Inspirational Imagery: post punk

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The Coolest Girls

WOWZ!!

Clockwise from left: Chrissy Hynde, Debbie Harry, Viv Albertine, Siouxsie Sioux, Pauline Black, Poly Styrene.

Shot by Michael Putland in August 1980 for New Musical News (or probably NME)

PIL, Live in Tokyo

Public Image Ltd., Live in Tokyo, Virgin UK double LP, 1983

Multi-Generational Synth Rarities (?)

Having to define musical genres can be so annoying!
Is it post-punk? Cold-Wave? Proto-Industrial? Electro? New Wave? Who knows, who cares?

Guerre Froide, "Ersatz", from Untitled, Stechak Records 12", France 1981

Wikipedia / Official Website / Discogs

Tokow Boys, "Swinging Pool", from Petite Rockette, Virgin France S.A. 12" Maxi, France 1980

Discogs

Police des Moeurs, "La Politique de la Division"

This Montreal, Canada band formed in 2010.

Bandcamp / Discogs / Soundcloud

Circa Tapes, "Adam and Eve", from Adam and Eve, Romance Moderne digital EP, US 2013

Chicago musician Adam Killing (a.k.a. Adam Sieczka, also from Kill Memory Crash) records under the name Circa Tapes, whose EP was released in 2013.

Soundcloud / Bandcamp / Discogs

Modèle Mécanique, "Dark of the Moon" ca. 2010

Soundcloud / Facebook

Oppenheimer Analysis, "The Devil's Dancers", from Oppenheimer Analysis, Minimal Wave Records 12" remastered EP, US 2005. (Originally released on a 1982 cassette (ed. of 200) entitled New Mexico)

Official Website / Discogs

Kitchen & the Plastic Spoons - Ice Cream to God

Kitchen & The Plastic Spoons, Ice Cream to God; Castor Records, Sweden, Flexi 7", 1981; edition of 1000

Front

Rear

Details of this release on Discogs

Department S was a London post-punk band that emerged from the ska scene, as members of an obscure 2-Tone band, Guns for Hire (which has a clever story about them), as well as Madness. They were originally active between 1979 and 1982. "Is Vic There?" is their most well-known song.

Department S, Is Vic There? Demon Records, UK 7", 1980

Front above and rear below.

The Wolfgang Press - The Burden of Mules

The Wolfgang Press, The Burden of Mules; 4AD, UK LP, 1983

ITunes

ZE Records

ZE Records was started in 1978 by Michael Zilkha and Michel Esteban in NYC at a time when the music scene was mixed up, artsy, amateur, creative, and beyond fun. ZE's "Mutant Disco" roster included many of my favorite funky no/new-wave buddies including James Chance, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Suicide, Ohio's The Waitresses, Lydia Lunch, and Cristina.

Fun fact: Michel Esteban was dating Anna Wintour around this time. Her friend, Chris Blackwell of Island Records, helped ZE get worldwide distribution with a licensing deal.

The label closed in 1984, but was re-established by Esteban in 2003.

Cristina, Cristina, ZE Records US LP, 1980

This is the cover for the US version only.

Lio, Pop Model, Polydor France LP, 1986

Not technically on ZE, but produced by Esteban.

Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Best Off, ZE Records France CD, 2006

Various, Zevolution - ZE Records Re-Edited, Strut UK 2xLP Compilation, 2009

Also not technically on ZE, but produced by Esteban. The taxi illustration is what's used on ZE's generic sleeves

Material ‎with Nona Hendryx, Bustin' Out, Celluloid/ZE France 12", 1981

This cover is not exactly the same as this release, but it's closest to it. I'm not entirely sure which specific release this image is of.

Like a moron, I forgot that I already made a post featuring a bunch of ZE covers, so feel free to check out more.

Videos

Buzzcocks, "Harmony in My Head", Top of the Pops, 1979

X-Ray Spex, "Identity", 1978

Mo-Dettes, "White Mice", 1979

New York Rocker

The New York Rocker was a monthly paper dedicated to underground music, published from 1976 to 1982. It covered all my favorites, as well as employed awesome music photographers, Laura Levine and Ebet Roberts.

The Clash, 1979

Devo, December 1979

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I (of course) favor the style used from 1980-1981. Elizabeth van Itallie was the art director.

Lydia Lunch and Lene Lovich, May 1980

Pretenders, June 1980

X, September 1980

Pylon, March 1981

Prince, June 1981

Album Covers

Various Artists, Tokyo-Paris-London-New York, Dancing Night, Shan Shan/Nippon Columbia records, Japan 12-inch, 1982.

Front, above and back, below.

Thick Pigeon, Subway / Sudan, Les Disques Du Crépuscule records, Belgium 7-inch, 1982.

Front, above and back, below.

Simple Minds, Themes For Great Cities (Definitive Collection 79-81), Stiff America records, US LP, 1981

Front, above and back, below.

Delta 5, Anticipation/You

Delta 5, Anticipation/You, Rough Trade UK 7", 1980

Front cover

Side A, Anticipation (option-click)

Front Cover

Side AA, You (option-click)

Olde New York

I haven't listened to this early 80's, all-girl, no wave band yet, but they have all the ingredients that make me fall in love. Here's an article about them published earlier this year in the Village Voice

New York subway, shot by Erik Calonius, May 1973

No Wave all-stars hanging out on the Bowery. Shot by Godlis, summer 1978.
I'm not cool enough to be able to identify all of these people, but I do see Diego Cortez, Anya Phillips, Lydia Lunch, and James Chance.

Skins on Ave A. Looks mid-80's

Killing Joke covers

I am not entirely certain yet how I feel about Killing Joke's music. Eric is shocked that I claim to not like them, because he feels that they are my sort of thing. Truth is, I can't stand that Living in the 80's song, and I have heard a few other songs of theirs that I disliked as well (which were probably the newer industrial-sounding ones.) However, I can't say I have too much experience with Killing Joke beyond that, so maybe their first few singles or whatever could work for me.

I do like some of their album art though!