No, you're probably right, tommyrot, I have no idea whether "Submarines" itself charted, just reflecting on the general fact that the charts (esp. the British charts which are the only ones I pay attention to) were full of weird esoteric electropop around that time. (But I believe "Wind Power" did also chart in the UK.)

I think "Hyperactive" also charted in the US. Nowhere near as high as "Science", but I remember hearing it a lot for a spell there.

eta, always adored "Submarines". And "Wind Power" for that matter.

A charter member of my redundantly-named all-star band.

Don't forget about Siouxsie Sioux.

As for songs, how could you all forget the classic Specimen tunes, "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang," and all of the Cure's "Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me?"

I think "Hyperactive" also charted in the US.

It did, but, yeah, not very high. Also, one of the track off of Aliens Ate My Buick did vaguely well, I think it was Airhead.

I think "Hyperactive" also charted in the US.

I just bought this from iTunes. The melody is familiar--not sure about the rest of it. Did he borrow the melody from some other song? or is it a cover? If not, then I've actually heard this back when.

He was always completely down-to-earth in interviews. He's just a bloke who married his childhood sweetheart and plays football a bit

Oh, yeah -- it was clear that the Q interview was about Robert Smith and the Filter interview was really Who the Writer Desperately Wants Robert Smith to Be. It was just an interesting contrast, worth looking for at a newsstand near you.

And yay Hec on the Marianne Faithfull-age!

Did he borrow the melody from some other song? or is it a cover?

I know it's not a cover, and I don't think he took the melody from anywhere, so, yeah, you probably heard the real thing back in the day.

Does anyone have the tracklisting to the Moonlit Bonus Mix?

Yes. It was odd... when I stuck the CD into iTunes it just came up with 22 unnamed tracks. But when I stuck it into my linux box the cd program used some other CDDB server and came up with all the track titles, artists, etc.

I think I'm probably responsible for that. I tried to upload the listing for Angus' mix, too, but kept getting an error back from the server.

And here's moonlit's notes, after which I posted a track list correction.

(edited to fix link)

A bit late in the day but I did want to second Jim's recommendation of The Streets' A Grand Don't Come For Free. It's, ahem, streets ahead of any other album I've heard this year. I do understand how you can hear one or two of the songs and go "huh?"; uncharacteristically for album-hating me I'm going to say that you have to listen to the whole thing, and in fact I'm confident enough that people will love it if they give it a chance that I give you this pledge: if as many as five Buffistas can say with their hands on their hearts that they've listened to the entire album and were not in tears by the end, then I'll watch the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy in one sitting. The long versions! Can't say fairer than that.

That's quite the challenge.