2fers from punky bands: Some of my fave albums - Progressive Rock Music Forum

My pleasure! It’s always fun exchanging musical info!

I’m going with Joy Division, Public Image Ltd, and Pere Ubu, though there were many greats on this list. Pere Ubu is a delightfully strange band. I believe their roots were in a band called Rocket From The Tombs. Part of that band became Pere Ubu, and part became the Dead Boys. Tim Wright, who was the bassist early on would also become a member of the No Wave band DNA.

Bauhaus is great throughout for me.

By the way, as might be expected, I prefer various albums of these bands to the ones listed but find these punkier than various others. I prefer black midi's Cavalcade to Schlagenheim but Schlag seems particularly post-punk. With Swans, I am big on the Children to God to now time, but some albums seem more post-punk than others. Cocteau Twins first two are the obviously punky ones from them -- had I gone with album faves, I would have gone with Treasure and Heaven or Las Vegas.

I will go with as three listed albums from three bands (which all got mentions from Saper):

Joy Division's Closer

Swans' Children of God

Siouxsie and The Banshees' Tinderbox

Duos for fave acts

From my selection it perhaps looks more like they share a certain "goth-rockiness". If in red if I have a slight preference for one of the albums. As I have a hard time selecting one favorite over another, I would ideally want all of the five first to be among my selected three:)

Swans: Children of God (1987) or The Great Annihilator (1995)

Siouxsie and The Banshees: Juju (1981) or Tinderbox (1986)

black midi: Schlagenheim (2019) or Hellfire (2022)

The Cure: Pornography (1982) or Disintegration (1989)

Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures (1979) or Closer (1980)

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The Sisters of Mercy: First and Last and Always (1985) or Floodland (1987)

This Heat: This Heat (1979) or Deceit (1981)

Bauhaus: In the Flat Field (1980) or The Sky's Gone Out (1982)

The Chameleons: Script of the Bridge (1983) or Strange Times (1986)

^ The Sky's Gone Out is great. I have known the earlier than that Bauhaus material since the late 80s. I got into Bauhaus actually due to the movie, The Hunger which featured Bela Lugosi's Dead (the earlier longer version of that still being one of my very favurite songs), but only overe the poast year heard The Sky's Gone Out... A Different and great album.

Sean Trane wrote:

I'd have gone for Violent Femmes' Debut and Hallowed Ground.

Or Outlandos d'Amour and Regatta de Blanc (or Ghost in a Machine)

I hope you found something you did like in this multiple choice poll. Love to hear about what people like on the list, don't like, and other options. Violent Femmes would have been on here had I remembered and taken more time thinking up this poll (although I don't know what I would have left off). I even have listened to Hallowed Ground in full in the past month. Much as I like The Police and have listened to those albums many times in 1990 (due to my roommate when living at Whistler), to me they don't feel right for the list (or youtube playlist). Still I'm happy with with the acts I listed. I might have added Cardiacs, who probably know I love, but it didn't quite fit the mood I felt as well as others.

Thanks to all for their comments. This non-regional specific one is hopefully something of a primer before Paul puts together a UK punk series.

Duos for fave acts

Bauhaus: In the Flat Field

Television: Marquee Moon

Too difficult to choose the third one amongst:

Joy Division: Closer

Siouxsie and The Banshees: Juju

Pere Ubu: The Modern Dance

quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond

Octopus II wrote:

Magazine - Real Life/Secondhand Daylight.

Had XTC - Drums & Wires/Black Sea been in the poll I would have voted for that. Smile

I'd have gone for Violent Femmes' Debut and Hallowed Ground.

Or Outlandos d'Amour and Regatta de Blanc (or Ghost in a Machine)

let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword

Magazine - Real Life/Secondhand Daylight.

Had XTC - Drums & Wires/Black Sea been in the poll I would have voted for that. Smile

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This Heat, black midi, and Squid. The structural integrity of the bag was weakened by speaking sauce and there-there pants.

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Poll Question: Please vote for up to three of these bands
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Bauhaus: In the Flat Field / The Sky's Gone Out	2	[4.08%]
Black Country, New Road: For the First Time / Ants From Up..	3	[6.12%]
black midi: Schlagenheim / Hellfire	4	[8.16%]
Echo & The Bunnymen: Porcupine / Ocean Rain	2	[4.08%]
Nick Cave & Bad Seeds: Your Funeral..My Trial / Let Love In	0	[0.00%]
The Chameleons: Script of the Bridge / Strange Times	3	[6.12%]
Cocteau Twins: Garlands / Head Over Heels	0	[0.00%]
The Cure: Pornography / Disintegration	4	[8.16%]
The Fall: Hex Enduction Hour / Perverted Language	0	[0.00%]
Interpol: Turn on the Bright Lights / Antics	1	[2.04%]
Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures / Closer	5	[10.20%]
Killing Joke: Killing Joke / Night Time	2	[4.08%]
Magazine: Real Life / Secondhand Daylight	3	[6.12%]
The National: Alligator / Boxer	1	[2.04%]
Pere Ubu: The Modern Dance / Dub Housing	0	[0.00%]
Public Image Ltd.: Metal Box / The Flowers of Romance	0	[0.00%]
Siouxsie and The Banshees: Juju / Tinderbox	1	[2.04%]
The Sisters of Mercy: First and Last and Always / Floodland	0	[0.00%]
The Sound: Jeopardy / From the Lions Mouth	1	[2.04%]
Squid: Bright Green Field / O Monolith	5	[10.20%]
Swans: Children of God / The Great Annihilator	1	[2.04%]
Television: Marquee Moon / Adventure	4	[8.16%]
This Heat: This Heat / Deceit	4	[8.16%]
Tuxedomoon: Desire / Holy Wars	2	[4.08%]
Wire: Chairs Missing / 154	1	[2.04%]
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