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The Outpost Cafe / THEY're a national obsession apparently (Uwe's Edit: Quite darn right too!)
« on: April 10, 2014, 09:46:29 AM »(complete with villainous mastermind smiling creepily at 1:17ish)
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more pistols than purple fans? not in your wetest punk rock dreams.
Let's not ask the question why - with all the rock press and media support it had - there never was a punk or post-punk band (well, not quite true, if you consider Green Day post-punk they make the stadium grade) that could sell out a stadium in its heyday much less still fill decent-sized halls 20 or 30 years after its heyday.
Are "overwrought 70s arena rock fans" just more faithful or is it the staying and buying power of baby boomers who stuck with what they liked as teenagers? Is punk a music of the moment that needs to be delivered with contremporary urgency in a live setting, but doesn't "store" well or "last"? No market for a 5.1 remaster of Never Mind the Bollocks?
bands that had before been branded as "not so competent players, but noisy and hard" such as The New York Dolls and The Stooges were all of the sudden dusted off as sources of inspiration for the punks (the third one was the MC5 which were all of the sudden hailed as proto-punks when before they had been put in the heavy metal shelf). ...
In 1975 you would have been hard-pressed in finding either The Stooges, The New York Dolls or the MC5 mentioned in the British music weeklies, in 1976/77 they were hailed as the seeds of the new movement. The buzzaw sound of The Ramones was credited to The New York Dolls, The Dictators were hailed as the new MC5 and every punk musician professed to have owned Raw Power (which beckons the question why to the chagrin of Iggy it sold so poorly when it came out). Very few journos dared to point out that something like Televison's debut might - sneering vocals aside - have musically more to do with something as unhip as Wishbone Ash than, say, The Stooges.
I found a list of post-punk bands. I'm not sure if this helps much or not. Now I'm seeing what are called post-punk bands which I might think of as alternative rock bands. Also, there seems to be a link between post-punk and alternative, complicated by the fact that alternative rock can also be an umbrella term for anything that isn't mainstream.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_post-punk_bands
I've honestly never fully understood what post-punk is even supposed to be.
Not sure what you mean with "younger members" - an alien concept here - but, wot, no Smiths/Morrissey or New Model Army?!!!