1990 Festive Fifty

For the first time, Peel's favourite band made number one. Top act was the Wedding Present, with six entries in the chart, including one in the top 10.
There's even a tiny smidgeon of dance music to add a slight element of variety to what is, again, a pretty predictable chart. Yet, in one way, it was the most controversial to date, if controversy can truly be said to exist between two bands who may or may not have been aware of the tight tussle at the top of the Festive Fifty, and may actually not have cared. Did we get the right number one? Another close finish led to the second placed record being denied top spot by what Peel called a "slightly soiled" voting form. (Whitby, M., The Festive Fifty (Nevin Publishing, 2007), p. 31.
==Shows==
*22 December 1990
*23 December 1990
*29 December 1990
*30 December 1990
== The Festive Fifty Of 1990 ==
#thumb|330x330pxFall: "Bill Is Dead"
#My Bloody Valentine: "Soon"
#Ride: "Dreams Burn Down"
#Ride: "Like A Daydream"
#Sonic Youth: "Tunic (Song For Karen)"
#Paris Angels: "All On You (Perfume)"
#Wedding Present: "Make Me Smile (Come Up & See Me)"
#Happy Mondays: "Step On"
#Wedding Present: "Corduroy"
#Orb: "Loving You (Session)"
#Teenage Fanclub: "Everything Flows"
#Would Be's: "I'm Hardly Ever Wrong"
#Lemonheads: "Different Drum"
#New Fast Automatic Daffodils: "Big"
#Fall: "White Lightning"
#Morrissey: "November Spawned A Monster"
#Charlatans: "The Only One I Know"
#Wedding Present: "Don't Talk, Just Kiss"
#Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: "The Ship Song"
#Wedding Present: "Heather (Session)"
#Boo Radleys: "Kaleidoscope"
#Wedding Present: "Crawl"
#Nirvana: "Sliver"
#Pixies: "The Happening"
#Ride: "Taste"
#Ned's Atomic Dustbin: "Kill Your Television"
#Lush: "Sweetness & Light"
#Charlatans: "Polar Bear"
#Dinosaur Jr: "The Wagon"
#Fall: "Blood Outta Stone"
#Pixies: "Velouria"
#Happy Mondays: "Kinky Afro"
#Fatima Mansions: "Blues For Ceaucescu"
#Shamen: "Pro-Gen"
#Fall: "Telephone Thing"
#Sundays: "Here's Where The Story Ends"
#Spiritualized: "Any Way That You Want Me"
#Babes In Toyland: "House"
#Wedding Present: "Dalliance"
#Sonic Youth: "Kool Thing"
#Fall: "Chicago, Now!"
#Orb: "Little Fluffy Clouds"
#Teenage Fanclub: "God Knows It's True"
#Deee-Lite: "Groove Is In The Heart"
#Bastro: "Nothing Special" 'Nothing Special' is actually a song by My Dad Is Dead from their 1990 double EP 'Shine'. The version voted into the Festive Fifty is actually from an unusual split 7" by Bastro and MDiD. On it they recorded each other's songs: My Dad is Dead recorded a Bastro 'medley.'
#Farm: "Stepping Stone"
#Farm: "Groovy Train"
#Pixies: "Alison"
#Pixies: "Dig For Fire"
#Inspiral Carpets: "Beast Inside"
== Availability ==
*All of the shows are available in complete recordings. Substantial parts of them are also available in the 'Festive 50's' folder of IAP's Tapes: the relevant files are identified on the date pages, and are of extremely high quality.
*A dedicated torrent labelled 'John Peel - Festive Fifty (1990)' contains all the countdowns edited together in one file.
*The torrent 'John Peel Torrent Compilation 2' contains the same material as the latter, but divided into 50 files.
;Footnotes
Category:1990
Category:Festive Fifty