80's Post punk Love in
 

Share the love for the 80's post punk and alternative rock bands


Here's a few of my faves;

The Chameleons

The Teardrop Explodes

Echo & The Bunnymen

Magazine

Marillion

Talking Heads

The Smiths

The Psychedelic Furs

Talk Talk

Who are they Stu my ipad won't tell me Jack sh*t.

A lovely jingly, optimistic sounding Scottish post punk band. Rip It Up is pretty much the quintessential post punk song. It's such a fantastic tune. There is an awesome book chronicling the history and recording of Post Punk and the characters behind it also called Rip It Up, by Simon Reynolds. Well worth checking out if good music books are your thing.

I honestly don't think I like a single song from the 80s :/ sorry

Most of the music you appreciate today has taken some influence from 80's New Wave!

Have some respect for your musical ancestors Salman! :dance:

Smiths :love:
Cure, clash, stranglers,jam .. loads I really love early 80s music atm.

Show me, show me, show me, how you do that trick.
The one that makes me scream she says
The one that makes me laugh she says
Threw her arms around my neck

:love:

The Cure :love:

How can they look into my eyes and still they don't believe me?

Adam and the ants
Joy division

And if they don't believe me now, will they ever believe me?

I'm starved of mirth... let's go and kick a dwarf.....

Walk..........in silence. Don't walk awayayay, in silence... Your confusion, our illusion. Don't walk away.



My Mums favourite band lol, she made me watch the film Control which is all about Ian Curtis and Joy Division.

Have you seen 'the wall' 'the great rock and roll swindle' and breaking glass'? great films.

Naw Kizzy

I'm guessing the wall is about pink Floyd but what are the others about?

The great rock and roll swindle is the story of the Sex pistols, and Breaking glass is Hazel Oconnors.

Atmosphere is my all time favorite song [along with Home by Depeche and Fake Plastic Trees by Radiohead], and one of the few that genuinely scares the shit out of me.

Also they kind of grew far beyond post punk but of course New Order are the business as well. True Faith, Regret, Age Of Consent, Temptation ...

I like new order but one thing that puts me off is their songs are either fantastic or a bag of sh*t and cos I always like to buy full albums I can never justify getting one.

I got a box set of pretty much everything Joy Division recorded off amazon for like 17 quid. 4 discs and a chunky booklet that I can't be assed to read :joker:

The latter half of New Order's discography is poor to be fair. I had Republic on in the background the other day and beyond Regret it was mostly awful.

Peter Hook is clearly a knob as well. I met him and I was waiting for him to start asking me to part with my money to hear some old road stories of Ian Curtis going mental.

Enjoy the silence is the most amazing song... :love:

:wink:

Seeing them live again in two weeks up in Dublin. They really have the most amazing back catalogue. Every album from Black Celebration on has been full of great tracks from start to finish and has a distinct sound.

I can definitely see how they would work for people as a greatest hits band - just like I can with The Cure - but it's a shame so many people only know Personal Jesus, ETS etc.

I HATE music from the 80's it's the worst!! There just something about it that bugs me! :dance:

i never listen to them enough

:lovedup:

Hand in glove, the sun shines out of our behinds.....


Classic

Did you ever hear that hand that rocks the cradle song? Someone told me it was about touching kids so I always skip that now when I listen to the first album! :hugesmile: