Jim Carroll Band - People Who Died

This is a great song, brutal in its simplicity and honesty. But it's far from the best track on his Catholic Boy album, which has been called the last great punk record. I only feel bad that it took me so long to listen to the whole album.

Similarly, while the movie of The Basketball Diaries is really a great film, the original book is so much stronger. Truly one of the great punk poets, along with Patty Smith, Lou Reed, and John Doe.

Alphaville - Romeos

Placebo - 20 Years

A pair of Poe

Electic Six - Gay Bar

Leonard Cohen - In My Secret Life

I've listened to this album about 100 times in the last 2 weeks or so. Gorgeous.

The Alarm - The Stand

Wow.

Bourgeois Tagg - Mutual Surrender

Does anyone else even remember this band?

The Fixx - Are We Ourselves?

Two questions:
A) Do you remember when this song really meant a lot to you? Either this one or Secret Separation?
B) Seriously, were they being groomed to be Duran Duran wannabes, or was that a personal choice?

Ministry - No W