Scritti Politti: Worse than You'd Think. And You Already Knew it was Bad.
The awful thing about post-punk, well one of ‘em seeing as there’s a litany of troubles with the tag, including everything from bands pre-dating punk getting lumped in here, is that there’s so much eighties’ tripe lumped in her as to obfuscate the better efforts.
Beyond just that – as if it wasn’t enough – bands cropping up after the first wave of punk was receding were saddled with the label and subsequently moved on to work in overt pop tones (that was a good reference right there, I hope you caught it).
