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All-time Festive 50 (from 2000 and abridged, sorry!)

Continuing the series that explores John Peel's developing musical passions with an abridged look back at the all-time Festive 50 listener-voted poll from 2000.

Continuing the series that explores John Peel's (and also his listeners') developing musical passions, with an abridged look back at the all-time Festive 50, compiled from votes from his listeners and first broadcast in January 2000.

Complementing Radio 1's 50th anniversary celebrations and introduced by Mary Anne Hobbs.

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Music Played

  • Ginderswitch

    Pickin the Blues

    • STRAIGHT SOUTHERN ROCK.
    • Cappricorn.
    • 2476-128.

  • Pavement

    Here

    • Slanted and Enchanted.
    • Domino.
    • USMTD0255709.

  • PJ Harvey

    Sheela-Na-Gig

    • CD Single.
    • Island Records.
    • 1-1.

  • Culture

    lion rock

    • john peel - a tribute.
    • warner.
    • wsmcd-226.

  • The Sundays

    Can't Be Sure

    • Reading, Writing And Arithmetic.
    • Rough Trade.
    • ROUGHCD-148.

  • The Beach Boys

    GOOD VIBRATIONS

    • Summer Dreams.
    • CAPITOL.
    • CDP-7946202.

  • The Beatles

    I AM THE WALRUS

    • Magical Mystery Tour.
    • EMI Music UK.
    • B0025KVLTW.

  • Bob Dylan

    VISIONS OF JOHANNA

    • BLONDE ON BLONDE.
    • CBS.
    • CDCBS-22130.

  • Nick Drake

    NORTHERN SKY

    • WAY TO BLUE.
    • ISLAND.
    • IMCD-196.

  • The Velvet Underground

    Heroin

    • The Best of Velvet Underground.
    • Polygram.
    • Polygram-8411641.

  • The Beach Boys

    God Only Knows

    • THE PLATINUM COLLECTION.
    • Capitol.
    • 7243-57134521.

  • Tim Buckley

    Song To The Siren

    • Acoustic Love.
    • WSM.
    • WSMCD-227.

  • The Damned

    New Rose

    • Sniffin' Glue: The Essential Punk Accessory.
    • Castle Music.
    • CMFCD-764.

  • The Fall

    The Classical

  • Jimi Hendrix

    ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER

    • THE BEST OF.
    • EXPERIENCE.
    • TTVCD-2930.

  • Stereolab

    French Disco

    • Serene Velocity - A Stereolab Anthology.
    • D-UHF.
    • CD-31.

  • Pixies

    Debaser

    • Doolittle.
    • 4AD.
    • CAD-905.

  • Sex Pistols

    Pretty Vacant

    • Flogging A Dead Horse.
    • Virgin.
    • V-2142.

  • Joy Division

    TRANSMISSION

    • HEART AND SOUL.
    • LONDON.
    • 828 968-2.

  • My Bloody Valentine

    Feed Me With Your Kiss

  • The Delgados

    PULL THE WIRES FROM THE WALL

    • PELOTON.
    • Chemikal Underground.
    • CHEM-024CD.

  • Joy Division

    She's Lost Control

    • UNKNOWN PLEASURES.
    • FACTORY.
    • FACD-10.

  • New Order

    TEMPTATION

    • Substance.
    • Factory.
    • FACD-200.

  • The Only Ones

    ANOTHER GIRL ANOTHER PLANET

    • Right Time Wrong Speed.
    • Warners.
    • WMTV-023.

  • New Order

    Ceremony

    • Substance.
    • CentreDate.
    • 520008-2.

  • My Bloody Valentine

    Soon

    • LOVELESS.
    • CREATION RECORDS.
    • CRE-073X.

  • Joy Division

    NEW DAWN FADES

    • Unknown Pleasures.
    • CENTREDATE.
    • CD-520 016-2.

  • Dead Kennedys

    HOLIDAYS IN CAMBODIA

    • FRESH FRUIT FOR ROTTING VEGETABLES.
    • CHERRY RED RECORDS.
    • CDSBRED-155.

  • Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

    BIG EYED BEANS FROM VENUS

    • THE MAGIC BAND/THE SPOTLIGHT KID.
    • REPRISE.
    • 7599-26249-2.

  • Pulp

    COMMON PEOPLE

    • DIFFERENT CLASS.
    • ISLAND.
    • CID-8041.

  • Robert Wyatt

    shipbuilding

    • eps.
    • rykodisc.
    • lc-7433.

  • The Clash

    (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais

    • The Essential Clash.
    • Columbia.
    • 510998-2.

  • Sex Pistols

    ANARCHY IN THE U.K.

    • 1977 - The Spirit of Punk.
    • Virgin.
    • VTDCD-870.

  • Joy Division

    Love Will Tear Us Apart

    • Substance.
    • CentreDate Co Ltd.
    • 520014-2.

  • The Undertones

    Teenage Kicks

    • UNDERTONES.
    • ESSENTIAL.
    • ESMCD-831.

  • Joy Division

    ATMOSPHERE

    • SUBSTANCE.
    • CENTREDATE.
    • 52014-2.