John Peel's Festive Fifty: 1982
 

Sorry to hijack your FF threads HP, but I thought I'd do one for the first ever Festive Fifty that was the best of the year, as opposed to the best of all time.

Full listing:

New Order - Temptation
Robert Wyatt - Shipbuilding
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5 - The Message
Echo and the Bunnymen - The Back of Love
Tears for Fears - Mad World
The Clash - Straight to Hell
Wah! - The Story of the Blues
Theatre of Hate - Do You Believe in the West World
Artery - Into the Garden
Wild Swans - Revolutionary Spirit
The Jam - Town Called Malice
Yazoo - Only You
Scritti Politti - Faithless
Associates - Party Fears Two
Bauhaus - Ziggy Stardust
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Fireworks
New Order - Hurt
Scritti Politti - Asylums in Jerusalem
Dexys Midnight Runners - Come on Eileen
Killing Joke - Empire Song
The Farmers Boys - Whatever is he like?
China Crisis - African and White
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Slow Dive
Aztec Camera - Pillar to Post
The Cure - The Hanging Garden
The Clash - Should I Stay or Should I Go?
The Clash - Know Your Rights
The Cure - The Figurehead
Psychedelic Furs - Love My Way
Simple Minds - Promised You a Miracle
Redskins - Peasant Army
Simple Minds - Someone Somewhere (in summertime)
The Cure - A Strange Day
Blancmange - Living on the Ceiling
Blancmange - Feel Me
Musical Youth - Pass the Dutchie
Cocteau Twins - Wax and Wane
Serious Drinking - Love on the Terraces
The Jam - The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had To Swallow)
The Clash - Rock the Casbah
The Passage - XOYO
The Chameleons - In Shreds
Weekend - A View From Her Room
Shambeko! Say Wah! - Remember
Simple Minds - Glittering Prize
Bauhaus - Third Uncle
The Higsons - Conspiracy
Action Pact - Suicide Bag
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Melt
The Farmers Boys - I Think I Need Help
Stranglers - Strange Little Girl
Josef K. - The Missionary
Gregory Isaacs - Night Nurse
Everything But The Girl - Night and Day
Associates - Club Country
Stranglers - Golden Brown
Theatre of Hate - The Hop
The Fall - Look/Know
Captain Sensible - Happy Talk
Yazoo - Don't Go

(There are actually 60 - don't know why)

Nice one Pookie.

Tears For Fears. Grandmaster Flash is cool, and I like a fair bit of Clash stuff but not Straight to Hell. From outside the top ten, I'd pick Rock the Casbah, plus tracks by Bauhaus, Stranglers and China Crisis.

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Funny how '82's FF contains significantly more genuinely popular stuff than when I started paying attention (around '95).