Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2018 9:01:00 GMT -6
This is where we're gonna talk about post-punk, the sometimes hard to define genre of rock music that started.. well.. after the boom of punk in the mid-to-late 70s. There's multiple approaches to the genre, so here's a brief run down with examples of what might be a post punk band. Some bands start out as post-punk, then become new wave (New Order, Public Image Ltd). This thread isn't about new wave. I'm assuming I'll be the primary one posting in this thread, but alas, I shall not fret. Here's post-punk, in several forms.
Early post punk bands:
Joy Division
The Fall
Public Image Ltd (first 3 albums)
New Order (first 2-3 albums)
The Pop Group
Gang of Four
Wire
Throbbing Gristle
Television
Magazine
Echo & the Bunnymen
The Slits
Pere Ubu
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Mission of Burma
Orange Juice
Bauhaus
DEVO
The Smiths
The Raincoats
Young Marble Giants
The Sound
This Heat
Minutemen
Swell Maps
The Feelies
and on and on and on...
Bands You May Not Have Realized Were Post-Punk (but are, or were)
The Talking Heads
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Iceage
King Krule
Violent Femmes
R.E.M (80s)
Depeche Mode (early)
U2 (early)
Sex Pistols
The B-52s
The Cure (80s)
My Bloody Valentine (pre-Isn't Anything)
Jesus and Mary Chain (Psychocandy is considered both post-punk and shoegaze)
The Clash
Sonic Youth
Interpol
Preoccupations/Preoccupations
Shopping
The Wipers
The National
Franz Ferdinand
Sometimes the lines between post-punk and shoegaze begin to blur, hence why Psychocandy is considered a post-punk and shoegaze classic. If you've never really listened to post-punk, here are some albums you should listen to, and these are oftne considered the best.
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Joy Division - Closer
Public Image Ltd - Metal Box (reissued as "Second Edition")
Television - Marquee Moon
Mission of Burma - Signals, Calls and Maches
Wire - Pink Flag
Wire - Chairs Missing
The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys
U2 - War
Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
Bauhaus - In the Flat Field
Echo & the Bunnymen - Porcupine
This Heat - Deceit
Sonic Youth - Sister
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Magazine - Real Life
Swell Maps - Jane From Occupied Europe
Minutemen - Nickels on the Dime
There's more. There's so much more. Some of it sounds similar to the early stages of it, with some kind of British twist to it the vocals, vacant and echo-y. Post-punk may just be a catch-all for hard to define albums and bands (King Krule, Nick Cave) but it's there. And I love it. And you should too.
Early post punk bands:
Joy Division
The Fall
Public Image Ltd (first 3 albums)
New Order (first 2-3 albums)
The Pop Group
Gang of Four
Wire
Throbbing Gristle
Television
Magazine
Echo & the Bunnymen
The Slits
Pere Ubu
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Mission of Burma
Orange Juice
Bauhaus
DEVO
The Smiths
The Raincoats
Young Marble Giants
The Sound
This Heat
Minutemen
Swell Maps
The Feelies
and on and on and on...
Bands You May Not Have Realized Were Post-Punk (but are, or were)
The Talking Heads
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Iceage
King Krule
Violent Femmes
R.E.M (80s)
Depeche Mode (early)
U2 (early)
Sex Pistols
The B-52s
The Cure (80s)
My Bloody Valentine (pre-Isn't Anything)
Jesus and Mary Chain (Psychocandy is considered both post-punk and shoegaze)
The Clash
Sonic Youth
Interpol
Preoccupations/Preoccupations
Shopping
The Wipers
The National
Franz Ferdinand
Sometimes the lines between post-punk and shoegaze begin to blur, hence why Psychocandy is considered a post-punk and shoegaze classic. If you've never really listened to post-punk, here are some albums you should listen to, and these are oftne considered the best.
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Joy Division - Closer
Public Image Ltd - Metal Box (reissued as "Second Edition")
Television - Marquee Moon
Mission of Burma - Signals, Calls and Maches
Wire - Pink Flag
Wire - Chairs Missing
The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys
U2 - War
Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
Bauhaus - In the Flat Field
Echo & the Bunnymen - Porcupine
This Heat - Deceit
Sonic Youth - Sister
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Magazine - Real Life
Swell Maps - Jane From Occupied Europe
Minutemen - Nickels on the Dime
There's more. There's so much more. Some of it sounds similar to the early stages of it, with some kind of British twist to it the vocals, vacant and echo-y. Post-punk may just be a catch-all for hard to define albums and bands (King Krule, Nick Cave) but it's there. And I love it. And you should too.
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