Side A
Artist	Song
A Certain Ratio	All Night Party (Peel Session)
Public Image Ltd.	Swan Lake (Death Disco)
Section 25	Girls Don't Count
Gang Of Four	At Home He Feels Like A Tourist
Josef K	The Angle
Mission Of Burma	That's When I Reached For My Revolver
Echo & The Bunnymen	All That Jazz
Joy Division	A Means To An End
Wire	Practice Makes Perfect
The Sound	Winning
The Names	Night Shift
Sad Lovers & Giants	Things We Never Did
Mission Of Burma	Trem Two
Modern English	Face Of Wood
Teardrop Explodes	Poppies In The Field
Lords Of The New Church	Open Your Eyes
The Gun Club	Sex Beat
The Adicts	In The Background
Killing Joke	Wardance
Crispy Ambulance	Chill
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Throbbing Gristle	Slugbait (ICA)
Cabaret Voltaire	The Set Up
SPK	Contact
This Heat	Paper Hats
The Pop Group	Thief Of Fire
A Certain Ratio	Flight (Peel Session)
Chrome	New Age
D.A.F.	Sato Sato
Gang Of Four	What We All Want
Psychedelic Furs	Only You And I
The Chameleons	In Shreds
New Model Army	Christian Militia (Radio Version)
Wire	Two People In A Room
The Sound	The Fire
The Names	Calcutta
Magazine	Because You're Frightened
New Order	Procession
The Wake	O Pamela
Artery	In The Garden
Section 25	New Horizon

Comment:

This is not a cassette compilation, but rather a two CD set (Side A = Disc 1 / Side B = Disc 2). I didn't want to take up two posts by separating these companion 'retrospectives.' Both discs represent my favourite dark Post Punk tracks, songs that capture the urgency and various anxieties of this fabulous era of music. There are some important bands missing, some of which I'd consider closer in spirt with Goth (Cure, Banshees, Bauhaus, etc). Some, such as The Fall and Television, I am still discovering. The Slits and Raincoats just didn't fit (time wise or atmospherically) and Adam & The Ants just aren't dark enough :)
I wanted to include some of the earliest Industrial stuff, as you can clearly hear certain atmospheric elements that overlap between the genres. Plus, it was all contemporaneous.

In the case of A Certain Ratio and New Model Army, I opted for the Peel Session versions of the songs because they were punchier (as well as shorter).

I usually don't like repeating bands on comps like this, because other bands will get cut : but in this case, the songs were in my head and they just flowed. Wished I could have fit a more atmospheric Chameleons track ("Second Skin") and found a place for "I Should've Known Better" by Wire.

The title comes from the Section 25 track on Disc 1.

Thanks for looking...

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