A Post Punk Tumblr

The Post-Brexit New Wave @perpetua gets us up to speed on the nervy speak-singing bands in the UK.

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One Week One Band: New Order

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One Week One Band: Scritti Politti

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I did use the list as an opportunity to play around with web-scraping tools in R.

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Pitchfork released a listicle for the top 200 songs of the 80′s. It’s not nearly as fun or feisty as Fact Mag’s opinionated take on the decade. Exactly 5 years ago, I offered my own list ...

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VIET CONG, “MARCH OF PROGRESS” jamiesoncox : > This song is always one step ahead of itself, gasping for air, > panting and throbbing like a heart against a ribcage.�...

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Twelve Days of 1977 : This is amazing!

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hippriestess : > CURIOSITIES OF THE FALL - NO 10 OF 15(ISH) - BLINDNESS  >  > “Blindness”? A curiosity? For sure it is…  >  > It’s less a song than a bass ...

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oneweekoneband : > NEW PURITAN (PEEL SESSION, 1980) (Youtube > )  >  > I think this may be my favourite Fall song. I usually listen to it > when I’m two pints down...

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oneweekoneband : > Thank you, Dayna!  >  > Next week, we’ll talk about the Mark E Smith-led English > post-punkers The Fall, and the highlights & the legacy of the >...

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douglasmartini : > The Velvet Underground - “Sunday Morning”

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“The Velvets do not deal in abstractions but in states of mind. Their songs are about the feelings the vocabulary of religion was invented to described — profound and unspeakable feelings of ...

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markrichardson : > Once in a while I was listen to this song, “Third Uncle” by > Brian Eno, just to marvel at the fact that it was recorded in 1974. > Only Bria...

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A celebration of the music, spirit, antecedents and descendants of the post punk era. A mix of classic tracks, forgotten favorites and obscure antiques. The Top 35 Songs or So of the 80’s This is a TJ Mahr tumblr.

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eush : > I have very conflicted feelings about The Smiths (I hate Morrissey, > basically, but like everyfuckingbody else The Smiths were a high > school staple) but thi...

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Secondhands: The Raincoats : > Secondhands is a new column that examines music of the past through > a modern lens. This first edition takes on freewheeling post-punk > o...

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shallow-rewards : > 

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The 100 Best Albums of the 1980s – FACT Magazine : Here’s a willfully sideways take on the decade. 

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My favorite is "Clay" , because it's exciting, melodramatic, and actually quite therapeutic when I read lyrics as an elaborate exercise in cognitive defusion . "I've got to be one with all my hal...

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rocketsandrayguns : > 1980s record sleeves by David Band for Aztec Camera, Altered Images, > and Spandau Ballet.  >  > Very ’80s in the best way.  >  > Full archive�...

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