New Wave/Post Punk/Gothic Rock Recommendations

A couple of cheap ones I find fairly often are:

The Call- Modern Romans
Adam And The Ants- Kings of the Wild Frontier
The Human League- Dare
Shriekback- Big Night Music

Another one of my favorites is the masterpiece that is The Pop Group- Y, which is a mix of Postpunk, Avantgarde Funk, And Experimental

 

Gun Club

 

Durutti Column
The Monochrome Set
Felt
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
Wild Swans
Teardrop Explodes
The Fall
Cabaret Voltaire
The Birthday Party
Pere Ubu
The Pop Group
Clock DVA
Japan
This Heat

 

Raincoats
The Slits

 

Wire - Chairs Missing, 154
Echo & the Bunnymen - their first four albums, all amazing in their own way
Gang of Four - Entertainment
Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance, Dub Housing, and their early singles were post-punk before punk even happened!
Elvis Costello - This Year's Model, Armed Forces, Get Happy, Trust
The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour, Our Nation's Saving Grace, Bend Sinister
Xtc - Drums & Wires, Black Sea, English Settlement
Mission of Burma - Signals, Calls & Marches, Vs.
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Juju, Kaleidoscope
The Jam - All Mod Cons, Setting Sons, Sound Affects
Tones on Tail - Pop

I'm sure that I'll come up with more! This is one of my favorite eras for music.

 

Paralisis Permanente

 

Post-Punk is sort of my thing. Some favorites off the top of my head and by no means complete:

Sad Lovers & Giants
Snake Corps
Asylum Party
Little Nemo
Rise and Fall of a Decade
These Immortal Souls
This Mortal Coil
Xmal Deutschland
Skin (a Swans offshoot)
Lydia Lunch's Honeymoon in Red
The Flesh Eaters
Moose
Kitchens of Distinction
Rowland S. Howard
The Wild Swans
CARE

and some newer acts:
Mirrors
Detachments
Gunship

 

Au Pairs
Lilliput
UT
Bush Tetras

 

This Mortal Coil.

 

Signals Calls and Marches, Vs. and the live Horrible Truth are essential, but what's cool about Burma is that after a 22 year break they picked up in 2004 where they left off in 1982 and put out 4 more remarkable albums.

 

As an Austin record monger, I (hopefully) resemble that remark Having said that, 80s UK stuff in general (not just goth) is hard to come by, unless you're willing to pay out the nose for a reissue.

As a former goth in high school in the 80s, I'd say the obvious: The Cure, Bauhaus, Siouxsie. The first Gene Loves Jezebel (Promise) is shockingly dark and relatively unknown. After this they lightened up considerably and became more of a glam thing, which is also pretty great but not what I'd call goth.

The Mission. Not as theatrical as others, but more Goth in the literal (pre-music) sense. Although as the product of a short lived Sisters of Mercy lineup, they've definitely got the pedigree.

 

Comsat Angels
Wall of Voodoo
X (Australian version)
Chorchazade
Tall Dwarfs
Throwing Muses

 

Suggest looking @ these threads:

Best New Wave/Post-Punk Albums
The Punk/Post-Punk Thread

 

KUKL were a long way from gothic, more like Avante Garde.

 

Romeo Void
Altered Images

 

Young Marble Giants

 

Ultravox! - Ultravox!
Ha! - Ha! - Ha! - Ultravox!
Systems of Romance - Ultravox
Quit Dreaming and Get on the Beam – Bill Nelson
Sound-on-Sound – Bill Nelson’s Red Noise
The Love that Whirls (Diary of a Thinking Heart) – Bill Nelson
A Trip to Marineville - Swell Maps
Jane from Occupied Europe - Swell Maps

 

Correct.

 

O.G. take: Chameleons (Chameleons U.K.) - Script of the Bridge

Modern take: Luxembourg Signal - The Blue Field

 

and their spin-off band, Weekend

 

For The Call, the Reconciled album is them at their peak.

 

Band of Susans

Live Skull


Both are a bit closer to proto-90’s alt rock, but there are post-punk/darkwave vibes with both of them

 

Penetration
Pauline Murry & The Invisible Girls

 

I have the E&B self titled, Have Trust, and have an xtc. have been looking for the rest of them

 

Love Chameleons!