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Mikey G May 3, 2004, 07:38 Punk gave us Clash, Pistols etc. but I think the post punk era (78-81) gave us much better. My Faves are...
Wire: Chairs Missing and 154
Gang of Four: Entertainment
Pere Ubu: Dub Housing
Siouxsie & Banshees: The Scream
This Heat: This Heat
PiL: Metal Box
Fall: Dragnet
Joy Division: Closer
One agrees.
Saw Wire in Glasgow on Friday. Amazing, but they didn't play any old stuff. Fantastic energy though, showed all these young ragamuffins how to do it.
Mikey G May 4, 2004, 15:13 I saw Wire recently too, they did 2 sets - the first doing Pink Flag entirely and the second set their new stuff with an `installation' by the Chapman Bros. Excellent.
Another good post punk band ..... Swell Maps. Midget Submarine!
Punk gave us Clash, Pistols etc. but I think the post punk era (78-81) gave us much better. My Faves are...
Wire: Chairs Missing and 154
Gang of Four: Entertainment
Pere Ubu: Dub Housing
Siouxsie & Banshees: The Scream
This Heat: This Heat
PiL: Metal Box
Fall: Dragnet
Joy Division: Closer
What no Swell Maps, Jane from Occupied Europe?
Shame on you.
UnoChild Aug 7, 2006, 14:53 Mikey G, eh? What happened to that wanker?
Daveyboy Aug 7, 2006, 14:56 :haha: :haha: Yeah, what a wanker Mikey G was. He missed out The Pop Group as well. Cunt.
UnoChild Aug 7, 2006, 15:53 Pardon?
Daveyboy Aug 7, 2006, 15:55 You what?
I'm beginning to think This Heat and Throbbing Gristle contributed more to the post punk genre than Siouxsie.
It's contentious I know.
Daveyboy Aug 7, 2006, 16:01 What about Vic Goddard. He was so Post Punk he got a job as a postman. :fact:
UnoChild Aug 7, 2006, 16:15 Post Punk
Explain?
TBH, I dont get any of these 'post' genres. What makes it 'post' and not a different genre all together?
Well punk was rebel music, learn to play 3 chords and shout. 1975-1978 (all the bands like 999 who carried on playing punk were just too untalented to play anything else).
Then some of these punk bands like Wire and Swell Maps learnt to play and started experimenting, using dub/reggae/electronics to create new sounds.
So came post punk 1978-1981, which to me is one of the most creative times for modern music.
I'm a 'first wave' punk man ,myself.
You can't go around saying that the second wave of punk is better than the first. It makes no sense.
The fisrt wave of punk IS punk , the second type is music that has been influenced by the former and is no more punk than Motorhead are a blues band.
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