 | Rip it Up and Start Again: Post Punk 1978-1984 by Simon Reynolds
Buy new: £10.88 / Used from: £4.99 Charts post-punk to new-pop and the American new-rock: Wire, Devo, TG, Joy Division, The Fall, Associates, Pere Ubu, FGTH, Scritti Politti, Cabs, PIL, etc....................tc
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 | Cop/Young God/Greed/Holy Money by Swans
Buy used from: £19.99 'Cop' originally issued on Some Bizarre; cheery titles from Michael Gira & co when they rocked in a nasty way....
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 | Some Great Reward by Depeche Mode
Buy used from: £2.98 'Construction Time Again' was the transition- the Mode fusing industrial with the erotic & gothic : Something to Do, Blasphemous Rumours, If You Want, Somebody....
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 | Duck Rock by Malcolm Mclaren
Buy used from: £18.00 You have to love 'Buffalo Girls'
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 | Daft by The Art of Noise
Buy used from: £4.99 The joys of early Art of Noise...
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 | Welcome to the Pleasuredome by Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Buy used from: £4.00 A pretty poor & overlong album, but does include four of the greatest singles of all time ever....
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 | A Secret Wish by Propaganda
Buy used from: £34.77 I've always loved this LP : P-Machinery, Duel/Jewel, Dr Mabuse & that great cover of Josef-K's Sorry for Laughing...
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 | Slave To The Rhythm by Grace Jones
Buy new: £2.98 / Used from: £2.15 Trevor Horn's concept-remix album & the peak of Grace Jones once brilliant career. I blame Conan the Destroyer....
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 | Our Band Could be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 by Michael Azerrad
Buy new: £8.26 / Used from: £7.17 The key book on the American side of things : The Replacements, Husker Du, Black Flag, Mission of Burma, Bad Brains et al....
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 | The Atrocity Exhibition: Annotated (Flamingo Modern Classics) by J.G. Ballard
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.96 One of the key literary-influences on post-punk; see The Normal, Bowie, Cabaret Voltaire, Joy Division etc...
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 | The Situationist International: A User's Guide by Simon Ford
Buy new: £11.48 / Used from: £9.96 The political-theoretical side of things...Leaving the 20th Century....
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 | Ranters and Crowd Pleasers: Punk in Pop Music, 1977-92 by Marcus Greil
Buy used from: £11.63 ..........
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 | Ask: Chatter of Pop by Paul Morley
Buy used from: £9.99 I've not read this one yet....
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 | Tape Delay: Confessions from the Eighties Underground by Charles D. Neal
Buy used from: £12.00 Interviews such pioneers as Throbbing Gristle & Soft Cell....
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 | Painful But Fabulous: The Life and Art of Genesis P-Orridge by Genesis P-Orridge
Buy used from: £60.00 One of the great artists & a key cult figure and member of both Throbbing Gristle & Psychic TV
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 | Time Travel: From the "Sex Pistols" to "Nirvana" - Pop, Media and Sexuality, 1977-96 by Jon Savage
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £1.49 A rather good collection of writing on music....
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 | Jacques Derrida (Routledge Critical Thinkers) by Nicholas Royle
Buy new: £10.14 / Used from: £8.79 Well this might get you to grips with the philosophical musings of a theorist who has been deemed unpenetrable by many I know.....
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 | On Theatre by Bertolt Brecht
Buy new: £10.99 / Used from: £8.90 Another key theorist who is linked to post-punk methods....
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 | John Peel: A Life in Music by Michael Heatley
Buy used from: £0.01 Wait for the biography to be completed by his wife rather than this exploitation. A key figure regarding post-punk, i.e. he played it!!!!!!
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 | 45 by Bill Drummond
Buy used from: £2.66 A controversial figure associated with the Bunnymen & Teardrop Explodes; later wrote 'Julian Cope is Dead' & was part of the KLF....
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 | What's The Matter Boy? by Vic Godard
Buy new: £6.18 / Used from: £2.75 ......................
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| Art into Pop by Simon Frith
Buy used from: £40.53 Reissue, please.....
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 | Dirk Wears White Sox by Adam & the Ants
Buy new: £8.79 / Used from: £2.48 The original Ants line-up and much closer to stuff like Wire, The Slits, The Fall & Subway Sect....
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 | Theoretical Girls by Theorectical Girls
Buy new: £12.69 / Used from: £10.42 .........
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 | Five Great Novels: The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Martian Time-Slip, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, UBIK, A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
Buy used from: £9.92 Another key literary influence, alongside Ballard, Burroughs & Gysin......
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