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View Poll Results: Which one do you prefer?
Proto-Punk 7 20.00%
Post-Punk 17 48.57%
Both 11 31.43%
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Old 12-07-2011, 05:07 PM   #1 (permalink)
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I'm totally in the proto-punk camp. My love of garage rock is probably the reason, since the two can so easily spill into each other, and some of my favorites including The Sonics, 13th Floor Elevators, MC5 and even Link Wray can straddle that line. I find a lot of punk like Sex Pistols and the Clash too clean and crisp. The noisy, buzzy sludge of garage rock is so much like proto-punk and that's why I love it.

To be fair, I haven't given post-punk much of a listen.
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Old 12-07-2011, 05:13 PM   #2 (permalink)
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I'm totally in the proto-punk camp. My love of garage rock is probably the reason, since the two can so easily spill into each other, and some of my favorites including The Sonics, 13th Floor Elevators, MC5 and even Link Wray can straddle that line. I find a lot of punk like Sex Pistols and the Clash too clean and crisp. The noisy, buzzy sludge of garage rock is so much like proto-punk and that's why I love it.

To be fair, I haven't given post-punk much of a listen.
You find early Clash crisp sounding?

Post-punk is actually very subjective and you`ll always get a whole load of diverse opinions on the subject. The first band that always comes to mind when I think of post-punk is always the Stooges.
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Old 12-07-2011, 05:29 PM   #3 (permalink)
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You find early Clash crisp sounding?
If we're limiting it to their early stuff, not especially. If we're talking London Calling and Combat Rock, then yes. But it's not like the fact that those albums have a crisp sound (in my mind) ruins it for me, because I enjoy those albums. I just prefer the noisier, more chaotic sound of proto-punk.
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Old 12-07-2011, 07:44 PM   #4 (permalink)
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You find early Clash crisp sounding?
it's not exactly that jarring or dissonant

only Strummer's singing can be a bit raucous
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To be fair, I haven't given post-punk much of a listen.
You're a fan of Beefheart, right?
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Old 12-07-2011, 05:35 PM   #6 (permalink)
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You're a fan of Beefheart, right?
I do enjoy Trout Mask Replica and I was gonna check out the rest of his discography that gets buried under Trout. Instead I checked out the Residents and yeah...

If Captain Beefheart has some post-punk stuff you recommend, that would be great. I may be in the same boat as Above, where I don't exactly understand what is and isn't post-punk and maybe I actually do have an opinion of it.
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I do enjoy Trout Mask Replica and I was gonna check out the rest of his discography that gets buried under Trout. Instead I checked out the Residents and yeah...

If Captain Beefheart has some post-punk stuff you recommend, that would be great. I may be in the same boat as Above, where I don't exactly understand what is and isn't post-punk and maybe I actually do have an opinion of it.
Well... Doc at the Radar Station is sort of post-punkish, but I was going to recommend you look into Pere Ubu's first two albums if you were a fan of Beefheart.
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Old 12-07-2011, 05:43 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Well... Doc at the Radar Station is sort of post-punkish, but I was going to recommend you look into Pere Ubu's first two albums if you were a fan of Beefheart.
...That works too

I'll add it to an already too long list of stuff I need to check out. Many thanks.
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Old 12-07-2011, 11:33 PM   #9 (permalink)
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post punk. More interesting subject matter, less "typical" rock conventions, easier for my adolescent self to feel an emotional connection to even if i didn't always understand what they were saying(mark e smith)

However, velvet underground and nico,and select songs from the stooges I appreciate more then most post punk I've listened to.
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Old 12-19-2011, 06:01 AM   #10 (permalink)
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love early post-punk like three imaginary boys, joy division and cabaret voltaire

but i must say proto punk is where its AT
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