Essential Albums: Post-Punk

Tags: 
  • 1.The Birthday Party/Junkyard
  • 2.The Cure/Pornography
  • 3.Joy Division/Unknown Pleasures
  • 4.Joy Division/Closer
  • 5.Mission of Burma/Signals, Calls, and Marches
  • 6.Pere Ubu/The Modern Dance
  • 7.Siouxsie and the Banshees/Once Upon a Time
  • 8.Suicide/Suicide
  • 9.U2/Boy
  • 10.X/Los Angeles

I'd like to nominate a Wire album. If Pink Flag is too punk for you (although I claim it as post punk), perhaps 154?

I'd also nominate an early New Order disc, but I know you would probably never go for that...

Shalom, y'all!

L. Bangs