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
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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
26 #25 - cornershop - staging the plaguing of the raised platform
06 #45 - miss black america - infinite chinese box
16 #35 - mclusky - alan is a cowboy killer
24 #27 - the white stripes - fell in love with a girl
05 #46 - eighties matchbox b-line disaster - celebrate your mother
33 #18 - low - canada
22 #29 - the delgados - mr blue sky
38 #13 - cinerama - careless
08 #43 - melys - so good
30 #21 - the datsuns - in love
34 #17 - asa-chang and junray - hana
21 #30 - bearsuit - drinkink
39 #12 - the yeah yeah yeahs - bang
23 #28 - cranebuilders - you’re song
19 #32 - boom bip - mannequin hand trapdoor eye reminder
10 #41 - burning love jumpsuit - cheerleader
17 #34 - wire - 99.9
31 #20 - belle and sebastian - you send me
25 #26 - saloon - have you seen the light
03 #48 - mùm - green grass of tunnel
32 #19 - coin-op - democracies
35 #16 - low - in the drugs
12 #39 - cinerama - cat girl tights
40 #11 - miss black america - miss black america
50 #01 - saloon - girls are the new boys
41 #10 - ballboy - all the records on the radio are shite
14 #37 - antihero - you got nothing
15 #36 - low - (that’s how you sing) amazing grace
29 #22 - the fall - susan vs youthclub
27 #24 - ballboy - where do the nights of sleep go (when they do not come to me)
47 #04 - nina nastasia - ugly face
36 #15 - the white stripes - dead leaves and the dirty ground
45 #06 - m.a.s.s. - hey gravity
46 #05 - antihero - rolling stones t-shirt
49 #02 - cinerama - quick, before it melts
43 #08 - pinhole - so over you
48 #03 - miss black america - talk hard
37 #14 - half man half biscuit - the light at the end of the tunnel (is the light of an oncoming
44 #07 - laura cantrell - too late for tonight
42 #09 - mark smith vs safe & sound - identify the beat
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