[Hip Priest]

The top ten from the 1986 Festive Fifty, the annual listener-voted end of year chart from John Peel's show.

And the first one I heard.

What's your favorite of the 1986 top ten? If anyone bothers to vote, we could do more years.

The whole thing:

1. Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
2. Age of Chance - Kiss
3. The Fall - Mr Pharmacist
4. Primal Scream - Velocity Girl
5. Smiths - Panic
6. Smiths - I Know It's Over
7. Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
8. Shop Assistants - Safety Net
9. Jesus and Mary Chain - Some Candy Talking
10. The Fall - US Eighties - Nineties
11. Smiths - Ask
12. Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again
13. Weather Prophets - Almost Prayed
14. Half Man, Half Biscuit - Trumpton Riots
15. The Fall - Living Too Late
16. Wedding Present - Once More
17. Soup Dragons - Hang Ten!
18. Wedding Present - This Boy Can Wait
19. Bodines - Therese
20. The Fall - Bournemouth Runner
21. Cocteau Twins - Love's Easy tears
22. Primitives - Really Stupid
23. Pastels - Truck Train Tractor
24. Billy Bragg - Levi Stubbs' Tears
25. Soup Dragons - Whole Wide World
26. The Fall - Realm of Dusk
27. Age of Chance - Bible Of The Beats
28. Wedding Present - You Should Always Keep In Touch With Your Friends
29. That Petrol Emotion - It's a Good Thing
30. Very things - This is Motortown
31. We've Got a Fuzzbox - Rules and Regulations
32. The The - Heartland
33. Freiwillige Selbstokontrolle - I Wish I Could Sprechen Sie Deutsch
34. Mighty Lemon Drops - Like An Angel
35. Smiths - Cemetry Gates
36. Wedding Present - Felicity
37. The Fall - Lucifer Over Lancashire
38. Cocteau Twins - Those Eyes, That Mouth
39. Half Man, Half Biscuit - Dickie Davies Eyes
40. Elvis Costello - I Want You
41. Billy Bragg - Greetings To The New Brunette
42. Flatmates - I Could Be In Heaven
43. Shop Assistants - I Don't Want To Be Friends With You
44. Mighty Mighty - Is There Anyone Out There?
45. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - By The Time I Get To Phoenix
46. Colourbox - The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme
47. Camper van Beethoven - Take The Skinheads Bowling
48. The Fall - Dktr Faustus
49. Mission - Serpent's Kiss
50. Pogues - The Body of an American

[porkmarras]

Oh that's a tough one.Multiple choices?

[Hip Priest]

Sorry, just one. They are all decent tracks though. Primal Scream were quite cool when they were a jingle-jangly guitar band.

[Pookie]

I voted for Velocity Girl. I'm not a fan of Primal Scream at all, but that's such a great song. If I remember correctly, it's less than 2 minutes long and was originally a b-side.

You knew that you'd be exploiting the nostalgia factor with certain people here didn't you?

I think I started listening to the FF in about 1979, when it was still the best songs of all time, rather than just that particular year. He changed it because the same songs appeared every year, with Anarchy In The UK no. 1 each time.

[Hip Priest]

I remember in '86 or '87 he said he'd stop doing them unless more people voted for rap.

[Guest Informant]

"I'm the big shot original rapper
But it's time for me to get off this crapper"...

[Hip Priest]

Originally Posted by Guest Informant

"I'm the big shot original rapper
But it's time for me to get off this crapper"...

It has to be, doesn't it? Despite the general quality.

[fishmonkey]

"and if a 10 ton truck kills the both of us
to die by your side is such a hevenly way to die"

ahhh...... one of my all time faves.

[Pookie]

Interesting to see the Shop Assistants there. I liked them at the time but not a band that people talk about much these days. I'm finding it hard to even think what they sounded like.

[porkmarras]

I went for The Jesus and Mary Chain.

[Hip Priest]

The whole fifty has been added to the first post.

1987 in a minute.

[Toilet & Bowels]

the aislers set are like the shop assistants: the next generation



i'm glad i wasn't around in 1986, i couldn't deal with an omnipresent smiths

[sonicl]

I was torn between Safety Net / Some Candy Talking / Mr Pharmacist / Velocity Girl, but I finally voted for The Shop Assistants because they are currently top of my "Albums I'd liked to see rereleased" list.

[atari 2600]

look Daddylikes, no Genesis tracks from Invisible touch on the Peel listeners list or on mine



Sonic Youth - Evol in its entirety
from '85...Bad Moon Rising in its entirety
R.E.M. - Life's Rich Pageant in its entirety
from '85...Fables of the Reconstruction in its entirety
Camper Van Beethoven - Good Guys and Bad Guys
Camper Van Beethoven (with Eugene Chadbourne) - Lulu Land
Camper Van Beethoven - We Saw Jerry's Daughter
Camper Van Beethoven - The History Of Utah
Camper Van Beethoven - Interstellar Overdrive (cover)
Camper Van Beethoven - Shut Us Down
CVB from '85...Telephone Free Landslide Victory has many great songs
Laurie Anderson - Smoke Rings (live from Home of the Brave soundtrack)
Laurie Anderson - Language is a Virus (live from Home of the Brave soundtrack)
Laurie Anderson - Sharkey's Night (live from Home of the Brave soundtrack)
Public Image, Ltd. - Rise (damn, this is '85 I find)
The Smiths - Shoplifters of the World Unite
The Smiths - Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
The Smiths - Panic
The Smiths - Ask
The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
The Smiths - Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
The Smiths - Sheila Take a Bow
The Smiths - Oscillate Wildly
The Smiths - Hand in Glove
Prince and The Revolution - Kiss
from '85 the Around the World in a Day album in its entirety
Bruce Springsteen - Brilliant Disguise
Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of Love
Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me
from '85 Alive & Kicking, Sanctify Yourself
Bruce Springsteen & the E. Street Band - Johnny 99 (from Live '75-'85)
Talking Heads - Love For Sale
Talking Heads - People Like Us
John Zorn - The Sicilian Clan
John Zorn - Svegliatti & Uccidi
The Fall - Mr. Pharmacist
The Fall - US Eighties - Nineties
Peter Gabriel - Red Rain
Peter Gabriel (with Kate Bush) - Don't Give Up
Kate Bush's entire 1985 album Hounds of Love
Paul Simon - Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes
Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al
Paul Simon - Graceland
Run D.M.C. - It's Tricky
Run D.M.C. (with Tyler/Perry) - Walk this Way
Robert Plamer - Addicted to Love
John Cougar Mellencamp - Rain on the Scarecrow
John Cougar Mellencamp - Lonely ol' Night
(oops, I checked ...another 1985 for this, mellencamp's only really good album, Scarecrow)
Beastie Boys - Brass Monkey
Beastie Boys - No Sleep 'til Brooklyn
Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Crimes of Paris
Husker Du - All This I've Done For You
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Megadeth - Peace Sells
Robert Cray - Smoking Gun
New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
XTC- Man Who Sailed Around His Soul
XTC - Dear God
They Might Be Giants - Don't Let's Start
They Might Be Giants - (She Was A) Hotel Detective
They Might Be Giants - Youth Culture Killed My Dog
Pat Metheny and Ornette Coleman - Song X
Pat Metheny and Ornette Coleman - Endangered Species
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Muddy Water
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - By the Time I Get to Phoenix

I think I included maybe a few '85 & '87 ones ...

Okay, I've gotta rant now, so excuse me...
The Jesus & Mary Chain did not release an album in 1986.
JAMC were a good band...certainly better than most, but I, for one, am sick to fucking death of seeing people mention them every single fucking day. Again, we could be discussing (& often do) much worse bands than JAMC, but please, we could also be discussing much better artists & bands than the fucking Jesus & fucking Mary fucking Chain. People have written about them every fucking day for fucking months.
http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/sea...earchid=209208
I can only hope & pray that it may (PLEASE, GOD) let up a bit sometime soon. Look people, they just weren't that fucking great. Get it through your fucking heads. C'mon, don't we all know how Thurston feels about them? Which leads me to another point....a much more pointed point (so try (try real hard now) not to get it confused with the completely separate point about JAMC because there is a gradation here...& JAMC are loads better than NIN) Thurston knows that Nine Inch Nails are utter tripe as has remarked as such. Why don't you people (WAAAAY too many of you) get it?

[Pookie]

I remember how surprised/appalled John Peel was when bands like the Mission got into the FF. He NEVER played them and in fact quite rightly, hated them

[atari 2600]

Originally Posted by Hip Priest

I remember in '86 or '87 he said he'd stop doing them unless more people voted for rap.

John Peel, the Affirmative Action fucking DJ

what the fuck ever

Run D.M.C. released Raising Hell in 1986. It's got some good ones. So does the Beastie Boys' Licensed to Ill. LL Cool J released Radio in 1985.

[Pookie]

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[Rob Instigator]

queen is dead is such a fducking ROCKING song

rfuck the queen
fuck your royalty
fuck anyone's royalty

fucking inbred assholes
fuck Mohammed too