The New Wave / Post Punk Sharing & Discussion Thread (lyrics, alternative)

**Urban Hatemonger** · 11-21-2006, 09:53 AM

As I listen to this type of music more than any other and there are quite a lot of people here into it too I thought we may as well have our own thread for uploads & discussion. It also helps that I probably have more of this type of music than any other genre.
I want it to be as wide ranging as possible covering the bands people know about who had quite a lot of success such as Joy Division , XTC , Elvis Costello , Orange Juice, Devo , The Cure , Wire , Siouxie & The Banshees and others as well as the more obscure bands that hopefully people will point others in the direction of as well as me uploading stuff.
Anyway i`ve uploaded 4 albums to get us started. One album being one of the more well known , the other 3 having a varying degree of success.......

Josef K - The Only Fun In Town
hxxp://www.megaupload.com/?d=LFTM3Q5W

The jittery, frenetic Scots of Josef K may have recorded what would prove to be Postcard's lone full length in less than a week, but it's no shambling matter. Much of The Only Fun in Town's material had indeed been recorded and scrapped earlier, so the focus of the LP is unwavering. The sound of many a post-punk band at the turn of the '80s involved scratchy and tinny guitars, jerky rhythms bordering on danceable, and sometimes melodic but generally spastic vocals -- a sound that had the tendency to wear thin on most ears after lengthy exposure. But Josef K did their job and got the hell out of Dodge here; the ten tracks whip by in roughly half an hour. Though slightly derivative with shades of Fear of Music-era Talking Heads, XTC's second and third records, and Joy Division without the inner chaos, The Only Fun in Town nonetheless influenced a legion of U.K.-based bands centered on the Creation label's mid-to-late '80s roster.

Inner City Unit - Passout
hxxp://www.megaupload.com/?d=VI6ECN2W

PASSOUT is the first, self-financed Inner City Unit album, and reached number one in the indie album chart, back in the days when the indie album chart was taken from the sales from the record shop "Rock On" in Camden Town.Put together by ex Hawkwind vocalist/saxaphonist Nik Tuner Inner City unit mixes punk & psychadelia as well as Turners sax giving some of the tracks an almost ska / Jazz sound to them.

The Fall - Live At The Witch Trials
hxxp://www.megaupload.com/?d=XRYTZB3I

The long, strange saga of the Fall, arguably the UK's first post-punk band, begins with LIVE AT THE WITCH TRIALS. The group's 1979 debut album was recorded in-studio (despite its title) during a single day, fully capturing the urgency of both the times and the music. Punk poet Mark E. Smith and his ragtag crew had actually been playing in one form or another since '77, so their sound here is surprisingly mature. Nevertheless, there are some obvious differences between WITCH TRIALS and the style the Fall would develop over the next few years. While the jagged, angular guitars, herky-jerky rhythms, and apocalypse-now lyrics are all in place, there's more of a link to the past; a number of the songs are built around what could almost be conventional blues-rock riffs, and the Ginsberg-goes-to-Manchester frenzy of Smith's best-known material hasn't quite been reached here. Still, this is bold, striking stuff, new territory being gamely charted out by the band, who could never have guessed how seminal WITCH TRIALS would become.

Blue Orchids - A Darker Bloom
hxxp://www.megaupload.com/?d=JK2WRXFC

A DARKER BLOOM features a career-spanning 19 hits from indie pop rockers Blue Orchids.

This is the definitive collection of the highly acclaimed combo, Blue Orchids, and features their material that was originally released on the Rough Trade label. The Blue Orchids were formed by two members of The Fall and went on to produce more mainstream and melodic pop songs than that made by their previous employers. The band enjoyed widespread indie chart success with a high profile in the serious music press. The CD features 19 original tracks dating from 1980 to their demise in 1991. Tracks featured include the singles "Disney Boys", "The Flood", "Work", "Agents Of Change", "Sleepy Town" and "Diamond Age" all of which enjoyed a high profile in the Indie charts.

hiu · 11-21-2006, 12:19 PM

Oh cool. I'm into post-punk. I might uploads some New Age Steppers, they were sort of reggae infused like The Slits and stuff and had members of said band and The Pop Group too.

I might upload some Dog Faced Hermans too, infact.

**swim** · 11-21-2006, 02:19 PM

Wow. Thank you very much for all of that.

White Lies · 11-22-2006, 04:14 PM

Nice thread, I'll check these out since post-punk is probably my favorite music right now, although I'm fairly new to it. I'll upload what I can too.

**cardboard adolescent** · 11-22-2006, 05:29 PM

Sweeet I've been meaning to get that Blue Orchids album.

Thanks Urban.

**Urban Hatemonger** · 11-23-2006, 05:01 AM

The Comsat Angels - Waiting For A Miracle
hxxp://www.megaupload.com/?d=9Z528UFK

'Waiting For A Miracle' is more than a mere alternative rock album, it's just as much a new wave and pop record as it is a (more typical of the time) post-punk one. Initially, it's the rudimentary production which startles: the guitars, voice and rhythm section sound stark and arrive bereft of anything remotely glossy and epic in the background, whilst even Andy Peake's keyboard are often used to add tension rather than artistic flourishes. This approach only emphasises the loneliness and paranoia at the heart of the album, heard to best effect on the vulnerable 'Monkey Pilot'. A more dramatic technique is used on 'Real Story' and 'On The Beach' where the percussion crashes in to create searing slabs of wired angst. The rhythmic skills of Mik Glaisher and Kevin Bacon come to the surface again on the stunning intro to 'Baby'; it's a relatively simple song but its execution is perfect for building up the menacing atmosphere. To counter the general darkness of the record, opener 'Missing In Action' and 'Map Of The World' exhibit the overtly commercial potential to their early work; in a fairer world these would surely have been hits. Final song 'Postcard', though, is a grinding downer of a song which would lead seamlessly on to the follow-up record 'Sleep No More'. Although they can't on improve an almost perfect record, the additional tracks on this reissue enhance the story of the album's inception, with a series of demos and B-sides. Otherwise, bask in the dark splendour of this classic 1980 record.

**swim** · 11-23-2006, 05:56 PM

You>Me. Yea I wish I had something educated to say but, um, I don't know all of these are really good and I probably wouldn't have found or got into them on my own so thank you very much.

**Urban Hatemonger** · 11-26-2006, 05:28 AM

The Monochrome Set - Strange Boutique
hxxp://www.megaupload.com/?d=KF1GLQRY

London’s amusingly suave and sarcastic quartet The Monochrome Set was fronted by Bid (vocals), Lester Square (guitar) and Andy Warren (bass), three of the legions who had once played with Adam Ant in bands formed in and around the scene at the Hornsey College of Art in the late 70s. With the help of producer Bob Sargeant, the Monochrome Set twisted uncommon source material (polkas, calypso, etc.) into cabaret-inspired dance numbers. Fortunately, the results were untainted by seriousness—significant at a time when to get a gig it helped to have at least one member on suicide watch. Originally snatched up by Rough Trade, only to spend most of their career label hopping, they released some of their best material early in their career.
Monochrome Set's debut album for Virgin followed the indie success of their singles "Alphaville," "Eine Symphonie Des Grauens," and "The Monochrome Set."
"It's like hearing serenades coming up from the sewers.The Monochrome Set are a dark blend of oppressive mystique and appealing conceit, offering elegant entertainment with troublesome undercurrents. Their stock-in-trade is old fashioned romance, subtly disrupted and re-presented with the sinister ritual of a subterranean cult."

**cardboard adolescent** · 11-26-2006, 01:59 PM

I'm finally listening to the Blue Orchids record and I'm absolutely loving it. I'm not even really sure what to compare it to, it obviously has traces of Fall but it's a lot less harsh, yet equally angular. I dig it.

hiu · 11-26-2006, 03:35 PM

Any gice want the Homosexuals album The Homosexuals Record'. It's pretty good if you like stuff like Swell Maps I guess.

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11-21-2006, 09:53 AM
Urban Hatemonger Groovy Hate F*ck Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Nuuk , Greenland Posts: 8,983	The New Wave / Post Punk Sharing & Discussion Thread As I listen to this type of music more than any other and there are quite a lot of people here into it too I thought we may as well have our own thread for uploads & discussion. It also helps that I probably have more of this type of music than any other genre. I want it to be as wide ranging as possible covering the bands people know about who had quite a lot of success such as Joy Division , XTC , Elvis Costello , Orange Juice, Devo , The Cure , Wire , Siouxie & The Banshees and others as well as the more obscure bands that hopefully people will point others in the direction of as well as me uploading stuff. Anyway i`ve uploaded 4 albums to get us started. One album being one of the more well known , the other 3 having a varying degree of success....... Josef K - The Only Fun In Town hxxp://www.megaupload.com/?d=LFTM3Q5W The jittery, frenetic Scots of Josef K may have recorded what would prove to be Postcard's lone full length in less than a week, but it's no shambling matter. Much of The Only Fun in Town's material had indeed been recorded and scrapped earlier, so the focus of the LP is unwavering. The sound of many a post-punk band at the turn of the '80s involved scratchy and tinny guitars, jerky rhythms bordering on danceable, and sometimes melodic but generally spastic vocals -- a sound that had the tendency to wear thin on most ears after lengthy exposure. But Josef K did their job and got the hell out of Dodge here; the ten tracks whip by in roughly half an hour. Though slightly derivative with shades of Fear of Music-era Talking Heads, XTC's second and third records, and Joy Division without the inner chaos, The Only Fun in Town nonetheless influenced a legion of U.K.-based bands centered on the Creation label's mid-to-late '80s roster. Inner City Unit - Passout hxxp://www.megaupload.com/?d=VI6ECN2W PASSOUT is the first, self-financed Inner City Unit album, and reached number one in the indie album chart, back in the days when the indie album chart was taken from the sales from the record shop "Rock On" in Camden Town.Put together by ex Hawkwind vocalist/saxaphonist Nik Tuner Inner City unit mixes punk & psychadelia as well as Turners sax giving some of the tracks an almost ska / Jazz sound to them. The Fall - Live At The Witch Trials hxxp://www.megaupload.com/?d=XRYTZB3I The long, strange saga of the Fall, arguably the UK's first post-punk band, begins with LIVE AT THE WITCH TRIALS. The group's 1979 debut album was recorded in-studio (despite its title) during a single day, fully capturing the urgency of both the times and the music. Punk poet Mark E. Smith and his ragtag crew had actually been playing in one form or another since '77, so their sound here is surprisingly mature. Nevertheless, there are some obvious differences between WITCH TRIALS and the style the Fall would develop over the next few years. While the jagged, angular guitars, herky-jerky rhythms, and apocalypse-now lyrics are all in place, there's more of a link to the past; a number of the songs are built around what could almost be conventional blues-rock riffs, and the Ginsberg-goes-to-Manchester frenzy of Smith's best-known material hasn't quite been reached here. Still, this is bold, striking stuff, new territory being gamely charted out by the band, who could never have guessed how seminal WITCH TRIALS would become. Blue Orchids - A Darker Bloom hxxp://www.megaupload.com/?d=JK2WRXFC A DARKER BLOOM features a career-spanning 19 hits from indie pop rockers Blue Orchids. This is the definitive collection of the highly acclaimed combo, Blue Orchids, and features their material that was originally released on the Rough Trade label. The Blue Orchids were formed by two members of The Fall and went on to produce more mainstream and melodic pop songs than that made by their previous employers. The band enjoyed widespread indie chart success with a high profile in the serious music press. The CD features 19 original tracks dating from 1980 to their demise in 1991. Tracks featured include the singles "Disney Boys", "The Flood", "Work", "Agents Of Change", "Sleepy Town" and "Diamond Age" all of which enjoyed a high profile in the Indie charts. __________________

11-21-2006, 12:19 PM
hiu Music Guru Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 1,176	Oh cool. I'm into post-punk. I might uploads some New Age Steppers, they were sort of reggae infused like The Slits and stuff and had members of said band and The Pop Group too. I might upload some Dog Faced Hermans too, infact.

11-21-2006, 02:19 PM
swim Everyone Does Everything. Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: I'm back f-ucking or sleeping or something Posts: 4,351	Wow. Thank you very much for all of that. __________________ you should be ashamed to be so proud of what you got

11-22-2006, 04:14 PM
White Lies destroy oh boy! Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 497	Nice thread, I'll check these out since post-punk is probably my favorite music right now, although I'm fairly new to it. I'll upload what I can too.

11-22-2006, 05:29 PM
cardboard adolescent time isn't on my side Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Chicago Posts: 2,309	Sweeet I've been meaning to get that Blue Orchids album. Thanks Urban. __________________ The thread you've all been avoiding My blog The Ocean Will Have Us All

11-23-2006, 05:01 AM
Urban Hatemonger Groovy Hate F*ck Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Nuuk , Greenland Posts: 8,983	The Comsat Angels - Waiting For A Miracle hxxp://www.megaupload.com/?d=9Z528UFK 'Waiting For A Miracle' is more than a mere alternative rock album, it's just as much a new wave and pop record as it is a (more typical of the time) post-punk one. Initially, it's the rudimentary production which startles: the guitars, voice and rhythm section sound stark and arrive bereft of anything remotely glossy and epic in the background, whilst even Andy Peake's keyboard are often used to add tension rather than artistic flourishes. This approach only emphasises the loneliness and paranoia at the heart of the album, heard to best effect on the vulnerable 'Monkey Pilot'. A more dramatic technique is used on 'Real Story' and 'On The Beach' where the percussion crashes in to create searing slabs of wired angst. The rhythmic skills of Mik Glaisher and Kevin Bacon come to the surface again on the stunning intro to 'Baby'; it's a relatively simple song but its execution is perfect for building up the menacing atmosphere. To counter the general darkness of the record, opener 'Missing In Action' and 'Map Of The World' exhibit the overtly commercial potential to their early work; in a fairer world these would surely have been hits. Final song 'Postcard', though, is a grinding downer of a song which would lead seamlessly on to the follow-up record 'Sleep No More'. Although they can't on improve an almost perfect record, the additional tracks on this reissue enhance the story of the album's inception, with a series of demos and B-sides. Otherwise, bask in the dark splendour of this classic 1980 record. __________________

11-23-2006, 05:56 PM
swim Everyone Does Everything. Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: I'm back f-ucking or sleeping or something Posts: 4,351	You>Me. Yea I wish I had something educated to say but, um, I don't know all of these are really good and I probably wouldn't have found or got into them on my own so thank you very much. __________________ you should be ashamed to be so proud of what you got

11-26-2006, 05:28 AM
Urban Hatemonger Groovy Hate F*ck Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Nuuk , Greenland Posts: 8,983	The Monochrome Set - Strange Boutique hxxp://www.megaupload.com/?d=KF1GLQRY London’s amusingly suave and sarcastic quartet The Monochrome Set was fronted by Bid (vocals), Lester Square (guitar) and Andy Warren (bass), three of the legions who had once played with Adam Ant in bands formed in and around the scene at the Hornsey College of Art in the late 70s. With the help of producer Bob Sargeant, the Monochrome Set twisted uncommon source material (polkas, calypso, etc.) into cabaret-inspired dance numbers. Fortunately, the results were untainted by seriousness—significant at a time when to get a gig it helped to have at least one member on suicide watch. Originally snatched up by Rough Trade, only to spend most of their career label hopping, they released some of their best material early in their career. Monochrome Set's debut album for Virgin followed the indie success of their singles "Alphaville," "Eine Symphonie Des Grauens," and "The Monochrome Set." "It's like hearing serenades coming up from the sewers.The Monochrome Set are a dark blend of oppressive mystique and appealing conceit, offering elegant entertainment with troublesome undercurrents. Their stock-in-trade is old fashioned romance, subtly disrupted and re-presented with the sinister ritual of a subterranean cult." __________________

11-26-2006, 01:59 PM
cardboard adolescent time isn't on my side Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Chicago Posts: 2,309	I'm finally listening to the Blue Orchids record and I'm absolutely loving it. I'm not even really sure what to compare it to, it obviously has traces of Fall but it's a lot less harsh, yet equally angular. I dig it. __________________ The thread you've all been avoiding My blog The Ocean Will Have Us All

11-26-2006, 03:35 PM
hiu Music Guru Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 1,176	Any gice want the Homosexuals album The Homosexuals Record'. It's pretty good if you like stuff like Swell Maps I guess.