It’s the Festive Fifty One 2020 – the middle of the sandwich – as usual the range of choices through your votes is amazing, from pop to avant-garde. (playlist held to Jan 1st)
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| Time | Song | Artist | Album | Nation-Label | Year |
| 2:57 | Fixer Upper | Yard Act @YardActBand | Fixer Upper / The Trapper’s Pelts | yardact.bandcamp.com | 2020 |
| 21:01 | Further | The Necks | Three | Northern Spy Records @northernspyrecs | 2020 |
| 3:36 | Kitchen Sink | Nadine Shah @nadineshah | Kitchen Sink | Infectious Music | 2020 |
| 3:38 | Black Shuck | Stewart Lee, Laura Cannell & Kate Ellis @laurarecorder @kateelliscello | These Feral Lands Volume 1 | Brawl Records @BrawlRecords | 2020 |
| 6:54 | Ballet of Apes | Brigid Dawson and The Mother’s Network | Ballet of Apes | Castle Face @castlefacerecs | 2020 |
| 3:25 | Kinda Dark | Destroyer @danbejar | Have We Met | Merge Records @mergerecords | 2020 |
| 4:12 | Blk Water | Mourning [A] BLKstar @MABScle | These Hands Are Up | mourningablkstar.bandcamp.com | 2020 |
| 11:02 | Act 1 – Working Machine | Moor Mother @moormother | Circuit City | Don Giovanni @DonGiovanniRecs | 2020 |
| 3:54 | Alexa! | The Cool Greenhouse @thecoolgreen | – Single – | Melodic Records | 2020 |
| 2:36 | Shadow Answers the Wall | Jason Molina | – single – | Secretly Canadian @secretlycndian | 2020 |
| 6:03 | Sacro Bosco | Anna von Hausswolff @avonhausswolff | All Thoughts Fly | Southern Lord @TwatterLord | 2020 |
| 4:42 | Broken Tooth Skyline ft Joshua Idehen @BeninCitizen | Danalogue x Alabaster dePlume @_danalogue @a_deplume | I Was Not Sleeping | Total Refreshment Records | 2020 |
| 6:09 | Honey | Oliver Coates @ollycoates | skins n slime | RVNG Intl @rvngintl | 2020 |
| 3:40 | Me In 20 years | Moses Sumney @MosesSumney | græ: Part 2 | Jagjaguwar @Jagjaguwar | 2020 |
| 6:10 | Kingdom Of Ends | Róisín Murphy @roisinmurphy | Róisín Machine | Skint Records @skintrecords | 2020 |
| 3:15 | Mr. Motivator | Idles @idlesband | Ultra Mono | Partisan Records @partisanrecords | 2020 |
| 3:11 | Coming Over Here Feat. Stewart Lee | Asian Dub Foundation @ADFofficial | Access Denied | X-Ray Production @xrayproduction | 2020 |
| 6:15 | Kebran Gospel Gossip | Hen Ogledd @HOgledd | Free Humans | Domino @Dominorecordco | 2020 |
| 3:09 | Encrypted & Vulnerable ft. Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah @cscottjazz | Saul Williams @SaulWilliams | Encrypted & Vulnerable | Pirates Blend | 2019 |
| 8:14 | Surf’s Up | Magik Markers @TweetHassle | 2020 | Drag City @dragcityrecords | 2020 |
| 2:29 | Futures | Wendy Eisenberg @eisenbergsounds | Auto | Ba Da Bing! @badabingrecords | 2020 |
| 4:18 | A Hero’s Death | Fontaines D.C. @fontainesdublin | A Hero’s Death | Partisan @partisanrecords | 2020 |
| 4:38 | Wedding Of A Friend | Brigid Mae Power @brigidpowerhi | Head Above The Water | Fire Records @firerecordings | 2020 |
| 5:50 | Trouble | Hen Ogledd @HOgledd | Free Humans | Domino @Dominorecordco | 2020 |
| 4:02 | Reigns | Idles @idlesband | Ultra Mono | Partisan Records @partisanrecords | 2020 |
| 3:14 | anything | adrianne lenker | Songs | 4AD @4AD_Official | 2020 |
| 6:20 | Science Fair | Black Country, New Road | Science Fair | Ninja Tune @ninjatune | 2021 |
| 3:51 | Bunker Ft Shannen SP @shannensp__ | Nazar @no_allies | Guerrilla | Hyperdub @Hyperdub | 2020 |
| 3:23 | Transition East | Angel Bat Dawid @angeltheoracle | Transition East | International Anthem @intlanthem | 2020 |
| 3:51 | No Summer | Cinder Well @cinder_well | No Summer | Free Dirt Records @freedirtrecords | 2020 |
| 5:27 | Lilac | Porridge Radio @porridgeradio | Every Bad | Secretly Canadian @secretlycndian | 2020 |
| 44:46 | Microphones in 2020 | The Microphones @mount_eerie | – single – | P.W. Elverum & Sun, Ltd. | 2020 |
| 1:25 | Burning Feather | Eartheater @alexdrewchin | Phoenix: Flames Are Dew Upon My Skin | PAN @pan_hq | 2020 |
| 3:42 | Pain Everyday | Clipping. @clppng | Visions Of Bodies Being Burned | Sub Pop @subpop | 2020 |
In Memory Of John Peel 