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You definitely need to see the film Urgh! A music war. It is great. I remember my Dad showing this to me when we had satellite TV so that I could see how bad this band called the Cramps was. Lux Interior was rolling around in these very tight pants on stage and shoving the microphone down them. I thought it was great, and ended up watching the whole film late at night after my Dad had gone to bed. I still think it is one of the greatest live band films ever made. There are even rumors that each band actually had three songs recorded for the film and they edited out two of them. I would love it if they made a second film from all of that lost footage.

Always here for the Chameleons! The Peel Sessions is absolutely essential. Cheers H!

Loved Fadgadget especially after he did a song with Einsturzende Neubauten making fun of their fans. "Collapsing New People" is hilarious and it pretty much described my friends at the time. I was lucky enough to see The Banshees with Robert Smith back in the very early 80s in a very old beautiful theatre here. Truly memorable.

Hey! So the Bauhaus "Press the Eject" is not a bootleg. It was released on Beggars Banquet. Fields of the Nephilim worked with Andy Jackson, who did some engineering work with Pink Floyd. This was for FOTN third album "Elizium" and live album "Earth Inferno." They also used a keyboard player on Elizium who played with PF in their later years. That box set is awesome. Why don't you like Dawnrazor? Finally, the Chameleons Peel Sessions was remastered/reissued maybe 10 years ago or so with new artwork.

Hi Hanna 🌞 ! Just watched my DVD of Nocturne. Pulled To Bits is my favorite track. So glad you like The Comsats , Chameleons & Sound .. 3 best bands of the 80's most missed. I was going thru a break-up when Fiction came out so it really resonated with me particularly Now I Know. Stephen Fellows eventually found success as manager of Gomez. Italian Dark Wave band Ash Code are really good. Check out their cover of I Can't Escape Myself & Oblivion. You'll like them. Great stuff as always Hanna .. Be Well 😃 ✌️

Rats for being italian post punk /dub is kinda trippy ! nice find love that white album !

I would recommend fields of the nephilim , Dawnrazor and the Nephilim. As good as goth gets. Great video.

And Also the Trees was my recommendation! Tons of great stuff to explore. They went in a more Nick Cave direction in the 21st century. They released their first album in six years on Aug 30, The Bone Carver which takes a turn for more art rock/goth/cabaret, highly recommended. I think you have my Greatest Post-Punk you never heard piece. I picked up the Musical Guide to Modern Eon book, and their Fiction Tales reissue comes out December. That Rats is a nice find! Does it include "Tattoo" that Forced Exposure mentions as a bonus track? Need to revisit Pink Turns Blue, haven't listened in a few years. Same with 45 Grave and Skeletal Family. That Press the Eject was my introduction to Bauhaus. I'd think there's tons of Beggars Banquet versions out there.

Wow, you got This Heat, one of my favourite records. It's so strange and wonderful to hear the names of these songs and albums which were so important to me but which are so obscure. Rebellious Jukebox was the first Fall song I ever heard, which made me a lifelong fan. I know The Comsat Angels are hardly essential in comparison, but I love their song construction, the way they build emotionally and harmonically (After The Rain is a classic example). Kind of reminds me of Chris Cohen, he's a kind of introvert whose songs unfold in unexpected ways. Another great video Hanna!

Great video as always. I first listened to that Siouxsie BBC session here on RU-vid and it sounded nice, but I was blown away when I got my copy on CD. Not that I'm complaining about the CD, but couldn't they have come up with some nice artwork. It's so dull that it's kind of insulting to such great music. ;-)

Excellent video as usual! Here are some contemporary artists doing their post-punk/goth/coldwave thing that you MIGHT enjoy. 1) Fiasko Leitmotiv- Humblekids 2) Selfishadows- Again 3) Forever Grey- Departed 4) Curses- Incarnadine 5) Gwendoline- Apres c'est Gobelet 6) Blind Seagull- Personal Decay 7) Des Ames Libres- Nowhere 8) Hapax- Monade 9) Holygram- Modern cults 10) Ploho- Phantom Feelings By the way- Urgh-A music war is on Kanopy (roku) if you have it! Cheers!

Nice video Hanna. The Fall are a favorite of mine. I have all the LPs you mentioned. Here's a review of Live At The Witch Trials I wrote on Allmusic. Again-great video as usual! My review on Allmusic written March 11, 2018. 5 Stars The Fall's Live At The Witch Trials is a stunning masterpiece. Their debut album released in 1979 on UK's Step-Forward Records is one of the best records from the '77 era. There have been few artists with a discography as prolific as The Fall and this is the LP that started it all and it remains an iconic album to this day. Great musicianship and stellar singing and ranting from one of the giants of punk; the late Mark E. Smith. Classic cuts include "Frightened", "Crap Rap 2/Like To Blow", "Rebellious Jukebox", "Mother-Sister!", "Underground Medicine", "Two Steps Back", the great title track and "Futures And Pasts" but every song is prime The Fall. An absolute must have album, period the end.

The Go-Go's were IRS artists, and the movie was an IRS Records production, primarily focusing on The Police

I always look forward to all your videos, but when you do a post-punk video it's like Christmas for me. As usual, you have reminded me of some old favorites and given me a few new bands to check out. Your channel is by far my favorite in the vinyl community because we have such similar taste, so I know if you recommend something I haven't heard, I'm probably going to love it. Thanks so much.

Alot of stuff to listen to there. Something I think you may be interested in is a band from here, later 80's, kind of goth kind of new wave. The Unholy Wives. Nothing on vinyl that I know of or can find but on cd.. Give them a shot. As usual, another great video!

Yes! - as I mention before - Post-Punk is Great - the years 1978 - 1982 was the essential IMHO but I'll take with me 83-84 too! and of course, there are songs after 84 that jumps into the "bag" ;-) Thanks for Pink Turns Blue and 45 Grave - sounds great Swell Maps are a special Band, a reccomend you follow Nikki Sudden - he has two great solo LPs from 82 and 83 - and more - and he teamed up with David Kusworth ande they formed "Jacobites" - David Kusworth has also a great catalouge - and Epic Soundtrack - the drummer in Swell Maps (and Nikkis brother) he has two great solo LPs from 92 and 94 The Chameleons: Script of The Bridge (A Person Isn't Safe Anywhere These Days) sigh... Goth Rock is also a Great genre - some I'd like to mention: Tones Of Tail (Real Life) Modern English (Dawn Chorus) Virgin Prunes (Theme For Thought) And from 90s: London After Midnight (LAM) - The Black Cat The Goldmine article is great - I've followed Goldmine a long time - Great Video - and as always when I look into your post - I find, for me, new and great bands :)

The Fields Of The Nephilem! I fell in love with the moment I heard them. While I their self titled in my favorite, but I love all their work. As for McCoy's voice, its always been perfect to me. I had no idea about the Pink Floyd connection, very cool! normil hawaiians I've never heard of, Hmm! Swell Maps, and Fad Gadget! I had all FG tapes, in the early 90s, I really need to get those again. Also had three Swell Maps. Can't remember is you've mentioned Clan Of Xymox, another great Post Punk/ Goth band. Also new goths Actors, is really good.

Yay to more post-punk hehe :-) Bauhaus yay as well in particular - seeing them in 1998 on what I think was their first reunion tour was the first concert I went to by myself, and they were actually awesome. I was a little worried given that they hadn't been together since '83, even though they had continued on separately as Love and Rockets and Peter's solo stuff, but they honestly sounded almost exactly as they did when they were originally together. And they even still looked mostly the same - granted they were probably in their early 40's at the time but they really didn't look much different than their old pictures. Still one of the best concerts I've been to. I very sadly missed seeing them when they went on tour with NIN, particularly given that they played a number of Joy Division songs together with Trent Reznor on that tour - so so would have loved to have seen/heard that) Siouxsie and the Banshees, my fav songs are probably "Cities in Dust" and "Last beat of my heart." That's 45 Grave's best album - good choice. Agreed that they are very similar to Gun Club and sometimes Christian Death (oops, you came to them later hehe - they are sorta a post-punk Black Sabbath a la "Deathwish" the song in particular), from around the same scene. oohh - Fad Gadget good stuff also. He did a lot of cool collaborations with other industrial/post-punk groups. Mentioned it in someone else's comment - but like Swell Maps as well. Best comparison I can give is to Cabaret Voltaire's early more experimental stuff pre-their first album (there's a 3 disc comp of that era of their music) Oh, you're on a roll - This Heat has some really cool stuff too. I've got their albums as well - Peel Sessions collection too. Gareth and crew did some really wild and experimental/out there stuff. I can't remember if you've featured them before, but check out The Pop Group as well. Their album "Y" is a good place to start, or just to hear them on YT the songs "We are time" and even more so "She is beyond good and evil" are both super neat tracks - very crazy dub/dancy/noisey/post-punk. Kinda like a crazy cousin of Killing Joke's early dub singles like "Turn to Red," but way more out there. The lead guy, Mark Stewart continued on after with his band called Mark Stewart and the Mafia (I think) and did some more good stuff there as well. Trying to think of any other gothy recommendations - was big into it in the mid 90's and had a bunch of the Cleopatra label compilations initially (would still recommend the 3 "Gothic Rock" 2-disc CD compilations they put out, for a sampler of both old and new, as of the mid 90's, goth groups. They also put out 2 other compilations under the title "Industrial Revolution" 1 and 2, that contained a lot of groups that would qualify as post-punk also - one of them having a really neat dubby version of the Killing Joke song "Money is not our god," the original track being from the album "Extremities..." ), and then went out and tracked down albums and so forth. I think you mentioned the Virgin Prunes last time maybe, their albums "If I die, I die" and "A new form of beauty" were good. And some of Gavin Friday's solo work is worth checking out as well. Lets see... the band Play Dead has some really good singles at the very least ("This side of heaven") and album or so. Similar case to the band Under Two Flags (song "Lest we forget") though I'm not sure they even released a full album. The band Specimen was another that turned up on those compilations and was sorta death rocky, though an English group. Ooh ooh, Southern Death Cult - Death Cult - and then finally just The Cult. Did good stuff all the way through. Self-titled album from Southern Death Cult, and the first 2 albums by the Cult (Dreamtime and Love) are all pretty darn good post-punk. The single "Resurrection Joe" and then Spiritwalker from Dreamtime, and especially the song "Rain" from their second album Love are all standouts. I know this has already run long, and I apologize that I can't remember if you've mentioned some or even all of these before, I've seen all the videos but thanks to ADD my memory isn't always the best. :-) so, possibly one of these will at least be something helpful. But if I think of anything else (like the Pogues if you haven't mentioned them before - I kinda tag them post-punk in their own special way. With the albums "If I should fall from grace with god" and the title track in particular, and then also the album, if you have a slightly bent sense of humor, with one of the best titles ever "Rum, sodomy and the Lash" good grief, is also really good. That one having one of my favorites of theirs "I'm a man you don't meet everyday," sung by Elvis Costello's future wife, Cait. He produced several of their early albums as well and presumably that's how they met.

My favorite genre and you had so many great recommendations! Thanks for another great video and glad to hear you are loving Hex induction Hour and Slates! Peak Fall!

LOL! My grandmother used to babysit the guitarist for 45 Grave Paul Cutler (also of The Consumers, Dream Syndicate, Vox Pop) since her best friend Elsie was his mother. That was when my grandmother lived over near Cortez High in Phoenix where Paul attended school, the same school that produced the proto-goth legend Vincent Furnier aka Alice Cooper or "Coop" as we used to call him. Later they built a shopping mall about a mile south of Cortez High called Metrocenter, and I worked at a restaurant there, from like '77 to '82, and used to see proto-goth legend Alice Cooper there all the time early in the mornings walking his daughter in a stroller whilst snacking on a bag of warm nuts from Morrows Nut House. I would always play it cool, even though the first several Alice Cooper records were massive for me, so I would just nod and say "wuh'sup Coop", and he would smile and say "good morning" (he was always very friendly).At some point after that I was watching MTV and there was a show (if you could call it that) called something like "Rock Stars Daughters" and it had say Liv Tyler on it, and to my surprise, Coop's daughter was on the show and she was a full grown, hair teased rock and roll chick! That's when I first started to notice the passage of time in more of a macro as opposed to a micro sense. Anyway,I think Pat Smear only played on their first 45 Grave 7" (which is great), but fellow former Germs Jimmy Gorsetti (aka Don Bolles), another Phoenix native, played in 45 Grave for the duration, as well as L.A. punk royalty Rob Ritter (The Bags, Gun Club), who unfortunately "checked out early" as they say. They were all also in Vox Pop with Jeff Dahl (Angry Samoans et al) on vocals (trading off with Mary "Dinah" Sims). Both 45 Grave and Vox Pop were featured many times on New Wave Theater, to the point that they practically seemed like the house band, Peter must have loved them. Here's them doing a song from their first 7": ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NHVmdk81RQI.html Anyway, while I'm at it I guess I should force you to listen to the Vox Pop 7" as well, since you're not likely to run into a copy anytime soon, it's killer: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NeIeF0geljc.html Paul Cutler also played in the first known Phoenix punk band called The Consumers, who moved to L.A. to find punk fame and punk fortune (here's a taste: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-o2FZjhzytuY.html ), but that didn't work out. Their singer David Wiley (who copied a bunch of cool early live L.A. band tapes for me), was another one of those guys who "checked out early" as they say, but before that he joined a band with future Dream Syndicate drummer Dennis Duck called Human Hands who I think you'd like (let's see: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VxUeBLVE_VQ.html ), and I heard Bruce from Savage Republic is working on a retrospective reissue by them. Keep your eyes peeled for that one.

Hi Hannah from Lancashire, England. Great to see you immersing yourself in the world of The Fall. Endlessly rewarding way to spend your time imo🙂 Have you heard, or even better, managed to track down, the debut album by Colin Newman called A-Z? If not I reckon it's right up your street. Like Wire but more electronic, slightly gothic in places and incredibly atmospheric. Vinyl copies can be quite expensive but it's an absolute belter and overlooked by many. Keep doing what you do.

Thnx to you I rediscover all those great post punk from the time when I was young and totally in it. So yes, plz...go on with video's about post punk.👍🙏😊

Hey Hanna. Always good to see ya. Hope all is well. Will check your video out after work Cheers 🍻

Greetings Hanna. Great video. I'm pinching my pennies for my annual Christmas trip in Southern California. I always like to make the rounds at the LA record stores there. Well over a dozen titles on my buy list are recommendations from your videos, so your fingerprints will be all over my purchases this year. Really want to hear Pink Turns Blue and definitely wouldn't mind having that Siouxsie Peel Sessions album, so I'll keep an eye out. Regarding that Magazine album behind you. I've never seen that album cover. Is that a reissue? Very cool. Thanks as always!

Quite a collection of post punk & goth . I look forward to exploring This Heat , the Chameleons and Siouxsie Peel sessions , and Lebanon Hanover sounds really interesting . As always , thank you for the recommendations ! Cheers !

Hanna, I hope you feel better soon. Lots of interesting selections, including several I'm unfamiliar with, so I'm excited to start poking around. Ciao!

Hi Hanna, loving your posts. I must admit l hadn't even heard of the term Shoegasing until l saw your collection. You have great taste. I love to see you digging the bands we all went to see all those years ago.

Hi Hanna,good afternoon,congratulations by your video,greetings from São Paulo,Brazil,and,#postpunk4ever!!!!!!

Have you heard Eyeless in Gaza? If not, check out the album Rust Red September. The song "New Risen" was the first I heard and it hooked me right away. Cherry Red just released a box set of all the material that came out on the label, the first 5 or 6 albums I think. The band curated it so that each disc has a different theme, rather than presenting the albums in order. Interesting! Also, the singer/songwriter's solo albums are just as good.

Love picking up the punk stuff and the after punk stuff buying those rare album toy dolls, chameleons, and fields of nephelium. Nice scores as usual.

Hanna, you asked for recommendations of Alien Sex Fiend. The Ignore The Machine EP is probably their most important release. I think it was their first release other than a cassette. Regarding other stuff, Whose Been Sleeping In My Brain? and Acid Bath are the two I'd recommend. They are the first 2 full length albums so you would own the first 12" EP and the first two albums. While all their albums are good, these two are the best, most essential releases in my opinion. Hope it helps!

Great Video Hanna! That Chameleons and Banshees John Peel Sessions Cd's look amazing! Nice to see 45 Grave getting some love. Have that in my collection as well. Your collection is becoming legendary! Keep it going. Brian

👍😊. Great to see ya, Hanna! I loved this video. Lots for me to check out and lots of longtime faves. Very cool music wall behind you. Rock Always! - Heather

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Love your post punk videos. Can't go wrong with any of Bauhaus first four albums. That Cocteau Twins - Garlands is one of my all time favorites. It is so dark and haunting especially with the bird like vocals, nothing else really sounds like it. Nosferatu - The Prophecy is a great 90s goth album. It has more of a rock goth feeling and the singer sounds a little like Peter Murphy.

Urgh! I saw that in the 80s amazing! Alley Cats and Skafish are stand outs to me. as they are not as known as some on that. Jim Skafish, has been doing some reissues, the past years. Randy, the guitarist, for Alley Cats, has been playing in Cali. lately, after being out of music for years and years, all new members, his bass player is I believe in her late 20s, she does an amazing job! Also love Klaus Nomi!

Great to see Comsat Angels getting a mention. Also you’ve finally mentioned Swell Maps! Give it time, they were pretty surprising when first heard on John Peel at the end of the ‘70s! Check out A Trip to Marineville (with bonus 7” 4 track EP if you can get it) and Jane From Occupied Europe, both brilliant albums.

The Fall Unutterable is an oft-overlooked gem. Fad Gadget great!

Very much enjoyed this, and congrats on the article. Also, looking forward to seeing which X-Mal Deutschland record you’re getting and your thoughts on it. Don’t know if you own any 13th Chime or Dancing Did, but if not, you might dig them …might 😊

Super informative video! Just dialed up Pink Into Blue. I listened to The Mission UK - Gods Own Medicine yesterday because I used to have the cassette. The spoken opening was a little silly - "I still believe in God, but God no longer believes in me" (I might've laughed a little) but it brought back memories. Other stuff I played at the time - Skinny Puppy - Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse, and every Joy Division release. Thanks for the recommendations. ETA - and The Church! One of my favorites.

Actually picked up Paint Your Wagon this weekend at a local shop and I agree with the other comments, you will love the visual version of URGH!, too! 😊

Elysium is very addictive. Glad you are getting into them.

I don’t know if you have SiriusXM or not or know about the Darkwave show on Sunday nights at 10 pm, but it is fantastic. All these bands and more. If you have the phone ap you can listen to the last 2 weeks on demand.

Wow, Hanna, a post punk cupboard of splendor. I don't mind 'The Lord's Prayer' either lol. Keep an eye out for The Chameleons 'The Fan & the Bellows - A Collection of Early Classic Recordings'. Skeletal Family's 'Futile Combat' is worth a listen. (Maybe it's the Yorkshire accent you don't care for. Ha ha. They had another singer later on who was more operatic.) I saw And Also The Trees supporting The Cure & that odd group Steve Severin & Lydia Lunch formed (feedback & shrieking, not unlike 'The Lord's Prayer', in fact, but with a New York twang). Fad Gadget's 'Gag' is fab. This Heat - yes! Have you checked out The Pop Group, Clock DVA or Play Dead yet? Post punk was such a rich & varied era. I'm still discovering bands I missed at the time. Oh and your Fall collection seems to be growing nicely. Toodle loo!

Great video Hannah

You might enjoy a newish Vancouver post-punk band called Actors... they remind me a lot of Savages or Interpol, without sounding derivative. The Go-Go's started out as a punk band, but they definitely recorded darker songs, like "This Town" and "Mercenary". I think "Press the Eject" was originally included as an extra record with "The Sky's Gone Out". Great live recording, with extra tracks on the CD release. Nocturne is such a fantastic live recording.

Excellent update there, Hanna! Ain't going to lie; I'm not too familiar with most you showed except for Bauhaus and Siouxsie and the Banshees.

OH! Speaking of Chameleons, there is a post Chameleons project called The Sun And The Moon, I have it(had it? have to look again)on tape, its great!

Hi! The "Press The Eject" isn't a bootleg. Love your stuff!

So Happy to see the MIGHTY Hex induction Hour on here. Grew up in the Manchester area before moving to the US and The Fall were a big part of who I am today. You have great taste! Thanks for making these vids!

Nice collection there my friend

I would like to recommend The March Violets: Electric Shades There is a Omaha connection to 45 Grave. Their drummer from 2004-2007 was an Omaha native named Mike Sullivan who played guitar in a lot of Omaha mid to late 80’s punk bands. There is also an Omaha connection to the guitarist Rikk Agnew the first guitar player with Christian Death but that one is way too long of a story.

The Chameleons' Swamp Thing is a great find. I believe the 12" single is better than the album version. I dunno but the song has everything I like. Much Thanks. Urgh!

Also check out Fan and the Bellows live album!

Gun Club, Wipers, Loop, Diamanda Galas

Woa, that christian deathvvinyl was ssiiiiick! I do envy thou

Another great video, Hanna! I'm quite new to your channel so I haven't had a chance to watch everything you've done. I wanted to ask you about a band that could be considered postpunk that I don't know if you've covered: the late '70s Ohio band Tin Huey, contemporaries of Devo and Pere Ubu. I just found a vinyl copy of their one major label album, "Contents Dislodged During Shipment," in a 99-cent bin--in very good condition! My sister had this album and played it a lot when I was a teenager; it apparently lodged deep in my subconscious, so finding my own copy and hearing it again was a treat. I'm wondering if you have this album or know of the group? It's kind of a forgotten gem, on the art-rock/avant-garde side of postpunk, but more accessible than Ubu and friendlier and jazzier than Devo. One of the members, Chris Butler, went on to form the Waitresses, and another, horn player Ralph Carney, worked with Tom Waits among many others. Plus it has a cover of "I'm a Believer" that absolutely could have been a big U.S. hit if the band hadn't been so otherwise weird. Worth checking out if you haven't heard it!

The drift of Goth into caricature reached its apogee/nadir, depending on your point of view, with Fields of the Nephilim. Shudder to think how long it took them to get ready. Even Siouxsie would balk. Nonetheless, I still quite liked their first three albums. My favourite unheralded early-mid 80s Goth band was Play Dead. Someone else has mentioned March Violets. They`re worth checking out. Likewise, Danse Society.

Amazing and informative channel. I was a DK and Misfits kid in the 80s, most of the girls in our scene listened to Cure,Depeche, Bahaus, Joy,ect. So....being a fan of pretty girls with long bangs,I became a fan of the music. And,after 30 years I got to hang out with Peter Murphy (weeks before his little episode ) and it was comparable to meeting one of the Beatles to me.😊 Anyway. I'm so happy that I found your channel and I'm confident that you'll turn me on to stuff I haven't discovered yet. Just subscribed 🖤 Cheers

Pen and paper at the ready - a few more titles for me to look up! Brilliant video and loving the extra clips added in 🙂 I would say Fad Gadget definitely belong here - if you haven't already, check out 4th album Gag. A little more polished than the earlier ones, but no less good. Recommendation for today - The Skeptics - Snallygaster. Sole 1986 album by them (vinyl only) - a great blend of post punk, garage and jangle. Absolutely brilliant record!

Thanks Hanna! For a perfect pop album, you should check out Pete Shelley’s Heaven and the Sea album. If you haven’t heard it yet, it should knock your socks off! Cheers!

URGH, a musical war...so so dang good. Go Gos and The Police show their early punk roots in it. It's on dvd I think. For years it was impossible to find.

Oh man, I saw the Go-Go's at least a dozen times before they were signed and recorded their too slick for me LP's, and I saw them in tiny clubs alongside X and The Blasters and all of the legendary L.A. bands and they not only held their own, but they killed. I guess I can see not being into their records, but I'll still defend them as a great band, and seeing them at a packed to the gills Whiskey a Go-Go, are literally some of the best memories of my life. No shit.

Hi Hannah just come across some of yr videos and really enjoyed them and you have a great knowledge of some more obscure British and European bands. Fantastic you mentioned Pink turns Blue, what a band saw them recently in UK and their latest album Tainted is absolutely stunning. On the goth front, apologies if mentioned these groups on another vid, but Sisters of Mercy and The Mission (UK) are superb bands. V jealous of the USA vinyl scene/shops and albums , esp UK ones, that you can get over there that are v difficult to find here in Britain or are v expensive. All the best and take care, keep up the vinyl hunting and great vids.

I've never heard The Fall described as "whacky"...but I like that interpretation.

I have a Mute Records compilation called “The Tyranny of the Beat” that has both Fad Gadget and Swell Maps, alongside a bunch of other bands that could loosely be called industrial. In retrospect, it’s crazy that Einstürzende Neubauten was on the same label as Depeche Mode, but my understanding is that the breakout success of Soft Cell (who, for what it’s worth, bridged a whole lot of musical worlds) convinced the label heads that anything was possible.

I could never take Fields of the Nephilem seriously. 45 Grave is much more trashy garage Americana than all those British Batcave poseurs. Like the Cramps little brothers and sisters. They were part of the LA Punk scene, so hillbilly influences were never far away (see Tex and the Horseheads and others on the Enigma label).

Wow.. Awesome video Hannah. I also watched the first one, and between the two I now have a lot of new things to try. So thanks for that. I love your style of presenting, laid back, yet informative. One band I'm sure you know, but i see you omitted to mention are Mission of Burma. Am sure you will like them, if you don't already.

Nice video. Any "Sisters of Mercy" or "Shriekback" in your goth collection yet?

Great picks 😊🖤 Not sure if you know or already have the album released by Dark Entries SF record label is: Sad Lovers and Giants it's fantastic! + just a note on Christian Death an album that sadly gets overlooked and I think is they're best with Rozz is Ashes.

I love this channel. I have most of the albums by most of the bands you love, including the Sound, Comsat Angels, Chameleons etc but I'll be checking out a couple I haven't heard of, e.g. Rats. Have you heard Marquis de Sade? The first two albums are great. Crispy Ambulance? End of data? Ludus? I know you'll probably know The Gun Club but I love all their albums!

Absolutely love the post-punk vids! The Chameleons UK are a band I need to check out. Nice to see the newer bands featured, I'll be checking them out too. Some recommendations you might like: Abecedarians (80s), and Astragal (new)

The Go Go's were on there (Urgh! A Music War) due to Miles Copeland, their manager, being the creative consultant for the release.

Urgh! I still have after all these years it's still going. Heard Wall of Voodoo for the first time via this. Love everything Stan Ridgway has done and was lucky enough to meet.

"Shoes that no man would want to wear/I have seen too much, wipe away my eyes!"

I'm glad he featured you in that article. If he hadn't people might think there were no women in the VC at all!

Hey Hanna!👋Great stuff here, a few new darkwave names I've not heard of before. You really do dive deep!! I like how you've included the goth rock titles - It never fully clicked with me that their antecedents wete post punk (I mean, I thought that with early cure, but not 80s stuff like Nephilim etc), but it makes sense now. Nice seeing the fringe acts like This heat, Fad Gadget and Swell Maps - it's the genre that keeps on giving!! Hope you're doing better with your cold, great to see you featured in Tone's excellent article.

You might like the German band; New Days Delay

Hello Hanna, you talk about post punk and gothic -i just received "a life less lived" the gothic box from rhino ordered on ebay-cool !!!!! love the fall and mark e smith vocals, the rzats are great, fields of the nephilim i just order the 5 cd box set ,the chameleons are great -have three cds from them , for me the cousins of echo and the bunnymen !!!! yeaaah bauhaus great gothic band-the urgh live compilation must be good-i know there is a siouxsie and the banshees box set the complete bbc sessions but is only on cd i think-nocturne is great !!!! i must listen to join hands another time-long time not listen to-i have two cd box of alien sex fiend for me the first albums are the best !!! 45 grave is great wow!!! skeletal family cool also!! sad lovers and giant,swell maps are great and i order the remastered japan cd version of this heat-yeaaah crazy music but i love experimental music like this !!!! be crazy myself sometimes lol hi hi 🤣😅😉😊 i just found out that the title from 45 grave "partytime" is also in the soundtrack of one of my favorite horror movie "the return of the living dead" very great movie and full of humor-check it out Hanna if you don't know this movie!!! byyye Hanna wink to Cris and be save !!!!!!!

I got most of them, both post punk recommandations vids are just perfect!

Great video and it's clearly a superb collection you're putting together.👍 Some post-punk recommendations I haven't seen you mention, although I may have missed them, are - Young Marble Giants, 23 Skidoo, A Certain Ratio, The Pop Group and Crispy Ambulance.

Some classic finds. Great haul!

There's apparently a huge Mighty Lemon Drops box set coming out in late November, another Cherry Red Records project. Not sure if it has all their recorded output, but it looks like it has most of it, if not, and all kinds of bonus and live stuff too.

You do a fantastic job on these videos. A lot of knowledge I can learn. I thought you might show the young marble giants LP and also the suburban lawns album. There is a woman in the local rock science here that was a groupie for the films of nephalm so that made me laugh when you showed that album. A good insider story about the swell maps you might want to know. After a show in New York Evan dando from the lemon heads shot Nikki sudden up and he Died. Let’s build a car will always be a top track for me. You have a fantastic collection. Must have spent a kings ransom gathering all those albums. Look forward to the next video.

Another great video, Hanna. I may have mentioned you should check out DA, excellent coldwave from Chicago; Volcano Suns; Lowlands- Lover's Blessings LP, they are highly similar to Sisters, and False Brother who is eerily similar to Joy Division.

PS Swell Maps - think 50% Buzzcocks 50% Can & you're sort of there. Also, Hugh Cornwell's Nosferatu, you have to hear that, a bizarre & amazing album.

Hello again I have heard Fall and Urgh album but never heard of 45 Graves and Rats and Pink Turns Blue. So much music have you time over for a book? Cool video/Take care... Have you heard Skafixh....

Thanks for all of your post-punk recommendations! Always great to find new stuff. In the last year, I have found Black Marble which I have really been getting into. I like all there albums but particularly their early releases of A Different Arrangement and It's Immaterial. Great stuff I would recommend.

I don't know if you've heard of Belarusian post-punk band Molchat Doma? They're are a great & fairly new pp band who really captured me the first time I heard them despite not speaking or understanding russian. Fontaines DC are by far the band I have been most excited about recently. Will see them next time they play UK. Saw Chameleons twice this year and seeing them twice in December too. And Johnny Marr the week prior. Also saw Morrissey 4 times this year. I guess they all had a hand in the eighties post-punk movement. Love the channel. Long live post-punk!

4 minutes in ( love it ) & you did indeed give a shout to Urgh ! A Music War . Post punk and jangle pop are my fav genres . I’m gonna watch the rest of this video Hanna & love every second of it. Chameleons are wonderful too Bauhaus ...Siouxsie & the Banshees....ahhh --so good! Gonna let your video play out & enjoy every second. Thx 😎

Hi my friend, Selofan and Lebanon Hanover??? I think they are very interesting bands, just like the classics Pink Turn Blue. Greetings from Buenos Aires, waiting for the new And Also the Trees album 🔥 😎

Press The Eject (Bauhaus) was in fact an "official" live "bootleg" that was once included with purchase of The Sky's Gone Out or something or other. Later added to the catalogue as an "official" release. It was a Beggars Banquet release, I think, in all formats. The Nico appearance on there is scary!

You may or mayn't know...the Bauhaus live album (which I got the week it was released a lifetime ago) originally came as an extra disc with The Skies Gone Out...and this edition can still be found without too much difficulty.

Another great selection. Most of the bands I know and love but a few unknowns I need to check out. Always interesting to check out new stuff, especially 80s bands. Don't apologise for mentioning Red Lorry Yellow Lorry alot, underrated band that more people should be listening to. I did get to them live back in the 80s. My recommendations would be first The Mission if you don't know them already. God's Own Medicine, Children and the compilation The First Chapter all great albums I think. Secondly Slab! Neither post punk or goth to be honest but an 80s band with some influences from the earlier post punk bands. Bass led music with some brass featuring in the songs. I have both Music From The Iron Lung and Descension on vinyl. Maybe not your thing but def worth a listen.

One more point, I've always considered Post Punk and Goth, close cousins. I've known people over the years, who loved both. I certainly have love both.

The lady with good taste in music is back. What do you think about the musical work of Marc Almond up to about 1989?

Great selection once again Hannah, including new titles for me as well. I listen to postpunk mostly during summertime. In winter it turns me way down. Coincidentally, I received the Chameleon's "What does anything mean..." and the Peel Sessions a week ago on cd. I think many of the John Peel post-punk and other band sessions are special and recommendable (including the ones with the Bunny men, Only Ones, Joy Division), revealing the true or raw nature of their music. The Fall, ah what a great band and so much stuff to enjoy. Barbara Manning (have you checked her out yet?) gave them a great ode ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-z3pSuGMGmRU.html I was burning to recommend them to you, but yep, they did come up postpunk x goth. The Fields of the Nephilim. I was a great fan in 1980s and saw them once in concert with the New Model Army as support. Dark, ethereal, yet symphonic. I do like Dawnrazor and its Spaghetti western feel very much, but "Elizium" and "The Nephilim" are in a way other dimension........... There later stuff or the split-off....not my cuppa tea. "Jane from Occupied Europe" by the Swell Maps is my favorite album of theirs. I am just delving into Swans now, after neglecting them for years. I guess they are post-punk too (with Joy Division influence), but require a long sit down to get through at least some of their stuff and especially the later work. Not easy work, but good for autumn. I see Sonic Youth standing on the back shelf, is that a taste of perhaps another huge field of music to be explored and reviewed? Certainly many many goodies in more uplifting indie rock, post rock, post hardcore, slow core (I am glad you like Idaho).......... BTW do you know this power pop band from canada: The Super Friendz? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YxRx5buReIQ.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-u7aKscPja6g.html I hope you don't run out of shelf space like I have :-)

URGH! A Music War is a great movie! We used to have the VHS at our record store in the '90s so I watched it a few times. You have so much post punk that I have never gotten to sample. Must change that. The Fall is of course excellent but yeah if you don't like ramblings...lol. Haven't heard Rats. I see you have a Wolfgang Press LP up there behind you. I *think* I still have a promo 12 inch of WP somewhere that I found at a thrift a few years ago. Really nice Siouxsie and Bauhaus pickups. My fav Bauhaus song is "Kick In The Eye." Drooling over that 45 Grave LP you picked up! I do love that Christian Death red/gold vinyl. OMG Alien Sex Fiend! I have one LP by them - "Another Planet." I had a 7 inch that had "Drive My Rocket" on it. Guess I sold it. 😢 Must explore Lebanon Hanover and Fad Gadget and Normil Hawaiians. Swell Maps are excellent and catchy and unusual. What's that "C86" book you have on your shelf there? Yes, please more post punk vids! Always enjoyable!

Also Great.......... Lyers 🙂

Love the Green hat! It does you well. I am familiar with the cover of Pink Turns Blue. I think it shows up often on German lists for their greatest albums of the 80s. I agree with your comment on the Fall vibe. They're bit of an acquired taste but I am definitely okay with them ;) I am intrigued by the Rats. There is so much good music that was made in Europe that never even made it over here. I am going to have to go over and give them a sample on Forced Exposure. Love the cover to the Perfumed Garden album. The Bauhaus album is interesting and I know they have a bunch of bootlegs out there and I hate searching for bootlegs on Discogs. There I times I can never find what I have and adding things to Discogs can be a pain in the a$$. Siouxsie and the Banshees...I never pass on their records when I see them and I understand your obsession with them. 45 Grave and Fields of the Nephilim are new to me. You need to check out the deadwax to the Alien Sex Fiend deadwax. They used to use George 'Porky' Peckham as their mastering engineer and he used to put 'sex' type things in the deadwax. Love the color on the Selofan album. I am intrigued on that one. Did you get it from Forced Exposure? I love the repeats (i.e. Red Lorrie Yellow Lorrie). It just serves as a sampling reminder. Normil Hawaiians?!?? Now that's a band name. Never heard of them before.