Who is the best post-punk band?

I already told you. It's, U2. You need to pay better attention.

killing joke

Critical acclaim? Check
Huge discography? Check
Record sales? Check
Boundary pushing? Check
Thirty years in the business? Check
American? Check

Not one memorable song
Fat vocalist and only two decent albums
Good, but discography consistent (basically) on one ep and an album

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The Fall

Obviously The Fall, but I much like Wire's brand of post-punk.

>American post-punk
Into the trash.

>Fat vocalist and only two decent albums
absolutely terrible pleb tier tourist opinion. Their first 3 albums are 10/10 with all perfect songs and no filler. Everything up to their 90's material is god tier, and even some of their 90's and post-90's material is excellent, for example, Raygun Suitcase, Pennsylvania, and St. Arkansas.

lol

Siouxsie & The Banshees

>British post punk
have fun with your flat, shitty, humorless, soulless war songs, pleb.

this heat
all of these are also good picks but pere ubu only has two albums that are really great

>pere ubu only has two albums that are really great
see

this really,

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IDLES

>IDLES

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U2 lol

came here to post this
>b-but only two good albums
two GOAT albums, at least two good ones and their early EP/singles are enough to be the best

based
cringe

this heat

t. only listened to 70's and 80's pere ubu

The One and Only.

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It's the Fall

Why has no one mentioned The Strokes?

Throbbing gristle
Do they count?

because they suck major ass

>Record sales
>Sonic Youth
man what

>onnoffon
>Versus
>bad

Joy Division

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Why does nobody ever mention television personalities?

Low key Shinjuku mad

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anyone who brings up a band mentioned in this song is a faggot

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Bruce would be a prog fag or fedora core growing up, unironically.

Gang of Four. First three tracks on entertainment are untouchable.

Oh and the Feelies.

Cringe

Magazine, early XTC

This Heat

Not really post-punk

the fall is the most consistent, non-nostalgia. not so much a post punk group but a rhythm project by his conductor mes. you must listen all their records

slit your wrists

Based

(((funny band said band so you can't like)))

Mac milar

U2 was one of them circa 79-82. It helps if you pretend they broke up in 83.

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>all these posts avoiding saying joy division
If you listened to their back catalogue, you'd know.

Gang of Four, The Ex, Killing Joke

This Heat are RIO

Because
1) They're gay
2) They're post-punk REVIVAL, not post-punk

Idles aren't post-punk kek they have like one song with a kind of weird rhythm and Joy div obsessed soibois on RYM cream themselves

Fucking based, the Fall have at least a dozen fantastic albums that could change your life

The Ex or The Fall if we're judging entire band careers
PiL circa 78 to 81 was the greatest post-punk band of all time though

WIRE

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>UK

The Fall
Wire
PIL
Siouxsie & The Banshees
Killing Joke

>US

Husker Du
Sonic Youth
Big Black
Mission Of Burma
Scratch Acid

The Fall and Wire are the best of the lot and the most significant rock bands of the last 40 years.

Wire have recorded a lot of outstanding music beyond these three records

Also, shoutout to The Birthday Party.

If we can include Joy Division and New Order as one entity, than them. If not then Gang of Four.

Entertainment! is more alive but Solid Gold has some fucking deep grooves.

You mean mid career XTC?

IDLES are legitimately awful cringe Reddit-core

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whoever made that image should rethink what he does with his life and his free time

Why did no one mention Joy Division? They’re the kings

The only modern post-punk bands worth a shit are Liars, These New Puritans and recently Drab Majesty(and Liars/TNP arguably dropped post-punk revivalism albums ago).
These are the only ones that seem to understand what post-punk was all about in the first place.

What about bands like Bambara or Iceage? I think they’re pretty damn good, excluding Iceage’s most recent album.

What about Russian post-punk?

Cure, the only one that truly matters

By what metric? The Cure's sound was pioneered by Joy Division and Siouxsie & The Banshees, so it can't be innovation. Robert Smith wasn't nearly as good a songwriter as Ian Curtis or Mark E. Smith, so it's not writing ability. The Cure was never as big as U2, so it's not popularity. Gang of Four is cooler and more interesting, so it's not taste. I don't know what you mean.

its just the best one

what's wrong with iceage's most recent album?

Swell Maps

>Robert Smith wasn't nearly as good a songwriter as Ian Curtis or Mark E. Smith

From about 1985 until 1993-94, Smith was the greatest pop songwriter on the planet. There's more ideas on Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me alone than there is in Joy Division and New Order's careers combined.

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Fucking masterpiece.

this is why post punk is such a fucking great genre,, literally all these artists make up most of my favorites.

>Rips off a bunch of New Order songs then has the gall to say that New Order owes The Cure credit for their material
>Fat fuck singer who still pretends he’s 26 when he looks like an ‘80s drag queen caught in the throes of a vacuum cleaner attack

A Certain Ratio is the actual best.

Any band that was mentioned here, and did not include Nick Cave, Rowland S Howard or Mick Harvey is the wrong answer.

>Rips off a bunch of New Order songs

Eh?

>who still pretends he’s 26

Nah, he's always been pretty self-aware about the image. It's all in good fun.

In Between Days is just Dreams Never End you cocksuckling slacker

Are you deaf? It doesn't sound anything like Dreams Never End.

>implying U2 didn’t rip off The Chameleons

P-Model. They weren't a post-punk band for long, but damn were they good.

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this, everyone saying two good albums is a retard. new picnic time is great and soldier-talk is basically a pere ubu album under a different name and that ones great too

also a good choice

bit of a stretch to call them post-punk after s/t

>saying that while posting this heat
what's your angle

Are you retarded because you can’t pick a bassline out of a mix. “Yes.”

sisters of mercy

>you must listen all their records
you can skip nearly all the 90s stuff, but yes

>the fall is the most consistent, non-nostalgia.

The Fall, Wire and Killing Joke are all bands which have consistently refused to rest on their legacy and I've got massive respect for them because of that. No way out but forward go.