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Year-end countdown · John Peel (BBC Radio 1) · December 28, 1988

John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1988

The year-end countdown (December 28, 1988) from John Peel (BBC Radio 1) ranks 50 songs, with “Destroy The Heart” by The House of Love at number one. The list features 31 different artists; The Fall has the most entries with six songs.

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# Song ListsBest
1 Destroy The Heart The House of Love 1 #1
2 Nobody's Twisting Your Arm Wedding Present 1 #2
3 Sidewalking The Jesus and Mary Chain 17 #3
4 Take Me I'm Yours Wedding Present 1 #4
5 Freak Scene Dinosaur Jr. 7 #5
6 You Made Me Realise My Bloody Valentine 1 #6
7 Gigantic The Pixies 29 #7
8 Why Are You Being So Reasonable Now? Wedding Present 1 #8
9 Christine The House of Love 5 #9
10 The Mercy Seat Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 3 #10
11 Keep The Circle Around Inspiral Carpets 1 #11
12 Everyday Is Like Sunday Morrissey 47 #5
13 Suedehead Morrissey 51 #4
14 Cab It Up The Fall 2 #14
15 I'm Not Always So Stupid Wedding Present 1 #15
16 Bremen Nacht The Fall 1 #16
17 Feed Me With Your Kiss My Bloody Valentine 2 #17
18 Love In A Car The House of Love 1 #18
19 Teenage Riot Sonic Youth 27 #19
20 Deus The Sugarcubes 2 #20
21 Something Nice Robert Lloyd & The New Four Seasons 1 #21
22 Late Night Maudlin Street Morrissey 1 #22
23 Disappointed Morrissey 2 #23
24 Big New Prinz The Fall 1 #24
25 Waiting For The Great Leap Forward Billy Bragg 10 #20
26 Carolyn's Fingers Cocteau Twins 6 #26
27 I Am Kurious Oranj The Fall 1 #27
28 14 Days In May Overlord X 1 #28
29 Silver Rocket Sonic Youth 1 #29
30 Where Is My Mind? The Pixies 64 #5
31 Sweet Young Thing Ain't Sweet No More Mudhoney 1 #31
32 Road Pizza Spit 1 #32
33 What For James 2 #33
34 On Tape Pooh Sticks 1 #34
35 Charlton Heston Stump 1 #35
36 Jerusalem The Fall 1 #36
37 Samora Machel Shalawambe 1 #37
38 Should The Bible Be Banned McCarthy 1 #38
39 River Euphrates The Pixies 3 #39
40 Guest Informant The Fall 1 #40
41 Collision Loop 1 #41
42 Shimmer Flatmates 1 #42
43 Miles Apart Mega City Four 1 #43
44 Fine Time New Order 10 #9
45 Bone Machine The Pixies 5 #45
46 Crash The Primitives 38 #12
47 Shame On You The Darling Buds 1 #47
48 Wrote for Luck Happy Mondays 3 #48
49 Don't Laugh Wedding Present 1 #49
50 Night Of The Living Baseheads Public Enemy 1 #50

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About this countdown

John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1988 was voted by John Peel (BBC Radio 1)’s listeners in December 28, 1988. Positions are shown exactly as the station ranked them; artist and song names have been standardized so that every entry links to that song’s complete chart history across all stations. It counts toward the Alternative & Modern Rock rankings.

Source: John Peel Wiki (Fandom), "1988 Festive Fifty".

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