Pretty Lethal. Joe Schreiber

      

      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

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      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

       Cover

       Title page

       Copyright page

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

       11. ‘Jump’ – Van Halen

       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

       26. ‘Hurt’ – Nine Inch Nails

       27. ‘99 Problems’ – Jay-Z

       28. ‘King of Pain’ – The Police

       29. ‘Family Man’ – Hall & Oates

       30. ‘Timebomb’ – Beck

       31. ‘Blow Up the Outside World’ – Soundgarden

       32. ‘Wake Up’ – Rage Against the Machine

       33. ‘Cold Hard Bitch’ – Jet

       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