Festive Fifty

[festive_fifty]

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Stuart McHugh <stuart@v...> wrote:

This seems to have them all

http://www.rocklist.net/festive50.htm

Cheers

FF

> Martin W:
> >Does anyone happen to have a list of the Peel session tracks that 
have made
> >the Festive Fifty since 1981
> >I know this is a tall order but before I started trying to work 
it out I
> >thought I'd
> >ask in case I was about to reinvent the wheel!
> 
> Never seen a list myself... Martin knows this already i.e. the 50s 
> are listed at http://www.rocklist.net/festive50.htm but it's a 
timely 
> bit of info to repost every so often. There's annotations with 
some 
> of the years - e.g. for 1987, "The Fall, in an LP-less year - 
there 
> is a new album due at the end of February - have but three 
entries, 
> two derived from a BBC session." While in 2000, we find "33 
>  'Wonderwall' (session) - Catpower"
> That said, quite often I can recall John playing the session 
version 
> of a song during the Festive 50 (even though people would probably 
> have been voting for the song, which was on record), for 
apparently 
> no good reason other than it sounded better - though this might 
have 
> been a  good 'needletime' getaround for shows heavy on records and 
> light on sessions. (I assume needletime doesn't exist any more?)
> 
> Stuart
> -- 
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