On last week’s show we discussed the 1990 Reading Festival so this week I decided we’d have a break from the usual show to run down the 1990 Festive Fifty.
You’ll hear standout tracks from the like of My Bloody Valentine, Ride, The Boo Radleys, Sonic Youth and a few surprises.
The full chart for the year is:
1. The Fall – Bill Is Dead
2. My Bloody Valentine – Soon
3. Ride – Dreams Burn Down
4. Ride – Like A Daydream
5. Sonic Youth – Tunic (Song For Karen)
6. Paris Angels – (All On You) Perfume
7. Wedding Present – Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)
8. Happy Mondays – Step On
9. Wedding Present – Corduroy
10. Orb – Loving You (Peel session)
11. Teenage Fanclub – Everything Flows
12. Would-Be’s – I’m Hardly Ever Wrong
13. Lemonheads – Different Drum
14. New Fast Automatic Daffodils – Big
15. The Fall – White Lightning
16. Morrissey – November Spawned A Monster
17. Charlatans – The Only One I Know
18. Wedding Present – Don’t Talk, Just Kiss
19. Nick Cave – The Ship Song
20. Wedding Present – Heather (Peel session)
21. Boo Radleys – Kaleidoscope
22. Wedding Present – Crawl
23. Nirvana – Sliver
24. Pixies – The Happening
25. Ride – Taste
26. Ned’s Atomic Dustbin – Kill Your Television
27. Lush – Sweetness And Light
28. Charlatans – Polar Bear
29. Dinosaur Jr – The Wagon
30. The Fall – Blood Outta Stone
31. Pixies – Velouria
32. Happy Mondays – Kinky Afro
33. Fatima Mansions – Blues For Ceaucescu
34. Shamen – Pro-Gen
35. The Fall – Telephone Thing
36. Sundays – Here’s Where The Story Ends
37. Spiritualized – Any Way That You Want Me
38. Babes In Toyland – House
39. Wedding Present – Dalliance
40. Sonic Youth – Kool Thing
41. The Fall – Chicago, Now!
42. Orb – Little Fluffy Clouds
43. Teenage Fanclub – God Knows It’s True
44. Deee-Lite – Groove is in the Heart
45. Bastro – Nothing Special
46. Farm – Stepping Stone
47. Farm – Groovy Train
48. Pixies – Allison
49. Pixies – Dig For Fire
50. Inspiral Carpets – Beast Inside (Peel session)