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Keeping it Peel MCR 4: Friday 15th December 2017, The Star and Garter Manchester

Last year, I got invited to be a part of the Festive Fifty, a podcast counting down the best fifty songs of the year.  I got to introduce number one last year - fun.'s "Some Nights."  This year, its a new shortlist, and more people than ever hopefully voting on this thing. AND YOU CAN HELP VOTE TOO! Below is the list of songs we voted onto the short list.  You have a top ten to pick from the list - one being the best and ten being...well not the best.  You even have a negative vote to put onto a song if you don't want it to make it.  I hope you would take some time and vote on your favorite songs and help shape the podcast for this year.  HAPPY LISTENING!

A$AP Rocky - 1Train

Alice Boman - Waiting

Allison Crowe - Words

Arcade Fire - Reflektor

Arcade Fire – It's Never Over (Oh Orpheus)

Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know

Atoms For Peace - Before Your Very Eyes

Atoms For Peace - Dropped

Bahamas - Please Forgive My Heart

Bastille - Pompeii

Baths - No Eyes

Capital Cities - Safe and Sound

Chance the Rapper - Interlude (That's Love)

Charlotte Church - Glitterbombed

Chrvches - The Mother We Share

Chvrches - Recover

Cuddly Shark - Broken Arm

Daft Punk -  Doin' it Right

Daft Punk - Get Lucky

David Bowie - Valentine's Day

David Bowie - Where Are We Now

Dawes - From a Window Seat

Deerhunter - Back to the middle

Dessa - Fighting Fish

Dessa - Skeleton Key

Eels - Kinda Fuzzy

Elvis Costello & The Roots - Walk Us Uptown

Escondido - Black Roses

Fe - She Came

Fitz and the Tantrums - 6AM

Fitz and the Tantrums - Out of My League

Foals - Late Night

Foxygen - San Francisco

Frank Turner - Recovery

Frightened Rabbit - Dead Now

Half Moon Run - Full Circle

Here Is Your Temple - So High

High Highs - Open Season

Hive Bent - The Observer

Internet Forever - Cover The Walls (Dreamtrak Diamond Sound)

James Blake - Retrograde

James Vincent McMorrow - Cavalier

Janelle Monae - Dance Apocalyptic

Janelle Monae - Q.U.E.E.N.

Jason Isbell -  Cover Me Up

Jason Isbell -  Songs That She Sang in the Shower

John Grant - Black Belt

John Grant - GMF

Johnny Marr - The Messenger

Joseph Arthur - Saint of Impossible Causes

Josh Ritter - Joy To You Baby

Josh Ritter - New lover

Kanye West - Blood on the Leaves

Kanye West - Bound 2

Katie Herzig - Nothing! Shhhhhhhhhhhh

Kopecky Family Band - Wandering Eyes

Kurt Vile - Wakin On a Pretty Day

Lana Del Rey - Ride

Lana Del Rey - Young And Beautiful

Laura Mvula - Make Me Lovely

London Grammar - Strong

Lorde - Royals

Lorde - Tennis Court

Luke Haines - Rock & Roll Animals

Man Man - Head on

Mavis Staples - I like the things about me

Midlake - Antiphon

Moby -  Almost Home

MS MR - Hurricane

New Politics - Harlem

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Jubilee Street

Nine Inch Nails - Copy of A

Olafur Arnalds - So Close

OMD - Helen of Troy

Phosphorescent - A Song For Zula

Pixies - Bagboy

Pixies - Indie Cindy

Possessed by Paul James - Songs We Used To Sing

Public Service Broadcasting - London Can Take It

Run the Jewels - Get It

Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels

Sam Baker - Isn't Love Great

San Fermin - Sonsick

Savages - Husbands

Sigur Ros - Isjaki

Sigur Ros - Kveikur

Smallpools - Dreaming

Sparrow & The Workshop - Shock Shock

Speedy Ortiz - Tiger Tank

Steve Adamyk Band - Had a Heartattack

Steve Mason - Oh My Lord

Superhuman Happiness - Baby can I hold you tonight

Teleman - Steam Train Girl

The Boxer Rebellion - Diamonds

The Cinematic Orchestra - To Build a Home

The Civil Wars -  The One That Got Away

The Head and the Heart - Shake

The Joy Formidable - Silent Treatment

The National - Don't Swallow the Cap

The National - I Should Live in Salt

Tiny Ruins - Cold Comfort

Tom Odell - Another Love

Tricky - Nothing's Changed

Vampire Weekend - Diane Young

Vampire Weekend - Ya Hey

Vanilla - Fancy Clown Re-flip

Vienna Teng - The Hymn of Acxiom

Volcano Choir - Comrade