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All-time countdown · John Peel (BBC Radio 1) · January 26, 2000

John Peel's All-Time Festive Fifty (2000)

The all-time countdown (January 26, 2000) from John Peel (BBC Radio 1) ranks 50 songs, with “Atmosphere” by Joy Division at number one. The list features 34 different artists; Joy Division has the most entries with five songs.

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A special all-time chart voted for alongside the 1999 Festive Fifty to mark the millennium (sometimes referred to as the '1999 All-Time Festive Fifty'); its broadcast was delayed to January 2000.

# Song ListsBest
1 Atmosphere Joy Division 21 #1
2 Teenage Kicks The Undertones 16 #2
3 Love Will Tear Us Apart Joy Division 120 #1
4 Anarchy in the U.K. The Sex Pistols 85 #1
5 White Man In Hammersmith Palais The Clash 22 #3
6 Blue Monday New Order 82 #1
7 How Soon is Now? The Smiths 85 #1
8 Smells Like Teen Spirit Nirvana 134 #1
9 There is a Light That Never Goes Out The Smiths 77 #1
10 Song to the Siren This Mortal Coil 7 #4
11 Shipbuilding Robert Wyatt 2 #2
12 Common People Pulp 26 #1
13 Big Eyed Beans From Venus Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band 1 #13
14 Holiday In Cambodia Dead Kennedys 47 #6
15 New Dawn Fades Joy Division 4 #4
16 Soon My Bloody Valentine 7 #2
17 Ceremony New Order 13 #4
18 Another Girl, Another Planet The Only Ones 10 #17
19 Temptation New Order 19 #1
20 She's Lost Control Joy Division 20 #20
21 Brassneck Wedding Present 2 #19
22 This Charming Man The Smiths 43 #2
23 Birthday The Sugarcubes 40 #1
24 How I Wrote 'Elastic Man' The Fall 3 #24
25 My Favourite Dress Wedding Present 3 #6
26 Pull The Wires From The Wall The Delgados 3 #1
27 Feed Me With Your Kiss My Bloody Valentine 2 #17
28 Transmission Joy Division 19 #10
29 Pretty Vacant The Sex Pistols 21 #6
30 Debaser The Pixies 47 #3
31 Lazy Line Painter Jane Belle & Sebastian 3 #5
32 True Faith New Order 69 #3
33 Complete Control The Clash 9 #2
34 Totally Wired The Fall 3 #21
35 Going Underground The Jam 17 #7
36 French Disco Stereolab 2 #5
37 All Along the Watchtower Jimi Hendrix 59 #5
38 The Classical The Fall 1 #38
39 New Rose The Damned 23 #8
40 Song To The Siren Tim Buckley 1 #40
41 God Only Knows The Beach Boys 16 #9
42 Heroin The Velvet Underground 10 #42
43 Northern Sky Nick Drake 3 #43
44 Visions Of Johanna Bob Dylan 6 #23
45 I Am the Walrus The Beatles 13 #45
46 Good Vibrations The Beach Boys 16 #41
47 Can't Be Sure The Sundays 5 #1
48 Lion Rock Culture 1 #48
49 Sheela Na Gig PJ Harvey 11 #2
50 Here Pavement 2 #10

About this countdown

John Peel's All-Time Festive Fifty (2000) was voted by John Peel (BBC Radio 1)’s listeners in January 26, 2000. 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), "2000 Festive Fifty".

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