| The Smiths | Reel around the fountain |
| James | Getting away with it (All messed up) |
| Echo and the Bunnymen | Silver |
| U2 | Gloria |
| Simple Minds | Book of brilliant things |
| Teardrop Explodes | Treason |
| ELO | Don’t bring me down |
| Patti Smith | Because the night |
| Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons | The night |
| Placebo | Song to say goodbye |
| Arcade Fire | No cars go |
| New Order | Thieves like us |
| Neil Young | Rockin’ in the free world |
| Morrissey | Every day is like Sunday |
| Roy Orbison | It’s over |
| Ian Dury and The Blockheads | Hit me with your rthythm stick – First single 1978 |
| The Beat | Too nice to talk to – First band I loved |
| The Icicle Works | Factory in the desert – First gig 1984 |
| The March Violets | Snake dance- First gig, support band 1984 |
| The Smiths | Jean – First love No. 2 |
| Kim Wilde | Kids in America – First (musical) crush |
| Frankie Goes to Hollywood | The power of love- First dance, first album bought for a girl |
| The Beat | Best friend – First album I bought 1980 |
| Motorhead | Ace of Spades – First rock song I remember liking |
| The Sugarhill Gang | Rappers Delights – First rap song I liked |
| The Kinks | You really got me – Frist mod band/song I liked |
| Duran Duran | Planet Earth – First single I remember talking about in playground 1981 |
| The Sex Pistols | Anarchy in the UK – First punk song I loved, also 1976 |
| The Jam | The Eton Rifles, first band someone else got me into, 1979 |
| Simple Minds | Don’t you (Forget about me) – First holiday tune, 1985 |
| Amyl and the sniffers | U should not be doing that – From the 2024 album Cartoon Darkness |
| Idles | Mother – From their 2017 debut album, Brutalism. Visceral or what |
| Young Fathers | Get Up – A hip hop band from Edinburgh, this 2014 single will may just get you up out of your chair |
| Fontaines Dublin City AKA Fontaines DC | Bug |
| The kings of Nottingham, Sleaford Mods | Nudge it |
| The National | Graceless – From the 2103 album, Trouble will find me |
| The Joy Formidable | From Mold in Wales with This ladder is ours |
| The The | This is the day |
| Blur | Out of time, from 2003. Is there a lovelier song? “You’ve been so busy lately, you haven’t found the time” |
| Killing Joke | Love like blood |
| PJ Harvey | Polly Jean Harvey’s first single, from 1991 – Dress |
| Foals | The title track from their 2015 album, this is What went down |
| REM | Bad day, from 2003 |
| Still corners | An indie-pop band from London who I know almost nothing about, but this is a belter – this is called ‘The trip’ |
| Viagra Boys (ft Amy Taylor) | In spite of ourselves – an alternative, fun and beautiful love song |
| The Smiths | Hand in glove |
| Joy Division | Transmission |
| REM | The one I love |
| The Delays | You and me |
| Foals | What went down |
| Talking Heads | Psycho Killer |
| The Farmers Boys | More than a dream |
| The Associates | Party Fears Two |
| The Cult | She sells sanctuary |
| B-Movie | Nowhere Girl – 12 inch version only |
| Depeche Mode | Everything Counts |
| The Cure | Feels Like Heaven |
| Simple Minds | New Gold Dream |
| Fleetwood Mac | Go your own way |
| Into the Fire – Thirteen Senses | Into the Fire |
| Moby | Extreme Ways |
| The National | About Today |
| The Pixies | Que Sera Sera |
| The Handsome Family | Far From Any Road |
| Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood | Summer Wine |
| Robert Tepper | No Easy Way Out |
| U2 and Pavarotti | Miss Sarajevo |
| Hans Zimmer | Time |
| The Prime Movers | Strong as I am |
| Tracy Chapman | Fast Car |
| Desire | Under Your Spell |
| Simon and Garfunkel | Mrs Robinson |
| David Bowie | Lady Grinning Soul |
| Dinah Washington | This Bitter Earth |
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| UB40 | Food for thought |
| Dexys Midnight Runners | There there my dear |
| Ocean Colour Scene | The day we caught the train |
| Au Pairs | It’s obvious |
| Black Sabbath | Paranoid |
| The Streets | Dry your eyes |
| The Beat | End of the party |
| The Spencer Davis Group | Gimme some lovin’ |
| ELO | All over the world |
| Fine Young Cannibals | She drives me crazy |
| Editors | An end has a start |
| Stephen Duffy | Kiss me |
| Joan Armatrading | Drop the pilot |
| The Moody Blues | Nights in white satin |
| The Maccabees | Spit it out |
| Mogwai | Teenage Exorcists |
| Radiohead | There, there |
| PJ Harvey | The Wheel |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Maps |
| Blood Red Shoes | In time to voices |
| Smashing Pumpkins | Tonight, tonight |
| Shed Seven | Chasing Rainbows |
| Gene | We Could Be Kings |
| Placebo | Special K |
| Interpol | Slow Hands |
| Sonic Youth | Teenage Riot |
| Queens of the Stone Age | Little Sister |
| Morrissey | Your love life |
| The Fall | Lost in Music |
| Soft Cell | Tainted Love / Where did our love go (Extended version) |
| Gary Jules | Mad World |
| Morrissey | Back on the Chain Gang |
| The Beat | Can’t Get Used to Losing You |
| Tallest Man on Earth | Both Sides Now |
| REM | Wicked Game |
| The Stranglers | All Day and All of the Night |
| Sandie Shaw | Hand in Glove |
| Echo and the Bunnymen | Paint it Black |
| Duran Duran | Watching the Detectives |
| Caesars | (Don’t Fear) The Reaper |
| Moby | New Dawn Fades |
| Johnny Cash | Hurt |
| Pete Shelley | Homosapien |
| Flock of Seagulls | I Ran |
| Siouxsie and the Banshees | Spellbound |
| Undertones | My Perfect Cousin |
| The Freshies | I’m in Love with the Girl on the Manchester Virgin Megastore Checkout Desk |
| Martha and the Muffins | Echo Beach |
| The Pale Fountains | (Don’t let your love) Start a War |
| Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | Electricity |
| The Fall | New Big Prinz |
| The Go Betweens | Right Here |
| Red Guitars | Steel Town |
| The Icicle Works | As the Dragonfly Flies |
| Hurrah! | Who’d Have Thought |
| The Smiths | The Queen is Dead |
| The Dears | Lost in the Plot |
| Arcade Fire | Ready to Start |
| Moby | Mistake |
| Foo Fighters | Times Like These |
| Bloc Party | The Prayer |
| White Lies | To Lose My Life |
| The Stills | Lola Stars and Stripes |
| Editors | When Anger Shows |
| Placebo | Every me and every you |
| Keane | Crystal Ball |
| Dodgy | In a Room |
| The The | The Beat(en) Generation |
| Monaco | What do you want from me |
| New Order | Age of Consent |
| Bjork | Play Dead |
| Kate Bush | Army Dreamers |
| Lana Del Ray | Video Game |
| The Cranberries | Zombie |
| Soap and Skin | Me and the devil |
| Sharon Van Etten and the Attachment Theory | Idiot Box |
| Sia | Breathe Me |
| London Grammar | Nightcall |
| Amyl and the Sniffers | Big Dreams |
| Blondie | Call Me |
| Ethel Cain | Punish |
| Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood | Some Velvet Morning |
| Wet Leg | Catch these fists |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Heads will roll |
| The Lotus Eaters | The First Picture of You |
| Bridget calls me baby | We Were Never Alive |
| This Life makes me wonder | Delroy Wilson |
| Prefab Sprout | Lions in my own garden (exit someone) |
| Animal Magnet | Welcome to the Monkey House |
| The Smiths | This Charming Man |
| The Runaways | Cherry Bomb |
| Altered Images | Don’t Talk To Me About Love |
| The Psychedelic Furs | Pretty in Pink |
| Julian Cope | Elegant Chaos |
| The Mighty Wah | Come Back |
| Swans Way | Soul Train |
| Swell Maps | Let’s Build a Car |
| Sham 69 | If the kids are United |
| James | Runaground |
| REM | Fall on Me |
| Built to spill | Car |
| Alvvays | Adult Diversion |
| Morrissey | Suedehead |
| Big Thief | Little Things |
| SheBeat | Freaky |
| SheBeat | Homecoming Queen |
| It’s Immaterial | Gigantic Raft |
| Goodbye Mr MacKenzie | Now We Are Married |
| Stone Roses | Made of stone |
| The Church | Under the Milky Way |
| Pavement | Gold Soundz |
| The Smiths | I know it’s Over |
| Goodbye Mr MacKenzie | Open Your Arms |
| Pavement | Cut your Hair |
| REM | Pretty Persuasion |
| Cassandra Jenkins | Hard Drive |
| LOREN | Unison (with producer Dundew) |
| Radiohead | Let Down |
| Arab Strap | Shy Retirer |
| Big Country | Wonderland |
| Mogwai | Party in the Dark |
| The National | The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness |
| Alvvays | In Undertow |
| The Wedding Present | My Favourite Dress |
| Sharon Van Etten & Angel Olsen | Like I Used To |
| The Smiths | There is a Light that Never Goes Out |
| The Wedding Present | Brassneck |
| Ride | Kill Switch |
| Amyl and the Sniffers | Hertz |
| Prefab Sprout | Faron Young |
| Curve | Open Your Arms |
| Badly Drawn Boy | You Were Right |
| Sharon Van Etten | Come Back Kid |
| The Horrors | Still Life |
| Kings of Leon | Waste a Moment |
| The National | Mr November |
| World Party | It’s All Mine |
| The The | Giant |
| Morrissey | Speedway |
| The Beach Boys | Good Vibrations |
| The Police | Every Little Thing |
| Remi Wolf | Michael |
| The Pierces | You’ll Be Mine |
| A-ha | Hunting High and Low |
| Jim E Stack (ft Empress Of) | Note to Self |
| Jacob Collier | Wellll |
| The Dandy Warhols | Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth |
| Busted | That Thing You Do |
| Stylus/SKG/Løren | Right Here |
| Wafia | I’m Good |
| All Saints | Pure Shores |
| Nayana Iz | Growing Pains |
| Travis | Sing |
| David Gray | Babylon |
| The Wedding Present | Come play with me |
| The Sick Man Of Europe | Transactional |
| Future Islands | Season (Waiting on You) |
| Ride | Vapour Trail |
| Placebo | 36 Degrees |
| Prefab Sprout | The Devil Has All the Best Tunes |
| Morrissey | Kiss Me A Lot |
| Sufjan Stevens | Chicago |
| Cat Stevens | Father and Son |
| Interpol | All the Rage Back Home |
| Orange Juice | Rip it Up |
| Deacon Blue | Chocolate Girl |
| U2 | Even better than the real thing |
| The Fall | Fall Sound |
| Beirut | Caspian Tiger |
| New Order | Ceremony |
| Placebo | Bionic |
| Girl in Red | I wanna be your girlfriend |
| The Last Dinner Party | This is the Killer Speaking |
| Tom Buckley | Song to the Siren |
| The Fall | Blindness |
| The March Violets | Walk into the Sun |
| Doves | Kingdom of Rust |
| Radiohead | Street Spirit |
| The Cure | A Forest |
| Echo and the Bunnymen | Villiers Terrace |
| Mogwai | Eternal Panther |
| Joy Division | Love will tear us apart |
| The Smiths | Reel around the fountain |
| The Joy Formidable | This ladder is ours |
| Foals | What went down |
| Dexys Midnight Runners | There there my dear |
| Gene | We Could Be Kings |
| Placebo | Special K |
| Echo and the Bunnymen | Paint it Black |
| Siouxsie and the Banshees | Spellbound |
| Undertones | My Perfect Cousin |
| Moby | Mistake |
| Foo Fighters | Times Like These |
| Bjork | Play Dead |
| Kate Bush | Army Dreamers |
| Altered Images | Don’t Talk To Me About Love |
| Modest Mouse | We Are Between |
| Viagra Boys | Ain’t nice |
| Santigold | Disparate Youth |
| Daft Punk | Instant Crush |
| HOUSE Of ALL | Good Englishman |
| Portugal. The Man | Plastic Soldiers |
| Guided by Voices | Watch me Jumpstart |
| Archers of Loaf | Wrong |
| Johnny Thunders | You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory |
| Fiona Apple | The whole of the moon |
| Billy Bragg | A lover sings |
| Interpol | If You Really Love Nothing |
| Sisters of Mercy | First and Last and Always |
| Andy Williams | Impossible Dreams |
| The Stooges | |
| New York Dolls | Looking for a kiss |
| The Ramones | Judy is a punk |
| MC5 | Kick out the jams |
| Mekons | Millionaire |
| The Dammed | New Rose |
| Sex Pistols | Bodies |
| Rezillos | I can’t stand my baby |
| The Cramps | Garbage Man |
| Television | See No Evil |
| Devo | Gates of Steel |
| Rocket from the Tombs | Ain’t it fun |
| Radio Birdman | Descent into the Maelstrom |
| The Buzzcocks | Everybody’s happy nowadays |
| The Wedding Present | You Should Always Keep In Touch With Your Friends |
| The Wedding Present | Shatner |
| Pavement | Cut your hair |
| Magazine | A song from under the floorboards |
| The Moffs | Another day in the sun |
| Half Man Half Biscuit | National Shite day |
| The Stranglers | No More Heroes |
| The Cranberries | There is a Light That Never Goes Out |
| Echo and the Bunnymen | Over the wall |
| Sharp Pins | I can’t stop |
| Hüsker Dü | Pink Turns to Blue |
| Band of Horses | The Funeral |
| Interpol | Lights |
| The Weather Prophets | Almost Prayed |
| The Wedding Present | Memento mori |
| Future Islands | Cave |
| Interpol | Everything Is Wrong |
| Elton John | Your Song |
| Portugal. The Man | DENALI |
| The Orchestra (For Now) | Hattrick |
| Sparks | Porcupine |
| The Spitfires | I’ll Never |
| Insecure Men | Alien |
| The Molotovs | More More More |
| IDLES | Rabbit Run |
| The Cult | Honey from a Knife |
| Placebo | Beautiful James |
| Renaissance | Northern Lights |
| The Smiths | Reel Around the Fountain |
| The Smiths | You’ve got everything now |
| The Smiths | Miserable Lie |
| The Smiths | Pretty Girls Make Graves |
| The Smiths | The Hand That Rocks the Cradle |
| The Smiths | Still ill |
| The Smiths | Hand in Glove |
| The Smiths | What Difference does it make |
| The Smiths | I Don’t Owe You Anything |
| The Smiths | Suffer Little Children |
| The Smiths | This Charming Man |
| The Beaches | Takes One To Know One |
| Cardinals | Masquerade |
| The Last Dinner Party | Call Me |
| Fall Out Boy | We Didn’t Start the Fire |
| The Beths | Straight Line Was a Lie |
| Ghostwoman | Alive |
| Clout | Substitute |
| Wednesday | Bleed |
| Nation of Language | I’m Not Ready for the Change |
| Lebanon Hanover | The Last Thing |
| Siouxsie and the Banshees | Dazzle |
| Sofia Isella | I Can Be Your Mother |
| The Dears | Tears of a nation |
| The Human League | Seconds |
| Lebanon Hanover | Gallowdance |
| The Human League | Lebanon (12 inch remix version) |
| Talking Heads | Burning down the house |
| Joy Division | Shadowplay |
| Magazine | The light falls out of me |
| The Fall | Wings |
| Automatic | Automation |
| Eurythmics | Never Gonna Cry Again |
| La Scaltra | The Spell |
| Siouxsie And The Banshees | Arabian Knights |
| Echo and the Bunnymen | Turquoise Days |
| A Flock Of Seagulls | Space Age Love Song |
| Simple Minds | New Gold Dream |
| New Order | Ceremony |
| Wet Leg | Catch these fists |
| Wet Leg | CPR |
| Sharon Van Etten | Comeback Kid |
| PJ Harvey | Angelene |
| Kirsty MacColl | A new England |
| Nelly Furtado | Maneater |
| Blondie | Picture |
| Marine girls | A place in the sun |
| The Cranberries | Ode To My Family |
| Joni Mitchell | Both Sides Now |
| Lana Del Rey | Born To Die |
| Shangri-La’s | Give Him a Great Big Kiss |
| Lene Lovich | Lucky Number |
| Amyl and The Sniffers | guided by angels |
| The Wedding Present | Kennedy |
| The Wedding Present | Brassneck |
| The Wedding Present | Daliance |
| The Wedding Present | Dare |
| The Wedding Present | Blue Eyes |
| The Wedding Present | My favourite dress |
| The Wedding Present | You Should Always Keep In Touch With Your Friends |
| The Wedding Present | Shatner |
| The Wedding Present | Take Me I’m Yours! |
| The Wedding Present | Memento mori |
| The Wedding Present | Silver Shorts |
| The Wedding Present | I Am Not Going To Fall In Love With You |
| The Wedding Present | Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me) |
| The Wedding Present | Come play with me |
| The Ramones | Blitzkrieg Bop |
| Matt Berninger | Blue Monday |
| Joy Division | Transmission |
| REM | Fall on me |
| NewDad | Misery |
| Monster Florence | STATE (OF U) |
| Talk To Her | PLD |
| OMD | Messages |
| The Beat | Save it for later |
| The Selector | Three minute hero |
| Built to spill | Car |
| Goodbye Mr. Mackenzie | Now We Are Married |
| The Church | Under the Milky Way |
| Placebo | Song to say goodbye |
| The Undertones | It’s Gonna Happen |
| Orange Juice | Falling And Laughing |
| The Lotus Eaters | The First Picture of You |
| Bridget calls me baby | We Were Never Alive |
| Soap and Skin | Me and the devil |
| Sharron Van Etten and the Attachment Theory | Idiot Box |
| REM | Pretty Persuasion |
| Bruce Hornsby & The Range | Mandolin Rain |
| Mogwai | Party in the Dark |
| The Icicle Works | Hollow Horse |
| The Wedding Present | Corduroy |
| Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood | Some Velvet Morning |
| The Mighty Wah | Come Back |
| Sham 69 | If the kids are United |
| The Undertones | It’s going to happen! |
| A Flock of Seagulls | The More You Live, The More You Love |
| The Cult | Rain |
| Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | Souvenir |
| New Order | Temptation |
| The Psychedelic Furs | Pretty in Pink |
| Echo & the Bunnymen | The Cutter |
| Peter Gabriel | Games Without Frontiers |
| Talking Heads | This Must Be the Place |
| REM | The One I Love |
| XTC | Senses Working Overtime |
| Nirvana | About a girl |
| New Order | Your Silent Face |
| The Smiths | Bigmouth Strikes Again |
| Hurrah! | Gloria |
| The Icicle Works | Factory in the Desert |
| Quinn Bailey | Glass castle |
| XTC | Making Plans For Nigel |
| CMAT | Stay for Something |
| Bryn Christopher | Smilin’ |
| The Ramones | You Should Never Have Opened That Door |
| Amyl and the Sniffers | Big Dreams |
| Generation X | Ready, Steady, Go |
| The Adverts | Gary Gilmore’s Eyes |
| Getdown Services | Dog Dribble |
| Die Spitz | Pop Punk Anthem (Sorry For The Delay) |
| The Viagra Boys | The Bog Body |
| The Killers | Smile like you mean it |
| Hurrah! | Gloria |
| The Icicle Works | Factory in the Desert |
| Quinn Bailey | Glass castle |
| XTC | Making Plans For Nigel |
| CMAT | Stay for Something |
| Bryn Christopher | Smilin’ |
| The Ramones | You Should Never Have Opened That Door |
| Amyl and the Sniffers | Big Dreams |
| Generation X | Ready, Steady, Go |
| The Adverts | Gary Gilmore’s Eyes |
| Getdown Services | Dog Dribble |
| Die Spitz | Pop Punk Anthem (Sorry For The Delay) |
| The Viagra Boys | The Bog Body |
| The Killers | Smile like you mean it |
Hear the winners and their chosen tracks from the 2025 UNAWARDS held at the Everyman Cinema in Birmingham on 5th December.