18th September 2023
Here are some facts
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Post punk is, always has been, and always will be leagues
ahead of punk, musically, politically and aesthetically.
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Joy Division were not the world's greatest post punk band.
In fact, they were never even
the best post punk band to come out of Manchester.
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Metal Box is worth less than the cool metal box it's
packaged in.
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If you can't handle Jaz Coleman at his worst you don't
deserve Killing Joke at their best.
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The early 00s post punk revival failed (for the most part)
to bring back any of the funk, dub or industrial influences
that made post punk so heterogenous and exciting to begin
with, and only a few bands brought the disco influence back.
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There's an alternative timeline in which heavy metal was
delayed by a few years, allowing NWOBHM bands like Iron
Maiden to absorb the influence of post punk rather than
punk. In this timeline grunge would have been invented in
Britain and unfortunately that means Bush would've been much
more successful over here.
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Asbestos Lead Asbestos
is simultaneously the catchiest and most crushingly heavy
non-Godflesh song of the whole accursed era and in a just
world where the licence fee was being spent on creative
talent rather than sexual abuse coverupsit might occur to
more documentary makers that this - not Anarchy in the UK -
should be the go-to tune for soundtracking their
Thatcher-era montages of striking miners and Roland Rat and
whatnot.
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Yeah Andy Gill was an amazing guitarist I'm sure but have
you heard the guy's production skills? Unreal.
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Sisters of Mercy were the original post punk band that
wasn't a goth band, inspiring hundreds of goth bands that
weren't post punk bands (and also just aren't very good).
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You will now get
Essential Logic
stuck in your head, because I have decided that you will get
Essential Logic stuck in your head and that is that my
friends.