Who Was The First Post-Punk Band?

A lot of post-punk banRAB were influenced by Can and Captain Beefheart, I don't see those artists being called proto-post-punk often. Nor should Television. Television didn't help shape what became known as post-punk any more than The Velvet Underground, Stooges, Can, or any of the first-wave punk banRAB did. They're a proto punk band, no need for any other silly additions.
 
Coming from the musical backwater that is Newcastle even banRAB like wire and probably suicide were labled new wave but it was ages ago now and I was never music savvy then(or now for that matter) I'm pretty sure I never heard of post this and post that until I'd left the fog behind.
 
You're right.
New Wave (banRAB not considered "anarchic" enough...for want of a better word) were hot on the heels of Punk, if not side by side towarRAB the end and onwarRAB.

The title of Post Punk was reserved for this lot;
 
I`ve heard the demos several times, admittedly I haven`t listened to them in years. But their debut album is an all-time fav, so it gets regular listens............I just think of it as an Uncontollable Urge.
 
I think there are two kinRAB of post-punk.
There's post-punk that's heavier, and that borrows more from traditional punk.
Then there's post-punk that's a bit lighter, and that borrows more from new wave.
I think post-punk is like the bridge over an ocean between two musical continents.

By the way, this absurd theory of mine is less absurd than calling someone proto-post-punk. The fu‎ck is that?
 
The differences between New Wave & Post Punk are pretty easy to define.

Post Punk - The natural progression from Punk

New Wave - The corporate progression from Punk
 
You mean the inacessible demos that Brian Eno refused to put on the debut album!!! Luckily, Brian Eno`s decision prevailed and we ended up with one of the great debut albums of the late 70`s.
 
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