Punk/New Wave albums you still listen to? For old farts only I guess..

Recently bought ‘Entertainment’ by Gang of Four on CD. It hasn’t dated at all and it got me thinking..

Hanx by SLF

Killer! I had that album when it came out and saw them play live when I was 14! What a band.

Pretty much all of it.

This lot more than anyone really:

Don’t think it’s on Rats? Thought it was Time Flies….I’ll have to check when I get home.

And this lot:

Cradle to the grave – SubHumans
All the best – SLF
Worlds Apart – SubHumans

Pretty much all Culture Shock stuff.

Occasionally dip into Plastic Letters and Parallel Lines by Blondie.

One dissapointment was BauHaus – press eject and give me the tape. I remember thinking it was ace yrs ago, found it on E-bay and discovered that in the intervening yrs it had turned into some art-school wnaker posturing 🙁

Entertainment is my all-time no.1 album… but “hasn’t dated”?? Crazy-talk!
good thing about the iPod is tracks pop up from old album occasionally.
Stuff I love to hear:
Killing Joke’s 1st album, any Iggy, ‘The Scream’.

Harmony No Harmony by Million Dead
Sufferer and the Witness by Rise Against
The Decline by NOFX

Punks not dead 😉

Still think this bloke is one of the most under rated song writers ever.

And this lot:

Looks like they’ve reformed!

inflammable material-SLF
Nobody’s heroes-SLF
Parallel lines-Blondie
Stranglers-loads of stuff
Clash-again,loads
Pistols-NMTB
Siouxsie-all the old stuff
Angelic Upstarts-everything.
Sham 69,various

and of course….

Crass. Feeding the 5000,and all the bootleg stuff with Poison girls etc…

there’s more…..

+ 1 for Subhumans/Culture Shock (I flipping love Culture Shock…)

Also Blyth Power. And if we’re going there…Crass

I guess old NMA counts as New Wave – if so I had Vengeance on today, followed by a bit of Julian Cope.

Rusty – Have you got Let the Tribe Increase by the Mob, if you’re into Blyth Power? Again, I bought that recently. Just as I remembered it and still as great.

In the Flat Field isn’t a bad record but it’s definitely dated.

Forget to nominate the mighty Killing Joke!

Sorry but I’ve never really listened to Subhumans or Culture Shock.

I occasionally dust down the Crass albums and other Crass records stuff. Still listen to the Honey Bane Crass records single alot, D.I.R.T and Poison Girls. The Clash by The Clash is on regularly (I never get bored of any of that album), Stranglers, Siouxsie, Dead Kennedys, the Cramps etc. Also, a fair amount of earlier Goth and local Bradford bands New Model Army, The Three Johns, Southern Death Cult, Skeletal Family.

Best live band ever?
Must have seen this lot more than any other band, used to follow
them round a bit 😀

Rusty – Have you got Let the Tribe Increase by the Mob, if you’re into Blyth Power? Again, I bought that recently. Just as I remembered it and still as great.

Yes, great isn’t it?
Nice to see the progression into the Blyth Power stuff.

Believe me, you’ll love Culture Shock 🙂

Way too slow! Keep it coming.. Excellent stuff.

Not saying i came home a bit piddled last Sat night, but it appears i amanged to post the opening lyrics to Sub-Humans “Reason For Existence” on my FB profile 😳
Still a classic song though.

NMA are still on the playlists of course, but i never really counted them as punk – even after all these yrs and all the miles travelled to their gigs i still couldn’t say what ‘genre’ they were/are…

I do remember being involved in a lot of ‘pyramid building’ though 😉

I’m guessing you must have seen Hawkwind then? A little ‘off topic’ though. They’re the band I’ve seen the most I think. Proper festivals in those days…

Anything by UK Decay. ‘For Madmen Only’ was their only album.

<wanders off to the shop with ‘messed up’ going around my head>

Ok, Culture Shock it is then..!

cramps, b52’s, clash, devo, dead kennedy’s, siouxsie and pil in my ipod at the mo.

Muddy, in the earlier eighties New Model Army were generally followed by Goths and I think they considered themselves part of that scene (alternative?), the Goth scene was fairly big in Bradford in the early eighties and NMA circulated among those local bands I mentioned above, certainly up until 85/86. I saw them at a miners benefit gig at Bingley Little Theatre with Skeletal Family in 84 and it was all Goths and chicken dancing.

The Clash are a given. Devo=bonkers.

Must buy The Scream again. Favourite Siouxsie albums??

I do remember being involved in a lot of ‘pyramid building’ though

*nods knowingly*

Good to know there are some ‘kindred spirits’ on here from the 1980s.

Stonehenge free festival, ‘the Convoy’, being free and a proper pain in the arse.

I’ve been trying to like “Y” by “The Pop Group” recently, which I missed first time again. I’m keeping at it, but its not grabbing me terribly well.

Pil
Dead kennedys
Pistols nmtb’s
Xray specs, RIP polly 😥
Allthough I put a discharge album on the other day, and OMG It was crap!! 😯 it wasn’t what I remember it was 😕
M’old……

never considered NMA to be punk or NW…they’re just NMA ! one off’s really,(certainly not Goth !) lost count of the amount of times I saw ’em in 80’s/90’s…..

big up to Khani for the Polly shout,RIP indeed,as is Lux 🙁

travellingman – Member

I’m guessing you must have seen Hawkwind then? A little ‘off topic’ though. They’re the band I’ve seen the most I think. Proper festivals in those days…

😀
All the travellers I know, mostly from Manchester, live in Portugal now and have done for 20 odd years.
Legislation and heroin seemed to ruin everything, sadly.

Hawkwind roulette, will they be fantastic, or have they indulged too much before going on…..

Have you read Carol Clerk’s book? link.
A bit of an eye opener to say the least.

Never saw Calvert, to my eternal regret.
I thought his era was the best incarnation:

ICU

I think you’re right Keith, I’m not saying NMA were a Goth band as such, but they were part of the Bradford Goth scene or followed by the same crowd who also followed Southern Death Cult, Skeletal Family etc, that’s my recolection of them in the early eighties in Bradford. I’m talking before Vengeance, I’m talking about when they’d only released a few singles.

Blimey, so many dead folk 🙁

I still love Poison Ivy, I’ve looked up her dress, you know 😀

been listenin to Fugazi alot recently

Didn’t know about Portugal. I’ve been away from things for a long time. I worked for Greenpeace in the mid 1980s and then moved on (in a way I guess).

I’ll have to check out the book on Hawkwind ‘though. Thanks for the link. Like you I didn’t get to see Calvert. Remember seeing them at a free concert in Victoria Park (as far as I remember) with Lemmy on bass. That was pretty cool.

Conflict, Copey and the Clash.

3 Cs. Happy with that.

albums that still get a regular airing:

Patti Smith – Horses
Television – Marquee Moon
Ramones – Ramones
Richard Hell & The Void-oids – Blank Generation
Buzzcocks – Singles Going Steady
Wire – Chairs Missing
Gang of 4 – Entertainment
Crass – Stations & 5,000 (although just as likely to stick on the Jeffrey Lewis thing)
Minutemen – Double Nickels on the Dime

That said though its Arvo Part thats on just now……..

The Ruts-The Crack. Listening to that today. Sounds amazing still. Malcolm Owen RIP.

Who needs PJ Harvey when you’ve got Patti Smith?

travellingman – Member

Didn’t know about Portugal. I’ve been away from things for a long time. I worked for Greenpeace in the mid 1980s and then moved on (in a way I guess).

I’m 42 now, my mates’ older relatives where the main influences.
I think ‘khani’ may have known a few of them too.

We used to sneak away with them occaisionally on the pretence of ‘going walking in the Lakes’ for the odd festival and to follow bands around – they had a lovely primer pink three axle Bedford coach for a few years in the 80’s, but sold it for a red, gold and green striped Commer, very distinctive.

Remember Keith from Here & Now making me ‘phone my mum to tell her I was OK after hitching to see them once, aged about 15.
They were lovely people, we always felt safe.

Seem to remember getting fed and watered by the Travellers Aid Trust people on occaision too 🙂

Metalheart, I didn’t particularly like the Jeffrey Lewis thing apart from the odd one. I think it was the female vocalist wasn’t that good IMO, so she just annoys me. Where Next Colombus was excellent (she didn’t sing on it). The Eve Libertine was a great song writer IMO.