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Poll Question: A list of some of my favourite Post Punk bands Which is yours?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 08 2014 at 04:07
Damn. Forgot about Television! Good stuff. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 08 2014 at 10:22
Television is gr8. Probably would have voted the Fall, if it had been in the poll, although it would have been a difficult choice between them and the Cure.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 08 2014 at 10:26
Kinda surprised to see Joy Division without a single vote. I love em but thought it was a bit too obvious. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 08 2014 at 12:04
Has to be XTC....one of my favorite bands of all time...but I really like Cocteau Twins, Magazine, Joy Division....etc.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 08 2014 at 12:08
Actually, in the long line of errors with this poll I also have just remembered that, for some unknown reason, Talking Heads are on PA. I would take them off* and replace them with Television (even though I prefer The Fall) but I will leave as is. Especially as someone has voted for TH already.

*I don't mean off PA.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 08 2014 at 20:44
The Cure, followed by Devo.
Bauhaus and Joy Division are decent.  Don't know the rest (other than the names).
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 09 2014 at 04:19
The band I'm most surprised to not see here is The Fall, with Wire a close second.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 09 2014 at 06:41
Originally posted by Toaster Mantis Toaster Mantis wrote:

The band I'm most surprised to not see here is The Fall, with Wire a close second.


Originally posted by Toaster Mantis Toaster Mantis wrote:

I think the "post-punk" categorization refers not to coming after punk chronologically, but just to the artists coming from an obvious punk background while at the same time moving their music beyond what can be accurately categorized as belonging to the genre.


The above description of post-punk is very apt in the Fall's case as they kinda developed 'in parallel' to Punk having started around 1976 (when we were still gobbing on those we had paid good money to be target practice - go figure spiky topsWink)
Although I really enjoyed Wire's Chairs Missing, and would acknowledge how influential they turned out to be, much of their output smacked of art school situationists exploiting minimalism/punk as a vehicle for another highbrow agenda. Crass were guilty of same in my book. But then I'm a cynical old f*rt
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 09 2014 at 06:55
The Fall.  Always different, always the same.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 09 2014 at 07:06
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

<span style=": rgb240, 241, 245;">Siouxsie and the Banshees.</span>


This and the Cocteau Twins in equal measure.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2014 at 13:29
I didn't vote so. Of course (well almost of course) I have gone for Siouxsie and the Banshees. I am tempted by the Cocteaus and Sisters. But, lets face it, the Banshees were one of the best bands ever to have existed.

I would have liked the original line up (not the Sid Vicious et al version, but the Scream version) to have done a couple more albums as well - maybe at the same time as Kaleidoscope and JuJu - in my own little fantasy world but hey, what we got was incredible stuff.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2014 at 13:47
Originally posted by Stool Man Stool Man wrote:

The Fall.  Always different, always the same.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2014 at 13:47
Originally posted by akamaisondufromage akamaisondufromage wrote:

I didn't vote so. Of course (well almost of course) I have gone for Siouxsie and the Banshees. I am tempted by the Cocteaus and Sisters. But, lets face it, the Banshees were one of the best bands ever to have existed.

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Originally posted by akamaisondufromage akamaisondufromage wrote:


I would have liked the original line up (not the Sid Vicious et al version, but the Scream version) to have done a couple more albums as well - maybe at the same time as Kaleidoscope and JuJu - in my own little fantasy world but hey, what we got was incredible stuff.

I saw one of the last gigs of the McKay and Morris lineup
They only played two more after that, Belfast and Aberdeen.



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2014 at 13:58
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:



Originally posted by akamaisondufromage akamaisondufromage wrote:

I didn't vote so. Of course (well almost of course) I have gone for Siouxsie and the Banshees. I am tempted by the Cocteaus and Sisters. But, lets face it, the Banshees were one of the best bands ever to have existed.
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Originally posted by akamaisondufromage akamaisondufromage wrote:

I would have liked the original line up (not the Sid Vicious et al version, but the Scream version) to have done a couple more albums as well - maybe at the same time as Kaleidoscope and JuJu - in my own little fantasy world but hey, what we got was incredible stuff.


I saw one of the last gigs of the McKay and Morris lineup
They only played two more after that, Belfast and Aberdeen.



Really! You lucky B! I didn't get to see them until 1985 when John Valentine Carruthers was guitarist and I was well pissed that McGeoch had left and that Mr Smith wasn't back again! Ah well, they were still better than most even then. McKay is a much underrated guitarist me thinks. I'm sure technically he's not anything, but just listen to that noise...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2014 at 14:11
Originally posted by akamaisondufromage akamaisondufromage wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:



Originally posted by akamaisondufromage akamaisondufromage wrote:

I didn't vote so. Of course (well almost of course) I have gone for Siouxsie and the Banshees. I am tempted by the Cocteaus and Sisters. But, lets face it, the Banshees were one of the best bands ever to have existed.
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Originally posted by akamaisondufromage akamaisondufromage wrote:

I would have liked the original line up (not the Sid Vicious et al version, but the Scream version) to have done a couple more albums as well - maybe at the same time as Kaleidoscope and JuJu - in my own little fantasy world but hey, what we got was incredible stuff.


I saw one of the last gigs of the McKay and Morris lineup
They only played two more after that, Belfast and Aberdeen.



Really! You lucky B! I didn't get to see them until 1985 when John Valentine Carruthers was guitarist and I was well pissed that McGeoch had left and that Mr Smith wasn't back again! Ah well, they were still better than most even then. McKay is a much underrated guitarist me thinks. I'm sure technically he's not anything, but just listen to that noise...
On ability I think he's rated pretty much where he should be but he deserves credit for more or less defining post punk guitar with Switch.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2014 at 15:35
What about The Sound , they deserve a mention also, especially From The Lion's Mouth
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2014 at 17:33
You there Sonia Smile
 
I am not sure punk killed prog, prog and jazz/fusion died by themselves because they were beginning to bore people. Punk and prog can coexist: Cardiacs, Nomeansno, The Mars Volta, many mathcore bands...
 
Regarding the poll, I don't know. Maybe UK decay? but they are not on the list...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2014 at 17:35
Originally posted by Chris S Chris S wrote:

What about The Sound , they deserve a mention also, especially From The Lion's Mouth
I loved Jeopardy and it would easily be in my top-25 postypunk albums, but Lion's Mouth not so much.

But as our friend with the Berk avatar says, there could be any of a million bands.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2014 at 17:48
Correct me if I am wrong, many of these had a goth character (not sure this is the right way to put it).

Certainly I recall Sisters, Cure and Japan, less so Bauhaus. There were a few Sister tracks playing on a constant basis in the rock clubs where I used to hang out but metal got the best of me so I have to say I have no albums of the above bands in my possession.

Any of them you would definitely recommend?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2014 at 18:04
Originally posted by lucas lucas wrote:



You there Sonia Smile
 
I am not sure punk killed prog, prog and jazz/fusion died by themselves because they were beginning to bore people. Punk and prog can coexist: Cardiacs, Nomeansno, The Mars Volta, many mathcore bands...
 
Regarding the poll, I don't know. Maybe UK decay? but they are not on the list...


Lucas wow yay hello!!!
I tend to focus more on instrumentals and to me punk has nothing to offer in terms of what I enjoy to listen :( sounds more like kazim gazim plunk te te te tem tewm, no tunes nothing except more lyrical motivated content with bad singers and awful instrumentals. I might be wrong considering I do not know much about music lol however without great instrumentals I tend to not feel nor like the music. huge hug you
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