The fourth part of the 1984 Festive fifty plus repeats of the best sessions of the year. Currently, only the final session track and chart rundown part is available.
JP mentions that he has been reading the Melody Maker's holiday edition.
Sisters Of Mercy, #2. Recorded 1984-06-19. No known commercial release.
Billy Bragg, #3. Recorded 1984-09-18. All tracks except 'It Says Here' originally released on Strange Fruit (SFRCD117).
Smiths, #3. Recorded 1984-08-01. 'Nowhere Fast' and 'Rusholme Ruffians' released on 12 inch of 'Last Night I Dreamed That Somebody Loved Me' (Rough Trade RTT200).
18: Fall, 'C.R.E.E.P. (LP-The Wonderful And Frightening World Of The Fall)' (Beggars Banquet) (JP: 'Generally perceived as being their bid for chart honours.') #
17: Smiths, 'What Difference Does It Make? (LP-The Smiths)' (Rough Trade)
(JP: 'Julie Leighton, who helped me with the Festive Fifty, and meself, have had a bit of a problem with this next one because a lot of people voted for it when it was called 'Peep Bo' when it was part of the session, and slightly more people voted for it when it was called 'Ivo' and it was part of the LP 'Treasure'. So we added the two votes together, which seemed like the only reasonable thing to do, and it comes out as number 16.')
(JP: 'Only four session tapes made it into the Festive Fifty this year, we've only had one of them so far...curiously enough, the remaining three are grouped together.')
(JP: 'Possibly the longest fade in the history of recorded music...most assuredly the first Hot Chocolate number to get into the Festive Fifty, I think I'm right in saying that.')