| Song: title | Song: artist | Release: date | And for Why? |
| Golden Brown | The Stranglers | 9th January 1982 | |
| It's Grim Up North | The Justified Ancients of MuMu (nee, the KLF) | 9th November 1991 | A list of northern towns to a pounding industrial techno beat, disintegrating into an orchestral rendition of 'Jerusalem'? Pure genius! |
| A New England | Kirsty MacColl | 19th January 1985 | Beautiful songwriting. It's wrong to wish on space hardware, indeed! |
| Novocaine For The Soul | The Eels | 15th February 1997 | ...before I sputter out |