October 23

1. Pere Ubu - Non-alignment Pact - The Modern Dance 1978
2. Cocteau Twins - Orange Appled - Love's Easy Tears EP 1986
3. Martha and the Muffins - Monotone - Metro Music 1980
4. Pete Shelley - Homosapien - Homosapien 1981
5. Beat Happening - Fortune Cookie Prize - Dreamy 1991
6. Liz Phair - Divorce Song - Exile in Guyville 1993
7. The Cure - Kyoto Song - The Head on the Door 1984
8. Depeche Mode - Black Celebration (Black Tulip Mix) - "A Question of Time" remix EP 1986
9. Bauhaus - St. Vitus Dance - In the Flat Field 1980
10. T.S.O.L. - Colors (Take Me Away) - Revenge 1986
11. Dead Milkmen - Stupid Maryann - The Enigma Variations 1987
12. The Effigies - The Flock - Ink 1986
13. Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians - The Man With the Lightbulb Head - Fegmania! 1985
14. Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians - Airscape - Element of Light 1986
15. Close Lobsters - I Kiss The Flower in Bloom - Foxheads Stalk This Land 1987
16. Gang of Four - Paralysed - Solid Gold 1981
17. Gang of Four - What We All Want - Solid Gold 1981
18. Soft Cell - Little Rough Rhinestone - This Last Night in Sodom 1984
19. Simple Minds - Changeling - Real to Real Cacophony 1980
20. War on the Saints - Rainy Day - War on the Saints EP 1988
21. Slint - Nosferatu Man - Spiderland 1991
22. Haysi Fantayzee - John Wayne Is Big Leggy - Battle Hymns for Children Singing 1982
23. Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - I Need To Know - You're Gonna Get It 1978
24. The Swimming Pool Q's - The Knave - The Swimming Pool Q's 1984
25. Sugarcubes - Bee - Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week! 1989
26. The Smiths - Nowhere Fast - Meat is Murder 1984
27. Kid Creole & the Coconuts - Stool Pigeon - Wise Guy 1982

"Little Rough Rhinestone" is really a fascinatingly weird song.

Also, I think "Non-alignment Pact" will be the theme song from now on.
Points in its favor:
- It is short
- I own it on CD, more convenient than vinyl
- It is at the beginning of its album, suggesting that it was intended to begin things such as albums and radio shows
- It begins with a gradual accumulation of noise, which I can talk over, sounding better than just talking over silence
- It is by a famous band
- It is not boring
- It is from the beginning of the eighties/post-punk era