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All-time countdown · John Peel (BBC Radio 1) · December 30, 1982

John Peel's All-Time Festive Fifty (1982)

The all-time countdown (December 30, 1982) from John Peel (BBC Radio 1) ranks 50 songs, with “Anarchy in the U.K.” by The Sex Pistols at number one. The list features 24 different artists; Joy Division has the most entries with ten songs.

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A special bonus all-time chart, voted for and broadcast alongside the regular, newly year-restricted 1982 Festive Fifty (see the '1982' file); this was the first time the two formats ran side by side. Rank 49 is a tie between two tracks.

# Song ListsBest
1 Anarchy in the U.K. The Sex Pistols 85 #1
2 Atmosphere Joy Division 21 #1
3 Love Will Tear Us Apart Joy Division 120 #1
4 New Dawn Fades Joy Division 4 #4
5 A Forest The Cure 58 #4
6 Ceremony New Order 13 #4
7 Decades Joy Division 3 #7
8 Teenage Kicks The Undertones 16 #2
9 Bela Lugosi's Dead Bauhaus 46 #3
10 White Man In Hammersmith Palais The Clash 22 #3
11 Down in the Tube Station at Midnight The Jam 10 #4
12 Dead Souls Joy Division 3 #11
13 New Rose The Damned 23 #8
14 Holiday In Cambodia Dead Kennedys 47 #6
15 Israel Siouxsie and the Banshees 2 #15
16 Alternative Ulster Stiff Little Fingers 7 #6
17 Going Underground The Jam 17 #7
18 Temptation New Order 19 #1
19 Complete Control The Clash 9 #2
20 Public Image Public Image Ltd. 17 #9
21 Dead Pop Stars Altered Images 2 #15
22 Over The Wall Echo and the Bunnymen 2 #22
23 Twenty Four Hours Joy Division 4 #23
24 Another Girl, Another Planet The Only Ones 10 #17
25 God Save the Queen The Sex Pistols 63 #3
26 Transmission Joy Division 19 #10
27 The Sweetest Girl Scritti Politti 2 #22
28 Release The Bats Birthday Party 2 #19
29 Johnny Was' Stiff Little Fingers 4 #15
30 Procession New Order 2 #30
31 Suspect Device Stiff Little Fingers 7 #4
32 Requiem Killing Joke 4 #27
33 Legion Theatre Of Hate 2 #25
34 Psyche Killing Joke 3 #34
35 In A Rut The Ruts 4 #11
36 Get Over You The Undertones 4 #12
37 Holidays In The Sun The Sex Pistols 8 #11
38 Isolation Joy Division 7 #38
39 Jigsaw Feeling Siouxsie and the Banshees 5 #35
40 Armagideon Time The Clash 2 #39
41 She's Lost Control Joy Division 20 #20
42 Switch Siouxsie and the Banshees 5 #38
43 Ghost Town The Specials 26 #21
44 Pretty Vacant The Sex Pistols 21 #6
45 Icon Siouxsie and the Banshees 3 #40
46 Hong Kong Garden Siouxsie and the Banshees 7 #22
47 Shot By Both Sides Magazine 4 #5
48 The Eternal Joy Division 1 #48
49 (tie) Love Song The Damned 3 #22
49 (tie) O Superman Laurie Anderson 9 #34

About this countdown

John Peel's All-Time Festive Fifty (1982) was voted by John Peel (BBC Radio 1)’s listeners in December 30, 1982. 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), "1982 Festive Fifty".

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