Siouxsie & The Banshees and Killing Joke should have been

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Killing Joke are a great band. What is it now, like 16 studio albums? Worse one is Outside the Gate and that's still a 6/10. One of the most solid discographies of any band period. And Geordie Walker gets my vote for most underrated guitarist.

Never understood the appeal of the Banshees. The Slits, X-ray Spex, The Raincoats were all far better.

And The Cult should have been bigger than both

killing joke's brighter than a thousand suns is a really underrated record
when it's bad it's bad, but when it's good it's some of the best music they ever wrote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71b7c43iMqo

>>69025856
>The Slits, X-ray Spex, The Raincoats

apples and oranges
the banshess were ultimately a pop band, a lot more straightforward than those bands while also having a lot more happening below the surface than those bnads

they were also the best pop band of the 80s aside from maybe the go betweens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgO68cervzY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT3AKBywbMw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq96AwXHuNA

the best fucking band

>>69025910
the cult WERE bigger than both, at least commercially
the banshees were popular but not extremely so, killing joke only had a couple of minor hit records in the 80s and the cult sold out stadiums and arenas
aside from the cure and the sisters of mercy, they are by far the most commercially potent thing to come out of 80s goth music

>>69025910
>Buttgoth

>>69025856
>The Slits, X-ray Spex, The Raincoats were all far better.

You're just namedropping and being a contrarian.

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>>69026345
Big ups for posting some Tinderbox. My personal favorite Banshees album.

>>69025910
The Cult were massive, dude.

>implying any of those bands put out anything as good as Pornography

tryagain.exe

>>69024528
I agree.

>>69026345
the biggest problem with brighter... is the glossy, low-bass, reverb-heavy production that was forced upon the band by their record label
when you listen to the live recordings from the era and the live recordings of the songs from that album, you realize that most of the songs were actually a perfectly natural evolution of what they were doing on night time rather than the awkward commercial mistake that they must have sounded like when the album initially came out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeP5nNur37A

>>69029471
This

>>69024528
No, they shouldn't have been "bigger", they weren't as commercial. Who cares how big they were? The fact that they didn't have to sell a lot of records allowed them to be as great as they were. And BTW, Siouxsie WAS big, at least in the UK.

>>69029701
Agree. The record label said "go make me 10 more Love Like Bloods!". If you get past the heavy-handed production there are a lot of great songs on that album.

>>69029471
The Cure is awful John Hughes dreck.

>>69031896
Be careful with that edge, you might cut a hole in your skinny jeans.

>>69031922
>Calling people edgy in a dark thread

I'm not the one listening to a darker and edgier version of Morrisey while working full time as an overhead projector.

The Cure knew how to turn out a single. I don't think anyone sane can deny this.