Youtube Post-Punk Retrospective

My buddy, Josh Hoe and I put together this impressive list of the classics of post-punk, including links to relevant youtube videos. The dates listed refer to the year of the bands inception, not a release date for the song in the video. This is hours of fun to listen to and explore. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do -- if you see something is missing -- add it to the list. If you find a link to a better video, or just an alternate video that is pretty good, feel fee to leave it as a comment. We'd like to see this post grow into a massive homage to the era of music that we love.

Old Influences:

Captain Beefheart 1965

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TBMTui7qg8&feature=related

Can 1968

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG_ssOWKq74&feature=related

David Bowie 1964

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBQ-S6njQQw

Detroit:

MC5 1964

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I8o3y5wP48

Iggy and the Stooges 1967

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLCQU8iKalA&feature=related

New York City:

Velvet Underground 1965

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UpFGoJHwLI

New York Dolls 1971

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXd9OIYL9xM

Germany

Kraftewerk 1970

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXa9tXcMhXQ

UK

Roxy Music, 1971

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVeEBMJt8vs

Swell Maps 1972

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGlIki2vq5w

Elvis Costello and the Attractions 1970

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRT8nA665Gs&feature=related

CBGBs

Television 1973

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFkQq_UpLwU&feature=related

Ramones 1974

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIf-k9vElhQ&feature=related

Blondie 1976

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUG0GjdoGHE&feature=related

Suicide 1971

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBrn2mBWLeo&feature=related

Richard Hell and the Voidoids 1976

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUU85sOxZ78&feature=related

The Heartbreakers 1975

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_-HR3R72hc

Talking Heads 1974

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5zFsy9VIdM

Massachusetts

Modern Lovers 1970

http://youtube.com/watch?v=4H4p3lmTLyE

Cleveland

Devo 1973

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRguZr0xCOc

Pere Ubu 1975

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qnRzCWFgd4

UK

The Sex Pistols 1975

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z2M_hpoPwk

The Clash 1976

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiVvA9YQpiI

X-RAY SPEX 1976

http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:fxfyxqwgldte

The adverts 1976
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8SqkYzzGI0

Souxsie and the Banshees 1976

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF0OjrFIVWY

The Damned 1976

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91rAHIb8BwY

The Subway Sect 1976

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6jCR-12Y5E

Wire 1976

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYv3TqwCle4

Joy Division 1976

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZwMs2fLoVE

The Fall 1976

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEOtckaZtLg&feature=related

A Certain Ratio 1977

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb2rINWj_Ho

The Buzzcocks 1975

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRE79bxfMtY

Human League 1977

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNrnmDmffRc

Caberet Voltaire 1973

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkfzXq0tA3c

Gang of Four 1977

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_ottNzDkaU&feature=related

The Raincoats 1977

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt0cPSUdeQI&feature=related

The Slits 1976

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGAbV2NborY&feature=related

The Specials 1977

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGDQ85Dg-ss

Madness 1976

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIdfiCybLAE&feature=related

The Cure 1976

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQhh4Xs8RcM

The Police 1977

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bXMi3PSyW8

Throbbing Gristle 1975

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8klW9trVTQ

Ireland

U2 1976

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHzLWLFTPPI

California

Dead Kennedy's 1978

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrOCwk3U7H4&feature=related

X 1977

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo74OnQbhr4&feature=related

Black Flag 1977

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFF7jzVfSB0&feature=related

The Cramps 1976

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cukdOaBZgAw

Circle Jerks 1979

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTPFhuRDI6w

The Screamers 1975

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0-w0hUnhpI&feature=related

The Germs 1977

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzm2cNQQ6mE

Georgia

B-52s 1976

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9sG_Hr2RyQ

Back to NYC

James Chance and the Contortions 1979

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPb18CzG2gg

DNA 1978

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laQjL_IDMkI&feature=related

Teenage Jesus and the Jerks 1976

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Il2GWc4r_4

Theoretical Girls 1977

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXmQy8dCU2s

Back to UK

The Pop Group 1978

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL0tYowbIxE

Public Image Ltd 1978

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfVTqqBpbyg&feature=related

The Au Pairs 1979

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjbBr1_rSD8&feature=related

Young Marble Giants 1978

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW4qqfJaLlo

The English Beat (The Beat) 1978

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bM0wVjU2-k&feature=related

The Selecter 1979

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v0-NPIXrtE&feature=related

New Order 1980

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VcGJZpfl1c&feature=related

Bauhaus 1978

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJCuF6cJGVs

Depeche Mode 1980

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLA3WA9QOh0

Echo and the Bunnymen 1978

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1B6LrOmNsg

Fire Engines 1980

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm1vIfmmLUQ

Psychic Television 1982

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1yr8w_vZ5E

Gary Newman 1977

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu6MDdxBork

The Wedding Present 1985

Back to Georgia

REM 1980

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA57Pafq_NU

Minnesota

Husker Du 1979

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoKeH7JYE48

The Replacements 1979

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHXBOoDmQk8

Germany

Einstürzende Neubauten 1980

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm_aut6RDAY

California again

Minutemen 1980

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzyzVZZfUfM

Negativeland 1979

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY0ASHW3604

Switzerland

Liliput, 1978

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocBJt6Xz0iI

Scotland

Cocteau Twins, 1978

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f72lVV_o9MY&feature=related

More Mass

The Pixies 1986

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQgIOUwVZ1w

Evolving Forms of Media Messages - NIN's secret Code

I remember reading this article in an air port last December and thinking it was perfect for class. Not only is it an example of how our experience with media is becoming increasingly interactive, it is also point to how one medium remediates another...the ecology of the world is changing, while we are destroy the natural environment -- new, digital ones spring up.

I should also put in my pimp for Wired magazine and the online companion Wired.com, with no doubt my favorite pop publication.

Check out the article here, also can you solve the puzzle?

Gearing up For Class

I've been behind with the blog. I have a backlog of interesting articles, links and bric-a-brac to post. In the meantime, one of the things (the many things) I'm distracted by at the moment is the up coming Joy Division documentary. Control was a bit of a disappointment, but the preview before that film for the epnomymous documentary by Grant Gee and Tom Atencio was startling.

Here is the trailer for the film -



The documantary is available for purchase on Amazon.


Also, click here to read a great interview with Peter Hook about the film, courtesy of Suicide Girls.