25 December 1993

Show

 * Name
 * John Peel Show


 * Station
 * BBC Radio One


 * YYYY-MM-DD
 * 1993-12-25


 * Comments
 * The 1993 Festive Fifty played in its entirety, in a three and a half hour show, 10.30 p.m. Christmas Day to 2 a.m. Boxing Day.
 * This chart marked a departure from the previous Fifties in two ways. Firstly, it was the first of three occasions when the whole chart was played in a single show (the other two years when this happened were 1997 and 2002).
 * Secondly, for the very first time, JP abandoned his customary playlist of sessions of the year and/or favourite records.
 * It was also the second time two charts were played in the same year: 1982 and 2000 saw yearly charts and all-time ones aired, and this year had already seen the belated appearance of the Phantom Fifty from 1991.

Sessions

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Tracklisting

 * 50: Fall, 'War (single-Behind The Counter' (Permanent)
 * 49: Trans Global Underground, 'Syrius B' (Peel Session)
 * (JP: 'Some of the more keen-eared amongst you may have spotted we're also going to be playing session tracks as well, and that was one such, in fact.')
 * 48: Fall, 'It's A Curse (LP-The Infotainment Scan)' (Permanent)
 * 47: Hole, 'Beautiful Son (single)' (City Slang)
 * '(JP: 'I suppose I ought to thank all the people wo sent in entries to this year's Festive Fifty. It's always nice to get a great big pile of them, even though it means a great deal of...well, I was going to say, extra work for me, but to be perfectly honest, this year, Alison Howe, who's the programme assistant, did the bulk of the work, the first time I've surrendered the reins of office really, so it wasn't a great deal of hard work for me, although it was for her.')
 * 46: Pulp, 'Lipgloss (single)' (Island)
 * (JP: 'It's taken them twenty-seven years to get into the Festive Fifty. This must be the proudest moment of their lives, I'd say.')
 * 45: Nirvana, 'Rape Me (LP-In Utero)' (DGC)
 * (JP: 'It's the fabulous Festive Fifty on 1FM...I think, actually, I was going to make you wait right up to the end of the programme before I drew out the name of te winner of our exciting competition, but obviously you might have other things that you wish to do, so I'll draw it out after this next record.')
 * 44: Madder Rose, 'Lights Go Down (CD-Bring It Down)' (Seed)
 * (JP: 'What this competition was, in case you have no idea what it is that I'm talking about, was about three weeks ago, a major record shop or part of a chain, is perhaps overstating the case, but there are two record shops anyway in this 'chainette', and they suggested, I think they made up a list of their best LPs of the year or something, just a whim really. Members of the staff had made this list, and they said, would we like to give the top thirty on their list to a lucky listener? We thought this was a pretty neat idea really, and so we asked them to set the question. The question was, where does the record label Wiiija, from what does the record label Wiiija derive its name? Of course, the answer to that is it's the Rough Trade shop in London, W1 1JA. We drew a name out of the hat while that was playing, and it's been won by Jonathan MacNabb of Tunbridge Wells in Kent. See? A boy in the south of England. It's always the same with these competitions. It's most irritating, but he did win it, so we'll have to stick with that. I was tempted to put me hand in and try and get another one, but I thought, no, that wouldn't be fair to Jonathan, although he'd never know. That's the kind of bloke I am....He says, "P.S. Could you please settle an argument? My friend thinks the Fall are crap, I say they're ace. Which of us is right?" I think you can tell your friend that he or she is a dickhead.')
 * 43: Fall, 'Behind The Counter (single)' (Permanent)

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