Some clues/updates:
#1 is a bit obscure. It's a band I've listening to a lot lately. Shoegazers. Album track.
#2 has a Depeche Mode connection
#3 Is Trash metal (if you couldn't have guessed). I used to hum this when I was working on a supermarket checkout.
#4 A refugee from a britpop band. Album track. Graham Coxon guys.
#5 The Delays – Long Time Coming guessed by
#6 Joy Division - Transmission guessed by
#7 Old and crazy.
#8 Adam and the Ants – Stand and Deliver guessed by
#9 New Order – True Faith guessed by (just)
#10 Nick Drake – Northern Sky guessed by
#11 from John Peel's Festive 50
#12 My favourite smelly old crusties.
#13 Not mates of the White Stripes Album track.
#14 An album track from one of my favourite bands from the late 1980's to the mid-1990's. They did a song about Italia 1990.
#18 No Doubt – Hella Good guessed by
#20 Er... Can't think of much about this one. it's about 6 months old, the video was on a beach. There were bombs. This won't help.