That sounds too complicated for most on here;)

post-progressive dreamcore is superior to alternative hardcore funkpop.

is by FAR the most retarded statement i've ever read about musical genres anywhere, ever.

seriously proto-post punk? what's next? past future folk? if it was indicative of a style that would only gain enough clout to merit it's own sub-genre years later would it not just be 'avant garde'?

i don't mean this as a diss on you specifically - more your generation, i see it as reflective of a bigger issue i see within music (or at least within music listeners). there's too much emphasis and perceived importance on genre distinction and classification rather than whether or not it's cool or sucks.

Green Day

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Post punk was created by punk bands deciding they were bored of making 3 chord thrashes and wanting to make music more adventurous & diverse.

so how the hell you're finding post punk bands from 1973 or 1975 is beyond me.

And to answer your question, there isn't one.
The bands came first and all did their own thing. the name came later and lumped them all together.

When I think of post punk, I think of groups like Wire, PIL, Killing Joke and Joy Division etc (the labels came later to group them together) Basically I think of groups that embraced synthesizers into their sound and borrowed from the repetiveness of Krautrock. Most importantly though, these groups always seemed to have a very depressive bleak demeanour about them, especially those from up north (Northern yooooookay for non-Brits) Although, I do know of several post-punk bands (if that is the correct genre for them) that were more humorous and light hearted in their approach and didn`t have you feeling depressed after listening to them.

Devo were mentioned earlier, and the post-punk label often gets attached to them. I always think of them though, as just a crazy, gimmicky, nerdy and very unique boilersuit wearing new-wave band that emerged in the late 70`s and then put out 3 great fun albums, before they merged into a boring synth pop outfit throughout the 80`s.

You should definetly get your hands on the demos, shows how influential they were, crazy.

I`ve heard the demos several times, admittedly I haven`t listened to them in years. But their debut album is an all-time fav, so it gets regular listens............I just think of it as an Uncontollable Urge.

The first post-punk band was the band that the first music journalist labeled as such.