| Illustrations | | ix | |
| Author's Note | | xii | |
| Introduction | | xiii | |
| Prologue: The Unfinished Revolution | | xvii | |
| PART ONE: POST-PUNK | |
| 1 Public Image Belongs To Me: John Lydon and PiL |
| | 3 | (12) |
| 2 Outside Of Everything: Howard Devoto and Vic Godard |
| | 15 | (15) |
| 3 Uncontrollable Urge: the Industrial Grotesquerie of Pere Ubu and Devo |
| | 30 | (20) |
| 4 Contort Yourself: No Wave New York |
| | 50 | (23) |
| 5 Tribal Revival: The Pop Group and The Slits |
| | 73 | (19) |
| 6 Autonomy In The UK: Independent Labels and the DIY Movement |
| | 92 | (18) |
| 7 Militant Entertainment: Gang of Four and the Leeds Scene |
| | 110 | (19) |
| 8 Art Attack: Talking Heads and Wire |
| | 129 | (21) |
| 9 Living for the Future: Cabaret Voltaire, The Human League and the Sheffield Scene |
| | 150 | (23) |
| 10 Just Step Sideways: The Fall, Joy Division and the Manchester Scene |
| | 173 | (25) |
| 11 Messthetics: The London Vanguard |
| | 198 | (26) |
| 12 Industrial Devolution: Throbbing Gristle's Music from the Death Factory |
| | 224 | (21) |
| 13 Freak Scene: Cabaret Noir and Theatre of Cruelty in Post-punk San Francisco |
| | 245 | (19) |
| 14 Careering: PiL and Post-punk's Peak and Fall |
| | 264 | |
| PART TWO: NEW POP AND NEW ROCK | |
| 15 Ghost Dance: 2-Tone and the Ska Resurrection |
| | 181 | (123) |
| 16 Sex Gang Children: Malcolm McLaren, the Pied Piper of Pantomime Pop |
| | 304 | (16) |
| 17 Electric Dreams: Synthpop |
| | 320 | (23) |
| 18 Fun 'n' Frenzy: Postcard and the Sound of Young Scotland |
| | 343 | (18) |
| 19 Play to Win: The Pioneers of New Pop |
| | 361 | (22) |
| 20 Mutant Disco and Punk-Funk: Crosstown Traffic in Early Eighties New York (and Beyond...) |
| | 383 | (20) |
| 21 New Gold Dreams 81-82-83-84: The Peak and Fall of New Pop |
| | 403 | (17) |
| 22 Dark Things: Goth and the Return of Rock |
| | 420 | (19) |
| 23 Glory Boys: Liverpool, New Psychedelia and the Big Music |
| | 439 | (16) |
| 24 The Blasting Concept: Progressive Punk from SST Records to Mission of Burma |
| | 455 | (19) |
| 25 Conform to Deform: The Second-Wave Industrial Infiltrators |
| | 474 | (17) |
| 26 Raiding the Twentieth Century: ZTT and Frankiemania |
| | 491 | (26) |
| Afterchapter | | 517 | (22) |
| Appendix: MTV and the Second British Invasion 5/9 Bibliography | | 539 | (6) |
| Post-punk timeline | | 545 | (10) |
| Acknowledgements | | 555 | (2) |
| Index | | 557 | |
