This book is easily in my ten best ever read. It starts as an outsider love story of teens in 1980s smaller-town England, and then opens to a love letter to post-punk and goth music of the era...then becomes this bizarre drug fueled Lovecraftian story with ample tension that ends (and begins) how you'd expect from a Lovecraft disciple (I'm writing this as it occurs to explain what happened...). I took ample notes of every name drop in the book, and these two mixes represent the best.
00:00 Rudimentary Peni - Nothing But A Nightmare
01:43 Husker Du - Chartered Trips
05:12 Wipers - Don't Know What I Am
08:07 Dinosaur Jr - In A Jar
11:29 Pixies - Bone Machine
14:28 John Fahey - Sunflower River Blues
17:00 The Fall - Hotel Bloedel
20:42 Lowlife - Ramafied
24:51 The Cramps - Aloha From Hell
27:16 Gun Club - The Fire of Love
29:21 The Cure - Primary
32:51 The Sound - Skeletons
36:15 Joy Division - Twenty Four Hours
40:37 Lowlife - Sometime Something
44:34 Cocteau Twins - Perhaps Some Other Aeon
47:24 Siouxsie and The Banshees - Spellbound
50:39 Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
53:39 Tears For Fears - Head Over Heels
57:50 Coil - Who By Fire (Leonard Cohen)
60:19 Sade - Smooth Operator
photo credit: book cover
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