John Peel's Festive Fifty 1981

  1. Joy Division - Atmosphere
  2. Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the UK
  3. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
  4. New Order - Ceremony
  5. Joy Division - New Dawn Fades
  6. Undertones - Teenage Kicks
  7. Joy Division - Decades
  8. Cure - A Forest
  9. Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia
  10. Clash - White Man in Hammersmith Palais
  11. Joy Division - Dead Souls
  12. Damned - New Rose
  13. Jam - Down in the Tube Station at Midnight
  14. Joy Division - Transmission
  15. Altered Images - Dead Pop-Stars
  16. Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster
  17. Sex Pistols - Holidays in the Sun
  18. Clash - Complete Control
  19. Birthday Party - Release the Bats
  20. Undertones - Get Over You
  21. Specials - Ghost Town
  22. Scritti Politti - The `Sweetest' Girl
  23. Jam - Going Underground
  24. Stiff Little Fingers - Johnny Was
  25. Theatre of Hate - Legion
  26. Public Image Ltd. - Public Image
  27. Killing Joke - Requiem
  28. Killing Joke - Follow the Leaders
  29. Heaven 17 - No Fascist Groove Thang
  30. The Fall - Fiery Jack
  31. Ruts - In a Rut
  32. Stiff Little Fingers - Suspect Device
  33. The Fall - How I Wrote `Elastic Man'
  34. Laurie Anderson - O Superman
  35. Siouxsie & the Banshees - Jigsaw Feeling
  36. B-Movie - Remembrance Day
  37. Siouxsie & the Banshees - Israel
  38. Sex Pistols - God Save the Queen
  39. Pigbag - Papa's Got a Brand-New Pigbag
  40. Siouxsie & the Banshees - Icon
  41. Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet
  42. Dead Kennedys - California Uber Alles
  43. Joy Division - Twenty-Four Hours
  44. Joy Division - Isolation
  45. Killing Joke - Psyche
  46. Echo and the Bunnymen - Over the Wall
  47. The Fall - Lie Dream of a Casino Soul
  48. New Order - Procession
  49. Siouxsie & the Banshees - Switch
  50. Altered Images - Happy Birthday
  51. Joy Division - She's Lost Control
  52. Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead
  53. Magazine - Shot by Both Sides
  54. New Order - In a Lonely Place
  55. Anti-Pasti - No Government
  56. The Fall - Totally Wired
  57. Specials - Gangsters
  58. Fire Engines - Candy Skin
  59. Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant
  60. Siouxsie & the Banshees - Hong Kong Garden
N.B. Yeah, I know there's more than 50 listed!

Thanks to David Hill for this listing!

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