John Peel's festive 50: 2001
 

2001

1. Melys Chinese Whispers
2. White Stripes Hotel Yorba
3. Cinerama Health & Efficiency
4. Bearsuit Hey Charlie, Hey Chuck
5. Strokes Last Night
6. White Stripes Fell In Love With A Girl
7. Strokes Hard To Explain
8. Camera Obscura Eighties Fan
9. New Order Crystal
10. Mogwai My Father The King
11. Meanwhile, Back In Communist Russia Morning After Pill
12. Saloon Impact
13. Half Man, Half Biscuit Bob Wilson Anchorman
14. Miss Black America Human Punk
15. Detroit Cobras Shout Bama Lama
16. Half Man, Half Biscuit Vatican Broadside
17. Belle & Sebastian Jonathan David
18. Strokes The Modern Age
19. Pulp Sunrise
20. Squarepusher My Red Hot Car
21. Super Furry Animals Rings Around The World
22. Mogwai Two Rights Make One Wrong
23. Cuban Boys Drink, Drink, Drink
24. Greenskeepers Low & Sweet

25. White Stripes Dead Leaves & The Dirty Ground
26. Ballboy They'll Hang Flags From Cranes
27. Lift To Experience These Are The Days
28. Strokes New York City Cops
29. Pulp Trees
30. The Fall I Wake Up In The City
31. Hefner Alan Bean
32. Belle & Sebastian I'm Waking Up To Us
33. Ikara Colt One Note
34. Cinerama Superman
35. Melys I Don't Believe In You
36. PJ Harvey This Is Love
37. Seedling Sensational Vacuum
38. AntiHero Who's Looking Out For Number One
39. Lift To Experience Falling From Cloud Nine
40. Radiohead The Pyramid Song
41. Ballboy I've Got Pictures Of You In Your Underwear
42. Miss Black America Don't Speak My Mind
43. The Shins New Slang
44. Mercury Rev Dark Is Rising
45. Stereolab Captain Easychord
46. Strokes Someday
47. Hives Hate To Say I Told You So
48. Rock Of Travolta Giant Robo
49. Saloon Freefall
50. Pico Chard

Obviously, I could've copied it into a word document and un-parsed the links, but I didn't, so there. I'm posting this because I remember nearly all the songs on this FF. Shocking that HMHB's Vatican Broadside didn't make the top 10.

Here's where I stopped listening to Peel. What a shit list.

My god, what a boring selection of records. It certainly comes to something when the best of the bunch comes from Half Man Half fucking Biscuit.

yeah, crappy

My Father, My King without question.

Who in the world ever listened to Cinerama? Who?

peel was the best in the 80s, when he was a champion of everything from post punk to electronic to dub to grindcore

He was very good in the 90's too, actually. He just put a lot of shit in his lists. A bit like you, in a way.

I tend to feel a bit guilty with Peel, in that I'll always champion what he did, but personally stopped listening to him almost entirely by the mid 90s.

haha, i just like organization, im ocd