Festive Fifty

50 tracks, one per weekend, no particular order, and each one a compulsion to listen then listen again, waves of sound that crash upon the rocks in a most alluring fashion…

The Fucked-Up Festive Fifty is:

#1. Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot – Bonnie and Clyde (1968)

#2. Broadcast – Long Was The Year (2000)

#3. David Bowie – Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) (1980)

#4. The Long Blondes – You Could Have Both (2006)

#5. Ride – Chelsea Girl (1990)

#6. Wire – The 15th (1979)

#7. Fischerspooner – Emerge (2001)

#8: The Vines – Highly Evolved (2002)

#9: Suicide – Dream Baby Dream (1979)

#10: The Buff Medways – Troubled Mind (2002)

#11: Walter Carlos – Theme From A Clockwork Orange (1971)

#12: Malcolm Middleton – Superhero Songwriters (2007)

#13: The Auteurs – Bailed Out (1993)

#14: Momus – A Complete History Of Sexual Jealousy (Parts 17-24) (1988)

#15: The Dandy Warhols – Genius (1995)

#16: Ambulance LTD – Swim (2004)

#17: Nine Inch Nails – And All That Could Have Been (2002)

#18: The Teardrop Explodes – Seven Views Of Jerusalem (1981)

#19: Wreckless Eric – (I’d Go The) Whole Wide World (1977)

#20: The Dears – Lost In The Plot (2003)

#21: Nancy Sinatra – You Only Live Twice (1967)

#22: Ike And Tina Turner – River Deep – Mountain High (1966)

#23: Morrissey –Speedway (1994)

#24 REM – At My Most Beautiful (1998)

#25 The Cure – Plainsong (1989)

#26 Moose – Suzanne (1991)

#27 Mott The Hoople – Roll Away The Stone (1973)

#28: Prolapse– Flex (1995)

#29: Sigur Rós – Glósóli (2005)

#30: The Boo Radleys – Spaniard (1992)

#31: Idlewild – Actually It’s Darkness (2000)

#32: King Creosote – Marguerita Red (2005)

#33: Talking Heads – Once In A Lifetime (1981)

#34: Machines Of Loving Grace – Limiter (1993)

#35: Suede – Animal Nitrate (1993)

#36: LCD Soundsystem – Someone Great (2007)

#37: The Pastels – Truck Train Tractor (1986)

#38: Add N To (X) – Revenge Of The Black Regent (1999)

#39: Can – Don’t Leave The Light On, Leave Me Alone (1970)

#40: Lush – Superblast! (1992)

#41: Dawn Of The Replicants – Ten Sea Birds (1997)

#42: The Shortwave Set – Glitches ‘N’ Bugs (2008)

#43: My Bloody Valentine – I Only Said (1991)

#44: The Magnetic Fields – 100,000 Fireflies (1991)

#45: Scott Walker – The Old Man’s Back Again (Dedicated To The Neo-Stalinist Regime) (1969)

#46: Clinic – Monkey On Your Back (1998)

#47: Stereolab – French Disko (1993)

#48: TV On The Radio – Staring At The Sun (2002)

#49: The Rolling Stones – Gimme Shelter (1969)

#50: Pulp – This Is Hardcore (1998)

#51: Spiritualized – If I Were With Her Now (1992)