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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 24 #1
2 Teenage Kicks The Undertones 18 #2
3 Love Will Tear Us Apart Joy Division 138 #1
4 Anarchy in the U.K. The Sex Pistols 96 #1
5 White Man In Hammersmith Palais The Clash 24 #3
6 Blue Monday New Order 96 #1
7 How Soon is Now? The Smiths 106 #1
8 Smells Like Teen Spirit Nirvana 231 #1
9 There is a Light That Never Goes Out The Smiths 90 #1
10 Song to the Siren This Mortal Coil 9 #4
11 Shipbuilding Robert Wyatt 2 #2
12 Common People Pulp 36 #1
13 Big Eyed Beans From Venus Captain Beefheart 2 #13
14 Holiday In Cambodia Dead Kennedys 50 #6
15 New Dawn Fades Joy Division 4 #4
16 Soon My Bloody Valentine 8 #2
17 Ceremony New Order 16 #4
18 Another Girl, Another Planet The Only Ones 13 #17
19 Temptation New Order 22 #1
20 She's Lost Control Joy Division 21 #20
21 Brassneck Wedding Present 2 #19
22 This Charming Man The Smiths 52 #2
23 Birthday The Sugarcubes 43 #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 21 #10
29 Pretty Vacant The Sex Pistols 23 #6
30 Debaser The Pixies 53 #3
31 Lazy Line Painter Jane Belle & Sebastian 3 #5
32 True Faith New Order 78 #3
33 Complete Control The Clash 9 #2
34 Totally Wired The Fall 3 #21
35 Going Underground The Jam 19 #7
36 French Disco Stereolab 4 #5
37 All Along the Watchtower Jimi Hendrix 148 #2
38 The Classical The Fall 1 #38
39 New Rose The Damned 24 #8
40 Song To The Siren Tim Buckley 1 #40
41 God Only Knows The Beach Boys 27 #2
42 Heroin The Velvet Underground 12 #42
43 Northern Sky Nick Drake 4 #43
44 Visions Of Johanna Bob Dylan 13 #23
45 I Am the Walrus The Beatles 36 #18
46 Good Vibrations The Beach Boys 29 #9
47 Can't Be Sure The Sundays 5 #1
48 Lion Rock Culture 1 #48
49 Sheela Na Gig PJ Harvey 12 #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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