Artist	Song
Pet Shop Boys	Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)
from Essential Pet Shop Boys (2008)
Soft Cell	Sex Dwarf
from Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret (Deluxe Edition) (2008)
New Order	Subculture
from Low-Life (1900)
Ministry	Revenge
from With Sympathy (1988)
Nitzer Ebb	Captivate
from Belief (1989)
Thomas Dolby	One of Our Submarines
from The Golden Age of Wireless (1983)
Berlin	Sex (I'm A...)
from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Berlin 1979-1988 (1988)
The Cure	Cold
from Pornography (2005)
Alphaville	Sounds Like a Melody
from First Harvest 1984-1992 (2005)
Book of Love	Boy (Extended Mix Version)
from Book of Love (2008)
Red Flag	If I Ever
from Naïve Art (2006)
The Beloved	Deliver Me
from The Sun Rising (2006)
Real Life	God Tonight
from Lifetime (1990)
Front 242	Don't Crash
from Back Catalogue (1992)
Skinny Puppy	Dig It
from The Singles Collect (1999)
Information Society	Think
from Information Society: Hits (2005)
Japan	Ghosts
from Exorcising Ghosts (2003)
Laibach	Gubert Einer Nation
from The Very Best Of Industrial Revolution (2006)
Seven Red Seven	Thinking of You
from Shelter (2008)
Propaganda	P. Machinery
from A Secret Wish (1985)
Rational Youth	Saturdays In Silesia
from Saturdays In Silesia - EP (1983)
Dead or Alive	Lover Come Back (To Me)
from Rip It Up (1988)
Clan of Xymox	A Day
from Clan of Xymox (1985)
Visage	The Anvil
from Fade to Grey - The Best of Visage (1993)
Anything Box	Transitions
from Hope (2006)
Art of Noise	Moments In Love
from Moments In Love - Single (2008)
Severed Heads	All Saints Day
from Bulkhead Plus (Singles 1983-2004) (2005)
Camouflage	Dreaming
from Relocated (2006)

Comment:

As the love affair with the New Romantics lost its bloom, Depeche Mode and a host of synth-wielding successors honed their sound to a sharper, darker edge. The most obvious (and frequently drawn) comparison is with post-modern dance-pop poets the Pet Shop Boys, but where DM gets emotional and engaged, PSB goes ironic and detached, as you'll hear in their Meat Loaf-meets-Mozart's-"Requiem"-in-outer-space masterpiece "It's a Sin." New Order, born out of Joy Division's ashes after the suicide of frontman Ian Curtis, slams its disco hammer into a jagged crystal palace of what [i]Rolling Stone[/i] critic David Fricke calls "stark heartbeat music" in "Subculture." If New Order is coolly aloof, the Cure drops the emotional temperature to sub-zero levels in "Cold," sowing the seeds for goth in a barren, gloomy landscape where the sun never emerges from behind the clouds. And long before Ministry frontman Al Jourgensen ascended the throne as the Architect of Industrial Aggro, his band's "Revenge" reveals its roots deep in the club-culture heart of Depeche Mode. From Soft Cell and Heaven 17 to Berlin and KMFDM (whose name, incidentally, doesn't mean what you think it does), we've got the artists who shared the groove, and the airwaves, with our boys from Basildon.

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