John Peel Festive 50 - The Fall take top spot

That'll be "joy divison" as in "joy division oven gloves" then? Not just an error copied and pasted from the R1 website?

Anyway, i'll stop being pedantic for a second to ask about no. 17: Laura & Ballboy - 'I Lost You But I Found County Music'
I remember them playing the night peel died and thinking how beautiful a song it was. Can anyone give me more info - is it a cover? and is that the single the only place it was released?

Oh and, was it just my sleep deprieved state that had me thinking Mr. Da Bank kept calling the bloc party album "the silent album"?

Mountain Goats in top 50!!!!!!!!! Result.

it's the silent alarm isn't it? thats what i thought he said. but then i wasn't listening very hard to him, he's a bit of a cock.

11. Bloc Party - 'Helicopter' (LP- Promo) - (Wichita)
12. Texas Radio Band - 'Chwareon Bwtleg Pep Le Pew' (LP- The North South Divine) - (FF Vinyl)
13. Martyn Hare - 'Do Not Underestimate' (4.55) (12") - (Designer)
14. Cinerama - 'It's Not You It's Me' (7") - (Go Metric! Records)
15. Aereogramme - 'The Unravelling' (LP- Seclusion) - (Undergroove)
16. PJ Harvey - 'The Letter' (CD Single) - (Island)
17. Laura & Ballboy - 'I Lost You But I Found County Music' (CD Single 'Past Lovers) - (Sl Records)
18. Jawbone - 'Jack Rabbit' (LP- Dang Blues) - (Loose)
19. DJ Distance - 'Ritual' (EP- Closer Than You Think) (CDR) - (Lix Recordings)
20. Bloc Party - 'Banquet' (LP- The Silent Album) - (Wichita)
21. Ballboy - 'The Art of Kissing' (LP- The Royal Theatre) (SL Records)
22. The Black Keys - 'Ten AM Automatic' (CD Single) - (Fat Possum)
23. PJ Harvey - 'Shame' (CD Single) - (Island)
24. Decoration - 'It Tried It, I Tried It, I Loved It' (CD Single) (White Label)
25. 65 Days of Static - 'Retreat! Retreat! (LP- The Fall of Math) - (Monotreme)
26. McLusky - 'That Man Will Not Hang' (LP- The Difference Between Me And You Is That I'm Not On Fire') - (Too Pure)
27. Listen With Sarah - 'Animal Hop' (White Label)
28. XBooty - 'O Superman' (12") - (White Label)
29. Digital Mystikz - 'B' (12") - (DMZ)
30. The Black Keys - 'Girl Is On My Mind' (CD Single) - (Fat Possum)
31. Art Brut - 'Formed A Band' (CD Single) - (Rough Trade)
32. The Delgados - 'I Fought The Angels' (LP- Universal Audio) - (Chemikal Underground Records)
33. Shitmat - ''There's No Business Like Propa' Rungleclotted Mashup Bizznizz' (LP- Full English Breakfast) - (Planet Mu)
34. Magic Band - 'Bug Eyed Beans from Venus' - (Peel Session)
35. Jon E Cash - 'International' (12") - (Black Ops)
36. Wedding Present - 'Interstate 5' (CD Single) - (Scopitones)
37. Tunng - 'Tale from Black' (LP- This is…. Tunng - Mother's Daughter and Other Songs) - (Static Caravan)
38. Melys - 'Eyeliner' (CD Single) - (Sylem)
39. Decoration - 'Joy Adamson' - (Peel Session)
40. Cornershop presents Bubbley Kaur - 'Topknot' (CD Single) - (Rough Trade Records)
41. Calvin Party - 'Northern Song' (LP- Never As Black) - (Probe Plus)
42. Plasticman - 'Cha' (12") - (Terrorhythm)
43. Kentucky AFC - 'Be Nesa' (LP- Kentucky AFC) - (Boobytrap)
44. Bloc Party - 'Little Thoughts' (CD Single) - (Witchita)
45. Aphrodisiacs - 'If U Want Me' (CD Single) - (SL Records)
46. Mountain Goats - 'Your Belgian Things' (LP- We Shall All Be Healed) - (4AD)
47. Magic Band - 'Electricity' - (Peel Session)
48. Ella Guru - 'Park Lake Speakers' (LP- The First Album) - (Banana Recordings)
49. Ballboy - 'I don't have time to stand here with you fighting about the size of my dick' (LP- The Royal Theatre) - (SL Records)
50. The Vaults - 'No Sleep No Need' (10") - (Red Flag)

Well done the mighty Fall. Puzzled at the lack of 'Blindness', but there you go.

Well done Ballboy for 3 in the top 50.

Very good live band, go if you get the chance.

The show may be carrying on in the new year, if enough people want it to.

aren't they planning to replace Da Bank though?
i thought it was a slight detraction from how good the list was that he said what each song was before playing them, thus eliminating a certain element of surprise...

Art Brut? Why?

I think the right person would be Lamacq, that's the only way he could stay a regular feature of Radio 1, otherwise he would just move to 6 Music or Radio 2.

i cant believe the wedding present song only made no. 36, its brilliant.

they seem to have one world on the peel slot this week coming which im quite happy about as they have a tendency to feature great music. i remember peel saying once it was his favourite show other than his own on radio 1.

I agree that John Kennedy is the man for the job.... but I also feel maybe Radio has had its day and someone could come up with the true answer to our cravings upont the twizzlenet

The session version was done in 2003, so that couldnt have been in it this year. Very surprised Blindness wasnt even in the top 50. Don't think i've heard #2 (unless thats the version on the album) but i agree the session version is quality.

Melys at 38 - top notch
did you know they were actually the most peel sessioned band of recent times?
And they were no 1 a couple of years ago
Melys introduced me to the great man on 2 occasions - both memorable
The first was in Groningen in northern holland and the second was when they were doing a live session in maida vale - John Peel was much more interested in Liverpool winning the UEFA cup than starting his show... he popped out of the TV room at the studio started a recording of old session and came back to watch the rest of extra time
Liverpool won 5 - 4 or something silly and he was like an excitable child throughout his show afterwards...
He was amagic man and his enjoyment of music and life was obvious, I hope I can keep as happy and excited as he was

Good to see Brainlove makes an appearance at number 9 in the chart!

Good result for Aereogramme, too. Superb band, especially live.

I remember discovering Quickspace, Formula 1, Underworld (born slippy first time round, before Trainspotting rescued it), Arab Strap, Aphex's "boy/girl" was a single of the week, piles more you'd never get from Zane Lowe of NME today...... Lamacq's gotten sullied with the whole DM-wearing, stuck-in-'93, bad-indie-championing image, & I was heartily amused by the anti-"save-the-Evening-Session" petition I'll readily admit. But then we got our comeuppance when Zane Lowe came over from Xfm (oh!! but he plays drum'n'bass!!!! and knows Eminem!!! etfuckingcetera!!!!...at least Lamacq never pretended U2 to be of new-music impoortance for one...). The hour of Lamacq's R1 show before the Breezeblock is still often better (& braver!) than any show of Lowe's... Plus he had Peel's open respect, which Lowe never came close to a sniff of...

Dunno where this is going. Think you could be right, he would surprise us. He covered for Peel when on his hols amply in the past, and more convincingly & comfortable-sounding than Da Bank (bless him) too.
I still say John Kennedy is about the only current dj worthy of being Peel's replacement though (or perhaps even Stewart Lee/Keith Cameron). I've believed that since Xfm's glory days; and even now, despite Capital purging all the joyous Peelish sloppiness out of him by shoving him on playlisted overnights for a year to 'master his trade' (Richard Park's own words, not verbatim but that was the jist of it) when they took over, and his current predeliction for Razorlight (I shuddered when I saw it was his album of the year, surely another Capital Xfm thing, that's definitely not the JK I used to know...).

far too much time on your hands inbetween masturbating clearly

good call. If you ever champion a campaign, you have have my full support.