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doiscareyou's top albums (3 months)
1. Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna (311) 2. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures (271) 3. The Daysleepers - Drowned In a Sea of Sound (247) 4. Lunar Node - Exploring Unknown Territory (235) 5. The Smiths - The Very Best Of (230) 6. Maybeshewill - Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony (229) 7. Andrew Bird - Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs (204) 8. Melt-Banana - Bambi's Dilemma (200) 9. The Antlers - Hospice (183) 10. Fever Ray - Fever Ray (175) 11. Thee More Shallows - A History of Sport Fishing (174) 12. You Slut! - Critical Meat (146) 13. The Sea and Cake - Oui (143) 14. Efterklang - Tripper (142) 15. Yarn Owl - The Tape (142) 16. Polvo - Today's Active Lifestyles (139) 17. Land of Talk - Some Are Lakes (131) 18. M. Pyres - Consider Me, Ghost (demos) (125) 19. WHY? - Alopecia (120) 20. Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse - Dark Night of the Soul (114) 21. Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms EP (111) 22. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Architecture And Morality (remastered) (110) 23. Soap&Skin - Lovetune for Vacuum (105) 24. Local Natives - Gorilla Manor (104) 25. The xx - 2.0 (98) 26. Interpol - Antics (95) 27. Black Eyes - Black Eyes (92) 28. The Sea and Cake - One Bedroom (92) 29. Efterklang - Parades (89) 30. Tortoise - Standards (80) 31. Patrick Watson - Wooden Arms (78) 32. The Magik Markers - I Trust My Guitar, Etc. (76) 33. Siouxsie & The Banshees - Once Upon a Time: the Singles (74) 34. Air - Moon Safari (71) 35. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights (66) 36. The Sea and Cake - One Bedroom-ADVANCE (66) 37. Ciccone Youth - The Whitey Album (63) 38. Interpol - Our Love To Admire (63) 39. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell (62) 40. Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland (61) 41. Air - Talkie Walkie (61) 42. Cocteau Twins - Treasure (59) 43. Malory - The Third Face (59) 44. Patrick Wolf - Wind in the Wires (59) 45. melt banana - Bambi's Dilemma (59) 46. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (59) 47. Efterklang - Under Giant Trees (57) 48. Thee More Shallows - More Deep Cuts (55) 49. The Cure - Greatest Hits (54) 50. Siouxsie & The Banshees - Voices on the Air: The Peel Sessions (54)

1966 The Beatles: Revolver
1968 The Beatles: The Beatles
1969 The Beatles: Abbey Road
1973 The Beatles: 1967-1970
1974 Harmonium: Harmonium
1974 Supertramp: Crime of the Century
1975 Harmonium: Si on avait besoin d'une cinquième Saison
1979 The Police: Reggatta De Blanc
1980 The Police: Zenyatta Mondatta
1980 Talking Heads: Remain in Light
1981 The Cure: Faith
1981 Echo and the Bunnymen: Heaven up here
1981 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark: Architecture And Morality
1981 Simple Minds: Sons and Fascination
1981 Ultravox: Rage in Eden
1982 Duran Duran: Rio
1982 Joe Jackson: Night and Day
1982 Midnight Oil: 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1
1982 The Psychedelic Furs: Forever Now
1982 Simple Minds: New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)
1982 Soft Cell: Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing
1982 Ultravox: Quartet
1983 The Chameleons: Script of the Bridge
1983 China Crisis: Working With Fire And Steel
1983 Eurythmics: Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
1983 A Flock of Seagulls: Listen
1983 Kissing the Pink: Naked
1983 New Order: Power, Corruption And Lies
1983 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark: Dazzle Ships
1983 Talking Heads: Speaking in Tongues
1983 Tears for Fears: The Hurting
1983 The The: Soul Mining
1983 U2: War
1984 The Church: Remote Luxury
1984 Cocteau Twins: Treasure
1984 Echo and the Bunnymen: Ocean Rain
1984 Everything but the Girl: Eden
1984 The Icicle Works: The Icicle Works
1984 Kissing the Pink: What Noise
1984 The Pale Fountains: Pacific Street
1984 Tones on Tail: Pop
1984 U2: The Unforgettable Fire
1985 The Colourfield: Virgins And Philistines
1985 The Cure: The Head On The Door
1985 Dead Can Dance: Spleen and Ideal
1985 Everything but the Girl: Love Not Money
1985 It's Immaterial: Life's Hard And Then You Die
1985 New Order: Low-Life
1985 Prefab Sprout: Two Wheels Good
1985 The Smiths: Meat Is Murder
1986 Depeche Mode: Black Celebration
1986 R.E.M.: Life's Rich Pageant
1986 This Mortal Coil: Filigree and Shadow
1986 The Woodentops: Giant
1987 Bel Canto: White-Out Conditions
1987 Dead Can Dance: Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
1987 The Housemartins: The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death
1987 The Lilac Time: The Lilac Time
1987 The Smiths: Louder Than Bombs
1988 The Church: Starfish
1989 Bel Canto: Birds of Passage
1989 The Cure: Disintegration
1990 Depeche Mode: Violator
1990 The House of Love: The House of Love II
1990 Prefab Sprout: Jordan: The Comeback
1990 The Waterboys: Room To Roam
1991 Joe Jackson: Laughter And Lust
1991 James: Seven
1991 U2: Achtung Baby
1992 Bel Canto: Shimmering, warm and bright
1993 Dead Can Dance: Into the Labyrinth
1993 James: Laid
1993 Midnight Oil: Earth and Sun and Moon
1994 Portishead: Dummy
1997 Catherine Wheel: Adam and Eve
1997 Marcy Playground: Marcy Playground
1997 Portishead: Portishead
1997 Radiohead: OK Computer
1998 Deep Forest: Comparsa
1998 Garbage: Version 2.0
1998 Lenny Kravitz: 5
1999 Echo and the Bunnymen: What Are You Going To Do With Your Life
1999 Travis: The Man Who
2000 Catherine Wheel: Wishville
2002 Coldplay: A Rush Of Blood To The Head
2003 Muse: Absolution
2004 Interpol: Antics
2004 Keane: Hopes and Fears
2005 Coldplay: X&Y
2005 Doves: Some Cities
2006 The Killers: Sam's Town
2006 Muse: Black Holes and Revelations
2007 Arctic Monkeys: Favourite Worst Nightmare
2007 Band of Horses: Cease to Begin
2007 Klaxons: Myths Of The Near Future
2007 The Shins: Wincing the Night Away
2008 Death Cab for Cutie: Narrow Stairs
2008 Elbow: The Seldom Seen Kid
2008 Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes
2008 The Stills: Oceans Will Rise
2008 Vampire Weekend: Vampire Weekend
2009 Yeah Yeah Yeahs: It's Blitz!

"Rip It Up" 70's/80's night every other Friday in birmingham @ the Island Bar

Fortnightly party at the Island Bar celebrating all things musical from the 70s & 80s.

Your DJ in the stylish yet affordable boots will be Dave Boring (this is not his real name). He will be playing everything from:

ABBA, AC/DC, A Certain Ratio, Beastie Boys, B-52s, Bowie, Clash, Cramps, Cure, Dead Kennedys, Depeche Mode, Devo, Echo & the Bunnymen, Erasure, ESG, Fad Gadget, Fall, Fugazi, Gang of Four, Go-Gos, Grandmaster Flash, Gun Club, Happy Mondays, Human League, Husker Du, Iggy Pop, Incredible Bongo Band, Jam, Jesus & Mary Chain, Joy Division, Kid Creole & the Coconuts, KISS, KONK, Led Zeppelin, Lilliput, Liquid Liquid, Magazine, Modern Lovers, Motley Crue, New Order, New York Dolls, Numan, Oingo Boingo, Orange Juice, O.M.D, Pixies, Police, Prince, Pylon, Queen, Ramones, R.E.M., Replacements, Roxy Music, Shocking Blue, Smiths, Sonic Youth, Specials, Talking Heads, Teardrop Explodes, Toots & the Maytals, Ultravox, Undertones, U2, Vaselines, Violent Femmes, Visage, Whitesnake, Who, Wire, X-Ray Spex, XTC, Yazoo, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Zappa, ZZ Top... plus all kinds of annoying pop and disco oddities and guilty pleasures.

**FREE ENTRY ALL NIGHT**

Rip It Up also welcomes anyone with a genuine passion for this era of music. Come and say hello. Do a guest slot for us - we've had the likes of ATTAgirl, Raspberry Bazaar and Kosmik Disco so far, so please feel


Roxy Music
ABBA
New Order
Visage
Teardrop Explodes
Undertones
The Smiths
The Human League
The Jam
Echo and the Bunnymen
Depeche Mode
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
The Ramones
Blancmange
The Clash

Opening Credits
Kind of Blue - Being You
Excellent choice... "It's ok... Being you..."

Waking Up
Morrissey - Everyday Is Like Sunday
LOL

First Day At School
Kylie Minogue - Slow

Falling In Love
The Bravery - An Honest Mistake
No, it wasn't!!!

Losing Virginity
A Flock of Seagulls - Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You)

Fight Song
Camouflage - Real Thing
Fighting in slow motion, huh?

Breaking Up
Veronika Fischer - Lisa
Which Lisa???

Prom
Chandeen - Mysterious Clouds
This must be one freaky prom night...

Life
Blank & Jones - Mind of the Wonderful

Mental Breakdown
Ultima Bleep - Back (Club Remix)

Driving
De/Vision - Green-Eyed Monster

Depression
Javelin / Löwy - Pulsing Adrenaline

Partying
Laleh - Hide Away
Hm, that's not gonna work...

Happy dance
De/Vision - You Are The One
LOL - this is beyond inappropriate

Betrayal
De/Vision - New Drug
De/Vision is gonna become famous with this soundtrack...

Regretting
Juliane Werding - Weich und warm

Long night alone
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Walking On Air

Flashback
Camouflage - 74 Minutes

Getting Back Together
Deine Lakaien - Hands White (Mani Bianche)
Hehe, this is so not romantic...

Wedding
The Cranberries - Zombie
Ok, now stop it. Not funny anymore...!!!

Birth of Child
At least it cannot be Zombie anymore...
Kind of Blue - Bitter Blue
Great, this child is gonna be even more gloomy than me...

Final Battle
Erasure - Chorus
Finally!! Something uplifting!!

Death Scene
Hubert Kah - Engel 07
Ha, this is cool. Look who's gonna become an angel...

Funeral Song
Ruben Cossani - Haut
Lovely song, the lyrics don't fit at all, but who cares...

End Credits
Nouvelle Vague - Master and Servant
*smile* This should have been number 5...

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feefafo's top albums (overall)
1. The B-52's - The B-52's (75) 2. Wall of Voodoo - Call Of The West (63) 3. XTC - Skylarking (47) 4. Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! (44) 5. Thomas Dolby - The Golden Age Of Wireless (42) 6. Various Artists - Dead Bands Party - A Tribute To Oingo Boingo (41) 7. Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party (40) 8. Juttman - Forgotten Songs EP (40) 9. Sparks - Kimono My House (39) 10. No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom (38) 11. Nuclear Bubble Wrap - Advanced at Nothing (32) 12. Public Image Ltd. - Metal Box (31) 13. Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense (31) 14. Lemon Demon - Damn Skippy (31) 15. Danny Elfman - Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas (30) 16. Madness - Divine Madness (30) 17. Wire - Pink Flag/Chairs Missing/154 (30) 18. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - The Best of OMD (29) 19. Missing Persons - The Best Of Missing Persons (29) 20. Devo - Freedom of Choice (29) 21. Oingo Boingo - Nothing to Fear (29) 22. The Waitresses - The Best of The Waitresses (28) 23. Berlin - Best of Berlin 1979-1988 (28) 24. The Aquabats - Charge!! (27) 25. Gang of Four - Entertainment! (27) 26. Magazine - Real Life (26) 27. Wall of Voodoo - Dark Continent (26) 28. Logan Whitehurst & the Junior Science Club - Very Tiny Songs (26) 29. The Cars - Heartbeat City (26) 30. Adam and the Ants - Antics in the Forbidden Zone (26) 31. DAT Politics - Are Oui Phony?? (25) 32. The Fixx - Reach the Beach (25) 33. Harry and the Potters - Harry and the Potters (25) 34. XTC - Drums And Wires (25) 35. The Specials - The Singles Collection (24) 36. They Might Be Giants - Flood (24) 37. The Guckenheimer Sauerkraut Band - Delta Sushi (22) 38. John Foxx - Cathedral Oceans III (22) 39. Logan Whitehurst & the Junior Science Club - Earth is Big (22) 40. Bow Wow Wow - The Best of Bow Wow Wow (22) 41. Chrome - Half Machine Lip Moves/Alien Soundtracks (22) 42. Reel Big Fish - Cheer Up! (22) 43. The Red Krayola - The Red Krayola (22) 44. Oingo Boingo - Best O' Boingo (22) 45. The Psychedelic Furs - All of This and Nothing (22) 46. Devo - Duty Now for the Future / New Traditionalists (22) 47. Tom Tom Club - Tom Tom Club (21) 48. Stan Ridgway - The Big Heat (21) 49. Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables (21) 50. Sparks - Exotic Creatures Of The Deep (21)

size=10]wolkig's top albums (overall)
1. Forseti - Erde (71) 2. Tindersticks - Tindersticks (40) 3. November Novelet - Magic (33) 4. Manic Street Preachers - Forever Delayed: The Greatest Hits Disc 1 (29) 5. Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers (28) 6. Satie - Gymnopédies, Gnossiennes, Nocturnes, La Belle Ex (26) 7. Boyd Rice & Fiends - Wolf Pact (26) 8. Einstürzende Neubauten - Haus der Lüge (25) 9. The Horrors - Primary Colours (25) 10. Current 93 - All The Pretty Little Horses (The Inmost Light) (24) 11. Death in June - But,What End's When The Symbols Shatter (23) 12. And Also the Trees - A Retrospective 1983-1986 (23) 13. Zoviet France - Misfits, Loony Tunes and Squalid Criminals (23) 14. Pulp - Hits (23) 15. Death in June - Burial (22) 16. Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See (22) 17. Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit (22) 18. Leger des Heils - Memoria (22) 19. And Also the Trees - The Klaxon (22) 20. Joy Division - Permanent (22) 21. Matmos - Supreme Balloon (22) 22. Massive Attack - Mezzanine (22) 23. Laibach - Volk (21) 24. Cinema Strange - Cinema Strange (21) 25. Leger des Heils - Gloria (21) 26. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (20) 27. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - The OMD Singles (20) 28. The Knife - Silent Shout (20) 29. Blood Axis - The Gospel of Inhumanity (20) 30. Suede - Suede (19) 31. Of the Wand and the Moon - Sonnenheim (19) 32. Clair Obscur - Play (18) 33. Monolake - Cinemascope (17) 34. Nitzer Ebb - That Total Age (17) 35. Virgin Prunes - If I Die ,I Die (16) 36. Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs (16) 37. Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible (16) 38. Nitzer Ebb - Body of Work (16) 39. Death in June - Nada! (16) 40. Forseti - Windzeit (16) 41. Coil - Love's Secret Domain (16) 42. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures (16) 43. SPK - Leichenschrei (15) 44. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead (15) 45. Ladytron - Witching Hour [Bonus DVD] Disc 1 (15) 46. Haus Arafna - Trilogie Des Blutes / Nachblutung (15) 47. GusGus - Attention (15) 48. Killing Joke - Killing Joke - Killing Joke (14) 49. Throbbing Gristle - Part Two: The Endless Not (14) 50. Suede - Dog Man Star (14)

Official Synth Britannia site

Tracing the evolution of British electronic music. See Martin Gore roll a pebble along a windowsill!

Human League
Kraftwerk
Gary Numan
Cabaret Voltaire
Depeche Mode
Yazoo
Heaven 17
Soft Cell
John Foxx
Ultravox
New Order
Throbbing Gristle
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Pet Shop Boys
The Normal
Wendy Carlos
Eurythmics
Visage
Giorgio Moroder

Name the song from the first line...

1 What is this phase that I am going through? Oh these precious years!

2 Give me time to realise my crime. Let me love and steal.

3 All you punks and all you teds, national front and natty dreads, mods, rockers, hippies and skinheads, keep on fighting till you're dead.

4 It worries me this kind of thing. How you hope to live alone and occupy your wicked hours.

5 You say, it's not what you do, it's what you're thinking of.

6 I still haven't got over it even now. I want to spend a huge amount of time on my own.

7 She rises early from bed. Runs to the mirror; the bruises inflicted in moments of fury.

8 I got the money and I got the place. You got the figure and you got the face.
Sailor - A Glass Of Champagne

9 I'll find a place somewhere in the corner. I'm gonna waste the rest of my days.

10 I'm coming over but I won't be long. I'm coming over. I'm making a new song.

11 Behind me a caravan weighed down, with bad dreams and ghosts of apologies.

12 Answer me. Why won't you answer me? I can't recall the day that I last heard from you.

13 I've been there, done that, messed around. I'm having fun, don't put me down. I'll never let you sweep me off my feet.
La Roux - Bulletproof

14 I thought we had a connection. I thought we had a good thing.

15 Is it an horrific dream? Am I sinking fast?

16 Jeannie said when she was just five years old, there was nothing happening at all.

17 Standing in the dark. Watching you blow.

18 A summer house in Texas. Searching for Siberia. Pioneering over ground.

19 Woke up in the evening to the sound of the screaming.

20 You're just a little girl with grey eyes, never mind, say something!
David Bowie - What in the World


All About Eve
Brian Eno
Culture Club

David Sylvian
Everything but the Girl
Japan
John Foxx

Ladytron
Little Boots
New Order
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

Tears for Fears
The Knife
The Specials
The Ting Tings
The Velvet Underground
Ultravox

Now you've played my game, please listen to one of my tracks at my YiGa page!

I thank you!