APB - Shoot You Down

400 Blows - Movin'

The Escalators - The Munsters Theme

Thee Milkshakes - Out of Control

The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping

Go-Go's - Our Lips Are Sealed

The Selector - Celebrate the Bullet

Wazmo Nariz - Tele-Tele-Telephone

The man wears two ties at the same time! How weird is he?

The Raincoats- Fairytale in the Supermarket

New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle

The Waitresses - I Know What Boys Like

Split Rivitt - Soul Limbo

Amazing harmonica action

The Tapes - Life In the New City

Akrylykz - Syderman

Expressos - Tango In Mono

Dorothy - I Confess

The records that gave this blog its title. Strangely soft for Industrial Records. A real favourite of mine

Purple Hearts - Millions Like Us

The Cure - A Forest

Alex Fergusson - Stay With Me Tonight

ATV goes solo - sounds like a lost dancefloor classic to me

Joe Jackson - Is She Really Going Out With Him?

Magazine - Shot By Both Sides

Tubeway Army - Are 'Friends' Electric?

Wasted Youth - I'll Remember You

Kleenex - You

The Chords - Something's Missing

The Slits - In the Beginning There Was Rhythm

Double sider with The Pop Group

The Pop Group - Where There's A Will

Double sider with the Slits

Silicon Teens - Memphis Tennesee

It's that Daniel Miller man again!

New Order - Everythings Gone Green

The single came in, I think four different colours. I've only got two!

The Jam - Going Underground

John Foxx - Underpass

One of the key synth/elctronic singles from this era. Almost a companion to The Normal's Warm Leatherette

I Jog (And the Tracksuits) - Red Box

Die Doraus + die Marinas - Fred from Jupiter

Great, fun synth action from Germany

The B-52s - Give Me Back My Man

Brian Brain - Jive Jive

Wire - Dot Dash

Talk Talk - Talk Talk

I spent hours looking at this record sleeve as a kid.

The Jam - In The City

The start of the mod-revival and a brilliant song

The Mekons - Where Were You?

Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart

More classic post-punk. Everyone should have one

The Undertones - Teenage Kicks

Another stone cold classic - I don't think there's anything to say about them that hasn't already been said.

The Keys - I Don't Wanna Cry

Sounds to me like the LAs must have heard this record. Or maybe they'd all heard the Byrds! Lovely stuff

Those Naughty Lumps - Iggy Pop's Jacket

Released on Liverpool's Zoo Records - came in a fold out sleeve designed by Bill Drummond and Dave Balfe

Glaxo Babies - Christine Keeler

Quite simply one of the best songs of any era - great lyrics, perfect music. I just can't get enough of it

Fantastic Something - The Nigh We Flew Out the Window

A bit late for this blog but its a lovely song - and its my blog!!!!

Martin Rushent - Give It All You've Got

Solo stuff from the Human League (and many others) producer.

Devo - Jocko Homo

Weird stuff from those devolution boys!! Their first and I still think their best

The Only Ones - Another Girl Another Planet

Just one of the best songs ever!

999 - Nasty Nasty

Dead Kennedys - California Uber Alles

Metal Urbain - Paris Marquis

Riot Squad - Fuck the Tories

Stiff Little Fingers - Suspect Device

Venus and the Razorblades - Workin' Girl

Electric Guitars - Work

Downtown Strutz - Pretty Flamingos

Maximum Joy - In the Air

Red Rinse - What A Wonderful Sense of Timing

Alternomen Unlimted - Facade

The Four Kings - Non-Stop Dancing

Yachts - Suffice to Say

I have a soft spot for these New Wavers - clever lyrics and catchy music
Maybe not the coolest band but I love 'em

Television - Prove It

The Flys - Beverley

Wayne County and the Electric Chairs - Berlin

Venigmas - Red Revenge

Mod/power pop/new wave thing - b-side to Turn the Lights out

Cult Figures - Zip Nolan

With added Swell Maps

The Monochrome Set- He's Frank

Adam Ant's original band (the next one went off to form Bow Wow Wow) - the Monochrome Set are shamefully under-rated in my view

The Tubes - White Punks on Dope

One of my first 'punk' singles and still one of my favourites

Buzzcocks - Orgasm Addict

Marine Girls - Don't Come Back

You can see how Tracy got from here to Everything But the Girl

Nash the Slash - 19th Nervous Breakdown

Ronny - If You Want Me To Stay

Ronny was a kind of French Grace Jones who liked to dress in uniforms!!!!

Prag Vec - Bits

Virgin Prunes - Twenty Tens

Vision - Lucifer's Friend

Who gave those goths a synth??????

Chris and Cosey - October Love Song

Ian Dury and the Blockheards - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick

Kraftwerk - The Model

Electric Eels - I Don't Wanna Go To Moscow

Psycho - Psycho Killer

Medium Medium - Them Or Me

The Flatbackers - Pumping Iron

The Brians - My Brother's Famous

Gee Mr Tracy - I Wish the Whole Damn World Was In A Bottle

The Squares - Buddy Holly

Art Objects - Showing Off to Impress Girls

Apocalypse Jive - Life

Acrobats of Desire - Parking Boys

Sheffield post punk on small indie/private press. String quartet meets DIY sensabilities. Let me know if you want the rest of the EP.

Metrophase - Cold Rebellion

Amazing mix of dark synth action and acoustic music. Steev Bugress and with the help of the Swell Maps.

Spions - Russian Way of Life

The Mood - Paris is One Day Away

Oh, for the days when Paris was exotic and men with too much eyeliner were the height of sexual attraction!

Nick Nicely - DCT Dreams

Synth pop psychedelia from the criminally underrated Nick Nicely. The sound of Blade Runner on acid.

David - Am I Normal?

Pop synth action from 1983. Producer lead recording with Virginia David on vocals. For someone who is questioning her sanity it sounds very up beat and peppy!

John Cooper Clarke - (I Married A) Monster from Outer Space

Amazing poetry/music from the punk bard! Music by Martin Hannett. To me its techno before its time - along with a plea for equality!

The Naughtiest Girl Was A Monitor - All The Naked Heroes

Great synth stuff from Sheffield. The b-side has two great tracks as well which I'll post later.

Orange Juice - Rip It Up

Sound track to many early experiences!!

Girls at Our Best - Fast Boyfriends

Great name, great band

Cabaret Voltaire - Nag Nag Nag

Used to scare the hell out me - still pretty sinister!

Robert Rental - Parlaysis

Recorded at teh same time as Leer's Private Plane and, if anything, more out there and marvelous

Thomas Leer - Private Plane

Moody and marvelous. As everyone knows, he whisphered the words so as not to wake his girlfriend who was sleeping in the next door room

The Normal - Warm Leatherette

Still one of the best singles, of any sort, anywhere, ever.

Man from Uncle - Moskow

From the synth opening to the crazy lyrics - pure perfection

Gruppo Sportivo - Rock N Roll

Passage - Love Song

Restless - Vanish Without A Trace

The Meteors - My Daddy Is A Vampire

The Polecats - Rockabilly Guy

Celia and the Mutations - Mony Mony

Celia, backed by the Stranglers, lays into this garage-punk classi

B-Movie - Nowhere Girl

Ok so I'm cheating! This is the 12in. version which is superior to the single imho

Art Objects - Showing off the Impress Girls

One of Bristol's finest

Scars - Horror Show

Medium Medium - So Hungry So Angry

The Passions - Skin Deep

Squire - Walking Down the Kings Road

Teenbeats - I Can't Control Myself

Even better than the Troggs

The V.I.P.s - Boys of the City

Sums up the frustrated life of a youg mod

Tones on Tail - Lions

Cowboys International - Thrash

Lori and the Chameleons - Touch

Japan - Ghosts

How this was ever chosen as a single I will never know. Its an absolutely marvelous song that is/was streets ahead of anything the 'new romantics' were capable of.
Am I the only person who thinks Duran Duran wanted to be Japan?

Nancy Nova - Made In Japan

The Synthetics - Japanese Toys

The Flys - Love and a Molotov Cocktail

More insect related punk mayhem

The Cramps - Human Fly

I'm a reborn maggot using germ warfare

Wire - I Am The Fly

Wire at their best - which is amazing!

Essential Logic - Eugene

Ex-X Ray Spex Sax track

Blurt - The Fish Needs a Bike

A fish needs a bike like a woman needs a man.
Great sax and crunching guitar

Honey Bane - Girl on the Run

Another solo effort from an ex-Fatal Microbe.
Honey Bane's first record on Crass's label.

Pete Fender - Promises Promises

Ex-Fatal Mircobe, Pete Feder's solo effort was an EP. Great power-punk anthems the lot, I've gone for the lead track here. Let me know if you want more!

Fatal Microbes - Violence Grows

The sound of disaffected suburban London.
A John Peel favourite.

Alertnative TV - Communicate

Mark Perry and Alex Fergusson whip  up a punk-synth-disco combination.

Henry Badowski - My Face

Another one of those 'why oh why wasn't he successful' musicians. Henry played with Chelsea, the Damned and Alerntative TV amongst others.
Just a perfect slice of synth pop.