DazeyDiver wrote:Rimbaud III wrote:SecondEdition wrote:DazeyDiver wrote:Throbbing Gristle?
Birthday Party?
The Birthday Party were from Australia. I don't think that's technically the UK.
Look at their flag, dude! We
pwn them.
i kinda qualified them on account of them moving to london before they changed their name to the Birthday Party.
They're still disqualified on a technicality. But that's fine: we know they'd probably
own this thread if they were included. For good reason.
It's so hard for me to choose here, because so many of these bands have made albums that will always remain among my favorites. Almost all of them have, actually; except for The Fall, but that is only because they are my newest discovery (I only have
Live at the Witch Trials, which is great), and the Pop Group, because I always thought they were unfortunately inconsistent and never made a totally perfect album.
However, you could easily make a plausible case for the Pop Group's best material as the best material of the entire movement. Side 1 of
Y is practically an exorcism - which is why much of Side 2 of that album comes as such a disappointment. Where's that lunatic energy? Strangely enough, I just realized that I have
Live at the Witch Trials and
Y in my car today.
Why isn't This Heat here?
Deceit is also a total masterpiece of the genre.
In the end, I'll probably have to go with PiL by default, because
Second Edition was my entry into postpunk, and one of the greatest musical experiences of my life thus far, and, hell, the origin of my alias. I love all of these bands to death, however, and hate voting against any of them, because they're all so great.
