What is post-punk?

When the punk movement began in the late seventies, a number of bands simply inherited punk's unruly and stubborn spirit without becoming surplus copies of the sex Pistols. These bands embodied an incredibly complex and experimental character in their music, eschewing punk's crude triads altogether, and producing artful, highly sophisticated musical material that was challenging but called post-punk in light of their anti-mainstream-rock, anti-traditional, and counter-cultural punk ethos.Post-punk bands, represented by JoyDivision and theCure, not only JoyDivision and theCure, represented by the post-punk bands, not only further increased the weight of the musical elements, making it more complex, and the music began to become melancholic cold, at the same time, the post-punk bands attempted to change the structure of the traditional rock songs and the theme of the creation of the spirit of complete rebellion, the post-punk ideology gradually became the ideological pillars of the future of alternative rock, and continued to be extended in different rock styles

Post-Punk

Post-Punk

Since the 1970s, post-punk has become the most popular form of rock music. p>

Since the 1977 punk revolution, many bands have sprung up, inspired by punk's independent spirit and straightforward expression. Instead of repeating the style of the sex pistols, they continued the path of roxy music, david bowie, and t.rex in addition to punk rock, and moved into a more experimental realm, forming the post-punk genre. Some of the bands banded together because of their countercultural spirit and rebellion against established rock conventions, and many of these organizations ---- such as joy division, the cure ---- used synthesizers and guitars to create a dark, brooding form of musical expression. Other bands experimented with lighter music, but the melodies and lyrics were disjointed and subverted the traditional rock/punk song structure. By the 1980s, post-punk eventually evolved into a selective rock/punk sound.

Bands

Bauhaus

the Birthday Party

Clinic

Cocteau Twins

the Cure

Depeche Mode

Devo

the Fall

Gang Of Four

Godspeed You Black Emperor

INXS

Japan

the Jesus and Mary chain

Joy Division

Killing Joke

Mick Harvey

New Order

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Pulp

Simple Minds

Siouxsie & The Banshees

Sonic Youth

Spear Of Destiny

Stepa

the Suicide Machines

Swans

Talking Heads

the The

U2