Friday Five

[ericcoleman]

Top Five Favorite Post Punk Bands
1 The Chameleons
2 Joy Division
3 Mission Of Burma
4 Fugazi
5 Killing Joke

Comments

[coburnsteeth.livejournal.com]

I'll have to go the Minneapolis route with this one...

1. The Replacements
2. Husker Du
3. The Magnolias
4. Minutemen
5. Bad Brains

[ericcoleman]

My only argument would be Husker Du and Bad Brains, they aren't post punk. Husker Du almost made my favorite punk bands list.

[coburnsteeth.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I go with post punk as starting in the 80's but keeping that late 70's feel and attitude. Bad Brains and Husker were very political and noisy and fast while The Replacments were lazy and sloppy and self loathing. I love it all!

[ericcoleman]

Bad Brains started in 77, Husker in 79. BB were right in the middle of the hardcore movement in DC. The Replacements started in 79, but I never really thought they had much to do with punk. Yeah I know the earlier records were harder edged, but they were always a Kink-esque rock band.

[coburnsteeth.livejournal.com]

It's always semantics with you! ;p

I think the "mats" were very punk. 1983's Hootenanny is a better example of a self destructive force than "Never Mind the Bollocks" ever was!

[ericcoleman]

I love the Replacements, but I wouldn't call them any more of a punk band than say The Jam (probably my all time favorite band, depending on my mood). It was a matter of the right place at the right time, and the current style let them get the notice they deserved. Sure there are punk elements to what how they started, but the transcended the genre.