If you would like to vote in the real John Peel Festive 50, just email your 3 favourite tracks of 1999, and also your 3 favourite tracks of this century, to john.peel@bbc.co.uk.
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This month, since Christmas is coming and all, we
have junked our usual jukebox top 10. Instead, we are going to tell you what we
all voted for in John Peel's Festive 50. If you would like to vote in the real John Peel Festive 50, just email your 3 favourite tracks of 1999, and also your 3 favourite tracks of this century, to john.peel@bbc.co.uk. |
| Songs of 1999 | Songs of the Century | |
| Peter | Half Man Half Biscuit - Ecclesiastical Perks Add N to X - Metal Fingers In My Body Speed of Sound - Festival of Britain* |
Martha and the Vandellas - Heatwave The Sonics - Psycho Aaron Neville - Hercules |
| Amelia | Birdie - Folksinger Sleater-Kinney - Get Up Le Mans - Cancion de todo va mal |
Ellie Greenwich - You Don't Know Kurt Weill - Surabaya Johnny Beat Happening - Indian Summer |
| DJ | Chicks On Speed - Mind Your Own
Business Ten Benson - Rock Cottage Basement Jaxx - Jump N' Shout |
Jackson 5 - The Love You Save Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough Pulp - Common People |
| Cathy | Make Up - I Am Pentagon Quasi - The Skeleton Suede - She's in Fashion |
The Only Ones - Out There In The
Night Blondie - Atomic David Bowie - Sound And Vision** |
| Rob | Rob says he can't think about
this year because he's too out of touch. No comment! |
The Fall - Iceland (on Hex Enduction
Hour) The Buzzcocks - You Say You Don't Love Me Small Faces - Itchycoo Park |
* Pete also wanted to include Make Up 'I Am Pentagon', Magnetic Fields 'Absolutely Cuckoo' and Sleater Kinney 'Get Up'. In the end he opted for his favourite 3 UK songs. Not sure why. Maybe he just wanted to join in on the protests against the WTO.
** Cathy's runners-up for songs of the century were:
rent - pet shop boys
always on my mind - elvis presley
stereo love - seagull screaming kiss her kiss her
don't fence me in - bing crosby and the andrews sisters
don't stop me now - queen
sunday morning - velvet underground
don't touch my bikini - halo benders
its getting better - the mamas and the papas
tous les garcones et les filles - francoise hardy
you and me song - the wannadies
lah-di-dah - jake thackray
hateful - the clash
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