Seeing as I just finished a biopic on Ian Curtis, I hope a slightly off-topic thread isn't out of order. Which, if any, are your favorite bands of the post punk movement:

Joy Division, Wire, Gang of Four, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Mission of Burma, Public Image Limited, Echo and the Bunnymen, etc.

The Tubes' first self-titled album The Tubes (1975) was produced by Al Kooper. The track "White Punks on Dope" was an "absurd anthem of wretched excess" (...)San Francisco. Since then the song has been covered by Mötley Crüe, and the German rock musician Nina Hagen took the tune and set new lyrics to it (not a translation of the original lyrics), titled her work TV-Glotzer ("Couch Potato"), and used this song as the opening track of her own debut album Nina Hagen Band, released 1978 on CBS/Germany Records.

Chris Henniker said:

That's Hagen's version of "White Punks on Dope", wasn't it?

Erik Johannes Matze said:

Ich glotz TV.

Chris Henniker said:

I used to like The Violets, whom I was actually quite friendly with when I wrote for a local magazine in London.

 

I like Throbbing Gristle (Genesis P. Orridge is a great storyteller) , Suicide, some Cabaret Voltaire, Joy Division, Pere Ubu, Siouxie and The Banshees, Wire, The Smiths, JAMC, The Jam, The Birthday Party (Hell, any Nick Cave), The Fall, Patife (from Sao Paulo, Brazil), The mod revival, Nina Hagen. "Post punk" is such a nebulous term as to encompass anything from Industrial artists like TG and Whitehouse to Mod revivalists like The Jam, indie pop like Cub or The Primitives, Noise rock, the Gothic rock of Nick Cave or Joy Division and anarcho bands like Crass or Icons of Filth.  It's so big that it could take years to reccomend a representative cross section.

 

Any Nina Hagen fans on here? 

That's Hagen's version of "White Punks on Dope", wasn't it?

Erik Johannes Matze said:

Ich glotz TV.

Chris Henniker said:

I used to like The Violets, whom I was actually quite friendly with when I wrote for a local magazine in London.

 

I like Throbbing Gristle (Genesis P. Orridge is a great storyteller) , Suicide, some Cabaret Voltaire, Joy Division, Pere Ubu, Siouxie and The Banshees, Wire, The Smiths, JAMC, The Jam, The Birthday Party (Hell, any Nick Cave), The Fall, Patife (from Sao Paulo, Brazil), The mod revival, Nina Hagen. "Post punk" is such a nebulous term as to encompass anything from Industrial artists like TG and Whitehouse to Mod revivalists like The Jam, indie pop like Cub or The Primitives, Noise rock, the Gothic rock of Nick Cave or Joy Division and anarcho bands like Crass or Icons of Filth.  It's so big that it could take years to reccomend a representative cross section.

 

Any Nina Hagen fans on here? 

Ich glotz TV.

Chris Henniker said:

I used to like The Violets, whom I was actually quite friendly with when I wrote for a local magazine in London.

 

I like Throbbing Gristle (Genesis P. Orridge is a great storyteller) , Suicide, some Cabaret Voltaire, Joy Division, Pere Ubu, Siouxie and The Banshees, Wire, The Smiths, JAMC, The Jam, The Birthday Party (Hell, any Nick Cave), The Fall, Patife (from Sao Paulo, Brazil), The mod revival, Nina Hagen. "Post punk" is such a nebulous term as to encompass anything from Industrial artists like TG and Whitehouse to Mod revivalists like The Jam, indie pop like Cub or The Primitives, Noise rock, the Gothic rock of Nick Cave or Joy Division and anarcho bands like Crass or Icons of Filth.  It's so big that it could take years to reccomend a representative cross section.

 

Any Nina Hagen fans on here? 

I used to like The Violets, whom I was actually quite friendly with when I wrote for a local magazine in London.

 

I like Throbbing Gristle (Genesis P. Orridge is a great storyteller) , Suicide, some Cabaret Voltaire, Joy Division, Pere Ubu, Siouxie and The Banshees, Wire, The Smiths, JAMC, The Jam, The Birthday Party (Hell, any Nick Cave), The Fall, Patife (from Sao Paulo, Brazil), The mod revival, Nina Hagen. "Post punk" is such a nebulous term as to encompass anything from Industrial artists like TG and Whitehouse to Mod revivalists like The Jam, indie pop like Cub or The Primitives, Noise rock, the Gothic rock of Nick Cave or Joy Division and anarcho bands like Crass or Icons of Filth.  It's so big that it could take years to reccomend a representative cross section.

 

Any Nina Hagen fans on here? 

Check out Rank/Xerox from San Francisco, Their debut album is fantastic! Really great current post punk. Also im surprised no one mentioned the early Killing Joke material.

The Guardian music blog
13 May 2008 1:37PM
mikec32001:"Robert Smith is a lot more than a fat middle-aged man in badly applied drag make-up with a ludicrous voice.

OK, maybe not".

today:

The Cure ~ Pornography (1982)

The Cure ~ Disintegration (1989)

The Cure ~ Bloodflowers (2000)

Disintegration was also a critical success, eventually being placed at number 326 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time".

 

Robert Smith performing with The Cure during the 1989 Prayer Tour.

In 2002, the band performed Pornography, Disintegration, and Bloodflowers in their entirety to a Berlin audience, and released the recording on DVD in 2003, titled The Cure: Trilogy.

Robert Smith performing with The Cure during the 1989 Prayer Tour.

 

 

 

 

Joy Division

The Fall

Birthday Party

Pere Ubu

PIL

PragVec

Do the electronic brigade count? Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle, Robert Rental etc.

Simply Saucer were Incredible live!!!! They were able to re-create that Cyborgs revisited sound so well!!! It's the Theremin that really makes it!!!

doornail said:

yeah, love Basement 5 and I bet Simply Saucer was freakin' incredible, what a great band.  Thanks for the compliment my brotha'.  doornail

hey brotha',  if you dig this, check out my show on baconrock.com  called, Kustom City Sounds on friday nights at 7 p.m. (central)  it has a lot of tunes from a lot of different tribes, you dig.  Oh yeah and it repeats at midnight (central)  on sat. morning.  Just thought I'd shamelessly promote my show fer ya.  later doornail

whatwave dave said:

Basement 5???? Simply Saucer??? Swell Maps?????   You gots good taste doornail!!!  Haven't heard anyone else mention Basement 5 in years!

 

Finally got to see Simply Saucer about 3 years ago and they are still absolute KILLER live!!!!

doornail said:

Basement 5,  Suicide,  Simply Saucers,   Destroy All Monsters,  Chrome, Throbbing Gristle, The Pop Group,  Swell Maps, P.I.L.,  The Residents, Swans.

I would also recommend the "Children of Nuggets" box on Rhino. Obviously most of that is garage/psych revival from the late '70s through the early '90s, but it's still a pretty great comp set and would appeal to anyone into the post-punk stuff as well as a lot of '80s alternative/art rock.

I guess the Comateens might fit into this thread... I really love their Munsters theme, being close to Halloween and all!

yeah, love Basement 5 and I bet Simply Saucer was freakin' incredible, what a great band.  Thanks for the compliment my brotha'.  doornail

Basement 5???? Simply Saucer??? Swell Maps?????   You gots good taste doornail!!!  Haven't heard anyone else mention Basement 5 in years!

 

Finally got to see Simply Saucer about 3 years ago and they are still absolute KILLER live!!!!

doornail said:

Basement 5,  Suicide,  Simply Saucers,   Destroy All Monsters,  Chrome, Throbbing Gristle, The Pop Group,  Swell Maps, P.I.L.,  The Residents, Swans.

I liked Young Marble Giants.

Wire, The Cure.....

D.

Basement 5,  Suicide,  Simply Saucers,   Destroy All Monsters,  Chrome, Throbbing Gristle, The Pop Group,  Swell Maps, P.I.L.,  The Residents, Swans.

Too many to mention, but usually it takes a long time before anyone mentions Section 25. Not this time though...

The Fall, nuff said!!!!!!! Mark E. Smith is a genius, check them out.  They influenced Joy Division and all the bands you have listed.

Joy Division,Bauhaus, Mission UK, Love and Rockets and Lords of the New Church, Jesus and Mary Chain, Violent Femmes.

I'll add XTC (always loved that band), The Wipers (huge favorite of mine), Lords of the New Church, Suicide, The Fall, Swell Maps, Half Japanese and, although they were around before, during, and after the original punk movement, Sparks!