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The Filth and the Fury! Punk + New Wave - The Greatest Punk, New Wave + Post-Punk Collection Ever Compiled! (50th Anniversary Updated Improved Remastered Expanded Super Deluxe Edition) (37CD) (2026)
In celebration of 50 years since punk first exploded onto the music scene on both sides of the Atlantic in 1976 with bands such as the Ramones and Blondie in the US and the Damned and the Sex Pistols in the UK, here is my updated and expanded collection of the very best records released in the original punk, new wave and post-punk era.
I have now added an additional 200 tracks to my original compilation creating a monster 800 track collection.
1976 was a pivotal year for punk rock, marking its explosive rise in both New York and London. The year saw the release of foundational albums like the Ramones' self-titled debut and singles such as the Sex Pistols' "Anarchy in the U.K.". Key events included the 100 Club Punk Festival in London and the televised "Grundy incident" that amplified the movement's notoriety.
Key developments in 1976
• Musical releases: The Ramones released their influential debut album in April, and the Sex Pistols released "Anarchy in the U.K." in November.
• London scene: British punk culture grew significantly, with the emergence of bands like the Sex Pistols, The Damned, The Clash, and Buzzcocks.
• Fanzines: Punk zines like Punk in the US and Sniffin' Glue in the UK emerged, providing a voice for the movement.
• Cultural impact: Punk's rebellious attitude and distinct fashion, including torn clothing and safety pins, became widely visible.
• Media explosion: A famous live television appearance by the Sex Pistols led to a media frenzy and solidified their controversial image.
• Concerts: The 100 Club Punk Festival in London showcased a range of influential bands and is considered a watershed moment for the UK scene.
• Influence: 1976 was a critical year that changed the musical landscape and influenced generations of rock and alternative musicians.
The Today show interview with the Sex Pistols on Thames Television broadcast on December 1, 1976 was one of the most controversial moments in television history:
...and as an alternative - the Amish Pistols comedy sketch :-)
Punk rock
Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s. Rooted in 1960s garage rock, punk bands rejected the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock music. They typically produced short, fast-paced songs with hard-edged melodies and singing styles, stripped-down instrumentation, and often shouted political, anti-establishment lyrics. Punk embraces a DIY ethic; many bands self-produce recordings and distribute them through independent record labels.
Between 1974 and 1976, when the genre that became known as punk was developing, prominent acts included Television, Patti Smith, and the Ramones in New York City; the Saints in Brisbane; and the Sex Pistols, the Clash, the Stranglers, and the Damned in London, and the Buzzcocks in Manchester. By late 1976, punk had become a major cultural phenomenon in the UK. It gave rise to a punk subculture that expressed youthful rebellion through distinctive styles of clothing, such as T-shirts with deliberately offensive graphics, leather jackets, studded or spiked bands and jewellery, safety pins, and bondage and S&M clothes.
In 1977, the influence of the music and subculture spread worldwide. It took root in a wide range of local scenes that often rejected affiliation with the mainstream.
The Sex Pistols' live TV skirmish with Bill Grundy on December 1, 1976, was the signal moment in British punk's transformation into a major media phenomenon, even as some stores refused to stock the records and radio airplay was hard to come by. Press coverage of punk misbehavior grew intense: On January 4, 1977, The Evening News of London ran a front-page story on how the Sex Pistols "vomited and spat their way to an Amsterdam flight". In February 1977, the first album by a British punk band appeared: Damned Damned Damned (by the Damned) reached number thirty-six on the UK chart. The EP Spiral Scratch, self-released by Manchester's Buzzcocks, was a benchmark for both the DIY ethic and regionalism in the country's punk movement. The Clash's self-titled debut album came out two months later and rose to number twelve; the single "White Riot" entered the top forty. In May, the Sex Pistols achieved new heights of controversy (and number two on the singles chart) with "God Save the Queen". The band had recently acquired a new bassist, Sid Vicious, who was seen as exemplifying the punk persona. The swearing during the Grundy interview and the controversy over "God Save the Queen" led to a moral panic.
Scores of new punk groups formed around the United Kingdom, as far from London as Belfast's Stiff Little Fingers and Dunfermline, Scotland's the Skids. Though most survived only briefly, perhaps recording a small-label single or two, others set off new trends. Crass, from Essex, merged a vehement, straight-ahead punk rock style with a committed anarchist mission, and played a major role in the emerging anarcho-punk movement.
Sham 69, London's Menace, and the Angelic Upstarts from South Shields in the Northeast combined a similarly stripped-down sound with populist lyrics, a style that became known as street punk. These expressly working-class bands contrasted with others in the second wave that presaged the post-punk phenomenon. Liverpool's first punk group, Big in Japan, moved in a glam, theatrical direction. The band did not survive long, but it spun off several well-known post-punk acts. The songs of London's Wire were characterized by sophisticated lyrics, minimalist arrangements, and extreme brevity.
Alongside thirteen original songs that would define classic punk rock, the Clash's debut had included a cover of the recent Jamaican reggae hit "Police and Thieves".
Other first wave bands such as the Members and new entrants to the scene like the Ruts and the Police interacted with the reggae and ska subcultures, incorporating their rhythms and production styles.
The punk rock phenomenon helped spark a full-fledged ska revival movement known as 2 Tone, centered on bands such as the Specials, the Beat, Madness, and the Selecter. In July, the Sex Pistols' third single, "Pretty Vacant", reached number six and Australia's the Saints had a top-forty hit with "This Perfect Day".
In September, Generation X and the Clash reached the top forty with, respectively, "Your Generation" and "Complete Control". X-Ray Spex's "Oh Bondage Up Yours!" did not chart, but it became a requisite item for punk fans. The BBC banned "Oh Bondage Up Yours!" due to its controversial lyrics.
In October, the Sex Pistols hit number eight with "Holidays in the Sun", followed by the release of their first and only "official" album, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols. Inspiring yet another round of controversy, it topped the British charts. In December, one of the first books about punk rock was published: The Boy Looked at Johnny, by Julie Burchill and Tony Parsons.
"Teenage Kicks" was the debut single by Northern Irish punk rock band the Undertones. Written in the summer of 1977 by the band's principal songwriter, the song was recorded on 15 June 1978 and initially released that September on independent Belfast record label Good Vibrations, before the band signed to Sire Records on 2 October 1978.
Influential BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel is known to have repeatedly stated "Teenage Kicks" to be his all-time favourite song from 1978 until his death in 2004. When he first played the song on his show on 25 September, he played the song twice (something he had never previously done). Peel also specifically requested sections of the lyrics of the song be engraved upon his tombstone. The song has also been ranked as the second best punk/new wave song of all time in a 2016 poll conducted by an alternative music radio station.
New Wave
New wave is a loosely defined music genre that encompasses pop-oriented styles from the late 1970s and the 1980s. It was originally used as a catch-all for the various styles of music that emerged after punk rock, including punk itself. Later, critical consensus favored "new wave" as an umbrella term involving many popular music styles of the era, including power pop, synth-pop, ska revival, and more specific forms of punk rock that were less abrasive. It may also be viewed as a more accessible counterpart of post-punk.
New wave bands largely emerged during the punk and post-punk eras of the late 1970s and early 1980s, but their influence prevailed throughout many decades of pop rock.
The new wave music scene was stylistically diverse from its outset. Some late ‘70s new wave artists such as Blondie, XTC, Nick Lowe, and Elvis Costello appropriated the raw punk energy of groups like the Sex Pistols and the Damned. Other early ‘80s groups like The Human League, Tears for Fears and Devo, embraced synthesizers and funk rhythms. Still, others, like the Talking Heads, Adam and the Ants, Bow Wow Wow, and the Police, incorporated reggae and West African rhythmic concepts to traditional rock music.
By the 1980s, the use of synthesizers became widespread. When the post-punk band Joy Division dissolved upon the death of singer Ian Curtis, the remaining members reformed as New Order - a new wave group that brought keyboards and a power-pop sensibility to the Joy Division ethos. Synth pop influenced many other 1980s new wave acts, including The Human League, Tears for Fears, Simple Minds and Gary Numan. Even the Cure incorporated synthesizers into their sound, which helped create a unified aesthetic in most 1980s power pop.
Post-punk
Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad genre of rock music that emerged in the late 1970s in the wake of punk rock. Post-punk musicians departed from punk's traditional elements and raw simplicity, instead adopting a broader, more experimental approach that encompassed a variety of avant-garde sensibilities and non-rock influences. Inspired by punk's energy and DIY ethic but determined to break from rock cliches, artists experimented with styles like funk, electronic music, jazz, and dance music; the production techniques of dub and disco; and ideas from art and politics, including critical theory, modernist art, cinema and literature. These communities produced independent record labels, visual art, multimedia performances and fanzines.
The early post-punk vanguard was represented by groups including Siouxsie and the Banshees, Wire, Public Image Ltd, the Pop Group, Cabaret Voltaire, Magazine, Pere Ubu, Joy Division, Talking Heads, Devo, Gang of Four, the Slits, the Cure, and the Fall.
The movement was closely related to the development of ancillary genres such as gothic rock, neo-psychedelia, no wave, and industrial music. By the mid-1980s, post-punk had dissipated, but it provided a foundation for the New Pop movement and the later alternative and independent genres.
The term "punk rock" was previously used by American rock critics in the early 1970s to describe the mid-1960s garage bands. Certain late 1960s and early 1970s Detroit acts, such as MC5 and Iggy and the Stooges, and other bands from elsewhere created out-of-the-mainstream music that became highly influential on what was to come. Glam rock in the UK and the New York Dolls from New York have also been cited as key influences. Between 1974 and 1976, when the genre that became known as punk was developing, prominent acts included Television, Patti Smith, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, and the Ramones in New York City; the Saints in Brisbane; the Sex Pistols, the Clash, and the Damned in London, and the Buzzcocks in Manchester. By late 1976, punk had become a major cultural phenomenon in the UK. It gave rise to a punk subculture that expressed youthful rebellion through distinctive styles of clothing, such as T-shirts with deliberately offensive graphics, leather jackets, studded or spiked bands and jewelry, safety pins, and bondage and S&M clothes.
In 1977, the influence of the music and subculture spread worldwide. It took root in a wide range of local scenes that often rejected affiliation with the mainstream. In the late 1970s, punk experienced a second wave, when new acts that had not been active during its formative years adopted the style. By the early 1980s, faster and more aggressive subgenres, such as hardcore punk (e.g., Minor Threat), Oi! (e.g., Sham 69), street punk (e.g., the Exploited), and anarcho-punk (e.g., Crass), became some of the predominant modes of punk rock, while bands more similar in form to the first wave (e.g., X, the Adicts) also flourished. Many musicians who identified with punk or were inspired by it went on to pursue other musical directions, giving rise to movements such as post-punk, new wave, thrash metal, and alternative rock. Following alternative rock's mainstream breakthrough in the 1990s with Nirvana, punk rock saw renewed major-label interest and mainstream appeal exemplified by the rise of the California bands Green Day, Social Distortion, Rancid, the Offspring, Bad Religion, and NOFX.
The anti-government stance and nihilistic impression of the future provided by capitalism united the punk scene in the 1970s in the United Kingdom as other bands emerged in the 70s and 80s like X-Ray Spex and Steel Pulse.
The Ramones
The Ramones were an American punk rock band formed in the New York City neighborhood Forest Hills, Queens in 1974. Known for helping establish the punk movement in the United States and elsewhere, the Ramones are often cited as the first true punk rock band. Although they never achieved significant commercial success, the band is seen today as highly influential in punk culture.
"Blitzkrieg Bop", titled "The Blitzkrieg Bop!!" on its single release, is a song by American punk rock band Ramones, released in February 1976 as their debut single in the United States. It was the opening track on the band's self-titled debut album.
Although its composition was credited to the band as a whole, the song was written by drummer Tommy Ramone (music and lyrics) and bassist Dee Dee Ramone (lyrics). The song's "big dumb chant" ("Hey! Ho! Let's go!") became a global rallying cry at sporting events.
"Blitzkrieg Bop" was number 92 on the 2004 Rolling Stone list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In March 2005, Q magazine placed it at number 31 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks, and in 2008 Rolling Stone placed it number 18 of the top 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time.
The Damned
The Damned played their first show on 6 July 1976, supporting the Sex Pistols at the 100 Club. A lo-fi recording of the show was later released as Live at the 100 Club (2007). As part of London's burgeoning punk scene, the Damned again played the club on 20 September for the 100 Club Punk Festival.
On 22 October, five weeks before the release of the Sex Pistols' "Anarchy in the U.K.", Stiff Records released the Damned's first single "New Rose", thus making them the first UK punk band to release a single. The single's B-side was a fast-paced cover of the Beatles' "Help!". "New Rose" was described by critic Ned Raggett as a "deathless anthem of nuclear-strength romantic angst."
When the Sex Pistols released their single, they took the Damned, along with the Clash and Johnny Thunders' Heartbreakers, as openers for their December "Anarchy Tour of the UK". Many of the tour dates were cancelled by organizers or local authorities, with only seven of approximately 20 scheduled shows taking place. The Damned were expelled from the tour before its end by Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren.
The Damned released their debut studio album Damned Damned Damned on 18 February 1977. Produced by Nick Lowe, it was the first studio album released by a British punk band and included a new single, "Neat Neat Neat".
The band toured to promote the album, in March opening for T. Rex on their final tour before Marc Bolan's death that September. Later that spring, they became the first British punk band to tour the United States. According to Brendan Mullen, founder of the Los Angeles club the Masque, their first tour of the U.S. found them favouring very fast tempos, helping to inspire the first wave of West Coast hardcore punk. Author Ian Winwood wrote, "In terms of placing boots on the ground, it is The Damned who can be credited as having had the most influence on American punk rock."
Sex Pistols
The Sex Pistols are an English punk rock band formed in London in 1975. Although their initial career lasted just two and a half years, they became culturally influential in popular music. The band initiated the punk movement in the United Kingdom and inspired many later punk, post-punk and alternative rock musicians, while their clothing and hairstyles were a significant influence on the early punk image.
The Sex Pistols debut 7″ single “Anarchy in the U.K.” released on EMI Records in November 1976. Despite being banned from radio and receiving many negative reviews the record reached Number 38 in the UK charts before being withdrawn by the record company.
EMI decided to withdraw the single after the media furore of the band’s appearance on the ‘Today’ show; where interviewer Bill Grundy goaded the Pistols into swearing live on early evening TV. By January 1977 EMI had buckled to internal pressure and sacked the Sex Pistols. Honouring their £40,000 contract in full.
Now widely regarded as the definitive punk anthem it is important to understand the impact the single had on its release and remember the subject matter. “Anarchy in the U.K.” sounded like nothing that had came before and unleashed the Pistols to a wider audience. An audience probably more used to chart toppers like Showaddywaddy and ABBA!! Things would never be the same again…
B-side ‘I Wanna Be Me‘ does not feature on the ‘Never Mind the Bollocks’ album, but was previously available on the ‘Kiss This’ compilation CD and Sex Pistols 3 CD Box Set. It is currently available on the ‘Demos 76-77’ CD box set.
The single was released on 7″ only, and originally issued in a plain black sleeve, before being reissued in a standard EMI sleeve after initial copies mis-credited production of the B-side to Chris Thomas instead of Dave Goodman.
The Sex Pistols' first line-up consisted of vocalist Johnny Rotten (born John Lydon), guitarist Steve Jones, drummer Paul Cook, and bassist Glen Matlock, with Matlock replaced by Sid Vicious (born John Richie) in early 1977. Under the management of Malcolm McLaren, the band gained widespread attention from British press after swearing live on-air during a December 1976 television interview. Their May 1977 single "God Save the Queen", which described the monarchy as a "fascist regime", was released to coincide with national celebrations for the Queen's Silver Jubilee. The song was promptly banned from being played by the BBC and by nearly every independent radio station in Britain, making it the most censored record in British history.
Their sole studio album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols (1977) was a UK number one and is regarded as seminal in the development of punk rock.
This is the original artwork for the album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols. It was designed by Jamie Reid (1947-2023) and, although seen here in its black and white artwork, the fluorescent colours it was printed in and the title were chosen in order to be noticed and to offend. Malcolm McLaren (1946-2010), manager of the Sex Pistols, has said that, to this end, Reid's "style subverted the spectacle and commodification of every day life by being bolder and more shocking". In November 1977, the Nottingham Virgin record shop was taken to court for displaying the album in its window, because of its 'obscene' name. They were found not guilty when the defending counsel produced expert witnesses who were able to prove that the word 'Bollocks' was an Old English term used to refer to a priest.
Jamie Reid's cut-and-paste aesthetic grew from his interest in radical politics. His artistic style developed while at art college in Croydon, where he was influenced by the ideas of the avant-garde political group, the Situationist International. The political slant to his art was aroused by the May 1968 Paris student riots, which inspired fraternal protests organised by Reid at the Croydon College of Art. These were directed with fellow student Malcolm McLaren, later to become the manager of the Sex Pistols.
In January 1978, at the final gig of a difficult and media-hyped tour of the US, Rotten announced the band's break-up live on stage. Over the next few months, the three remaining members recorded songs for McLaren's film of the Sex Pistols' story, The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle. Vicious died of a heroin overdose in February 1979 following his arrest for the alleged murder of his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen. Rotten, Jones, Cook and Matlock later reunited for a successful tour in 1996. Further one-off performances and short tours followed over the next decade. In June 2024, it was announced that Frank Carter would perform with Jones, Cook and Matlock, as the Sex Pistols, for two fundraiser concerts in England in August. A UK tour was performed in September 2024 with the group and tour billed as "Frank Carter and Paul Cook, Steve Jones, Glen Matlock of the Sex Pistols do Never Mind the Bollocks".
The Sex Pistols have been recognised as a highly influential band. In 2006, they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame although, true to their image, they refused to attend the ceremony, with Rotten referring to the museum as "a piss stain".
"Anarchy in the U.K." is a song by English punk rock band the Sex Pistols. It was released as the band's debut single on 26 November 1976 and was later featured on their album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols. "Anarchy in the U.K." was number 56 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and is included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll.
Blondie
Blondie is an American rock band formed in New York City in 1974 by the singer Debbie Harry and the guitarist Chris Stein. The band was a pioneer in the American new wave genre and scene of the mid 70s.
The band's first two albums contained strong elements of punk and new wave. Although highly successful in the UK and Australia, Blondie was regarded as an underground band in the US. This was until the release of their critically acclaimed third album in 1978, announced as Parallel Lines. Over the next two years, the band released a string of hit singles, including "Heart of Glass" (US No. 1), "One Way or Another", "Dreaming", "Call Me" (US No. 1), "Atomic", "The Tide Is High" (US No. 1), and "Rapture" (US No. 1). The band became noted for its eclectic mixture of musical styles, incorporating elements of disco, pop, reggae, funk and early hip hop music.
Blondie disbanded after the release of their sixth studio album, The Hunter, in 1982. Harry continued to pursue a solo career with varied results after taking a few years off to care for her partner Stein, who was diagnosed with pemphigus, a rare autoimmune disease of the skin. The band re-formed in 1997, achieving renewed success and their sixth number one single in the UK with "Maria" in 1999, exactly 20 years after their first UK number one single, "Heart of Glass".
The group toured and performed throughout the world during the following years, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006. Blondie has sold over 40 million records worldwide and continues to actively perform. The band's eleventh studio album, Pollinator, was released on May 5, 2017.
Blondie is set to release their 12th studio album, titled "High Noon" in the spring of 2026. Produced by John Congleton, this album is described as a traditional, eclectic mix of styles featuring songwriting contributions from Johnny Marr and Glen Matlock. It is the final album to feature drummer Clem Burke, who passed away in 2025.
"X Offender" is the debut single by American band Blondie. Written by Gary Valentine and Debbie Harry for the band's self-titled debut album, Blondie, the song was released as the album's lead single on Private Stock in June 1976.
The title of the song was originally "Sex Offender". Bassist Gary Valentine originally wrote the song about an 18-year-old boy being arrested for having sex with his younger girlfriend. Debbie Harry changed the lyrics so that the song was about a prostitute being attracted to the police officer that had arrested her. The track was co-produced by Richard Gottehrer who had worked with 1960s girl group The Angels, and the song is reminiscent of that era in its style.
Private Stock insisted that the name of the single be changed to "X Offender" because they were nervous about the original title. It was released in mid-1976 with the B-side being "In the Sun". While the song did not chart, Chrysalis heard it along with the Blondie album and signed the band. "X Offender" later served as the B-side to "Rip Her to Shreds". Due to limited copies of the single being released and the subsequent popularity of the band, a copy of the original UK Private Stock single "X Offender"/"In the Sun" is a sought-after rarity with copies selling for £50 in collectors' markets since the mixes of both songs on the single are different from those on the Blondie album. These mixes appear as bonus tracks on EMI/Capitol Records' 2001 reissue of the album. No master tapes of the Private Stock versions have been kept in the archives; consequently, these bonus tracks are direct transfers from vinyl.
Buzzcocks
Buzzcocks are an English punk rock band formed by singer-songwriter and guitarist Pete Shelley and singer-songwriter Howard Devoto in Bolton in 1976. They achieved commercial success with singles that fuse pop with rapid-fire punk energy, inspiring the power pop and pop punk movements; these singles were later collected on Singles Going Steady, an acclaimed compilation album music journalist and critic Ned Raggett described as a "punk masterpiece".
Buzzcocks were not only the first Manchester punk band, but the first UK punk group anywhere outside of London. Their reputation is based on a string of classic pop-punk singles released in the late 70s, and they remain many people’s favourite punk group. Their compassionate and romantic songs tackled issues that really affected people’s lives, providing an alternative to the nihilism of the Sex Pistols, and the political sermonising of the Clash. Pete Shelley (guitar) and Howard Devoto (vocals) formed the band after travelling down to London to see a Sex Pistols gig in early 1976. They invited the Pistols to play in Manchester at the Lesser Free Trade Hall in June, an event that has gone down in Manchester musical history, being attended by many of the future key figures of the local music scene (including Tony Wilson, Martin Hannett, The Fall’s Mark E Smith, most of Joy Division/New Order, Morrissey and Mick Hucknall). When the Pistols returned to Manchester in July, Buzzcocks played their first ever gig as the support act.
With Steve Diggle on bass and John Maher on drums, the band recorded the ‘Spiral Scratch’ EP with producer Martin Hannett, and released it on their own label, New Hormones. This was a significant moment in the creation of the UK independent scene, showing that bands didn’t need to sign to the major labels - unlike the Pistols and Clash who had already done so - and was the starting point for the explosion of indie labels in the 80s. The EP included ‘Boredom’, one of the definitive punk songs with its notorious (and deliberately boring) two-note guitar solo.
But, just when things were going so well, Devoto decided to leave, later going on to form Magazine. The rest of the band carried on, with Shelley taking over the vocals and the majority of the songwriting, developing his ability to match his heartfelt lyrics to instantly memorable melodies. Diggle switched to guitar, and also emerged as a capable songwriter in his own right, providing an anthemic counterpoint to Shelley’s vulnerability. After Steve Garvey was brought in on bass, the new line-up signed to United Artists and released ‘Orgasm Addict’. This was followed by a series of further singles exploring romance, lust and heartbreak, peaking with one of the best ever punk songs, ‘Ever Fallen in Love?’ The band also made three albums - ‘Another Music in a Different Kitchen’, ‘Love Bites’ (both 1978) and ‘A Different Kind of Tension’ (1979) - which introduced longer, more experimental material.
The Clash
The Clash were an English rock band formed in London in 1976. Billed as "The Only Band That Matters", they are considered one of the most influential acts in the original wave of British punk rock, with their music fusing elements of reggae, dub, funk, ska, and rockabilly. The band also contributed to the post-punk and new wave movements that followed. For most of their recording career, the Clash consisted of lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Joe Strummer, lead guitarist and vocalist Mick Jones, bassist Paul Simonon, and drummer Nicky "Topper" Headon.
The Clash achieved critical and commercial success in the United Kingdom with the release of their debut album The Clash (1977) and their second album Give 'Em Enough Rope (1978). Their third album London Calling, which was released in the UK in December 1979, earned them popularity in the United States, where it was released the following month. A decade later, Rolling Stone named London Calling the best album of the 1980s. Following continued musical experimentation on their fourth album Sandinista! (1980), the band achieved further commercial success with the release of Combat Rock (1982), which includes the US top-10 hit "Rock the Casbah", helping the album to achieve a 2× platinum certification there.
The Undertones
The Undertones are a rock band formed in Derry, Northern Ireland in 1974. From 1975 to 1983, the Undertones consisted of Feargal Sharkey (vocals), John O'Neill (rhythm guitar, vocals), Damian O'Neill(lead guitar, vocals), Michael Bradley (bass, vocals) and Billy Doherty (drums).[5] Much of the earlier Undertones material drew influence from punk rock and new wave; the Undertones also incorporated elements of rock, glam rock and post-punk into material released after 1979, before citing soul and Motown as the influence for the material released upon their final album. The Undertones released thirteen singles and four studio albums between 1978 and 1983 before Sharkey announced his intention to leave the band in May 1983, citing musical differences as the reason for the break up.
"Teenage Kicks" is the debut single by Northern Irish punk rock band the Undertones. Written in the summer of 1977 by J.J. O'Neill, the band's rhythm guitarist and principal songwriter, the song was recorded on 15 June 1978 and initially released that September on independent Belfast record label Good Vibrations, before the band signed to Sire Records on 2 October 1978. Sire Records subsequently obtained all copyrights to the material released upon the Teenage Kicks EP and the song was re-released as a standard vinyl single on Sire's own label on 14 October that year, reaching number 31 in the UK Singles Chart two weeks after its release.
The single was not included upon the original May 1979 release of the band's debut album The Undertones; however, the October 1979 re-release of this debut album included both "Teenage Kicks" and the Undertones' second single, "Get Over You".
Influential BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel is known to have repeatedly stated "Teenage Kicks" to be his all-time favourite song, from 1978 until his death in 2004. When he first played the song on his show on 25 September, he played the song twice (something he had never previously done). Peel also specifically requested sections of the lyrics of the song be engraved upon his tombstone.
Seymour Stein, the president of Sire Records - in London on business - heard John Peel play "Teenage Kicks" on BBC Radio 1 and became interested in the band. Stein sent a London-based representative named Paul McNally to Derry to discuss a record deal with the band. McNally saw the band play live in what would ultimately prove to be their final performance at the Casbah on 29 September 1978. The following day, McNally convened with the Undertones to discuss a record contract. Three members of the band signed the proposed contract on this date, with the understanding that Feargal Sharkey and Michael Bradley would discuss negotiations to the contract with Seymour Stein in person in London.
"Teenage Kicks" (1978–1979)
On 2 October 1978, Bradley and Sharkey agreed to an increased advance fee of £10,000 offered by Stein upon the recording contract and signed to Sire Records on a five-year contract. Sire Records subsequently obtained all rights to the material released upon the Teenage Kicks EP and the song was re-released as a standard vinyl single upon Sire's own label two weeks later.
On 26 October, the Undertones performed "Teenage Kicks" live on Top of the Pops. With help from Peel (who had also recorded and broadcast a Peel Session with the Undertones on the 16th), Teenage Kicks peaked at number 31 in the UK Singles Chart the following month.
In November 1978, the Undertones embarked on their first tour of the UK. This tour lasted until 16 December and saw the band appear as the supporting act for The Rezillos and John Otway in England and Wales in addition to headlining in three concerts in Belfast and Derry.
In January 1979, the Undertones recorded their eponymous debut album at Eden Studios in Acton, West London, using producer Roger Bechirian, whom the band had worked with for the first time the previous December, when Bechirian had produced the band's second single, "Get Over You". Much of the material upon their first album had been performed regularly at the Casbah, and the band were able to record this album in the space of less than four weeks.
Following the release of "Get Over You" in February 1979, the Undertones' eponymous debut album was released in May. The primary lyrical concern of the songs focused upon youthful relationships and adolescence. Three further punk singles: "Jimmy Jimmy", "Here Comes the Summer" and "You've Got My Number (Why Don't You Use It?)" were released between April and October 1979, each to critical acclaim. In September 1979, the Undertones toured the United States for the first time, supporting The Clash with eight concerts in six different States.
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Siouxsie and the Banshees were a British rock band formed in London in 1976 by vocalist Siouxsie Sioux and bassist Steven Severin. Post-punk pioneers, they have been widely influential, both over their contemporaries and later acts. The Times called the group "one of the most audacious and uncompromising musical adventurers of the post-punk era".
Initially associated with the punk scene, the band - including guitarist John McKay and drummer Kenny Morris - rapidly evolved to create "a form of post-punk discord full of daring rhythmic and sonic experimentation". Their debut album The Scream was released to widespread critical acclaim in 1978. Following membership changes, including the addition of guitarist John McGeoch and drummer Budgie, they changed their musical direction and became one of the most successful alternative pop groups of the 1980s. Their third album Kaleidoscope (1980) peaked at number 5 on the UK Albums Chart. With Juju (1981) which also reached the top 10, they became an influence on the emerging gothic scene.
In 1988, the band made a breakthrough in North America with the multifaceted album Peepshow, which received critical praise. With substantial support from alternative rock radio stations, they achieved a mainstream hit in the US in 1991 with the pop single "Kiss Them for Me".
During their career, Siouxsie and the Banshees released 11 studio albums and 30 singles. The band experienced several line-up changes, with Siouxsie and Severin being the only constant members. They disbanded in 1996, with Siouxsie and Budgie continuing to record music as the Creatures, a second band they had formed in the early 1980s. In 2004, Siouxsie began a solo career.
The Cure
The Cure are an English rock band formed in Crawley in 1976 by Robert Smith (vocals, guitar) and Lol Tolhurst (drums). As of 2026, the band's line-up comprises Smith, Simon Gallup (bass), Roger O'Donnell (keyboards), Jason Cooper (drums) and Reeves Gabrels (guitar). Smith has remained the only constant member throughout numerous line-up changes since the band's formation.
Three Imaginary Boys (the Cure's 1979 debut album) and several early singles placed the band at the forefront of the emerging post-punk and new wave movements that were gaining prominence in the United Kingdom. The band adopted an increasingly dark and tormented style beginning with their second album Seventeen Seconds (1980), which had a strong influence on the emerging genre of gothic rock. After the release of their fourth album Pornography (1982), Smith started to introduce more pop into the band's music. The Cure achieved mainstream success with the albums Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me (1987), Disintegration (1989) and Wish (1992). The Cure's best-known songs include "Boys Don't Cry" (1979), "Close to Me" (1985), "Just Like Heaven" (1987), "Lovesong" (1989), and "Friday I'm in Love" (1992).
The Cure have released 14 studio albums and over 40 singles, selling more than 30 million records worldwide. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019. Their 14th album, Songs of a Lost World (2024), was their first release of all-new material in 16 years and received widespread acclaim, topping the charts in multiple countries.
At the 2026 Grammy Awards, The Cure won their first-ever Grammy awards after a 50-year career. They secured wins for Best Alternative Music Album for Songs of a Lost World and Best Alternative Music Performance for "Alone". The band skipped the ceremony to attend the funeral of their former bandmate, Perry Bamonte.
Joy Division
Joy Division were an English rock band formed in Salford in 1976. The group consisted of vocalist, guitarist and lyricist Ian Curtis, guitarist and keyboardist Bernard Sumner, bassist Peter Hook and drummer Stephen Morris.
Sumner and Hook formed the band after attending a June 1976 Sex Pistols concert. While Joy Division's first recordings were heavily influenced by early punk rock, they soon developed a sparse sound and style that made them one of the pioneering groups of the post-punk genre. Their self-released 1978 debut EP An Ideal for Living drew the attention of the Manchester television personality Tony Wilson, who signed them to his independent label Factory Records. Their debut album Unknown Pleasures, recorded with producer Martin Hannett, was released in 1979.
Curtis struggled with personal problems, including a failing marriage, depression, and epilepsy. As the band's popularity grew, Curtis's health condition made it increasingly difficult for him to perform; he occasionally experienced seizures on stage. He died by suicide on the eve of what would have been the band's first North American tour in May 1980, aged 23. Joy Division's second and final album, Closer, was released two months later; it and the single "Love Will Tear Us Apart" became their highest-charting releases.
Between July and October 1980, the remaining members, with the addition of keyboardist and guitarist Gillian Gilbert, regrouped under the name New Order. They were successful throughout the next decade, blending post-punk with electronicand dance music influences. Joy Division would remain a prominent influence on subsequent generations of alternative acts, particularly within the gothic rock genre. In 2023 and 2025, both Joy Division and New Order were nominated as one act for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
So, following years of exhaustive and extensive online research, plus my own recollections and fond memories of listening to John Peel and so many records bought at the time, here is my personal compilation of what I consider to be the 800 best and most important tracks from the original punk, new wave and post punk era.
This mammoth fully packed 37CD set contains many rare and extremely hard to find tracks, with a tremendous amount featured in their original 7" single versions and edits. Only the original studio mixes are included. No later remixes, 'stereo enhanced' or live bootleg versions here!
Compiled as always using the very latest and highest quality digital remasters, with a considerable number of tracks sourced from the original master tapes for superior sound quality and enjoyment.
This compilation is truly 100% all killer, no filler!
BONUS!: Included in the artwork folder in the download is a PDF file of the complete April 2026 edition of MOJO magazine which features an excellent 14-page article on Punk at 50: how it changed everything.
K
“Thanks again to K for sharing this one with us. Cheers”.
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Track lists
CD01
1 Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the U.K. (Original 1976 EMI Records 7" Single Version) 3:32
2 Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop (Original 1976 Sire Records 7" Mono Single Version) 2:11
3 The Damned - New Rose (Original 1976 Stiff Records 7" Single Version) 2:42
4 Blondie - X Offender (Original 1976 Private Stock Records 7" Single Version) 3:14
5 Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Accidents Will Happen 3:01
6 Alternative TV - Action Time Vision 2:30
7 The Raincoats - Adventures Close to Home 1:53
8 New Order - Age of Consent 5:16
9 Cocteau Twins - Aikea-Guinea 3:58
10 The Lurkers - Ain't Got a Clue 2:09
11 Kleenex - Ain't You 3:03
12 The Motors - Airport 4:28
13 The Jam - All Around the World 2:22
14 Snatch - All I Want 1:49
15 The Psychedelic Furs - All That Money Wants 3:47
16 Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster 2:43
17 Subway Sect - Ambition 3:07
18 Elvis Costello - (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes 2:48
19 Sham 69 - Angels with Dirty Faces 2:34
20 The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet 3:00
21 Squeeze - Another Nail in My Heart 2:59
22 Delta 5 - Anticipation 2:11
23 Adam and the Ants - "Antmusic" (Original 1980 7" Single Version) 3:15
24 Siouxsie and the Banshees - Arabian Knights 3:09
25 Tubeway Army - Are "Friends" Electric? 5:21
CD02
26 Killing Joke - Are You Receiving 4:59
27 XTC - Are You Receiving Me? 3:04
28 The Clash - Armagideon Time 3:51
29 Gang of Four - At Home He's a Tourist 3:31
30 Stiff Little Fingers - At the Edge 2:59
31 Joy Division - Atmosphere 4:09
32 Blondie - Atomic (Original 1980 7" Single Mix) 3:46
33 The Vibrators - Automatic Lover (Original 1978 7" Single Version) 2:27
34 Buzzcocks - Autonomy 3:45
35 The Jam - Away from the Numbers 4:03
36 Rachel Sweet - B-A-B-Y 3:05
37 Pulp - Babies 4:05
38 The Vibrators - Baby, Baby 3:40
39 The Ruts - Babylon's Burning ('The Crack' LP Version) 2:35
40 Patrik Fitzgerald - Babysitter 1:10
41 Echo & the Bunnymen - The Back of Love 3:15
42 The Jags - Back of My Hand (Original 1979 Jon Astley/Phil Chapman produced First 7" Single Version) 3:19
43 Pretenders - Back on the Chain Gang 3:52
44 Stiff Little Fingers - Back to Front 3:00
45 Fad Gadget - Back to Nature 5:50
46 Patrik Fitzgerald - The Backstreet Boys 3:48
47 Madness - Baggy Trousers 2:46
48 The Dickies - Banana Splits (The Tra La La Song) 1:53
CD03
49 The Clash - Bankrobber 4:34
50 The Smiths - Barbarism Begins at Home 6:53
51 Stiff Little Fingers - Barbed Wire Love 3:31
52 John Cooper Clarke - Beasley Street 6:22
53 Purple Hearts - Beat That! 2:34
54 Patti Smith Group - Because the Night 3:19
55 Madness - Bed and Breakfast Man 2:33
56 The Police - The Bed's Too Big Without You 4:25
57 The Human League - Being Boiled (Original 1978 Fast Product 7" Single Version) 3:50
58 Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead (Original 1979 Beck Studios 12" Single Version) 9:33
59 The Beat - Best Friend 3:02
60 Wah! Heat - Better Scream 3:18
61 Rudi - Big Time 2:43
62 The Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again 3:11
63 The Icicle Works - Birds Fly (Whisper to a Scream) (Original 1983 UK 7" Single Version) 3:49
64 The Sugarcubes - Birthday 4:00
65 New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle (Original 1986 12" Extended Mix) 6:43
66 The Sisters of Mercy - Black Planet 4:26
CD04
67 The Specials - Blank Expression 2:44
68 Richard Hell and the Voidoids - Blank Generation 2:44
69 Cocteau Twins - Blood Bitch 4:34
70 The Golinski Brothers - Bloody 2:33
71 New Order - Blue Monday (Original 1983 12" Single Version) 7:28
72 Sex Pistols - Bodies 3:03
73 Tubeway Army - Bombers 3:53
74 The Adverts - Bored Teenagers (Original 1977 Anchor Records 7" Single Version) 1:54
75 Buzzcocks - Boredom 2:53
76 Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers - Born to Lose 3:05
77 Sham 69 - Borstal Breakout 2:10
78 The Teardrop Explodes - Bouncing Babies (Original 1979 Zoo Records 7" Single Version) 2:48
79 The Smiths - The Boy with the Thorn in His Side 3:15
80 The Piranhas - Boyfriend 2:08
81 The Cure - Boys Don't Cry (Original 1979 7" Single Version) 2:42
82 Pretenders - Brass in Pocket 3:05
83 Buzzcocks - Breakdown 1:58
84 Echo & the Bunnymen - Bring on the Dancing Horses 3:55
85 The Police - Bring on the Night 4:15
86 Marianne Faithfull - Broken English (Original 1979 7" Single Edit) 3:03
87 Talking Heads - Burning Down the House 4:03
88 Plasmatics - Butcher Baby 3:33
89 Bow Wow Wow - C 30 C 60 C 90 Go! 3:00
90 Dead Kennedys - California ber Alles (Original 1979 7" Single Version) 3:28
CD05
91 The Clash - The Call Up / The Cool Out 9:17
92 The Sundays - Can't Be Sure 3:23
93 The Police - Can't Stand Losing You 3:00
94 Adam and the Ants - Car Trouble 3:26
95 Public Image Ltd - Careering 4:34
96 Gary Numan - Cars (Original 1979 7" Single Version) 3:56
97 Supergrass - Caught by the Fuzz 2:16
98 The Selecter - Celebrate the Bullet (Original 1981 7" Single Version) 3:10
99 New Order - Ceremony (Original "Version 1" FAC 33, March 6, 1981 7" Single) 4:37
100 Tears for Fears - Change (Radio Edit) 3:57
101 Skids - Charles (Original 1978 No Bad Records 7" Single Version) 2:34
102 The Cure - Charlotte Sometimes 4:13
103 The Shapes - Chatterboks 2:09
104 The Runaways - Cherry Bomb 2:18
105 Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers - Chinese Rocks 2:56
106 Siouxsie and the Banshees - Christine 3:00
107 Skids - Circus Games (Original 1980 7" Single Version) 4:06
108 The Clash - Clampdown 3:49
109 Art of Noise - Close (to the Edit) (Original 1984 7" Single Edit) 4:06
110 The Associates - Club Country (Original 1982 7" Single Edit) 4:02
111 The Shapes - College Girls 2:33
CD06
112 The Mighty Wah! - Come Back (The Story of the Reds) 4:24
113 Pulp - Common People 5:50
114 The Clash - Complete Control 3:14
115 Kraftwerk - Computer Love (Original 1981 7" Single Edit) 3:44
116 The Specials - Concrete Jungle 3:20
117 Squeeze - Cool for Cats (Original 1979 7" Single Version) 3:15
118 The Lambrettas - Cortina 2:35
119 Hazel O'Connor - (Cover Plus) We're All Grown Up (Original 1981 7" Single Edit) 3:41
120 The Primitives - Crash 2:32
121 Nick Lowe - Cruel to Be Kind 3:29
122 Echo & the Bunnymen - The Cutter 3:56
123 The Lambrettas - D-a-a-ance 2:19
124 Gang of Four - Damaged Goods 3:28
125 Visage - The Damned Don't Cry (Original 1982 7" Single Version) 4:02
126 Dexys Midnight Runners - Dance Stance (Original 1979 7" Single Version) 3:40
127 Patti Smith - Dancing Barefoot 4:16
128 The Motors - Dancing the Night Away (Original 1977 Full-Length Album Version) 6:34
129 Gen X - Dancing with Myself (Original 1980 7" Single Version) 3:46
130 Penetration - Danger Signs 2:26
131 The Jam - David Watts (Original 1978 7" Single Mix) 2:54
132 X-Ray Spex - The Day the World Turned Day-Glo 2:51
133 Altered Images - Dead Popstars 3:17
CD07
134 Joy Division - Dead Souls 4:52
135 Siouxsie and the Banshees - Dear Prudence 3:48
136 Public Image Ltd - Death Disco (Original 1979 7" Single Edit) 4:14
137 Joy Division - Decades 6:11
138 The Selecter - Deep Water 4:09
139 Magazine - Definitive Gaze 4:29
140 Blondie - Denis (Original 1978 7" Single Version) 2:15
141 Gene Loves Jezebel - Desire (Come and Get It) (Original 1986 7" Single Version) 3:20
142 The Doll - Desire Me 3:33
143 The Rezillos - Destination Venus 3:37
144 Sex Pistols - Did You No Wrong (B-side to 'God Save the Queen' 1977 Virgin Release) 3:10
145 Pulp - Disco 2000 4:33
146 Graham Parker & The Rumour - Discovering Japan 3:32
147 Eddie and the Hot Rods - Do Anything You Wanna Do 4:03
148 Echo & the Bunnymen - Do It Clean (B-side to 'The Puppet') 2:45
149 The Specials feat. Rico with the Ice Rink String Sounds - Do Nothing (Original 1980 7" Single Version) 3:41
150 Ramones - Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio? 3:51
151 Pulp - Do You Remember the First Time? 4:20
152 Bow Wow Wow - Do You Wanna Hold Me? 3:15
153 Stiff Little Fingers - Doesn't Make It Alright 5:48
CD08
154 Adam and the Ants - Dog Eat Dog (Original 1980 7" Single Version) 3:03
155 Klark Kent - Don't Care 2:08
156 Ramones - Don't Come Close (Original 1978 7" Single Version) 2:44
157 Penetration - Don't Dictate 2:55
158 Protex - Don't Ring Me Up (Original 1978 Good Vibrations 7" Single Version) 2:38
159 Cocteau Twins - Donimo 6:23
160 Wire - Dot Dash 2:24
161 Tubeway Army - Down in the Park 4:24
162 The Jam - Down in the Tube Station at Midnight (Original 1978 7" Single Edit) 3:59
163 Propaganda - Dr. Mabuse (A Paranoid Fantasy) (Original 1984 7" Single Version) 4:19
164 Pauline Murray and the Invisible Girls - Dream Sequence I 3:19
165 Blondie - Dreaming 3:06
166 Tonight - Drummer Man 2:44
167 The Stranglers - Duchess 2:29
168 Propaganda - Duel (Original 1985 7" Single Version) 4:46
169 Buzzcocks - E.S.P. 4:45
170 Wire - Eardrum Buzz (Original 1989 12" Single Version) 4:15
171 Martha and the Muffins - Echo Beach 3:34
172 Ministry - Effigy (I'm Not An) (12" Remix) 5:24
173 Hazel O'Connor - Eighth Day 3:10
174 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Electricity 3:33
175 Blondie - 11:59 3:20
CD09
176 Nine Below Zero - Eleven Plus Eleven 2:19
177 Peter and the Test Tube Babies - Elvis Is Dead (Original Vaultage '78 Version) 2:11
178 Madness - Embarrassment 3:11
179 999 - Emergency 2:50
180 Sex Pistols - EMI 3:09
181 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Enola Gay 3:31
182 The Jam - The Eton Rifles (Original 1979 7" Single Version) 3:29
183 Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've) 2:42
184 The Wedding Present - Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft 4:06
185 Buzzcocks - Everybody's Happy Nowadays 3:14
186 Wire - Ex Lion Tamer 2:19
187 Visage - Fade to Grey (Original 1981 12" John Luongo Dance Mix) 6:43
188 The Raincoats - Fairytale in the Supermarket 2:59
189 The Dickies - Fan Mail 3:04
190 Mo-Dettes - Fandango 2:33
191 Girls at Our Best! - Fast Boyfriends 2:47
192 Buzzcocks - Fast Cars 2:26
193 The Fall - Fiery Jack 4:44
194 The B-52's - 52 Girls 3:35
195 Young Marble Giants - Final Day 1:43
196 The Cure - Fire in Cairo 3:23
197 Siouxsie and the Banshees - Fireworks (Original 1982 12" Extended Single Version) 4:32
198 The Lotus Eaters - The First Picture of You 3:40
199 The Boys - First Time 2:19
CD10
200 The Stranglers - 5 Minutes 3:17
201 Cockney Rejects - Flares 'n' Slippers 1:36
202 The Merton Parkas - Flat 19 3:16
203 UB40 - Food for Thought 4:12
204 The Cure - A Forest (Original 1980 12" Extended Single Version) 5:55
205 The Specials - Friday Night, Saturday Morning (B-side to 'Ghost Town') 3:35
206 The Jam - Funeral Pyre 3:27
207 Bill Nelson's Red Noise - Furniture Music 3:31
208 The Special A.K.A. - Gangsters 2:46
209 Notsensibles - Garry Bushell's Band of the Week 1:47
210 The Adverts - Gary Gilmore's Eyes (Original 1977 Anchor Records 7" Single Version) 2:14
211 The Clash - Gates of the West 3:25
212 XTC - Generals and Majors (Original 1980 7" Single Edit) 3:41
213 Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love (Original 1981 12" Extended Version) 5:35
214 Dexys Midnight Runners - Geno 3:27
215 Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids (Original 1980 7" Single Edit) 3:30
216 X-Ray Spex - Germ-Free Adolescents 3:12
217 The Stranglers - (Get A) Grip (On Yourself) (Original 1977 7" Single Version) 4:02
218 Buzzcocks - Get On Our Own 2:26
219 The Undertones - Get Over You 2:44
220 The Piranhas - Getting Beaten Up 2:29
221 Girls at Our Best! - Getting Nowhere Fast 2:00
222 The Psychedelic Furs - The Ghost in You 4:15
223 Suicide - Ghost Rider 2:32
CD11
224 The Specials feat. Rico - Ghost Town (Original 1981 12" Extended Single Version) 6:03
225 Japan - Ghosts (Original 1982 7" Single Version) 4:02
226 Rich Kids - Ghosts of Princes in Towers 3:34
227 Bram Tchaikovsky - Girl of My Dreams 4:10
228 The Jam - Girl on the Phone 2:56
229 Talking Heads - Girlfriend Is Better 5:46
230 Dave Edmunds - Girls Talk 3:24
231 Simple Minds - Glittering Prize (Original 1982 7" Single Edit) 3:58
232 Patti Smith - Gloria 5:55
233 Bow Wow Wow - Go Wild in the Country (Original 1982 7" Single Version) 2:59
234 Sex Pistols - God Save the Queen 3:19
235 Jilted John - Going Steady 3:49
236 The Jam - Going Underground 2:53
237 The Stranglers - Golden Brown 3:27
238 Squeeze - Goodbye Girl (Original 1978 UK 7" Single Version) 3:03
239 Stiff Little Fingers - Gotta Gettaway 3:35
240 Billy Bragg feat. Johnny Marr and Kirsty MacColl - Greetings to the New Brunette 3:31
241 The Cure - Grinding Halt 2:49
242 The Clash - The Guns of Brixton 3:09
243 The Teardrop Explodes - Ha Ha I'm Drowning 2:54
244 The Beat - Hands Off...She's Mine 2:59
CD12
245 The Smiths - Handsome Devil 2:44
246 The Stranglers - Hanging Around 4:25
247 Blondie - Hanging on the Telephone 2:21
248 Altered Images - Happy Birthday 2:59
249 Siouxsie and the Banshees - Happy House 3:50
250 Kirsty MacColl - He's On the Beach 3:31
251 Alberto y Lost Trios Paranoias - Heads Down No Nonsense Mindless Boogie 2:43
252 Blondie - Heart of Glass (Original 1979 7" Single Version) 4:11
253 The Psychedelic Furs - Heaven 3:29
254 The Smiths - Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now 3:36
255 Kleenex - Hedi's Head 2:12
256 Swell Maps - The Helicopter Spies 4:15
257 The Undertones - Here Comes the Summer (Original 1979 7" Single Version) 1:46
258 The Sundays - Here's Where the Story Ends 3:54
259 Sham 69 - Hersham Boys (Original 1979 Polydor Records 7" Single Edit) 3:23
260 Graham Parker & The Rumour - Hey Lord, Don't Ask Me Questions (Original 1978 7" Single Version) 3:51
261 The Specials - Hey, Little Rich Girl 3:37
262 Wreckless Eric - Hit and Miss Judy 4:37
263 Ian Dury and the Blockheads - Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick 3:44
264 Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia (Original 1980 7" Single Version) 3:45
265 Sex Pistols - Holidays in the Sun 3:23
266 The Icicle Works - Hollow Horse (Long Version) 4:56
CD13
267 The Runaways - Hollywood 2:58
268 Lene Lovich - Home 3:40
269 999 - Homicide (Original 1978 7" Single Version) 3:42
270 Pete Shelley - Homosapien (Original 1981 12" Dance Version) 4:34
271 Siouxsie and the Banshees - Hong Kong Garden 2:54
272 The Fall - How I Wrote 'Elastic Man' 4:20
273 The Smiths - How Soon Is Now? (Original 1984 Rough Trade 12" Single Version) 6:47
274 The Passions - Hunted 3:31
275 Sham 69 - Hurry Up Harry 3:24
276 Wire - I Am the Fly (Original 1978 7" Single Version) 3:06
277 Protex - I Can't Cope (Original 1979 Polydor Records 7" Single Version) 2:32
278 The Rezillos - I Can't Stand My Baby (Original 1977 Sensible Records 7" Version) 2:38
279 Elvis Costello and the Attractions - I Can't Stand Up for Falling Down (Withdrawn 1980 2 Tone Records Single CHS TT 7) 2:07
280 The Beat - I Confess 4:30
281 Altered Images - I Could Be Happy (Original 1981 7" Single Version) 3:30
282 Gary Numan - I Die: You Die 3:43
283 The Boys - I Don't Care 2:10
284 The Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays 4:19
285 Buzzcocks - I Don't Mind 2:19
286 The Lurkers - I Don't Need to Tell Her 3:05
287 The Piranhas - I Don't Want My Body (Original Vaultage '78 Version) 3:48
288 Elvis Costello and the Attractions - (I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea 3:02
289 Ramones - I Don't Want You 2:26
CD14
290 Nicky and the Dots - I Find That Really Surprises Me (Original Vaultage '78 Version) 3:34
291 The Clash - I Fought the Law 2:43
292 Gang of Four - I Found That Essence Rare 3:14
293 Split Enz - I Got You 3:27
294 The Teenage Filmstars - I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape (Original 1980 Fab Listening 7" Single Version) 2:55
295 The Damned - I Just Can't Be Happy Today (DJ Edit) 3:00
296 Gang of Four - I Love a Man in a Uniform 3:35
297 Nick Lowe - I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass 3:14
298 Modern English - I Melt with You (Original 1982 7" Stereo Single Mix) 3:48
299 Eddie and the Hot Rods - I Might Be Lying (Original 1977 7" Single Edit) 2:58
300 Menace - I Need Nothing 2:17
301 The Shapes - (I Saw) Batman (In the Launderette) 2:39
302 Simple Minds - I Travel (Original 1980 7" Single Version) 3:09
303 Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated 2:29
304 Supergrass - I'd Like to Know 4:05
305 Blondie - (I'm Always Touched by Your) Presence, Dear 2:43
306 Angelic Upstarts - I'm an Upstart 2:20
307 Leyton Buzzards - I'm Hanging Around 2:47
308 The Passions - I'm in Love with a German Film Star 3:58
309 Notsensibles - I'm in Love with Margaret Thatcher 3:38
310 The Freshies - I'm in Love with the Girl on the Manchester Virgin Megastore Check-out Desk (Original 1980 7" Single Version) 2:50
311 Cockney Rejects - I'm Not a Fool 3:48
312 Joe Jackson - I'm the Man 3:58
313 The Saints - (I'm) Stranded 3:30
CD15
314 Siouxsie and the Banshees - Icon 5:26
315 X-Ray Spex - Identity 2:23
316 Sham 69 - If the Kids Are United 3:44
317 Those Naughty Lumps - Iggy Pop's Jacket (Original 1979 Zoo Records 7" Single Version) 1:41
318 Patrik Fitzgerald - Improve Myself (Original 1979 Polydor Records 7" Single Version) 1:45
319 The Ruts - In a Rut 3:41
320 The Cure - In Between Days 2:58
321 The Raincoats - In Love 3:08
322 The Slits - In the Beginning There Was Rhythm (Original 1980 7" Single Version) 5:32
323 The Jam - In the City 2:19
324 The Jam - In the Crowd 5:38
325 Madness - In the Middle of the Night 3:02
326 The Stranglers with the 'Barracuda Bass' Sound - In the Shadows 4:37
327 Altered Images - Insects 3:32
328 The Slits - Instant Hit 2:43
329 The Specials - International Jet Set (Original 1980 7" Single Edit) 4:13
330 Skids - Into the Valley 3:14
331 Patrik Fitzgerald - Irrelevant Battles 1:56
332 Joe Jackson - Is She Really Going Out with Him? 3:34
333 Department S - Is Vic There? 3:04
334 Siouxsie and the Banshees - Israel 4:54
335 Toyah - It's a Mystery 4:06
CD16
336 Joe Jackson - It's Different for Girls 3:42
337 Gang of Four - It's Her Factory 3:10
338 Au Pairs - It's Obvious (Original 1980 7" Single Version) 5:45
339 The Fall - It's the New Thing 3:26
340 Cocteau Twins - Ivo 3:53
341 The Monochrome Set - Jacob's Ladder (Original 1984 Blanco Y Negro 7" Single Version) 2:56
342 The Ruts - Jah War (Original 1979 12" Extended Single Version) 6:54
343 Siouxsie and the Banshees - Jigsaw Feeling 4:37
344 Jilted John - Jilted John (Original 1978 7" Single Version) 2:54
345 The Undertones - Jimmy Jimmy 2:44
346 Stiff Little Fingers - Johnny Was 8:09
347 The Cure - Jumping Someone Else's Train (Original 1979 Fiction Records 7" Single Version) 2:59
348 The Professionals - Just Another Dream 3:06
349 The Outcasts - Just Another Teenage Rebel 3:15
350 Stiff Little Fingers - Just Fade Away 3:04
351 The Cure - Just Like Heaven (1987 Bob Clearmountain 7" Single Mix) 3:32
352 The Cars - Just What I Needed 3:43
353 Bauhaus - Kick in the Eye (Single Remix) 3:36
354 Pretenders - Kid 3:04
355 Wire - Kidney Bingos 4:09
CD17
356 The Cure - Killing an Arab (Original 1978 Small Wonder Records 7" Single Version) 2:23
357 Echo & the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon 5:48
358 UB40 - King 4:37
359 Generation X - King Rocker 2:17
360 Adam and the Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier 3:55
361 The Saints - Know Your Product 3:15
362 Tours - Language School 2:10
363 Vivien Goldman - Launderette 3:48
364 Swell Maps - Let's Build a Car 3:08
365 The Cure - Let's Go to Bed 3:34
366 Wreckless Eric - Let's Go to the Pictures 3:09
367 Billy Bragg - Levi Stubbs' Tears 3:32
368 XTC - Life Begins at the Hop 3:47
369 Talking Heads - Life During Wartime 3:42
370 The Martian Schoolgirls - Life in the 1980s 3:00
371 Penetration - Life's a Gamble 3:00
372 Magazine - The Light Pours Out of Me 4:38
373 The Boomtown Rats - Like Clockwork 3:44
374 Echo & the Bunnymen - Lips Like Sugar (Original 1987 12" Mix) 6:45
375 Buzzcocks - Lipstick 2:40
376 Notsensibles - Little Boxes (Original 1979 7" Single Version) 2:35
377 Patrik Fitzgerald - The Little Dippers 2:03
CD18
378 The Banned - Little Girl 2:19
379 Graham Parker & The Rumour - Local Girls 3:40
380 The Clash - London Calling 3:19
381 Lori and the Chameleons - The Lonely Spy 3:27
382 The Boomtown Rats - Lookin' After No. 1 3:08
383 Cocteau Twins - Lorelei 3:42
384 The Clash - Lost in the Supermarket 3:47
385 The Human League - Love Action (I Believe in Love) 5:01
386 The Flys - Love and a Molotov Cocktail 2:32
387 The Cure - The Love Cats 3:40
388 Richard Hell and the Voidoids - Love Comes in Spurts 2:02
389 Siouxsie and the Banshees - Love in a Void 2:35
390 The Icicle Works - Love Is a Wonderful Colour 4:13
391 Killing Joke - Love Like Blood (12" Version) 6:49
392 The Psychedelic Furs - Love My Way 3:34
393 The Damned - Love Song (Ed Hollis 1979 7" Single Version) 2:03
394 Simple Minds - Love Song (Original 1981 7" Single Edit) 3:53
395 The Slits - Love und Romance 2:28
396 New Order - Love Vigilantes 4:19
397 Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart (Original 1980 Factory Records 7" Single Version) 3:24
398 Buzzcocks - Love You More 1:50
399 Lene Lovich - Lucky Number 2:48
400 Angelic Upstarts - Lust for Glory 2:42
CD19
401 Iggy Pop - Lust for Life 5:12
402 Gary Numan - M.E. 5:37
403 Tears for Fears - Mad World 3:34
404 The Clash - The Magnificent Seven 5:33
405 XTC - Making Plans for Nigel 4:12
406 Wire - Mannequin 2:37
407 The Dickies - Manny, Moe & Jack 2:50
408 Wire - Map Ref. 41 N 93 W 3:40
409 Television - Marquee Moon (Original 1977 7" Single Edit) 4:31
410 The Undertones - Mars Bars (B-side to 'Jimmy Jimmy') 2:07
411 The Boomtown Rats - Mary of the 4th Form (Original 1977 7" Single Version) 3:48
412 Skids - Masquerade 2:44
413 The Chords - Maybe Tomorrow 3:13
414 Public Image Ltd - Memories (Original 1979 7" Single Edit) 4:51
415 Silicon Teens - Memphis Tennessee 2:21
416 Graham Parker & The Rumour - Mercury Poisoning 3:10
417 The Police - Message in a Bottle 4:51
418 Pretenders - Message of Love 3:25
419 The Specials - A Message to You, Rudy 2:52
420 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Messages (Original 1980 7" Single Version) 4:01
421 Gary Numan - Metal 3:33
CD20
422 Pretenders - Middle of the Road 4:14
423 Dr. Feelgood - Milk and Alcohol 2:48
424 Purple Hearts - Millions Like Us (Original 1979 Polydor Records 7" Single Version) 3:07
425 Delta 5 - Mind Your Own Business 3:13
426 Siouxsie and the Banshees - Mirage 2:49
427 The Beat - Mirror in the Bathroom 3:09
428 The Creatures - Miss the Girl 2:34
429 The Selecter - Missing Words (Original 1980 7" Single Version) 3:22
430 Siouxsie and the Banshees - Mittageisen (Metal Postcard) (7" Single Version) 4:10
431 Kraftwerk - The Model 3:40
432 Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance 3:29
433 The Jam - The Modern World 2:31
434 The Flying Lizards - Money (That's What I Want) 2:29
435 Siouxsie and the Banshees - Monitor 5:35
436 The Monochrome Set - The Monochrome Set 2:20
437 Gene Loves Jezebel - The Motion of Love 3:52
438 Mot rhead - Mot rhead (Original 1977 Chiswick Records 7" Single Version) 3:10
439 The Jam - Mr. Clean 3:29
440 Cocteau Twins - Musette and Drums 4:38
441 The Rezillos - (My Baby Does) Good Sculptures (Original 1977 7" Single Version) 2:53
442 The Cars - My Best Friend's Girl 3:44
443 The Sundays - My Finest Hour 4:00
444 Madness - My Girl 2:45
CD21
445 The Undertones - My Perfect Cousin 2:36
446 Secret Affair - My World 3:39
447 Cabaret Voltaire - Nag Nag Nag 4:39
448 The Damned - Neat Neat Neat 2:40
449 Kraftwerk - Neon Lights (Original 1978 7" Single Edit) 3:29
450 Radio Stars - Nervous Wreck 1:58
451 Romeo Void - Never Say Never (Original 1982 7" Single Version) 3:27
452 Echo & the Bunnymen - Never Stop 3:31
453 Joy Division - New Dawn Fades 4:47
454 Kirsty MacColl - A New England 3:50
455 Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) (Original 1983 7" Single Mix) 4:46
456 The Vitamins - New Town (Original Vaultage '78 Version) 2:00
457 Lene Lovich - New Toy 3:18
458 The Jam - News of the World 3:27
459 The Slits - Newtown 3:50
460 The Stranglers - Nice 'n' Sleazy 3:13
461 Madness - Night Boat to Cairo (Original 1980 7" Single Version) 3:31
462 New Order - 1963 (B-side to 'True Faith') 5:35
463 The Specials - Nite Klub 3:23
464 Sex Pistols - No Feelings 2:51
465 The Stranglers - No More Heroes 3:28
466 The Shivvers - No Substitute 3:52
CD22
467 The Adverts - No Time to Be 21 2:36
468 Echo & the Bunnymen - Nocturnal Me 4:57
469 Pere Ubu - Non-alignment Pact 3:18
470 Buzzcocks - Nostalgia 2:55
471 Buzzcocks - Nothing Left 4:28
472 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Nothing Wrong 2:40
473 The Chords - Now It's Gone (Original 1979 Polydor Records 7" Single Version) 3:07
474 The Smiths - Nowhere Fast 2:36
475 B-Movie - Nowhere Girl (Original 1982 7" Single Edit) 3:39
476 Laurie Anderson - O Superman (for Massenet) 8:22
477 Aztec Camera - Oblivious 3:10
478 The Members - Offshore Banking Business (Original 1979 Virgin Records 7" Single Version) 3:13
479 X-Ray Spex - Oh Bondage Up Yours! 2:50
480 The Passions - Oh No, It's You 4:28
481 Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Oliver's Army 2:59
482 The Selecter - On My Radio 3:07
483 Joe Jackson - On Your Radio 4:03
484 Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime 4:20
485 The Adverts - One Chord Wonders (Original 1977 Stiff Records 7" Single Version) 2:36
486 Scarlet Party - 101-Dam-Nations 3:35
487 The Professionals - 1-2-3 3:04
CD23
488 Blondie - One Way or Another 3:35
489 The Human League - Open Your Heart 3:57
490 The Go-Go's - Our Lips Are Sealed 2:48
491 The Icicle Works - Out of Season 4:46
492 Skids - Out of Town (B-side to 'Masquerade') 4:16
493 Wire - Outdoor Miner (Original 1979 7" Single Version) 2:52
494 Gang of Four - Outside the Trains Don't Run on Time 3:15
495 Propaganda - p:Machinery 3:48
496 Mo-Dettes - Paint It Black 2:17
497 Tears for Fears - Pale Shelter (1983 re-recorded 2nd Single Version) 4:36
498 Cocteau Twins - Pandora (for Cindy) 5:35
499 The Dickies - Paranoid 2:05
500 Television Personalities - Part Time Punks 2:38
501 The Associates - Party Fears Two (Original 1982 7" Single Version) 4:05
502 Iggy Pop - The Passenger 4:40
503 The Teardrop Explodes - Passionate Friend 3:30
504 Bad Brains - Pay to Cum! (Original 1980 Bad Brain Records 7" Single Version) 1:29
505 The Stranglers - Peaches (Original 1977 Unedited United Artists Records 7" Single Version) 4:04
506 Cocteau Twins - Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops 4:11
507 New Order - The Perfect Kiss (Original 1985 12" Full Version) 8:49
CD24
508 Ramones - Pet Sematary (Original 1989 7" Single Version) 3:32
509 Stiff Little Fingers - Piccadilly Circus 4:43
510 Blondie - Picture This 2:56
511 Echo & the Bunnymen - The Pictures on My Wall (Original 1979 Zoo Records 7" Single Version) 2:51
512 Aztec Camera - Pillar to Post 4:01
513 Patti Smith - Piss Factory 4:41
514 The Jam - The Place I Love 2:52
515 Marine Girls - A Place in the Sun 2:31
516 Protex - A Place in Your Heart (Original 1980 7" Single Version) 3:08
517 Dexys Midnight Runners - Plan B 2:37
518 The B-52's - Planet Claire 4:36
519 Devil's Dykes - Plastic Flowers (Original Vaultage '78 Version) 3:04
520 The Cure - Play for Today 3:40
521 Siouxsie and the Banshees - Playground Twist 2:59
522 The Clash - Police & Thieves 5:59
523 Larry Wallis - Police Car 3:18
524 The Clash - Police on My Back 3:15
525 Girls at Our Best! - Politics 3:16
526 The Teardrop Explodes - Poppies in the Field 5:06
527 Public Image Ltd - Poptones 7:46
528 The Jam - Pretty Green 2:35
CD25
529 The Psychedelic Furs - Pretty in Pink (Original 1981 7" Single Version) 4:00
530 Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant 3:17
531 The Cure - Primary 3:39
532 The Tubes - Prime Time 3:19
533 Felt feat. Elizabeth Fraser - Primitive Painters 6:01
534 Madness - The Prince (Original 1979 2 Tone Records 7" Single Version) 2:28
535 New Order - Procession (Original 1981 7" Single Version) 4:29
536 Echo & the Bunnymen - A Promise 4:02
537 Simple Minds - Promised You a Miracle (Original 1982 7" Single Edit) 4:00
538 Buzzcocks - Promises 2:36
539 Television - Prove It 5:05
540 Killing Joke - Pssyche 5:05
541 Talking Heads - Psycho Killer (Original 1977 7" Single Version) 4:20
542 John Cooper Clarke - Psycle Sluts (Part 1) 5:45
543 Public Image Ltd - Public Image 2:58
544 Squeeze - Pulling Mussels (From the Shell) 4:01
545 Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Pump It Up 3:17
546 M/A/R/R/S - Pump Up the Volume (Original 1987 7" Single Version) 4:04
547 The Merton Parkas - Put Me in the Picture 2:48
548 Wire - A Question of Degree (Original 1979 7" Single Version) 3:08
CD26
549 Japan - Quiet Life (Original 1981 7" Single Edit) 3:35
550 Eddie and the Hot Rods - Quit This Town 2:28
551 Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Radio Radio 3:06
552 The Beat - Ranking Full Stop (Original 1979 2 Tone Records 7" Single Version) 2:48
553 The Specials - Rat Race 3:10
554 The Boomtown Rats - Rat Trap (Original 1978 7" Single Version) 4:56
555 Swell Maps - Read About Seymour 1:30
556 Generation X - Ready Steady Go 2:58
557 Buzzcocks - Real World 3:33
558 Wreckless Eric - Reconnez Cherie 3:09
559 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Red Frame/White Light 3:10
560 The Smiths - Reel Around the Fountain 5:57
561 The Birthday Party - Release the Bats 2:31
562 B-Movie - Remembrance Day 4:04
563 The Church - Reptile (Original 1988 7" Single Version) 4:54
564 Killing Joke - Requiem 3:41
565 Echo & the Bunnymen - Rescue 4:26
566 Ministry - Revenge (You Did It Again) (Remix) 6:17
567 The Teardrop Explodes - Reward (Original 1981 7" Single Version) 2:42
568 Rich Kids - Rich Kids 2:58
569 Fad Gadget - Ricky's Hand 4:06
570 The Creatures - Right Now 2:14
CD27
571 Blondie - Rip Her to Shreds 3:20
572 Orange Juice - Rip It Up (Original 1983 7" Single Version) 3:46
573 Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers - Roadrunner (Twice) (Original UK Beserkley BZZ 1 1977 7" Single Version) 4:04
574 Ramones - Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979 Ed Stasium 7" Single Mix) 2:19
575 The Records - Rock and Roll Love Letter (Mick Glossop Mix) 3:38
576 The B-52's - Rock Lobster (1979 Warner Bros. Records 7" Single Edit) 4:54
577 The Clash - Rock the Casbah 3:42
578 Ramones - Rockaway Beach 2:06
579 Ultravox! - ROckWrok (Original 1977 7" Single Version) 3:20
580 Stiff Little Fingers - Roots, Radicals, Rockers & Reggae 4:00
581 The Fall - Rowche Rumble (Original 1979 Step-Forward 7" Single Version) 4:01
582 The Police - Roxanne 3:11
583 The Bodysnatchers - Ruder Than You 2:49
584 The Clash - Rudie Can't Fail 3:28
585 Cock Sparrer - Runnin' Riot 3:11
586 The Ruts - S.U.S. 3:48
587 Stiff Little Fingers - Safe as Houses 5:28
588 The Adverts - Safety in Numbers (Original 1977 Anchor Records 7" Single Version) 3:31
589 Patrik Fitzgerald - Safety-Pin Stuck in My Heart 2:41
590 Martha and the Muffins - Saigon (1980 Dindisc Re-recorded 7" Single Version) 3:51
591 Skids - The Saints are Coming 2:41
592 Leyton Buzzards - Saturday Night (Beneath the Plastic Palm Trees) 3:47
CD28
593 The Beat - Save It for Later 3:34
594 Lene Lovich - Say When 2:49
595 The Revillos - Scuba Scuba (Original 1980 7" Single Version) 2:08
596 The Chameleons - Second Skin 6:50
597 The Human League - Seconds 4:57
598 Television - See No Evil 3:58
599 Altered Images - See Those Eyes 3:10
600 The Selecter - The Selecter 2:57
601 The Sound - Sense of Purpose 3:52
602 The Jam - Set the House Ablaze 5:02
603 Wah! Heat - Seven Minutes to Midnight (Original 1980 7" Single Edit) 3:28
604 Echo & the Bunnymen - Seven Seas 3:21
605 The Regents - 7 Teen 3:22
606 Ian Dury - Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll 3:12
607 A Certain Ratio - Shack Up (Original 1980 Factory Benelux 7" Single Version) 3:15
608 The Lurkers - Shadow (Original 1977 Beggars Banquet 7" Single Version) 2:30
609 Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action (Original 1976 7" Single Version) 3:35
610 The Headboys - The Shape of Things to Come 3:24
611 The Pop Group - She Is Beyond Good and Evil 3:20
612 Bauhaus - She's in Parties (Original 1983 12" Extended Single Version) 5:46
613 Joy Division - She's Lost Control (Original 1980 12" Single Version) 4:47
CD29
614 The Boomtown Rats - She's So Modern 2:58
615 Ramones - Sheena Is a Punk Rocker (Original 1977 Sire 7" Single Version) 2:47
616 Magazine - Shot by Both Sides (Original 1978 7" Single Version) 3:58
617 Dexys Midnight Runners - Show Me 3:25
618 The Users - Sick of You 3:23
619 Sex Pistols - Silly Thing (Steve Jones Vocal, Original 1979 7" Single Version) 2:48
620 Echo & the Bunnymen - Silver 3:21
621 Stiff Little Fingers - Silver Lining 3:03
622 Splodgenessabounds - Simon Templer 2:38
623 Split Enz - Six Months in a Leaky Boat (Original 1982 7" Single Version) 3:11
624 Buzzcocks - Sixteen Again 3:18
625 The Alarm - Sixty Eight Guns (Original 1983 7" Single Edit) 3:15
626 The Teardrop Explodes - Sleeping Gas (Original 1979 Zoo Records 7" Single Version) 4:40
627 Blondie - Slow Motion 3:28
628 The Damned - Smash It Up (Original 1979 7" Single Edit) 2:51
629 Vital Disorders - Snatcher 5:21
630 Nick Lowe - So It Goes 2:30
631 The Police - So Lonely 4:49
632 The Beat - Sole Salvation 3:05
633 The Members - Solitary Confinement (1979 Virgin 7" Single Version) 3:40
634 The Clash - Somebody Got Murdered (Original 1981 7" Single Edit) 3:34
635 The Rezillos - Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked in Tonite 1:56
636 Simple Minds - Someone Somewhere in Summertime 4:36
CD30
637 The Stranglers - Something Better Change 3:36
638 The Chords - Something's Missing 3:26
639 Magazine - A Song from Under the Floorboards 4:10
640 This Mortal Coil - Song to the Siren 3:31
641 Dead Boys - Sonic Reducer 3:06
642 The Human League - The Sound of the Crowd 4:04
643 The Members - The Sound of the Suburbs (Original 1979 7" Single Version) 3:16
644 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Souvenir 3:36
645 Cocteau Twins - The Spangle Maker 4:40
646 Mink DeVille - Spanish Stroll 3:37
647 Siouxsie and the Banshees - Spellbound 3:17
648 The Police - Spirits in the Material World 2:58
649 Siouxsie and the Banshees - The Staircase (Mystery) 3:08
650 The Ruts - Staring at the Rude Boys 3:13
651 The Records - Starry Eyes (Original 1978 7" Single Version) 4:23
652 The Jam - Start! (Original 1980 7" Single Version) 2:16
653 The Headboys - Stepping Stones 3:26
654 The Specials - Stereotype (Original 1980 7" Single Version) 3:48
655 The Smiths - Still Ill 3:20
656 Pretenders - Stop Your Sobbing 2:38
657 Wah! - The Story of the Blues (Part One) 3:56
658 The Clash - Straight to Hell 5:30
CD31
659 The Stranglers - Straighten Out 2:46
660 The Jam - Strange Town 3:47
661 U.K. Subs - Stranglehold (Original 1979 7" Single Version) 2:26
662 The Damned - Stretcher Case Baby (Original Limited Edition, Promo Stiff Single - July, 1977) 2:13
663 Elastica - Stutter 2:24
664 New Order - Sub-culture (1985 John Robie 12" Remix) 7:28
665 The Smiths - Suffer Little Children 5:31
666 Yachts - Suffice to Say 3:14
667 Cocteau Twins - Sugar Hiccup 3:39
668 Blondie - Sunday Girl (Original 1979 7" Single Version) 3:05
669 Joe Jackson - Sunday Papers 4:21
670 Cheap Trick - Surrender 4:14
671 Ramones - Swallow My Pride 2:06
672 Scritti Politti - The "Sweetest Girl" (Original 1981 12" Extended Version) 6:16
673 Magazine - Sweetheart Contract 3:18
674 Tenpole Tudor - Swords of a Thousand Men 3:02
675 The Normal - T.V.O.D. 2:54
676 Squeeze - Take Me I'm Yours (Original 1978 7" Single Version) 2:48
677 Talking Heads - Take Me to the River 5:04
678 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Talk About the Weather 4:04
679 Pretenders - Talk of the Town 3:14
CD32
680 The Tubes - Talk to Ya Later (Original 1981 7" Single Version) 3:46
681 The Stranglers - Tank 2:57
682 Pretenders - Tattooed Love Boys 2:59
683 The Beat - Tears of a Clown (Original 1979 2 Tone Records 7" Single Version) 2:42
684 The Undertones - Teenage Kicks 2:25
685 The Records - Teenarama 4:01
686 The Radiators from Space - Television Screen (Original 1977 7" Single Version) 1:52
687 Dexys Midnight Runners - Tell Me When My Light Turns Green 3:43
688 Holly and the Italians - Tell That Girl to Shut Up (Original 1979 Oval Records 7" Single Version) 2:59
689 New Order - Temptation (Original 1982 12" Single Version) 8:56
690 XTC - Ten Feet Tall (Original 1980 7" Single Version) 3:13
691 The Cure - 10:15 Saturday Night (Original 1978 Small Wonder Records 7" Single Version) 3:41
692 Kirsty MacColl - Terry 3:52
693 The Jam - That's Entertainment (Original 1981 7" Single Edit) 3:33
694 Tubeway Army - That's Too Bad 3:20
695 Ian Dury and the Blockheads - There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards (B-side to 'Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick') 3:03
696 The Smiths - There Is a Light That Never Goes Out 4:02
697 Dexys Midnight Runners - There, There, My Dear 3:15
698 Kirsty MacColl - There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis 3:09
699 Kirsty MacColl - They Don't Know 3:02
700 The Jam - Thick as Thieves 3:38
701 The Teardrop Explodes - Thief of Baghdad 3:09
CD33
702 New Order - Thieves Like Us (Original 1984 12" Single Version) 6:39
703 The Human League - The Things That Dreams Are Made Of (Original 1982 7" Single Version) 4:14
704 Eater - Thinkin' of the U.S.A. 3:01
705 The Smiths - This Charming Man 2:43
706 The The - This Is the Day 5:01
707 Talking Heads - This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) 4:56
708 The Saints - This Perfect Day (Original 1977 7" Single Version) 2:12
709 The Selecter - Three Minute Hero 3:02
710 Secret Affair - Time for Action 2:44
711 Stiff Little Fingers - Tin Soldiers 4:47
712 The Jam - To Be Someone (Didn't We Have a Nice Time) 2:29
713 The Piranhas - Tom Hark 2:46
714 The Clash - Tommy Gun 3:14
715 U.K. Subs - Tomorrows Girls (Original 1979 7" Single Version) 2:24
716 The Selecter - Too Much Pressure (Original 1979 2 Tone Records 7" Single Version) 2:48
717 The Special A.K.A. feat. Rico - Too Much Too Young (Live at the Lyceum, London) (1980 7" Single Version) 2:07
718 The Beat - Too Nice to Talk To 3:07
719 The Rezillos - Top of the Pops (Original 1978 7" Single Version) 3:19
720 The Fall - Totally Wired 3:25
721 Lori and the Chameleons - Touch 4:19
722 The Jam - Town Called Malice 2:54
723 The Clash - Train in Vain 3:10
CD34
724 Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express (Original 1977 7" Single Version) 3:55
725 Joy Division - Transmission 3:34
726 The Teardrop Explodes - Treason (It's Just a Story) (Original 1980 Zoo Records 7" Single Version) 3:05
727 New Order - True Faith (Original 1987 12" Single Version) 5:54
728 Killing Joke - Turn to Red b/w Turn to Red (Dub) 10:27
729 The Vapors - Turning Japanese 3:43
730 Joy Division - Twenty Four Hours 4:26
731 The Beat - Twist & Crawl 2:34
732 Tom Robinson Band - 2-4-6-8 Motorway 3:15
733 Splodgenessabounds - Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps Please 2:13
734 The Beat - Two Swords 2:17
735 The Slits - Typical Girls 3:59
736 The The feat. Jools Holland on piano - Uncertain Smile 6:53
737 The Church - Under the Milky Way 4:57
738 John Foxx - Underpass (Original 1980 7" Single Edit) 3:19
739 Blondie - Union City Blue 3:20
740 Tom Robinson Band - Up Against the Wall 3:35
CD35
741 The Chameleons - Up the Down Escalator 3:57
742 Squeeze - Up the Junction 3:08
743 Generation X - Valley of the Dolls 3:33
744 John Cooper Clarke - Valley of the Lost Women 4:15
745 Fatal Microbes - Violence Grows 3:13
746 Stiff Little Fingers - Wait and See 4:26
747 XTC - Wait Till Your Boat Goes Down 4:20
748 Ian Dury - Wake Up and Make Love with Me 4:21
749 The Stranglers - Walk On By 6:21
750 Aztec Camera - Walk Out to Winter 3:24
751 Squire - Walking Down the King's Road (Original 1979 7" Single Version) 3:36
752 The Police - Walking on the Moon 5:01
753 Killing Joke - Wardance 3:48
754 The Normal - Warm Leatherette 3:23
755 The Selecter - Washed Up and Left for Dead b/w Last Tango in Dub 8:26
756 Stiff Little Fingers - Wasted Life 3:09
757 Elvis Costello - Watching the Detectives 3:46
CD36
758 Cocteau Twins - Wax and Wane 4:02
759 The Pop Group - We Are All Prostitutes 3:13
760 Gary Numan - We Are Glass 4:45
761 The Go-Go's - We Got the Beat (Original 1980 Stiff Records 7" Single Version) 2:12
762 The Ruts - West One (Shine on Me) (Original 1980 7" Single Edit) 2:57
763 Ian Dury and the Blockheads - What a Waste 3:25
764 The Smiths - What Difference Does It Make? 3:49
765 Buzzcocks - What Do I Get? 2:56
766 The Donkeys - What I Want 2:26
767 Elvis Costello and the Attractions - (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding 3:32
768 The Teardrop Explodes - When I Dream (Original 1980 7" Single Edit) 3:22
769 The Jam - When You're Young 3:12
770 Slaughter and the Dogs - Where Have All the Boot Boys Gone? 3:10
771 The Mekons - Where Were You? 2:40
772 Television Personalities - Where's Bill Grundy Now? 2:16
773 Spizzenergi - Where's Captain Kirk? 2:17
774 The Revillos - Where's the Boy for Me? 2:03
775 The Beat - Whine and Grine / Stand Down Margaret / Stand Down Margaret (Dub) 7:20
776 Devo - Whip It 2:38
777 The Selecter - The Whisper 3:01
778 The Clash - (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais 4:01
779 Mo-Dettes - White Mice 3:38
CD37
780 The Tubes - White Punks on Dope (Original 1977 7" Promo Single Edit) 3:29
781 The Clash - White Riot (Original 1977 7" Single Version) 1:59
782 The Out - Who Is Innocent? 3:24
783 The Sports - Who Listens to the Radio? (1979 Stiff Records 7" EP Version) 3:15
784 Wreckless Eric - Whole Wide World 2:54
785 Buzzcocks - Why Can't I Touch It? 6:37
786 Generation X - Wild Youth 2:50
787 Angelic Upstarts - Woman in Disguise 3:07
788 Tom Tom Club - Wordy Rappinghood (Original 1981 12" Special Version) 6:31
789 Fischer-Z - The Worker (1979 Mike Howlett 7" Single Remix) 3:31
790 The Shapes - Wot's for Lunch Mum? (Not Beans Again!) 1:32
791 Au Pairs - You 2:51
792 Delta 5 - You 3:51
793 Kleenex - You 3:19
794 Johnny Thunders - You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory 3:47
795 Kirsty MacColl - You Caught Me Out 3:24
796 Jona Lewie - You'll Always Find Me in the Kitchen at Parties 3:00
797 New Order - Your Silent Face 5:56
798 Generation X - Your Generation 3:17
799 The Undertones - You've Got My Number (Why Don't You Use It!) 2:37
800 Stiff Little Fingers - Suspect Device 2:36
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Great, thank you BB & K, a Wonderfull collection... Now I am disappearing to search for Gems...Ciao
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