I would like to discuss post-punk. Why was it so popular? Why did it all sound the same?

I would like to discuss post-punk. Why was it so popular? Why did it all sound the same?

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good for chicks

i have a lot of issues with this post

fuck off tripfag

Idk. Still sucks too

Because, like regular punk, it was a scene of copycats interested more in aesthetic than experimentation

Post punk is just music for the middle class pseudo intellectuals

this

you know nothing about post-punk

It doesn't seem very intelligent though?????????

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>Why did it all sound the same?

You're an idiot. The whole reason it's popular is because it sounds completely different then mainstream music of the time.

I was referring to the music within the confines of the genre.

you fool. you idiot

>why was it so popular?
depends where you're talking about. the UK post-punk scene was informed by thatcher-era disillusionment, a fascination with technological advancement and an eroticised paranoia of nuclear war - its not hard to see why so many people gravitated towards it at the time.

>Why did it all sound the same?
To the uninformed listener it does sound pretty moody and uniform, but its a big blanket term. As with any genre featuring the 'post' prefix it encompasses a huge range of sounds and aesthetics, pic related being a good example of just how much variety there is to be found.

shut up nerd lmao

I think I understand now. While most music is melody-driven, it seems post-punk is one a the choice few genres that are more driven lyrically. I am giving Joy Division's Closer a spin and acquiring a new appreciation for the genre as a whole. The music itself is simple and having only given it a shallow-listen I never realized that it was supposed to be this way. I was put into an almost trance-like state, and upon reading the lyrics along with the song I began to understand what Ian Curtis was feeling when he wrote these lyrics. A transfer of emotion. A peek into a man's mind who has been completely beaten down by life, and then when he was at his lowest... His companion left too. Completely alone and in despair. This was Ian Curtis' vision on this album.

>it seems post-punk is one a the choice few genres that are more driven lyrically
dude you are dumb lol

why you gotta be like this

It's a diverse genre that people could latch onto because even the words "post-punk" seems quite loaded. Why, it's almost as if there is a sort of unification between the goths, punks and (?)hipsters(?)...

Starter pack genre for the "No, really, I'm seriously into music" type of person. You will find plenty and plenty of great tunes out of it so dig in.

>more driven lyrically
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you are fuckin stupid stop overthinking this so much

Oh, and this

i just want to hear good music. i don't really associate with other people enough to want to establish a persona amongst them other than "he is good at his job let's give him more money".


i like it

is this really post-punk though? this sounds like a bad ripoff of tiger army or something.

There's the flowchart posted in this thread and there's always RYM's charts you can lurk around to find some tunes so don't let the "image" ruin your musical curiosities otherwise you'll be saying "Closer is better" every time Unknown Pleasures is brought up. Yes, there may be a valid argument about what's the best Joy Division release but I rarely see that happen here time to time. Stay in school.

are you fucking deaf

i don't really think one can exist without the other. Closer feels like a natural progression from Unknown Pleasures.

Maybe if you've only heard entry level stuff like Joy Division

Offering no substance he spouts lmao,
Away from here and to Sup Forums this newfag should go.

Not really hipsters my nig, they latch onto everything and claim it as theirs.

he looks at the post and judges a man as a fool
in the other room his love is being plowed by a bull

This is goth you idiot, not even much of the Post-Punk goth from the early 80s.

Frantically from my verse, he seeks protection, using the age old ways of projection.
He thought he had it made,
Until I went and said,
"I am the bull," much to his correction.

>implying goth and deathrock are not post-punk


you are fucking dumb, famaloa

They're less post-punk with the grittier late 80s sound instead of the early 80s sound.

bruh it's literally just Christian Death worship

what are some "gritty late 80s" bands like this

Good point, but early CD at least seems closer to hardcore than Post-Punk.

post-punk is the stepping stone between pop and actually experimental music

once you've explored enough you'll forget all about this genre

think of it as the scorsese or kubrick or music, it's no arthouse that's for sure

why is post punk so fucking boring, like could there possibly be a more bland genre of music

Indie.

i can't read the name of the albums

post rock

>post-punk is the stepping stone between pop and actually experimental music
only if you're the kind of dork who has a problem with artists blurring the line between the two. music isn't separated into defined hierarchies, just as arthouse is not the ivory tower of film untainted by commercialism. Its exactly that kind of elitism which post-punk rejects.

>Group of people invent punk
>Punk rebels against the"" system ""
>Labels want to make a profit with punk
>Leading punk bands become big and mainstrean
>Punk becomes mainstrean
>Punk gets worn out
>Post-Punk begins experimentation with the genre