It's Post-Punk Week!
 

Beginner's Guide to Post-Punk | loathsomepete | 49 listens

I made this mix a few weeks ago and have been enjoying it quite a bit ever since. It's mostly the top tier stuff, but I have been working on a follow up with some deeper cuts.

I made an account on 8track but how do you put songs on your playlists?

Create a playlist and click where it says "Upload Songs".

Thanks bud. it's different on an Ipad which I was using earlier.

I go in and out of post punk phases, but This Heat has always been one of my favourites that I can listen to even when I'm not in a post punk funk.





And The Pop Group is pretty fantastic as well, their singer is one of my favourites.

The Birthday Party's probably my favourite out of those listed in the OP.

A personal favorite band that for whatever weird reason is often overlooked when the subject of post punk comes up, Wall of Voodoo:

I am so ****ing here for this **** helloooo

I tossed this album to p much everyone two years ago tbh


The whole album is **** besides this song but w/e I'm crazy about it


So much better than whatever the Buzzcocks put out


Essential Logic is probably my favourite post punk band, along with This Heat

Crazy & M Train, 7" single (1981)
Kudos to REM I wouldn't know about Pylon if it wasn't for Dead Letter Office. Pylon once opened for Gang of Four.


Ether opening song off of Gang of Four album entertainment! It was ranked #483 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, yet people 'round here still complain about that rag


Into You Like a Train 6th track on 1981 album Talk Talk Talk - Psychedlic Furs (one of my favorite albums)


First track off of The Sky's Gone Out (1982) a cover song of Brian Eno
(one of my favorite songs)

My turn..


You've heard someone else do this before, but this is the original.


The Pop Group split up, get Nenah Cherry as a vocalist and you have this.


Can't ignore the wave of electronic bands that came out of Sheffield. Out of all of them this is my favourite tune.


I'm a total Adam Ant mark and have been since the age of 8. I just love his early post punk period when the Ants were made up of members of The Monochrome Set. Far too overlooked.


Don't know much about this band. They put out a couple of albums and a couple of E.P's around 79/80 and just disappeared. I always liked them though.

Wow, man, even though I generally like complete sentences, you and I actually have shit in common. I love this album. And I like Pylon too.

Off their best album, "Heaven Up Here". Really great band, but they went downhill quickly after "The Killing Moon".

Great call on Liquid Liquid. Stonewall classic.

Some from me although many on here will wipe the floor with me regarding Post Punk.



The aforementioned Swell Maps and The Pop Group are damn good bands and Jans mentioned Wall Of Voodoo too :)

Wire are up there for me though and they are STILL making great music today.

I actually know what you are talking about - White Lions by Graham Master Flash :)

To think I was worried I would be critized for the bands I posted. Sentences fragments. Didn't see that coming. I definitely thought someone would argue with me that the Furs weren't Post Punk. To see that you wrote that made me a bit suprised someone also likes that album. :)

Graham Master Flash ?

Really?

"White Lions" too?

this thread alone is becoming an awesome mix tape :)

i think i'll add a couple (few) :)

first and foremost....one of the major players in noise rock...Helios Creed's Chrome


and there cannot be a post punk thread without mention of the band that no one seems to like mentioning.....Mission Of Burma


go figure Indiana would produce some of the strangest and most jarring post punk ever in MX-80


by far one of my favorite lines in the genre "when danger calls i have to answer, i walk the streets like a human cancer"....ala Savage Republic


Death In June spawned out of a punk band called Crisis....and before becoming a heathen folk band they were very much riding the coattails of post punk....this is honestly probably the best song they ever recorded....


and oddly no mention as of yet of Killing Joke....speaking of...a couple of weeks ago i got an email for Disinformation saying the lead singer was missing (again) and they think he is under severe stress due to strong apocalyptic beliefs....i can honestly say that this song....and in particular this version never gets old....and would fall on a list of all time favorite songs for me


and last but never least....and because they do fit....DEVO! (well DEVO fits everywhere don't they)

Lou Reed is another guy who could fit anywhere. This one finds him in 1978.

He sounds like David Bowie singing Bad Company lyrics; parts of it sounds like Roxy Music.

^Yeah, he was such a big influence on Bowie and Roxy, that he must have felt a little entitled to take a little something back. As far as Bad Company lyrics, he lifted the whole title!

I understand bands like REM and Sonic Youth site VU as an influence, but I don't think Lou Reed and VU was an influence to all bands inbetween them (VU and those bands.) I think it's a shame Roxy Music doesn't get credit for what they did and VU gets credit for everything, even for bands that haven't been influence by VU and Lou Reed. VU fanboyism is The Beatle fanboyism of the underground music / Alt Rock world.

Every week is Post Punk week, muthafuckas.

Post punk week is in the past, punk.

:beer:

How would you describe the guitar tone and production in this?

I would describe it as "sick".

Some fucking moron on Cymbal posted a new Protomartyr track and called it Post post-punk. Wtf is that? I called him out on it.

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No, he called it post post punk. That just makes my brain hurt.
please don't be one of those post post punk sympathizers, I beg of you.

Medium Medium and Essential Logic are amazing bands.

Excuse me it isn’t post-punk week anymore

I sing in a very "amateur" rock band. We do a cover of Three Imaginary Boys. Boys don't cry is a fantastic album full of nuggets.