Post-Punk

If Cultural Amnesia needs a label for its 79-83 output, post-punk is probably the correct one. It's a pretty broad church though, and in my mind refers to all the 'weird stuff' that fell out of the disintegration of punk, but that happened before the new romantics appeared and before the idea of popular music seemed to become interesting again (post-punk being unquestionably un-popular music). At its best it was a period when nobody had any clear idea what pop music ought to be.

The last similar moment of creative confusion seems to have been post-rave.

Anyone interested couldn't do much better than read Simon Reynolds' book Rip It Up and Start Again. The discography reads as a pretty good list of Cultural Amnesia's key influences (without any of our secret progressive rock leanings, of course). BN