Peel's Festive 50 (for trainspotters only)

["Jonathan Furner" <jfurner@uc...edu>]

Somebody was asking a while back about John Peel's latest All Time Festive
50, which was compiled a few weeks ago on the basis of listeners' votes
for
their favourite ever songs. In a sad example of blatant work-displacement
activity, here is not only the latest All Time 50, but also for comparison
the All Time 50 Peel broadcast in 1982 which I think was the last time he
did this. The similarity's amazing really. The JD/Pistols hegemony limps
on! It's like, didn't anyone do any DANCING in the last 20 years? And what
do all those Banshees and Killing Joke fans listen to these days, I
wonder?
(The Smiths I suppose.)

1999 (1982 positions in brackets)

1  (2)  : Joy Division / Atmosphere
2  (8)  : The Undertones / Teenage Kicks
3  (3)  : Joy Division / Love Will Tear Us Apart
4  (1)  : The Sex Pistols / Anarchy in the UK
5  (10) : The Clash / (White Man) In the Hammersmith Palais
6  (-)  : New Order / Blue Monday
7  (-)  : The Smiths / How Soon Is Now?
8  (-)  : Nirvana / Smells Like Teen Spirit
9  (-)  : The Smiths / There Is a Light that Never Goes Out
10 (-)  : This Mortal Coil / Song to the Siren
11 (-)  : Robert Wyatt / Shipbuilding
12 (-)  : Pulp / Common People
13 (-)  : Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band / Big Eyed Beans from Venus
14 (14) : The Dead Kennedys / Holiday in Cambodia
15 (4)  : Joy Division / New Dawn Fades
16 (-)  : My Bloody Valentine / Soon
17 (6)  : New Order / Ceremony
18 (24) : The Only Ones / Another Girl, Another Planet
19 (18) : New Order / Temptation
20 (41) : Joy Division / She's Lost Control
21 (-)  : The Wedding Present / Brassneck
22 (-)  : The Smiths / This Charming Man
23 (-)  : The Sugarcubes / Birthday
24 (-)  : The Fall / How I Wrote 'Elastic Man'
25 (-)  : The Wedding Present / My Favourite Dress
26 (-)  : The Delgados / Pull the Wires from the Wall
27 (-)  : My Bloody Valentine / You Made Me Realise
28 (26) : Joy Division / Transmission
29 (44) : The Sex Pistols / Pretty Vacant
30 (-)  : The Pixies / Debaser
31 (-)  : Belle & Sebastian / Lazy Line Painter Jane
32 (-)  : New Order / True Faith
33 (19) : The Clash / Complete Control
34 (-)  : The Fall / Totally Wired
35 (17) : The Jam / Going Underground
36 (-)  : Stereolab / French Disko
37 (-)  : The Jimi Hendrix Experience / All Along the Watchtower
38 (-)  : The Fall / The Classical
39 (13) : The Damned / New Rose
40 (-)  : Tim Buckley / Song to the Siren
41 (-)  : The Beach Boys / God Only Knows
42 (-)  : The Velvet Underground / Heroin
43 (-)  : Nick Drake / Northern Sky
44 (-)  : Bob Dylan / Visions of Johanna
45 (-)  : The Beatles / I Am the Walrus
46 (-)  : The Beach Boys / Good Vibrations
47 (-)  : The Sundays / Can't Be Sure
48 (-)  : Culture / Lion Rock
49 (-)  : P J Harvey / Sheela-na-gig
50 (-)  : Pavement / Here

1982 (1999 positions in brackets)

1  (4)  : The Sex Pistols / Anarchy in the UK
2  (1)  : Joy Division / Atmosphere
3  (3)  : Joy Division / Love Will Tear Us Apart
4  (15) : Joy Division / New Dawn Fades
5  (-)  : The Cure / A Forest
6  (6)  : New Order / Ceremony
7  (-)  : Joy Division / Decades
8  (2)  : The Undertones / Teenage Kicks
9  (-)  : Bauhaus / Bela Lugosi's Dead
10 (5)  : The Clash / (White Man) In the Hammersmith Palais
11 (-)  : The Jam / Down in the Tube Station at Midnight
12 (-)  : Joy Division / Dead Souls
13 (39) : The Damned / New Rose
14 (14) : The Dead Kennedys / Holiday in Cambodia
15 (-)  : Siouxsie & the Banshees / Israel
16 (-)  : Stiff Little Fingers / Alternative Ulster
17 (35) : The Jam / Going Underground
18 (19) : New Order / Temptation
19 (33) : The Clash / Complete Control
20 (-)  : Public Image Limited / Public Image
21 (-)  : Altered Images / Dead Pop-Stars
22 (-)  : Echo and the Bunnymen / Over the Wall
23 (-)  : Joy Division / Twenty-Four Hours
24 (18) : The Only Ones / Another Girl, Another Planet
25 (-)  : The Sex Pistols / God Save the Queen
26 (28) : Joy Division / Transmission
27 (-)  : Scritti Politti / The `Sweetest' Girl
28 (-)  : Birthday Party / Release the Bats
29 (-)  : Stiff Little Fingers / Johnny Was
30 (-)  : New Order / Procession
31 (-)  : Stiff Little Fingers / Suspect Device
32 (-)  : Killing Joke / Requiem
33 (-)  : Theatre of Hate / Legion
34 (-)  : Killing Joke / Psyche
35 (-)  : The Ruts / In a Rut
36 (-)  : The Undertones / Get Over You
37 (-)  : The Sex Pistols / Holidays in the Sun
38 (-)  : Joy Division / Isolation
39 (-)  : Siouxsie & the Banshees / Jigsaw Feeling
40 (-)  : The Clash / Armagideon Time
41 (20)  : Joy Division / She's Lost Control
42 (-)  : Siouxsie & the Banshees / Switch
43 (-)  : The Specials / Ghost Town
44 (29)  : The Sex Pistols / Pretty Vacant
45 (-)  : Siouxsie and the Banshees / Icon
46 (-)  : Siouxsie and the Banshees / Hong Kong Garden
47 (-)  : Magazine / Shot by Both Sides
48 (-)  : Joy Division / The Eternal
49 (-)  : Laurie Anderson / O Superman
50 (-)  : The Damned / Love Song


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