The good people at Dandelion Radio took up the mantle of running Festive 50 votes in 2006, at the suggestion of Louise Kattenhorn - John Peel’s former producer.

Voting has opened on the Dandelion Radio website for the 2008 Festive 50 so if you’ve got a burning desire to help three of your favourite tracks from last year into the Festive 50 then head along there!

Voting ends at 23:59 on 30th November and you can win a copy of Mark Whitbys book on the Festive 50 if you take part.

While you mull over which Pains of Being Pure at Heart track to vote for, I’ve posted up the top twenties for 2006 and 2007 below (click on the year to see the full thing, or just head over to the Dandelion website).

2007

1 Battles - Atlas
2 Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip - Thou Shalt Always Kill
3 Bearsuit - Foxy Boxer
4 Beatnik Filmstars - Curious Role Model
5 Paul Rooney - Lucy Over Lancashire
6 Beatnik Filmstars - Life In The Country AKA This Civil War
7 The Fall - Reformation
8 Beatnik Filmstars - Inside The Mind Of Sam (Breakfast Serial Killer)
9 Von Südenfed - The Rhinohead
10 Von Südenfed - Fledermaus Can’t Get It
11 The Fall - Systematic Abuse
12 Trouserdog - Taxi For Tit Boy
13 Arcade Fire - Intervention
14 The Nightingales - What No Blog?
15 Electrelane - To The East
16 The White Stripes - Icky Thump
17 The Nightingales - Eleven Fingers
18 Horowitz - Tracyanne
19 The Bobby McGee’s - When Father Died Ferrets Licked Away The Tears
20 The Fall - Fall Sounds

2006

1 Tall Pony - I’m Your Boyfriend Now
2 Autons - Snakes
3 Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I’m Ready To Be Heartbroken
4 Decoration - Job In London
5 Peter, Bjorn And John - Young Folks
6 Beatnik Filmstars - Really Quite Bizarre
7 The Playing Fields - Hello New World
8 TV On The Radio - Wolf Like Me
9 Misty’s Big Adventure - Fashion Parade
10 Mogwai - Friend Of The Night
11 Decoration - Candidate
12 Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing!
13 Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly - The Chronicles Of A Bohemian Teenager (Part 1)
14 Das Wanderlust - The Orange Shop
15 Mogwai - Glasgow Mega Snake
16 The Bobby McGee’s - Ivor Cutler Is Dead
17 Mugstar - My Baby Skull Has Not Yet Flowered
18 Bearsuit - Steven F***ing Spielberg
19 The Pipettes - Pull Shapes
20 I’m From Barcelona - We’re From Barcelona

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