10 Perfect Post Punk Albums With No Bad Songs

Although we like to think of musical movements arriving one after another, in a fluid and easy to follow timeline, that's rarely the case. New York band, Television released their debut album during the heyday of the punk movement, but their sound is still considered post punk.

These guys were playing in clubs with bands like the Ramones who were thrashing out their punchy brand of rock. Television, along with Talking Heads were taking the DIY sentiment of the Ramones and Patti Smith but incorporating it into a brand of music that explored vastly different sonic spaces.

Their debut album is a masterful blend of elegantly intertwining guitars leads, garage rock chord progressions and free jazz inspired vocal deliveries. Friction, pulls in elements of the blues, and has apparent Talking Heads elements, with a distinctly dance beat style bass. The title track also shares similar characteristics with Talking Heads, namely the opposing guitar melodies that serve to add a layer of texture to the track.

Bands of this era developed their sound by bouncing off one another. Although informed heavily by the New York punk movement, Television developed a sound that became the prototype of the indie scene in the years that followed.