Such an exciting year! I did an intensive update in 2018 when it was 40 years ago (man, I'm getting old)
Songs
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1 | The Lines | White Night
2 | Kraftwerk | Spacelab
3 | Wire | Outdoor Miner
4 | Buzzcocks | Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've?)
5 | Gang Of Four | Damaged Goods
6 | The Undertones | Teenage Kicks
7 | Joy Division | Digital
8 | Blondie | Heart Of Glass
9 | The Cars | Just What I Needed
10 | The B-52's | Rock Lobster
11 | The Police | Roxanne
12 | Ramones | I Wanna Be Sedated
13 | Dire Straits | Sultans Of Swing
14 | Devo | Uncontrollable Urge
15 | The Cure | 10:15 Saturday Night
16 | Elvis Costello And The Attractions | (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea
17 | The Jam | Down In The Tube Station At Midnight
18 | Talking Heads | The Big Country
19 | The Only Ones | Another Girl, Another Planet
20 | The Saints | Know Your Product
21 | Talking Heads | Artists Only
22 | Chris Bell | You And Your Sister
23 | The Rolling Stones | Miss You
24 | The Clash | (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
25 | Talking Heads | Thank You For Sending Me An Angel
26 | Buzzcocks | What Do I Get?
27 | Tuxedomoon | No Tears
28 | Magazine | Shot By Both Sides
29 | Joe Jackson | Is She Really Going Out With Him?
30 | Patti Smith | Because The Night
31 | Devo | Social Fools
32 | Blondie | Hanging On The Telephone
33 | Talking Heads | Take Me To The River
34 | Kraftwerk | Das Model
35 | The Police | Peanuts
36 | Siouxsie And The Banshees | Hong Kong Garden
37 | The Records | Starry Eyes
38 | Sniff 'N' The Tears | Driver's Seat
39 | Buzzcocks | Promises
40 | Warren Zevon | Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner
41 | The Saints | Memories Are Made Of This
42 | Wipers | Better Off Dead
43 | Dire Straits | Water Of Love
44 | Lene Lovich | Lucky Number
45 | The Motors | Airport
46 | Elvis Costello | Lipstick Vogue
47 | Siouxsie And The Banshees | Metal Postcard (Mittageissen)
48 | Talking Heads | With Our Love
49 | Squeeze | Take Me I'm Yours
50 | Public Image Ltd | Public Image
51 | The Cars | You're All I've Got Tonight
52 | Patti Smith Group | Rock 'N' Roll Nigger
53 | Bruce Springsteen | Racing In The Street
54 | Devo | Come Back Jonee
55 | Flash And The Pan | Down Among The Dead Men
56 | The Cure | Killing An Arab
57 | The Cramps | Human Fly
58 | The Boomtown Rats | Rat Trap
59 | X-Ray Spex | The Day The World Turned Day-Glo
60 | Joe Walsh | Life's Been Good
61 | Blondie | One Way Or Another
62 | Talking Heads | Found A Job
63 | X-Ray Spex | Germ-Free Adolescents
64 | Pere Ubu | Non-Alignment Pact
65 | Gruppo Sportivo | Hey Girl
66 | The Police | So Lonely
67 | Kate Bush | The Man With The Child In His Eyes
68 | Robert Palmer | Best Of Both Worlds
69 | The Rolling Stones | Beast Of Burden
70 | Magazine | Definitive Gaze
71 | Gang Of Four | Love Like Anthrax
72 | Lou Reed | Street Hassle
73 | Elvis Costello | The Beat
74 | Blondie | Picture This
75 | Wire | Practice Makes Perfect
76 | Ramses Shaffy | Laat Me
77 | Warren Zevon | Excitable Boy
78 | The B-52's | 52 Girls
79 | Kraftwerk | Die Roboter
80 | Devo | Gut Feeling
81 | Magazine | The Light Pours Out Of Me
82 | Ultravox | Slow Motion
83 | Wire | Marooned
84 | Kate Bush | Moving
85 | Dinosaur | Kiss Me Again
86 | Big Star | Thank You Friends
87 | The Saints | Brisbane (Security City)
88 | Patti Smith Group | Privilege (Set Me Free)
89 | Sonic's Rendezvous band | City Slang
90 | Siouxsie And The Banshees | Jigsaw Feeling
91 | Joy Division | No Love Lost
92 | Elvis Costello & The Attractions | Radio Radio
93 | Tol Hansse | Big City
94 | The Cars | Good Times Roll
95 | Cheap Trick | Surrender
96 | Alternative TV | Action Time Vision
97 | Kate Bush | Them Heavy People
98 | Nick Lowe | I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass
99 | The Cars | My Best Friend's Girl
100 | Herman Brood & His Wild Romance | Saturday Night
101 | The Normal | Warm Leatherette
102 | Wire | I Am The Fly
103 | Chris Bell | I Am The Cosmos
104 | I Jog & The Tracksuits | Red Box
105 | Talking Heads | The Girls Want To Be With The Girls
106 | Joy Division | Glass
107 | Bob Marley & The Wailers | Is This Love
108 | The Jam | English Rose
109 | The Babys | Everytime I Think Of You
110 | Chris Stamey And The dB's | (I Thought) You Wanted To Know
111 | The Clash | Stay Free
112 | Giorgio Moroder | Chase
113 | The Human League | Being Boiled
114 | Elvis Costello & The Attractions | Pump It Up
115 | Stiff Little Fingers | Alternative Ulster
116 | 999 | Homicide
117 | Bobby Caldwell | What You Won't Do For Love
118 | Normaal | Ik Bun Maor Een Eenvoudige Boerenlul
119 | The Police | Can't Stand Losing You
120 | Kate Bush | Wow
121 | Gloria Gaynor | I Will Survive
122 | The Saints | Lost And Found
123 | Gerry Rafferty | Baker Street
124 | Sham 69 | If The Kids Are United
125 | Bruce Springsteen | Darkness On The Edge Of Town
126 | The Diodes | Tired Of Waking Up Tired
127 | XTC | Statue Of Liberty
128 | Fashion | Steady Eddie Steady
129 | The Reds | Joey
130 | Johnny Thunders | You Can't Put Your Arms Round A Memory
131 | Robert Palmer | Every Kinda People
132 | The Normal | T.V.O.D.
133 | Chic | Le Freak
134 | Sweet | Love Is Like Oxygen
135 | Bruce Springsteen | Badlands
136 | Steely Dan | F.M. (No Static At All)
137 | Stiff Little Fingers | Suspect Device
138 | Kraftwerk | Die Mensch-Maschine
139 | Subway Sect | Ambition
140 | Tom Robinson Band | Glad To Be Gay
141 | Funkadelic | One Nation Under A Groove
142 | Willie Williams | Armagideon Time
143 | The Mekons | Where Were You?
144 | X-Ray Spex | Identity
145 | Rich Kids | Ghosts Of Princes In Towers
146 | The Doobie Brothers | What A Fool Believes
147 | The Filth | Don't Hide Your Hate
148 | The Clash | Julie's Been Working For The Drug Squad
149 | Siouxsie And The Banshees | Overground
150 | Fotomaker | Where Have You Been All My Life
151 | Throbbing Gristle | United
152 | Marie Et Les Garçons | Re-Bop
153 | Mad Virgins | Fuck And Suck
154 | Yachts | Yachting Types
155 | X | We're Desperate
156 | XTC | This Is Pop?
157 | Talking Heads | The Good Thing
158 | Plastic Bertrand | Tout Petit La Planète
159 | The Stranglers | Nice 'N' Sleazy
160 | Joy Division | Leaders Of Men
161 | Renaissance | Northern Lights
162 | Blondie | Sunday Girl
163 | The Cars | All Mixed Up
164 | Protex | Don't Ring Me Up
165 | Shoes | Tomorrow Night
166 | The Brains | Money Changes Everything
167 | Ian Dury And The Blockheads | Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
168 | Lene Lovich | I Think We're Alone Now
169 | Transvolta | Disco Computer
170 | The Lines | Barbican
171 | Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers | I Need To Know
172 | The Cars | I'm In Touch With Your World
173 | Wasmo Nariz | Tele-Tele-Phone
174 | Tuxedomoon | New Machine
175 | The Weirdos | We Got The Neutron Bomb
176 | The Lurkers | Ain't Got A Clue
177 | Siouxsie And The Banshees | Mirage
178 | Rudi | Big Time
179 | Yachts | Look Back In Love (Not In Anger)
180 | Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band | We've Got Tonite
181 | The Saints | Church Of Indifference
182 | Bruce Springsteen | Candy's Room
183 | Big Star | Jesus Christ
184 | Talking Heads | I'm Not In Love
185 | Patti Smith Group | Ghost Dance
186 | Wire | Sand In My Joints
187 | Big Star | Kanga Roo
188 | Tom Waits | Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis
189 | Burning Spear | Marcus Children Suffer
190 | Blondie | Will Anything Happen?
191 | Elvis Costello | This Year's Girl
192 | Television | Foxhole
193 | Bruce Springsteen | Adam Raised A Cain
194 | Neil Young | Comes A Time
195 | Tom Waits | Blue Valentines
196 | The Rolling Stones | Respectable
197 | Kraftwerk | Neonlicht
198 | Wire | Dot Dash
199 | The Jam | A' Bomb In Wardour Street
200 | The Shirts | Tell Me Your Plans
201 | Neil Young | Lotta Love
202 | The Clash | Tommy Gun
203 | Jacques Higelin | Pars
204 | Nick Gilder | Hot Child In The City
205 | Siouxsie And The Banshees | Switch
206 | Burning | Que Hace Una Chica Como Tú En Un Sitio Como Este
207 | The Dictators | Stay With Me
208 | Joy Division | Warsaw
209 | Elvis Costello | No Action
210 | The Rubinoos | I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
211 | The Fall | Various Times
212 | Magazine | Give Me Everything
213 | Wire | Another The Letter