The Mish Mash Festive Fifty for 2007

In homage to John Peel, Mish Mash compiled a list of the 5o favourite tunes of 2007 and broadcast the lot in a 4 hour special on Boxing Day.

1. Animal Collective – Peacebone
2. Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Björk /Sjon/von Trier
3. Burial – Archangel
4. M.I.A. – Boyz
5. PJ Harvey – Dear Darkness
6. Thurston Moore – Wonderful Witches
7. The Good The Bad And The Queen – The Bunting Song
8. The New Pornographers – Challenger
9. The Teenagers – Homecoming
10. Crippled Black Phoenix – Sharks And Storms/Blizzard Of Horned Cats
11. Radiohead – All I Need
12. Pinch – Brighter Day (instrumental)
13. Coldcut ft. Roots Manuva – True Skool
14. Battles – Atlas
15. A Hawk And A Hacksaw – God Bless The Ottoman Empire
16. Mahogany – One Plus One Equals Three
17. Bjork – Earth Intruders
18. The Raveonettes – Dead Sound
19. Beirut – Nantes
20. Caribou – Melody Day
21. Colleen – Sea Of Tranquility
22. Elvis Perkins – While You Were Sleeping
23. El-P – Tasmanian Pain Coaster
24. Nancy Elizabeth – Off With Your Axe
25. Plaid – Faster (L8 Mix)
26. Taken By Trees – Lost And Found
27. Von Südenfed – Serious Brainskin
28. Bat For Lashes – Trophy
29. Clark – Ted
30. Deepchord presents Echospace – Empyrean
31. Deerhoof – Choco Fight
32. St Vincent – Now Now
33. Efterklang – Mirador
34. Boxcutter – Bug Octet
35. Grinderman – Get It On
36. A Sunny Day In Glasgow – 5:15 Train
37. Ricardo Tobar – El Sunset
38. Tunng – Bullets
39. Vieux Farka Touré – Touré De Niafunké
40. Múm – They Made Frogs Smoke Until They Exploded
41. A Place To Bury Strangers – Don’t Think Lover
42. Prefuse 73 – Class of 73 Bells
43. The Tuss – Rushup I Bank 13
44. The National – Fake Empire
45. White Stripes – Icky Thump
46. Kate Rusby – Bitter Boy
47. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Kiss Kiss
48. Malcolm Middleton – Superhero Songwriters
49. Gravenhurst – Farewell Farewell
50. Miracle Fortress – Have You Seen In Your Dreams?

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footnote - there was a rule for this: only one tune per act (unlike Peel's list). looking back on it i can't quite understand in places the order i settled upon (how could anyone sane prefer the teenagers' homecoming to the offerings from beirut of plaid?). for me, this shows to me how ridiculous ordering 50 tunes is, not to mention how ridiculous i was being. still, i'm already thinking hard about the next list (in fact i have been since january). it's a pointless yet fascinating task, this.