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This month's challenge was slightly easier as I found this analogue-playlist in my archives (read basement)…
October 31, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Flawless clarity…absolute perfection

1 - There is a Light That Never Goes Out
June 30, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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“Sixteen clumsy and shy
I went to London”

(I really did…minus the room at the YWCA)

2 - Half a Person
June 29, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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“So in my bedroom in those ugly new houses
I dance my legs down to the knees”

3 - Paint a Vulgar Picture
June 28, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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“But don't forget the songs that made you cry and the songs that saved your life … they were the only ones who ever stood by you”

4 - Rubber Ring
June 27, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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“And I've got no right to take my place with the human race”

5 - Bigmouth Strikes Again
June 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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“I was bored before I even began”

6 - Shoplifters of the World Unite
June 25, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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“Good times for a change”

7 - Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want
June 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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"Don't feel bad for me
I want you to know
Deep in the cell of my heart
I will feel so glad to go"

8 - Asleep
June 23, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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“These are the riches of the poor”

(Is this the top pick for the classic indie disco? I’m sure I’ve flailed my arms excessively to this)

9 - I Want the One I Can't Have
June 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Best 3-track single ever. (B/w how soon is now? AND please, please, please)…fantastic sleeve too!

11 - William, It Was Really Nothing
June 20, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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No one writes pop songs like this anymore (…or ever?)

12 - Girlfriend in a coma
June 19, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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“To pretend to be happy could only be idiocy”

13 - What She Said
June 18, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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“Shyness is nice”

14 - Ask
June 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Death by stereo…

15 - Panic
June 16, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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“I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour”

16 - Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
June 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Let’s go with the less played (and yelp-free) peel session version

17 - This Charming Man
June 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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"But we cannot cling to the old dreams anymore
No, we cannot cling to those dreams"

18 - Still ill
June 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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2nd best 3-track single. Both b-sides (Asleep and Rubber ring) are still to come in this list.

19 - The Boy with the Thorn in His Side
June 12, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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“When you laugh about people
Who feel so very lonely
Their only desire is to die”

20 - That joke isn’t funny anymore
June 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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" 'cause tonight is just like any other night
That's why you're on your own tonight"

21 - I Know It’s Over
June 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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This next trio of songs is devastating, starting with…

22 - Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
June 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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I prefer the purity of the peel session version

23 - Reel Around the Fountain - John Peel Session 18/05/83
June 8, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Ah, more high school feelings…

"If I seem a little strange
Well, that's because I am"

24 - unloveable
June 7, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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My high school life in four minutes…

25 - well I wonder

(“I'm so glad to grow older
to move away from those younger years")
June 6, 2025 at 11:02 AM