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plus I couldn't imagine a band like bloc party being lumped in with bands like the chameleons, wire, siouxie and the banshees, section 25, etc.

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How is post punk revival a genre exactly? Post punk sure, but recent bands who incorporate some elements of a genre into their alt rock whatever scene haven't exactly created anything new

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Idk, to me a name like that such seems something some hip blogger or music snob pulled out of his ass. I mean White Stripes are blues rock, Strokes and Yeah yeah yeahs garage rock, Interpol is post-punk, and so on...



And besides, who cares about labels anyway.

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And yeah, I understand the irony of saying I don't care about labels, right after I put some onto a couple of bands.

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"How is post punk revival a genre exactly?"



It emulates the sound of post-punk bands of the late 1970s and new wave bands of the early 1980s as well as adding synthesizers or other electronic sounds to the traditional guitar, bass, and drums lineup.

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I guess modern day post-punk would be an easier term to understand, but that would be incorrect.

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Oh and not to whine, but what did New Order or Echo and the Bunnymen do exactly? They heavily used synths as well.

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"Oh and not to whine, but what did New Order or Echo and the Bunnymen do exactly? They heavily used synths as well."



New Order? I don't want to call you an idiot dude, but New Order are not by any means post-punk. Maybe their first album, but after that they continued towards the new wave direction. As for Echo and the Bunnymen, their earlier work is considered post-punk, but during the Porcupine era they started to move more towards the alternative music direction.

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Again,Silent Alarm was essentially The Jam. Definitely post punk.

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Yeah ok, fair point. (@Graveyard)

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Band displays 2 seconds worth of another genre = instantly part of that genre

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i just want people to know the difference

I think people can get a bit carried away with trying to categorise everything into neat little sub-genres

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well this was staggeringly mediocre

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To me, if some random alt rock band makes one track where they incorporate some post punk influence that doesn't automatically make them a part of the revival of post punk. It just means that they're an alt rock band who display their influences

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"well this was staggeringly mediocre"

Indeed.

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"But Conan, what is genre?"



"To define your enemies, see them catalogued before you, and to hear the lamentations of those who hate to see such discreet boundaries placed on an infinitely variable system."



Last bit definitely worked.

@Dev - agreed with that. A band's genre can change from album to album and song to song so yeah I try not to get too strict about the labels. For example on Intimacy - 'Mercury' into 'Halo'

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"When we can no longer think of any more redundant portmanteaus to apply to the restless we will realize that we shouldn't have tried in the first place"

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"The lesson is: never try"