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Listeners' Dystopian Playlist
A seriously long playlist of tracks inspired by the theme of dystopia - suggested by listeners
(I'll Love You) Till the End of the World - Nick Cave
21st Century Breakdown - Green Day
A Saucerful of Secrets - Pink Floyd
Aesthetics (Are A Moral Imperative) - Surgyn
All the Madmen - David Bowie
Are You Shivering? - Coil
Autogeddon Blues - Julian Cope
Avalanche - Nick Cave
Breathing - Kate Bush
Can You Take Me Back - The Beatles
Cloud Zero - Legendary Pink Dots
Come to Daddy - Aphex Twin
Corner Store - Jonathan Richman
Damnation Alley - Hawkwind
De Soledad - Tapers
Dead Flag Blues - Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Dead Shall Rise V.06 - Terrorizer
Deeper Understanding - Kate Bush
Doublevision Presents Cabaret Voltaire - Cabaret Voltaire
Earth Died Screaming - Tom Waits
Enigma of the Absolute - Dead Can Dance
Europe After The Rain - John Foxx
Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire
Experiment IV - Kate Bush
Exposure – Robert Fripp
Fearfully in Danger - Nico + the Faction
Generals - The Damned
Greetings From A Dead Man – Eurythmics
Get 'Em Out By Friday – Genesis
Ghosts - Japan
Happy - Pharrell Williams
Headhunter - Front 242
High Rise - Hawkwind
Karn Evil 9 Part lll - Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Kiew Mission - Tangerine Dream
Kill City - Iggy Pop & James Williamson
In The Arms of My Enemy - TV Smith
In The Year 2525 - Zager and Evans
Isvar Savasana - Sutekh Hexen
It's Not Reality - Ewigkeit
Land Of Rape and Honey - Ministry
Listen To the Sirens - Tubeway Army
Low (B side) - David Bowie
Lustmord – Zeotrope
Machine Gun – Portishead
Ministry Of Fear - Propaganda
Murder – New Order
My Favourite Things - John Coltrane
Not the World I Remember - FGFC820
Ping Pong - Stereolab
Places Past - Concretism
Red Barchetta- Rush
Robots – The Flight of the Conchords
Ruthless Gravity - Craig Armstrong
Santa Ain't Coming For Christmas - Rocket 455
Slow Focus – F*** Buttons
Sonic Attack - Hawkwind
Spirit of the Age - Hawkwind
Stranger In A Strange Land - Iron Maiden
Suggestion For A New National Anthem by Number None
Taki pejzaż - Ewa Demarczyk
The Bladerunner Soundtrack – Vangelis
The Body Electric - Rush
The Connection Machine - Clock DVA
The Court of the Crimson King – King Crimson
The Eighth Day - Hazel O'Connor
The Heavenly Music Corporation - Fripp & Eno
The Host of Seraphim - Dead Can Dance
The National Anthem - Radiohead
The Old Man's Back Again - Scott Walker
This World Must Be Destroyed - Front 242
Threnody (Animated Score) - Penderecki
Undertow - Free Sound Collective
Waiting For Mary - Pere Ubu
Waiting For the Cloud - Legendary Pink Dots
White Noise - An Electric Storm
Yuko & Hiro - Blur
Plus ‘anything’ by:
Boards of Canada
Burial
Nils Frahm
Sucker Twin
Andrew Paine
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