Music: Best post-punk albums

[Hippasus]

I would like to include glam rock, industrial, gothic rock, and new wave, but this might be contentious. It should be 1977+ if it's post-punk.

Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Ministry - The Land of Rape and Honey
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
Sisters of Mercy - Some Girls Wander By Mistake
Depeche Mode - The Very Best of Depeche Mode
Talk Talk - Asides Besides
Killing Joke - Killing Joke
Dead Can Dance - Dead Can Dance/Garden of the Arcane Delights
Front 242 - Geography
Skinny Puppy - Brap: Back and Forth: Vols. 3-4

HM: Siouxsie and the Banshees - Juju
Prong - Primitive Origins
Cranes - Wings of Joy

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[hotcabbagesoup]

oooh post-punk...i don't know enough for this list.

i'm excited for the post-grunge thread when it comes up

did you guys know Creed is back and might have a new album coming up?

 

[Babe Ruth]

did you guys know Creed is back and might have a new album coming up?

I wasn't a big fan, but wasn't a hater either.
Heard their new tour advertised on the radio yesterday.. 'Summer of 99 Tour', which is great nostalgic marketing. (I think 3 Doors Down is also on the tour).
Time to dust off the Jncos, Adidas visor, and wallet chain..

 

[NyQuil]

the Police - Outlandos d'Amour

 

[Pink Mist]

I would like to include glam rock, industrial, gothic rock, and new wave, but this might be contentious. It should be 1977+ if it's post-punk.

Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Ministry - The Land of Rape and Honey
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
Sisters of Mercy - Some Girls Wander By Mistake
Depeche Mode - The Very Best of Depeche Mode
Talk Talk - Asides Besides
Killing Joke - Killing Joke
Dead Can Dance - Dead Can Dance/The Garden of Arcane Delights
Front 242 - Geography
Skinny Puppy - Brap: Back and Forth: Vols. 3-4

HM: Siouxsie and the Banshees - Juju
Prong - Primitive Origins
Cranes - Wings of Joy

Good list, I'd add Gang of Four - Entertainment!

 

[Mescaleroman]

Echo & the Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here
the Teardrop Explodes - Kiliminjaro
the Only Ones - Baby's Got a Gun
the The - Infected
the Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight
the Chameleons - Strange Times
Gang of Four - Entertainment
the Au Pairs - Playing With a Different Sex

 

[Dr Pepper]

Don't know nearly enough about the genre but that's a decent list.

 

[Hippasus]

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That is one of the best new wave songs and videos ever.

That video is serious business.

 

[Hierso]

Joy Division's Closer is probably my all time favorite in the post-punk genre.

 

[Gordon Lightfoot]

 

[ItsFineImFine]

Does Dry Cleaning or Yard Act count as post-punk? Because if they do then easily that but if it's the more traditional sense, then Jeopardy (1980), the debut by The Sound, or Echoes In Blues (2015) by a now defunct Aussie band called CIty Calm Down.

This is one of the songs from that band I mentioned before? Is it post-punk? It has the same sort of bassline and it's an English band so close enough for me. Either way I'd say it is moreso than stuff like Depeche Mode where we're stretching as that's usually more new wave pop or industrial/electronic.

 

[Hippasus]

Does Dry Cleaning or Yard Act count as post-punk? Because if they do then easily that but if it's the more traditional sense, then Jeopardy (1980), the debut by The Sound, or Echoes In Blues (2015) by a now defunct Aussie band called CIty Calm Down.

This is one of the songs from that band I mentioned before? Is it post-punk? It has the same sort of bassline and it's an English band so close enough for me. Either way I'd say it is moreso than stuff like Depeche Mode where we're stretching as that's usually more new wave pop or industrial/electronic.

I might be casting the net out too widely, but my thought was that it has to be a response to punk, be influenced by punk, or be similar in spirit to punk although post-dating 1977 when punk became its own genre all of a sudden. That's roughly how I see new wave, bands like Joy Division and gothic rock, and industrial like Throbbing Gristle as qualifying, respectively. I'm open to debating it, being wrong, . . . But those two bands mentioned at the top of your post sound close enough to me going by the criteria I just mentioned.

 

[Say Hey Kid]

20 good post-punk albums:

The Cure - Disintegration
The Cure - Pornography
Gang of Four - Entertainment!
Glenn Branca - The Ascension
Have a Nice Life - Deathconciousness
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Joy Division - Closer
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
New Order - Power, Corruption, & Lies
REM - Murmur
The Slits - Cut
The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
The Smiths - The Smiths
Talking Heads - Fear of Music
Talking Heads - More Songs about Buildings and Food
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Television - Marquee Moon
Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
Wire - Chairs Missing

 

[todeskultes]

Mission of Burma - Vs. AND Signals, Calls, and Marches
The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace AND Hex Enduction Hour
Modern English - Mesh & Lace
The Sound - Jeopardy
Wipers - Youth of America
The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
Wire - 154
Home Front - Think of the Lie
Brånd - Wo draht da Weg?
Tuxedomoon - Desire

 

[Hippasus]

Mission of Burma - Vs. AND Signals, Calls, and Marches
The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace AND Hex Enduction Hour
Modern English - Mesh & Lace
The Sound - Jeopardy
Wipers - Youth of America
The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
Wire - 154
Home Front - Think of the Lie
Brånd - Wo draht da Weg?
Tuxedomoon - Desire

The Fall, Modern English, and The Sound are fantastic off this list. Wire is pretty good too. There's something very distinctive that I can't quite put my finger on about a lot of the albums you've recommended here and in that other thread ("Your favourite non-popular bands"), right down to the cover art.

 

[The Marquis]

Alright, my favorite genre of music, I'll go Top 25 albums without repeating a band

I was super hard to narrow it down this far, so forgive me for a long ass list, it could have been a lot longer.

My opinion, naturally:

1. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Juju
2. Savages - Silence Yourself
3. The Cure - Pornography
4. Gang of Four - Entertainment!
5. Echo and the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
6. Television - Marquee Moon
7. Siekiera - Nowa Aleksandria
8. The Sound - From the Lion's Mouth
9. Bosnian Rainbows - Bosnian Rainbows
10. Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food
11. The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour
12. Joy Division - Closer
13. Fingerprintz - The Very Dab
14. Human Sexual Response - In A Roman Mood
15. Republika - Nowe Sytuacje
16. Wipers - Youth of America
17. Wire - Chairs Missing
18. Chameleons - Script of the Bridge
19. Magazine - Real Life
20. Klaus Mitffoch - Klaus Mitffoch
21. Baroque Bordello - Via
22. Maanam - Nocny Patrol
23. Eton Crop - And the Underwater Music Goes On
24. Au Pairs - Playing With A Different Sex
25. Metal Urbain - Les Hommes Mort Sont Dangereux

 

[Hierso]

Alright, my favorite genre of music, I'll go Top 25 albums without repeating a band

I was super hard to narrow it down this far, so forgive me for a long ass list, it could have been a lot longer.

My opinion, naturally:

1. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Juju
2. Savages - Silence Yourself
3. The Cure - Pornography
4. Gang of Four - Entertainment!
5. Echo and the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
6. Television - Marquee Moon
7. Siekiera - Nowa Aleksandria
8. The Sound - From the Lion's Mouth
9. Bosnian Rainbows - Bosnian Rainbows
10. Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food
11. The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour
12. Joy Division - Closer
13. Fingerprintz - The Very Dab
14. Human Sexual Response - In A Roman Mood
15. Republika - Nowe Sytuacje
16. Wipers - Youth of America
17. Wire - Chairs Missing
18. Chameleons - Script of the Bridge
19. Magazine - Real Life
20. Klaus Mitffoch - Klaus Mitffoch
21. Baroque Bordello - Via
22. Maanam - Nocny Patrol
23. Eton Crop - And the Underwater Music Goes On
24. Au Pairs - Playing With A Different Sex
25. Metal Urbain - Les Hommes Mort Sont Dangereux

The eternal debate between me and my wife when it comes to The Cure is Pornography vs Faith.

 

[kihei]

To me, it's a slippery category, so some of these might be more contentious than others (in no order whatsoever):

Public Image Ltd--Flowers of Romance
Big Audio Dynamite--This Is Big Audio Dynamite
The Pretenders--The Pretenders
Wire--154
Gang of Four--Entertainment/Solid Gold
Television--Marquee Moon
XTC--Drums and Wires
Talking Heads--Fear of Music-
Joy Division--Closer/Unknown Pleasures
Jesus and Mary Chain--Psychocandy
The Cure--Pornography
REM--Murmur/Reckoning
Throbbing Gristle--Can the World Be as Sad as It Seems
The Psychedelic Furs--The Psychedelic Furs
The Style Council--Cafe Bleu
New Order--Movement
Midnight Oil--MIdnight Oil
Sonic Youth--Bad Moon Rising
Talk Talk--It's My Life
Mark Hollis--Mark Hollis

 

[The Marquis]

The eternal debate between me and my wife when it comes to The Cure is Pornography vs Faith.

Well, with my wife it's much of the discography vs. Friday I'm In Love and Lovesong.

 

[Hierso]

Well, with my wife it's much of the discography vs. Friday I'm In Love and Lovesong.

I don't mind it that much, but my wife hates it. In her words: "Bubblegum bullshit!".

 

[The Marquis]

To me, it's a slippery category, so some of these might be more contentious than others (in no order whatsoever):

Public Image Ltd--Flowers of Romance
Big Audio Dynamite--This Is Big Audio Dynamite
The Pretenders--The Pretenders
Wire--154
Gang of Four--Entertainment/Solid Gold
Television--Marquee Moon
XTC--Drums and Wires
Talking Heads--Fear of Music-
Joy Division--Closer/Unknown Pleasures
Jesus and Mary Chain--Psychocandy
The Cure--Pornography
REM--Murmur/Reckoning
Throbbing Gristle--Can the World Be as Sad as It Seems
The Psychedelic Furs--The Psychedelic Furs
The Style Council--Cafe Bleu
New Order--Movement
Midnight Oil--MIdnight Oil
Sonic Youth--Bad Moon Rising
Talk Talk--It's My Life
Mark Hollis--Mark Hollis

lmfao. Throbbing Gristle is the band I use to basically "check" on a persons actual knowledge of Industrial music. When somebody says their favorite music is industrial, I always mention that I like Throbbing Gristle and like 90% of the time am met with a "who?" and I know I'm not going to get anywhere deep into the genre with them. I'm not expecting them to like them, but they should at least know who they are.

Good list though. I thought about having Sonic Youth on my list (would have landed at #2 with Dirty or Daydream Nation) but decided to leave them off for reasons of slippery definitions. Viable though, for sure.

 

[GKJ]

The eternal debate between me and my wife when it comes to The Cure is Pornography vs Faith.

This is not a critique of the opinion, but I don’t know if I’ve ever heard either of those albums to be known as their best album. Nothing wrong with it. Just interesting to note.

 

[Hippasus]

This is not a critique of the opinion, but I don’t know if I’ve ever heard either of those albums to be known as their best album. Nothing wrong with it. Just interesting to note.

Those are their two most goth albums. I've heard a lot of people rave about those two. There are at least two different The Cure's: the depressive goth version, and the happy-bouncy-poppy version. I like both versions, but the former about ten times as much.

 

[VMBM]

Looking at these lists, I have to say that I guess I just don't care that much about post-punk. Cure, Echo and the Bunnymen, Joy Division... even thinking about their music makes me depressed!

The older I get, the more I seem to get drawn to music that is more rhythm-based, joyous, funky/groovy... basically American and/or black music that almost feels like an antithesis to the aforementioned groups. But hey, a good song is a good song, and it could be just a case of me not having gotten acquainted with these bands.

 

[Hippasus]

Looking at these lists, I have to say that I guess I just don't care that much about post-punk. Cure, Echo and the Bunnymen, Joy Division... even thinking about their music makes me depressed!

The older I get, the more I seem to get drawn to music that is more rhythm-based, joyous, funky/groovy... basically American and/or black music that almost feels like an antithesis to the aforementioned groups. But hey, a good song is a good song, and it could be just a case of me not having gotten acquainted with these bands.

You might like Gang of Four, Midnight Oil, XTC, Television (This antedates post-punk, but it has a similar sound to this short list I'm making right now.), The Teardrop Explodes, The Police, etc. In my opinion, there's a lot of upbeat, bouncy post-punk in these lists as well.