I'm too idle to make up a playlist. Do it for me, and start with "What time is now" by the Smiths.

[snigger]

Feeling dictatorial, and lazy.

Wanna playlist.

Wanna nice playlist NOW.

what time is now - the smiths

a forest - the cure

rock the casbah - clash

temple of love- sisters of mercy

hungry like the wolf - duran duran

going underground - the jam

new years day - U2

the riddle - nik kershaw

money for nothing - dire straits

Going Underground - tick.

New Year's Day - tick.

The Riddle (blast from the badly permed past - cheers - tick.

I've never heard a forest or temple of love so I'll get them - but I'll body swerve dire straits .....

Thank you!

I think you mean How soon is now.

That's the one!

God, I'm turning into my mother. I'll be be rooting vainly for my Smashing Courgettes CD before you know it.

lol I had a feeling Dire Straits would meet with disdain, but thought it was worth a try, I think that particular song does fit in with late 70s/early 80s "alternative" themes.

How soon is now - The Smiths
50 Ft Queenie - PJ Harvey
Trigger Cut - Pavement
Off To One Side - Come
Winona - Drop Nineteens
Coast Is Clear - Curve
Love Your Money - Daisy Chainsaw
Everything's Ruined - Faith No More

Bit of a 90s flashback for me there.

How Soon Is Now? The Smiths
Karma Police Radiohead
I Wanna Be Adored The Stone Roses
Monkey Gone To Heaven Pixies
Strangelove [Single Version] Depeche Mode
Lullaby The Cure
Step On Happy Mondays
Stupid Girl Garbage
True Faith New Order
Fake Plastic Trees Radiohead
It's My Life Talk Talk
Cath... Death Cab for Cutie
Bigmouth Strikes Again The Smiths
Mountain Song Jane's Addiction
Love Spreads The Stone Roses
In God's Country U2
Lust For Life Iggy Pop
Regret New Order
Paranoid Android Radiohead
Never Let Me Down Again [Single Version] Depeche Mode
Debaser Pixies
Fascination Street The Cure
Only Happy When It Rains Garbage
There's No Other Way Blur
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out The Smiths

...according to iTunes Genius.

Lol at 'What Time Is Now' - the kind of mistake I've been making lately!

The only Dire Straits song that any self-respecting indie-girl can listen to is 'Romeo And Juliet' methinks.

Happy When It Rains - The Jesus And Mary Chain
Also their entire Darklands album.

Eloise - The Damned

Bohemian Like You - Dandy Warhols

Another vote for Fake Plastic Trees because it is so gorgeous. Also 'Creep'.

The Cure - Charlotte Sometimes

Hole - Violet

Sleeper - Alice In Vain

The Feeling - Sewn

The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet

1959 - Sisters Of mercy

Here Comes The Rain - The Cult

Like A Hurricane - The Mission

No One Is To Blame - Howard Jones

Brian Rix - Brilliant Corners

sound of the suburbs - the members

making plans for nigel - xtc

ever fallen in love with someone you shouldn't have fallen in love with - Buzzcocks

this corrosion - sisters of mercy

shipbuilding - elvis costello version

olivers army or watching the detectives- elvis costello

Another Girl, another planet- Only Ones

Olivers Army- Elvis Costello

Under the Milky Way Tonight - The Church

Killing Moon- Echo and the Bunnymen

Please please please- The Smiths

Bye bye Badman- The Stone Roses

Amelia- Mission

Trains- Porcupine Tree

Plug-in Baby- Muse

Moonchild- Fields of the Nephilim

Purity- New Model Army

Yesterday- Strawberry Switchblade

Ladykillers- Lush

Y Control- Yeahyeahyeahs

the smiths - how soon is now

orange juice - blue boy

felt - primitive painters

new order - your silent face

teenage fanclub - everything flows

the lemonheads - into your arms

lloyd cole and the commotions - lost weekend

the the - uncertain smile

the associates - party fears two

the kitchens of distinction - the third time we opened the capsule

elvis costello - i want you

gang of four - to hell with poverty

bauhaus - kick in the eye

the sonics - have love, will travel

i second strawberry switchblade - since yesterday; good call!

Oh... Lost weekend- excellent song- so jangly!
I had forgotten about teenage fanclub- how could I do that?
Love The the too.

Considering how 'crunching' "How soon is now" is... there are an awful lot of jangly suggestions on this thread

heh heh... most of my suggestions were from my "jangle" folder.

If you want jangles you've got to start with This Charming Man.

Joy Division - love will tear us apart

Stranglers - Strange little girl

The Damned - Is it a dream

The Cult - 10:15 Saturday night

Blondie - 11.59

The Clash - Rock the Casbah

Elvis Costello - Good year for the roses

Police - every little thing she does is magic

Oasis - Wonderwall

Reef - Place your hands

potplant I heard it on the radio at the weekend, and it always amazes me how fresh it is- the opening riff.... genius!

How Soon Is Now? The Smiths

(was I supposed to start with this? I may have misunderstood. Saw them play it live, splendidly, in 1985...)

Could You Be The One? Husker Du

Dalliance Wedding Present

Dare Wedding Present (these two segued memorably together at the start of the gorgeous 'Seamonsters' LP)

Burning Down The House Talking Heads

Jacket Hangs The Blue Aeroplanes (Bristol's finest!)

Brian Rix The Brilliant Corners (good call, Janeite. Another Bristle band, I thought no-one else remembered it... It is on You Tube now, though)

Doppelganger The Luddites (you will need to have had a serious early 80s Peel habit to remember this)

Ma Sim Ba Bele The Unknown Cases (ditto)

.....and what's this nonsense about the Mission's version of Like a Hurricane? 'tis tosh. The original only will suffice.....

....as an aside, I was reading a 'what school did you go to' thread earlier.

This caused me alarm, as many of the respondents seemed to be bizarrely youthful.

....the selections here lead me to suspect a slightly more (ahem) mature type of contributor...

Ah RG- do you like Mission's version of Dream On at all?
And I love Zen Arcade... haven;t listened for far too long...
Youthful? well... too young to have been allowed to see The Smiths perform

.....sadly, The Mission never held any mystery for me, Each Peach.

After I discovered that Wayne Hussey was not from gritty Leeds, but in fact from Yate (see the book 'Crap Towns' for further info. I knew some people at 'The Whip' out local Goth disco who had been at school with him... apparently he had failed his trial with Bristol Rovers. Something of a feat)

....I love Zen Arcade, too.

....and am old enough that I saw The Smiths twice. 1985 was not, sadly, the first occasion....

The Smiths - How soon is now
The Wedding Present - My Favourite Dress
Orange juice - Rip it up
LLoyd Cole and the Commotions - 2CV
The House of Love - Christine
The Sundays - I kicked a boy
Violent Femmes - Bliter in the Sun
Cocteau Twins - Ivo
Talulah Gosh - Bringing up baby
The Smiths - Sister i'm a poet
Strawberry Switchblade - Yesterday
REM - It's the end of the world as we know it
Joy Division - Love will tear us apart

Oops, Blister in the sun

...another fine call, first Violent femmes LP.

I'll pick 'Good Feeling' from it.....

retired goth 2: how very odd. i was discussing BOTH brian rix by the brilliant corners and ma sim ba bele by the unknown cases this month. spooky!

...crikey, RR.

Still no takers for The Luddites?

...or The Backyard by Miracle Legion?

Dirty by Hard Corps?

(Thinks: what obscure area of brain stores this stuff??)