Top Eleven Post-Punk Records

As a follow-up to the Top Ten Punk thing, list your favorite eleven post-punk records.

Here's mine:

Joy Division - Closer
The Cure - Pornography
The Chameleons - Script of the Bridge
Public Image Limited - Metal Box/Second Edition
Wire - 154
Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy
The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Mission of Burma - VS
Minutemen - Double Nickles on the Dime
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Juju

 

Come on people, don't be shy.

 

JEW and ATDI are normally put in the Indie Rock category. Post punk was an outgrowth of the original punk movement, more melodic, and usually darker. Synths started showing up. The whole thing ended around 1984.

Wire's 154 and Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures are pretty much the embodiment of the genre.

 

Post-punk emerged in England out of the chaotic punk scene of the mid to late 1970's. bands such as Wire, Gang of Four, Pere Ubu, and Joy Division took the energy and ethos of punk rock, but slowed it down and eliminated some of the anger. In an artical written about Joy Division, one author summed it up this way (and I paraphrase), "Until Joy Division, all the punk bands could say was 'F**k you'. Joy Division were the first to turn that around and say 'We're f**cked'. That pretty much sums up the post-punk aesthetic. A much more personal evaluation of the modern world, as oppsed to the blanket political statements and vile gestures that embodied bands such as the Sex Pistols.

Check out some of the records I listed. You may learn that there are ways of retaining the punk spirit after the angry flush of youth wears off.