Friday, January 23, 2015

The 100 Greatest Drug Songs Ever (Mojo, 2002)


A playlist coming from the lysergic past of music magazine Mojo (issue 109, december 2012):
Since the dawn of time, man has been smoking, chewing and sniffing his way towards mystical enlightenment and the odd great cave painting, epic poem or mind-blowing pop song.
Enjoy responsibly.

Previously on the druggy side of Spotirama:
50 Druggiest Albums Ever (NME, 2011)


THE 100 GREATEST DRUG SONGS EVER
(Mojo, 2002, from #1 to #100)



Full list

Strikethrough songs (7/100) are not available on Spotify. Some songs may be not available in all countries.

1. Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit (1967)
2. The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows (1966)
3. The Velvet Underground - Heroin (1967)
4. The Rolling Stones - Sister Morphine (1971)
5. Small Faces - Here Comes the Nice (1967)
6. Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel - White Lines (Don't Do It) (1983)
7. Dillinger - Cokane in My Brain (1976)
8. Love - Signed D.C. (1966)
9. Primal Scream - Higher Than the Sun (1991)
10. Plastic Ono Band - Cold Turkey (1969)
11. Neil Young - The Needle and the Damage Done (1972)
12. Harry "The Hipster" Gibson - Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy's Ovaltine? (1944)
13. The Byrds - Eight Miles High (1966)
14. Fats Waller - The Reefer Song (1943)
15. Bob Dylan - Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35 (1966)
16. Ry Cooder/Buffy Sainte-Marie - The Hashishin (1970)
17. Ramones - Carbona Not Glue (1977)
18. The Amboy Dukes - Journey to the Center of the Mind (1968)
19. Curtis Mayfield - Pusherman (1972)
20. The Smoke - My Friend Jack (1967)
21. The Electric Prunes - I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) (1966)
22. The Charlatans - Codine Blues (1966)
23. Country Joe & the Fish - Section 43 (1966)
24. The Beatles - Got to Get You Into My Life (1966)
25. Grateful Dead - Dark Star (1969)
26. John Prine - Sam Stone (1971)
27. The Velvet Underground - I'm Waiting for the Man (1967)
28. The Byrds - Artificial Energy (1968)
29. The Temptations - Cloud Nine (1968)
30. Lemonheads - My Drug Buddy (1992)
31. The Beatles - Rain (1966)
32. The Heartbreakers - Chinese Rocks (1977)
33. David Peel & the Lower East Side - I Like Marijuana (1968)
34. Rodriguez - Sugarman (1970)
35. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Purple Haze (1967)
36. Oasis - Morning Glory (1995)
37. Arlo Guthrie - Coming Into Los Angeles (1969)
38. David Essex - Rock On (1973)
39. Tim Hardin - Red Balloon (1967)
40. Happy Mondays - Do It Better (1988)
41. Black Sabbath - Sweet Leaf (1971)
42. The 13th Floor Elevators - Roller Coaster (1966)
43. My Bloody Valentine - Glider (1990) [entry as "Glider EP"]
44. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain (1971)
45. Country Joe & the Fish - Bass Strings (1967)
46. Phil Phillips - Sea of Love (1959) [entry as the single "Sea of Love/The Evil Dope", although some search say the single's b-side was actually "Juella"] (I put both of them in the playlist)
47. MC5 - Rocket Reducer N°. 62 (1969)
48. Ella Fitzgerald w/ Chick Webb & His Orchestra - Wacky Dust (1938)
49. The Third Bardo - Lose Your Mind (1967)
50. Flowered Up - Weekender (1991)
51. Kenny Rogers & the First Edition - Just Stopped In (to See What Condition My Condition Was In) (1967)
52. Louis Armstrong - Muggles (1929)
53. Rick James - Mary Jane (1978)
54. The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet (1978)
55. The Allman Brothers Band - Whipping Post (1969)
56. Roland Stone - Junco Partner (1961)
57. The Fall - Totally Wired (1980)
58. Bert Jansch - Needle of Death (1965)
59. KRS-One - I Can't Wake Up (1993)
60. Bomb the Bass - Bug Powder Dust (1995)
61. Primal Scream - Loaded (1991)
62. The Holy Modal Rounders - If You Want to Be a Bird a.k.a. Bird Song (1968)
63. Empirion - Narcotic Influence (1994)
64. Traffic - Hole in My Shoe (1967)
65. The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds (1990)
66. Etta James - I'd Rather Go Blind (1967)
67. Eric Burdon & the Animals - A Girl Named Sandoz (1967)
68. Pink Floyd - Astronomy Domine (1967)
69. The Flamin' Groovies - Slow Death (1972)
70. The Rolling Stones - Mother's Little Helper (1966)
71. Pulp - Sorted for E's & Wizz (1995)
72. Spacemen 3 - Walkin' with Jesus (1986)
73. The Dramatics - The Devil Is Dope (1973)
74. The Temptations - Psychedelic Shack (1970)
75. Billy Boy Arnold - Whiskey, Beer & Reefer (1993)
76. Underworld - Born Slippy (1995)
77. The Stranglers - Golden Brown (1981)
78. The Other Half - Mr. Pharmacist (1968)
79. The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations (1966)
80. Queens of the Stone Age - Feel Good Hit of the Summer (2000)
81. The Count Five - Psychotic Reaction (1966)
82. Bob Dylan - Desolation Row (Live from the Royal Albert Hall) (1966)
83. Steppenwolf - The Pusher (1968)
84. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Ah Feel Like Ahcid (1968)
85. The Chemical Brothers - The Private Psychedelic Reel (1997)
86. Donovan - Hurdy Gurdy Man (1968)
87. The Creation - How Does It Feel to Feel (1968)
88. Fingers Inc. - Mystery of Love (1985)
89. Townes Van Zandt - Waitin' Around to Die (1968)
90. Hüsker Dü - Pink Turns to Blue (1984)
91. James Brown - King Heroin (1972)
92. The Doors - The Crystal Ship (1967)
93. Fred Neil - Sweet Cocaine (1967)
94. The Mighty Hannibal - The Truth Shall Make You Free (1972)
95. Cab Calloway - Reefer Man (1932)
96. Syd Barrett - If It's in You (1970)
97. Josh Wink - Higher State of Consciousness (1995)
98. Brewer & Shipley - One Toke Over the Line (1971)
99. Peter Cook and Dudley Moore - The L.S. Bumble Bee (1967)
100. Afroman - Because I Got High (2001)

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Wednesday, January 21, 2015

100 Best Canadian Songs Ever (CBC Radio, 2014)


Compiled by CBC Radio, this is one of those charts that include everything. No, really: everything. Here you'll find Joni Mitchell and Neil Young, The Band and Leonard Cohen, Arcade Fire and The New Pornographers, Feist and Metric, k.d. lang and Sarah McLachlan, Paul Anka and Celine Dion, Bruce Cockburn and Bryan Adams, Alanis Morissette and Shania Twain, Japandroids and Death From Above 1979, Carly Rae Jepsen and Nelly Furtado, Steppenwolf and The Guess Who, Drake and Grimes, Ron Sexsmith and Rufus Wainwright, Stars and Broken Social Scene, Avril Lavigne and Nickelback. And many more. Even some artists that you forgot (well, I forgot) to be Canadians. Maybe the critic inside you could rate it not a 100% quality collection, but I think it's a really nice & light one. Listen to it in this Spotify playlist and/or go to CBC for some stats and a messy & mutant 4-minute YouTube mash up of the Top 100.

Enjoy!

100 BEST CANADIAN SONGS EVER
(CBC Radio, 2014, from #1 to #100)


Full list

Strikethrough tracks (11/100) are not available on Spotify. Some tracks may be not available in all countries.

1. Joni Mitchell - Both Sides, Now
2. Neil Young - Helpless
3. The Tragically Hip - Wheat Kings
4. The Band - The Weight
5. Arcade Fire - Wake Up
6. The Guess Who - American Woman
7. Rush - Tom Sawyer
8. Leonard Cohen - Suzanne
9. Feist - Mushaboom
10. Maestro Fresh Wes - Let Your Backbone Slide
11. Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah
12. Bryan Adams - Summer of ‘69
13. Ian & Sylvia - Four Strong Winds
14. Buffy Sainte-Marie - Universal Soldier
15. Bruce Cockburn - Lovers in a Dangerous Time
16. Blue Rodeo - Lost Together
17. Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown
18. Sloan - Coax Me
19. Neil Young - Needle and the Damage Done
20. k.d. lang - Constant Craving
21. The Guess Who - These Eyes
22. Joel Plaskett - Nowhere With You
23. Joni Mitchell - River
24. Anne Murray - Snowbird
25. Emm Gryner - Une Canadien Errant (A Wandering Canadian)
26. Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe
27. Neil Young - Old Man
28. Daniel Lanois - The Maker
29. Gordon Lightfoot - The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
30. The Tragically Hip - Nautical Disaster
31. Alanis Morissette - You Oughta Know
32. Rascalz - Northern Touch
33. Shania Twain - You’re Still the One
34. Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Takin’ Care of Business
35. Stompin’ Tom Connors - Sudbury Saturday Night
36. Tom Cochrane - Life Is a Highway
37. Stan Rogers - Barrett’s Privateers
38. Sarah Harmer - Basement Apt.
39. Kate and Anna McGarrigle - Log Driver’s Waltz
40. Sarah McLachlan - Building a Mystery
41. Steppenwolf - Born to Be Wild
42. Dream Warriors - My Definition of a Bombastic Jazz Style
43. Celine Dion - It’s All Coming Back to Me Now
44. Tegan and Sara - Walking With a Ghost
45. Shad - The Old Prince Still Lives At Home
46. Harmonium - Pour an Instant
47. The New Pornographers - Letter From an Occupant
48. Death From Above 1979 - Black History Month
49. Paul Anka - Diana
50. Arcade Fire - Ready to Start
51. Drake - Marvin’s Room
52. Martha and the Muffins - Echo Beach
53. Alannah Myles - Black Velvet
54. Gino Vannelli - I Just Wanna Stop
55. The Barenaked Ladies - Brian Wilson
56. Wolf Parade - Shine a Light
57. Blue Rodeo - Hasn’t Hit Me Yet
58. Sloan - Underwhelmed
59. The Band - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
60. Constantines - Young Lions
61. Japandroids - The House That Heaven Built
62. 54 – 40 - I Go Blind
63. Corey Hart - Sunglasses at Night
64. Diane Dufresne - J'ai rencontré l'homme de ma vie
65. Nelly Furtado - I’m Like a Bird
66. Andy Kim - Rock Me Gently
67. Loverboy - Workin’ For the Weekend
68. Broken Social Scene - 7/4 (Shoreline)
69. Stars - Your Ex-lover Is Dead
70. Ron Sexsmith - Strawberry Blonde
71. Hank Snow - I’m Moving On
72. Avril Lavigne - Complicated
73. The Weakerthans - Left and Leaving
74. Nickelback - How You Remind Me
75. Dan Mangan - Row of Houses
76. Great Big Sea - Ordinary Day
77. Grimes - Oblivion
78. Thrush Hermit - The Day We Hit the Coast
79. Sam Roberts Band - Brother Down
80. Glass Tiger - Don’t Forget Me When I’m Gone
81. Metric - Monster Hospital
82. Coeur de pirate - Place de la république
83. Rheostatics - A Bad Time To Be Poor
84. Patrick Watson - The Great Escape
85. Trooper - We’re Here For a Good Time
86. K-os - Heaven Only Knows
87. Kathleen Edwards - Change the Sheets
88. Rufus Wainwright - Cigarettes & Chocolate Milk
89. Jann Arden - Insensitive
90. Jack Scott - The Way I Walk
91. Spoons - Nova Heart
92. Terry Jacks - Seasons In the Sun
93. Karkwa - Les Chemins de verre
94. Stampeders - Sweet City Woman
95. Dan Hill - Sometimes When We Touch
96. Kim Mitchell - Patio Lanterns
97. Corb Lund - Five Dollar Bill
98. Kardinal Offishall - Bakardi Slang
99. The Pursuit of Happiness - I’m an Adult Now
100. Nick Gilder - Hot Child in the City


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Thursday, January 15, 2015

The Longest Mixtape - 1000 Songs For You (a playlist by Caribou, in progress)


Caribou gifted the world a 1000-song YouTube playlist.

The last few years of my life have been incredible, thanks in large part to all of you - so I've been thinking of how to say thank you.

As you can imagine, music has been a central love of my life since I was a teenager and over the years I've been introduced to a lot that has stayed with me. I've collected the majority of that music here – and I thought sharing it with you seemed like one way I could say thanks.
I think there are people (one easy shot: me) who'd like to listen to this nice playlist on Spotify. And I guess crazy long tasks like this one are exactly what Spotirama was born for. :-)
So I'm spotifyin' it and I will regularly publish updates on this page.

Slowly, but steadily.

Enjoy!

(and don't forget Caribou's advice: "please listen to this playlist on shuffle")


THE LONGEST MIXTAPE - 1000 SONGS FOR YOU
(a playlist by Caribou, 11% done)


Full list

Strikethrough songs (30/100) are not available on Spotify. Some songs may be not available in all countries.

1. Intro: The Longest Mixtape - 1000 Songs For You
2. Minnie Riperton - Les Fleurs
3. Albert Ayler - Heart Love
4. Aphrodite's Child - The Four Horsemen
5. The Zombies - This Will Be Our Year
6. Le Orme - Ad gloriam
7. Marlena Show - California Soul
8. Jeannie Piersol - The Nest
9. Koushik - Battle Rhymes For Battle Times
10. Madvillain - Supervillain Theme
11. Main Source - Live at the Barbeque (feat. Nas, Akinyele & Joe Fatal)
12. Sonny Sharrock - Blind Willie
13. Gloria Ann Taylor - Love Is a Hurting Thing
14. Journey In Satchindananda
15. Shalimar - Baby Let's Dance Together
16. Manfred Mann - One Way Glass
17. Gary Davis - The Professor Here
18. Bülent Ortaçgil - Olmalı Mı Olmamalı Mı (Kadir Inanir & Mujde Ar)
19. Canned Heat - On the Road Again
20. Antena - Camino Del Sol
21. Arthur Russell - In the Light of the Miracle
22. Nina Simone - 22nd Century
23. My Bloody Valentine - Swallow
24. Four Tet - Glasshead
25. Sidney Owens & North South Connection - Sputnik
26. Thomas Mapfumo - Shumba
27. Wire - Outdoor Miner
28. Celia - Na Boca Do Sol
29. The Paris Sisters - I Love How You Love Me
30. Demon Fuzz - Disillusioned Man
31. Baby Huey - Hard Times
32. Super Rail Band de Bamako - Kongo Sigui
33. Skye - Ain't No Need 34. Dizzy K - Be My Friend 35. Boz Scaggs - Lowdown
36. Dr. Philter Banx - High Heels and Mirrored Thighs
37. Pheeroan Aklaff - House of Spirit: Mirth
38. Calung Darso - Ararateul
39. Jean-Luc Ponty - Computer Incantations for World Peace
40. Masters at Work - Bass Tone (House Nation Mix)
41. Dem 2 - Broke My Heart
42. St. Germain - Alabama Blues (Todd Edwards Dub Mix)
43. Charanjit Singh - Raga Malkauns
44. The Other People Place - Let Me Be Me
45. Missy Elliott - Hit Em Wit Da Hee (remix, feat. Timbaland, Nicole Wray & Mocha)
46. Warren G - Regulate (feat. Nate Dogg)
47. Suicide - Misery Train
48. J Dilla - Fuck The Police (clean)
49. Noreaga - Superthug
50. Gang Starr - Credit Is Due
51. Kanye West - Livin' a Movie
52. Burundi Black - Burundi Black (Rusty Egan First Remix)
53. Codek - Tim Toum
54. Rotary Connnection - Want You To Know
55. Emeralds - Genetic
56. Harmonia - Watussi (just one minute)
57. The Feed-Back - The Feed-Back
58. The Stark Reality - Rocket Ship
59. Silver Apples - Seagreen Serenade
60. DJ SS - Black
61. Andrew Hill - Hey Hey
62. Ariel Kalma - Message 18.10.77
63. Shuggie Otis - Strawberry Letter 23
64. Arawak - Accadde a Bali
65. Armando - Downfall
66. Barış Manço - Gönül Dağı
67. Barış Manço - Lambaya Puf De
68. Batsumi - Lishonile
69. Billy Bird - Lost in the Crowd
70. Bob Chance - It's Broken!

71. Usher - Climax
72. Lil Wayne - I'm Single (instrumental) (actually, I just found the not-instrumental version)
73. Ifang Bondi - Saraba
74. George Gruntz - Ghitta
75. Jef  Gilson & Malagasy - Valiha Del
76. Todd Terry presents Sound Design - Searchin'
77. Trans Volta - Disco Computer
78. Steve Parks - Still Thinking Of You
79. Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom - Relevee (Carl Craig Remix)
80. Skip Jackson & The Natural Experience - Microwave Boogie
81. Some Treat - Lost in Vegas
82. Wookie - Scrappy
83. Shadow - Let's Get It Together
84. Hot Music - Soho
85. Rhythm & Sound and Cornel Campbell - King In My Empire
86. The Congos - Fisherman
87. Lancelot Layne - Yo Think It Sorf
88. 4D - Fauve Moderne
89. Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou - Piano Solo (full album! following Mr. Caribou's wishes...)
90. Paul Giovanni - Willow's Song
91. Lard Free - Warinobaril
92. Adolf Stern - More... I Like It
93. Smithstonian - Mississippi Mud
94. Abaco Dream - Cat Woman
95. Sly & The Family Stone - Runnin' Away
96. Freeway - What We Do (feat. Jay-Z, Beanie Sigel)
97. Jay-Z - Kingdom Come (Official Instrumental) (actually, I just found the non-instrumental version)
98. Jeru The Damaja - Come Clean
99. Pusha T - Numbers On The Boards
100. Kool G Rap - Take 'Em To War
101. Cloud One - Don't Let My Rainbow Pass Me By (feat. Margo Williams)
102. Nightlife Unlimited - Peaches & Prunes (Ron Hardy Re-Edit)
103. Rim and Kasa - Love Me For Real
104. Kasso - Key West 
105. Broadcast - Black Cat
106. Mercury Rev - Car Wash Hair
107. Lightning Bolt - 2 Towers
108. Wire - The 15th
109. Boredoms - (circle) 
110. Neutral Milk Hotel - Ghost


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Wednesday, January 14, 2015

David Bowie 100 Greatest Songs (Mojo, 2015)


From The London Boys to 'Tis A Pity She Was A Whore, The World of David Bowie to The Next Day, Ziggy Stardust to The Thin White Duke, MOJO writers and staff delve into the history, subtext, esoterica and strange sounds that make up a remarkable 50-plus year career of innovation, reinvention and boundless genius. There are so many remarkable Bowie songs. Consider this the first hundred.
In the long cover story, MOJO also talks with Bowie confidantes and collaborators (Robert Fripp, Carlos Alomar, Reeves Gabrels, Ken Scott...) and looks back on the making of The Man Who Sold The World (Bowie's "the first great LP").

Enjoy!

P.S. After the full songs list, you find some stats about this Top 100 (charts by albums, by decades...)

Previously on the Mojo side of Spotirama:
50 Greatest Neil Young Songs (2011)
50 Greatest Led Zeppelin Songs (2014)
100 Greatest Bob Dylan Songs (2014)



DAVID BOWIE 100 GREATEST SONGS
(Mojo, 2015, from #1 to #100)


Full lists

All songs are available on Spotify (some songs may be not available in all countries).

1. Life On Mars? - Hunky Dory - 1971
2. Heroes' - Heroes - 1977
3. Starman - The Rise And Fall Of… - 1972
4. Sound And Vision - Low - 1977
5. Changes - Hunky Dory - 1971
6. Rock 'N' Roll Suicide - The Rise And Fall Of… - 1972
7. Young Americans - Young Americans - 1975
8. Always Crashing In The Same Car - Low - 1977
9. Ziggy Stardust - The Rise And Fall Of… - 1972
10. Ashes To Ashes - Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) - 1980
11. Golden Years - Station To Station - 1976
12. The Man Who Sold The World - The Man Who Sold The World - 1971
13. Fame - Young Americans - 1975
14. Moonage Daydream - The Rise And Fall Of… - 1972
15. Tvc15 - Station To Station - 1976
16. Quicksand - Hunky Dory - 1971
17. Oh! You Pretty Things - Hunky Dory - 1971
18. Fashion - Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) - 1980
19. Station To Station - Station To Station - 1976
20. Alternative Candidate - Diamond Dogs - 1974
21. Rebel Rebel - Diamond Dogs - 1974
22. Suffragette City - The Rise And Fall Of… - 1972
23. Space Oddity - Space Oddity - 1969
24. Up The Hill Backwards - Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) - 1980
25. The Boys Keep Swinging - Lodger - 1979
26. Five Years - The Rise And Fall Of… - 1972
27. Be My Wife - Low - 1977
28. The Bewlay Brothers - Hunky Dory - 1971
29. Under Pressure (With Queen) - Nothing Has Changed - 1981
30. Aladdin Sane - Aladdin Sane - 1973
31. Where Are We Now? - The Next Day - 2013
32. Stay - Station To Station - 1976
33. Panic In Detroit - Aladdin Sane - 1973
34. Speed Of Life - Low - 1977
35. The Width Of A Circle - The Man Who Sold The World - 1971
36. The Next Day - The Next Day - 2013
37. This Is Not America - Nothing Has Changed - 1985
38. ‘Tis Pity She Was A Whore - Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime) 'B' Side (Download) - 2014
39. Can You Hear Me - Young Americans - 1975
40. Cygnet Committee - Space Oddity - 1969
41. Warszawa - Low - 1977
42. Breaking Glass - Low - 1977
43. Fantastic Voyage - Lodger - 1979
44. Slip Away - Heathen - 2002
45. All The Mad Men - The Man Who Sold The World - 1971
46. It's Gonna Be Me - Young Americans - (1971 Sound + Vision Edition) - 1975
47. Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) - Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) - 1980
48. After All - The Man Who Sold The World - 1971
49. Kooks - Hunky Dory - 1971
50. Black Country Rock - The Man Who Sold The World - 1971
51. Hang On To Yourself - The Rise And Fall Of… - 1972
52. John, I'm Only Dancing - The Singles Collection - 1972
53. Look Back In Anger - Lodger - 1979
54. Cat People (Putting Out Fire) [Giorgio Moroder Production] - OST or 12" Single Download - 1982
55. Queen Bitch - Hunky Dory - 1971
56. Diamond Dogs - Diamond Dogs - 1974
57. What In The World - Low - 1977
58. Bring Me The Disco King - Reality - 2003
59. Neukoln - Heroes - 1977
60. Let's Dance - Let's Dance - 1983
61. Absolute Beginners - OST or Nothing Has Changed - 1986
62. Word On A Wing - Station To Station - 1976
63. China Girl - Let's Dance - 1983
64. The Jean Genie - Aladdin Sane - 1973
65. Teenage Wildlife - Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) - 1980
66. Sons Of The Silent Age - Heroes - 1977
67. Something In The Air - Hours - 1999
68. Buddha Of Suburbia - Buddha Of Suburbia - 1993
69. The Hearts Filthy Lesson - 1. Outside - 1995
70. Hallo Spaceboy - 1. Outside - 1995
71. Shadow Man - Nothing Has Changed - 2001
72. Andy Warhol - Hunky Dory - 1971
73. It's No Game (No.1) - Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) - 1980
74. Subterraneans - Low - 1977
75. The Drowned Girl - David Bowie in Bertolt Brecht's Baal - 1982
76. D.J. - Lodger - 1979
77. African Night Flight - Lodger - 1979
78. Silly Boy Blue - The Deram Anthology - 1967
79. Drive In Saturday - Aladdin Sane - 1973
80. Win - Young Americans - 1975
81. Jump They Say - Black Tie, White Noise - 1993
82. Heathen (The Rays) - Heathen - 2002
83. Blackout - Heroes - 1977
84. 5.15 The Angels Have Gone - Heathen - 2002
85. Love Is Lost (Hello Steve Reich Mix) - The Next Day (Extra) - 2013
86. Watch That Man - Aladdin Sane - 1973
87. 1984 - Diamond Dogs - 1974
88. Beauty And The Beast - Heroes - 1977
89. Big Brother/Chant Of The Skeletal Family - Diamond Dogs - 1974 (these appear as two different songs in the playlist... that's the reason of the 101 songs count)
90. I'm Deranged - 1. Outside - 1995
91. The London Boys - The Deram Anthology - 1966
92. Fall Dog Bombs The Moon - Reality - 2003
93. Lady Grinning Soul - Aladdin Sane - 1973
94. Joe The Lion - Heroes - 1977
95. V-2 Schneider - Heroes - 1977
96. Repetition - Lodger - 1979
97. Conversation Piece - Heathen (Bonus Disc) - 2002 (actually in the playlist you'll find the Space Oddity 40th anniversary version)
98. Move On - Lodger - 1979
99. Time - Aladdin Sane - 1973
100. Let Me Sleep Beside You - The Deram Anthology - 1970

Songs by albums:
8 songs:

Hunky Dory (1971), Low (1977)
7 songs:
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust... (1972), Aladdin Sane (1973), Heroes (1977), Lodger (1979)

6 songs:
Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) (1980)

5 songs:
The Man Who Sold The World (1971), Diamond Dogs (1974), Young Americans (1975), Station To Station (1976)

4 songs:
Heathen (2002), Nothing Has Changed (anthology, 2014)

3 songs:
David Bowie - The Deram Anthology (1997), Outside (1995), The Next Day (2013)

2 songs:
Space Oddity (1969), Let's Dance (1983), Reality (2003)

1 song:
David Bowie in Bertolt Brecht's Baal (1982), Black Tie White Noise (1993), Buddha of Suburbia (1993), Hours (1999)

0 songs:
Pin Ups (1973, covers), Tonight (1984), Never Let Me Down (1987), Tin Machine (1989), Tin Machine II (1991), Earthling (1997)


Others (singles, soundtracks, etc...): 3 songs


Songs by decades:
1970: 66 songs
1980: 13 songs
2000: 7 songs
1990: 6 songs
1960: 4 songs
2010: 4 songs


Albums chart 
(I assigned 100 points to #1 song, 99 points to #2 song, etc...)
1. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust..., 576 points
2. Hunky Dory, 565 points
3. Low, 521 points
4. Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps), 369 points
5. Station To Station, 366 points
6. Young Americans, 320 points
7. The Man Who Sold The World, 315 points
8. Lodger, 239 points
9. Diamond Dogs, 232 points
10. Aladdin Sane, 223 points
11. Heroes, 220 points
12. Nothing Has Changed, 206 points
13. Others (singles, soundtracks...), 159 points
14. The Next Day, 151 points
15. Space Oddity, 139 points
16. Heathen, 97 points
17. Let's Dance, 79 points
18. Outside, 74 points
19. Reality, 52 points
20. Hours, 34 points
21. David Bowie - The Deram Anthology, 34 points
22. The Buddha of Suburbia, 33 points
23. David Bowie in Bertolt Brecht's Baal, 26 points
24. Black Tie White Noise, 20 points




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Friday, January 9, 2015

NME 50 Best Songs & 50 Best Albums of the Decade (So Far)


British weekly NME just compiled a a Top50 songs and a Top50 albums of the decade so far. As you may guess from the picture, these lists are dominated by Arctic Monkeys (two songs, two albums #1 album) and Kanye West (two songs, three album, #1 song). Quite interestingly, there are some differences between these Top50s and the Top50 of year 2014 recently published by the same magazine. For example, here Jamie T's Zombie makes a big jump, becoming #2 song of 2014 after Future Islands' Seasons (in the 2014 chart, it was only #8). While La Roux's Trouble In Paradise - #6 album in the 2014 chart - simply disappears from the best of the decade. Another interesting fact, these are not charts for old men. Few artists are long-time players, from the 1990s and before: David Bowie, Nick Cave, Noel Gallagher, Blur, Daft Punk. Last trivia: 98% of songs and albums are available on Spotify. 

Enjoy!

Previously on the best-of-decade-so-far side of Spotirama:


NME 50 BEST SONGS OF THE DECADE (SO FAR)
(from #1 to #50)

NME 50 BEST ALBUMS OF THE DECADE (SO FAR)
(from #1 to #50, full albums)

(from #1 to #50, 3 tracks each album)


Full list

Strikethroughs songs (1/50) and albums (1/50) are not available on Spotify. Some songs and/or albums may be not available in all countries.

Top 50 Tracks
1. Jay-Z and Kanye West – Niggas In Paris
2. Daft Punk – Get Lucky
3. Arctic Monkeys – Do I Wanna Know?
4. Foals – Spanish Sahara
5. Azealia Banks – 212
6. Lana Del Rey – Video Games
7. Tame Impala – Elephant
8. Alt-J – Breezeblocks
9. Palma Violets – Best Of Friends
10. Disclosure – White Noise
11. Future Islands – Seasons (Waiting On You)
12. Grimes – Oblivion
13. Pond – Xanman
14. Jamie T – Zombie
15. Arctic Monkeys – R U Mine?
16. Tyler the Creator – Yonkers
17. Gorillaz – Stylo
18. MIA – Born Free
19. Kanye West – Power
20. Arcade Fire – We Used To Wait
21. Jack White – Sixteen Saltines
22. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – AKA What a Life
23. Grinderman – Heathen Child
24. LCD Soundsystem – Drunk Girl
25. Crystal Castles – Plague
26. Metronomy – The Bay
27. Pulp vs Soulwax – After You
28. David Bowie – Where Are We Now?
29. Blur – Under The Westway
30. Lorde – Royals
31. Arcade Fire – Ready To Start
32. Jungle – Busy Earnin’
33. Best Coast – Boyfriend
34. These New Puritans – We Want War
35. Warpaint – Undertow
36. The National – Bloodbuzz Ohio
37. Cold Cave – The Great Pan Is Dead
38. Jake Bugg – Lightning Bolt
39. Fat White Family – Touch The Leather
40. Iceage – Iceage (Broken Bone)
41. Drenge – Bloodsports
42. Janelle Monae – Tightrope
43. The Vaccines – Post Break-Up Sex
44. Foster The People – Pumped Up Kicks
45. The Horrors – I Can See Through You
46. M83 – Midnight City
47. St Vincent – Digital Witness
48. Arctic Monkeys – I Wanna Be Yours
49. Royal Blood – Little Monster
50. Frank Ocean – Pyramids

Top 50 Albums
1. Arctic Monkeys - AM
2. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
3. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
4. Tame Impala - Lonerism
5. Grimes - Visions
6. Kanye West - Yeezus
7. St. Vincent - St. Vincent
8. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d. city
9. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
10. Metronomy - The English Riviera
11. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring for My Halo
12. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
13. Arctic Monkeys - Suck It and See
14. These New Puritans - Hidden
15. Mac DeMarco - Salad Days
16. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
17. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
18. Alt-J - An Awesome Wave
19. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
20. Aphex Twin - Syro
21. Caribou - Our Love
22. LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening
23. Foals - Holy Fire
24. Merchandise - After the End
25. Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork
26. Savages – Silence Yourself
27. The Maccabees – Given To The Wild
28. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Push The Sky Away
29. Run The Jewels – Run The Jewels 2
30. Ariel Pink – Before Today
31. The National – High Violet
32. Jay-Z / Kanye West – Watch The Throne
33. Frank Ocean – Channel Orange
34. Royal Blood – Royal Blood
35. Wu Lyf – Go Tell Fire To The Mountain
36. Wild Beasts – Smother
37. Foals – Total Life Forever
38. Pond – Beard, Wives, Denim
39. Beach House – Teen Dream
40. Laura Marling – Once I Was An Eagle
41. Palma Violets – 180
42. Jake Bugg – Jake Bugg
43. The Horrors – Skying
44. Jamie T – Carry On The Grudge
45. Jack White – Blunderbuss
46. David Bowie – The Next Day
47. Lana Del Rey – Born To Die
48. Warpaint – The Fool
49. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
50. Katy B – On A Mission

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Wednesday, January 7, 2015

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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