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Post-Punk, Volume Five: Watch but don't touch
| Artist | Song | |
| Essential Logic | Aerosol Burns (Wanan Buy A Bridge? [Rough Trade compilation], 1980) | |
| Bird Blobs | Billy (Bird Blobs, 2005) | |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs | No No No (Fever To Tell, 2003) | |
| Lydia Lunch | In My Time Of Dying (Princess Gothica, 1991) | |
| Einstnrzende Neubauten | Der Kuss (Haus der Lnge, 1989) | |
| Spektrum | Interference [Radio] (Enter The...Spektrum, 2004) | |
| Swans | In (Great Annihilator, 1995) | |
| The Chameleons | Swamp Thing (Strange Times, 1986) | |
| Suicide | Dream Baby Dream (The Second Album, 1980) | |
| The Adverts | Gary Gilmore's Eyes (Crossing The Red Sea With The Adverts, 1978) | |
| Death From Above 1979 | Better Off Dead (Romance Bloody Romance: B-sides & Remixes, 2005) | |
| The Editors | Someone Says (The Back Room, 2005) | |
| Virgin Prunes | Pagan Lovesong (If I Die, I Die, 1982) | |
| Bloc Party | She's Hearing Voices (Silent Alarm, 2005) | |
| X-Ray Spex | Identity (Germ Free Adolescents, 1978) | |
| The Durutti Column | Otis (The Guitar And Other Machines, 1988) | |
| Life Without Buildings | Envoys (Any Other City, 2001) | |
| Felt | Red Indians (The Splendour Of Fear, 1984) | |
| Killing Joke | Love Like Blood (Night Time, 1985) | |
| The Killers | On Top (Hot Fuss, 2004) | |
| Kleenex | You (You [single], 1979) | |
Comment:
This volume deliberately concentrates on both "original" post-punk artists and those whose music falls within the genre, even if their activity's outside the post-punk years. During the last few years there has been a surge in music reflecting the style, some of it outright derivative, but a lot of it approaching the style with orginality too. A note on the Adverts track - while I've listed the album info as Crossing The Red Sea With The Adverts, the very first issue of this album didn't actually have "Gary Gilmore's Eyes" on it, due to issues of space. Subsequent issues released in the early 80s did; it's really because of the original intention to have the track as part of the album that I decided to list it. Sorry to be pernickety. But another issue concerns whether The Adverts should be there at all: they were on and off a few times before the final mix, since they're sometimes considered to be more punk than post-punk despite falling into the post-punk timespan. What do you think? But enough babbling. Big thanks to Chris for the Felt instrumental! Title from the Virgin Prunes track.
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I like that you included the old and the new. I often unfairly avoid these new fangled bands, but I'm sure I couldn't even pick them out if I listened to this mix blindfolded. Essential Logic rules.
A fantastic mix of old & new.
yes, quite excellent stuff. Editors, Bloc party and the new breed sit well here with the old guard.
Very kewl
Great stuff all round. I especially dig the inclusion of the mighty Swans, even if it's from their cuddly period. Prima series.
Great stuff! Love the Essential Logic, Suicide, and the (pre- post- punk) Adverts.
Only know a few, but it looks great. Does post-punk in fact have a "time-span"? Are we still in it?
Interesting looking mix Siobhan though, like the HTML master Mixxer, I know but a few.
Coincidentally a friend recently recommended The Durutti Column/Vini Reilly's first
four albums (Return of the Durutti Column, LC, Without Mercy & Another Setting).
The experimental guitar-based instrumentals appeal to me...but not so much the singing.
I will have to think that one over...
Coincidentally a friend recently recommended The Durutti Column/Vini Reilly's first
four albums (Return of the Durutti Column, LC, Without Mercy & Another Setting).
The experimental guitar-based instrumentals appeal to me...but not so much the singing.
I will have to think that one over...
Really nice stuff, Siobhan. Love that Suicide->DFA1979 stretch. Very cool.
What Sammyg123 said, personally I'd consider The Adverts punk, I can certainly remember being really into them (especially Gaye) during my adolescent punk phase. Congrats on finishing the exams Siobhan.
Very cool series.
X-Ray Spex were the biz when I was a (middle class = nice) punk with weekend earings! Maybe I'm a weekend punk again now, come to think of it . . . anyway, this would make me jump up and down
Wonderful. Just wonderful.
Ooh, Bird Blobs! Good Aussie band there. Nice mix.
great stuff here, cool to see Virgin prunes once more
Lots of great selections. Especially liking 4, 5, and 14. Nicely done.
I like what you've done here. Siobhan. Love that Chameleons song. You've also inspired me to dust off those early Durutti Colums albums.
Really great stuff, Siobhan. (meant to comment on this last night, but got sidetracked). What pretty much everybody else said-re: a great blend of the old and new. Especially like the Adverts and DFA 1979 pairing.
Great addition. But I have no idea about The Adverts. Maybe they're pre-post-punk?
A wailing banshee of a mix -- exhilarating that is. The Adverts are pre-post-hoctor-proc-post-pre-punk-post-pre-proto-punk. I thought everyone knew.
Ooops, paint me on a bench with Mr. Porter. (thought I'd commented.)
very excellent mix siobhan, i've down a couple of mixes of old type post punk(with the emphasis on reggae influenced) but the idea of inc the new is jus brill !!!
in terms of timescale i wouldv'e thought both the adverts & xray spex sit quite nicely with the punk bands, though i do remember at the time (as much as i loved xrayspex)thinking the sax was a bit unpunk (poss a bit too musical or arty for my sentiments at the time?)
p.s where are those scottish post punkers, the rezillos???
in terms of timescale i wouldv'e thought both the adverts & xray spex sit quite nicely with the punk bands, though i do remember at the time (as much as i loved xrayspex)thinking the sax was a bit unpunk (poss a bit too musical or arty for my sentiments at the time?)
p.s where are those scottish post punkers, the rezillos???