Post Punk

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i saw thishttp://wotzon.com/eventlisting.html?event_id=5016370 in 2008 - awesome! probably the best i have seen them play and i  have seen them loads over the years.

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That's a blast from the past!  Thanks for posting that clip- forgot about them.  Great band.

I guess "post hardcore" is what they call the stuff my band was playing around that time (can't keep up with all the sub-genres).  We'd get billed with similar acts coming thru - Quicksand, Bad Brains/H.R, Daisy Chainsaw, Fugazi, Shudder to Think, etc...  Unwound had been thru there too.  The main venue we played was amazing - stuff going on almost every night, covers were $3-5.  Saw so many great bands there during those years while it was active.

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Anybody interested in these bands might want to check out the book "Our Band Could Be Your Life".   It covers the USA scene(s) only, but still a lot of musical ground; each chapter profiles a different band, in roughly chronological order.  I found it pretty well written and interesting.
From the wikipedia page:

The book focuses on 13 bands:

    Black Flag (from Hermosa Beach/Los Angeles, California)
    Minutemen (from San Pedro/Los Angeles, California)
    Mission of Burma (from Boston, Massachusetts)
    Minor Threat (from Washington, D.C.)
    Hüsker Dü (from Minneapolis - Saint Paul, Minnesota)
    The Replacements (from Minneapolis - Saint Paul, Minnesota)
    Sonic Youth (from New York City, New York)
    Butthole Surfers (from San Antonio, Texas)
    Big Black (from Evanston/Chicago, Illinois)
    Dinosaur Jr. (from Amherst, Massachusetts)
    Fugazi (from Washington, D.C.)
    Mudhoney (from Seattle, Washington)
    Beat Happening (from Olympia, Washington)

I listened to all of those at some point, and four of them I've seen live too ... some I missed because I got into this stuff in the late 80s when a lot of these bands were already gone, others I never had a chance to see.

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Swans the heaviest of the heavy.

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I saw a former punk hero and Modfather of Brit Pop pay homage to a dinosaur keyboard king on Friday: Paul Weller played at the Jon Lord (the guy from that band less popular than the Sex Pistols) Memorial Concert at the Royal Albert Hall picking out two Artwoods (Jon Lord's first professional band prior to DP) early sixties Brit R'n'B songs.



He even had ex-Whitesnaksters Micky Moody and Neil Murray with him.

Everything has come full circle. 

[Highlander]

That's a Byrds' album ... or maybe a Doors' one ...

[slinkp]

Great tracks Saltymonkey! I hadn't heard a bunch of those.

Speaking of Fugazi ("post hardcore?" I guess that makes as much sense as anything) ...

[chromium]

Great tracks Saltymonkey! I hadn't heard a bunch of those.

Me neither... I really liked the Angels of Light track.  It had me digging around thru some of Gira's other stuff.

Also "discovered" Survival Knife this weekend, in the wake of that Unwound track.

Speaking of Fugazi ("post hardcore?" I guess that makes as much sense as anything) ...

They were one of those bands (like Sonic Youth) that I didn't make an immediate connection with, but somehow I came around... and they (like SY) would now be on my desert island list.  Hard to even pick something to post...






I know this is straying from post punk, but since its going there... here are a couple other post punk influenced(?) bands that I like.
(It's either this, or I start posting Human League  )

Nada Surf


Autolux (detect some SY-esque noise-scapes in the first track "Plantlife")

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