Opinion of the musical genre round 11: Post-punk

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Score so far:
College rock: 92.9% FG-7.1% HG
Prog rock: 83.3% FG-16.7% HG
Grunge 77.8% FG-22.2% HG
Country: 77.3% FG-22.7% HG
Pop-punk: 70.6% FG-29.4% HG
Opera: 65.6% FG-34.4% HG
Riot grrl: 65% FG-35% HG
Rap: 61% FG-39% HG
Techno 52.2% FG-47.8% HG
Hardcore punk: 45.5% FG-54.5% HG

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Probably my least favorite type of "punk" music easily.

[Lambsbread]

Extremely hit or miss for me. Some bands are great, especially the ones that are more on the new wave or goth side of things, but some of them are far too pretentious for my tastes. I'm actually going to abstain from voting because I don't have a strong enough opinion in either direction.

[Independents for Nihilism]

Probably my favourite genre. It may be a bit too broad of an umbrella, since basically anything from slightly mellowed punk to borderline-experimental rock gets the label at some point, but that variety is part of why I love it. Always funny to me though that Marquee Moon by Television can be billed as proto-punk, punk, and post-punk, sometimes all at once.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

BTW contrary to popular belief it is not some type of "proto-emo" and had near zero influence on emo. Emo was grown almost entirely out of the DC hardcore scene with some influences from a few non-DC bands like Articles of Faith (a Chicago hardcore band who is the earliest band I can find with an emo-like sound, starting in 1981.)

[Progressive Pessimist]

Probably my favorite genre!

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Probably my favorite genre!

More proof that it has absolutely nothing to do with emo!

[Wikipedia delenda est]

Obvious FG, but it's a bit annoying how it's become the term de rigeur for hipsters with an approximate definition of "anything I like from the late 70s and 80s". What's happened to New Wave is even worse, obviously; during the actual New Wave period of the 70s it literally was hipster music, but too many hipsters now think they need a more pretentious-sounding name for their favs (enter post-punk) instead of trying to reclaim New Wave for the weirdos, else people think they like Duran Duran (who were never even New Wave in the first place).

Probably my favourite genre. It may be a bit too broad of an umbrella, since basically anything from slightly mellowed punk to borderline-experimental rock gets the label at some point, but that variety is part of why I love it. Always funny to me though that Marquee Moon by Television can be billed as proto-punk, punk, and post-punk, sometimes all at once.

In the context of 1977, it was 100% a New Wave record.

[Wikipedia delenda est]

BTW contrary to popular belief it is not some type of "proto-emo" and had near zero influence on emo. Emo was grown almost entirely out of the DC hardcore scene with some influences from a few non-DC bands like Articles of Faith (a Chicago hardcore band who is the earliest band I can find with an emo-like sound, starting in 1981.)

Out of curiosity, does this sound at all emo to you?

It's early 90s indie, not really "post-punk", but the Weddoes came out of the same 80s indie epoch as The Smiths (who sometimes get the post-punk label).

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

My vote prevented unanimity here.