The 1980s
1. Love Will Tear Us Apart/Joy Division (1980)
2. I Wanna Destroy You/The Soft Boys (1980)
3. The Helicopter Spies/Swell Maps (1980)
4. Los Angeles/X (1980)
5. Do the Method/The Method Actors (1980)
6. The Boy With the Perpetual Nervousness/The Feelies (1980)
7. Black and White/The dB's (1981)
8. Better Things/The Kinks (1981)
9. Show of Strength/Echo & the Bunnymen (1981)
10. Primary/The Cure (1981)
11. If I Could Keep It For Myself/Gang of Four (1981)
12. We're So Cool/Au Pairs (1981)
13. That's When I Reach For My Revolver/Mission of Burma (1981)
14. Give It to Me Baby/Rick James (1981)
15. Tell Me When It's Over/The Dream Syndicate (1982)
16. Town Called Malice/The Jam (1982)
17. Age of Consent/New Order (1983)
18. Jetfighter/The Three O'Clock (1983)
19. Talking in My Sleep/The Rain Parade (1983)
20. Every Word Means No/Let's Active (1983)
21. Sitting Still/R.E.M. (1983)
22. A Million Miles Away/The Plimsouls (1983)
23. Death and the Maiden/The Verlaines (1983)
24. How Soon Is Now?/The Smiths (1984)
25. I Will Dare/The Replacements (1984)
26. I Want You Back/Hoodoo Gurus (1984)
27. Perfect Skin/Lloyd Cole and the Commotions (1984)
28. The Backyard/Miracle Legion (1984)
29. Ivory Tower/The Long Ryders (1984)
30. Sixteen Ways/Green on Red (1985)
31. Primitive Painters/Felt (1985)
32. Pink Frost/The Chills (1986)
33. Spring Rain/The Go-Betweens (1986)
34. Behind the Wall of Sleep/The Smithereens (1986)
35. North By North/The Bats (1987)
36. I Kiss the Flowers in Bloom/Close Lobsters (1987)
37. In a Jar/Dinosaur Jr. (1987)
38. Teen Age Riot/Sonic Youth (1988)
39. Tugboat/Galaxie 500 (1988)
40. Dirty Blvd./Lou Reed (1989)