Pretty Lethal. Joe Schreiber
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First published as Perry’s Killer Playlist in the USA in 2012 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company Published in Great Britain in 2014 by Electric Monkey, an imprint of Egmont UK Limited The Yellow Building, 1 Nicholas Road, London W11 4AN
Text copyright © 2012 Joe Schreiber
The moral rights of the author have been asserted
Published by special arrangement with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
First e-book edition 2014
ISBN 978 1 4052 5944 6
eISBN 978 1 7803 1112 8
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Contents
PROLOGUE: ‘American Idiot’ – Green Day
1. ‘All These Things That I’ve Done’ – The Killers
2. ‘Ever Fallen in Love’ – Buzzcocks
3. ‘Is There Something I Should Know?’ – Duran Duran
4. ‘The Loved Ones’ – Elvis Costello and the Attractions
5. ‘You Are a Tourist’ – Death Cab for Cutie
6. ‘Another Girl, Another Planet’ – The Replacements
7. ‘Waiting for Somebody’ – Paul Westerberg
8. ‘Never Let Me Down Again’ – Depeche Mode
9. ‘Run (I’m a Natural Disaster)’ – Gnarls Barkley
10. ‘Police and Thieves’ – The Clash
12. ‘Here I Go Again’ – Whitesnake
13. ‘Church of the Poison Mind’ – Culture Club
14. ‘The World Has Turned and Left Me Here’ – Weezer
15. ‘Happiness Is a Warm Gun’ – The Beatles
16. ‘Know Your Enemy’ – Green Day
17. ‘There Are Some Remedies Worse Than the Disease’ – This Will Destroy You
18. ‘Panic Switch’ – Silversun Pickups
19. ‘Busy Child’ – The Crystal Method
20. ‘Darklands’ – The Jesus and Mary Chain
21. ‘Sweetest Kill’ – Broken Social Scene
22. ‘Love Removal Machine’ – The Cult
23. ‘If There’s a Rocket Tie Me to It’ – Snow Patrol
24. ‘Hold Your Colour’ – Pendulum
25. ‘Everybody Daylight’ – Brightblack Morning Light
28. ‘King of Pain’ – The Police
29. ‘Family Man’ – Hall & Oates
31. ‘Blow Up the Outside World’ – Soundgarden
32. ‘Wake Up’ – Rage Against the Machine
34. ‘I Will Buy You a New Life’ – Everclear
35. ‘This Is Not America’ – David Bowie
36. ‘Bullet with Butterfly Wings’ – The Smashing Pumpkins
37. ‘Don’t Let Me Explode’ – The Hold Steady