biko (Virgin)

34. Berntholer - My Suitor (Blue Feather)

33. This Mortal Coil - Another Day (4AD)

32. Yeah Yeah Noh - Bias Binding (In Tape)

31. Propaganda - Dr. Mabuse (ZTT)

John Peel - 6th January 2000

Featuring numbers 40-36 in the All Time Festive Fifty.

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Tony Rebel - Survival (Penthouse)

Luke Vibert and BJ Cole - Swing Life-Alright (Law & Auder)

Cochise - Strange Images (Liberty)

Khaya - This Is The Most Sad Song (SL)

Ian Void - According-Advent Remix (Geushky)

Melys - Porn Myself (Sylem)

Motor Humming - Distortion Watch (Tzadik)

Geater Davis - For Your Precious Love (House Of Orange)

Pedro The Lion - Letter From A Concerned Follower (Accident Prone)

Flying Saucer Attack - Winter Song (FSA)

Hank Williams - They'll Never Take Her Love From Me (Mercury)

Accidental Heroes - Dragstar (Emotif)

Peelenium 1994

Stereolab - Ping Pong (Duophonic)

Inspiral Carpets featuring Mark E Smith - I Want You (Cow/Mute)

Orbital - Are We Here? (Internal)

Canopy & Matrix - Arkines Lost (Space)

Ravi Bal - Mehabooba (OSA)

Broadcast - Papercuts (Warp)

Adam Beyer - Lost & Found (Conform)

Simon Joyner - When She Drops Her Veil (Truckstop)

Willie Henderson - The Dance Master (Contempo-Raries)

All Time Festive Fifty 40-36

40. Tim Buckley - Song To The Siren (Straight)

39. The Damned - New Rose (Stiff)

38. The Fall - The Classical (Kamera)

37. Jimi Hendrix Experience - All Along The Watchtower (Polydor)

36. Stereolab - French Disko (Duophonic)

Tarball & Lungbutter - Bring Forth The Custard (Bionic Orange)

John Peel - 29th December 1976

Featuring sessions from Bowles Brothers and Graham Parker And The Rumour.

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Graham Parker And The Rumour - Hotel Chambermaid (Session)
Bowles Brothers - Sweeter Than Sugar (Session)
Graham Parker And The Rumour - Help Me Shake It (Session)
Bowles Brothers - Nuts For Charlie (Session)
Graham Parker And The Rumour - Heat Treatment (Session)

1976 Festive Fifty No.s 24-19

24. Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit (RCA)
23. Bob Dylan - Visions Of Johanna (CBS)
22. The Doors - Riders On The Storm (Elektra)
21. Van Morrison - Madame George (Warner)
20. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird (MCA)
19. Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love (Atlantic)

John Peel - 28th December 2000

Featuring the top twenty records in the 2000 Festive Fifty.

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Stephen Malkmus - Discretion Groove (Domino)

Kraftwerk - Expo2000 [Orbital Mix] (EMI)

Section 25 - Charnel Ground (Factory Benelux)

Gutterville Splendour Six - Unzip The Monkey (Demo)

Big Youth - Things In The Light (Blood And Fire)

Sub  Urb And Chaos - Battle Of The Planet (Birth)

Festive Fifty 2000 No.s 20-1

20. Boards Of Canada - In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country (Warp)
19. Shellac - Prayer To God (Touch And Go)
18. PJ Harvey and Thon Yorke - This Mess We're In (Island)
17. Cinerama - Wow (Scopitones)
16. Cinerama - Your Charms (Scopitones)
15. Hefner - Good Fruit (Too Pure)
14. The Delgadoes - Accused Of Stealing (Chemikal Underground)
13. Ballboy - I Hate Scotland (Session)
12. Hefner - The Day That Thatcher Dies (Too Pure)
11. Low - Dinosaur Act (Tugboat)
10. The Delgadoes - American Trilogy (Chemikal (Underground)
09. The Delgadoes - No Danger (Chemikal Underground)
08. Schnieder TM Vs KPT Michi Gan - The Light 3000 (City Slang)
07. Hefner - The Greedy Ugly People (Too Pure)
06. PJ Harvey - Big Exit (Island)
05. Broadcast - Come On, Let's Go (Warp)
04. ...And You Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Mistakes And Regrets (Domino)
03. The Fall - Dr. Buck's Letter (Eagle)
02. PJ Harvey - Good Fortune (Island)
01. Nico Case And Her Boyfriends - Twist The Knife (Mint)

John Peel - 24th December 1981

Featuring part 2 of the 1981 Festive 50

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Cristina - Things Fall Apart (Island)

1981 Festive 50 No.s 40-31

40. Siouxsie And The Banshees - Icon (Polydor)

39. Pigbag - Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag (Y Records/Rough Trade)

38. The Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen (Virgin)

37. Siouxsie And The Banshees - Israel (Polydor)

36. B Movie - Remembrance Day (Deram)

35. Siouxsie And The Banshees - Jigsaw Feeling (Polydor)

34. Laurie Anderson - O Superman (One Ten)

33. The Fall - How I Wrote Elastic Man (Rough Trade)

32. Stiff Little Fingers - Suspect Device (Rigid Digits)

31. The Ruts - In A Rut (People Unite)

John Peel - 22nd December 1996

Featuring Billy Bragg in session.

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Infinity Project - Overwind (TIP)
Art Attacks - I Am A Dalek (Overground)
Servotron - I AM NOT A [Voice Activated Child Identicon] (One Louder)
Billy Bragg - Goal Hanger/Levi Stubb's Tears (Session)
Back 2 Basics - Fighting Vipers (Suburban Base)
Paul Kelly - Stealin' In The Name Of The Lord (Debutante)
Billy Bragg - Dark End Of The Street (Session)
Billy Bragg - A New England (Session)
Paul Donor - Dead Or Arrested (Lotus Pool)
Billy Bragg - Deck The Halls With Bows Of Holly (Session)

1996 Festive 50 No's 37-27

37. The Prodigy - Firestarter (XL Recordings)
36. The Wedding Present - 2, 3, Go (Cooking Vinyl)
35. DJ Shadow - Stem (Mo Wax)
34. Broadcast - The Book Lovers (Duophonic)
33. Calvin Party - Lies, Lies And Government (Probe Plus)
32. Zion Train - Babylon's Burning (China)
31. White Town - Your Woman (Chrysalis)
30. DJ Force And Styles - Fireworks (Essential Platinum)
29. Aphex Twin - Girl/Boy Song (Warp)
28. Belle And Sebastian - The State I Am In (Electric Honey)
Dick Dale - Nitrus (Beggars Banquet)

John Peel - 29th December 1998

Featuring the final part of the 1998 Festive 50.

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Dream Team - Beat Of The Year (Joker)

The Drags - Explosive (Estrus)

Orbital - Bagpipe Style (FFRR)

Bonnie "Prince" Billie - One With The Birds (Domino)

Cosmonauts Hail Satan - Ant Man Crack (Will Montgomery Records)

Two Dollar Guitar - Etoile Du Nord (Oil City)

808 State - Quincy's Lunch (Slut Smalls)

Psywarfare - Oh Those Midgets... Wild! (Vinyl Communications)

Festive 50

Plone - Plock (Warp)

Cinerama - Kerry Kerry (Scopitones)

Badly Drawn Boy - I Need A Sign

Clinic - Cement Mixer (Aladdin's Cave Of Golf)

Daniel Johnson - Dream Scream (Pickled Egg)

The Jesus And Mary Chain - Cracking Up (Creation)

Helen Love - Long Live The UK Music Scene (Che')

The Delgadoes - Everything Goes Around The Water (Chemikal Underground)

Pulp - This Is Hardcore (Island)

Bis - Eurodisco (Wiiija)

Cuban Boys - Oh My God! They Killed Kenny (For Us)

Pop Off Tuesday - Unworldly (Pickled Egg)

Ten Benson - The Claw (Sweet Records)

Belle And Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap (Jeepster)

Mogwai - Xmas Steps (Chemikal Underground)

The Delgadoes - Pull The Wires From The Wall (Chemikal Underground)

John Peel 20th December 1988

Featuring session tracks from Fflaps, A Witness, Datblygu, Plant Bach Ofnus, Stella Chiweshe, The House Of Love and Extreme Noise Terror along with the first slice of the 1988 Festive Fifty, numbers 50-42

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The House Of Love - Nothing To Me (Session)
Fflaps - Llosg Llech(Session)
Stella Chiweshe - Kana Ndikafa (Session)
Extreme Noise Terror - Take The Strain (Session)
Plant Bach Ofnus - Awst (Session)
A Witness - I Love You Mr Disposable Razors (Session)
Datblygu - Cristion Yn Y Kibbutz (Session)
The House Of Love - Plastic (Session)
Fflaps - Y Dyn Bun (Session)
Extreme Noise Terror - No Threat (Session)
Plant Bach Ofnus - Pydredd (Session)
A Witness - Helicopter Tealeaf (Session)
Extreme Noise Terror - Propaganda (Session)
Datblygu Gwlad Arfy Nghefn (Session)
Stella Chiweshe - Vana Vako Vopera (Session)
The House Of Love - Blind (Session)
Extreme Noise Terror - Only In It For The Music Part 3 (Session)
Public Enemy - Night Of The Living Baseheads (Def Jam)
The Wedding Present - Don't Laugh (Reception)
Happy Mondays - Wrote For Luck (Factory)
The Darling Buds - Shame On You (Native)
The Primitives - Crash (RCA)
Pixies - Where Is My Mind (4AD)
Pixies - Bone Machine (4AD)
New Order - Fine Time (Factory)
Mega City Four - Miles Apart (Primitive)
The Flatmates - Shimmer (Subway Organization)

John Peel, 1st January 1979

The first program of 1979 including the final part of the 1978 Festive 50.

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Siouxsie And The Banshees - Hong Kong Garden (Session)
Reggae Regular - Not Any More (Session)
Elvis Costello And The Attractions - Pump It Up (Session)
The Boomtown Rats - [Watch Out For] The Normal People (Session)
De Danann - Trip To Durrow/The Maid Behind The Bar (Session)
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Carcass (Session)
Elvis Costello And The Attractions - [I Don't Want To Go To] Chelsea (Session)
Reggae Regular - Where Is Jah? (Session)
The Boomtown Rats - Living In An Island (Session)
De Danann - Love Will You Marry Me (Session)
Elvis Costello And The Attractions - You Belong To Me (Session)
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Overground (Session)
The Boomtown Rats - Like Clockwork (Session)
Reggae Regular - Weed Stalk (Session)
De Danann - Tom Billy's Jig/Sean Ryan's Jig/The Sandmount Reel/The Clochar Reel (Session)
Elvis Costello And The Attractions - The Beat (Session)
The Boomtown Rats - Me And Howard Hughes (Session)
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Helter Skelter (Session)
Reggae Regular - Fools Game/Fools Game Dub (Session)
The Undertones - Teenage Kicks (Good Vibrations)
Public Image Ltd - Public Image (Virgin)
The Buzzcocks - What Do I Get (United Artists)
The Clash - [White Man] In Hammersmith Palais (CBS)
The Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant (Virgin)
Magazine - Shot By Both Sides (Virgin)
Stiff Little Fingers - Suspect Device (Rough Trade)
The Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen (Virgin)
The Clash - Complete Control (CBS)
The Sex Pistols - Anarchy In The UK (Virgin)

John Peel - 26th December 2000

Featuring the first part of the Festive 50.

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Ash - Shining Light (Infectious)

Kosmic Kommando - Fantasy Friction Channel (Rephlex)
Calexico - Gift X-Change (Jeepster)
Prince Malachi - Not Far To Go (Xterminator)
Marlowe - Moments (Probe Plus)
Stevie F - Reaction Overdrive (Big Balloon)
Domestic 4 - Cut The Tape (Liquefaction Empire)
Centromatic - Most Everyone Will Find (Munich)
Digital Science - Psychopath (Nile)
Grandaddy - The Crystal Lake (V2)
Belle And Sebastian - I Fought In A War (Jeepster)
Radiohead - Idioteque (Parlophone)
Sigur Ros - Svefn-g-englar (Fat Cat)
Bonie Prince Billy - Little Boy Blue (Western Vinyl)
Orbital and Angelo Badalamenti - Beached (FFRR/London)
Hefner - Painting And Kissing (Too Pure)
The Fall - W.B. (Eagle)
Laura Cantrell - Queen Of The Coast (Spit And Polish)
Cinerama - Manhattan (Cooking Vinyl)
Smog - Dress Sexy At My Funeral (Domino)
Mighty Math - Soul Body (Different Drummer)
The Delgados - Witness (Chemikal Underground)
Half Man Half Biscuit - Irk The Purists (Probe Plus)
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Fresher Than The Sweetness In Water (Mantra)

Festive 50 - 1995

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6

Safe Deposit - You Can't (Urban Trance Records)

The Fall - The Joke (Permanent Records)

Dread Zone - Life, Love And Unity (Virgin)

Bis - School Disco (Chemikal Underground)

Dave Clark - Red 3 [The Storm] (Deconstruction)

Garbage - Vow (Discordant)

Dose with Mark E Smith - Plug Myself In (Coliseum)

Ash - Angel Interceptor (Infectious)

Harvey's Rabbit - Is This What You Call Change (Rotator)

Leftfield - Afroleft (Hard Hands)

Zion Train - Dance Of Life (China Records)

Pavement - Father To A Sister Of Thought (Matador)

Solar Race - Not Here (Silvertone)

Van Basten - King Of The Death Posture (Brute Records)

Billy Bragg - Northern Industrial Town (Session)

Cornershop - 6am Jullander Shere (Wiiija)

Dreadzone - Captain Dread (Virgin)

PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love (Island)

Stereolab - Pop Quiz (Duophonic)

Spare Snare - Bugs (Love Train)

Pulp - Underwear (Island)

The Fall - Bonkers In Phoenix (Permanent)

The Flaming Stars - Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (Vinyl Japan)

Hole - Violet (Geffen)

Pulp - Disco 2000 (Island)

Dick Dale - Nitro

Tindersticks - My Sister (This Way Up)

The Fall - Don't Call Me Darling (Permanent)

Dreadzone - Little Britain (Virgin)

Tricky - Black Steel (Island)

The Bluetones - Slight Return (Superior Quality Recordings)

Elastica - All Nighter (Deceptive)

Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - If Fingers Were Xylophones (Ankst)

Catatonia - Bleed (Nursery)

Pj Harvey - Down By The Water (Island)

Dread Zone Fight The Power (Virgin)

The Bluetones - Bluetonic (Superior Quality Recordings)

Supergrass - Alright (Parlophone)

Pulp - Mis-shapes (Island)

PJ Harvey - Send His Love To Me (Island)

Long Fin Killie and Mark E Smith - Heads Of Dead Surfers (Too Pure)

Dread Zone - Maximum (Virgin)

Pulp - I Spy (Island)

The Fall - Feeling Numb (Permanent)

Ash - Girl From Mars (Infectious)

The Wedding Present - Sucker (Cooking Vinyl)

Pulp - Sorted For E's And Wizz (Island)

Pulp - Common People (Island)

Festive 50 1983

 Part 1 

Part 2

Tom Robinson - War Baby (Panic)

The Cure - The Walk (Fiction)

Elvis Costello - Shipbuilding (F Beat)

Strawberry Switchblade - Trees And Flowers (Ninety Two Happy Customers)

The Birthday Party - Sonny's Burning (4AD)

New Order - The Village (Factory)

Cabaret Voltaire - Fascination (Virgin)

The Birthday Party - Deep In The Woods (4AD)

Danse Society - Somewhere (Society)

U2 - New Years Day (Island)

The Fall - Wings (Rough Trade)

S.P.K. - Metal Dance (Desire)

The Cocteau Twins - Hithertoo (4AD)

Sophie And Peter Johnson - Television/Satellite (Session)

Luddites - Doppelganger (Xcentric Noise Records)

The Fall - Kicker Conspiracy (Rough Trade)

 Tools You Can Trust - Working And Shopping (Red Energy Dynamo)

The Smiths - Handsome Devil (Rough Trade)

Xmal Deutschland - Qual (4AD)

The Chameleons - Second Skin (Statik )

Redskins - Lean On Me (CNT Productions)

Aztec Camera - Oblivious (Rough Trade)

Cocteau Twins - Peppermint Pig (4AD)

Sisters Of Mercy - Alice (Merciful Release)

10'000 Maniacs - My Mother The War (Reflex)
New Order - Leave Me Alone (Factory)
Elvis Costello - Pills And Soap (F Beat)
The Assembly - Never Never (Mute)
Echo And The Bunnymen - The Cutter (Korova)
The Fall - The Man Whose Head Expanded (Rough Trade)
Siouxsie  And The Banshees - Dear Prudence (Wonderland)
Sisters Of Mercy - Temple Of Love (Merciful Release)
New Order - Your Silent Face (Factory)
Echo And The Bunnymen - Never Stop (Korova)
The Cocteau Twins - From The Flagstones (4AD)
The Cure - The Love Cats (Fiction)
The Cocteau Twins - Sugar Hiccup (4AD)
Xmal Deutschland - Incubus Succubus II (4AD)
Public Image Limited - This Is Not A Love Song (Virgin)
Red Guitars - Good Technology (Self Drive Records)
Naturalites And The Mystics - Picture On The Wall (Realistic)
The Smiths - Hand In Glove (Rough Trade)
The Fall - Eat Y'Self Fitter (Session)
Billy Bragg - A New England (Go! Discs)
The Smiths - Reel Around The Fountain (Rough Trade)
The Cocteau Twins - Musette And Drums (4AD)
This Mortal Coil - Song To The Siren (4AD)
New Order - Age Of Consent (Factory)
The Smiths - This Charming Man (Rough Trade)

New Order - Blue Monday (Factory)

John Peel - Festive 50 1990

Possibly my favorite Festive 50 for no other reason than its the one which has given me the most pleasure over the years.

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Inspiral Carpets - The Beast Inside (Mute)

Pixies - Dig For Fire (4AD)

Pixies - Allison (4AD)

The Farm - Groovy Train (Produce)

The Farm - Stepping Stone (Produce)

Bastro - Nothing Special (Clawfist)
Deee-Lite - Groove Is In The Heart (Elektra)
Teenage Fanclub - God Knows It's True (Paperhouse)
The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds (Wau! Mr Modo)
The Fall - Chicago Now (Fontana)
Sonic Youth - Kool Thing (Geffen)
The Wedding Present - Dalliance (RCA)
Babes In Toyland - House (Sub Pop)
Spiritulized - Any Way That You Want Me (Dedicated)
The Sundays - Here's Where The Story Ends (Rough Trade)
The Fall - Telephone Thing (Fontana)
The Shamen - Pro-Gen (One Little Indian)
Fatima Mansions - Blues For Ceaucescu (Kitchenware)
Happy Mondays - Kinky Afro (Factory)
Pixies - Velouria (4AD)
The Fall - Blood Outta Stone (Fontana)
Dinosaur Jr - The Wagon (Sub Pop)
The Charlatans - Polar Bear (Dead Dead Good)
Lush - Sweetness And Light (4AD)

Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Kill Your Television (Chapter 22)

Ride - Taste (Creation)

Pixies - The Happening (4AD)

Nirvana - Sliver (Sub Pop)

The Wedding Present - Crawl (RCA)

The Boo Radleys - Kaleidoscope (Rough Trade)

The Wedding Present - Heather (Session)

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - The Ship Song (Mute)

The Wedding Present - Don't Talk Just Kiss (RCA)

The Charlatans - The Only One I Know (Dead Dead Good)
Morrissey - November Spawned A Monster (His Masters Voice)
The Fall - White Lightning (Fontana)
New Fast Automatic Daffodils - Big (Playtime)
The Lemonheads - Different Drum (Roughneck) 
The Would Be's - I'm Hardly Ever Wrong (Decoy)
Teenage Fanclub - Everything Flows (Paperhouse)
The Orb - Loving You (Session)
The Wedding Present - Corduroy (RCA)
Happy Mondays - Step On (Factory)
The Wedding Present - Make Me Smile [Come Up And See Me] (RCA)
Paris Angels - [All On You] Perfume (Sheer Joy)
Ride - Like A Daydream (Creation)
Ride - Dreams Burn Down (Creation)
My Bloody Valentine - Soon (Creation)
The Fall - Bill Is Dead (Fontana)

John Peel - 26th December 1978

Featuring the first ten entries in the 1978 Festive 50.

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Grinderswitch - Pickin' The Blues (Capricorn)The Misunderstood - I Can Take You To The Sun (Fontana)

The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again (Track)

Little Feat - Long Distance Love (Warner Bros)

The Doors - Riders On The Storm (Elektra)

The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever (Parlophone)

The Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar

Poco - Rose Of Cimarron (ABC)

Free - All Right Now (Island)

The Jimi Hendrix Experience - All Along The Watchtower (Polydor)

Derek And The Dominos - Layla (Polydor)

Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven (Atlantic)

Siouxsie And The Banshees - Metal Postcard (Polydor)

Thin Lizzy - Emerald (Warner)

Neil Young - Like A Hurricane (Reprise)

Flying Lizards - Summertime Blues (Virgin)

Bob Dylan - Desolation Row (Columbia)

The Sex Pistols - EMI (Virgin)

The Jam - In The City (Polydor)

Siouxsie And The Banshees - Jigsaw Feeling (Polydor)

Siouxsie And The Banshees - Mirage (Polydor)

Siouxsie And The Banshees - Switch (Polydor)