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Going to compile a list of 100 favourite songs. It will tell you a bit about me and perhaps you’ll find something you like too. These are the songs that I enjoy listening too, not neccesarily the most complex, best arranged and so forth. Therefore it is purely subjective, so don’t worry if songs you like are not there. The top 20 are will be in order but the rest are not – the list is incomplete.

1. Are Friends Electric – Tubeway Army (Gary Numan)
2. Ashes to Ashes – David Bowie
3. Airwaves – Thomas Dolby
4. American Dreaming – Dead Can Dance
5. In power we trust the love advocated – Dead Can Dance
6. Is this the life – The Cardiacs
7. True Faith – New order
8. Speedboat – Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
9. That joke isn’t funny anymore – The Smiths
10. Gentlemen take polaroids – Japan
11. Talk about the passion – R.E.M.
12. Taking islands in Africa – Japan
13. Say hello, wave goodbye – Soft Cell
14. Buds and spawn - The Cardiacs
15. Only happy when it rains – Garbage
16. Born of frustration -  James
17. Crack in the clouds – Julian Cope
18. A night like this – the Cure
19. Head hang low – Julian Cope
20. In your eyes – Peter Gabriel
21. Sonne – Rammstein
22. Comfortably numb – Pink Floyd
23. Doubts even here – New Order
24. New moon on monday – Duran Duran
25. Slow motion – Ultravox
26. My wild love – John Foxx
27. One – U2
28. Hollow Horse – The Icicle Works
29. Song to the Siren – This Mortal Coil
30. Everything I own – Bread
31. Decades – Joy Division
32. Musette and drums -  Cocteau Twins
33. Faith – The cure
34. Charlotte Somtimes – The Cure
35. Will you – Hazel O’Conner
36. Come live with me – Heaven 17
37. Ways to be wicked – Lone Justice
38. How soon is now – The Smiths
39. Everything I own – Bread
40. Something’s gotten hold of my heart – Gene Pitney
41. Underpass – John Foxx
42. When you were mine – The Icicle Works
43. Enola gay – Orchestral Manouvers in the Dark
44. It’s my life – Talk Talk
45. Bathwater invincible (remix) – No Doubt
46. The man with a child in his eyes – Kate Bush
47. Wuthering Heights – Kate Bush
48. Hurt – Johnny Cash (Video makes this even better, although NIN’s acoustic version is very good too)
49. Feels like heaven – Fiction Factory
50. Some kind of stranger – Sisters of Mercy
51. Rock and roll suicide – David Bowie
52. Five years – David Bowie
53. 24 Sycamore – Gene Pitney
54. Gotta give it up – Talk Talk
55. We are all made of stars – Moby
56. Enjoy the silence – Depeche Mode
57. Munich (Cicada remix) – The Editors
58. Not even jail – Interpol
59. Someone’s calling – Modern English
60. Lady grinning soul – David Bowie
61. Oppotunities (Let’s make lots of money) (Latino mix) – Pet Shop Boys
62. I’ve been losing you – Aha
63. Feel the raindrops – The Adventures
64. Rattlesnakes – Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
65. Smalltown boy – Bronski Beat
66. The ubiquitous Mr Lovegrove – Dead Can Dance
67. Before you hate it – Gary Numan
68. I got you – Split Endz
69. Turning Japanese – The Vapours
70. Hit me with your rhythm stick – Ian Dury and the Blockheads
71. All of my heart – ABC
72. Perfect day – Lou Reed
73. Someone, somewhere in summertime – Simple Minds
74. Sometimes – Erasure
75. Fade to grey – Visage
76. Don’t look down – Torch Song
77. The figurehead – The Cure
78. Ship of fools – World Party
79. Uncertain smile – The The
80. The unofficial World Cup theme – Colourbox
81. Just give em whiskey – Colourbox
82. I’ve seen the word – Blancmange
83. Imagination – Belouis Some
84. Creep – Radiohead
85. Karma Police – Radiohead
86. The Model – Kraftwerk
87. Joining you – Alanis Morissette
88. The Ghost in you – The Psychodelic Furs
89. Summer Wine – Nacy Sinatra
90. Nowhere Girl – B-Movie
91. Away – The Bolshoi
92. Arnold layne – Pink Floyd
93. Head over heals – Tears for Fears
94. Doctor Doctor – The Thompson Twins
95. Ghosts – Japan
96. Life in Tokyo – Japan
97. Same old scene – Roxy Music
98. An Ending (Ascent) – Brian Eno
99. Agnus Dei – Gabriel Faure
100. Whatever I am currently listening to!