Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984

Public image belongs to me : John Lydon and PiL --
Autonomy in the U.K. : DIY and the British independent-label movement --
Tribal revival : the Pop Group and the Slits --
Militant entertainment : Gang of Four, the Mekons, and the Leeds scene --
Uncontrollable urge : the industrial grotesquerie of Pere Ubu and Devo --
Living for the future : Cabaret Voltaire, the Human League, and the Sheffield scene --
Just step sideways : The Fall, Joy Division, and the Manchester scene --
Industrial devolution : Throbbing Gristle's music from the death factory --
Contort yourself : no wave New York --
Art attack : Talking Heads, Wire, and Mission of Burma --
Messthetics : The London Vanguard --
Freak scene : cabaret noir and theater of cruelty in postpunk San Francisco --
Careering : PiL and postpunk's peak and fall --
Ghost dance : 2-tone and the ska resurrection --
Sex gang children : Malcolm McLaren, the Pied Piper of pantomime pop --
Mutant disco and punk funk : crosstown traffic in early eighties New York (and beyond) --
Fun 'n' frenzy : Postcard Records and the sound of young Scotland --
Electric dreams : synthpop --
Play to win : the pioneers of new pop --
New gold dreams 81-82-83-84 : new pop's peak, the second British invasion of America, and the rise of MTV --
Dark things and glory boys : the return of rock with goth and the new psychedelia --
Raiding the twentieth century : ZTT, the Art of Noise, and Frankie Goes to Hollywood.