Hey guys, thanks for the replies. Murmur and Chronic Town I love, which is the main reason my blind sport for REM is between the former and Green (which, although not amazing, I still have a nostalgic attachment to because it was the soundtrack to my playing Pools of Radiance on the computer at age 12). Murmur and Chronic Town are so good that it was hard for me to to give the albums thereafter a fair chance.
Chauffeur was great. I stumbled across a B-side, Khanada, I like a lot.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/khana ... =110709384
Photographic is very cool. The Some Bizarre compilation version is worth seeking out. Ice Machine, which I got on a 7" at 18, is one of my favorite Depeche songs ever.
I guess I don't need to limit my question to the four bands above. Feel free to let me know any favorite album tracks from any of the canonical bands.
A friend and I are working on a lengthy mix modeled on the annual countdowns on our childhood radio stations. Our "countdown" is made up of artists that were on the radio at the time, but not their well-known tracks.
This is the rough tracklist I'm working with so far:
As you can see, it's not strictly made up of "wasn't a single" tracks. Some were singles but were never on my "modern rock" station.
1. Joy Division
Atmosphere
Decades
New Dawn Fades
2. REM
Chronic Town
3. Smiths
Just about anything
4. Depeche Mode
Ice Machine, Photographic, Death's Door
5. U2
Lots
6. Cure
Lament
7. Tears for Fears
Mad World, Dance Mix of Tears Roll
8. Romeo Void
Myself to Myself, others
9. New Order
?, Leave me Alone, many Movement tracks
10. Stone Roses
Waterfall
Resurrection
So Young (Misery Dictionary)
Peter Hook mix of Elephant Stone
11. Morrissey
Jack the Ripper
The Loop
Your Arsenal stuff; Disappointed
12. Nirvana
Geoff's picks
13. Smashing Pumpkins
Geoff's picks
14. NIN
same
15. Ministry
Wanted to tell her'; Revenge
16. Alphaville
?
17. Iggy Pop
China Girl, Beside You
18. Bowie
Rock/Roll Suicide
I still haven't listened much to Low, Station to Station
19. Blur
Trainspotting Soundtrack song
20. Tori Amos
one of the covers?
21. Sarah McLachlan
Won't Fear Love
22. Talking Heads
early demos
This Is the Place
23. Peter Schilling
alternate Major Tom, etc;
24. Cake
Jolene
25. Xymox
Anything from 1st album
26. Talk Talk - post-rock tracks
27. Yaz
Tuesday
Nobody's Diary
Midnight
That song about war
28. Sinead O'Connor
Black Boys on Mopeds
29. Kraftwerk
Trans Europe Express
Autobahn
30. Camouflage - ?
Boomtown Rats ?
31. Berlin
Pleasure Victim
32. Bronski Beat
Smalltown Boy
33. Kate Bush - ?
34. Buzzcocks
Different Kind of Tension tracks
35. Thomas Dolby
Budapest By Blimp
36. Suede
So Young
37. Peter Gabriel
early stuff good?
38. Peter Murphy
Strange Kind Love, Rollcall, Fall on Your Knife
39. Roxy Music
Avalon tracks
Dream Home a Heartache
40. Ramones
Don't really know their stuff
41. Voice Farm - Elevate
42. Ned's Atomic
Nothing Like
43. XTC - ?
44. Psych Furs - ?
45. James
46. Soft Cell
Girl With the Patent Leather Face
47. Wall of Voodoo
Call Box, Ring of Fire, Longarm
48. Go Gos
This Town
49. Sonic Youth - ?
50. Icehouse
Trojan Blue, No Promises
51. OMD
Electricity, early stuff
52. Ultravox
Hiroshima Mon Amour
53. Public Image Limited - This what you want - Order of Death
54. B-52s
Dance This Mess
55. Oingo Boingo- ?
56. The Church - ?
57. INXS - Stay Young
58. Stranglers Hanging Around
59. Simple Minds - Reel to Real, Premonition, Kant Kino
60. Gene Loves JEzebel - Tarantula song
61. Duran
Khanada, B-side
62. Seagulls
Nightmares
63. Dead or Alive - Misty Circles
Stranglers - North Winds,
64. 10, 0000 Maniacs - Grey Victory, Eat for Two, Planned Obsolesence
Thanks for reading this far, if you did!