u/LurkingMars

8 hours ago the Generator assigned me Juju (1981) by Siouxsie and the Banshees - I'm happy to call it post-punk. (I wouldn't have called it that at the time - I knew it had moved on from The Scream, I think I would have called it new wave.) I enjoyed listening to it (again) very much and was ready to listen to another album.

So I decided to have another try at an album from 1001 MORE that put me off when I first started listening to it - viagr aboys (2025) by Viagra Boys. This time I enjoyed it, but what to call it? Apparently they are post-punk as well? If there is another label for bands that have declaiming vocalists with 'interesting' ideas - it could fit in Pere Ubu as well? But I wouldn't call Viagra Boys art rock - there is grunge and appetite for riffs.

Anyway I am curious if others would also call Juju and viagr aboys post-punk, or what - and what do you think of the idea that there is a genre called post-punk, such that you can say (from the sound not just history) that a song or album is or isn't post-punk?

Just wanted to boost the recommendation of this album, and share again my appreciation for the 1001 MORE. Today I finally got round to listening to this album. I am a type of person that would roughly never put on any type of country, unless prompted by something like the Generator or 1001 MORE. I could name some country albums on the Generator that I didn't like at all, but to keep it positive I'm just going to say Snipe Hunter is incredible. It's produced by Rick Rubin (a happy surprise that pops up here and there, often on albums I like), but there is also heaps in the songwriting and lyrics, that was presumably there well before Rubin got involved in how the sound turned out.

My question to the Childers fans is - what genre am I going to call this album? I was thinking "country rock", but that is not exciting enough. Wikipedia says that in Snipe Hunter, Childers "blended Appalachian music, experimental rock, psychedelia, and gospel music" - that is generous, but also a bit too long for my spreadsheet column. Maybe "Appalachian rock"??