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1Gang of FourSolid Gold1. Paralysed 2. What we all want 3. If I could keep it for myself 4. Outside the trains don't run on time 5. Why theory 6. Cheeseburger 7. Republic 8. In the ditch 9. Hole in the wallet 10. He'd send in the army 11. To hell with poverty 12. Capital (it fails us now) 13. History's bunk
2The Teardrop ExplodesWilder1. Bent Out Of Shape 2. Colours Fly Away 3. Seven Views Of Jerusalem 4. Pure Joy 5. Falling Down Around Me 6. The Culture Bunker 7. Passionate Friend 8. Tiny Children 9. Like Leila Khaled Said 10. And The Fighting Takes Over 11. The Great Dominions
3The Human LeagueDare1. The Things That Dreams Are Made Of 2. Open Your Heart 3. The Sound Of The Crowd 4. Darkness 5. Do Or Die 6. Get Carter 7. I Am The Law 8. Seconds 9. Love Action (I Believe In Love) 10. Don't You Want Me
4The Birthday PartyPrayers on Fire1. Zoo music girl 2. Capers 3. Nick the stripper 4. Ho ho 5. Figure of fun 6. King ink 7. Dead song 8. Yard 9. Dull day 10. Just you and me
5The UndertonesThe Positive Touch1. Fascination 2. Julie Ocean 3. Life's too easy 4. Crisis of mine 5. You're welcome 6. His good looking girlfriend 7. The positive touch 8. When Staurday comes 9. Its going to happen 10. Sigh and explode 11. I don't know 12. Hannah doot 13. Boy wonder 14. Forever paradise 15. Fairly in the money now
6The Comsat AngelsSleep No More1. Eye Dance 2. Sleep no more 3. Be brave 4. Gone 5. Dark Parade 6. Diagram 7. Restless 8. Goat of the West 9. Light Years 10. Our secret
7David Byrne & Brian EnoMy Life in the Bush of Ghosts1. America is waiting 2. Mea culpa 3. Help me somebody 4. Regiment 5. The Jezebel spirit 6. Moonlight in glory 7. Come with us 8. Carrier 9. Secret life 10. Mountain of needles 11. Very very hungry
8Robert WyattNothing Can Stop Us1. Born again cretin 2. At last I am free 3. Caimanera 4. Grass 5. Stalin wasn't stallin' 6. Red flag 7. Strange fruit 8. Arauco 9. Trade union 10. Stalingrad
9Elvis CostelloAlmost Blue1. Why don't you love me (like you used to do) 2. Sweet dreams 3. Success 4. I'm your toy 5. Tonight the bottle let me down 6. Brown to blue 7. Good year for the roses 8. Sittin' and thinkin' 9. Colour of the blues 10. Too far gone 11. Honey hush 12. How much I lied
10Simple MindsSons and Fascination / Sister Feelings Call1. In trance as mission 2. Sweat in bullet 3. Seventy cities as love brings the fall 4. Boys from Brazil 5. Love song 6. This earth that you walk upon 7. Sons and fascination 8. Seeing out the angel 9. Theme for great cities 10. The American 11. Twentieth century promised land 12. Wonderful in young life 13. League of nations
11A Certain RatioTo Each1. Felch 2. My Spirit 3. Forced Laugh 4. Choir 5. Back To The Start 6. The Fox 7. Loss 8. Oceans 9. Winter Hill
12The Au PairsPlaying With a Different Sex1. We're So Cool 2. Love Song 3. Set-Up 4. Repetition 5. Headache for Michelle 6. Come Again 7. Armagh 8. Unfinished Business 9. Dear John 10. It's Obvious 11. You 12. Domestic Departure 13. Kerb Crawler 14. Diet
13MagazineMagic, Murder & the Weather1. About The Weather 2. So Lucky 3. The Honeymoon Killers 4. Vigilance 5. Come Alive 6. The Great Man's Secrets 7. This Poison 8. Naked Eye 9. Suburban Rhonda 10. The Garden
14The ClashSandinista1. Hitsville UK 2. Junco partner 3. Leader 4. Rebel waltz 5. Look here 6. One more time 7. Corner soul 8. Equaliser 9. Call up 10. Broadway 11. Junkie slip 12. Version city 13. Crooked beat 14. Up in heaven 15. Midnight log 16. Lose this skin 17. Kingston advice 18. Let's go crazy 19. Magnificent seven 20. Ivan meet GI Joe 21. Something about England 22. Somebody got murdered 23. One more dub 24. Lightning strikes 25. If music could talk 26. Sound of sinners 27. Police on my back 28. Washington bullets 29. Charlie don't surf 30. Mansforth hill 31. Street parade 32. Living in fame 33. Silicone on sapphire 34. Version pardner 35. Career opportunities 36. Shepherd's delight
15John CaleHoni Soit1. Dead or Alive 2. Strange Times in Casablanca 3. Fighter Pilot 4. Wilson Joliet 5. Streets of Laredo 6. Honi Soit (La Premiere Lecon de Francaise) 7. Riverbank 8. Russian Roulette 9. Magic and Lies
16New Age SteppersAction Battlefield1. My Whole World 2. Observe Life 3. Got to Get Away 4. My Love 5. Problems 6. Nuclear Zulu 7. Guiding Star
17Television PersonalitiesAnd Don't the Kids Just Love It1. This angry silence 2. The Glittering prizes 3. World of Pauline Lewis 4. Family affair 5. Silly girl 6. Diary of a young man 7. Geoffrey Ingram 8. I know where Syd Barrett lives 9. Jackanory stories 10. Parties in Chelsea 11. Le Grande Illusion 12. A Picture of Dorian Gray 13. Crying room 14. Look back in anger
18The RaincoatsOdyshape1. Shouting out loud 2. Family treat 3. Only loved at night 4. Dancing in my head 5. Ody shape 6. And then it's OK 7. Baby song 8. Red shoes 9. Go away
19CanDelay 19681. Butterfly 2. Pnoom 3. Nineteen century man 4. Thief 5. Man named Joe 6. Uphill 7. Little star of Bethlehem
20The Psychedelic FursTalk Talk Talk1. Dumb Waiters 2. Pretty In Pink 3. I Wanna Sleep With You 4. No Tears 5. Mr. Jones 6. Into You Like A Train 7. It Goes Down 8. So Run Down 9. All Of This And Nothing 10. She Is Mine
21Public Image LimitedFlowers of Romance1. Four enclosed walls 2. Track 8 3. Phenagen 4. Flowers of romance 5. Under the house 6. Hymies him 7. Banging the door 8. Go back 9. Francis massacre
22U2October1. Gloria 2. I Fall Down 3. I Threw a Brick Through a Window 4. Rejoice 5. Fire 6. Tomorrow 7. October 8. With a Shout 9. Stranger in a Strange Land 10. Scarlet 11. Is That All?
23Echo and the BunnymenHeaven Up Here1. Show of strength 2. With a hip 3. Over the wall 4. It was a pleasure 5. Promise 6. Heaven up here 7. Disease 8. All my colours 9. No dark things 10. Turquoise days 11. All I want
24Black UhuruRed1. Youth of Eglington 2. Sponji reggae 3. Sistren 4. Journey 5. Utterance 6. Puff she puff 7. Rock stone 8. Carbine
25The AssociatesFourth Drawer Down1. White Car in Germany 2. A Girl Named Property 3. Kitchen Person 4. Q Quarters 5. Tell Me Easter's On Friday 6. The Associate 7. Message Oblique Speech 8. An Even Whiter Car 9. Fearless (It takes a Full Moon) 10. Point SI 11. Straw Towels 12. Kissed 13. Blue soap
26Heaven 17Penthouse and Pavement1. We don't need this fascist groove thang 2. Penthouse and pavement 3. Soul Warfare 4. Geisha boys and temple girls 5. Let's all make a bomb 6. Height of the fighting 7. Song with no name 8. Play to win 9. We're going to live for a very long time
27Orchestral Manoeuvres in the DarkArchitecture and Morality1. The New Stone Age 2. She's Leaving 3. Souvenir 4. Sealand 5. Joan Of Arc 6. Joan Of Arc (Maid Of Orleans) 7. Architecture And Morality 8. Georgia 9. The Beginning And The End
28Eyeless in GazaPhotographs as Memories1. Seven Years 2. Fixation 3. Looking Daggers 4. From A To B 5. Clear Cut Apparently 6. Speech Rapid Fire 7. John Of Patmos 8. Knives Replace Air 9. Faceless 10. In Your Painting 11. Keepsake, A 12. Whitewash 13. No Noise
29The Lounge LizardsThe Lounge Lizards1. Incident on South Street 2. Harlem nocturne 3. Do the wrong thing 4. Au contraire arto 5. Well you needn't 6. Ballad 7. Wangling 8. Conquest of Rah 9. Demented 10. I remember Coney Island 11. Fatty walks 12. Epistrophe 13. You haunt me
30Clock DVAThirst1. Uncertain 2. Sensorium 3. White Cell 4. Piano Pain 5. Blue Tone 6. North Loop 7. 4 Hours 8. Moments 9. Impressions Of African Winter
31Girls at Our BestPleasure1. Pleasure 2. Too big for your boots 3. I'm beautiful now 4. Waterbed babies 5. Fun city teenagers 6. 600000 7. Heaven 8. China blue 9. Fast boyfriends 10. She flipped 11. Goodbye to that jazz
32BarracudasDrop Out With1. I Can't Pretend 2. Violent Times 3. Don't Let Go 4. Codeine 5. This Ain't My Time 6. I Saw My Death in a Dream Last Night 7. Somewhere Outside 8. Summer Fun 9. His Last Summer 10. Surfers Are Back 11. Somebody 12. Campus Tramp 13. On the Strip 14. California Lament 15. I Wish It Could Be 1965 Again
33The ScarsAuthor! Author!1. Leave Me in the Autumn 2. Fear of the Dark 3. Aquarama 4. David 5. Obsessions 6. Everywhere I Go 7. The Lady in the Car With Glasses On and a Gun 8. Je T'Aime C'est la Mort 9. Your Attention Please 10. All About You
34Ian HunterShort Back and Sides1. Central Park 'n' West 2. Lisa likes rock 'n' roll 3. I need your love 4. Old records never die 5. Noises 6. Rain 7. Gun control 8. Theatre of the absurd 9. Leave me alone 10. Keep on burning
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