John Peel may have left us but his spirit lives on at Dandelion Radio. The Peely-devoted web-based radio station has been polling listeners for a festive fifty, the annual poll which the radio One DJ used to run every Christmas and New Year. A bit tardy perhaps, but the results are in and these are their top 50 records. The station is broadcasting them all week...
1. Tall Pony - I'm Your Boyfriend Now
2. The Autons - Snakes
3. Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken
4. Decoration - Job In London
5. Peter, Bjorn And John - Young Folks
6. Beatnik Filmstars - Really Quite Bizarre
7. The Playing Fields - Hello New World
8. TV On The Radio - Wolf Like Me
9. Misty's Big Adventure - Fashion Parade
10. Mogwai - Friend Of The Night
11. Decoration - Candidate
12. Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing!
13. Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly - The Chronicles Of A Bohemian Teenager (Part
1)
14. Das Wanderlust - The Orange Shop
15. Mogwai - Glasgow Mega Snake
16. The Bobby Mcgees - Ivor Cutler Is Dead
17. Mugstar - My Baby Skull Has Not Yet Flowered
18. Bearsuit - Steven Fucking Spielberg
19. The Pipettes - Pull Shapes
20. I'm From Barcelona - We're From Barcelona
21. Cartridge - Fooling Around
22. Mugstar - Good Posture Vs Bad Posture
23. Beatnik Filmstars - It's Not What You Know
24. Gossip - Standing In The Way Of Control
25. The Nightingales - Born Again In Birmingham
26. The Nightingales - Black Country
27. Klaxons - Magick
28. Joanna Newsom - Only Skin
29. Morrissey - Life Is A Pigsty
30. The Knife - We Share Our Mothers Health
31. Uffie - Pop The Glock
32 .Cat Power - The Greatest
33. Metric - Monster Hospital
34. The Raconteurs - Steady As She Goes
35. The Long Blondes - Once And Never Again
36. Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
37. Booka Shade - In White Rooms
38. Mates Of State - Fraud In The '80s
39. Iliketrains - The Beeching Report
40. Dustin's Bar Mitzvah - To The Ramones
41. Jarvis Cocker - Running The World
42. N-Type - Tolerance
43. Forest Giants - So You Think You're Unhappy
44. Chalkdust - Cheddar Would Be Better
45. Lost Penguin - I Believe I Can Fly
46. Tilly & The Wall - Reckless
47. Seize - The Day Flying
48. Lost Penguin - Mr. Whippy
49. Gilbert - Willow
50. Uke Stanza - You Will With Ivor Cutler
I'm sure Mr Peel would approve
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It's good to see your list of the Festive Fifty records. I hope I'm not one of the 'tardy' ones. Ha ha!
Posted by Uke Stanza | February 5, 2007 8:57 AM
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