All the words have been written at Parts 1 and 2 earlier this week. Here’s three more largely unheralded bands who had a entry in the 1989 Festive Fifty:-
mp3 : Galaxie 500 – Don’t Let Our Youth Go To Waste (#41)
mp3 : Snuff – Not Listening (#44)
mp3 : The Popguns – Landslide (#46)
The first, if you weren’t previously aware, is a stunningly inventive six plus minute cover version of a short spoken word number:-
mp3 : Jonathan Richman – Don’t Let Our Youth Go To Waste
The chart in full:-
1. Sundays – Can’t Be Sure
2. Wedding Present – Kennedy
3. Pixies – Debaser
4. Happy Mondays – Wrote For Luck
5. Pixies – Monkey Gone To Heaven
6. Stone Roses – I Am The Resurrection
7. Stone Roses – She Bangs The Drums
8. James – Sit Down
9. The Inspiral Carpets – Joe
10. House Of Love – I Don’t Know Why I Love You
11. Pale Saints – Sight Of You
12. Dinosaur Jr – Just Like Heaven
13. The Jesus And Mary Chain – Blues From A Gun
14. Wedding Present – Take Me (I’m Yours)
15. Cud – Only (A Prawn In Whitby)
16. Mudhoney – You Got It (Keep It Outta My Face)
17. Stone Roses – Made Of Stone
18. Morrissey – Last Of The Famous International Playboys
19. Wedding Present – Brassneck
20. Morrissey – Ouija Board, Ouija Board
21. The Inspiral Carpets – Find Out Why
22. 808 State – Pacific State
23. Stone Roses – Fool’s Gold
24. Wedding Present – Bewitched
25. Pale Saints – She Rides The Waves
26. Field Mice – Sensitive
27. New Order – Vanishing Point
28. Birdland – Hollow Heart
29. Stone Roses – I Wanna Be Adored
30. Telescopes – Perfect Needle
31. Bob – Convenience
32. Jesus Jones – Info Freako
33. Spacemen 3 – Hypnotised
34. De La Soul – Eye Know
35. The Inspiral Carpets – So This Is How It Feels (Session)
36. Pixies – Wave Of Mutilation
37. Pixies – Here Comes Your Man
38. The Fall – Dead Beat Descendant
39. Dub Sex – Swerve
40. Birdland – Paradise
41. Galaxie 500 – Don’t Let Our Youth Go To Waste
42. Senseless Things – Too Much Kissing
43. Pixies – Dead
44. Snuff – Not Listening
45. Wedding Present – What Have I Said Now?
46. Popguns – Landslide
47. Morrissey – Interesting Drug
48. The Family Cat – Tom Verlaine
49. The Inspiral Carpets – Directing Traffic
50. The Inspiral Carpets – She Comes In The Fall
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