Rip It Up and Start Again by Simon Reynolds (The Spotify Complete Booktrack)

Wikipedia says that "Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978–1984 is a book by Simon Reynolds on the music genre post-punk". It was released in February 2006, published by Faber & Faber and described by The Observer as "a compelling reminder of a time when clever, mischievous, creative people formed bands" and by The New York Times as "exhaustive and exhausting in equal measure".

On Amazon.com it is presented as "the first book to take a big-picture view of the entire post punk period", recreating "a time of tremendous urgency and idealism in pop music. Full of anecdote and insight, and featuring the likes of Joy Division, The Fall, Pere Ubu, PiL and Talking Heads, Rip It Up And Start Again stands as one of the most inspired and inspiring books on popular music ever written".

On Good Reads, 4,009 ratings and 219 reviews bring it up to a solid four star rating.

Personally, Rip It Up has been one of my favourite reads of 2014. It took me almost one year (Italian edition of the book is 700 pages long) and it has been enriched by a deep and passionate music listening. I discovered many stories, artists, albums and songs I didn't know.

While reading it, I also built a playlist with all the songs mentioned in the book that I found on Spotify. The result is this majestic & bizarre 785-song mammoth. Being rather philological, it can also look somehow confusing: it collects all the songs Simon Reynolds wrote about, including those not strictly related to post-punk, like Bruce Springsteen's Born To Run, Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas or Frank Zappa's Tengo na minchia tanta (do you know what does it mean in italian/sicilian? :-)).

I don't think this playlist should be considered as a "post-punk greatest hits". Actually it's a detailed soundtrack of the book, capturing all the atmospheres, preferences & aversions of the author. I love it, sometimes I still shuffle it and I hope you may find it useful.

Enjoy.

Previously on the booktrack side of Spotirama:
Young Morrissey (Morrissey)
Love Is A Mixtape (Rob Sheffield)
High Fidelity (Nick Hornby)

RIP IT UP AND START AGAIN

(all songs mentioned in the book by Simon Reynolds)

Full list

Strikethrough songs (140/925) are not available on Spotify. Some songs may be not available in all countries.

Introduction
Sex Pistols - God Save the Queen
X-Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescents
Talking Heads - Heaven
Slits - I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the UK
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Sex Pistols - Holidays in the Sun
Public Image Ltd. - Albatross

Prologue
Sex Pistols - Johnny B Goode
Sex Pistols - Bodies
David Bowie - Sound and Vision
David Bowie - Heroes
Iggy Pop - Nightclubbing
Iggy Pop - The Passenger
David Bowie - Young Americans
David Bowie - Warszawa
The Clash - White Riot
Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express
Donna Summer - I Feel Love
Kate Bush - Breathing
UB40 - The Earth Dies Screaming
Young Marble Giants - Final Day
The Clash - Complete Control
Television Personalities - Part Time Punks
Subway Sect - Rock and Roll Even (A Different Story)

POST-PUNK

1. John Lydon/PiL
Tim Buckley - Sweet Surrender
Dr. Alimantado - Born for a Purpose
Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant
The Wailers - Get Up, Stand Up
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells (opening theme)
Public Image Ltd. - Memories
Public Image Ltd. - Flowers of Romance
Public Image Ltd. - Theme
Public Image Ltd. - Religion I/Religion II
Public Image Ltd. - Annalisa
Public Image Ltd. - Public Image
Public Image Ltd. - Low Life
Public Image Ltd. - Attack
Public Image Ltd. - Fodderstomp
Donna Summer - Love To Love You Baby

2. Howard Devoto/Vic Godard
Buzzcocks - Boredom
David Bowie - Speed of Life
David Bowie - Sons of the Silent Age
Iggy Pop - China Girl
Magazine - Motorcade
Iggy and The Stooges - Search and Destroy
Buzzcocks - Breakdown
Magazine - A Song From Under the Floorboards
Magazine - Shot By Both Sides
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
The Tom Robinson Band - Better Decide Which Side You're On
Sham 69 - If the Kids Are United
Magazine - Feed the Enemy
Iggy Pop - Lust For Life
Magazine - Permafrost
David Bowie - Look Back in Anger
Subway Sect  - Parallel Lines
Subway Sect - Chains Smoking
Subway Sect - Nobody's Scared
Subway Sect - Double Negative
Subway Sect - Don't Split It
Subway Sect - Rock and Roll Even (A Different Story)
Subway Sect - Ambition
Subway Sect - Be Your Age

3. Pere Ubu/Devo
Frank Zappa - Tengo Na Minchia Tanta
Rocket From The Tombs - 30 Seconds Over Tokyo
Pere Ubu - 30 Seconds Over Tokyo
Pere Ubu - Final Solution
Pere Ubu - Cloud 149
Pere Ubu - Street Waves
Pere Ubu - My Dark Ages
Pere Ubu - Real World
Pere Ubu - Chinese Radiation
Pere Ubu - Dub Housing
Pere Ubu - The Book Is on the Table
Pere Ubu - Thriller
Pere Ubu - New Picnic Time (album)
Devo - (I Can't Get Me No) Satisfaction
Devo - Jocko Homo
Devo - Mongoloid
Devo - Shrivel Up
Devo - Gut Feeling
Devo - Uncontrollable Urge
Devo - Come Back Jonee
Devo - Praying Hands
Devo - Buttered Beauties
Devo - Sloppy (I Saw My Baby Gettin')
Devo - Penetration in the Centerfold
Devo - (Slap Your Mammy)
Devo - Triumph of the Will
The Knack - My Sharona
Devo - Whip It
Devo - Freedom of Choice
Devo - Through Being Cool

4. New York No Wave
Suicide - Cheree
Suicide - Ghost Rider
Mars - Helen Fordsfdale
Mars - Hairwaves
Lou Reed - Berlin
Teenage Jesus & The Jerks - Orphans
Teenage Jesus & The Jerks - The Closet
James Brown - Super Bad, Pts 1 and 2
James Brown - Sex Machine
James Brown - I Got Ants in My Pants
James White & The Blacks/James Chance/Contortions - Stained Sheets
Donna Summer - Love To Love You Baby
James White & The Blacks/James Chance/Contortions - Don't Want To Be Happy
James White & The Blacks/James Chance/Contortions - Bedroom Athlete
James White & The Blacks/James Chance/Contortions - Almost Black (part 1)
James White & The Blacks/James Chance/Contortions - Contort Yourself
Lydia Lunch - Atomic Bongos

5. Pop Group/Slits
The Pop Group - We Are Time
The Pop Group - Thief of Fire
The Pop Group - She Is Beyond Good and Evil
Jimi Hendrix - Third Stone From the Sun
The Pop Group - 3:38
The Pop Group - Savage Sea
The Pop Group - Don't Sell Your Dreams
Alternative TV - "The Image Has Cracked" (album)
Alternative TV - "Vibing Up the Senile Ma" (album)
The Slits - Instant Hit
The Slits - So Tough
The Slits - Spend, Spend, Spend
The Slits - Shoplifting
The Slits - Love and Romance
The Slits - Typical Girls
The Slits - FM
The Slits - Ping Pong Affair
The Slits - Newton
The Pop Group - Words Disobey Me
Mark Stewart/Adam Sky - We Are All Prostitutes
The Slits - Animal Space
Pigbabg - Papa's Got a Brand New Pigbag
Mark Stewart - Jerusalem

6. Indie Labels (& Artists)
Mekons - Never Been In A Riot
Desperate Bicycles - Smokescreen
Desperate Bicycles - The Medium Was Tedium
Desperate Bicycles - Don't Back the Front
The Normal - Warm Leatherette
Throbbing Gristle - United
Human League - Being Boiled
Robert Rental - Paralysis
Thomas Leer - Private Plane
Thomas Leer - International
Swell Maps - Read About Seymour
Swell Maps - Then Poland
Swell Maps - Midget Submarines
Swell Maps - Ammunition Train
Swell Maps - Let's Build a Car
Metal Urbain - Paris Maquis
Cabaret Voltaire - Nag Nag Nag
Stiff Little Fingers - Suspect Device

7. Gang of Four
Gang of Four - Guns Before Butter
Gang of Four - Love Like Anthrax
Gang of Four - Natural's Not In It
Gang of Four - Damaged Goods
Mekons - Where Were You?
Gang of Four - At Home He's a Tourist
Gang of Four - Contract
Gang of Four - Not Great Men
The Dentists - Kill the Reds
The Dentists - Master Race
The Dentists - White Power
Delta 5 - Mind Your Own Business
Delta 5 - You
Au Pairs - Come Again
Au Pairs - It's Obvious
Gang of Four - Glass
Gang of Four - Paralysed
Gang of Four - Outside the Trains Don't Run on Time
Gang of Four - He'd Send In the Army
Gang of Four - Cheeseburger
Gang of Four - What We All Want

8. Talking Heads/Wire
Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
Brian Eno - King's Lead Hat
Talking Heads - Don't Worry About the Government
Parliament - Flashlight
Talking Heads - Warning Sign
Talking Heads - Take Me To The River
Talking Heads - Life During Wartime
Talking Heads - Air
Talking Heads - Animals
Talking Heads - I Zimbra
Talking Heads - Drugs
Brian Eno/David Byrne - America Is Waiting
Talking Heads - Born Under Punches
Talking Heads - Crosseyed and Painless
Talking Heads - The Great Curve
Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime
Talking Heads - Seen and Not Seen
Talking Heads - Listening Wind
Talking Heads - Houses in Motion
Talking Heads - The Overload
Tom Tom Club - Wordy Rappinghood
Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love
Wire - Ex Lion Tamer
Wire - Three Girl Rhumba
Wire - 106 Beats That
Wire - French Film Blurred
Wire - Being Sucked In Again
Wire - I Am The Fly
Wire - Practice Makes Perfect
Wire - Mercy
Wire - Outdoor Miner
Wire - Pink Flag
Wire - Marooned
Wire - I Should Have Known Better
Wire - Two People In A Room
Wire - The 15th
Wire - Map Ref. 41° N 93° W
Wire - Crazy About Love
Wire - Everything's Going To Be Nice
Wire - We Meet Under Tables
Wire - Eels Sang Lino
Wire - Piano Tuner (Keep Strumming Those Guitars)
Wire - Zegk Hoqp
Wire - 12XU
Wire - Dot Dash
Wire - Lowdown
Wire - Drill

9. Cabaret Voltaire/Human League
2.3 - (I Don't Care About) London
Walter Carlos - Theme from A Clockwork Orange
Cabaret Voltaire - Bed Time Stories
Cabaret Voltaire - Dream Sequence Number Two Ethel's Voice
Cabaret Voltaire - Henderson Reversed Piece Two
Cabaret Voltaire - Fuse Mountain
Kingsmen - Louie Louie
Lou Reed - Vicious
Iggy Pop - Cock In My Pocket
Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express
Donna Summer - I Feel Love
The Future - Blank Clocks
The Future - Future Religion
The Future - Last Man on Earth
The Human League - Dancevision
The Human League - Circus of Death
The Human League - Almost Medieval
The Human League - Being Boiled
The Human League - Dance Like A Star
The Human League - Reach Out (I'll Be There)
The Human League - You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling
The Human League - The Dignity of Labour pt.1
The Human League - Blind Youth
Cabaret Voltaire - Silent Command
Cabaret Voltaire - Seconds Too Late
Cabaret Voltaire - Nag Nag Nag
Cabaret Voltaire - Jazz The Glass
Cabaret Voltaire - The Set Up
Cabaret Voltaire - Do The Mussolini (Head Kick)
Cabaret Voltaire - Sluggin' for Jesus 
Cabaret Voltaire - Eastern Mantra
Cabaret Voltaire - Western Mantra

10. Fall, Joy Division & the Manchester scene
Fall - Industrial Estate
Fall - Repetition
Fall - Underground Medecin
Fall - Frightened
Fall - Totally Wired
Fall - Mr Pharmacist
Fall - Rowche Rumble
Fall - Bingo Master's Break-Out!
Fall - New Puritan
Fall - Hey! Fascist
Fall - Race Hatred
Fall - It's the New Thing
Fall - Music Scene
Fall - Mere Pseud Mag Ed
Fall - Look, Know
Fall - Printhead
Fall - Crap Rap 2
Fall - Fiery Jack
Joy Division - Digital
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Joy Division - Interzone
Joy Division - Walked In Line
Joy Division - Shadowplay
The Doors - LA Woman
Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild
Joy Division - Insight
Joy Division - I Remember Nothing
Joy Division - She's Lost Control
Joy Division - Transmission
Joy Division - Atmosphere
Joy Division - Atrocity Exhibition
Joy Division - Isolation
Joy Division - Passover
Joy Division - Colony
Joy Division - A Means to an End
Joy Division - Heart and Soul
Joy Division - Twenty Four Hours
Joy Division - The Eternal
Joy Division - Decades
Joy Division - In a Lonely Place
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Joy Division - These Days
Durutti Column - Missing Boy
A Certain Ratio - Flight
The Passage - Devils and Angels
The Passage - XOYO
Fall - How I Wrote Elastic Man
Fall - Lie Dream of the Casino Soul
Fall - I'm Into CB
Fall - 2nd Dark Age
Fall - Wings
Fall - Spectre vs. Rector
Fall - Elves
Fall - Iceland
Fall - Just Step S'Ways
Fall - Hip Priest
Fall - Who Makes the Nazis?

11. Messthetics
Scritti Politti - Skank Bloc Bologna
Lee Perry - Bafflin' Smoke Signals
Scritti Politti - Is and Ought the Western World
Scritti Politti - Messthetics
Scritti Politti - Hegemony
Scritti Politti - P*A*s
Scritti Politti - Bibbly-O'Tek
Scritti Politti - Doubt Beat
Scritti Politti - Scritlocks Door
Flying Lizards - Money (That's All I Want)
The Beatles - I Am the Walrus
This Heat - An Alternative To Nato
This Heat - 24 Track Loop
This Heat - Sleep
Raincoats - Off Duty Trip
Raincoats - Only Loved at Night
Red Krayola - Vocal
Red Krayola - Free Guitar
Red Krayola - Piano
Red Krayola - The Tractor Driver
Red Krayola - The Milkmaid
Young Marble Giants - Final Day
Laurie Anderson - O Superman
Pigbag - Papa's Got a Brand New Pigbag
Danny & The Dressmakers - Come On Baby Lite My Shite
Danny & The Dressmakers - Going Down the Sperm Bank Four Quid a Wank
Prefects - Going Through the Motions
The Cravats - Precinct
Furious Pig - I Don't Like Your Face
Notsensibles - (I'm in Love with) Margaret Thatcher
Spizzenergi - Where's Captain Kirk?
Family Fodder - Playing Golf (with My Flesh Crawling)
Killing Joke - Pssyche (John Peel Session)
The Tiller Boys - Big Noise from the Jungle
Fatal Microbes - Violence Grows
(And The) Native Hipsters - There Goes Concorde Again

12. Throbbing Gristle and the Death Factory
Throbbing Gristle - Persuasion
Throbbing Gristle - Slug Bait
Throbbing Gristle - Hamburger Lady
Throbbing Gristle - After Cease To Exist
Throbbing Gristle - United
Throbbing Gristle - Zyklon B Zombie
Throbbing Gristle - Subhuman
Throbbing Gristle - Distant Dreams (Part Two)
Throbbing Gristle - We Hate You (Little Girls)
Throbbing Gristle - Very Friendly
Throbbing Gristle - Hot On The Heels of Love
Throbbing Gristle - Adrenaline
Throbbing Gristle - AB/7A
Throbbing Gristle - Weeping
Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way
Casazza - To Mom on Mother's Day
Casazza - Candyman
Throbbing Gristle - Discipline
Whitehouse - I'm Coming Up Your Ass
Whitehouse - Cock Dominant
Clock DVA - 4 Hours
23 Skidoo - Kundalini
23 Skidoo - Vegas el Bandito
23 Skidoo - Porno Base
23 Skidoo - Coup
23 Skidoo - GIFU

13. San Francisco
Residents - Satisfaction
Residents - Beyond the Valley of a Day in the Life
Residents - Swastikas on Parade
Tuxedomoon - What Use?
Tuxedomoon - 7 Years
Tuxedomoon - Holiday for Plywood
Chrome - Chromosome Damage
Chrome - All Data Lost
Chrome - Abstract Nympho
Flipper - Sex Bomb
Flipper - Nothing
Flipper - Life Is Cheap
Flipper - The Light, the Sound, the Rhythm
Flipper - You Nought Me
Flipper - One By One

14. Careering
Public Image Ltd. - Death Disco
Public Image Ltd. - Bad Baby
Public Image Ltd. - Albatross
Public Image Ltd. - Swan Lake
Public Image Ltd. - Poptones
Public Image Ltd. - Careering
Public Image Ltd. - No Birds Do Sing
Public Image Ltd. - Graveyard
Public Image Ltd. - The Suit
Public Image Ltd. - Socialist
Public Image Ltd. - Chant
Public Image Ltd. - Radio 4
Public Image Ltd. - Hymie's Him
Public Image Ltd. - Phenagen
Public Image Ltd. - Go Back
Public Image Ltd. - Four Enclosed Walls
Public Image Ltd. - Under the House
Public Image Ltd. - Flowers of Romance
Public Image Ltd. - Banging the Door
Public Image Ltd. - Track 8
Public Image Ltd. - This Is Not a Love Song


NEW POP / NEW ROCK

15. Ghost Dance
The Specials - Gangsters
The Specials - Nite Klub
The Specials - Too Much Too Young
The Specials - Stupid Marriage
The Who - A Legal Matter
The Specials - Concrete Jungle
The Clash - (White Man) in Hammersmith Palais
The Specials - A Message To You Rudy
Madness - Madness Is Gladness
Madness - The Prince
The Beat - Tears of a Clown
The Beat - Hands Off... She's Mine
The Beat - Mirror in the Bathroom
The Beat - Stand Down Margareth
Madness - One Step Beyond
Madness - Night Boat To Cairo
Madness - My Girl
Madness - Embarassment
Madness - Baggy Trousers
Madness - Cardiac Arrest
Madness - Grey Day
The Selecter - On My Radio
Madness - House of Fun
Jam - Start!
Dexys Midnight Runners - Dance Stance
Dexys Midnight Runners - Geno
Dexys Midnight Runners - There There My Dear
Dexys Midnight Runners - I Couldn't Help It If I Tried
Dexys Midnight Runners - Plan B
Dexys Midnight Runners - Keep It Part Two
Dexys Midnight Runners - Liars A To E
The Specials - Stereotypes
The Specials - International Jet Set
The Specials - Man at C&A
The Specials - Do Nothing
The Specials - Ghost Town
The Specials - Why
The Specials - Friday Night, Saturday Morning
The Easybeats - Friday On My Mind
The Specials - The Boiler
The Specials - Racist Friend
The Specials - War Crimes
The Specials - Nelson Mandela
Fun Boy Three - The Lunatics Have Taken Over the Asylum
Fun Boy Three - The More I See the Less I Believe
Madness - Our House
The Beatles - Penny Lane
Madness - Primrose Hill
The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever
Dexys Midnight Runners - The Celtic Soul Brothers
Dexys Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen
Dexys Midnight Runners - Jackie Wilson Said
Dexys Midnight Runners - This Is What She's Like
Dexys Midnight Runners - The Occasional Flicker
Lloyd Charmers - Birth Control

16. Sex Gang Children
Sid Vicious - Something Else
Sid Vicious - C'mon Everybody
Adam & The Antz - Whip in My Valise
Adam & The Antz - Beat My Guest
Adam & The Antz - Zerox
M - Pop Muzik
Sid Vicious - My Way
Bow Wow Wow - C30 C60 C90 Go
Bow Wow Wow - W.O.R.K. (N.O. Nah No No My Daddy Don't)
Wham! - Wham Rap
Wham! - Club Tropicana
Adam & The Ants - Dog Eat Dog
Adam & The Ants - Ant Music
Adam & The Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier
Adam & The Ants - Prince Charming
Adam & The Ants - Stand and Deliver
Adam & The Ants - Ant Rap
Bow Wow Wow - The Adventures of Melody, Lyric and Tune
Bow Wow Wow - The Mile High Club
Bow Wow Wow - Sexy Eiffel Tower
Bow Wow Wow - Louis Quatorze
Bow Wow Wow - Fools Rush In
Bow Wow Wow - W.O.R.K.
Bow Wow Wow - Prince of Darkness
Bow Wow Wow - Chihuahua
Bow Wow Wow - Go Wild
Bow Wow Wow - Hello Hello Daddy, I'll Sacrifice You
Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy

17. Electric Dreams (synthpop)
The Undertones - My Perfect Cousin
The Human League - Empire State Human
The Human League - The Black Hit of Space
The Human League - Rock'n'Roll, Part One
Tubeway Army - Are "Friends" Electric?
Gary Numan - Down In The Park
Gary Numan - The Crazies
Ultravox - I Want To Be a Machine
Ultravox - My Sex
Ultravox - Hiroshima Mon Amour
John Foxx - Underpass
John Foxx - No-One Driving
John Foxx - Burning Car
Visage - Fade To Grey
Visage - The Damned Don't Cry
Visage - Moon Over Moscow
Spandau Ballet - Musclebound
Spandau Ballet - To Cut a Long Story Short
Ultravox - Vienna
Pete Shelley - Homosapien
Human League - Sound of the Crowd
Human League - Love Action
Human League - Open Your Heart
Human League - The Things That Dreams Are Made Of
Human League - I Am the Law
Human League - Don't You Want Me
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Soft Cell - Bedsitter
Soft Cell - Say Hello Wave Goodbye
Japan - Ghosts
Kraftwerk - The Model
Japan - Suburban Berlin
Japan - Nightporter
Japan - Communist China
Japan - Rhodesia
Japan - The Art of Parties
Soft Cell - Seedy Films
Soft Cell - Sex Dwarf
Depeche Mode - New Life
Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough
DAF - Der Mussolini
Human League - (Keep Feeling) Fascination

18. Fun'n'frenzy (Postcard and sound of Scotland)
Orange Juice - Falling and Laughing
Orange Juice - In a Nutshell
Orange Juice - Simply Thrilled Honey
Orange Juice - Consolation Prize
The Velvet Underground - Rock and Roll (live)
The Velvet Underground - We're Gonna Have a Real Good Time Together
Chic - Dance Dance Dance (Yowsah Yowsah Yowsah)
Patrick S. Brady - Springtime For Hitler
The Byrds - Mr Tambourine Man
Orange Juice - Blue Boy
Josef K - It's Kinda Funny
Josef K- Sorry for Laughing
Josef K - Radio Drill Time
Josef K - Endless Soul
Fire Engines - Discord
Fire Engines - Get Up and Use Me
Fire Engines - Candyskin
The Associates - Boys Keep Swinging
The Associates - Kitchen Person
The Associates - White Car in Germany
The Associates - Q Quarters
Orange Juice - Poor Old Soul

19. Play To Win (new pop)
Scritti Politti - The "Sweetest Girl"
Scritti Politti - Faithless
Scritti Politti - Asylums in Jerasulem
Scritti Politti - Jacques Derrida
Heaven 17 - (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang
Heaven 17 - I'm Your Money
Chic - I Want Your Love
Heaven 17 - Play To Win
Heaven 17 - Penthouse and Pavement
BEF feat. Sandie Shaw - Anyone Who Had a Heart
BEF feat. Billy MacKenzie - The Secret Life of Arabia
BEF feat. Tina Turner - Ball of Confusion
Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star
Dollar - Hand Held in Black and White
Dollar - Mirror Mirror
ABC - Tears Are Not Enough
ABC - Poison Arrow
Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive
ABC - The Look of Love
ABC - Many Happy Returns
Zombies - She's Not There
ABC - Show Me
ABC - Valentine's Day
ABC - Date Stamp
ABC - All Of My Heart

20. Mutant disco, punk-funk
B-52's - Dance This Mess Around
B-52's - 52 Girls
B-52's - Give Me Back My Man
B-52's - Love Shack
B-52's - Party Out of Bounds
B-52's - Planet Claire
B-52's - Rock Lobster
Pylon - Cool
Pulsallama - The Devil Lives in My Husband's Body
Gray - Drum Mode
Blondie - Rapture
Cristina - Disco Clone
Cristina - Is That All There Is?
Cristina - Things Fall Apart
King Creole and the Coconuts - Mr Softee
Was (Not Was) - Out Come the Freaks
Was (Not Was) - Tell Me That I'm Dreaming
Was (Not Was) - Wheel Me Out
Was (Not Was) - Oh, Mr Friction
Material - Bustin' Out
Bush Tetras - Too Many Creeps
Vivian Goldman - Launderette
Vivian Goldman - Private Armies
ESG - You're No Good
ESG - UFO
ESG - Moody
Big Daddy Kane - Ain't No Half-Stepping
Liquid Liquid - Cavern
Grandmaster Flash - White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)
Dinosaur L - Go Bang
Arthur Russell - In the Light of the Miracle
Grace Jones - Warm Leatherette
Grace Jones - She's Lost Control
Grace Jones - Private Life
Grace Jones - Nightclubbing
Grace Jones - Demolition Man
Grace Jones - Pull Up to the Bumper
Grace Jones - Feel Up
Grace Jones - Walking in the Rain
New Order - Ceremony
New Order - Temptation
New Order - Everything's Gone Green
New Order - Blue Monday
New Order - Confusion

21. New Gold Dreams 81-82-83-84
The Associates - Party Fears Two
The Associates - Club Country
The Associates - Arrogance Gave Him Up
The Associates - No
The Associates - Skipping
The Associates - Carat Love Affair
The Associates - Love Hangover
Altered Images - Happy Birthday
Altered Images - Dead Pop Stars
Altered Images - I Could Be Happy
Altered Images - I See Those Eyes
Simple Minds - Love Song
Simple Minds - Sweat in Bullet
Simple Minds - Promised You a Miracle
Simple Minds - Glittering Prize
Haircut 100 - Favourite Shirts
Haircut 100 - Lemon Firebrigade
Haircut 100 - Love's Got Me In Triangles
Orange Juice - L.O.V.E.
Orange Juice - Rip It Up
Orange Juice - Flesh Of My Flesh
Duran Duran - Girls on Film
Duran Duran - Hungry Like the Wolf
Duran Duran - Rio
Duran Duran - Save a Prayer
Duran Duran - Is There Something I Should Know
Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now
Thompson Twins - Love on Your Side
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
Eurythmics - Who's That Girl?
David Bowie - Boys Keep Swinging
Eurythmics - Wrap It Up
Paul Young - Sex
Paul Young - Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home)
Wham! - Wham Rap
Wham! - Young Guns (Go For It)
Wham! - Bad Boys
Wham! - Club Tropicana
Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go Go
Wham! - I'm Your Man
Culture Club - Church of the Poisoned Mind
Culture Club - Time
Culture Club - Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?
ABC - All of My Heart
Spandau Ballet - True
ABC - That Was Then, This Is Now
ABC - King Money
ABC - United Kingdom
Heaven 17 - Crushed By the Wheels of Industry
Heaven 17 - Temptation
Human League - The Lebanon
Scritti Politti - Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)
Scritti Politti - Absolute
Scritti Politti - A Little Knowledge
Scritti Politti - The World Girl
Scritti Politti - Hypnotize
Scritti Politti - Perfect Way

22. Dark
Southern Death Cult - Fatman
UK Decay - Necrophilia
UK Decay - Rising From the Dead
Specimen - Stand Up, Stand Out
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Hong Kong Garden
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Carcass
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Jigsaw Feeling
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Suburban Relapse
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Icon
Siouxsie and the Banshees - The Lords Prayer
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Happy House
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Christine
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Sin In My Heart
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Voodoo Dolly
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Halloween
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Spellbound
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Night Shift
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Fireworks
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Painted Bird
Donovan - Hurdy Gurdy Man
Donovan - Season of the Witch
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Green Fingers
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Cascade
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Melt!
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Slowdive
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Dear Prudence
The Cure - Killing an Arab
Birthday Party - Zoo-Music Girl
Birthday Party - She's Hit
Birthday Party - Big Jesus Trashcan
Birthday Party - Deep in the Woods
Birthday Party - Swampland
Birthday Party - Mutiny in Heaven
Birthday Party - Release the Bats
Virgin Prunes - Pagan Lovesong
Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead
Bauhaus - Ziggy Stardust
Bauhaus - Stigmata Martyr
Bauhaus - Kick in the Eye
Bauhaus - Spirit
Bauhaus - Terror Couple Kill Colonel
Theatre of Hate - Do You Believe in the Westworld?
Theatre of Hate - Nero
The Pack - Brave New Soldiers
Sisters of Mercy - Gimme Shelter
Sisters of Mercy - Temple of Love
Cult - Revolution
Cult - Spiritwalker

23. Liverpool & The New Psychedelia
Television - Elevation
Television - Glory
Television - The Dream's Dream
Echo and the Bunnymen - Rescue
Echo and the Bunnymen - Over the Wall
Echo and the Bunnymen - The Disease
Echo and the Bunnymen - All My Colours
Echo and the Bunnymen - No Dark Things
Echo and the Bunnymen - All I Want
Teardrop Explodes - Sleeping Gas
Teardrop Explodes - Camera Camera
The Doors - Hello I Love You
Teardrop Explodes - Treason
Teardrop Explodes - Reward
The Fall - Two Steps Back (live)
Blue Orchids - The Flood
Blue Orchids - Disney Boys
Blue Orchids - A Year With No Head
Blue Orchids - Mad As the Mist and Snow
Blue Orchids - Sun Connection
Blue Orchids - Dumb Magician
Blue Orchids - Low Profile
Blue Orchids - The Long Night Out
Blue Orchids - Release
Echo and the Bunnymen - The Cutter
U2 - New Year's Day
Waterboys - The Big Music
Waterboys - A Pagan Place
Waterboys - The Whole of the Moon
Big Country - Fields of Fire (400 Miles)
Big Country - In a Big Country
Simple Minds - Waterfront
Skids - Vanguard's Crusade
Skids - Dulce et Decorum Est (Pro Patria Mori) (live)
U2 - I Will Follow
U2 - 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
U2 - A Day Without Me
U2 - Stories For Boys
U2 - Into the Heart
U2 - Gloria
U2 - Rejoice
U2 - Pride (In the Name of Love)
U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
Echo and the Bunnymen - Thorn of Crowns
Echo and the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon

24. Progressive punk
Black Flag - TV Party
Black Flag - Rise Above
Black Flag - Damaged I
Stooges - 1969
Black Sabbath - War Pigs
Stooges - No Fun
Black Flag - Nothing Left Inside
Black Flag - Three Nights
Black Flag - Scream
Minutemen - Paranoid Chant
Gang of Four - In the Ditch
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son
Minutemen - The Politics of Time
Minutemen - Games
Minutemen - The Glory of Man
Minutemen - Roar of the Masses Could Be Farts
Minutemen - If Reagan Played Disco
Minutemen - Shit from an Old Notebook
Minutemen - Take 5, D
Minutemen - History Lesson (Part II)
Husker Du - Statues
Husker Du - Reoccurring Dreams
Mission of Burma - Academy Fight Song
Mission of Burma - That's When I Reach For My Revolver
Meat Puppets - Walking Boss
Meat Puppets - Tumblin' Tumbleweeds
Meat Puppets - Split Myself In Two
Meat Puppets - Aurora Borealis
Meat Puppets - We're Here
Meat Puppets - Plateau
Meat Puppets - Climbing
Meat Puppets - New Gods
Meat Puppets - Oh, Me
Meat Puppets - I'm a Mindless Idiot
Meat Puppets - Lost
Meat Puppets - Away
Meat Puppets - Animal Kingdom
Meat Puppets - Hot Pink
Meat Puppets - Swimming Ground
Meat Puppets - Buckethead
Meat Puppets - Seal Whales
Meat Puppets - Two Rivers
Meat Puppets - Creator

25. The 2nd Industrial Wave
Psychic TV - Just Drifting (live)
Psychic TV - Stolen Kisses
Terry Jacks - Seasons in the Sun
Psychic TV - Ov Power
Psychic TV - Message From the Temple
Afrika Bambaataa - Planet Rock
Cabaret Voltaire - Yashar (Jon Robie remix)
Cabaret Voltaire - Just Fascination
Cabaret Voltaire - Crackdown
Cabaret Voltaire - Animation
Cabaret Voltaire - Sensoria
Psychic TV -The Orchids
Psychic TV - In the Nursery (live)
Coil - Tainted Love
Coil - Clap
Coil - The Sewage-Workers Birthday Party
Soft Cell - Ghost Rider
Soft Cell - A Million Manias
Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel - Today I Started Slogging Again
Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel - I'll Meet You in Poland Baby
Einsturzende Neubauten - Kalte Sterne
Einsturzende Neubauten - Yu Gung (Feed My Ego) (Adrian Sherwood Mix)
Die Krupps - Wahre Arbeit - Wahrer Lohn
Einsturzende Neubauten - Eisenmolekul
Immaculate Consumptives - Body Unknown
Swans - A Screw
Swans - Time Is Money (Bastard)
Depeche Mode - Everything Counts
Depeche Mode - Love In Itself
Depeche Mode - People Are People
Depeche Mode - Blasphemous Rumours
Depeche Mode - Master and Servant

26. ZTT & Frankiemania
Malcolm McLaren - Double Dutch
Malcolm McLaren - Buffalo Gals
Malcolm McLaren - Madam Butterfly (Un bel dì vedremo)
Art of Noise - Beat Box
Art of Noise - Moments in Love
Propaganda - Dr. Mabuse
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax (Sex Mix Edition)
Art of Noise - Close (To the Edit)
Yes - Close To The Edge
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Two Tribes
Prince - 1999
Kate Bush - Breathing
Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas? (1984 Version)
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome to the Pleasuredome
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Krisco Kisses
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Black Night White Light
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - The Only Star In Heaven
Propaganda - Duel/Jewel
Grace Jones - Slave to the Rhythm
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Born To Run

Afterword
Culture Club - The War Song
Duran Duran - Wild Boys
USA for Africa - We Are the World
Madonna - Material Girl
Husker Du - Eight Miles High
Husker Du - Ticket To Ride
Sonic Youth - Death Valley 69
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - The Power of Love
U2 - With or Without You
U2 - Where the Streets Have No Name
Phuture - Your Only Friend
Sleezy D - I've Lost Control
Psychic TV - Good Vibrations
Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin' Beats

Appendix 1/MTV and the Second British Invasion
A Flock of Seagulls - I Ran (So Far Away)
Kinks - Come Dancing
David Bowie - Let's Dance
Michael Jackson - Beat It
Van Halen - Jump
Bruce Springsteen - Dancing in the Dark
Devo - That's Good

Appendix 2/European (and extra-European) post punk
Germany
Liasons Dangereuses - Los ninos del parque
Malaria! - Thrash Me
Malaria! - Kaltes Klares Wasser
Palais Schaumburg - Macht Mich Glucklich Wie Nie
Palais Schaumburg - Telephon
Palais Schaumburg - Rote Lichter
Holger Hiller - Sentimental/Herzmuskel
Holger Hiller - Ein Ganz Normaler Kuss
Die Hornissen - Pale Blue Eyes
Netherlands
Minny Pops - Dolphin's Spurt
Minny Pops - Goddess
Belgium
The Names - Nightshift
Minimal Compact - To Get Inside
France
Metal Boys - Paranoia Carnival
Doctor Mix and the Remix - No Fun
Doctor Mix and the Remix - Sister Ray
Doctor Mix and the Remix - You Really Got Me
Doctor Mix and the Remix - I Can't Control Myself
Kas Product - So Young But So Cold
Iceland
Australia/New Zealand
(Makers of) The Dead Travel Fast - The Dumb Waiters
Goat That Went Om - The Pirate Songs
Voigt/465 - Voices a Drama
Voigt/465 - Whinchsoul
Slugfuckers - Deaf Disco
Slugfuckers - Artifical Slits
Slugfuckers - Obbligato Necroplasm
Rhythmyx Chymx - Bretonian Overcoat
Rhythmyx Chymx - Pogo Au Go Go
Rhythmyx Chymx - Bung in a Banana
Laughing Clowns - Come One, Come All
Laughing Clowns - A Knife in the Head
Clean - Tally Ho
Brazil
Agenttss - Agenttss
Akira S & As Garotas Que Erraram - O Futebol
Akira S & As Garotas Que Erraram - Sobre As Pernas
Fellini - Rock Europeu
Fellini - Zum Zum Zazoeira
Chance - Samba Do Morro
Black Future - Eu Sou O Rio
Patife's Camper Vannish - Teu Beum

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