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1Julian CopeWorld Shut Your Mouth1. Bandy's First Jump 2. Metranil Vavin 3. Strasbourg 4. An Elegant Chaos 5. Quizmaster 6. Kolly Kibber's Birthday 7. Sunshine Playroom 8. Head Hang Low 9. Pussyface 10. Greatness And Perfection 11. Lunatic And Fire-Pistol
2The Go BetweensSpring Hill Fair1. Bachelor kisses 2. Five words 3. The old way out 4. You'd never live 5. Part company 6. Slow slow music 7. Draining the pool for you 8. River of money 9. Unkind & Unwise 10. Man o'sand to girl o'sea
3The SmithsThe Smiths1. Reel around the fountain 2. You've got everything now 3. Miserable lie 4. Pretty girls make graves 5. Hand that rocks the cradle 6. This charming man 7. Still ill 8. Hand in glove 9. What difference does it make 10. I don't owe you anything 11. Suffer little children
4Echo and the BunnymenOcean Rain1. Silver 2. Nocturnal Me 3. Crystal Days 4. Yo Yo Man 5. My Kingdom 6. Thorn of Crowns 7. The Killing Moon 8. Seven seas
5The PoguesRed Roses for Me1. Transmetropolitan 2. Battle of Brisbane 3. The Auld Triangle 4. Waxie's Dargle 5. The Boys from the County Hell 6. Sea Shanty 7. Dark Streets of London 8. Streams of Whiskey 9. Poor Paddy 10. Dingle Regatta 11. Greenland Whale Fisheries 12. Down in the Ground Where the Deadmen Go 13. Kitty
6The FallThe Wonderful and Frightening World of1. Lay of the Land 2. 2 X 4 3. Copped It 4. Elves 5. Slang King 6. Bug Day 7. Stephen Song 8. Craigness 9. Disney's Dream Debased
7MicrodisneyEverybody is Fantastic1. Idea 2. A Few Kisses 3. Escalator In The Rain 4. Dolly 5. Dreaming Drains 6. I'll Be A Gentleman 7. Moon 8. Sun 9. Sleepless 10. Come On Over And Cry 11. This Liberal Love 12. Before Famine 13. Everybody Is Dead 14. Dear Rosemary
8Scott WalkerClimate of Hunter1. Rawhide 2. Dealer 3. Track Three 4. Sleepwalkers Woman 5. Track Five 6. Track Six 7. Track Seven 8. Blanket Roll Blues
9Soft CellThis Last Night in Sodom1. Mr Self destruct 2. Slave to This 3. Meet Murder My Angel 4. Best Way to Kill 5. L'Esqualita 6. Down in the Subway 7. Surrender to a Stranger 8. Soul Inside 9. Where Was Your Heart (When You Needed It Most)
10Prince & the RevolutionPurple Rain1. Let's Go Crazy 2. Take Me with U 3. Beautiful Ones 4. Computer Blue 5. Darling Nikki 6. When Doves Cry 7. I Would Die 4 U 8. Baby I'm a Star 9. Purple Rain
11Television PersonalitiesThe Painted Word1. Stop and Smell the Roses 2. Painted Word 3. Life of Her Own 4. Bright Sunny Smiles 5. Mentioned in Dispatches 6. Sense of Belonging 7. Say You Won't Cry 8. Someone to Share my Life With 9. You'll Have to Scream Louder 10. Happy all the Time 11. Girl who had Everything 12. Paradise Estate 13. Back to Vietnam
12Lloyd Cole & The CommotionsRattlesnakes1. Perfect Skin 2. Speedboat 3. Rattlesnakes 4. Down on Mission Street 5. Forest Fire 6. Charlotte Street 7. 2cv 8. Four Flights Up 9. Patience 10. Are You Ready to Be Heartbroken?
13Violent FemmesHallowed Ground1. Country Death Song 2. I Hear the Rain 3. Never Tell 4. Jesus Walking on the Water 5. I Know It's True But I'm Sorry to Say 6. Hallowed Ground 7. Sweet Misery Blues 8. Black Girls 9. It's Gonna Rain
14Human LeagueHysteria1. I'm Coming Back 2. I Love You Too Much 3. Rock Me Again & Again & Again & Again & Again & Again (Six Times) 4. Louise 5. Lebanon 6. Betrayed 7. Sign 8. So Hurt 9. Life on Your Own 10. Don't You Know I Want You
15Bruce SpringsteenBorn in the USA1. Cover me 2. Born in the USA 3. Darlington County 4. Working on the Highway 5. Downbound train 6. I'm on Fire 7. No Surrender 8. Bobby Jean 9. I'm goin' Down 10. Glory Days 11. Dancing in the Dark 12. My Hometown
16U2The Unforgettable Fire1. A Sort Of Homecoming 2. Pride (In The Name Of Love) 3. Wire 4. Unforgettable Fire, The 5. Promenade 6. Bad 7. Promenade 8. Indian Summer Sky 9. MLK 10. Elvis Presley and America
17REMReckoning1. Harborcoat 2. Seven Chinese Brothers 3. S Central Rain (I'm sorry) 4. Pretty Persuasion 5. Time after Time 6. Second Guessing 7. Letter Never Sent 8. Camera 9. Don't go Back to Rockville 10. Little America
18This Mortal CoilIt'll End in Tears1. Kangaroo 2. Song to the Siren 3. Holocaust 4. Fyt 5. Fond Affections 6. Last Ray 7. Waves Become Wings 8. Another Day 9. Barramundi 10. Dreams made Flesh 11. Not Me 12. Single Wish
19FeltThe Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories1. Roman Litter 2. Sempiternal Darkness 3. Spanish House 4. Imprint 5. Sunlight Bathed the Golden Glow 6. Vasco de Gama 7. Crucifix Heaven 8. Dismantled King is Off the Throne 9. Crystal Ball 10. Whirlpool Vision of Shame
20Prefab SproutSwoon1. Don't Sing 2. Cue Fanfare 3. Green Isaac 4. Here on the Eerie 5. Cruel 6. Couldn't Bear to be Special 7. I Never Play Basketball Now 8. Ghost Town Blues 9. Elegance 10. Technique 11. Green Isaac II
21Laurie AndersonMister Heartbreak1. Sharkey's Day 2. Langue d'Amour 3. Gravity's Angel 4. Kokoku 5. Excellent Birds 6. Blue Lagoon 7. Sharkey's Night
22Naked PreyNaked Prey1. Flesh On The Wall 2. Take The Word 3. The Story Never Ends 4. Freezin' Steel 5. No Place To Be 6. Hour Glass 7. Billy The Kid II
23The TriffidsRaining Pleasure1. Jesus calling 2. Embedded 3. St James Infirmary 4. Everybody has to Eat 5. Ballad of Jack Frost 6. Property is Condemned 7. Raining Pleasure
24Rain ParadeExplosions in the Glass Palace1. You are my friend 2. Prisoners 3. Blue 4. Broken Horse 5. No Easy Way Down
25The RamonesToo Tough to Die1. Mama's Boy 2. I'm Not Afraid of Life 3. Too Tough to Die 4. Durango 95 5. Wart Hog 6. Danger Zone 7. Chasing the Night 8. Howling at the Moon (Sha-La-La) 9. Daytime Dilemma (Dangers of Love) 10. Planet Earth 1988 11. Humankind 12. Endless Vacation 13. No Go
26The Celibate RiflesThe Celibate Rifles1. Wild Desire 2. Kiss Me Deadly 3. Pretty Colours 4. Back In The Red 5. Darlinghurst Confidential 6. Thank You America 7. Rainforest 8. Netherworld 9. Electric Snake River
27Blood on the SaddleBlood on the Saddle1. Blood On the Saddle 2. (I Wish I Was a) Single Girl (Again) 3. Car Mechanic's Blues 4. It Hurts Me (a Lot More Than it Hurts You) 5. Banks of the Ohio 6. Do You Wanna Dance? 7. Freight Train 8. Landlord 9. Ghost on My Heart 10. I've Never Been Married
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