The Festive Fifty was originally an annual list of the year's fifty (though the exact figure varied above and below this number) best songs compiled at the end of the year and voted for by listeners to John Peel's BBC Radio 1 show. It was usually dominated by indie and rock songs which did not fully represent the diversity of music played by Peel but rather the majority opinion among his listeners. After Peel's death the tradition of the Festive Fifty was continued
09 #42 - interpol - obstacle 1
20 #31 - ladytron - seventeen
07 #44 - the delgados - coming in from the cold
04 #47 - the d4 - get loose
01 #50 - the dawn parade - the hole in my heart
18 #33 - the von bondies - it came from japan
13 #38 - half man half biscuit - breaking news
28 #23 - jeffrey lewis - the chelsea hotel oral sex song
11 #40 - mclusky - to hell with good intentions
02 #49 - the aphrodisiacs - this is a campaign
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