I’ll tell ya, if I could re-write my Top 15 movie of 2008 list, I’d probably have the film Let The Right One In featured on it.
Having finally seen this Swedish horror film (on dvd), it’s everything one could want in a movie about a young female vampire.
And light years from that YA Twilight dreck.
I know there is an English language remake in the works…but rent the original.
1) happy-go-lucky (mike leigh, uk)
2) my winnipeg (guy maddin, canada)
3) encounters at the end of the world (werner herzog, us)
4) wendy and lucy (kelly reichardt, us)
5) up the yangtze (yung chang, canada)
6) the edge of heaven (fatih akin, germany)
7) waltz with bashir (ari folman, israel)
still life (jia zhang-ke, china)
9) man on wire (james marsh, uk)
10) flight of the red balloon (hou hsiao-hsien, france)
11) paranoid park (gus van sant, us)
12) mister lonely (harmony korine, us)
13) the band’s visit (eran kolirin, israel)
14) rachel getting married (jonathan demme, us)
15) slumdog millionaire (danny boyle, uk)
**and also, here is a large list of films I still need to see, some of which could very well end up in the list above (as soon as they either open here or I get a chance to watch them on dvd). I’ve got quite a back log:
the class, milk, trouble the water, let the right one in, che, iousa, in the city of sylvia, momma’s man, revolutionary road, the last mistress, shotgun stories, a christmas tale, syncedoche new york, curious case of benjamin button, il divo, gomorrah, elite squad, xxy, boy a, jellyfish, married life, the betrayal, kabluey, son of rambow, redbelt, in bruges, adoration, the orphanage, her name is sabine, sangre de mi sangre, savage grace, the grocer’s son, blindness, elegy, alexandra, wall-e, ballast, tell no one, i’ve loved you so long, the visitor, you the living, standard operating procedure, the order of myths, blind mountain, operation filmmaker, the wrestler, a girl cut in two, vicky christina barcelona, iron man, 24 city, night and day, the headless woman, tulpan and the dark knight.
So…suffice to say, you will won’t be hearing me utter “there was nothing to see” in 2008. Frankly, it’s amazing to me that I even found the time to see what I have, given the breathless pace of this past year.
Let me say this, so you don’t have to.
I know that there are tons of “mainstream films” here this year. It just worked out that way. I even went so far as to watch “Knocked Up”, so who says I’m not down with the people!
Elitist, moi?
Here we go (in rough order)!
4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)-Romania
There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)-US
Ten Canoes (Rolf De Heer)-Australia
The Host (Joon-ho Bong)-Korea
I’m Not There (Todd Haynes)-US
Away From Her (Sarah Polley)-Canada
The Diving Bell And The Butterfly (Julian Schnabel)-France
Brand Upon The Brain (Guy Maddin)-Canada
12:08 East Of Bucharest (Corneliu Porumboiu)-Romania
3:10 To Yuma (James Mangold)-US
No End In Sight (Charles Ferguson)-US
Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg)-Canada
Syndromes And A Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)-Malaysia
Offside (Jafar Panahi)-Iran
No Country For Old Men (Coen Bros.)-US
Black Book (Paul Verhoeven)-Netherlands
Zodiac (David Fincher)-US
The Bourne Ultimatum (Paul Greengrass)-US
The Assassination Of Jesse James… (Andrew Dominik)-US
In Between Days (So Yong Kim)-Korea
Secret Sunshine (Lee Chang-dong)-Korea
Poison Friends (Emmanuel Bourdieu)-France
Day Night Day Night (Julia Loktev)-France
Into Great Silence (Philip Gröning)-France
Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright)-UK
Private Fears In Public Places (Alain Resnais)-France
Silent Night (Carlos Reygadas)-Mexico
Sicko (Michael Moore)-US
I imagine that several films below could upstage the ones I currently have seen and ranked…but I can’t say for sure until they are viewed)…so I better get cracking!
Stephanie Daley, The Treatment, The Situation, Redacted, Joshua, American Gangster, Rescue Dawn, Triangle, The Edge Of Heaven, Jindabyne, After The Wedding, Smokin Aces, Juno, Still Life, Margot At The Wedding, Michael Clayton, Sunshine, Smiley Face, Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams, This Is England, Fay Grim, Before The Devil Knows Your Dead, The Savages, Comedy Of Power, Colossal Youth, Blame It On Fidel!, Ratatouille, The Band’s Visit, Starting Out In The Evening, Terror’s Advocate, Lake Of Fire, Control, The Great World Of Sound and likely more I’m forgetting!
Best re-release of the year:
(yes…better than Blade Runner)
Killer Of Sheep (Charles Burnett)-US-1977
*Make this the first movie you watch in 2008!!!
“English Cinema is an oxymoron”
Francois Truffaut
I am loving this 3-dvd set featuring 16 films from the Free Cinema movement
that I’ve been watching this weekend. Before this, I was indulging in a bunch of WWII
propaganda films from Humphrey Jennings. There seems to be a link between these two poetic (yet engaged) blips in the British cinema history.
Speaking of movies and since I am soon posting my own BEST OF 2007 list–here is the INDIEWIRE composite BEST OF list from over 100 film critics.
As to be expected, it somewhat mirrors my own list (but I haven’t seen “Let There Be Blood” yet…so no telling where it will land on my year-end)…but I can tell you where this film ended up:
I guess I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that I was in the hospital last week! To back up a bit, I had a mid-afternoon tooth extraction and was put on happy pills which numbed me up pretty good. The only admonition I received from the dentist was to “take it easy and don’t do anything stressful”. So I get home after work, park the car (the street is very dark). So I decide to walk on the darkened sidewalk at a brisk pace figuring it safer than the narrow street. Then, about 100 yards from my walkway Pow! (stars!, pain! confusion!) I had a head-on collision with a jutting-out garage door while walking down the sidewalk. This wasn’t one of those roll up doors but rather the old fashion doors which “move up on hinges”. Within moments my face was oozing blood every which way which led to my deciding I needed an ER and fast! But where?
Just before I passed out I figured I had better do a Google search to find the nearest hospital to go. Do you realize how hard it is to find an ER on Google? It would have been easier if I had lost a limb or something. At least THEN, the ambulance driver would know where to go!
But skipping the whole drama of my hospital visit…I managed to get one helluva BLACK EYE! Amanda took cameraphone pics but I don’t wanna freak you out. I protested to the doctor suggesting that I didn’t really need stitches. He replied “looking inside this cut, I can see the fatty tissue right there”. At that point, I think Mandy passed out. I shouldn’t complain though as I was less than a 1/2 inch from losing an eye and 1 1/2 inches from breaking my nose. As stupid and funny as the whole night turned out…I sure was glad I was dosed up on pain killers from the dentist at the time…but that might have been part of the problem in the first place. I certainly didn’t end up “taking it easy” however. Getting your face shot with five injections of novacaine is NOT FUN btw.
I’m gonna post 2 photo albums here:
The FIRST is of the Fish Party I went to in Philly.
The SECOND is a general December photo album.
Happy Holidays all!
Around this time each year, I make a list the records which I listened to the most this year. I suppose this also serves as a personal “best of 2007” list…but my tastes are kind of idiosyncratic. I’m sure I’m forgetting some stuff and I’ll discover music I didn’t even know of next year no doubt. So here’s the list. When the numbering stops it just means I like the record but I can’t “rank it”.
1 Future Of The Left curses
2 Battles mirrored
3 Gétatchèw Mèkuria/The Ex moa anbessa
4 The National boxer
5 Jesu conqueror/lifeline
6 Field Music tones of town
7 Blonde Redhead 23
8 Pelican city of echoes
9 Animal Collective strawberry jam
10 The Besnard Lakes …are the dark horse
11 Deerhunter cryptograms/flourescent grey
12 Bill Callahan woke on a whaleheart
13 Feist the reminder
14 Akron/Family love is simple
15 LCD Soundsystem sound of silver
16 El-P i’ll sleep when you’re dead
17 Nina Nastasia & Jim White you follow me
18 Grinderman grinderman
19 Magnolia Electric Co. sojourner
20 The Broken West i can’t go on…i’ll go on
21 Shannon Wright let in the light
22 Art Brut it’s a bit complicated
23 Sunburned Hand Of The Man fire escape
24 Pinback autumn of the seraphs
25 New Pornographers challengers
26 Black Lips good bad not evil
27 Om pilgrimage
28 No Age weirdo rippers
29 !!! myth takes
30 Angels Of Light we are him
31 The Clientele god save the clientele
32 Les Savy Fav let’s stay friends
33 Kevin Drew spirit if…
34 Tinariwen aman iman
35 Panda Bear person pitch
36 Busdriver roadkillovercoat
37 Iron & Wine the shepherd’s dog
38 Earth hibernaculam
39 High On Fire death is this communion
40 Spoon ga ga ga ga ga
41 Of Montreal hissing fauna, are you the destroyer?
42 Go! Team proof of youth
42 Pissed Jeans hope for men
43 Melt-Banana bambi’s dilemna
44 Band Of Horses cease to begin
45 Deerhoof friend opportunity
46 The Most Serene Republic population
47 The Cave Singers invitation songs
48 José González in our nature
47 Electrelane no shouts, no calls
48 Boris rainbow
49 Wooden Shjips wooden shjips
50 Tunng good arrows
“Life must be understood backwards; but…it must be lived forwards”
Soren Kierkegaard
I hate nostalgia and all it’s sentimentality but these ATP concerts (where bands perform their “classic album” LIVE, in it’s ENTIRETY) are happening in the third week of July…and they all sound fun, although, not exactly a revelation …as I saw all these guys play these songs on the original go-arounds.
(in Los Angeles) :
7/20- Redd Kross doing Born Innocent
7/20- Sonic Youth doing Daydream Nation
7/22- Girls Against Boys doing Venus Luxure No.1 Baby
7/23- Slint doing Spiderland
As most my friends know I’ve been a music junkie from my teenage years on. Never has there been more music out there and more ways to discover it than right now. I’m too “all over the place” musically, to be a sensible guide to finding pop music. But April finds me listening to these songs:
From Montreal, Land Of Talk (a band that is bound for much bigger things) [Seafoam]
and [Magnetic Hill]. Also from my fave Canadian city, The Besnard Lakes (who I saw two weeks ago here in LA) [For Agent 13] and [Disaster]. They take awhile to connect with, the sounds are kind of abstract but it certainly grows on one.
From Leslie Feist‘s “The Reminder” [I Feel It All]. She lives in Paris but someone much closer to home, in fact, HOME itself is the LA band Let’s Go Sailing who sound almost C86-y in ways, but just have a nice melancholy pop sound. I’ve about played their CD-R to death. I found it in a record bin for .25 cents and I’ve certainly made back my investment. [Sideways].
The new record from The National “Boxer” leaked this week. Here’s a track from it called [Mistaken For Strangers]. I really liked their last cd “Alligator” as any friend who has received a mix from me last year will testify to.
Changing the beat–it isn’t new but, there’s Lupe Fiasco (See WHO says I ain’t in touch with the mainstream…or is this really “mainstream”?) [American Terrorist]. Well, Nine Inch Nails is mainstream and Trent Reznor sings (in part) on Company Flow/Def Jux kingpin El-P‘s new record on a song called [Flyentology] which all you adultswim fans may already know about. Keeping the BPM running, is the silly but swingin LCD Soundsystem‘s new cd “Sound Of Silver” [Time To Get Away]. Amon Tobin has a new cd called “Foley Room” recorded with Kronos Quartet amongst others using samplings of live recordings [Ever Falling] which is close as anyone has gotten to bridging the gaps between, musique concret, avant-garde, bossa nova and drum and bass musics. Quite interesting.
Somehow, I ended up with 5 recordings from the next Art Brut record. I don’t know exactly what it’s called but the songs are quirky and fun. Here’s one called [Pump Up The Volume]. Even more quirky and more BRITISH are The Young Knives [She's Attracted To]. It seems that The Fall continue to influence, even today.
Moving more to a metal mode, I’m diggin’ The Fucking Champs new record. I know it’s all the same but “math metal”? It’s cool and I’m headbangin. Their wikipedia entry contains the amusing line “It is a well-known fact that they possess the greatest song titles in the industry”. Well said! [Spring Break]. Ummm, speaking of that Aqua Team Hunger Force film, Mastodon is on the soundtrack with [Cut You Up With A Linoleum Knife]. I’m not so crazy about them though. I’m much more copacetic listening to “stoner metal” rather than “hardcore-influened” metal. Gimme Sleep, Om, High On Fire (who’s wikipedia entry has this amusing/scary statement “Matt Pike has rotten teeth but slays on the guitar”. Agreed!!!), Jesu or Pelican (who have a new cd called “City Of Echoes” [Far From Fields] ) and I am told that they have relocated to Los Angeles (yay) meaning at least this city now has ONE awesome post-metal band. Perhaps there are others…and there are but I don’t know of them yet.
For pop in a weirder vein, there is a the new CocoRosie record “The Adventures Of Ghosthorse and Stillborn” and the song [Rainbowwarriors]. I’m sort of mixed on them, at times too ostentatiously arty. Who was it that said “the greatest art is that which disguises art”? Not sure. But anyhow, no one would confuse Future Of The Left with anything resembling art though I do admire their way with a line…a bass line [The Lord Hates A Coward].
For a lighter sound there is Electrelane‘s forthcoming “No Shouts, No Calls” [To The East] which I feel is somewhat of a conservative retrenchment from the interesting (if more impenetrable) direction they were heading on their “Axes” cd. Still pleasant enough.
And lastly, a band I am so sorry I missed here last week…the Japanese band OOIOO. They are the only Boredoms side-project that I like more than The Boredoms. OOIOO is tribal and danceable and loads of fun [Umo]. Their cd “Taiga” from last year was a highlight.
I could keep on going. This was kind of fun. Maybe I’ll look at contemporary classical next or perhaps free jazz. Hmmm…
I thought I’d throw up a 2007 playlist of new music that I’m currently listening to (as well as some 2006 songs that I was late on). You wont be able to hear all of this, but any song highlighted can be heard by left clicking on it (and right clicking will download it).
I pretty much love pop, noise, world music, experimental, metal, hip-hop and punk all in about equal measure so…try enjoy the schizophrenia as much as I do! (Especially as I’ll only keep the music links active for a short time).
Young Folks-Peter, Bjorn & John (Writer’s Block)
Breakfast By The Mattress-Kristoffer Ragnstam (Sweet Bills)
God Knows (You Gotta Give to Get)-El Perro Del Mar (El Perro Del Mar)
Tones Of Town-Field Music (Tones Of Town)
I Hate You, Rob Crow-Rob Crow (Living Well)
We Were Born The Mutants Again With Leafling-Of Montreal (Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?)
23-Blonde Redhead (23)
Beaten Metal-Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra (Security)
Mer Du Japon-Air (Pocket Symphony)
Gör Det Nu-Dungen (Tio Bitar)
Open Your Heart-Lavender Diamond (Imagine Our Love)
Satan Said Dance-Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! (Some Loud Thunder)
Double Vision-The Ponys (Turn The Lights Out)
Transfigure-Jesu (Conqueror)
Far From Fields-Pelican (City Of Echoes)
Trollin’-The Stooges (The Weirdness)
Been There All The Time-Dinosaur Jr. (Beyond)
No Pussy Blues-Grinderman (Grinderman)
Everyone Gets His Own Nemesis-Zu & Nobukazu Takemura (Identification With The Enemy: A Key To The Underground)
American Terrorist-Lupe Fiasco (Food & Liquor)
Less Yes’s, More No’s-Busdriver (Roadkillovercoat)
Breaker-Low (Drums & Guns)
The Perfect Me-Deerhoof (Friend Opportunity)
The Loge-The Fucking Champs (VI)
The Things That People Do When They Think No One’s Looking-Hella (There’s No 666 In Outer Space)
Can You Feel It?-Apples In Stereo (New Magnetic Wonder)
Girls Like Status-The Hold Steady (Boys And Girls In America, Australian version)
Spaceape-Burial (Burial)
Money For All-Nine Horses (Money For All ep)
Heart Of Hearts-Chik Chik Chik (!!!) (Myth Takes)
You Know I’m No Good-Amy Winehouse (Back To Black)
Lesser Snake-Indian Jewelry (Invasive Exotics)
The Universe!-Do Make Say Think (You, You’re a History in Rust)
Spring Hall Convert-Deerhunter (Cryptograms)
Triggering Back-Benoit Pioulard (Précis)
Defy This Love-Shannon Wright (Let In The Light )
Somebody Else-Eleni Mandell (Miracle Of Five)
Heretics-Andrew Bird (Armchair Apocrypha)
Sycamore-Bill Callahan (SMOG) (Woke On A Whaleheart)
So It Goes-The Broken West (I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On)
No Cars Go-The Arcade Fire (Neon Bible)
Home-Great Northern (Trading Twilight For Daylight)
BBC World-David Kilgour (The Far Now )
Barriers-Aereogramme (My Heart Has A Wish That You Would Not Go)
Devo & Wine-Times New Viking (Present The Paisley Reich)
Sweet No. 1-Boris (Rainbow)
Fingers Become Thumbs-Future Of The Left
Chelsea Dagger-The Fratellis (Costello Music)
Race In-Battles (Mirrored)
Glitter Glamour Atrocity-White Hills (Glitter Glamour Atrocity)
Lost Word-Bardo Pond (Ticket Crystals)
Musicawi Silt-The Ex with Gétatchèw Mèkuria (Moa Anbessa)
Get Up Get Out-The Rosebuds (Night Of The Furies)
Get Innocuous-LCD Soundsystem (Sound Of Silver)
Red Sea, Black Sea-Shearwater (Palo Santo)
Screendoor-Illinois (What The Hell Do I Know?)
Firecracker-Voxtrot (Voxtrot)
Colorguard-Division Day (Beartrap Island)
The Greater Times-Electrelane (No Shouts, No Calls)
What Light-Wilco (Sky Blue Sky)
Our Velocity-Maximo Park (Our Earthly Pleasures)
Middleclass Stomp-Subtle (For Hero: For Fool)
What Can I Do?-Talib Kweli & Madlib (Liberation)
Bloodstone-Amon Tobin (Foley Room)
Midas-The Rubicks (In Miniature)
This Mess-Wolf & Cub (Vessels)
It Ain’t Funny How We Don’t Talk Anymore-You Am I (Convicts)
Calling Lightning With a Scyth-Howlin Rain (Howlin Rain)
TVTV-Digitalism (Idealism)
Rainbowarriors-Coco Rosie (The Adventures Of Ghosthorse And Stillborn)
Don’t Give Up-The Noisettes (What’s The Time Mr Wolf?)
Smithereens (Stop Cryin)-El-P (I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead)
Brianstorm-Arctic Monkeys (Favourite Worst Nightmare )
Shes Attracted To-The Young Knives (Voices Of Animals And Men)
Grace Kelly-Mika
Ton Plat Favori-Malajube (Trompe-L’oeil)
I Feel It All-Feist (The Reminder)
The Pyramid-Love Of Diagrams (Love Of Diagrams)
Coral Den-Midnight Movies (Lion the Girl)
Carolina Cigarette-Red Monroe (Red Monroe)
Real Time-Stars Of Track And Field
Not A Problem-The Black Lips (Los Valentes Del Mundo Nuevo)
Similar to how the Village Voice year-end movie poll (Take #) moved this year to Indie-Wire, the Village Voice year-end music poll (Pazz&Jop) moved this year to Idolator.com.
You can view the list here.
Most of the usual suspects, but hey…
So, I finally saw Pan’s Labyrinth this weekend and it really is as good as they say it is (Especially the 12 year-old actress, Ivana Baquero and the General, Sergi López).
Even with it dipping a bit too far into cliché [the saintly Communists vs. the sadistic Fascists] but it…still made it into my Top 10 of the year. Phantasmagorical and genuinely surrealist, it’s enough to almost make me forget that Del Toro ever directed empty junk such as Hellboy and Blade II.
You can see a trailer for it here.
“[The camera] is so refined that it makes it possible to shed light on the human soul, to reveal it the more brutally and thereby add to our knowledge new dimensions of the ‘real’.”-Ingmar Bergman
Stepping up to the plate after the eviceration of the (once-important) alt-weekly the Village Voice, IndieWIRE has began hosting the year-end critics poll of the best movies of 2006.
Mind you, no Leonard Maltin’s here, but rather over 100 critics from
alt-weeklies all over the country.
“Why should people go out and pay to see bad movies when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?”–Samuel Goldwyn
This year I must make a sad confession…and it is that I have seen MORE of this year’s movies at home (via Netflix) than I have in the movie theater.
In some way, this is totally antithetical to all the indoctrination I received en route to my current line of work. (But, time management has never been my strongest suit…I’m always missing “the week” that the film plays in the one theatre in town). However, in contrast to Goldwyn’s quip, I’ve been catching up on the good ones at home.
The first list consists of the films that I have seen which have stayed with me. (Ranked in a rough order of how much I liked ‘em.)
The second list consists of films that may be added to the first, but they either haven’t opened yet or have been well reviewed but I simply haven’t gotten around to seeing them yet. As I see more of these I will migrate them up to the first list.
In addition: Lunacy-Jan Svankmajer (Czech Republic), Shortbus-John Cameron Mitchell (United States), Why We Fight-Eugene Jarecki (United States), The Ground Truth-Patricia Faulkrod (United States), Crossing The Bridge: The Sound Of Istanbul-Fatih Akin (Turkey/Germany), Lady Vengeance-Chan-Wook Park (Korea), Sir! No Sir!-David Zieger (United States),The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada-Tommy Lee Jones (United States)
The Clash post made me start to think about many of the records I grew up with and I just LOVE to make lists. So this one is about the essential punk albums of my youth. Certainly, post-punk has much more mileage for me, but at the time (late 70′s) this stuff was where it was at. Just the kind of music your parents were sure to HATE! I even don’t think that stance is possible anymore with “alterna-moms” and all that. Some of this music is clearly “dated” now and some I could care less about but others still sound great today.
Here’s my list (in no particular order):
1) Sex Pistols-Never Mind The Bollocks
2) Alternative TV-The Mirror Has Cracked
3) The Clash-The Clash (UK version)
4) Generation X-Generation X (UK version)
5) Rudimentary Peni-Death Church
6) Black Flag-Damaged
7) Buzzcocks-Singles Going Steady
8)Television-Marquee Moon
9) The Avengers-The Avengers
10) Suicide-Suicide
11) The Adverts-Crossing The Red Sea
12) Circle Jerks-Group Sex
13) Discharge-Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing
14) The Adolescents-The Adolescents
15) The Jam-Setting Sons
16) Stiff Little Fingers-Inflammable Material
17) Husker Du-Zen Arcade/Metal Circus/Everything Falls Apart
18) Bad Brains-Rock For Light
19) Wire-Pink Flag
20) The Ruts-The Crack
21) Buzzcocks-Another Music In A Different Kitchen
22) X-Ray Spex-Germ-Free Adolescents
23) The Damned-Damned Damned Damned
24) Richard Hell and the Voidoids-Blank Generation
25) Dead Kennedys-Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
26) The Clash-London Calling
27) The Slits-Cut
28) X-Los Angeles
29) The Saints-(I’m) Stranded/Eternally Yours
30)The Damned-Machine Gun Etiquette
31) The Ramones-The Ramones
32) The Dead Boys-Young, Loud And Snotty
33) Minor Threat-Minor Threat
34) The Undertones-The Undertones
35) The Minutemen-Double Nickels On The Dime
36) The Vibrators-Pure Mania
37) The Wipers-Is This Real?
38) The Wipers-Youth Of America
39) Naked Raygun-All Rise
40) Wire-Chairs Missing
41) Mission Of Burma-Signals, Calls and Marches/Vs.
42) Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers-L.A.M.F.
43) The Misfits-Walk Among Us
44) Crass-Penis Envy
45) The Replacements-Sorry Ma, I Forgot To Take Out The Trash
46) Sham 69-The Adventures Of The Hersham Boys
47) The Proletariat-Soma Holiday
48) Chelsea-singles comp
49) compilation-”Let Them Eat Jellybeans”
50) compilation-”Punk And Disorderly”
If I did 50 singles, then I could add a bunch of different bands like Crime, The Dils, The Mekons etc… Besides, some groups were perfect at “singles” over albums (such as, The Buzzcocks and The Jam). And then there were groups like Wire, Swell Maps and Siouxsie and the Banshees that went on to make much more interesting music after the 1975-1978 era was over.
p.s.-I never liked The Exploited
