who were the postpunkest of the postpunks?

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the slits

― piscesboy, Thursday, 5 May 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

The Pop Group

Scritti Politti

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 5 May 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

PiL

― peter smith (plsmith), Thursday, 5 May 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

Me. I was.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 5 May 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

Mission of Burma.

― mcd (mcd), Thursday, 5 May 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

pop group obv.

― rizzx (rizzx), Thursday, 5 May 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

postpunk is broad but somehow these albums seem stereotypical...

Brian Eno c.Taking Tiger Mountain

Wire c.Chairs Missing

― Paul (scifisoul), Thursday, 5 May 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

wire in general, i'd say, for longevity and attitude.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 5 May 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

i mean. they were post-punk before punk was even over :)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 5 May 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

The Pop Group (thirded?)

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 5 May 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

1/2 Japanese
Chrome
Swell Maps
Soft Boys

― steve hise, Thursday, 5 May 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

The Pop Group fourthed. Swell Maps, Mission of Burma, early PiL, The Slits, and early Scrits seconded.

― Ian Riese-Moraine has a grenade, that pineapple's not just a toy! (Eastern Mantr, Thursday, 5 May 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

HI GUYS THERE WERE FIVE HUNDRED AND FORTY SEVEN POSTPUNK BANDS IN THE U.K. AND EIGHT HUNDRED AND AND TWELVE IN THE U.S. AND YES SOME OF THESE BANDS YOU MENTION WERE AMONGST THEM.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 5 May 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

the urinals

― dan (dan), Thursday, 5 May 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

worst sonic youth opening band ever (along with saccharine trust)... probably not the majority opinion but i hated them...

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 5 May 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

Add the Desperate Bicycles to Pop Group and early Scritti Politti.

― mike a, Thursday, 5 May 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

pere ubu were postpunk before punk

― jake b. (cerybut), Thursday, 5 May 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

And Eno before them...

― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 5 May 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

THE PASSAGE

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 5 May 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

Brian Eno c.Taking Tiger Mountain

You mean pre punk? ;)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 5 May 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

THE STEREO SHOESTRINGS!

― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 5 May 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

"HI GUYS THERE WERE FIVE HUNDRED AND FORTY SEVEN POSTPUNK BANDS IN THE U.K. AND EIGHT HUNDRED AND AND TWELVE IN THE U.S."

but not all of them can be the postpunkest.

― steve hise, Thursday, 5 May 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

wouldn't the post-punkest of the postpunks be the most recently formed postpunk band? like the rapture, or better, rapture imitators?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 5 May 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

The Flying Lizards.

― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 6 May 2005 00:18 (twenty years ago)

East 17. Seriously. First requisite is ignorance of history, which writes off most of the above.

― TV's Mr Noodle Vague (noodle vague), Friday, 6 May 2005 00:20 (twenty years ago)

Does postpunkest mean most post-?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 6 May 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

Because if so then the answer is Mars.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 6 May 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago)

Or does it mean most "postpunk?"

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 6 May 2005 00:33 (twenty years ago)

Which would be open to subjective determination.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 6 May 2005 00:34 (twenty years ago)

I remember reading the very fancy and lovingly hand-crafted press package that came with the promo release of Heaven or Las Vegas by the Cocteau Twins (it was designed to look like a wedding invitation -- very classy. i still have it somewhere), and in recounting their past history, I believe the statement: POST-PUNK STARTS WITH THE COCTEAU TWINS (or something to that effect). A nice idea, but I'm not quite sure it's especially accurate.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 6 May 2005 00:35 (twenty years ago)

bIG fLame. Were very post (1986) and were punkier than anyone else at the time,

― everything, Friday, 6 May 2005 07:26 (twenty years ago)

This Heat?

― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Friday, 6 May 2005 07:47 (twenty years ago)

It HAS to be PiL! John Lydon, how much more post punk can you be?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 6 May 2005 08:54 (twenty years ago)

Correct

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Friday, 6 May 2005 08:58 (twenty years ago)

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