Post-punk

[Admiral Swagmeister G-Funk]

What do we think of post-punk music? Personally I love it. This era largely represented an experimental disregard for musical conventions and also (in Britian), reflected a lot of the discontent felt towards the Thatcher government.

Here's a couple of my favourite post-punk tracks:

Gang of Four - Damaged Goods http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb1lGaj1gJ8

Public Image LTD - Memories http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1znRWkDXzY

[Madvillainy]

who doesn't love post punk?

My fav post punk band:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om0jhPkOwhg

also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV9MIQGgTEo&feature=related

[The Ben G]

PIL and Sisters of Mercy (Goth is post-punk, right?) are my favs. Wire is pretty awesome also.

[Sam_b]

Sadly enough I have a Swell Maps tattoo on my foot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngVY50Jut7o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGlIki2vq5w&feature=related

[Ehsivar]

The Smiths, The Cure, Swans, The Birthday Party, Gang of Four, Siouxsie and the Banshees, This Heat, Joy Division, New Order... all good post-punk bands. I highly recommend Swans for those looking for very different music. I recommend The Smiths for anyone who thinks he is a proficient rhythm guitarist.

[Blake's Baby]

Well said...

The Ben G - yes, the Sisters (and Goth in general) qualify as post-Punk.

[The Ben G]

Well said...

The Ben G - yes, the Sisters (and Goth in general) qualify as post-Punk.

Excellent. In that case, Bauhaus rocks my bedroom.

[Meridian]

I love Swans, they are one of my favorite bands.

I suggest the album called "Soundtracks for the Blind" by them. It is like a long journey to somewhere heavy and beautiful, with some neurotic friends as your companions. Swans have covered many styles though, and they have some more accessible stuff of course.

[The Ben G]

Wow. The Swans are Fantastic. They seem to have more in common with Godflesh then the Smiths.

[Chimurenga.]

Wow. The Swans are Fantastic. They seem to have more in common with Godflesh then the Smiths.

One of the greatest bands ever. Check out their live record "Public Castration Is A Good Idea". It's insanely heavy and punishing but at the same time, very cathartic.

[The Ben G]

The Smiths are really good. I used to hate them, but I actually started to listen to them and I can't stop.

[Chimurenga.]

The Smiths are really good. I used to hate them, but I actually started to listen to them and I can't stop.

I like Morrissey's solo stuff just a tad bit more but the Smiths were pretty much flawless. If they never recorded "Golden Lights", I could say they never recorded a bad song.

[BAM]

Zounds. I have posted about them before, I think. They are sometimes inappropriately lumped in with anarcho-punk, because they were on Crass's label. They were anarchists too. However, their sounds is much more post-punk/new wave. They weren't that prolific, but The Curse of Zounds LP has pretty much all their best stuff on it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8w14IaS8Us

edit: for some reason i can't get the youtube embedding function to work, but above is a link to one of their songs.

[Blake's Baby]

I like Morrissey's solo stuff just a tad bit more ...

Yikes. That's a hell of a thing to admit to adults.

[Chimurenga.]

Yikes. That's a hell of a thing to admit to adults.

Whatever. Some of his best lyrics were written post-Smiths.

[Sam_b]

The Smith's are a post-punk bank now?

[Lyev]

I think they're generally classed as "new wave". Personally, I love Joy Division. And generally a lot of stuff on Factory Records is pretty cool. I like Bauhaus too, Echo and the Bunnymen, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, New Order, that kind of thing. One of my favourite post-punk bands has to be Coldplay. And there is sort of revival in this sort of style of music, in well-known(ish) bands such as the Editors, who aren't great IMO, but it's demonstrated better in the Horrors, who are fantastic.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0YwN_NunfAI also like Siouxie and the Banshees. And on the topic of post-punk, I really like some of the art and album covers etc. used. It sort of abandoned the tackiness and garishness of punk in favour of a much more subtler style. For example, the famous cover of Closer, and also of Joy Divisions first album Unknown Pleasures is actually a slightly edited picture of some mountain contours or something found in a geography textbook, or something like that. And there's also Nick Cave who drew some of his album artwork and whatnot.

Edit:
I like Morrissey's solo stuff just a tad bit more I find Morissey's solo stuff quite dull next to the Smiths, it's just basically the Smiths without Johnny Marr, and Johnny was the other good half of the Smiths.

[Chimurenga.]

it's just basically the Smiths without Johnny Marr, and Johnny was the other good half of the Smiths.

I don't know what you've heard of Morrissey's solo stuff but it is nothing like the Smiths. No jangly guitars or anything like that.

[Chimurenga.]

The Smith's are a post-punk bank now?

I've seen them described as "post-punk". I've also seen them described as "indie rock" and "jangle pop". Bottom line, it doesn't really matter.

[Lyev]

I don't know what you've heard of Morrissey's solo stuff but it is nothing like the Smiths. No jangly guitars or anything like that.Johnny Marr = jangly guitars. Therefore, a band with just Morrissey, and no Johnny = lack of jangly guitars. Having said that, I agree, the two styles of Morrissey's solo career next to the Smiths are quite distinctly different.

[Ehsivar]

A Smiths without Marr is like a Russia without its Lenin.

Foreelsyo. Fuck Putin and all who enjoy him. :/

[Lyev]

This is absolutely cracking and part of the "post-punk revival", if you like. These New Puritans - Elvishttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzHwRcOsDNw&NR=1

[ed miliband]

I saw These New Puritans open for Current 93 a few weeks ago.

[TheFutureOfThePublic]

The Cure and PiL are probably my faves.Simon Gallup and Jah Wobble are also two of my fave bassists