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     spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 139 Registered: 05-2005 |
Josef K - Chance Meeting (Postcard version) Orange Juice - Blue Boy Monochrome Set - Jet Set Junta Basement 5 - Silicon Chip Talking Heads - Once in a lifetime | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 146 Registered: 04-2005 |
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart New Order - Ceremony Gang of Four - To Hell With Poverty Public Image Ltd. - Public Image Scritti Politti - Skank Bloc Bologna | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 121 Registered: 05-2005 |
public image - death disco joy division - atmosphere scritti pollitti - sweetest girl gang of four - at home he's a tourist josef k - its kinda funny | ||
| Eke Member Username: Ekewebb Post Number: 35 Registered: 05-2005 |
But think of the b-sides as well which were really a big part of the package then. Sorry to repeat the Death Disco nomination but it is, after all, the best single ever. Death Disco/Megga Mix - PIL Big Gold Dream/Sympathetic Anaesthetic - Fire Engines Warm Leatherette/TVOD - The Normal A Song From Under the Floorboards/Twenty Years Ago - Magazine Party Fears Two/It's Better This Way - Associates | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 142 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yeah Eke what a b-side, one of the most original songs I'd ever heard that was Its better this way, started off like a Cadburys Milk Tray advert, (you could of imagined a man dressed in black with a balaclave skiing down a mountain!), then into this walking bass line that was pure heaven. Paul Haig and Billy Mackenzie used to do a great live version of that song... These Days, b soide of LWTUA | ||
| Eke Member Username: Ekewebb Post Number: 36 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yep, that b-side version of "It's Better This Way" is magical. "These Days" too - what a great song. | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 63 Registered: 07-2005 |
Don't forget The Specials-Ghost Town, TooMuch too Young.Great run of Singles | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 64 Registered: 07-2005 |
Spence-the Monochrome Set-what a great band, recently down loaded Jet Set Junta again, some how forgot about it over the intervening years | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 144 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jerry, how could one not adore a band with anexcellent lead guitarist by the name of Lester Square!! Oh, remember the b side of Ghosttown, Why and Friday night Saturday morning, 2 lost b side classics. | ||
| Stephen Harris Member Username: Smh Post Number: 20 Registered: 05-2005 |
one of the many reasons to love the monochrome set wes that everyone in the band got a song named after them - b.i.d. spells bid, lester leaps in,andiamo, j.d h.a.n.e.y, and of course the monochrome set. Not listened much to the reformed band but the early lps are all great. | ||
| Wilson Davey Member Username: Wilson Post Number: 20 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hang on ! We need some boundaries here surely ? or just forget the pigeonholes altogther ? I reckon party fears two (a great pop song) was from 1982, when did Post punk finish ? How do you define it anyway ? Eddie & The Hot Rods - Do anything you wanna do The Members - Sound of the Suburbs Elvis Costello - Olivers Army The Undertones - You've got my number The Jam - Going Underground Punk ? New wave ? Post-punk ? Just 5 great songs that still thrill ! Just try playing the opening 10 seconds of each of these without grinning. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 124 Registered: 05-2005 |
wilson, if we're being picky I wouldnt say any of your choices were post punk. post punk bands tended to be more arty, for want of a better phrase. none of yours fit the bill, sorry  | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 146 Registered: 05-2005 |
yeah well associates had fourt drawer down (very post punk) in '81 and arty fears etc were all recorded tail end of '81 although released in '82 so there! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 147 Registered: 05-2005 |
I think eddie and the hot rods were fake punk!! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 150 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wire - Map ref | ||
| jelena topcic Member Username: Jelena Post Number: 18 Registered: 05-2005 |
gang of four - damaged goods wire - three girl rhumba/outdoor miner/i am the fly magazine - cut-out shapes/back to nature the stranglers - nice 'n' sleazy/london lady public image ltd. - memories/the suit ... christ, so many more! | ||
| Wilson Davey Member Username: Wilson Post Number: 23 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kevin, In which case you are right, I didn't recognise the genre post-punk, I thought it was just a way of labelling stuff that punk spawned between say 79 - 81. Do the Cocteau Twins count ? Sugar hiccup, pearly dewdrops drops ? I used to make compilation tapes for the car comprising Bunnymen, Teardrops, Joy Div/New order, Cocteaus, Fire Engines. And for a curveball...my favourite ever STranglers song La Folie. Because it sounded like something from a seedy French film soundtrack circa 1970. All woozy hammond organ and tinny guitar, I played it death. I picked up a very early Francoise Hardy LP hoping it would be similar but more authentic. IT WAS ! I always felt that Robert and Grant would understand the appeal that it held for me, I could see them writing in that mould.... | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 127 Registered: 05-2005 |
Its a tough call Wilson. I always think of post punk being a timeline of 79-81, however in musical terms the cocteaus probably qualify. Bunnymen and teardrops definately qualify, especially since they arguably made their best music during that time | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 185 Registered: 03-2005 |
Let's not forget the Laughing Clowns, who along with PIL and Magazine are probably the most literally "post punk." | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 165 Registered: 05-2005 |
Gabrielle - The Nips | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 53 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Cocteau Twins, Echo and the Bunnymen and The Teardrops Explodes were surely all part of the new psychedelic movement in the early 80's. That's why I got into them. Although, what made that period so good was all of the cross fertilisation of the genres. A case could also be made that The Cocteaus and The Bunnymen were also some of the first gothic bands too, along with, obviously, the Cure. Didn't Robert Smith also really like the Bunnymen??? That's how it seemed out here in Oz at the time anyway. | ||
| Wilson Davey Member Username: Wilson Post Number: 30 Registered: 05-2005 |
Geoff, That's the point I was trying to make regarding pigeon-holes and labels. The music press need to use them but we don't have to. The Bunnymens debut single was in 1979. The Teardrops was in 1978 !! It's all Rock & Roll just with different clothes and hairstyles.No-one stops the wheel. Hey, Have you seen that Gothic/Indy/Alternative/new pschedelic/retro/Punky/weirdo/miserablist guy at the other end of the office ? He'll be talking about this in 25 years time on a message board... Yeah, I used to have a Mac hair style and overcoat, I was also Edwyn for a while and wore loud checked shirts, sandals, and then morphed into Roddy complete with buckskin fringed jacket and then Morrissey with the shirtlap out and bag-arse jeans and bit of camp a la Forster. "I'll keep you guessing"..I also lived in Sheffield at the time so we had that Industrial scene and Cabaret Voltaire thang going...I also had a Tom Waits hat. It was a great time and what being young is for...I still listen to all the music I loved then. For further reference read Stuart Maconie's book "Cider with Roadies". You may find yourself in it... | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 174 Registered: 05-2005 |
Well said all you guys! |