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Year-end countdown · John Peel (BBC Radio 1) · December 29, 1999

John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1999

The year-end countdown (December 29, 1999) from John Peel (BBC Radio 1) ranks 50 songs, with “Cognoscenti vs Intelligentsia” by Cuban Boys at number one. The list features 37 different artists; Hefner has the most entries with five songs.

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Peel also gave an 'honorary' extra play to Monkey Steals The Drum's 'Injured Birds', which he named as his own favourite song of the year but which narrowly missed the top 50; it was not part of the ranked chart and is excluded here.

# Song ListsBest
1 Cognoscenti vs Intelligentsia Cuban Boys 1 #1
2 Hymn For The Cigarettes Hefner 1 #2
3 Hymn For The Alcohol Hefner 1 #3
4 Touch Sensitive The Fall 1 #4
5 Spanish Dance Troupe Gorky's Zygotic Mynci 1 #5
6 How He Wrote Elastica Man Elastica 1 #6
7 F-oldin' Money The Fall 1 #7
8 Race For The Prize The Flaming Lips 2 #8
9 Thrown Like A Stone Murry The Hump 1 #9
10 Immune Low 1 #10
11 Look Dad No Tunes Half Man Half Biscuit 1 #11
12 Waitin' For A Superman The Flaming Lips 9 #12
13 Pacific Cinerama 1 #13
14 Cody Mogwai 1 #14
15 Style Orbital 1 #15
16 Do You Even Know Who You Are? Sonic Subjunkies 1 #16
17 Fire In My Heart Super Furry Animals 1 #17
18 King's Cross Cinerama 1 #18
19 Look Left Salako 1 #19
20 The Second Line Clinic 2 #20
21 Hungover As The Oven At Maida Vale Godspeed You Black Emperor! 1 #21
22 I Stole A Bride Hefner 1 #22
23 I See A Darkness Bonnie 'Prince' Billy 1 #23
24 Northern Lites Super Furry Animals 1 #24
25 Stanley Kubrick Mogwai 1 #25
26 Side Effects Kraken 1 #26
27 Turning Tide Super Furry Animals 1 #27
28 Flossie's Alarming Clock Cuban Boys 1 #28
29 Science Fiction Freak Dawn Of The Replicants 1 #29
30 24 Hour Garage People Half Man Half Biscuit 2 #30
31 Major Leagues Pavement 1 #31
32 I Took Her Love For Granted Hefner 1 #32
33 As Good As It Gets Gene 1 #33
34 Be Rude To Your School Plone 1 #34
35 Cold Blooded Old Times Smog 1 #35
36 Echoes Answer Broadcast 1 #36
37 Metal Fingers In My Body Add N To (X) 1 #37
38 Plot In A Pot Melt Banana 1 #38
39 Revolution Action Atari Teenage Riot 1 #39
40 Tender Blur 17 #40
41 Once Around The Block Badly Drawn Boy 1 #41
42 Windowlicker Aphex Twin 1 #42
43 Helden Six By Seven 1 #43
44 Food Music Appliance 1 #44
45 Carrot Rope Pavement 1 #45
46 The Free Design Stereolab 1 #46
47 Parallel Horizontal Marine Research 1 #47
48 Living City Plan Miss Mend 1 #48
49 Hymn For The Things We Didn't Do Hefner 1 #49
50 Don't I Hold You Wheat 3 #26

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About this countdown

John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1999 was voted by John Peel (BBC Radio 1)’s listeners in December 29, 1999. 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), "1999 Festive Fifty".

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