My latest themed Spotify playlist, upping the ante on classic punk! British Post-Punk, a heady stew of off-kilter funk, dub and Dada, was probably the popular music movement most ruthlessly devoted to ripping itself to bits and rebuilding in a different order. Punk traded in instinctive outrage and slogan-sized certainties, Post-Punk sought to confound and intensify the contradictions. “I don’t know either” sang This Heat, “what is the answer?” (The apt title phrase is from Simon Reynolds’ ‘Rip It Up And Start Again.’)
New Age Steppers: Fade Away
The Raincoats: The Void
The Pop Group: Thief Of Fire
Orange Juice: Blue Boy
Josef K: Heads Watch
Wire: Practice Made Perfect
Gang Of Four: Return the Gift
Heaven 17: (We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thing
23 Skidoo: F.U.G.I.
Fad Gadget: Back To Nature
This Heat: A New Kind of Water
…and The Native Hipsters: Ten Small Men With Buckets
Alternative TV: Release the Natives (live)
The Fall: Neighbourhood of Infinity (live)
Test Dept: Jerusalem
Public Image Ltd.: Another
Scritti Politti: Skank Bloc Bologne
...and more still to come, pop punters!
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