The Fall: Blood Outta Stone (A side = White Lightning) _ Tones on Tail: Twist (a lot of people's favourite Tones on Tail song, including mine, and even its creator Daniel Ash, yet it was a B. (A side = Christian Says) _ Bauhaus: Boys (A side = Bela Lugosi's Dead) _ Love and Rockets: Holiday on the Moon (A side = Kundalini Express) _ David Bowie: Velvet Goldmine (A side = reissued Space Oddity) _ Adam and the Ants: Beat My Guest (kiddies favourite puts fearsome S&M sex song on reverse of novelty hit. Ha! A side = Stand & Deliver) _ John Cale: Rosegarden Funeral of Sores (very, very dark, and very influential. Often forgotten in the shadow of the slightly earlier Iggy The Idiot and Bowie "Heroes" albums as an important part of what immediately preceded and partially led to the soon to be thriving UK "post punk" / goth "movement". Bauhaus covered it not long after Cale's original was obscurely released on a 45 that bombed. A side = Mercenaries).
Depeche Mode "Dangerous" (Personal Jesus B-side) Human League "The world tonight" (Life on Your own B-side )
Echo & the Bunnymen - Angels and Devils The Cure - New Day Talk Talk - It's Getting Late in the Evening The The - Three Orange Kisses From Kazan Duran Duran - Secret Oktober The Police - Once Upon a Daydream Sting - Everybody Laughed But You (although this was an album track in most parts of the world) Pet Shop Boys - It Must Be Obvious Depeche Mode - Sea of Sin The Psychedelic Furs - Aeroplane Cocteau Twins - Ice-pulse Tears For Fears - Bloodletting Go New Order - Don't Do It The Glove - Mouth To Mouth Simple Minds - A Brass Band in African Chimes Radiohead - The Amazing Sounds of Orgy Clan of Xymox - Scum Oasis - Fade Away
I've seen quite a few mentions of Erotic City and She's Always in My Hair by Prince, but not too many people have said 17 Days. The Purple Rain sessions, hell 80s Prince in general, were just full of great music.
Motorhead's Just Cos You Got The Power is my favourite track of theirs, from memory I think it was the b side of Eat the Rich
I Wanna Be Me by The Sex Pistols Aneurysm by Nirvana Pink Cadillac by Bruce Springsteen Sex Boy by The Germs Erotic City by Prince Police Truck by The Dead Kennedys Hey Hey What Can I Do by Led Zeppelin Casa Vega by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers Vegetable Man by The Jesus And Mary Chain That's It by The Cars
I've been listening to a lot of Petty recently. (RIP, Tom.) The other one that immediately came to mind was Gator On The Lawn. I don't think Petty and The Heartbreakers ever cut a more fun song!
