Question about track 20 in 1996 and 1997 Festive 50

[Alex Romanelli]

Very interesting! Thanks for clearing this up. A little like when in 
both 1991 and 1992 Pavement's "Summer Babe" made the chart, neither 
being a session (right fact fans?). Technically 1991 was the 7" and 
1992 was the LP, but I could never hear a difference between the two 
versions. So I always thought the LP's Winter Version subtitle was 
just Pavement being Pavement.

Cheers Mark!

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "Mark Whitby" <mark.whitby2@...> wrote:
>
> Probably a good time for me to introduce myself on this group - 
Mark Whitby, Dandelion DJ and author of book on Festive Fifty. 
Fluourescences was indeed number 20 in both years.  Neither was a 
session version.  The single was released in December 1996 and 
charted on the strength of pre-release plays from Peel that year.  It 
was then allowed to qualify for the 1997 festive fifty.  I'm not sure 
whether it should have, but bear in mind the voting for the 1997 
chart was unusual compared with other years as there was only a late 
decision to do a festive fifty that year, and votes mostly came in 
fewer than usual and mostly by phone.  Peel did, on announcing voting 
for the FF, on at least one occasion state that votes for tracks 
released the previous December were eligible.  Given his slightly 
detached relationship with the chart, it's unlikely he would have 
checked the previous year's chart in order to identify anomalies such 
as this.
> 
> So, an interesting (to me, anyway) quirk of festive fifty history 
rather than an error.
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Alex Romanelli 
>   To: peel@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 7:42 AM
>   Subject: [peel] Question about track 20 in 1996 and 1997 Festive 
50
> 
> 
>   Hi, I'm new to the group so I'm just going to dive right in.
> 
>   In a burst of nostalgia for my halcyon listening days of 88-97, 
I've 
>   been tracking down the Festive 50s. Piratebay has a bunch of 
torrents 
>   as I'm sure you're aware, but some of the torrents are corrupted 
so 
>   I've been compiling my own mp3s. 
> 
>   However, one thing I can't clear up is that on both the BBC site 
and 
>   rocklist, Stereolab's "Fluorescenes" is no.20 in both 1996 and 
1997. 
>   Since it came out as a single in 1996, and its not included on 
their 
>   BBC sessions album I'm inclined to think 1997 is an error, but 
then 
>   what was at no.20 that year?
> 
>   I'm already thinking of all sorts of other non-50 Peel questions, 
but 
>   I'll save them for next time.
> 
>   Cheers,
> 
>   Alex
>