The Festive Fifty

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

Tom — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:08:09 +0000

Not currently available on Spotify

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

Tom — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:54:12 +0000

Not currently available on Spotify

Festive Fifty 2011 – The Playlist

Tom — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:36:09 +0000

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.

1	PJ Harvey	Let England Shake
2	The Lovely Eggs	Don’t Look At Me (I Don’t Like It)
3	The Chasms	The Occult Soul Review
4	Darren Hayman	I Know I Fucked Up
5	Allo Darlin’	Darren
6	Bearsuit	When Will I Be Queen?
7	Lana Del Rey	Video Games
8	Yuck	Get Away
9	Veronica Falls	Bad Feeling
10	Cyclic Freeload Unit	Bitch Chicken Flower
11	JD Meatyard	Olive Tree
12	Burial	Street Halo
13	James Blake	The Wilhelm Scream
14	Twiggy And The K-Mesons	Preset Love
15	Let’s Wrestle	In Dreams Part II
16	Björk	Crystalline (Omar Souleyman Version)
17	Help Stamp Out Loneliness	Split Infinitives
18	Atomizer	Silicon Warning
19	Half Man Half Biscuit	Joy In Leeuwarden (We Are Ready)
20	The 2 Bears	Bear Hug
21	John Maus	Cop Killer
22	The Cambodian Space Project	Chnam Oun Dop Pram Mouy (I’m Sixteen)
23	The Horrors	I Can See Through You
24	tUnE-yArDs	Bizness
25	Baxter Dury	Isabel
26	PJ Harvey	The Words That Maketh Murder
27	Zoë Bestel	35 Missed Calls
28	Mogwai	Drunk And Crazy
29	Seedhill Bruiser	Trees
30	Explosions In The Sky	Last Known Surroundings
31	The Felice Brothers	Ponzi
32	Dadfag	Candy
33	Peaking Lights	All The Sun That Shines
34	M83	Midnight City
35	The Rosie Taylor Project	Sleep
36	Seapony	Dreaming
37	Wooden Shjips	Flight
38	Spidersleg	Salt
39	The Go! Team	Buy Nothing Day
40	Kurt Vile	Baby’s Arms
41	The Orch.	Ingland Strip
42	The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart	I Wanna Go All The Way
43	The Lovely Eggs	Panic Plants
44	Dum Dum Girls	Coming Down
45	Low	Try To Sleep
46	Lord Numb And Julien Auroux	Facile
47	Broadcast + Wolfram Wire	Verstehen 1,8; 3.296.2.1
48	The Fall	Nate Will Not Return
49	Keshco	Fly By Night
50	The Phantom Light	Echoes Of Ghosts

Festive 50 2011

Tom — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 12:46:37 +0000

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

Tom — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 14:22:16 +0000

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

Tom — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:23:57 +0000

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

Tom — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 14:40:20 +0000

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

Tom — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:39:50 +0000

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).

The 1982 chart focused heavily on punk and post-punk artists. It was topped by the Sex Pistols, with Joy Division, The Clash, New Order and Siouxsie And The Banshees all making numerous appearances.

The 2000 chart was a more diverse affair. It still contained many of the same songs – three of the top five were the same – but newer bands (such as Pavement and Stereolab) had been assimilated and also older artists from a wider variety of genres made appearances (such as Nick Drake and The Beach Boys.)

(source)

Playlists:

All Time Festive 50 1982

All Time Festive 50 2000

Festive 50 Number 16 1995 – Dreadzone – Fight The Power

Tom — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 09:41:03 +0000

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

Tom — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 13:03:51 +0000

Sadly not on Spotify.

Listen To the 1993 Festive 50

Cumbawamba | Credit To The Nation