1981

Punk's cleared the old order out and died in the process, replaced by the shiny new post punk world. One of the best years in music where underground and mainstream briefly collide.

Altered Images - Dead pop stars
Public Image Ltd - Flowers of romance
Birthday Party - Release the bats
ESG - U.F.O
Tom Tom Club - Genius of love
The Specials - Friday night, Saturday morning
Pete Shelley - Homosapian
The Associates - Kitchen person
New Order - Everything's gone green
Killing Joke - Follow the leader
Theatre of Hate - Nero
Bow Wow Wow - Chihuahua (Single version)
Blue Orchids - The house that faded out
Fire Engines - Candy skin
B-Movie - Moles
Human League - I am the law
Heaven 17 - Let's all make a bomb
Depeche Mode - Photographic (Some Bizarre sampler version)
The Names - Nightshift
The Chefs - 24 hours
The Freshies - I can't get bouncing babies by the Teardrop Explodes
Television Personalities - In know where Syd Barrett lives