Best New Wave/Post-Punk Albums

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  1. Scootluc

    Scootluc Member Thread Starter

    Wondering what everybody's favorites from the above sub genre are?
     
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  2. Soopernaut

    Soopernaut Forum Resident

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    The last time we went down this road, no one could agree what was New Wave or Post Punk. Since you included both it may be easier.
     
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  3. cadeallaw

    cadeallaw Forum Resident

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    Post punk/no wave
    Birthday Party- Junkyard
     
  4. MTCIII65

    MTCIII65 Where The Loud Sound Abounds!

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    There are so many bands that scrambled to attempt to fit the genre - and as a result it’s a big tent....but I will focus at the beginning -

    Our shore: Devo [Q: Are We Not]; across the pond: Echo [Ocean Rain]
     
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  5. chodad

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  6. Scootluc

    Scootluc Member Thread Starter

    It can be confusing - especially when people refer to something like the first Jam record as post-punk even though it came it out in the same year('77) as a lot of seminal punk records
     
  7. Synthfreek

    Synthfreek I’m a ray of sunshine & bastion of positivity

    I've pointed out in the past that RYM shows the first post-punk release pre-dating the first punk-rock release. Pere Ubu.
     
  8. mbrownp1

    mbrownp1 Forum Resident

    First you would have to define New Wave and Post Punk. It has been attempted and miserably failed around here many times. I decline.
     
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  9. c-eling

    c-eling They're made of light,We never would have guessed

    I've failed miserably in the past with this genre...
    A favorite off hand-
    Public Image Limited's-Happy, 1987
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  10. perplexed

    perplexed Forum Resident

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    Post Punk in itself is a pretty broad category. Anyway here is a quick stab at the best Post Punk/New Wave albums

    Bauhaus - In The Flat Field
    The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
    Echo & The Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here
    Psychedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk
    Adam And The Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier
    Joy Division - Closer
    Elvis Costello - My Aim is True
    Joe Jackson - Look Sharp
    The Knack - Get The Knack
    Blondie - Parallel Lines
    Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
    The B52's
     
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  11. Eleventh Earl of Mar

    Eleventh Earl of Mar Somehow got them all this far.

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    Setting common ground for me.

    Favorite post-punk

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    Favorite new wave

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  12. HellToupee

    HellToupee Well-Known Member

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    Post punk -Joy Division, Unknown Pleasures
     
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  13. GillyT

    GillyT Forum Resident

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    I loved this album obsessively back in the day...:love:

     
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  14. The one my avatar is holding. Public Image Ltd. - Metal Box
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  15. Beamish13

    Beamish13 Forum Resident

    Just stunning

     
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    Love SONGS OF THE FREE as much as this, if not more. “We Live As We Dream...Alone” is magnificent
     
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  17. Eleventh Earl of Mar

    Eleventh Earl of Mar Somehow got them all this far.

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    I personally believe the first post-punk record is Ultravox

    And it's from the very start of 1977 - the genre started before punk died.
     
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  18. MTCIII65

    MTCIII65 Where The Loud Sound Abounds!

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    Thank You! This was neck and neck with my choices. The 45s in the Film Canister is one of the highlights of my collection.
     
  19. Khaki F

    Khaki F Forum Resident

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    Blondie have always been the archetypal New Wave band for me. Parallel Lines and Eat to the Beat are two of my very favorite albums ever.
     
  20. Jon-A

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  21. Danderpet

    Danderpet Forum Resident

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    Buggles, Adventures in Modern Recording.
    Big Country ST
    Gary Numan, Telekon

    Three favorites.
     
  22. musictoad

    musictoad Forum Resident

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    The Cure - Seventeen Seconds (not sure if Faith or Pornography count? If so throw those in as well)
    This Heat - Deceit
    The Sound - From the Lion's Mouth
    Gang of Four - Entertainment!
    The Minutemen - What Makes a Man Start Fires?
     
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  23. samthesham

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    1.Pere Ubu / The Modern Dance (1978)
    2.Pere Ubu / Dub Housing (1978)
    3.Wire / Chairs Missing (1978)
    4.Elvis Costello / TYM (1978)
    5.Graham Parker / Squeezing Out Sparks (1979)
    6. Marriane Faithful / Broken English (1979)
    7.The Mekons / Fear & Whiskey (1985)
    8.The Curse of The Mekons (1989)
    9.The Mekons / F.U.N. 90
     
  24. Television - Marquee Moon
    The Only Ones - Even Serpents Shine
    Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division

    ( A couple of names mentioned by other members: I don't consider Elvis Costello as part of this genre, he's a singer/songwriter! Echo And The Bunnymen: alt rock.)

    I think it's nigh on impossible to define post-punk/new wave.
     
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  25. blaken123

    blaken123 Your Greater Tri-County CD Superstore

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    The Cure - 17 Seconds
    Joy Division - Closer
    Bauhaus - In the Flat Field
    New Order - Movement
    Chameleons - Script of the Bridge
    Siouxsie and the Banshees - Kaleidoscope
    Gary Numan - Replicas
    PiL - Second Edition
    Wire - 154
    Elvis Costello + The Attractions - This Year's Model
    The Police - Reggatta de Blanc

    Romeo Void - It's a Condition
    Berlin - Pleasure Victim
     
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