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xhuxk, I'll see your Iron City Houserockers and raise you...Donnie Iris!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyTu_ZdcBCo

― John Fredland (jfredland), Sunday, 7 January 2007 06:48 (seventeen years ago) link

edith nylon "edith nylon"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeFlw-d3k5k

divinyls "science fiction"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnjBpjE8wGs

― children of mentalists (get bent), Sunday, 7 January 2007 07:00 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost: spare us the Norm Nardini, tho'

― bendy (bendy), Sunday, 7 January 2007 07:04 (seventeen years ago) link

The Flying Lizards "Live"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHs-6xnMEdE

The Feelies live
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ammeQSyUF00

This Heat live
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNFLb-DULk0

Silicon Teens
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-j4v3qcxY0

Suburban Lawns
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exLR_aSTUSM

Stanton Miranda
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OopTRAFY14

Metal Urbain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_HMXbk3g08

Suicide
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCRTCqgAkfg

Nervous Gender
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkcGdjILv1M

Dow Jones and the Industrials
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqvsTkFrr7M

Die Doraus and Die Marinas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw5F8Noxgu4

Malaria!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaqvwWhzFfs

Josef K
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6fgY0tC5d8

Primitive Calculators
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtG9KMTwYsU

Fad Gadget
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGXBjwifubI

Screamers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0-w0hUnhpI

The Pop Group
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpTng0zgjS4

The Birthday Party
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvlS4BwTUQw

Nina Hagen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz0vu4k7e7o

Flaming Tunes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMdKCrUp-ts

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 7 January 2007 07:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Ladies and gents, Eyeless In Gaza with "Veil Like Calm":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVrB2M4hgpQ

(xpost: Damn, Dan. That's a veritable post-punk feast.)

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Sunday, 7 January 2007 07:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't know if you'd consider them "post-punk", but they seem like they'd fit on this thread:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFosLIMODbM

Fingerprintz, "Shadowed"

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Sunday, 7 January 2007 07:46 (seventeen years ago) link

(I'm actually cheating and just pulling out some of my favorite videos uploaded by one YouTuber. Who also posts to the New Wave Outpost, so he's definitely a NW afficionado.)

Moving a bit too dangerously into pop territory, but really very "alternative" for where they came from (i.e. here in the USA). Introducing the one hit by the only American New Romantic group to ever go anywhere (even if it was only temporary), "Romanticide" by Combo Audio:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5uLkCMMqxU

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Sunday, 7 January 2007 07:50 (seventeen years ago) link

PiL doing 'careering' on the old grey whistle test:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9O2tsIbKD0

― slackety yax (H2-H4), Sunday, 7 January 2007 07:51 (seventeen years ago) link

ARRRRGH! EYELESS IN GAZA!!! Phoenix I love you! :)

But yes Dan by all means, I was quite happy with the selection there. Fantastic, man. Please bury me in the post punk new wave graveyard.

xpost

Phoenix I traded a few CD's with Mr. NWO. Not too many though.

― Good Warlock of the West (Bimble...), Sunday, 7 January 2007 07:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I've never heard of Combo Audio but I know another U.S. band with "Combo" in the title that seemed pretty good. Does that count? Hahaha.

― Good Warlock of the West (Bimble...), Sunday, 7 January 2007 07:54 (seventeen years ago) link

"You mean they did more than that one song?" Yes, Virginia, here's The Vapors with "Jimmie Jones":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PLXKIkbec8

(xpost) :) I had to include Eyeless In Gaza. HAD to. And you traded some CDs with Rubellan? Or the guy who runs the NWO? Oh, and it's surprising to me that you hadn't heard of Combo Audio before, but I guess that's only because I've personally been aware of at least that one song since the mid '90s.

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Sunday, 7 January 2007 07:59 (seventeen years ago) link

XTC's "Statue Of Liberty" 1978 LIVE on the Old Grey Whistle Test:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMk5HrrtoYA

xpost

― Good Warlock of the West (Bimble...), Sunday, 7 January 2007 08:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I traded a few CD's with the guy who runs NWO. But I don't remember his name and I never got anything from him that really blew my mind.

― Good Warlock of the West (Bimble...), Sunday, 7 January 2007 08:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't care if this is too pop for this thread. I just think it's way too much fun to ignore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5svI-q_eWPg

Fun Boy Three (w/ Bananarama, The Swinging Laurels, and a cast of hundreds apparently), "The Telephone Always Rings" (video directed by Midge Ure, featuring all manner of familiar faces)

OH, his name is Mike Paulsen. Can't forget. What did he send you?

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Sunday, 7 January 2007 08:04 (seventeen years ago) link

The Swinging Laurels? The Swinging Laurels? Really? My mouth is agape in awe.

DIRECTED by Midge Ure? What do you mean, he tried his hand at directing? Crazy.

Although I do want to say one thing: that song he did with Mick Karn, what is it? "After A Fashion"? I can't STAND that thing. No offense meant to either of them.

― Good Warlock of the West (Bimble...), Sunday, 7 January 2007 08:06 (seventeen years ago) link

You've got to be kidding me. You've heard of The Swinging Laurels before?? Anyway, yes, they were the ones who provided the brass instrumentation on this song and three of them are shown on the video. This is getting to be, like, weird. And YES, directed by Midge Ure, which is why the very same Steve Strange puppet from the "Mind Of A Toy" video was also evident in this particular video. And -- eh, it's okay. You can't like everything someone does, not even if the two are certifiable geniuses. (Yes, yes, some of you may disagree, esp when it comes to Mr. Ure.)

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Sunday, 7 January 2007 08:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I've got to get off this board for awhile. There's too much good music out there. I need to calm down. Please excuse me.

― Good Warlock of the West (Bimble...), Sunday, 7 January 2007 08:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Seriously had not heard this song, or even remembered it, since college. Video is sort of dorksville but good song
Martha + the Muffins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0_H7dw3VqQ

― timmy tannin (pompous), Sunday, 7 January 2007 08:31 (seventeen years ago) link

And yes, even speaking as a huge PIL fan, I had no idea what the hell they would do with "Careering" on the Old Grey Whistle Test. That is the craziest thing I've ever heard, I think. They completely mutated that song into something else unlike any other post punk thing I've ever heard.

― Good Warlock of the West (Bimble...), Sunday, 7 January 2007 09:12 (seventeen years ago) link

New Order - Prime 586

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh7pAIdh9_o

Liaisons Dangereuses - Los Ninos Del Parque (although this is more Minimal Synth than Post-Punk)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksuVl3sEf7s

― D.V.C. (Caputo, D.V.), Sunday, 7 January 2007 10:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh! And...

The Plastics - Copy(Live on NHK)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mFipU8PW4g

― D.V.C. (Caputo, D.V.), Sunday, 7 January 2007 10:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Michael Stipe with hair!!!!
R.E.M. - Pretty Persuasion!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJMZ9FZyDGA

― Sexydrummachine (Bimble...), Sunday, 7 January 2007 11:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Durutti Column, live 1981
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgZ4icuR49k

― Bidfurd (Bidfurd), Sunday, 7 January 2007 20:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Aztec Camera, being very un-post-punkish in '81

http://youtube.com/watch?v=rY1qPc1nfag

― King-a-Ling (King-a-Ling), Sunday, 7 January 2007 20:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Orange Juice on TOTP, 1983

http://youtube.com/watch?v=No2ukc5V4EM

― King-a-Ling (King-a-Ling), Sunday, 7 January 2007 20:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Pointed Sticks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu-BMzJj1HY

― xhuxk (xheddy), Sunday, 7 January 2007 20:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Young Canadians, "Hawaii"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUNAcypFc6s

― xhuxk (xheddy), Sunday, 7 January 2007 20:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Modernettes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAh-P_Z0Ov0

― xhuxk (xheddy), Sunday, 7 January 2007 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link

999, "Homicide"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMlpqOsc2BU

― xhuxk (xheddy), Sunday, 7 January 2007 20:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Tim Curry, "I Do The Rock"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiLNCJdXmX0

― xhuxk (xheddy), Sunday, 7 January 2007 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Holy crap, PiL's performance of "Careering" on the Old Grey Whistle Test? RULES. I'm serious. Did you know that it was that chaotic mime performance PiL did at around the same time on "American Bandstand" that got me to purchasing Second Edition in the first place? It was right around the time VH1 were airing reruns of AB episodes and I remember very well being shocked when I heard they were going to be on that program and then transfixed as the performance took place. One key memory from that that I will always have from it was having that New Wave boy with all those buttons trying gamely to attract John Lydon's attention while he did his robotic dance. I wonder where he is now. Anyway, back to OGWT -- that was SUPERB. I'm adding it to my favorites now.

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Sunday, 7 January 2007 20:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Telex, "Moskow Diskow"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFWdobNIcPQ

― xhuxk (xheddy), Sunday, 7 January 2007 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link

elton motello (but not 'jet boy jet girl')

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDa8Soy5Hes

― xhuxk (xheddy), Sunday, 7 January 2007 21:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Mi-Sex, "Computer Games"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufBYaYJAERc

― xhuxk (xheddy), Sunday, 7 January 2007 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link

A Scars two-fer: First up, a straight-up YouTube of the rerunning of their performance of "All About You" on the OGWT.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56iWVP7I-n8

Next up: A fancified, modified version of that "All About You" rerun, featuring the Author! Author! cover.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh36OZo1IA8

Now to find the holy grail: the actual MUSIC VIDEO for this song.

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Sunday, 7 January 2007 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Re: XTC -- this guy has a whole concert chopped up in his videos (lots of Drums and Wires stuff), and here's "Scissor Man" --

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTCDB8xhkh8

-- and good lord, all of them are really exciting, especially in terms of being reminded how good these guys were in terms of instrumental skill. It's even better if you know these songs well: e.g., above and beyond Dave Gregory's incredible lead on "Scissor Man," Colin and Andy start throwing in vocal and guitar harmonies that aren't on the recorded version. Same goes for D.G.'s lead embellishments on "Helicopter."

― nabisco (nabisco), Sunday, 7 January 2007 21:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Also in "wow, Dave Gregory is a very good guitar player" news, there's "Burning with Optimism's Flame" on TV:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRrm22b__vA

― nabisco (nabisco), Sunday, 7 January 2007 21:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Anti Nowhere League, "Streets Of London"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj3HBwp3cps

― xhuxk (xheddy), Sunday, 7 January 2007 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Gazebo, "I Like Chopin"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-41pZhGEBgs

(actually more like late '80s, but I'm obsessed with them this week)

― xhuxk (xheddy), Sunday, 7 January 2007 21:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks so much all. This is all I want to do anymore is watch videos like this. Who needs CD's?

Also about XTC - yeah they really blew my mind last night - there are quite a few XTC live videos on YouTube. And I confess, even though it was not post-punk at all, the one that moved me the most was "King For A Day" live on David Letterman 1989.

― Sexydrummachine (Bimble...), Sunday, 7 January 2007 22:52 (seventeen years ago) link

HOLY SHIT THERE'S FIAT LUX ON THIS THING!!!! FIAT LUX!!

Fiat Lux - "Blue Emotion" my favourite song of theirs probably:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZE5pLBUTDY

I've never even seen what they LOOK like!

― Good Warlock of the West (Bimble...), Sunday, 7 January 2007 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link

The Jags, "Back of My Hand," TOTP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y8JKBFQ0MI

― xhuxk (xheddy), Sunday, 7 January 2007 23:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Squeeze, "Cool For Cats"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eNY5KzP9BI

― xhuxk (xheddy), Sunday, 7 January 2007 23:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Sniff N The Tears, "Drivers Seat"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeN4UAdNX6s

― xhuxk (xheddy), Sunday, 7 January 2007 23:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Flash And the Pan, "Hey St Peter"!!

(1976, though??? Must be the Aussie year; in the US it was '79...)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLoOln4bGgM

― xhuxk (xheddy), Sunday, 7 January 2007 23:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Skyhooks, "Blue Jeans"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBX6C2irFiU&mode=related&search=

― xhuxk (xheddy), Sunday, 7 January 2007 23:18 (seventeen years ago) link

And yeah the PIL American Bandstand thing..."Poptones" followed by "Careering" - I haven't watched that in a year or two but looking at it again I mean how is it that no one stopped him/them? It's so surreal. He invites all the kids up into the audience, refuses to mime the words but runs around with a great big smile on his face...and then there's the problem of the music, which couldn't really be less commercial or family-friendly...Isn't "Poptones" about getting raped in the woods? How did some American TV producer allow them to get away with all that? You really expect the authorities to stop it at any time! How many parents heard their kids watching that and said "Turn down that racket!!!"

― Good Warlock of the West (Bimble...), Sunday, 7 January 2007 23:50 (seventeen years ago) link

thanks again for stretching those genre boundaries for us Chuck! Surely you figured when the original poster said late 70s/early 80s post punk new wave he meant it to include everything you've been posting!

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 7 January 2007 23:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Dan, I have no problem with Chuck's posts, you silly wabbit!

― Good Warlock of the West (Bimble...), Sunday, 7 January 2007 23:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah Dan, don't be a party pooper!

Fisher Z:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2nH0W_cam4

― xhuxk (xheddy), Sunday, 7 January 2007 23:59 (seventeen years ago) link

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that whole little weird wince thing he does just after the first chorus, around 1:17, justifies the last 15 years of MTV.

― that would ok (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 28 February 2009 17:37 (fifteen years ago) link

here:

― they dont know bout us and theyve never heard of drugs (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 28 February 2009 19:21 (fifteen years ago) link

also this:

― they dont know bout us and theyve never heard of drugs (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 28 February 2009 19:26 (fifteen years ago) link

yeah Bimble I'm hijacking yr thread...

― they dont know bout us and theyve never heard of drugs (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 28 February 2009 21:06 (fifteen years ago) link

AHHHH!!! YOU POSTED THE FALL!!!

OH MY GOD DON'T GET ME STARTED ON YOU TUBE WITH THE FALL!
I WILL NEVER LEAVE THE HOUSE AGAIN PLEASE DON'T GET ME STARTED

― Gothy McGoth (Bimble), Saturday, 28 February 2009 21:34 (fifteen years ago) link

And what...B-52's? Wire? Steady, boy. Calm down.

― Gothy McGoth (Bimble), Saturday, 28 February 2009 21:35 (fifteen years ago) link

B-52's is shredding me. Please Cindy, please stop shredding my soul.

― Gothy McGoth (Bimble), Saturday, 28 February 2009 21:39 (fifteen years ago) link

The B-52's video has really set a new standard, I think. That is probably the best thing I've ever seen on You Tube up to this point.

― Gothy McGoth (Bimble), Saturday, 28 February 2009 21:46 (fifteen years ago) link

Also absolutely dying about Brix in Fall video link above

― Gothy McGoth (Bimble), Saturday, 28 February 2009 21:48 (fifteen years ago) link

― dumbsocietypigeons (unregistered), Saturday, 28 February 2009 21:50 (fifteen years ago) link

I just want to die listening to The Fall. That's all I ask. Let me die listening to The Fall.

― Gothy McGoth (Bimble), Saturday, 28 February 2009 21:51 (fifteen years ago) link

here you go Bimble:

― they dont know bout us and theyve never heard of drugs (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 28 February 2009 22:02 (fifteen years ago) link

― they dont know bout us and theyve never heard of drugs (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 28 February 2009 22:27 (fifteen years ago) link

a little late, but still...

― they dont know bout us and theyve never heard of drugs (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 28 February 2009 22:27 (fifteen years ago) link

(late-80s, I mean)

― they dont know bout us and theyve never heard of drugs (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 28 February 2009 22:27 (fifteen years ago) link

People who don't take Perverted By Language to a desert island with them need to have their head examined.

― Sleep Tundra (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Saturday, 28 February 2009 22:34 (fifteen years ago) link

Just pulled out my Wire DVD. I hope you're happy.

― Sleep Tundra (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Saturday, 28 February 2009 22:40 (fifteen years ago) link

― they dont know bout us and theyve never heard of drugs (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 28 February 2009 22:57 (fifteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Bird Nest Roys, not their greatest song but such an awesome band.

― Enemy Insects (NickB), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 19:49 (fifteen years ago) link

one month passes...

― Sacriligiously Dead (Bimble), Saturday, 23 May 2009 16:06 (fifteen years ago) link

hey bimble, i think you might like jun togawa:

― a somnambulist in an ambulance (r1o natsume), Saturday, 23 May 2009 16:55 (fifteen years ago) link

sandii and the sunsetz "sticky music"

― a somnambulist in an ambulance (r1o natsume), Saturday, 23 May 2009 16:57 (fifteen years ago) link

ippu do "time of the season" (zombies cover!)

― a somnambulist in an ambulance (r1o natsume), Saturday, 23 May 2009 16:58 (fifteen years ago) link

I want to be 12 forever, or something.

― Sacriligiously Dead (Bimble), Saturday, 23 May 2009 23:19 (fifteen years ago) link

― that's not my post, Sunday, 24 May 2009 06:08 (fifteen years ago) link

Oh, man. That's just WAY too much fun. Look at her clothes! So preppy!

That Jun Togawa is hilarious. Look at that skirt! What the hell, she's wearing a backpack!

― Sacriligiously Dead (Bimble), Sunday, 24 May 2009 10:02 (fifteen years ago) link

I've never even heard of the X-Teens, I'm really impressed. I've heard of Sandii & The Sunsetz, though. I'm amazed how much that lady looks like Kate Bush. I like the music too. I'll try to track down more of these bands. Thanks ILXors! I <3 you.

― Sacriligiously Dead (Bimble), Sunday, 24 May 2009 10:15 (fifteen years ago) link

AAAAAAAH! David Sylvian recorded with Sandii & The Sunsetz????? OMG I am going to have an orgasm. Oh god. Oh god. What in the living hell.

― Sacriligiously Dead (Bimble), Sunday, 24 May 2009 11:22 (fifteen years ago) link

Bimble, thought you might get a kick out of the X-Teens. They were early-80s cult heroes in North Carolina. They put out a couple of singles & some albums produced by Don Dixon & Mitch Easter who of course went on to much greater fame producing REM's early work.

― that's not my post, Sunday, 24 May 2009 15:52 (fifteen years ago) link

BTW, Don Dixon did some great new wave / power pop as a performer in the early 80s. Search Praying Mantis & Skin Deep. Lots of similarities to Nick Lowe's early 80s work.

― that's not my post, Sunday, 24 May 2009 15:55 (fifteen years ago) link

― meisenfek, Monday, 25 May 2009 08:59 (fifteen years ago) link

― meisenfek, Monday, 25 May 2009 09:06 (fifteen years ago) link

this should go on the synthpop thread really but since this thread is on new answers:

― a somnambulist in an ambulance (r1o natsume), Monday, 25 May 2009 11:58 (fifteen years ago) link

twelve years pass...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/10/arts/music/new-york-new-music-post-punk.html

circa 1980 video from Ivers and Armstrong and others is on exhibit at the museum of the City of NY

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 16 June 2021 05:06 (two years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ7nZv4molg

The Plugz on New Wave Theatre in 1982

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 16 June 2021 05:13 (two years ago) link

https://www.libin-cameron.com/lizzy-mercier-descoux-mission-impossible-film-by-libincameron

Lizzy Mercier Descoux

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 16 June 2021 05:31 (two years ago) link

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