Marine Research : Festive 50

by Annabel Wright 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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