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postyesterdayman
postyesterdayman
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Your 10 favorite Post-Punk Groups ever
Dec 30, 2004, 15:49
I know way too much about this suddenly hip period of noisemaking, as I know all of you do as well....so what is everyone's 10 favorite post-punk groups?
I'll start, in random order....
1. Teardrop Explodes (of-fucking-course!)
2.Wire (I always feel that the music of Cope brings out my light side and Wire does nicely for the dark, seamy underbelly.)
3.The Wipers (great Portland, Or band that all the grungers, especially ol Kurt, ripped off exceedingly.)
4.XTC (quirky at first, eventually produced the greatest pop record ever, Skylarking. Wilson and Beatles heads, don't freak out...that's just an opinion)
5.Joy Division
6.This Heat/ Camberwwll Now (mindblowing. Ripped off by late 80's Louisville Math-Rockers)
7.Japan (underrated...not very influential, but should've been)
8.The Damned (the PP era Damned was incredible, at least on Machine Gun Etiquette, and that's enough to justify 'em on my list)
9.Devo (weird pop is great sometimes, y'know?)
10.Chrome
Ok, for shiggles...10 you think are overrated or awful
The Cure (overrated, whiny, backward-thinking shite)
Yazoo, Haysi Fantayzee (who had Alfie Agius on bass after the drops sacked him), Gang of Four (after that Cheeseburger album when all the girls appeared), Shriekback, OMD, Human League (after the Heaven 17 guys left), Sham 69, The Police, gary Numan (after 1981).
Have fun with it!!! Post away!!! (I'm bored....sorry)
Lawrence
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Re: Your 10 favorite Post-Punk Groups ever
Dec 30, 2004, 16:13
The Wipers -- yay! Don't know if they're on my top-ten. I can't think of the top-ten best, but I'll list about ten:

1.) PiL
2.) Joy Division
3.) Siouxsie and the Banshees
4.) Magazine
5.) Cure
6.) The Sound
7.) early Death In June before the 'dark folk' stuff which is good but not punky enough...
8.) Rema Rema
9.) Sort Sol
10.) Nyam Nyam

There's tons of others I'm sure.

Overrated?

1.) U2 has to top my list! ;^D
2.) Stiff Little Fingers
3.) Gene Loves Jezebel
4.) Sisters Of Mercy
5.) Sex Gang Children
6.) The Cult
7.) Theatre Of Hate
8.) The Alarm


Can't think of anything else... Wait!

9.) Madness
10.) Bad Manners
Lawrence
9547 posts

Re: Your 10 favorite Post-Punk Groups ever
Dec 30, 2004, 16:16
Forgot Teardrop Explodes. Poor Copey...
superboss
325 posts

Re: Your 10 favorite Post-Punk Groups ever
Dec 30, 2004, 18:05
oh i can't remember

the smiths
the cure
the teardrop explodes
depeche mode
new order
joy division
siouxisie and the banshees
the mission
clever band nobody has heard of from latvia
apologies for the mission
Mrs Ahab
Mrs Ahab
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Re: apologies for the mission
Dec 30, 2004, 18:41
so it was all your fault was it?
superboss
325 posts

Re: apologies for the mission
Dec 30, 2004, 18:55
yes it was.....sorry...they recorded theirt first demo in the kitchen of a house i lived in in leeds..

also see red lorry yellow lorry

(sorry again)

however i did enjoy many a mission gig in my time.....shame the records were dire by comparison
superboss
325 posts

Re: apologies for the mission
Dec 30, 2004, 18:57
new model army!

human pyramids ahoy!!!!
Jasonaparkes
Jasonaparkes
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Re: Your 10 favorite Post-Punk Groups ever
Dec 30, 2004, 20:03
Ten faves (will leave out The Teardrop Explodes):
1. Magazine
2. Joy Division
3. Wire
4. Associates (Mackenzie/Rankine-version)
5. Cabaret Voltaire
6. The Fall
7. The Pop Group
8. PIL
9. Throbbing Gristle
10.The The (Burning Blue Soul-Soul Mining-era)

Ten I could leave without & deny ever owning/knowing:

1. The Mission
2. The Skeletal Family
3. The Sisters of Mercy
4. The Bolshoi
5. Gene Loves Jezebel
6. Danse Society
7. Thompson Twins (in their sub-Rip, Rig & Panic mode or the scarier pop version)
8. Play Dead (bad goth, as I remember)
9. Theatre of Hate/Spear of Destiny
10. All About Eve
superboss
325 posts

Re: Your 10 favorite Post-Punk Groups ever
Dec 30, 2004, 20:06
didn't have an embarrasing goth phase then??

i notice you left out fields of the nephilim!!!!!

are you carl maccoy?(another midget)
Hatondrunk
157 posts

Re: Your 10 favorite Post-Punk Groups ever
Dec 30, 2004, 20:54
Hey Lawrence! What!!! Has Sort Sol reached the states, after 27 years? Tell me what albums you like/know about... I can think of least two other danish post punk bands you´d wanna hear. Ballet Mechanique: 2 albums and Before: A Wish Of Life. Not all available on CD but pretty damn extraordinary good.
The papers keep writing about Sort Sol, Denmarks oldest punkband etc. Everytime a member leaves there´s a double page in all the papers. They went from 5 to 2... in ten years!
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