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Editors’ Notes A selection of lesser-known gems and crucial album cuts. Our editors regularly update this playlist—if you hear something you like, add it to your library.
SONG
ALBUM
Dreaming of Me
Depeche Mode
Speak & Spell
3:44
 
Love Vigilantes
New Order
Low-Life
4:19
 
These Days (Remastered)
R.E.M.
Lifes Rich Pageant (Deluxe Edition)
3:24
 
Well I Wonder
The Smiths
Meat Is Murder
4:00
 
Charlotte Sometimes (Single Version)
The Cure
Faith (Deluxe Edition)
4:13
 
Uncontrollable Urge
Devo
Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
3:11
 
I’ve Been Tired
Pixies
Come On Pilgrim
3:00
 
Rip Her to Shreds
Blondie
Blondie
3:22
 
Happy When It Rains
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Darklands
3:36
 
My Kingdom
Echo & The Bunnymen
Ocean Rain
4:05
 
Insight
Joy Division
Unknown Pleasures (Collector's Edition)
4:26
 
This Is Not a Love Song
Public Image Ltd.
This is What You Want ... This Is What You Get
4:12
 
(When You Wake) You're Still In a Dream
My Bloody Valentine
Isn't Anything
3:18
 
Mr. Jones
The Psychedelic Furs
Talk Talk Talk
4:03
 
What's My Scene
Hoodoo Gurus
Blow Your Cool
3:49
 
Unsatisfied
The Replacements
Let It Be
4:01
 
Schizophrenia
Sonic Youth
Sister
4:38
 
Ball and Chain
XTC
English Settlement
4:32
 
The Wrong Road
The Go-Betweens
Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express
4:55
 
Books About UFOs
Hüsker Dü
New Day Rising
2:49
 
Acid Bird
Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians
Gotta Let This Hen Out
4:46
 
Couldn't Get Ahead
The Fall
This Nation's Saving Grace
2:36
 
I Love My Leather Jacket
The Chills
Kaleidoscope World
2:58
 
Floorshow
The Sisters of Mercy
Some Girls Wander By Mistake
3:40
 
Nick the Stripper
The Birthday Party
Prayers on Fire
3:52
 
Groovy Times
The Clash
Sound System
3:26
 
Wardance
Killing Joke
Killing Joke
3:45
 
Artists Only (Live)
Talking Heads
The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads (Live)
3:49
 
Perfect (Original 7" Version 1983)
The The
45 RPM - The Singles of The The
4:00
 
Song to the Siren
This Mortal Coil
It'll End in Tears (Remastered)
3:31
 
Talking In My Sleep
Rain Parade
Emergency Third Rail Power Trip
3:49
 
Fish
Throwing Muses
Lonely Is an Eyesore
4:28
 
The Pain of Pain
Yo La Tengo
Ride the Tiger
5:35
 
Queen of Eyes
The Soft Boys
Underwater Moonlight
2:01
 
Our Swimmer (Single Version)
Wire
Document & Eyewitness 1979-1980
3:30
 
Give Me Everything
Magazine
Scree
4:22
 
Bad Brain
Ramones
Road to Ruin
2:25
 
House We Used to Live In
The Smithereens
Green Thoughts
4:03
 
Just Fascination (7" Version)
Cabaret Voltaire
#7885 (Electropunk to Technopop 1978-1985)
3:35
 
Love Puppets
The Legendary Pink Dots
Curse
6:56
 
Trail of Tears (LP Version)
Guadalcanal Diary
Walking In the Shadow of the Big Man
2:27
 
Going Nowhere
Dumptruck
For the Country
2:57
 
Because of Whirl-Jack
Cocteau Twins
Lullabies to Violaine, Vol. One
3:26
 
Cat House
Danielle Dax
Dark Adapted Eye
3:28
 
No One's Little Girl
The Raincoats
Extended Play - EP
4:20
 
Mybabyshe'sallright
Scruffy The Cat
Tiny Days
2:46
 
Mercy Seat
Ultra Vivid Scene
Ultra Vivid Scene
4:09
 
Joed Out
The Verlaines
Juvenilia
3:39
 
Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing
Minutemen
Introducing the Minutemen
1:30
 
Swimming Ground
Meat Puppets
Up on the Sun
3:06
 
You've Got Everything Now
The Smiths
The Smiths
3:59
 
James
The Bangles
All Over the Place
2:36
 
Oblivious
Galaxie 500
Today
3:18
 
Closer to the Stars
Soul Asylum
While You Were Out
2:51
 
Too Close to the Light
The Long Ryders
Native Sons
4:12
 
in Power We Entrust the Love Advocated
Dead Can Dance
Wake
4:10
 
Darling Don't Leave Me
Robert Görl
Night Full of Tension
3:39
 
Myage
Descendents
Somery
2:02
 
Waters Part
Let's Active
Waters Part - Single
5:00
 
In Shreds
The Chameleons
What Does Anything Mean? Basically (2009 Remaster)
4:09
 
Skank Bloc Bologna
Scritti Politti
Early
5:54
 
5 Minutes
The Stranglers
Essential
3:18
 

62 Songs, 3 Hours, 52 Minutes

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