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I've been trying to do a post punk revival playlist that I can burn onto a couple of CDs for our summer holiday. We're hiring a 1960s VW camper and I'm not sure if the cd player'll handle an MP3 cd. So. 25-35 post punk revival songs to go onto two cds. Thing is, I started with nearly a thousand (963) songs and obviously need to lose over 900 of those songs. And that's with music that I currently have. I've got a few classics, Interpol, Bloc Party, Arctic Monkeys (if you'd call them post punk revival), Maximo Park(where's that damn umlaut). But what have I missed? What're the more obscure post punk revival bands that I've missed that are still genius?

ps My contribution for this written by someone else would be Pieces Of The People We Love by The Rapture

A Perfect Circle (Zürich 2004)
Acid Mothers Temple (Mode HHH) (Bern 2003)
Admiral James T. (Luzern xxxx; Bern 2006)
Air (Zürich 2004)
Akaten (Bern 2003)
Alice Cooper (Zürich 1997)
amiina (London 2006)
Apocalyptica (Luzern 1999?)
Archive (Montreux 2004, Fribourg 2004)
asana (solo) (Tokyo 2007)
ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION (Tokyo 2005)
Asleep. (Zürich 2007)
audio safari (Tokyo 2007)
Audrey (Luzern 2009)
Auf Der Maur (Zürich 2004)

Beirut (Tokyo 2012)
Binko Swink (London 2011)
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (Tokyo 2008)
Bloc Party (Tokyo 2005, Zürich 2005)
Blüchel & von Deylen (Montreux 2004)
Blur (Tokyo 2003, Lausanne 2003)
Bob Dylan (Zürich 199?; Zürich 2005)
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy (Basel 2007)
Boris (Tokyo 2007)
BSK (Zürich 2007)

Cat Power (Luzern 2007)
Caesars (Tokyo 2005)
Calexico (Avenches 2009)
Chewy (Schötz 2000;Luzern 200?)
cokiyu (Tokyo 2010)
Coma* (Tokyo 2008)
Cosy Bottle (Beijing 2010)
Counting Crows (~3xZürich xxxx)
Cuushe (Tokyo 2010)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBEKd2ef_Hg

1. Sleater-Kinney - One Beat
2. The Lawrence Arms - Apathy and Exhaustion
3. Neko Case - Blacklisted
4. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
5. Against Me! - Reinventing Axl Rose
6. El-P - Fantastic Damage
7. The Distillers - Sing Sing Death House
8. Anti-Flag - Mobilize / Split with Bouncing Souls
9. Alison Krauss & Union Station - Live
10. DJ Shadow - Private Press

11. Norma Jean - Bless The Martyr & Kiss The Child
12. Clipse - Lord Willin
13. Hatebreed - Perseverance
14. Venetian Snares - Winter in the Belly of a Snake
15. Tsunami Bomb - The Ultimate Escape
16. Pretty Girls Make Graves - Good Health
17. Rasputina - Cabin Fever!
18. Ellen Allien - Weiss Mix
19. MRI- All That Glitters
20. Paul Wall & Chamillionaire - Get Ya Mind Correct

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp3I4qaEXuU

These are also extremely good:

Aesop Rock - Daylight
Akufen - My Way
Benjamin Wild- With Compliments
The Birthday Massacre - Nothing and Nowhere
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Accept
Alanis Morissette
Alice In Chains
Amon Amarth
Antrax
Cake X2
Def Leppard
Down
Editors
Exodus
Friendly Fires
Garbage
Gorefest
Guns N' Roses
Hail!
Happy Mondays
Helloween
Interpol
Jamiroquai
Judas Priest X2
Limp Bizkit
Manic Street Preachers
Manowar X2
Megadeth X2
Metallica X3
Moby
Monster Magnet
Moonspell
Motörhead
Ozzy Osbourne
Paolo Nutini
Rammstein
Scorpions
Sebastian Bach
Sinéad O'Connor
Skunk Anansie
Slayer
Streophonics
Suede
Testament
The Answer
The Cranberries
The Good, the Bad & the Queen
The Sword
Travis
U.D.O.
W.A.S.P.
Whitesnake X2

!!! A.Armada Adam Kesher Andréas et Nicolas A Place To Bury Strangers Archive Arctic Monkeys The Black Keys Cage The Elephant CocoRosie Cat's Eyes Cherri Bomb Chris Garneau Deftones DevonMiles Ed-Äke Envy Errors Ex Nihilo Vox Explosions in the Sky Foo Fighters From Monument To Masses The Horrors The Hundred in the Hands Interpol Janski Beeeats (x2)The Jim Jones Revue The Kills Les Ramoneurs de Menhirs Lilly Wood & The Prick Marvin Metronomy Mogwai Papier Tigre Pneu (x2)Soma The Streets Stuck in the Sound (x2)Syd Matters Tagada Jones Thos Henley Trentemøller Wild Dawn The Wombats Yann Tiersen

1965 - Bob Dylan, Highway 61 revisited
1966 - Bob Dylan, Blonde On Blonde
1967 - Love, Forever Changes
1968 - The Rolling Stones, Beggars Banquet
1969 - King Crimson, In The Court Of The Crimson King
1970 - Creedence Clearwater Revival, Cosmo's Factory
1971 - Neil Young, After The Gold Rush
1972 - David Bowie, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
1973 - Lou Reed, Berlin
1974 - Big Star, Radio City
1975 - Patti Smith, Horses
1976 - David Bowie, Station To Station
1977 - Television, Marquee Moon
1978 - Bruce Springsteen, Darkness On The Edge Of Town
1979 - The Clash, London Calling
1980 - Talking Heads, Remain In Light
1981 - Kraftwerk, Komputerwelt
1982 - Bruce Springsteen, Nebraska
1983 - R.E.M., Murmur
1984 - Prince, Purple Rain
1985 - The Jesus and Mary Chain, Psychocandy
1986 - The Smiths, The Queen Is Dead
1987 - Prince, Sign 'O' The Times
1988 - Sonic Youth, Daydream Nation
1989 - Pixies, Doolittle
1990 - Depeche Mode, Violator
1991 - Slint, Spiderland
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Last Saturday, I discussed the issues with the current similar artist formula...especially Metallica being top 10 in similarity with The Offspring (like what?).

Well, since then, I put my programming skills to work and well, I built a little program to test to see it would work with other artists. Results were noticed on several bands/artists as their similar artists over went a make over. However, it did lead to new problems as I tried testing it out super-mainstream acts including our favorite band...Radiohead.


Rage Against the Machine showed up as a similar artist.


...well, apparently. Radiohead's top 250 similar artists currently are all over the place in random genres. A bigger batch of similar artists would be needed to get the best results, but the question is...is my new formula better. I'm going to show you some examples of artists top 25 similar artists...before, and after. You guys make the decision.


Oh, you don't remember the formula? Very well...time for a quick summary
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So, firstly let's have a brief story probably uninteresting to everyone but me, about my music listening habits this year! (Well, last year now, it being January 1 and all...)

I began the year listening to lots and lots and lots of music every day, because it was summer and what else is there to do? At the turn of the year, I was pretty obsessed with Editors, The Little Flames and, as I recall, British India (especially their album Guillotine, which I used as my alarm for at least a couple of months). Within a few weeks I also came across, and fell in love with, The Cinematics, White Lies and The Bravery.

Then in February a thunderstorm hit my house and I lost the ability to play music in my bedroom, severely limiting my ability to listen to music for 12 hours every day. It was pretty sad, and even when power was finally restored to the front half of my house (after like a month or two) I was solidly out of the habit of listening to 12 hours of music every day. …