Every now and then I get people asking for a playlist of every song mentioned in my videos: Well here's a Spotify link for this one:# open.spotify.com/playlist/4v42fB839ysLQ0xhGNVpid?si=a72fcb747b1141ae and the TH-cam Music one: music.th-cam.com/play/PLooaZ33lSalfaFg3gM3PKMv9JXy0d8_s_.html&si=qTJ0nDrBh2s9MAnS
I would like to add Red Lorry Yellow Lorry to the chameleons as my two favourite post-punk bands, SFAB is on of the greatest albums I have ever heard, a great shout out good sir .
Great list! Here’s a couple other HIGHLY underrated post-punk bands from the late 70s/early 80s. 1. The Passage 2. The Opposition 3. Theatre of Hate 4. Modern Eon 5. The Comsat Angels 6. The Pop Group 7. Pere Ubu 8. Sad Lovers & Giants 9. Orange Juice
Hell yeah for the Pop Group and Pere Ubu, the latter were putting out post-punk singles as early as 1975! Which is insane and never really gets mentioned enough how much influence they had on the development of the UK post-punk scene alongside Brian Eno, Iggy Pop and David Bowie's output. Ubu toured England in the late '70s with their shows being attended by Peter Hook and Howard Devoto, who went on to be a part of their own respective influential bands (Joy Division & Magazine).
I'd also add a few more bands to this list: The Chameleons Suburban Lawns The Cleaners From Venus Pylon Ludus Blue Orchids The Monochrome Set Gary Davenport Urinals The 2x4's Blurt Stump Tronics
Pere Ubu are amazing, especially considering how insanely early their stuff was coming out. They're like the Silver Apples of post punk. I also really love Orange Juice. I found them way back in the early 90s, when Edwyn Collins had that big hit with Never Met a Girl. There was a DJ here in St. Louis named Les Aaron, who was a British expat, on our local alternative station. Aaron mentioned one day after that Collins song ended that he had been the lead singer in a group called Orange Juice prior to going solo, and I was so in love with the sounds of that song that I immediately started bugging my mom to take me to Streetside Records (I was only twelve at the time), and managed to find an Orange Juice cassette.
I've heard of all these bands, partially only because of how much I got into the history of UK post punk due to your video on echo and the bunnymen. comes full circle!! great vid as always.
This Heat and The Sound are amazing! This Heat is truly something else entirely. I’ve been looking for something that’s similar to them sound, vibe, lyrically, and musically. Post punk is just a brilliant genre when digging through it all.
I'd probably add Rip Rig & Panic to that list too. A fearless blend of punk, funk, free jazz, 20th century classical, and music from other cultures - taking further what groups like The Slits and Pigbag were doing. Some stellar bass work too
You did a fantastic job here. I have done episodes on many of these bands on my own channel. I really liked how you connected the sounds of these bands with later day artists. British post punk was so rich, particularly between 1978 and 1981. Punk had declared rock dead and the possibilities for experimentation were wide open. I really wish The Pop Group were more widely known as they would have a massive influence on The Birthday Party and many of the noise rock bands of the US underground. Another band that I wish that was more widely known that was creating music a little later on in the mid 80’s was big flame. Keep up the amazing work.
I think I’ve found a new band to get obsessed with, the few snippets of Lion’s Mouth by The Sound, sounded incredible. I can see how it was said U2 kinda stole their place by accident of that injury preventing them from performing, because From The Lion’s Mouth has that emotive gothic rock post punk cool of early U2 about it. Really sad story about Borland, they definitely deserved better!
the more you listen to them it’s easier to get increasingly frustrated that they never became the biggest band in the world. their underratedness is basically baked into their lore by now. they’re the first band I think of when anyone asks about forgotten and overlooked bands
Damn, this is such a great channel. The Sound and the Chameleons deserve all the recognition they can get. Truly majestic music. Thank you.. That Petrol Emotion and Comsat Angels deserve some love too.
I could be quite happy on a deserted island with only Underwater Moonlight, Colossal Youth, and Moving. So much beauty and creativity on those three records! And yes, I'm a total dork who like the Raincoats last record best.
I loved this video, it's almost like you're continuing the legacy of the 10 things i hate about you proto clickbait and giving me obscure bands to check out. Also side note: you should do a video about the australian rock scene. It's so endemic and self contained that you could probably cover most of it in one video and there is so many wild places you could take it like the industrial punk of venom p stinger, the mainstream radio leftist political rock of midnight oil, the proto punk of the saints (which you already briefly covered) not even mentioning all the isolated but massive aussie bands like cold chisel, powderfinger etc etc
All these bands peaked when I was just about 5 years too young to appreciate them. So indeed, never heard of them, even though it is clear that for many their sound influenced the bands I do know. Very cool to hear that stuff (and now off to add at least The Sound to my Spotify list).
You mean one about the bands associated with the NWOBHM scene that somehow have now been forgotten or got lost along the way. I'd definitely enjoy that.
@jon-paulfilkins7820 just a handful of bands. Of course Maiden, Leppard and Saxon are going to get mentioned. Venom, Holocaust, Diamond Head, Tygers...and let's not forget Neat Records, and the labels that followed.
Once again, stellar writing and editing. And again, I got two or three new names from you. Please consider taking on The Mod Revival (The Jam outwards). My trousers are pressed and ready.
Great video, loved this period , the years following the punk explosion 1978 -1981 was absolutely loaded with the weird and the wonderful and John Peel delivered it all on the radio every night for us to record on cassette! Some great bands on this video but I’d add Scars, Pink Military (you should do a vid on the post punk Liverpool scene and Jayne Casey!), Mekons, New Age Steppers, The Wall. Artery, Nightmares In Wax, The Tights (China’s Eternal was a cracking single) , Ludus, Cravats. The Moodists, Glaxo Babies. Modern English. So many more!
You guys really do a terrific job. Learned a lot from your channel and look forward to your well-produced videos. This is yet another example of preeminent work. Thank you.
Great idea for a video. Do more! The only one of these bands I had heard of was Young Marble Giants thanks to a friend. Looks like I have a bunch of new music to explore.
Every single one of the super radio-friendly post-punk revivalist bands of the 2000s and 2010s who said they were so influenced by Gang of Four or Joy Division actually sounded like The Sound's first album, and the fact that they didn’t _say that_ always made me super suspicious. You think I can’t tell you’re cribbing from Borland, you asshats?
I love this channel. It’s so damn educational. I also love the description of the Raincoats as singing with “almost harmonies”. Almost, but not quite... harmonious. Hooray for occasional dissonance!! Happy Christmas my English brothers & sisters in music, and a jolly good New Year. Now, do like me these days, and don’t drink too much. 🇬🇧🇺🇸🎶✨
Ruefrex, The Lucy Show, The Feelies, Mccarthy, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Felt, Died Pretty, Mission of Burma, Band of Susans, That Petrol Emotion (maybe do a vid on "second" bands like how the Undertones were remade without Fergal as TPE)
Last year I found a list of obscure post-punk on Rate Your Music, which became a treasure trove of interesting stuff I had overlooked or never heard of before. I feel like there's just an almost endless list of bands that could use a little more attention. The creativity of that time is unreal.
Wow. I hadn't realized how much Franz Ferdinand sounded like Brainiac, a Dayton, Ohio band saw in the 1990s. Love your channel! I hadn't heard of Young Marble Giants, but I will listen soon.
Hey, Trash Theory, I love your channel. I know this is supposedly "new British canon", but here's a recommendation: 1990s American indie rock. So many bands that influenced so many others that came afterward. What you did with this episode, you can do with bands such as: Pavement, Guided by Voices, Royal Trux, Built to Spill, Modest Mouse, Sleater-Kinney, Neutral Milk Hotel, Liz Phair, etc.
See title, expect to see The Cardiacs on the list, realize they are just too mainstream for this list. Not a thought I would ever expect to have!😛 Carry on.
This Heat were not a widely known band prior to the early 2000s, same with Swell Maps, they are still incredibly obscure today honestly, they have less than 20k listeners on Spotify while bands like the Fall and Wire are in the hundreds of thousands, not the most fringe acts in post-punk, but definitely lesser known.
Yes, they are obscure. You can’t got down to your local store and buy their music. This may be different in London or New York but outside of massive cities……
Thank you for this niceness for me to enjoy before the dawn on a winter morn...I guess I am showing my age, more than my muscal knowlege, getting very old indeed as I have heard of all the bands mentioned, and still own many of those records...infact that is probably an eighth of my record collection...
Great doc, as usual. To add a suggestion. Scars. I remember, from the moment of their 'Author Author' 1981 album realease I was captivated. And still am. They were a kind of bastardised Duran Duran coupling with The Cure and Japan. Extraordinary strange pop. Maybe a bit of a stretch to call them post-punk - but they definitely had elements of that jerky synth-pop jangliness going on. I think there's still something of a cult following for the band. I hope so. 'Author Author' still remains a ten out of ten for me. Cheers.
Have you checked out Scoorieboy it's the bass players new band he's been developing for a while now, not much like the scars but good, and his TH-cam has a lot of old Scars material on it, live , unreleased etc.
I’ve heard House of Love mentioned in passing by you twice and I would really like a video on them specifically as they just disappeared when Manchester broke. I remember they were called the saviours of UK independent music then. Also more post punk. Much more. This is where the gold is. It’s my one of my go tos. Also a noise focus would be welcome. I have a lot of requests. Here’s two more- Roland s howard. The apartments
I remember finding a cut off a late-career Swell Maps record on TH-cam a handful of years ago and mistaking them for one of those early Brooklyn-scene contemporaries of Animal Collective or something. Makes sense now.
I've been a fan of u and dig yre vids. Cool to see the Raincoats although I think many of they've been heard of much more than a band like Magazine, before cobain mentioned them ive known about them . I dig their expiemental stuff more ..who still was ahead of their time and also the beginning of what became post punk. For the record there already elements of punk that were weird to begin with .much of what was called even "art punk " bands like pere ubu , devo and obscure bands like Deabeats . I think post punk somidifired the experimental more aoI also think it's rad you covered This Heat no one has ever talked about them.when I first heard them was in the 90s and I thought thst stuff came out at that time because of the many avant hardcore bands of the time but it was 20 years before that. I've had the honour of corresponding with a few of them - especially Charles Hayward - really cool people. He's been really encouraging to me . Keep up the great work thanks for your videos.. ever heard of the post punk band Positive Noise check them out if u haven't
This is you flexing your pretentious music knowledge, and I'm here for it. I wouldn't watch your videos if you didn't know reams more than I do. Bathe in your knowledge and "well actually, the history of that is quite interesting..." We all love it. You are very cool, and very interesting.
Thanks for this great story. I was reminded of my old favorite of the time, Newcastle's Punishment of Luxury. I'm not even sure they were that unknown, tbh. It's just that nobody around me ever cared, while I thought they were fucking awesome!
Unforfunately it may be hard to asses them as "influential", but the way And Also The Trees have quietly and modestly created a sound all their own r in the underground over a quarter century's time is a feat rarely matched in British music. Big up for also mentioning them @phlapjacks
Every now and then I get people asking for a playlist of every song mentioned in my videos: Well here's a Spotify link for this one:#
open.spotify.com/playlist/4v42fB839ysLQ0xhGNVpid?si=a72fcb747b1141ae
and the TH-cam Music one:
music.th-cam.com/play/PLooaZ33lSalfaFg3gM3PKMv9JXy0d8_s_.html&si=qTJ0nDrBh2s9MAnS
Thank you!!🌞🌞
Can you do one about the song Sand by Eric's Trip, Sloan, and The Microphones? Please? 🙏🏿
Hands diwn this channel is above the mark, different class content.
TT is an island of reality in a sea of diarrhoea...
the sound deserve their own video
This 👆
The Chameleons "Script For A Bridge" is possibly one of the best post-punk records
A criminally underappreciated band.
Agreed!
“Strange Times” right on its heels!
I would like to add Red Lorry Yellow Lorry to the chameleons as my two favourite post-punk bands, SFAB is on of the greatest albums I have ever heard, a great shout out good sir .
I don't think I've ever heard the Chameleons before. I need to check them out, apparently.
Great list! Here’s a couple other HIGHLY underrated post-punk bands from the late 70s/early 80s.
1. The Passage
2. The Opposition
3. Theatre of Hate
4. Modern Eon
5. The Comsat Angels
6. The Pop Group
7. Pere Ubu
8. Sad Lovers & Giants
9. Orange Juice
Has TT done one on Orange Juice/ Postcard Recs yet?
Hell yeah for the Pop Group and Pere Ubu, the latter were putting out post-punk singles as early as 1975! Which is insane and never really gets mentioned enough how much influence they had on the development of the UK post-punk scene alongside Brian Eno, Iggy Pop and David Bowie's output. Ubu toured England in the late '70s with their shows being attended by Peter Hook and Howard Devoto, who went on to be a part of their own respective influential bands (Joy Division & Magazine).
I'd also add a few more bands to this list:
The Chameleons
Suburban Lawns
The Cleaners From Venus
Pylon
Ludus
Blue Orchids
The Monochrome Set
Gary Davenport
Urinals
The 2x4's
Blurt
Stump
Tronics
Pere Ubu are amazing, especially considering how insanely early their stuff was coming out. They're like the Silver Apples of post punk.
I also really love Orange Juice. I found them way back in the early 90s, when Edwyn Collins had that big hit with Never Met a Girl. There was a DJ here in St. Louis named Les Aaron, who was a British expat, on our local alternative station. Aaron mentioned one day after that Collins song ended that he had been the lead singer in a group called Orange Juice prior to going solo, and I was so in love with the sounds of that song that I immediately started bugging my mom to take me to Streetside Records (I was only twelve at the time), and managed to find an Orange Juice cassette.
pere ubu is great!!!! i wouldve put the Durutti Column on here
I've heard of all these bands, partially only because of how much I got into the history of UK post punk due to your video on echo and the bunnymen. comes full circle!! great vid as always.
Can we have an Underworld or Orbital Trash Theory one day?
“Or”? We need Underworld AND Orbital!
Yes, Underworld please
Would be so cool
Orbital would be amazing. Maybe the big beat era of the late 90s early 00s too.
Orbital please
I'm glad the Sound is mentioned here. I just listened to them yesterday after not doing so for a while, way too underrated.
Not usually big on live albums but Hothouse is so damn brilliant
THE SOUND! Love this band, also the Chameleons are sooo awesome!
This Heat and The Sound are amazing! This Heat is truly something else entirely. I’ve been looking for something that’s similar to them sound, vibe, lyrically, and musically.
Post punk is just a brilliant genre when digging through it all.
Just started. The Sound?! Adrian Borland rules and im pumpt now 💪
Modern eon, Monochrome Set, Cuban Heels, Fad Gadget,Au Pairs, A Certain Ratio, and the great Chameleons.
Everyone must listen to Playing With A Different Sex by Au Pairs. Excellent post punk.
24 Track Loop sounds unbelievably like something that would be released on Warp Records in the mid-90s, but is 20 years older than that. Incredible.
So glad to see The Sound being more talked about, Missiles is one of the greastest anti-war song in the rock canon
The Sound deserved to be as big as The Cure.
The Sound, The Chameleons, and Comsat Angels deserve vids of their own
Saw the Chameleons tour with the Mission recently. Absolutely stellar.
I'd probably add Rip Rig & Panic to that list too. A fearless blend of punk, funk, free jazz, 20th century classical, and music from other cultures - taking further what groups like The Slits and Pigbag were doing. Some stellar bass work too
Love to see a deep dive into Gang Of Four. One of my faves.
You did a fantastic job here. I have done episodes on many of these bands on my own channel. I really liked how you connected the sounds of these bands with later day artists. British post punk was so rich, particularly between 1978 and 1981. Punk had declared rock dead and the possibilities for experimentation were wide open. I really wish The Pop Group were more widely known as they would have a massive influence on The Birthday Party and many of the noise rock bands of the US underground. Another band that I wish that was more widely known that was creating music a little later on in the mid 80’s was big flame. Keep up the amazing work.
I think I’ve found a new band to get obsessed with, the few snippets of Lion’s Mouth by The Sound, sounded incredible. I can see how it was said U2 kinda stole their place by accident of that injury preventing them from performing, because From The Lion’s Mouth has that emotive gothic rock post punk cool of early U2 about it.
Really sad story about Borland, they definitely deserved better!
You are in for a treat!
Its a rabbit hole well worth jumping down, then try the Comsat Angels Early stuff.
the more you listen to them it’s easier to get increasingly frustrated that they never became the biggest band in the world. their underratedness is basically baked into their lore by now. they’re the first band I think of when anyone asks about forgotten and overlooked bands
One of the best channels on TH-cam. Not just music. Please make a Spacemen 3 video.
The cherry on top for this channel is the Spotify playlist. I know this one is going to be absolutely killer.
Fantastic documentary, brilliant research.
please make a video about john mcgeoch or the band magazine, i believe their legacy deserves to be told by you
Oh my god YES please!!
The Sound were bloody amazing. Such a tragic tale.
The bar was set high but this video is up there with your finest work. Many new (old) bands to check, thank you.
Cardiacs?
Great video as usual
Damn, this is such a great channel. The Sound and the Chameleons deserve all the recognition they can get. Truly majestic music. Thank you..
That Petrol Emotion and Comsat Angels deserve some love too.
I could be quite happy on a deserted island with only Underwater Moonlight, Colossal Youth, and Moving. So much beauty and creativity on those three records! And yes, I'm a total dork who like the Raincoats last record best.
Siekiera - Nowa Aleksandria LP (Poland 1986)
Sad Lovers & Giants - Epic Garden Music. Great stuff
Great video.The Soft Boys are my faves out of this bunch.
Nice too see the sound still getting some airtime on radio stations in the Benelux. Winning is such a amazing song and totally overlooked in the UK.
Been following for a while and this one was special.
Have a Great Festive Season.
Pete
I loved this video, it's almost like you're continuing the legacy of the 10 things i hate about you proto clickbait and giving me obscure bands to check out. Also side note: you should do a video about the australian rock scene. It's so endemic and self contained that you could probably cover most of it in one video and there is so many wild places you could take it like the industrial punk of venom p stinger, the mainstream radio leftist political rock of midnight oil, the proto punk of the saints (which you already briefly covered) not even mentioning all the isolated but massive aussie bands like cold chisel, powderfinger etc etc
All these bands peaked when I was just about 5 years too young to appreciate them. So indeed, never heard of them, even though it is clear that for many their sound influenced the bands I do know. Very cool to hear that stuff (and now off to add at least The Sound to my Spotify list).
That seems to be the universal reaction when people first discover The Sound :)
Great episode as always; for a future video, how about a similar one on NWOBHM? Just a suggestion.
You mean one about the bands associated with the NWOBHM scene that somehow have now been forgotten or got lost along the way. I'd definitely enjoy that.
@jon-paulfilkins7820 just a handful of bands. Of course Maiden, Leppard and Saxon are going to get mentioned. Venom, Holocaust, Diamond Head, Tygers...and let's not forget Neat Records, and the labels that followed.
Superb documentary....will be delving further... particularly with This Heat, Swell Maps and The Sound 🤟👍
I found out about The Sound in that era where MGMT was big and From the Lion's Mouth found its way into my regular rotation, it's so good
Always nice to see Desperate Bicylces get a shout out.
Nice and early for this one. Just wanted to give you props Trash Theory, you're the only music channel I never skip an upload from. Keep it up
Soft boys, the sound, and swell maps are some of the best ever
Oh, hell yes, The Sound...
Agora vou ficar na expectativa de um video sobre John Peel.
Holy shit. Thank you so much for bringing up This Heat. All time favorite band and SEVERELY overlooked. Good on ya!
that is an insane subway commercial
Once again, stellar writing and editing. And again, I got two or three new names from you. Please consider taking on The Mod Revival (The Jam outwards). My trousers are pressed and ready.
The Sound is the real deal. Adrian Borland and is band are the Best
GOSH I have so much to get into! I already knew this heat and the raincoats, but I’m really liking all the other ones you included
The Soft Boys album Underwater Moonlight is easily 1 of the best albums I've ever heard that is unknown.
It’s not unknown!❤
Great video, loved this period , the years following the punk explosion 1978 -1981 was absolutely loaded with the weird and the wonderful and John Peel delivered it all on the radio every night for us to record on cassette! Some great bands on this video but I’d add Scars, Pink Military (you should do a vid on the post punk Liverpool scene and Jayne Casey!), Mekons, New Age Steppers, The Wall. Artery, Nightmares In Wax, The Tights (China’s Eternal was a cracking single) , Ludus, Cravats. The Moodists, Glaxo Babies. Modern English. So many more!
And Also the Trees is my vote for addition to this list
My old band open for Nikki Sudden in the late 90’s at Coney Island High. He was amazing and nice too!
Chameleons!
Mind Your Own Business by DELTA 5 is such a banger! Thank you for this hidden gem.
You guys really do a terrific job. Learned a lot from your channel and look forward to your well-produced videos. This is yet another example of preeminent work. Thank you.
What about Tear Drop Explodes Julan Cope!!!Great stuff !!
Great idea for a video. Do more! The only one of these bands I had heard of was Young Marble Giants thanks to a friend. Looks like I have a bunch of new music to explore.
All your eps are delightful and this one is super great! thanks!
Every single one of the super radio-friendly post-punk revivalist bands of the 2000s and 2010s who said they were so influenced by Gang of Four or Joy Division actually sounded like The Sound's first album, and the fact that they didn’t _say that_ always made me super suspicious. You think I can’t tell you’re cribbing from Borland, you asshats?
Pylon and the Comsat Angels. I never hear either of them discussed much, though I guess they are at least somewhat known.
I can't find the »never heard« band, but still again a great video!
I love this channel. It’s so damn educational. I also love the description of the Raincoats as singing with “almost harmonies”. Almost, but not quite... harmonious. Hooray for occasional dissonance!! Happy Christmas my English brothers & sisters in music, and a jolly good New Year. Now, do like me these days, and don’t drink too much. 🇬🇧🇺🇸🎶✨
From the Lion's Mouth is one of the greatest achievements in mankind
Definitely well aware of all of these bands, but still super-happy to see them getting love and perhaps finding new fans. 😃
Ruefrex, The Lucy Show, The Feelies, Mccarthy, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Felt, Died Pretty, Mission of Burma, Band of Susans, That Petrol Emotion (maybe do a vid on "second" bands like how the Undertones were remade without Fergal as TPE)
Once again, incredible video! I’d love something about artists like leftfield and underworld to Goldie!
Last year I found a list of obscure post-punk on Rate Your Music, which became a treasure trove of interesting stuff I had overlooked or never heard of before. I feel like there's just an almost endless list of bands that could use a little more attention. The creativity of that time is unreal.
Wow. I hadn't realized how much Franz Ferdinand sounded like Brainiac, a Dayton, Ohio band saw in the 1990s. Love your channel! I hadn't heard of Young Marble Giants, but I will listen soon.
Hey, Trash Theory, I love your channel. I know this is supposedly "new British canon", but here's a recommendation: 1990s American indie rock. So many bands that influenced so many others that came afterward. What you did with this episode, you can do with bands such as: Pavement, Guided by Voices, Royal Trux, Built to Spill, Modest Mouse, Sleater-Kinney, Neutral Milk Hotel, Liz Phair, etc.
My wife and i loved this kind of video, definitly do more like it eventually!
Splendid video. I'm a big fan of Colossal Youth and Deceit. I was not familiar with The Raincoats, gonna check them out.
when i heard the XX were up for mercury music prize i thought 'hmm young marble giants'
See title, expect to see The Cardiacs on the list, realize they are just too mainstream for this list. Not a thought I would ever expect to have!😛 Carry on.
And what a time well spent is with this!
"Never heard"?? aren't The Raincoats and This Heat considered two of the most influential and best post-punk bands???
None of these bands are really obscure.
This Heat were not a widely known band prior to the early 2000s, same with Swell Maps, they are still incredibly obscure today honestly, they have less than 20k listeners on Spotify while bands like the Fall and Wire are in the hundreds of thousands, not the most fringe acts in post-punk, but definitely lesser known.
Yes, they are obscure. You can’t got down to your local store and buy their music. This may be different in London or New York but outside of massive cities……
would love to see you discuss The Cardiacs
Just listened to This Heat's Deceit. Awesome! Thanks for the recommendation.
Awesome video. Thank you
Yeah, you got me on all of these. I'm sure I crossed paths with some of them without knowing.
"three chords and the truth". Great writing
It’s from the 50’s country music scene.
Wow, geat as usual! Thanks
Thank you for this niceness for me to enjoy before the dawn on a winter morn...I guess I am showing my age, more than my muscal knowlege, getting very old indeed as I have heard of all the bands mentioned, and still own many of those records...infact that is probably an eighth of my record collection...
The Sound deserves a separate video, imho
What do ya mean never heard?
Some of my favorite bands!❤
Great doc, as usual. To add a suggestion. Scars. I remember, from the moment of their 'Author Author' 1981 album realease I was captivated. And still am. They were a kind of bastardised Duran Duran coupling with The Cure and Japan. Extraordinary strange pop. Maybe a bit of a stretch to call them post-punk - but they definitely had elements of that jerky synth-pop jangliness going on. I think there's still something of a cult following for the band. I hope so. 'Author Author' still remains a ten out of ten for me. Cheers.
Have you checked out Scoorieboy it's the bass players new band he's been developing for a while now, not much like the scars but good, and his TH-cam has a lot of old Scars material on it, live , unreleased etc.
Was expecting Sad Lovers and Giants to be on the list. Still great seeing The Sound get some recognition on here.
STOP STOP STOP, your too good!!!!!!
Love this. Going back to listen to these groups.
Fantastic stuff!
Great stuff !!
chameleons not mentioned? crazy
I’ve heard House of Love mentioned in passing by you twice and I would really like a video on them specifically as they just disappeared when Manchester broke. I remember they were called the saviours of UK independent music then.
Also more post punk. Much more. This is where the gold is. It’s my one of my go tos. Also a noise focus would be welcome. I have a lot of requests. Here’s two more- Roland s howard. The apartments
One of the great might-have-been bands. Their debut in particular is a lovely album.
The Fire Engines blew my mind the first time I heard them.
I remember finding a cut off a late-career Swell Maps record on TH-cam a handful of years ago and mistaking them for one of those early Brooklyn-scene contemporaries of Animal Collective or something. Makes sense now.
Speaking of AC, Ariel Pink's "Unwritten Law" cover got me into The Sound.
I've been a fan of u and dig yre vids. Cool to see the Raincoats although I think many of they've been heard of much more than a band like Magazine, before cobain mentioned them ive known about them . I dig their expiemental stuff more ..who still was ahead of their time and also the beginning of what became post punk. For the record there already elements of punk that were weird to begin with .much of what was called even "art punk " bands like pere ubu , devo and obscure bands like Deabeats . I think post punk somidifired the experimental more aoI also think it's rad you covered This Heat no one has ever talked about them.when I first heard them was in the 90s and I thought thst stuff came out at that time because of the many avant hardcore bands of the time but it was 20 years before that. I've had the honour of corresponding with a few of them - especially Charles Hayward - really cool people. He's been really encouraging to me . Keep up the great work thanks for your videos.. ever heard of the post punk band Positive Noise check them out if u haven't
This is you flexing your pretentious music knowledge, and I'm here for it.
I wouldn't watch your videos if you didn't know reams more than I do.
Bathe in your knowledge and "well actually, the history of that is quite interesting..." We all love it.
You are very cool, and very interesting.
Sometimes what doesn't stick leaves noticeable impressions.
Always good to see a new Trash Theory.
Thanks for this great story. I was reminded of my old favorite of the time, Newcastle's Punishment of Luxury. I'm not even sure they were that unknown, tbh. It's just that nobody around me ever cared, while I thought they were fucking awesome!
Bless you! These are the cream.
Unforfunately it may be hard to asses them as "influential", but the way And Also The Trees have quietly and modestly created a sound all their own r in the underground over a quarter century's time is a feat rarely matched in British music.
Big up for also mentioning them
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