Notes About The Playlists

• You need Spotify
• The playlists here collate the Festive 50′s from 1976 to 2010.
• The playlists are counted down from 50 to number one
• They do not include all the tracks for each year as not all are on Spotify
• Tracks are those available to the UK. Due to licensing issues they may not be available in your country
• Again due to licensing issues tracks are added and removed and I do my best to keep them updated.
• Please feel free to leave comments about deletions and additions.

Festive 50 Number 46 2011 – Lord Numb And Julien Auroux – Facile

Not currently available on Spotify

Festive 50 Number 50 2011 – The Phantom Light – Echoes Of Ghosts

Not currently available on Spotify

Festive Fifty 2011 – The Playlist

Dandelion Radio are not allowed, due to the terms of their licenses, to publish playlists of their programs until a month after the original broadcast hence having to wait until this month to put the Festive 50 2011 play list together.

Play the Festive 50 2011 playlist

As usual the playlist counts down from 50 to number one.

42 of this years 50 are currently available on Spotify but here are results in full.

Festive 50 2011

You have until 30 November 2011 to vote in this years Festive Fifty run by Dandelion Radio. The website states:

“Vote for your three favourite tracks from the past year, in order of preference. In theory they could be anything, but tracks played on Dandelion Radio (including session tracks and live recordings) or on BBC Radio 1′s special interest shows are what you should have in mind.”

” Each entry gets a chance to win CDs and copies of Mark Whitby’s book ‘The Festive Fifty‘.”

Vote here.

Festive 50 Number 30 1997 – Prolapse – Slash/Oblique

Sadly this track isn’t on Spotify but the bands first and last albums are.

Play the 1997 Festive 50

To find out more about this excellent band check out their My Space and Wikipedia pages.

Festive 50 Number 1 2001 – Melys – Chinese Whispers

Or if you prefer the Live Peel Session Version from May 2001:

Right – I am back on track with updating the playlists and that’s 2001 completely revised. It’s gone from a very small playlist to a rather packed one!

Listen to the 2001 Festive 50

Festive 50 Number 22 1997 – The Secret Goldfish – Dandelion Milk Summer

Dandelion Milk Summer, taken from the EP of the same name the previous year, was the bands only entry in the Festive 50. You can read more about the band here.

Listen to the 1997 Festive 50

 

All Time Festive 50′s

The Festive Fifty began as an all-time chart. (1976, 78, 79, 80 and 81 were all-time charts.) Two all-time charts have been compiled in additional to yearly charts, once in 1982 and again in 2000 (to celebrate the millennium).

Festive 50 Number 16 1995 – Dreadzone – Fight The Power

One of six entries the band had in 1995′s festive 50. The song was in response to the Criminal Justice Act which was created to make unlicensed raves illegal. 16 years on and nothing changes!

The band are still going and a compilation album was released back in May which features this track albeit in a shortened form.

Listen to the 1995 Festive 50

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Festive 50 Number 1 1993 – Chumbawamba ft Credit To The Nation – Enough Is Enough

Sadly not on Spotify.

Listen To the 1993 Festive 50

Cumbawamba | Credit To The Nation