THE FESTIVE FIFTY 2004

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Thought we'd best get cracking early, possibly cos I'm a little bored right now - the first one without Mr Peel at the helm, kicking off at eleven tonight on BBC Radio 1 97-99 FM in the YooKay, http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1 in the internet. Three (3) installments this year, which means listening to Other Songs in between the super-hits. The thread from last year's one (to be dug up by someone else) ended up being quite entertaining and Martian got quite pissy. Are the two events related? Hmm...

Anyway, predictions underway here, please. I'm going for whatever that Wedding Present single was to edge out, erm... Snow Patrol, maybe. I've lost touch a bit.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

John Peel Festive 50 is yer mucker for last year.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

And, for contrast, Peel's most-played records of the year are, with 5 plays each,

Delgados - Everybody Come Down

Electrelane - This Deed

Mint Chicks - Blue Team Go!

The Vaults - Straight-faced

The rest are here. Rest ye in peace, merry gentleman.

― Acme (acme), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmm. Much as I'd love to think ECD has a shot, I somehow doubt it. The minor-league street team initiatives will probably overhaul it.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:35 (twenty-one years ago)

ace, joy division already. don't quite see how playing old festive 50 tracks fits in with RDB saying: "an hour of new music first", but who cares?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 23:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Doing the Festive 50 without John Peel is like doing The Simpsons without the Simpsons.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 23:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Of course, I'll still listen in 'cause I love this stuff.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 23:19 (twenty-one years ago)

What was that German techno track?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 23:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Just switched on, all time festive fifty?

Well NO. 42 is Heroin by The Velvet Underground. Is this a public vote and is Teenage Kicks going to be number 1?

― elwisty, Tuesday, 28 December 2004 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

No, what they're doing is playing a couple random festive fifty tracks from years past, and in a couple minutes they'll start with this year's festive fifty

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, ticket number 50 is...

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 23:55 (twenty-one years ago)

The Vaults- Lady Hell

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 23:56 (twenty-one years ago)

not a good start

― keith m (keithmcl), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

John played this on the 10th and 19th of February. Why?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 23:58 (twenty-one years ago)

was there a festive fifty in '66?! I remember a few years back when he did the Peelenium countdown not anything to do with that is it?

― elwisty, Tuesday, 28 December 2004 23:58 (twenty-one years ago)

it's like they want to be Jet but they are too incompetent

― keith m (keithmcl), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Ballboy really are the new Hefner.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:01 (twenty-one years ago)

They're 49, as well.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:01 (twenty-one years ago)

i like this song. good thing martian is not here.

― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:02 (twenty-one years ago)

every single song on the new ballboy album sounds the same.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:03 (twenty-one years ago)

they can't play, i think that's why.

― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)

48. Ella Guru - Park Lake Speakers

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:05 (twenty-one years ago)

This song sounds like schizophenia.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:05 (twenty-one years ago)

never heard of this next one. it's like primitive radio gods.

― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:06 (twenty-one years ago)

they [ballboy] can't play, i think that's why.

"the sash my father wore" was very good, though, that's the thing. they should go full-time acoustic.

and they're very lovely people, i'm told.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)

47. The Magic Band- Electricity

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

skronk skronk bloody skr ... hang on, it's quite good. damn.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)

christ this is awful.

― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:10 (twenty-one years ago)

it's a bit like moonshake only not good

― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)

No wonder Beefheart used to threaten them at gunpoint.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:13 (twenty-one years ago)

46. Th£ M0unta!n G0ats- Your Belgian Things

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I dare someone to slag this off.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:14 (twenty-one years ago)

ha, it's a bit like all of the other mountain goats songs

― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:14 (twenty-one years ago)

he doesn't come here any longer, does he?

― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)

he will now ;)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:16 (twenty-one years ago)

he should play with ballboy

― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

45. aphrodisiacs: if you want me

go SL!

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

45. The Aphrodisiacs - If You Want Me

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe these songs sound better when they aren't streaming online.

― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:20 (twenty-one years ago)

i've not heard this yet. the recorded version. seen 'em live twice, though, and love 'em. at the SL xmas party in glasgow they closed their set by going all god-machiney. very weird.

they need louder beats.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:20 (twenty-one years ago)

44. Bloc Party- Little Thoughts

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:21 (twenty-one years ago)

first bloc party song i've ever heard

― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:21 (twenty-one years ago)

When is ILM going to have a thread about why Bloc Party are awful?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:23 (twenty-one years ago)

is that the frantic scribbling of mark e smith's lawyer in the background?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:23 (twenty-one years ago)

actually, it's now stopped sounding like the fall and sounds like idlewild.

is that the frantic scribbling of idlewild's etc etc etc

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i liked that one

― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

43. Kentucky AFC with a song title I didn't catch.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Sounds like a Welsh Supergrass (the early years).

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:25 (twenty-one years ago)

who votes for this stuff? friends of the band?

― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:26 (twenty-one years ago)

drumzzzz!

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:27 (twenty-one years ago)

drum solo

― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:27 (twenty-one years ago)

this is brainless

― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:29 (twenty-one years ago)

woah, where did me post go? it's:

42. plastikman

but he didn't give us the title. did he?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:29 (twenty-one years ago)

fuck this, it's shit. i'm off to make a cup of tea

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Good old John and his championing of new music.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:30 (twenty-one years ago)

title had something to do with grime

― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:31 (twenty-one years ago)

was that what it was called? "the grime revolution continues", he said ... it was pish, anyway.

jesus! calvin party! no way, are they still going? sorry, missed the name of the song. over to you, dom ...

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Northern Song

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

'northern song'

― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

wait wait wait. that wasn't plastikman before. sorry. it was plasticman. very different entities.

is that the scribbling of richie hawtin's lawyer in the background?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:35 (twenty-one years ago)

brimful of asha

― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:36 (twenty-one years ago)

or 'top knot'

― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:36 (twenty-one years ago)

cornershop haven't been heard from around here for ages.

― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Tjinder Singh is more Indian than you.

Here's Decoration. I like them.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:40 (twenty-one years ago)

39. "joy adamson" by ...

... missed it, sorry. i'm crap at this

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

39. Decoration- Joy Adamson

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:42 (twenty-one years ago)

yes. sorry. now i've lost the ability to read other people's posts as well, never mind type.

very good, that. weddoes-esque inna gedge stylee

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

38.Melys- Eyeliner

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

How indie?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

only 2 more tonight

― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

this is a bit weak.

― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:44 (twenty-one years ago)

the pope is a bit polish too

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:45 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah

― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:46 (twenty-one years ago)

mely smelly

― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

apparently melys also own a tea shop and bistro. it shows in their music

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:48 (twenty-one years ago)

the singer is cute though

― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:48 (twenty-one years ago)

what the buggery is this? it's winsome folktronica pish and i dislike it.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Woah, folktronica "Take Me Out"!

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:50 (twenty-one years ago)

This will be used on some experimental advertising within the year.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:51 (twenty-one years ago)

who is it by?

― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:51 (twenty-one years ago)

satan and his army of little helpers, i think

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:52 (twenty-one years ago)

37. Tunng- some shitty folktronica tune

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

the only good bit is that big bass throb at the end.

tunng: tale from black

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

dunng

― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

36. Wedding Present- Interstate 5.

Always with the Gedge.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

only 13 sessions?

― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

GET THE FUCK IN!

i love the weddoes, me ;)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

is this about the break-up with sally, then? i hope not. it's very, very bitter. sounds to me like some on-the-road relationship lament.

love it, anyway. love it to bits. new one's out this month, innit? then an album! oh happy year

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

he's singing in cinerama voice

― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

They must have another track higher up.

Same time tomorrow then.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

someone needs to call martian

― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:58 (twenty-one years ago)

yup. same time tomorrow. only difference: i'll be drunk

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I must say I've greatly enjoyed this thread so far. I have no confidence at all that I'd like any of this stuff (except I've already heard the Weddoes track, don't think it's so bad) so it's nice to hear a few gents come to the same conclusion and do my dirty work for me. And I'm sure with fiendish drunk it's bound to get even better.

― Bimble..., Wednesday, 29 December 2004 06:04 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, everyone gather round for round two. Before that though, here's the Asian community's very own Dick and Dom, Bobby Friction and Niaahahahahal bemoaning the disorganised state of Indian drum and bass.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

hic. wooah, jesus. ey up, everybody. hic.

actually, no, i'm fairly sober. more so than i expected. still, if it all goes a bit quiet, that's because i've vomited on my laptop.

any sign of dj martian?

― grimshly fiendishsh, Wednesday, 29 December 2004 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

before we begin, i'm cleansing my musical palate with that last sigur ros ep: the film-score thing. it's very good. i got it for christmas from my mad mate, along with, er, a bottleskup flenkenkenmike ep.

bring on the choons!

do we get an hour of other stuff before the countdown again?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I think we do actually, but again it's gonna be stuff from old Festive 50s, and, you know, probably Lemonjelly.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 23:03 (twenty-one years ago)

hmm. this is a bad start. no sound at all from the web stream. this means i'll have to go and try to hook my alarm clock up to my stereo. tits.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 23:07 (twenty-one years ago)

hmm. half an hour of pissing about with realplayer later, i've come to the conclusion that the bbc are fucking knobs and are broadcasting empty streams tonight. tossers.

so it's through to the bedroom and hurrah! for good old analogue radio. wow. just like the old times, this. sitting on the bed, listening to the peel show.

and some new order too. coo ur gosh.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

NEWSFLASH: My PC is shit. New Order, Only Ones, we're being spoiled tonight...

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 23:36 (twenty-one years ago)

aw christ, i missed the only ones? jesus wept. that was when i was tuning in to some californian station to check real player still worked. buttocks. which song? "another girl, another planet"?

stereolab. to be honest, i always thought they were a better idea than a band. but that feels faintly sacrilegious.

omg, 10.15 onna saturday night! fucking A!

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 23:40 (twenty-one years ago)

one day in the future, internet historians will discover this thread and mark us down as great archivists of the age.

or something.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 23:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Here's some stuff from the 30s that I'd probably enjoyed if it the LP wasn't made of paper.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 23:44 (twenty-one years ago)

"my little austin seven?" it's a precursor to "little red corvette". probably.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 23:46 (twenty-one years ago)

How can I love The Smiths so much and hate Morrissey even more?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 23:52 (twenty-one years ago)

(Answer: because The Smiths were great, and "IT'S OFFICIAL: MORRISSEY IS A TWAT")

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 23:52 (twenty-one years ago)

the smiths are a band i've simply stopped liking. a decade ago i loved 'em. now ... nothing. they leave me utterly cold. i think it is entirely down to the fact that morrissey has spent the past 10 years being such an unutterable anus.

that said, this ("there is a light", for the millions of you not participating in real-time ILM chat) is undeniably an exquisite song.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 23:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Get your grime hat on:

35. Jon E Cash- International

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 23:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Grime's not really that dreadful when it hasn't got all those people shouting over it.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't mind a bit of grime. as long as it's good. which ... this isn't. particularly. it's a bit weedy. not very sinister or scary.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Jon E Cash: 2007 Mercury Music Prize Winner

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)

34. The Magic Band- Bug Eyed Beans from Venus

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:01 (twenty-one years ago)

o christ no. please, no. not more. one track was bearably ok. but ... jesus, what happened to the last 30 years?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:02 (twenty-one years ago)

this is bollocks. i mean. old men taking the piss, with beards and things. it's devoid of melody, rhythm, harmony, innovation or any saving grace.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, but university lecturers would love it.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it over? Thank fuck.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:05 (twenty-one years ago)

"you may find some of this show's content offensive."

yeh. the magic band.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:06 (twenty-one years ago)

33. Shitmat- There's No Business Like...

Fucking great album.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Should have picked that dancehall Steptoe and Son track he does instead. Still, best song of the rundown so far.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)

"there's no business like propa' rungleclotted mashup bizznizz"

wow. worth it for the title alone. not a big fan of this kind of thing, but it kicks the magic band's ass so fucking hard it hurts.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it just me and you tonight then?

There's a track on the album that samples the "Why Don't You?" theme tune.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:10 (twenty-one years ago)

actually, this is fucking ace. i really want to hear the steptoe and son thing now too. and "why don't you?" wow. superb!

aye, think it's just the two of us. the weight of responsibility lies heavy on our shoulders.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:12 (twenty-one years ago)

32. the delgados: i fought the angels

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:12 (twenty-one years ago)

loved the previous album (hatred, was it?) but really don't like the new one.

hated "the great eastern"

loved "peloton"

a pattern emerges here.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:13 (twenty-one years ago)

This one's for Swygart.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)

how can the band that made "hate", one of the greatest two and a half minutes in recorded sound, come up with such a dismal pile of will-this-do indie ass-hattery as this?

answers on a postcard to hillhead subway station.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:16 (twenty-one years ago)

31. Art Brut- Formed A Band

Fuck off.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:16 (twenty-one years ago)

The Delgados are very much a Kool Aid band.

Art Brut, on the other hand, are worse than Hitler.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean, I'm sure this is all very loved in Shoreditch, but us provincial folk like, you know, actual music.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

the nme loved this. i bet they thought it was so clever, with its postmodern^H^H^H^H^H^Htalent metatextuality. cocksmears.

shoreditch twats.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

30. Black Keys- Girl Is On My Mind

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you reckon they like Tom Waits?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:21 (twenty-one years ago)

*shrugs*

this does less than nothing for me. in fact, it's starting to actively piss me off. it's fucking eric clapton. except at least he could actually solo.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:21 (twenty-one years ago)

29. Digital Mystics- Bee. Or B.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:23 (twenty-one years ago)

the black keys look exactly how i imagined.

http://www.nrk.no/img/284553.jpeg

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Have they just had an argument?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i hope so. i hope the one on the right is laughing, going: "fuck you, beardy toss! i'm leaving, and taking all the muddy waters records. hah!"

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I like how the mocking of Black Keys means I don't have to listen to this MusicMaker2000 shit going on at the moment.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:27 (twenty-one years ago)

so. the digital mystics, then. blonk bleep barp. heard it a zillion times before. actually: this is sort-of what i remember peel playing all the time in the early nineties.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:27 (twenty-one years ago)

28. X-Booty, or Eksputi, or something

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

x-booty, i think.

not doing much so far, izzit?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:29 (twenty-one years ago)

ho, it's baws.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd rather they remixed "Feels Like I'm In Love". That's a great song. With the "pyew-pyew" and all that.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:31 (twenty-one years ago)

i've not heard the original o superman since a trendy lecturer played it to us in a vain bid to teach us about ... something. i've no idea what. all i remember is taking in a copy of "famous blue raincoat" the next week and making him play that instead. it must have made sense at the time.

the drugs were good in edinburgh in the early nineties.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:32 (twenty-one years ago)

this cup of tea's good too, though. ah, i'm getting old.

anyway. yes. x-booty: o superman. cheers.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

aw come on i love art brut FORMED A BAND and i don't live in london

at the moment.

― piscesboy, Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:35 (twenty-one years ago)

27. Listen With Sarah- Animal Hop.

Tweest title ever?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Woah, it's turned into Soul II Soul! With animal noises.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:38 (twenty-one years ago)

shittest introduction to a song i've ever heard.

hang on. that ain't the introduction. the whole SONG is like this. animal noises with a silly beat.

oh! and a comedy parping noise! yes, it's this year's lemon jelly.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:39 (twenty-one years ago)

paaaaaarrrrp!

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:39 (twenty-one years ago)

26. McLusky- The Man Not On Fire, or something

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:40 (twenty-one years ago)

McLusky should have animal noises in their songs.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:40 (twenty-one years ago)

ah, mclusky. wasn't so impressed by this album, actually. but they still rock.

"the man will not hang", i think it's called.

their bassist looks like a badly drawn cartoon lion, if that's any consolation.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

25. 65 days of static: retreat! retreat!

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

(i have no idea if they use the exclamation marks. but they should.)

ho, this sounds fucking MAGIC. i know nothing about it, but it's ace so far.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:44 (twenty-one years ago)

it's like envy's illegitimate children having a play around with a drumkit made of biscuit tins.

and a whooshy synth.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:45 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm buying that. wonderful.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

24. decoration ...

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:48 (twenty-one years ago)

... not sure what it's called ...

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:49 (twenty-one years ago)

"I Tried It, I Liked It, I Loved It"

As bigged up by me in the rolling 2004 singles thread. People don't sing like this guy does anymore. More's the pity.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:50 (twenty-one years ago)

23. Peej- Shame

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:51 (twenty-one years ago)

even gedge doesn't sing like decoration bloke any more ;)

another SL band! wow. late-night trivia: ed from SL started up the label in a flat just over the road from where i used to live. SL stands for "student loan". top lad, our ed.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

22. NOOOOO! the black keys AGAIN! 10 am automatic

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry. 10am automatic, obviously.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe this will be better.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

It isn't.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.nrk.no/img/284554.jpeg

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Listen to that solo.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Last tune of the evening:

20. Ballboy- The Art of Kissing

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:58 (twenty-one years ago)

look at them! just look at them!

anyway ...

ballboy again. ho hum. more SL, yay. but i don't really rate the album, i must say.

(21, not 20. isn't it?)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:59 (twenty-one years ago)

well, that was an enjoyable way to while away a couple of hours. cheers dom. guess i'll be back tomorrow: come on everybody, join in the fun. maybe the black keys will be number one!

hoo, hang on. mrs fiendish is back from seeing her dad tomorrow. heheheh. "how shall we celebrate, darling?" "i know, you can sit and watch me type silly things about obscure music." hmm.

until tomorrow, then!

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, that's what I meant.

So, what's still to come tomorrow then? The Fall, probably more Wedding Present, "Joy Division Oven Gloves" has to be a lock surely, I'd like to see Trencher after their performance at the "Keep it Peeled" show, wonder if "I'm A Cuckoo" is technically eligble?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 30 December 2004 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

http://vision.york.ac.uk/articles/149/music/images/blackkeys.jpeg

"Join us tomorrow at 11pm!"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 30 December 2004 01:03 (twenty-one years ago)

You guys made the Festive 50 very entertaining, in Peel's absence, and with the humourless Da Bank presenting the show. Thanks!

― Cristian Ceia, Thursday, 30 December 2004 01:06 (twenty-one years ago)

xxx-post: yeh, HMHB are surely contractually obliged to make an appearance ... "epiphany" is particularly wonderful. as for the wedds: unless it's a B-side or a session track - which i doubt - there's nothing else to come.

i've not kept up with the fall at all. "green-eyed loco man" was last year, wasn't it? that's the last track i noticed of theirs.

i'm kinda surprised (but quite delighted) by the lack of any fiery furnaces stuff.

xx-post: those two fuckers are gonna haunt my dreams.

x-post: coo ur, thank you very much.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 01:08 (twenty-one years ago)

hang on. you'll need to subtract an X from each X there. if you see what i ... ach, fuck it, i'm going to bed.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 01:10 (twenty-one years ago)

22. NOOOOO! the black keys AGAIN! 10 am automatic

And WHAT, may I ask, is wrong with the Black Keys????

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 30 December 2004 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Apart from the curiously Why Are You Being So Reasonable Now?-era Wedding Present sounding Decoration, the only tracks I enjoyed in during the whole hour were the PJ Harvey, Art Brut, and Listen With Sarah tracks. That Shitmat thing in particular was a calamitous load of toss.

― David Merryweather (DavidM), Thursday, 30 December 2004 01:29 (twenty-one years ago)

i missed it, i was at the theater. tomorrow then. but the fifteenth anniversary showing of heathers is on the WB.

― keith m (keithmcl), Thursday, 30 December 2004 03:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Well as luck would have it I have tomorrow off from work and will be able to experience the last part of the 50 in real time. Hey I figure if a Fall track is played, it'll be worth it on that basis alone.

that was when i was tuning in to some californian station to check real player still worked. buttocks.

I was trying to play something recently and it didn't work so I tried winamp instead of real player, and it played great. Maybe it will help you to do the same?

Oh yeah, and I took a listen to Black Keys once and knew in about 4 seconds that was a band I was going to steer well clear of for the rest of my life.

And if HMHB don't get played there will be smoke coming out of my ears.

― Bimble..., Thursday, 30 December 2004 03:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I was trying to play something recently and it didn't work so I tried winamp instead of real player, and it played great. Maybe it will help you to do the same?

hmm: i'm a mac user, so no ;)

i've always had problems with realplayer. the radio 6 site lets you use windows media player (of which there's also a mac version) so that's how i get round it. r1, however, seems to be real only.

anyway: hurrah, it'll be good to have you around tonight, bimble. and keith. and anyone else. although i did enjoy being half of the dick and dom show last night (he's dom, i'm a dick).

and shitmat ruled. i was very unsure at first, but it became great.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 10:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I seem to remember that Peel played the X-Booty "O Superman" track at least 5 times during the year. The fact that it was an unmarked white label 12 inch meant that it didn't appear on so many of the shows' playlists at first. As far as I remember one of his team later picked up a copy in HMV which was marked 'X-Booty'.

The Fall's entire final Peel Session for the Top 10 surely?

― neil tacus (tacit), Thursday, 30 December 2004 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought that "O Superman" remix had been tracked down to be the work of the MANDY boys?

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 30 December 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Unless there have been two 'O Superman' reworkings this year, yes, it was listed as 'Saved At Sunset' by Telegraph, marked as aka MANDY in some record shops. But I didn't hear the X-Booty thing - maybe it's different.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 30 December 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I might tune in with you boys tonight too, I have it on good authority that bearsuit are very high up (ho-hum) But of course, I'll only be here for the Wirral's finest.

― Porkpie (porkpie), Thursday, 30 December 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

everybody should tune in tonight. just in case some of it doesn't suck/isn't the black keys.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

i am back from a festive break, will be logging on for the final section of Festive 50 tonight.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

peel on teevee talking about how great his life is now. sob

― Bumfluff, Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Upon further inspection of the list of songs so far, I realize it was actually the Shitmat record I was staring at in the vinyl shop today. I'll give it a listen.

― Bimble..., Thursday, 30 December 2004 22:49 (twenty-one years ago)

'lo everybody.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 22:52 (twenty-one years ago)

the list so far, copied and pasted from the r1 website:

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)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey Fiendish! - I mean...should I call you Simon?

I'm sober presently. But not for long.

― Bimble..., Thursday, 30 December 2004 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

i've been called a lot worse than both. i don't mind at all. "that wee bastard over there" usually suffices.

i'm very sober, actually. but any more black keys will drive me to drink.

(shit, i feel like a bit of a twat being silly while the death toll's rising there on the news. fuck.)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

ok, and we're off. it's 1990 all over again, hurrah.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Hello people I wonder if I might join you ? I have listened to 50-21 and (apart from the Black Keys) have been pleasantly surprised, mostly...

― fletcher dexter, Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:04 (twenty-one years ago)

what IS going on with the online player these days? always cuts off - is it just me?

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:06 (twenty-one years ago)

no: it just died there for me too. last night was terrible: couldn't get anything through it at all.

x-post: god yeh, come on in! hellfire, i've only been posting to ILM for six months and these kind people have already tolerated my inanities to an alarming extent.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Welcome Fletcher Dexter!

Good old fashioned Sugarcubes...

― Bimble..., Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

the Sugarcubes track that Melody Maker/ Simon Reynolds discovered.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)

shame that the debut Sugarcubes album was a relative let down after this.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:11 (twenty-one years ago)

never actually liked "birthday". actually: i don't really like most sugarcubes. or bjork. "selmasongs" excepted, oddly.

fuckin' player's just died again. jeez

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:12 (twenty-one years ago)

"birthday" was good as it got. only 20 mins to go apparently!

― fletcher dexter, Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:13 (twenty-one years ago)

That's true the album was a bit of a letdown at the time.

― Bimble..., Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:13 (twenty-one years ago)

This sounds like a party is going on in a haunted house and none of the guests know they're marked for death.

― Bimble..., Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:16 (twenty-one years ago)

This is a great track.

― neil tacus (tacit), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:17 (twenty-one years ago)

according to discussion on Zapsmart - The Peel show is apparently being replaced by extra One World Slots.

The person who produces One World is Paul Thomas. Probably the Peel production team will continue?

One World is in a "magazine" format with slots typically dedicated to non mainstream artists/ labels

Years ago in the late 90s Paul Thomas programmed ambient/ experimental electronic/ deep techno music on Kiss fm - on late night overnight slots.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:19 (twenty-one years ago)

That last track and "Holiday In Cambodia" would have made a perfect soundmatch mix.

― neil tacus (tacit), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:20 (twenty-one years ago)

xx-post: god damn! i've just got my stream back and that sounded BRILLIANT. errors! glasgow! get IN. fucking hell, and i missed everything except the last five seconds. wank.

you know, other than the alarm clock, we don't have a single proper radio in the house? mrs fiendish is watching the telly, so i can't use the digital box thingy (and anyway, it's been dodgy as fuck ever since i took the aerial apart to, er, improve the reception).

fingers crossed it'll keep a connection on the web this time.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Dead Kennedys an alternative dancefloor favourite.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:20 (twenty-one years ago)

a good mix..follow this with.. B52s Rock Lobster

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

apparently biafra is guesting on next napalm death album... if only JP was still around he'd have loved to hear that...

― fletcher dexter, Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:22 (twenty-one years ago)

i've abandoned the online stream and plumped for good old analogue portable radio

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:22 (twenty-one years ago)

if it all goes to buggery again it's the alarm clock for the second night running.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)

"Thinking of a masterplan..."

― neil tacus (tacit), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

DK's!! I enjoyed the hell out of that. Haven't heard it in years. Last thing I would have expected to hear here, though.

Paid in Full, that's a good old one, too.

― Bimble..., Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yes - Much as i love all the indie pop from 1987, this should have been rather higher than #27 in the festive 50! golden era.

― fletcher dexter, Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Eric B & Rakim - when high profile Hip Hop was inventive !

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:26 (twenty-one years ago)

'6 Minutes of Madness'

― neil tacus (tacit), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Right, so I'm dl/ing Real Player and braving the sheer hell of BBC radio player. Once it's all set up. I heard 50-36 and thought it was a bit verkakken.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:29 (twenty-one years ago)

is this Mr Hawtin or a Clone?

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:29 (twenty-one years ago)

this is nice

― fletcher dexter, Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Very Peelish track, this, but booooring.

― Bimble..., Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

i think it's great. and if it segues into ballboy, i'll wet myself

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

This is quite pleasant. I can now imagine Peel's voice talking over it before leading into the late Newsbeat bulletin, which makes me a bit grimly nostalgic.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay if you were in a sweaty club I suppose, but I'm not in one at the moment.

― Bimble..., Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

20) Bloc Party - Banquet

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Bloc Party

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Their best song is still She's Hearing Voices. Other than that, I'm not sure I'm especially bothered.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Singer sounds a bit like him out of Bogshed... if he was trying to sing "properly"

― fletcher dexter, Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:36 (twenty-one years ago)

biggest impacting debut album by a British guitar band in 2005?

[impacting in terms of media profile]

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:36 (twenty-one years ago)

how could anyone not like 'banquet'? it's pretty faultless.

― Bandini, Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:36 (twenty-one years ago)

this reminds me of something. spandau ballet, that's it: their first single. eh, can't remember its name ... "to cut a long story short". something in the rhythm.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:37 (twenty-one years ago)

The Cure sounded like this in 1987

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:37 (twenty-one years ago)

They remind me of The Rapture, but much, much better.

― Bimble..., Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I was gonna see these guys with ARE Weapons when I was in NY a couple of months ago. Decided to go and see Gil Scott Heron instead.

― neil tacus (tacit), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:37 (twenty-one years ago)

19) DJ Distance - Ritual

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:38 (twenty-one years ago)

However 17 year old kids were born that year - so they don't remember that

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:38 (twenty-one years ago)

This sounds like Unique 3 circa 1990

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:38 (twenty-one years ago)

#19: stupid minimalist dance crap garbage nonsense.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Strangely you're right Martian, there was some Cure in there, I think.

― Bimble..., Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:39 (twenty-one years ago)

who remembers early Bleep music in 1990?

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:39 (twenty-one years ago)

y a a a w n ... oh, it's picking up ... oh, no it's not ... is it ... i don't think i care enough either way, to be frank

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:40 (twenty-one years ago)

LFO !

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I've heard this before. Dime a dozen to these ears.

― Bimble..., Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Nooo!! I'm really pleased there's lots of this stuff in here and it's not all retro postmodern geetar new wave castoffs!!

Mind you I still want Bearsuit and HMHB in there for the indiester in me.

― fletcher dexter, Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:41 (twenty-one years ago)

this track would be ace if they sampled Daleks on top of the mix

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I might need to be listening to this via some headphones capable of transmitting bass. Or staying on my head. Either would do. But this... I've been listening to too much guitar stuff lately. A change is good.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember LFO...

― Bimble..., Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Dr Who back for 2005

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Grime ! sounds like Unique 3 or LFO leftovers reheated

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)

18) Jawbone - Jackrabbit

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Not bad!!

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)

zung! nope, sorry. it just annoys me, this stuff

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:44 (twenty-one years ago)

is this hillbilly-core?

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Sounds like it was made fifty years ago! Rockin'!

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I know this one. I can't remember when I first heard it, but I think it was the night after Peel died. It's quite decent.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm a sucker for this type of stuff. I'm gonna go download this.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:44 (twenty-one years ago)

dont get this at all... 1st thumbs down of the night from me i am afraid.

― fletcher dexter, Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't stand this sort of music.

― Bimble..., Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Blues, can someone pass the Malt Whiskey?

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Andy KEEERRRRRRSHAW music

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:46 (twenty-one years ago)

that was a long description when "pish" would do

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)

These headphones have actually been designed for people with no ears.

17) Ballboy & Laura Cantrell - I Lost You But I Found Country Music...

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)

twee rubbish ;-)

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Nice and pretty!

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh lawks. I am not going to cry.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I think this might be the first time I've heard Ballboy in 2 years or something.

― Bimble..., Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually no, I am. This is beautiful. From Peel's house last Christmas.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually on second thought, this is quite crap.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:48 (twenty-one years ago)

16) PJ Harvey - The Letter

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE Peej. NEXT!!!

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Is this the first top 40 single in this year's rundown?

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I gave Uh Huh Her a try, and it left me...wanting.

― Bimble..., Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Slightly disappointing album. Great single.

― neil tacus (tacit), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)

PJ Harvey on Auto-Pilot - I hear she is ending?

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)

rob da bank can't fucking count. two entries for ballboy? no, three.

i feel very sorry for him: he's so utterly devoid of charisma, and is trying to fill the shoes of the most charismatic man in radio history.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Arggh it's really gone downhill the last 3 tracks... only some techno or grime can save us. Has Plasticman got a chance ?

― fletcher dexter, Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

unless *blushes* he said in the top 20. shit

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

ending what?

triple xpost

― Bimble..., Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Except no, that'd still be wrong.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Shite album. Shite title. Just... shite.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Scots Art Rock

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)

15) Aereogramme - The Unravelling

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Except no, that'd still be wrong.

so it would. bloody hellfire.

TOP! THE 'GRAMME!

this is an incredible song

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh God it's getting all quiet and trippy now.

― Bimble..., Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Are Aereogramme Scotland's answer to Radiohead?

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:55 (twenty-one years ago)

someone ask Melissa ;-)

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:56 (twenty-one years ago)

they're scotland's answer to no one except themselves, i think. i love 'em, but it never ceases to amaze me how many people get upset by them ...

... aw fuck, there goes me real stream again

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I rate them, also i rated another Scots Art Rock band.. Ac Acoustics

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Yep, mine's just gone too. I hate the BBC radio player.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, we're back.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Aereogramme have switched labels to a tiny independent label - that has resulted in a lower profile

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

A.C. Acoustics "Understanding Music" is fucking ace.

― Bimble..., Friday, 31 December 2004 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Some of the orchestra/ string effects remind me of Depeche Mode

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)

yeh, why did they leave chemikal underground?

they are mode-tastic all over this new EP

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I imagine that listened to through good headphones, this would be quality, but with these things on, it just feels a little frustrating.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:01 (twenty-one years ago)

ac acoustics were wonderful in parts. the guitarist's brother used to fancy my ex. now how's that for a pish claim to fame?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Depeche Mode circa 1986-1988

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Epic stuff. I was waiting for the strings to come in.

― neil tacus (tacit), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:01 (twenty-one years ago)

This track definately deserves a higher profile for Aereogramme, they have a new album next year.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I am liking this though. I have both the albums, and they're not bad, but I've never quite been blown away. This is pretty sweet.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Scary Metal vocals ..ace

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I imagine that listened to through good headphones, this would be quality, but with these things on, it just feels a little frustrating.

that said, i'm not sure they've ever found the right producer. but they've started working with isis (aaron did the sleeve for the new EP, i think), which could rock mightily

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Wish they guy would stop screaming.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)

fuck me, more gedge. well bugger me backwards.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:05 (twenty-one years ago)

14) Cinerama - It's Not You, It's Me

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:06 (twenty-one years ago)

How many David Gedge tracks in the Festive 50 between 1985 - 2004...A: a truckload !

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:06 (twenty-one years ago)

But...but...I wanted the Weddoes.

― Bimble..., Friday, 31 December 2004 00:06 (twenty-one years ago)

By now they were just Cinerama-by-numbers, really.

"INTERSTATE 5" IS MUCH MUCH BETTER THAN THIS!!
xp

― fletcher dexter, Friday, 31 December 2004 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)

grrr. stream dead again. luckily, i've found a very old pocket radio in a drawer, and stolen the battery from the TV remote control.

really, re-forming the wedds was the right thing to do. this is not very good. "cat girl tights" and "wow" are the only real cinerama standouts, i think. o, and "health and efficiency"

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Hooray, it sounds like 'Wow'.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember the first Wedding Present article in Sounds in the Summer of 1985..Gedge sitting on a park bench with band memebers

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

13) Martin Hare - Do Not Underestimate

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Cool! A "Sandstorm" ripoff!

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)

wow! having just come back to the real stream, i realise there's a delay of at least five seconds.

which, employed carefully, makes this track 1000 times better

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Ooh, doom synths. Nice.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, we are liking this an awful lot.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:10 (twenty-one years ago)

gedge was playing last time i was here and now when i tune in.

― keith m (keithmcl), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:10 (twenty-one years ago)

ey up keith.

where's dom tonight, i wonder?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)

get in!! i wish i'd listened to peel more this year.

― fletcher dexter, Friday, 31 December 2004 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)

tranceybouncyhardcorerave

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Welcome Keith!

― Bimble..., Friday, 31 December 2004 00:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Dom's connection is playing up. This is fucking amazing. He'd hate it.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I would prefer this one to have been played at the wrong speed. Preferably faster so that it ends more quickly.

― neil tacus (tacit), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:13 (twenty-one years ago)

anyone got white gloves? hands the air, fetch me a glo-stick

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:13 (twenty-one years ago)

12) The Texas Radio Band - Cwarion Bootleg Peplepew

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Is this the Welsh White Stripes?

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm developing a bit of a soft spot for this. Then again, I really like Murry The Hump (THE KEYS SUCK).

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)

mixed with some beta band?

― keith m (keithmcl), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)

This is a great song. Fun and rockin'.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, now this is more like it.

― Bimble..., Friday, 31 December 2004 00:16 (twenty-one years ago)

This sounds like Punk Karaoke sung in Welsh

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

God, it's like the bits of Britpop that were good. In Welsh. I love this.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

SKA BREAK!

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

it's fun, but i wouldn't listen to it again, i don't think.

good welsh breakdown bit, though

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Did I not like that.

― fletcher dexter, Friday, 31 December 2004 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

11) Bloc Party - Helicopter

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Someone buy The Greatest hits of The Alarm for WBS !

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

it's terrible

― keith m (keithmcl), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

jesus, spandau ballet again.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

After that, this could only really be a letdown. In a half-decent way.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

no, Blur.

― fletcher dexter, Friday, 31 December 2004 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Bloc Party again? I'm getting antsy. They better play the FALL!

Still, this sounds pretty good.

― Bimble..., Friday, 31 December 2004 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

The Bloc Party as a whole just don't do it for me. As rockin' and fun and catchy as the music is, I just can't stand that guy's voice.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

IS MY PC FINALLY WORKING NOW?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I bet this is a contemporary student dancefloor hit at the Uni Indie Disco nite, correct WBS?

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:20 (twenty-one years ago)

texas = terrible, not bloc party, this isn't bad though he is sounding like damon albarn

― keith m (keithmcl), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Thoughts on the top 20 so far: Jawbone are that blues-rock band from Ghost World.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:20 (twenty-one years ago)

With Bloc Party it's spot the influences from 1970s/1980s/1990s

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I distrust Bloc Party as I would any indie band I first learnt about through leafing through a copy of Bliss magazine.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I have friends who really like them but don't 'get' The Futureheads, which is frustrating.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Top 10...

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:22 (twenty-one years ago)

10) Jawbone - Hi De Hi

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:22 (twenty-one years ago)

hey dom, good to have you back.

that bloc party thing got quite good, it shames me to admit. sorry.

jawbone: tonight's black keys. official

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:22 (twenty-one years ago)

"Whoo! Yay!!"

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Jawbone should cover "Bridging The Gap"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Upthread, ACME speculated the Libertines might get in. Instead, this. I'm dead chuffed.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Well it did seem to me Block Party were copying Red Rockers' "China" toward the end there, which is a song much better than Block Party, I think.

― Bimble..., Friday, 31 December 2004 00:23 (twenty-one years ago)

This reminds me, I saw Bo Diddley at the Jazz Cafe this year. He was good.

This is better than the 1st Jawbone one though.

― fletcher dexter, Friday, 31 December 2004 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I have NO IDEA why, but this Jawbone guy rules!!

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

The Fall's "Blindness" for #1

― neil tacus (tacit), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

the libertines surely couldn't get anywhere near the festive 50. i'd rather be locked in a room with jawbone and the black keys jamming for eternity than listen to one more second of the libertines. or babyshambles. or any of it.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Air Rifle vs. Jawbone...

― Bimble..., Friday, 31 December 2004 00:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Number 9....

Graham Coxon- Freaking Out

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:25 (twenty-one years ago)

9) Graham Coxon - Freakin' Out

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Freakin brilliant.

― neil tacus (tacit), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:26 (twenty-one years ago)

This track is so 6 Music Playlist

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Right, someone please answer me one question about Coxon: he is autistic, right?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:26 (twenty-one years ago)

oh god, graham coxon? third tier indie rock

― keith m (keithmcl), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:26 (twenty-one years ago)

With Bloc Party it's spot the influences from 1970s/1980s/1990s

"Spot the Influences" would make a great album title.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:26 (twenty-one years ago)

This would be good if it stopped about a minute and a half before it did. But it still wouldn't be that wonderful...

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Well he is not Artistic !

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Frankly I'm glad someone has forced me to listen to Graham Coxon because I never would get around to listening to it on my own.

― Bimble..., Friday, 31 December 2004 00:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Finally a popular song that's not by Bloc Party!

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:27 (twenty-one years ago)

does thurston moore write his lyrics?

― keith m (keithmcl), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I was expecting this to be awful, but actually ... I quite like it. Like Green Day fronted by a Cockney. Better than Blur, at least.

― fletcher dexter, Friday, 31 December 2004 00:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Coxon was on Frank Skinner! Same night as Pamela Anderson and Stan Collymore.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

This sounds stuck in a timewarp in 1978

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Sham 69

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

La la la la la la la ley

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

8. HALF MAN HALF FUCKING BISCUIT- JOY DIVISION OVEN GLOVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:29 (twenty-one years ago)

NIGEL BLACKWELL FOR KNIGHTHOOD

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:30 (twenty-one years ago)

that totally and utterly passed me by.

ace! HMHB at last!

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:30 (twenty-one years ago)

HMHB

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:30 (twenty-one years ago)

i want a joy division oven glove

― keith m (keithmcl), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:30 (twenty-one years ago)

AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IT's THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Bimble..., Friday, 31 December 2004 00:30 (twenty-one years ago)

DANCE! DANCE! DANCE! DANCE! In yer Joy Division Oven Gloves!

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:31 (twenty-one years ago)

why is this band so revered?

― keith m (keithmcl), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:31 (twenty-one years ago)

What the hell is THIS crap?

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:31 (twenty-one years ago)

i still think "epiphany" from this session was one of their finest moments.

i remember seeing them play the venue in edinburgh, mid-nineties. they did a cover of "24 hours" and it was spellbinding. what a vastly underrated band they are.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Mr Snrub and Keith M get the gas face.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:32 (twenty-one years ago)

This band just touch me in illicit and special ways. Adorable. About time they came to London again.

I love Nigel too

― fletcher dexter, Friday, 31 December 2004 00:32 (twenty-one years ago)

what year did HMHB record their first Peel Session?

A: 1984
B: 1985
C: 1986

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Best British band to never have a top 40 single. There, I've said it.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:32 (twenty-one years ago)

BECAUSE THEY ARE DEAD BRILLIANT

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― Bimble..., Friday, 31 December 2004 00:32 (twenty-one years ago)

mr snrub and i are the only non-brits? mayeb that's why we don't get this.

― keith m (keithmcl), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

This is the most twee song ever. EVER!

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I wanted a Dukla Praque away kit for Christmas

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

THEY'VE BEEN TO A POST-PUNK POSTCARD FAIR!

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

why is this band so revered?

because they're funny, clever, witty, self-deprecating, and know more about indie music than all of us together.

and they write killer tunes too.

what more d'you want? ;)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Last time I saw them they did "What Do I Get?". I've never danced as much.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I think you're right, Keith.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

7. Sons and Daughters- Jon E Cash

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

superb. i'll be watching them ring in the new year at optimo tomorrow night.

fucking hell, tonight!

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

This = Generic Indie Rawk !

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I went to see these live and was the only person dancing. This is alright, cos they are ace.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

knowing optimo, they will mix it with jon e cash. and that would rule even more.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

doesn't belle and sebastian say that these guys are the best thing ever?

― keith m (keithmcl), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Take themselves ever so slightly seriously, mind.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

i miss ballboy

― keith m (keithmcl), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:35 (twenty-one years ago)

only because they hang out with them, probably !

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Belle and Sebastian has previously endorsed Life Without Buildings, Franz Ferdinand, and N*E*R*D, so take their words with a pinch of salt.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Re HMHB, Andy Kershaw calls them "The best British folk band of their generation". They have simply been OTM, in every way for nearly 20 years.

This, on the other hand, is a bit average although I like the Scanlon / Hanley type thing.

― fletcher dexter, Friday, 31 December 2004 00:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not British, so one doesn't have to be British to appreciate HMHB.

Onwards...what in the world is this playing now? Kinda reminds me of X or The Kills.

― Bimble..., Friday, 31 December 2004 00:36 (twenty-one years ago)

one of them used to play bass with arab strap.

and now my old flatmate plays bass with arab strap.

and he'll be at optimo too.

there's some kind of circularity to that, but i'm fucked if i can see it.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:36 (twenty-one years ago)

6. The Delgados- Everybody Come Down

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:37 (twenty-one years ago)

WBS faves !

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Aw.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:37 (twenty-one years ago)

"This one's for William B Swygart"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:37 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm glad they don't sound like grandaddy anymore.

― keith m (keithmcl), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Juliana Hatfield Tribute Song

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:38 (twenty-one years ago)

SHould've been Girls Of Valour (FEBRUARY 28th, PEOPLE), but what the hell.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:38 (twenty-one years ago)

This is really good.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Is this about lesbianism?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:38 (twenty-one years ago)

this is a lot better than the other one they've got in the list. a lot better.

bimble: where *are* you from, out of interest?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Twee done right.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:38 (twenty-one years ago)

It's The Delgados with handclaps. Why is anyone complaining?

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:39 (twenty-one years ago)

re: Is this about lesbianism? if it is someone invite Sleater Kinney to the party

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:40 (twenty-one years ago)

this is great. i might buy the album now. even though ... oh, emergency radio ... i don't think i'll like the rest of it at all.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, it's not so bad, really. But it does remind me of some other band I can't now name.

― Bimble..., Friday, 31 December 2004 00:40 (twenty-one years ago)

GF - you will, trust me.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Nice ending.

5. Sluts of Trust- Leave You Wanting More

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Woah, it's Placebo in 1997!

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

If the vocallist sounds like Geddy Lee, all bets are cancelled.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

THe stream's gone down. I'm quite happy about that.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

No, he just sounds vaguely retarded.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:42 (twenty-one years ago)

ian astbury?

― keith m (keithmcl), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmm. I don't mind this, actually.

― Bimble..., Friday, 31 December 2004 00:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Garage Rawk ! what's that new weekly london centric rock n roll paper i bet they like this.

artrocker, that's it

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:42 (twenty-one years ago)

this is fucking great. the sluts of trust are one of those bands i've refused to let myself like, but i can't remember why. reminds me a tiny, tiny bit of prolapse.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:42 (twenty-one years ago)

The top four better be bloody good now.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

There's something about the Peel World that means you hear a song which had you drifting off during the first listen, and then, in the context of JP, it makes sense and sounds like the best song ever.

Sluts Of Trust have not recorded any of these songs.

― Acme (acme), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

this is absolutely great. i love it. but i sense i'm about to fall off this here limb ...

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:44 (twenty-one years ago)

It's like they took 70's classic rock records and puposely warped them, then played them at full volume, annoying their neighbors.

― Bimble..., Friday, 31 December 2004 00:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Right, it's back.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:44 (twenty-one years ago)

(I think if you click the 'listen through standalone Real Player' link, that works better)

I'm still not sold on the Sluts, I'm afraid.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:45 (twenty-one years ago)

4. Aerogramme- Dreams and Bridges

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:45 (twenty-one years ago)

CHEMMIE U TRIPLE PLAY (kind of)!!!

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Charlie Busted must be happy tonight.

― Acme (acme), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:46 (twenty-one years ago)

i like this one

― keith m (keithmcl), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:46 (twenty-one years ago)

it's like they [SoT] took some 70s classic rock then chucked it away and went, fuck it, let's KICK ASS. i like

magic, the 'gramme again. wonderful. should have been "i don't need your love", but hey.

this is actually my least favourite track from "seclusion"

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I find this far too sentimental and irritating.

― Bimble..., Friday, 31 December 2004 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

With these voting patterns Busted may yet be top 3.

super xp

― fletcher dexter, Friday, 31 December 2004 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

it's got emo vocals

― keith m (keithmcl), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

as for standalone realplayer: that's how i do it, and it's still made out of arse.

honestly: the other tracks on "seclusion" are even better. the cover of "lightning strikes the postman" is astounding

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

That's the worst fake ending ever.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:48 (twenty-one years ago)

The Cure Seventeen Seconds + Mogwai CODY + Depeche Mode + Radiohead Bends + the vocalist sounds abit like early Placebo + The God Machine + Killing Joke

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I could see myself getting into this lot one day. Not today, but one day.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I find this far too sentimental and irritating.

they're a bit emo-ish in parts, yes.

but not right now ;)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:49 (twenty-one years ago)

monsters of rock

― keith m (keithmcl), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Is this aerogramme again? {Winces} Why do their songs have to suddenly turn metal about 80% of the way through?

― Bimble..., Friday, 31 December 2004 00:49 (twenty-one years ago)

This is so like the brilliant The God Machine from the early 90s

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:49 (twenty-one years ago)

THese last three are all gonna be around three minutes.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:50 (twenty-one years ago)

R O C K Y O U M U T H A Z

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Top 3 now....

3. Caroline Martin- The Singer

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:50 (twenty-one years ago)

This is great.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:50 (twenty-one years ago)

she wants to be kristen hersh?

― keith m (keithmcl), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow! I haven't thought about God Machine in ages and ages. They were pretty good, no doubt!

― Bimble..., Friday, 31 December 2004 00:51 (twenty-one years ago)

oh dear. is the singer next door better than caroline, then?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:51 (twenty-one years ago)

This is not remotely good enough to justify how tired and hungover i will now be for work... please, a better top 2.

― fletcher dexter, Friday, 31 December 2004 00:52 (twenty-one years ago)

This is kinda like Bobbie Gentry unplugged.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:52 (twenty-one years ago)

... Do you think one of the top two tracks is going to be Trencher's Napalm Death cover?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Who votes for these songs? How the hell do these obscure songs place so high???

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Just play the damn Fall!

― Bimble..., Friday, 31 December 2004 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

There she goes my beautiful stream... that was sounding OK.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe one of The Fall session tracks?

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

as for standalone realplayer: that's how
i do it, and it's still made out of arse.

But arse is a perfectly decent programming language, so long as you remember to wipe it first. Standalone Real was composed using the proprietary version, Shitty Arse, with some Stinkhole functionality ported in. And haemorrhoids.

I'm listening on the telly!

I love Caroline Martin. She's my girlfriend, actually.

― Acme (acme), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

the strings are menacing, though. genuinely quite scary sitting here listening to this now. ok, i was WRONG. this is good. sorry.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

2. Bearsuit- Charger

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

holy fuck! nice one fletcher dexter!

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Bearsuit!

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Bearsuit ! shamblers

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

they still sound like bis

― keith m (keithmcl), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

My indiepop love does have limits, and Bearsuit have just found them.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Someone please please console me. They are going to play The Fall, right? **Gulp***

― Bimble..., Friday, 31 December 2004 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

they still sound like bis

-- keith m (keythkeyt...), December 31st, 2004.

They make Bis sound like Emerson Lake and Palmer.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Not as good as Rodent Disco, but still - Bearsuit!

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

The Top Ten has been very VERY disappointing.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I think bearsuit are the only indieish band I genuinely dislike. The rest has mostly been pretty good!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

And the winner...............

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

that is mighty bass. shame the rest of it's so sub-belle-and-sebastian. sorry, but ... it's the TRUTH

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I do like Bearsuit. A lot. I like "Itsuko" and "On your special day" best from "Cat spectacular". But yes, even I am not sure they are THIS good!!

― fletcher dexter, Friday, 31 December 2004 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

"Sparta FC #2" for number one??

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

the anticipation is killing me. i hope i don't wet myself

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, duh.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes!!

― neil tacus (tacit), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I WAS RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)

fix! fix!

but wow, talk about a close scrape. festive 50 with no fall = entropy, surely

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:58 (twenty-one years ago)

bloc party ripoffs

― keith m (keithmcl), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:58 (twenty-one years ago)

This is great! It sounds like How He Wrote Elastica Man!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Runner up last year, winner this. Also - very good.

(#1 - The Fall - Theme from Sparta FC pt. 2)

Is this a tribute to Sparta Rotterdam or Sparta Prague?

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:58 (twenty-one years ago)

New The Fall album next year

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:59 (twenty-one years ago)

See? Democracy does work when you don't use e-voting machines.

Happy again with the world. Don't much like the song.

― Acme (acme), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:59 (twenty-one years ago)

This completely kicks the arse off the album version.

― neil tacus (tacit), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:59 (twenty-one years ago)

This is a really great song.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:59 (twenty-one years ago)

If it hadn't been The Fall I would have cursed their souls to hell.

― Bimble..., Friday, 31 December 2004 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)

The Fall can be really goddamn wonderful when they want to be.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 31 December 2004 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Y. Not their best, not even of their recent stuff, a bit playing to the gallery, but at the end of the day, The Fall are still a reasonable contender for "best band ever", and JP loved them. And this knocks spots off the Libertines or Franz Ferdinand. I am afraid this all means I am very very happy with this result.

― fletcher dexter, Friday, 31 December 2004 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm not sure whether i'm disappointed with that top ten or not. lots of stuff i *liked*, but ... nothing that blew me away or particularly shocked me.

thank fucketty fuck the fiery furnaces didn't get in there.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 31 December 2004 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

"We live on blood-ah!"

― neil tacus (tacit), Friday, 31 December 2004 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

"SHEPHERD'S PIE!! (HEY!!)"

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 31 December 2004 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

But yes, they could have chosen a better Fall song.

― Bimble..., Friday, 31 December 2004 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Same time next year?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 31 December 2004 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

125,000?? Jesus!!

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 31 December 2004 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

see you next year

― keith m (keithmcl), Friday, 31 December 2004 01:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I really really hope they retire the Festive fifty now that Peel's gone.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 31 December 2004 01:02 (twenty-one years ago)

So that's it. No more Festive 50's it's all over? They'll never play HMHB on Radio 1 again will they? Would Kershaw play them?

― Bimble..., Friday, 31 December 2004 01:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, it depends on what they do with Peel's slot. I hope they retire it fully, Bank's just a stand-in (as he admits), they need to decide what they're doing in the longterm...just retire the slot. Bring in someone else who isn't a genre facist like the rest of Radio 1's evening brigade.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 31 December 2004 01:04 (twenty-one years ago)

CNN: Tsunamis Shatter Celebrity Holidays

― Acme (acme), Friday, 31 December 2004 01:04 (twenty-one years ago)

if that is the last festive 50, i'm glad we did it like this.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 31 December 2004 01:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Annie Nightingale on now...

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 31 December 2004 01:05 (twenty-one years ago)

xx-post: that link's not for real, acme, is it? i can't bring myself to click, because i know i'll end up smashing everything up in a fit of rage.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 31 December 2004 01:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Annie, Annie, the raving granny.

― neil tacus (tacit), Friday, 31 December 2004 01:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey Acme, I've been wanting to ask you - were you in Seattle for a visit about this time last year? I think we may have met.

― Bimble..., Friday, 31 December 2004 01:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Fiendish is right, I am terribly grateful for having had this computer experience.

― Bimble..., Friday, 31 December 2004 01:08 (twenty-one years ago)

yus. thank you, everybody, that was most enjoyable. awra best for 2005!

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 31 December 2004 01:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, it depends on what they do with Peel's slot. I hope they retire it fully

I'm still keen on this /ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?thread.php?msgid=5224246, and might write, for whatever any of that is worth.

x-posts

I've never had the pleasure of Seattle. Nearest I got was Berkeley, in fact. My name isn't ACME. I call myself Alan Connor. And sorry, Fiendish. It's the real deal.

― Acme (acme), Friday, 31 December 2004 01:10 (twenty-one years ago)

More, from Gawker:

Celebrities Among Victims of Tsunami [AP/Yahoo]
Oprah's Gay Designer Survives Tsunami [CNN]
(He was with Fernando Bengoechea, a photographer.)
Even in Malaysia the cover story is the survival of a radio DJ [Malay Mail via Newseum.org]
Tucker Carlson on CNN interviews Stuart Sipkin, Seismologist, U.S. Geological Survey and asks the question that strikes fear in all of us.
CARLSON: Now what about, we've been hearing all day about this volcano in the Canary Islands that may collapse at some point and send a tsunami toward the East Coast of the United States drowning the Hamptons. Do you consider that a likely scenario, a possible scenario?

Devastating Tsunami Kills Tens of Thousands in South Asia [CNN via Wonkette]
RUMOR: IS ADAM CLAYTON OF U2 DEAD?? [CraigsList]
"New York Post: also has a cover that reads paradise lost and the travel section has a subhead reading paradise found."
"The main story on CNN has a picture of young Karl Nilsson - a blond boy from Sweden who was vacationing with his parents who are presumed dead from the Tsunami. This is the second time they've featured a picture of the kid on CNN.com. Betcha he becomes the official poster child of the Tsunami. Figures it takes a blonde haired, blue eyed kid to bring home the death of tens of thousands of brown babies."
"CNN/Drudge Body Count Race finally caught up with Drudge: 60,000. Approaching 70,000. It is like a telethon. Let's keep those numbers up folks! 10,000-30,000, hey Drudge 60,000. Call 555-1212 and donate!"
Finding A Silver Lining [Radosh.net]
Briton surfed his way to Maldives safety [Ireland Online]

― Acme (acme), Friday, 31 December 2004 01:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Well you have a good 2005, Alan, and I'm glad you put together those lists you did regarding Peel and tracks he played most, etc.

― Bimble..., Friday, 31 December 2004 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

And, from Bloggerheads:

Bush's topped-up donation: $35m

Cost of Bush's inauguration: $40m+

Florida aid: $2bn

Still, bellyaching about the media and the politicians doesn't help much in itself.

x-post: Thanks, Bimble. Happy New Year too. Ah, JP.

― Acme (acme), Friday, 31 December 2004 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Have you guys heard his Perfumed Garden shows? Such a gentle hippie soul, Peelie was.

― Bimble..., Friday, 31 December 2004 01:20 (twenty-one years ago)

x x x post [cnn links]..........I was sat at my parents' on Boxing Day watching the first news reports with my mum of the tsunamis on the ITV news (yeah, we should've known better but..). The main jist of it initially leant heavily towards "lots of British tourists have had their lovely beautiful xmas thai beach holiday breaks RUINED now!". If it wasn't for the fact us made me feel sick, esp with a friend working out there in the midst of it all at the moment, we would have smashed in the tv.

But anyhow. F50 - that was miles better than that awful pile of Miss Black America & Their Local/Touring Friends sub-indie arse that clogged up the festive 50 last year (or was it the year before?). I wasnt too keen on Rob da bank's pre-announcing of each track though, Peelie's back-announcing of them always made it more intriguing, especially when you didn't recognise something...

― petef (pete badmusik), Friday, 31 December 2004 01:22 (twenty-one years ago)

No, I mean to download the Perfumed Garden from somewhere. I'm a bit scared of hippies, but still. And I agree, Fiendish: for all the ubermodernity of listening to the digital broadcast while twittering on broadband, it feels nice and small and good to be listening to "the john peel show" like this.

― Acme (acme), Friday, 31 December 2004 01:24 (twenty-one years ago)

yes. and if one can raise a digital toast, then i should like to propose one to the man himself, the mighty john peel, without whom i certainly wouldn't be the music-lover i am today.

right, that really is it from me. see you all in 2005. have a top one.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 31 December 2004 01:27 (twenty-one years ago)

{To the tune of Dead Kennedys "California Uber Alles" - damn I want to hear that tune they played by DK's tonight again!!!)

"JOHN PEEL....UBER ALLES.....JOHN PEEEL UUUUBER ALLES..."

― Bimble..., Friday, 31 December 2004 01:34 (twenty-one years ago)

festive 50 list: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/alt/johnpeel/features/festive_fifty_2004.shtml

Sod it:

1. The Fall - 'Theme from Sparta FC Part 2' (CD Single) - (Action Records)
2. Bearsuit - 'Chargr' (7") - (Fortuna Pop!)
3. Caroline Martin - 'The Singer' (LP- I Had A Hundred More Reasons To Stay By The Fire) - (Small Dog Records)
4. Aereogramme - 'Dreams and Bridges' (LP- Seclusion) - (Undergroove)
5. Sluts of Trust - 'Leave You Wanting More' (LP- We Are All Sluts of Trust) (Chemikal Underground)
6. The Delgados - 'Everybody Come Down' (LP- Universal Audio) - (Chemikal Underground Records)
7. Sons & Daughters - 'Johnny Cash' (mini LP- 'Love The Cup') - (Domino)
8. Half Man Half Biscuit - 'Joy Division' (Peel Session)
9. Graham Coxon - 'Freakin' Out' (Split CD Single thing) - (EMI)
10. Jawbone - 'Hi De Hi' (LP- Dang Blues) - (White Label)
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)

― Mooro (Mooro), Friday, 31 December 2004 11:01 (twenty-one years ago)

the projects should have made the final cut.

― keith m (keithmcl), Friday, 31 December 2004 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

What do you mean, the projects?

― Bimble..., Saturday, 1 January 2005 10:51 (twenty-one years ago)

'the Projects'

― keith m (keithmcl), Saturday, 1 January 2005 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

eleven months pass...

did they already broadcast this year's list? i see there is a playlist on the website.

― keith m (keithmcl), Monday, 26 December 2005 21:37 (twenty years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/onemusic/huw/festive50.shtml - listen again links up the top. I have never heard of the winner.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 26 December 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

neither have i. perhaps it's some kind of joke?

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Monday, 26 December 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

I had no idea they were persisting with it. It is a comfortingly schmindie list but I have no compulsion to sit and tape the whole thing anymore; now that I officially don't care about the festive 50 and the NME Xmas issue it's hard to work out what my highlight-of-year things are anymore. bah.

― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 00:35 (twenty years ago)

i have not heard the winner outside of the one music shows whose listeners voted (it's the one that basically a list of little bits of advice, like that song about the suncream from a few years back, only with a grumpy old man slant on it. only really funny the first time).

(and wasn't that crimea thing in the F50 2 or 3 years ago?)

i fell asleep about 3 records into the tuesday show and again 5 records into the thursday show. am on dialup so listen again isn't an option. woe is me...

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 29 December 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)

Jegsy Dodd was the former leader of "The Sons Of Harry Cross" who were somehow related to Half Man Half Biscuit and were also on Probe Plus. That was about 17 years ago though! Speaking of HMHB, I see Joy Division Oven Gloves makes the list again this year.

― everything, Thursday, 29 December 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

Presumably HMHB Joy Division Oven Gloves only made the list because it was officially released on Achtung Bono.

But this list is depressing, becase its not Peel and because if Peel was alive it would be dramatically different.

I find myself retreating further into the brilinace of New Pop a la Girls Aloud and Rachel Stevens, but I will give a nod to the stunning Arcade Fire album (yeah I know its arguably 2004 not 2005) and the damn fine Bloc Party.

And if the man himself were still with us he would hate my choices...and I would love him even more for hating them.

― Guilty Boksen (Bro_Danielson), Sunday, 1 January 2006 02:50 (twenty years ago)

My mate's band is at number 17.

I love love love that Early Years track, even if it does sound like something that would soundtrack Football Focus.

― Mippy (Mippy), Sunday, 1 January 2006 08:11 (twenty years ago)

But this list is depressing, becase its not Peel and because if Peel was alive it would be dramatically different.

I'm not sure how true that is - having pored at length over every festive 50 list ever, in order to compile a 6-hour best-of-the-festive-50s DJ set a couple of months ago, I was struck by just how conservative most of the 50s actually were.

it occurred to me that if peel had had the power to really influence the list himself, it would have been a whole lot more obscure, or obscurist at least. let we forget, he canned the whole list one year because he hated so much of the music on it!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Sunday, 1 January 2006 12:33 (twenty years ago)

Didn't Peel complain on a regular basis that the 50 was too guitar-based...

― Mippy (Mippy), Sunday, 1 January 2006 12:40 (twenty years ago)

i wouldn't be surprised if that were true, given all the wonderfully varied electronic, African, hip-hop, experimental stuff he played as a matter of course. it must have been hugely frustrating to have such a catholic mind and exhibit it in public, only for your beloved audience to ignire the bulk of it and vote for the bloody Wedding Present again...

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Sunday, 1 January 2006 13:43 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, there was a year when it was cancelled (1992, possibly) because he was fed up with all the white boys with guitars...

― Mippy (Mippy), Monday, 2 January 2006 21:33 (twenty years ago)

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