1. Joy Division- Closer (Factory, 1980)
“we’ve got a tomb on the cover of the album!”- Peter Saville
2. Bauhaus- Mask (Beggars Banquet, 1981)
3. Siouxsie & the Banshees- Juju (Polydor, 1981)
Further Listening: Stimmen Der Stille- Morgenstern, Asmodi Bizarr- Sunsierra, Look Back In Anger- Caprice 12”
4. Modern English- Mesh & Lace (4AD, 1981)
Further Listening: My Captains- History 7”, Mass- Labour of Love
5. The Birthday Party- Prayers On Fire (Missing Link, 1981)
Further Listening: Nick Cave & the Badseeds- The Good Son
6. Virgin Prunes- …If I Die, I Die (Rough Trade, 1982)
7. The Cure- Pornography (Fiction Records, 1982)
Further Listening: The Glove- Blue Sunshine, The Essence- Monument of Trust
8. Cocteau Twins- Head Over Heels (4AD, 1983)
9. Alien Sex Fiend- Who’s Been Sleeping In My Brain? (Anagram Records, 1983)
10. Death Cult – God’s Zoo 12”/Brothers Grimm 12” (Situation Two, 1983)
Further Listening: The Cult- Love, Theatre of Hate- Westworld, Zero Le Creche- Last Year’s Wife 12”
11. Sex Gang Children- Song and Legend (Illuminated Records, 1983)
Further Listening: Specimen- Batastrophe, 13th Chime- The Singles 1981-1983
12. The Chameleons- Script of the Bridge (Statik, 1983)
Further Listening: The Sound- From the Lion’s Mouth, Sad Lovers and Giants- Feeding the Flame, Lowlife- Permanent Sleep
13. The Legendary Pink Dots- Curse (In Phaze Records, 1983)
14. Gene Loves Jezebel- Promise (Situation Two, 1983)
Further Listening: Into a Circle- Assassins, Play Dead- The First Flower, The Bolshoi- Friends, The Snake Corps- Flesh on Flesh
15. Dead Can Dance- Dead Can Dance (4AD, 1984)
16. Tones On Tail- Pop (Beggars Banquet, 1984)
17. The Danse Society- Heaven Is Waiting (Arista, 1984)
Further Listening: Handful of Snowdrops- Land of the Damned, The Frozen Autumn- Pale Awakening
18. Christian Death- Catastrophe Ballet (L’Invitation Au Suicide, 1984)
Further Listening: Norma Loy- Sacrifice, Kommunity FK- Close One Sad Eye, Neva- Hallucination
7”
19. Cindytalk- Camouflage Heart (Midnight Music, 1984)
20. Skinny Puppy- Remission/Bites (Nettwerk, 1984/1985)
21. Killing Joke- Night Time (EG, 1985)
Further Listening: Siekiera- Nowa Aleksandria, Diaframma- Siberia
22. Skeletal Family- Futile Combat (Red Rhino Records, 1985)
Further Listening: UK Decay- For Madmen Only, Rudimentary Peni- Cacophony, Screaming Dead- Night Creatures 12”, 1919- Caged 7”
23. Red Lorry Yellow Lorry- Talk About the Weather (Red Rhino Records, 1985)
Further Listening: The March Violets- Natural History, The Three Johns- Atom Drum Bop
24. The Damned- Phantasmagoria (MCA Records, 1985)
Further Listening: The Cramps- Songs the Lord Taught Us, The Nuns- Rumania, Misfits- Walk Among Us
25. And Also the Trees- Virus Meadow (Reflex Records, 1986)
26. Coil- Horse Rotorvator (Force & Form, 1986)
Further Listening: Death In June- Nada!, SPK- Zamia Lehmanni: Songs Of Byzantine Flowers, In the Nursery- Sonore 12”, Current 93- Imperium
27. Depeche Mode- Black Celebration (Mute, 1986)
Further Listening: Fad Gadget- Under the Flag
28. Clan of Xymox- Medusa (4AD, 1986)
Further Listening: Pieter Nooten & Michael Brook– Sleeps With the Fishes
29. This Mortal Coil- Filigree and Shadow (4AD, 1986)
30. Xmal Deutschland- Viva (Xile, 1987)
Further Listening: All About Eve- All About Eve
31. The Sisters of Mercy- Floodland (Merciful Release, 1987)
Further Listening: The Mission- God’s Own Medicine, The Wake- Masked, Brotherhood of Pagans- Tales of Vampires, London After Midnight- Psycho Magnet
32. Fields of the Nephilim- The Nephilim (Situation Two, 1988)
33. Asylum Party- Borderline (Lively Art, 1989)
Further Listening: Little Nemo- Sounds In the Attic, Babel 17- Celeano Fragments
34. Red Temple Spirits- If Tomorrow I Were Leaving For Lhasa, I Wouldn’t Stay A Minute More… (Fundamental, 1989)
Further Listening: Savage Republic- Ceremonial, Psi Com- Psi Com 12”, Abecedarians- Eureka
35. Requiem In White- Requiem In White 12” (First Communion Music, 1990)
Further Listening: This Ascension- Tears In Rain, Mephisto Walz- Thalia, Corpus Delicti- Twilight
36. Cranes- Wings of Joy (Dedicated, 1991)
Further Listening: Sleeping Dogs Wake- Threnody
37. Lydia Lunch & Rowland S. Howard- Shotgun Wedding (Triple X Records, 1991)
38. Black Tape For a Blue Girl- This Lush Garden Within (Projekt, 1993)
Further Listening: Switchblade Symphony- Serpentine Gallery, Faith and the Muse- Elyria, Love Spirals Downwards- Idylls
39. Jarboe- Sacrificial Cake (Alternative Tentacles/Young God Records, 1995)
Further Listening: Diamanda Gálas- Plague Mass, Swans- Children of God
40. Lycia- Cold (Projekt, 1996)
