Post-Punk for beginners

I just got my CD versions of Magazine's first 3 albums and what a blast. Having seen them live I can attest that Adamson has the wobbliest bass this side of Mick Karn (or Jah Wobble!!!!), I still have flashbacks today. Magazine were viciously exciting and deserve attention . How about Ultravox ? I mean Vienna, Mr.X, Astradyne, the entire Systems of Romance album and any early John Foxx album certainly qualifies somewhat. 

Some of my favorite are:
Lemon Kittens
Fibonaccis
and
Athletico Spizz 80 / Spizzoil / Spizzenergi (they changed their name a lot)

this probably be seen as balsphemic but i would boldly say that the combination of New wave and Post-punk was the real progressive movement in the 80s (i thought of this wile I was trying to sleep). wile Neo-prog are takeing the ideas of 70s prog, but playing it with more modern instruments (keybords and synths), more melodick but stil epic, the New wave/post punk scene took some new fresh ideas wile still being artistic and atmospheric but used the music of what was more popular around that time and made it more complex and grandious, wile the post punk bands took the atitude and straight aheadness of punk but added more complex instrumentation, keybords, and fused funk, electronic, krautrock, reggea and experimenal music. New wave took the melodic side of prog and simplyfied it, added more catchyness to it, more straight disco grooves, but wile not sounding 100% disco, litle bit of glam rock, but oceanc of lush keybords and solid tenor voices

this two were the most creative and moldmooving music moovments in the 80s, with bands like Talk Talk, Tears for Fears, Joe Division, Killing Joke, Bauhaus, Cure, Depeach Mode helped pawn the way for lots of creativity for years to come many helped develop genres like Post-rock, Industrial rock, Grunge and goth rock


Edited by aginor - January 24 2010 at 16:11

This Heat - Deceit.

On the dark side of things, critiqued as being the bridge between post-punk and krautrock. Deceit is their most song oriented album, most of their stuff is more improvised/noisey. I like all their stuff, but they were really my intro to the genre.

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Raff wrote: seventhsojourn wrote: akamaisondufromage wrote: seventhsojourn wrote: akamaisondufromage wrote: Magazine - Real Life       Great to see Magazine getting a mention; Secondhand Daylight is a classic! Pink Flag by Wire is worth checking out too.    Thanks!  I'm always banging on about Magazine hey ho! I think they should be here somewhere!   I almost went for SD I think more people prefer it (But not me) and I concidered The Correct Use of Soap too!    Agree about Pink Flag too!   Absolutely! How about it PA?! You know, unfortunately anything with a connection to punk is considered highly controversial here, and as such to be handled with extreme care. For instance, I would support the inclusion of Talking Heads, and supported that of The Stranglers as well (they were rejected), but I realize they stand very little chance. People tend to react to additions they don't agree with as if someone had killed their cat (or even a family member), and because of that it is necessary to tread very carefully.

 

The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour (the track Hip Priest was used on the soundtrack for Silence of the Lambs)
The Cure - Pornography or 17 Seconds
Echo & the Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here
Television - (anything and everything)
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Ju Ju and Kaleidoscope
Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food and Fear of Music (after that... Nah)
Monochrome Set - Strange Boutique and Love Zombies
Wall of Voodoo - Call of the West
The Psychedelic Furs - The Psychedelic Furs
Magazine - (anything and everything)
U2- October (yes, really)
Patti Smith Group - Horses and Wave
XTC - Drums and Wires and Black Sea
Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance
The League of Gentlemen - The League of Gentlemen (with Robert Fripp)
The Teardrop Explodes - Kiliminjaro and Wilder
The Fire Engines - Lubricate Your Living Room
The Cocteau Twins - Garlands
The Simple Minds - Real to Real Cacophony
Aztec Camera - High Land Hard Rain
Orange Juice - Texas Fever (an EP with 6 tracks)

The list goes on...

harmonium.ro wrote: ExittheLemming wrote: U2- October (yes, really) All first three U2 albums are great post-punk albums.

Seconded. My personal favourite is War, but the other two are none too shabby either.

^ I still like Duran Duran.