I've always wanted another band who come close to what Life Without Buildings did
Have you tried Drahla? They remind me of LWB, but noisier and saxophonier (and better imo!)
― salsa shark, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 18:02 (three years ago) link
I haven't no. I'll check them out. Thanks for the tip!
― kitchen person, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 18:56 (three years ago) link
This video was my first exposure to Post punk band Dry Cleaning. Yep, they’ve got the formula down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PuqlOTyJt0
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 22:01 (three years ago) link
the notion that for her merits she is even in the same ballpark as sue tompkins is grandly calumnous tbh
― imago, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 23:04 (three years ago) link
A lot of these bands I just find myself wishing I was listening to Art Brut instead.
Have you tried Yard Act? You won't know you're not listening to Art Brut instead.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 6 April 2021 23:59 (three years ago) link
Ha, I just listened to a Yard Act song. I get what you mean. There's another band called Sports Team who do a similar thing. They almost had a number one album last year! I didn't realise just how many of these bands there were now.
― kitchen person, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 02:38 (three years ago) link
I was told there are no more bands! and yet here there are so many, right in one thread
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 02:41 (three years ago) link
Who will do the Landfill Post-Punk thinkpiece in six months?
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 05:03 (three years ago) link
Ha, didn't see this poll previously, but Tropical Fuck Storm are totally a band that was recommended to me by a spotify algorithm and that I thought "Hey, these guys are pretty good!"
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 05:09 (three years ago) link
That's because unlike most of the bands here, they do their own thing and don't sound like Ought
― imago, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 08:56 (three years ago) link
, who are themselves derivative and dull
― imago, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 08:57 (three years ago) link
Metz is a weird inclusion here? post-grungey band on subpop and their debut was 9 years ago...I guess Ice Age fit the sound somewhat too, but again their debut was a decade ago.
Viagra Boys are a lot of fun live, but both live and on record i'm still just wishing it was some new Pissed Jeans
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 09:35 (three years ago) link
― In on the killfile (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 13:25 (three years ago) link
one local band I always thought was brilliant and never got its due was Brute Heart, but they were more i guess post punk in the slits/young marble giants way...but also very original they had their own sound, loved this band so much
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T1bjAsFNmg
was just going through a bunch of old records, Mother of Fire was great too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfNyUnBCOk8
more violins in post punk!!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 13:51 (three years ago) link
I don't mind Viagra Boys...but in 2021 I'm not listening to an album called "Welfare Jazz" by a band called "Viagra Boys"
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 13:52 (three years ago) link
look buddy if I had to dodge all the bands with dumb names I wouldn't listen to anyone
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 14:07 (three years ago) link
it's more welfare jazz that gives me a vibe I don't like
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 14:13 (three years ago) link
I listened to a small clip of Dry Cleaning the other day and I remember suddenly wanting to listen to Animals That Swim?
― Evan, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 15:58 (three years ago) link
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, April 7, 2021 6:52 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
otm
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 16:01 (three years ago) link
it’s a good album though
― flopson, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 21:59 (three years ago) link
Like about 80% of the bands in this thread they are fine
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 22:18 (three years ago) link
they’re in my top 2-3 (with tropical fuck storm and dry cleaning) in this list before a big drop. my fav music is like midwestern garage punk and pigfuck styles of obnoxious punk music with dumb band names and jocular humour though
― flopson, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 22:59 (three years ago) link
you ever listen to The Blind Shake?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 23:17 (three years ago) link
ya! they’re great :) saw em around 2010 with michael yonkers
― flopson, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 23:32 (three years ago) link
it’s p funny that Viagra Boys are swedish . i had assumed australia
― flopson, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 23:33 (three years ago) link
yeah that period when they were working with yonkers was greattho hope you get to see them without him, they were a lot more restrained w him obv
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 8 April 2021 13:02 (three years ago) link
like the nicest guys
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 8 April 2021 13:03 (three years ago) link
my top 4 would be the same as the results just in a different order
I also like Iceage and Metz. liked a couple of songs by Viagra Boys and Fat White Family but not really a fan of either. never heard any of the others.
― CP Radio Gorgeous (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 8 April 2021 13:03 (three years ago) link
oh Amyl & The Sniffers are alright too but Simon forgot to actually include them as a poll option
― CP Radio Gorgeous (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 8 April 2021 13:07 (three years ago) link
oh are they good?the name made me think there were one of those retro sleaze l.a. punk kinda things
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 8 April 2021 13:15 (three years ago) link
I actually did listen to and consider them for this poll but they struck me as musically up to something less self-consciously arty than most of these bands
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Thursday, 8 April 2021 13:20 (three years ago) link
I'm not sure I would say they were good, but they are alright. only heard a couple of things
― CP Radio Gorgeous (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 8 April 2021 13:48 (three years ago) link
Just catching up on Dry Cleaning, this is nice
― Dana Jel Pey (DJP), Thursday, 8 April 2021 13:55 (three years ago) link
wow way to show off your pandemic privilege
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Thursday, 8 April 2021 14:05 (three years ago) link
also fun Australian sort-of-post-punk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j58V2vC9EPc
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Thursday, 8 April 2021 14:56 (three years ago) link
it's the anti-"Slack Motherfucker"
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Thursday, 8 April 2021 14:57 (three years ago) link
love their album from last year.
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Thursday, 8 April 2021 15:09 (three years ago) link
I wouldn't have said either A&TS or The Chats were "post-punk". They're just... rock bands?
― emil.y, Thursday, 8 April 2021 16:41 (three years ago) link
more violins in post punk!!― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown)
You know it!!
― emil.y, Thursday, 8 April 2021 16:42 (three years ago) link
^^^ yes!
― pomenitul, Thursday, 8 April 2021 16:43 (three years ago) link
yeah I only mentioned them because Simon did in the OP
― CP Radio Gorgeous (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 8 April 2021 16:43 (three years ago) link
I'm fine with calling both bands punk but no, not post-punk by any definition I recognise
― CP Radio Gorgeous (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 8 April 2021 16:44 (three years ago) link
I was going to say punk but then I'm not even sure that The Chats are that. But nah, I guess they are.
― emil.y, Thursday, 8 April 2021 16:46 (three years ago) link
I guess The Chats are like the Sham 69 version of punk? That's okay by me.
― emil.y, Thursday, 8 April 2021 16:47 (three years ago) link
The Chats are Australia's answer to HMHB
― imago, Thursday, 8 April 2021 16:48 (three years ago) link
Last album a blast too yeah
They’re as post-punk as Idles, which is to say not much but they have elements (groove, MES sprechsang-y bits) that aren’t just ‘punk.’
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Thursday, 8 April 2021 16:49 (three years ago) link
I would err toward the broad church when it comes to a genre that fundamentally just means ‘came after the first half of 1978 or so.’
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Thursday, 8 April 2021 16:52 (three years ago) link
Not knocking The Chats here (though I'm not into it enough to make it through a whole album, I still get 'Smoko' stuck in my head every now and again), just can't see a world in which they belong to the genre of post-punk, as elastic as that genre might be. It just feels like it doesn't suit either the music or their own intentions.
― emil.y, Thursday, 8 April 2021 16:55 (three years ago) link
I also endorse Brute Heart, they were great.
I think “Welfare Jazz” was referring to some Swedish program to provide funding for musicians that was oriented towards classy/respectable styles of music.
― JoeStork, Thursday, 8 April 2021 16:55 (three years ago) link