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Poll Question: Please vote for up to three of these bands
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    Posted: August 02 2024 at 12:52
2fers from some bands: Some of my favourite albums/ bands with punky qualities

Paul is doing  a UK punk series, and this is just a more general punky poll covering some acts that I like.  Here are 25 bands with a certain punkinshness about them, and I have two albums per band listed.  Please vote for up to three of these bands, and if you want to specify another album from a band off the list, that's fine, but ideally it should be punky or punkish to you.  Some of my options are more punk than others.

I find the first two Cocteau Twins much more post-punk than later works.  When you vote for an option, you can  cast one vote for either album by the band, both albums by the band, or another album by the band, but try to choose one of the punkier albums as acts can be stylistically diverse.  And feel free to mention any not on the list.  Comments and even criticisms are appreciated, as are asides for this quite civil and orderly mosh pit.

Bauhaus: In the Flat Field (1980) or The Sky's Gone Out (1982)
Black Country, New Road: For the First Time (2021) or Ants From Up There (2022)
black midi: Schlagenheim (2019) or Hellfire (2022)
Echo & The Bunnymen: Porcupine (1983) or Ocean Rain (1984)
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds: Your Funeral ... My Trial (1986) or Let Love In (1994)
The Chameleons: Script of the Bridge (1983) or Strange Times (1986)
Cocteau Twins: Garlands (1982) or Head Over Heels (1983)
The Cure: Pornography (1982) or Disintegration (1989)
The Fall: Hex Enduction Hour (1982) or Perverted Language (1983)
Interpol: Turn on the Bright Lights (1982) or Antics (2004)
Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures (1979) or Closer (1980)
Killing Joke: Killing Joke (1980) or Night Time (1985)
Magazine: Real Life (1978) or Secondhand Daylight (1979)
The National: Alligator (2005) or Boxer (2007)
Pere Ubu: The Modern Dance (1978) or Dub Housing (1978)
Public Image Ltd.: Metal Box (1979) or The Flowers of Romance (1981)
Siouxsie and The Banshees: Juju (1981) or Tinderbox (1986)
The Sisters of Mercy: First and Last and Always (1985) or Floodland (1987)
The Sound: Jeopardy (1980) or From the Lions Mouth (1981)
Squid: Bright Green Field (2021) or O Monolith (2023)
Swans: Children of God (1987) or The Great Annihilator (1995)
Television: Marquee Moon (1977) or Adventure (1978)
This Heat: This Heat (1979) or Deceit (1981)
Tuxedomoon: Desire (1981) or Holy Wars (1985)
Wire: Chairs Missing (1978) or 154 (1979)

As usual, I have a song from each album in a youtube playlist.  Well, it's not complete because I am having internet connectivity issues, but I will have 50 tracks.





Edited by Logan - August 02 2024 at 12:55
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Chameleons Script of the bridge by far   (with its progressive like covert art), they deserved better but in 1983 such an Lp was almost uncommercial
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Lot of interesting stuff , I still have some of 'em
     
     Echo & The Bunnymen: Porcupine
     
     The Chameleons: Script of the Bridge
     
     The Cure: Pornography / Disintegration     
     
     Interpol: Turn on the Bright Lights / Antics     
     Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures / Closer     
     Killing Joke: Killing Joke
     Magazine: Real Life / Secondhand Daylight
     The National: Alligator / Boxer     
     
     
     The Sisters of Mercy: First and Last and Always / Floodland     
     The Sound: Jeopardy / From the Lions Mouth     
     
     Television: Marquee Moon
        This Heat: This Heat
     Tuxedomoon: Desire
     Wire: 154
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Suggestions :

Gang of four : Solid gold ( with Paralyzed ( a summit of minimalism) and the tribal What We all want )

The Comsat Angels : Sleep no more (1981)
Echo and the Bunnymen : Heaven up here
Magazine : Correct use of soap
The Cure : 17 seconds
The Cure : Faith
XTC : Black Sea
XTC : Drums and Wires
The Skids : Absolute game ( lead by Stuart Adams who'll launch the much more successful Big Country)

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Eyeless in gaza : Drumming the beating heart (1982)
The Duruti Column : first works for Factory
XTC : Go+ with his bonus 12 inches called   "a dictionnairy of modern mariage" originally in 45 rpm but much more fun/kraut at 33 rpm
The Human league first double EP with the Krauty Dancevision


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^ Thanks.  I listened to Comsat Angels when I think you posted it for Paul's consideration and loved it.  If I were to do a single (one album in each), I would want to mention Camberwell Now's The Ghost Trade.  And I love the pronk of Cardiacs. A lot of my fave punkish music crosses over with Goth, with Darkwave....

Weirdly perhaps, I never got into XTC despite being into plenty of Zolo and art punk.  I should try again.
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:-) good move Logan
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for XTC Go+
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S2kXd3m0gc

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Originally posted by mellotronwave mellotronwave wrote:

for XTC Go+
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S2kXd3m0gc


Good call! Big smile Thanks.  Love it.  Reminds me of The Residents and Renaldo and the Loaf.
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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

Originally posted by mellotronwave mellotronwave wrote:

for XTC Go+
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S2kXd3m0gc


Good call! Big smile Thanks.  Love it.  Reminds me of The Residents and Renaldo and the Loaf.


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for Human League Holyday's 80 EP Dance vision track :

it starts at 6:45 Approx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0m4Zm7XGHE
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^ Nice choices.  Thumbs Up

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^^^^ And the XTC reminded me of Tuxedomoon, as one might guess.

Originally posted by mellotronwave mellotronwave wrote:

for Human League Holyday's 80 EP Dance vision track :

it starts at 6:45 Approx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0m4Zm7XGHE



I liked that too.  I have liked Human League since the 80s, but I don't recall having heard that before.
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For Gang of Four Paralyzed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHHrDNbMxf8
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And how did I forget A certain Ratio ( from The Factory Manchester) ?

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Knive slits water (great bass line altrough)
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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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Originally posted by Octopus II 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.


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Squid and Black Midi, then Black Country, New Road.
I may prefer BM slightly more than Squid, but Squid seems to bridge the prog/punk divide in a way that is enjoyable equally between myself and my punk-oriented friends; I never hear 'why is this so long?' when playing Squid.

I'd also recommend the short-lived STALIN VS BAND that I found recently and have enjoyed, though they have just two short albums with 'I have too much blood' at 33m and 'Chaotic Incendiary Prog-Punk Soundtracks (For The 21st Century)' at just 13m with 8 short tracks.
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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
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I like a lot of the stuff in this list. But the bands that appeal to me most are:

Bauhaus
Killing Joke
BC;NR
black midi
Squid
The Cure
The Sisters of Mercy

My top album from all these is:

Bauhaus - The Sky's Gone Out
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