[kj] [KJ] OT: Just check out the tribal drums & chiming guitar...

[Brendan]

Someone said to me a while ago that post-punk was the shittest imaginable
genre of music. Big Soundgarden / Sonic Youth etc fan, whose opinion I
would otherwise have given some credence.

Made me wonder, what were they referring to as post punk (I didn't ask).
What is the common element? Atonal dischordant fucking around with song
structure, instrument mix, weird time sigs, emaciated pouty navel-gazing
white kids bitching about the way other people dress and not having any
libido (okay I'm making this up)...?

Killing Joke doesn't seem to fit the moniker. And Bauhaus...I still
haven't heard the track that makes me "get it," for all the adoration on
the list. The stuff I've heard doesn't seem to have any grunt behind it.
The Cure I'm a big fan of, PIL as well, but I still don't really know what
post-punk means, is it a semi-useless term like punk or grunge?


> Must confess that I never liked The Cult (though I remember some SDC and

> thinking that they were quite good - never got round to buying anything

> though).

>

> The musical similarity with the Joke is pretty obvious (as Ade's subject

> line says).  The difference - to me - was that they seemed like a fairly

> standard rock band (albeit playing post-punk music, whatever that

> means).  Whereas KJ were doing something else altogether.

>

> Jamie

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> From: ade <ade at the-lab.zetnet.co.uk>

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> Sent: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 22:45

> Subject: [kj] [KJ] OT: Just check out the tribal drums & chiming guitar...

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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xubfEH0wcOs&feature=PlayList&p=11BB81E48EBA5A48&index=1

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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O--BvsmhHF4&feature=PlayList&p=11BB81E48EBA5A48&index=2

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> ade

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