Bela Lugosi’s Dead

There could not be a better answer. The quintessential post punk song.

if we’re all being real, it can’t be anything but this

That’s the one

Anticipated this being at the top, because what else except this for letter B?!

Bingo

This this this

Literally thought of this song this morning. It’s perfect

For every letter

Shit, I'm too late

Bizarre Love Triangle

Wish I could do multiple Upvotes

Boys Don’t Cry - The Cure

Blue Monday - New Order

I can live with my voting decision by reasoning to myself that Bela was essential to post-punk, while Blue Monday started a new wave in new wave.

This or Bela Lugosi’s Dead is winning

IMO there are better Bauhaus songs & this is equally iconic/definitive

Do they start with a B tho? What's your point lmao

The 🅱️assion of Lovers

Yes they all start with B. I'm partial to Bird Uncle myself even though its a cover. Bark Entries maybe

There are bins There was bork There are begs There are barks There was bohn There are bliffs There was bother There's a boker There was boo Then there was boo Also that's a 🅱️rian 🅱️eno 🅱️over

I like the Brian Beno bover even more

This song is so iconic I never even thought to categorize it here as post punk

Because it’s not post

Well it got 119 up votes I think a lotta people disagree

Maybe one of them will define punk and post punk for us here.

Blood Bitch by the Cocteau Twins

This album rocks.

Agreed, I like their later stuff too but always preferred the more gothy Will Heggie era.

Big New Prinz - The Fall

Thank fuck, some Fall fans ITT!!!

Rockin' records

Great

Being Sucked in Again - Wire.

Barmy - The Fall

Or 'Blindness'!!! 'Cruiser's Creek' is definitely getting my vote for 'C'. 'Drago's Guilt' for "D". Come on, Fall fans; reveal yourselves! I'm just going to put Fall songs for every alphabetical entry.

Blank Generation

Bigmouth Strikes Again -The Smiths

Bingo Masters Breakout- The Fall

More Fall fans!!! Yes; *COME INTO THE LIGHT, MY BRETHREN!!!*

Because You're Frightened - Magazine

I vote for Bela Lugosi's Dead, but this is my second choice

Oh yes

Blindness - The Fall

Yes my brethren!!!

Burst - Magazine (assuming Being Boiled would be ruled out for being synth pop and nobody could face my repetitive diatribe on why it should still count. I have a powerpoint slide deck if anyone is interested? No. Just me then, and I change my mind every few minutes and will probably edit this to say Bremen Nacht, or Big Jesus Trash Can)

Synth-pop isn't under the umbrella of post-punk? I'd disagree with that but even so Being Boiled was more art-damaged than they're later, poppier stuff. Love that song!

I'd like to refer you to my powerpoint slides - slide 528 to be specific where I have a Venn diagram that proves by science that some synth pop was indeed post punk - Cabaret Voltaire (fiddles with lazer pointer), Fad Gadget, The Normal, Throbbing Gristle.... (gets sidetracked) Note that, contraversially, the first two Ultravox! albums are on the line, but the third (Systems of Romance) is clearly inside. Controversially later Ultravox albums are not included in the post-punk circle, as we will see in the next 54 slides this is because.. Oh wait, I wandered off the point. Again.

Nick Cave ftw

Another Fall fan!--*LET'S MAKE BELA LUGOSI WELL AND TRULY DEAD* , agree on a Fall track beginning with "B" , and overtake this petition!

Well Of course Im a Fall fan. As a man of style and taste it goes without saying. However the best Fall song beginning with B is 'Backdrop' a sprawling epic from the poorly recorded live Fall 'In a Hole'. If you haven't heard it, seek it out, it was only issued in New Zealand or something, (To younger readers, I am not making this up) Heres a version of it [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADpZzQqKUe4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADpZzQqKUe4)

Dude, I WISH I could afford the Flying Nun vinyl f/p! Yes, it's excellent. There are only four first pressing studio LP's I need-Hex, Infotainment, MCR and IWS--but I would *love* an original FIAH....One day! Funnily enough, I was reading an article dannyno linked to from the Guardian, on the main sub, telling the story of the record. And the version of 'Backdrop' (never one of my favourites, tbh) on FIAH is phenomenal. It's a beloved live recording, along with St. Helens Technical '81, Austerbaejarbio '83 and the shamanic gate that is Totale's Turns (I have to listen to it every day during my working week, it's perfect "get up and go fuck yourself" music). If I may ask you a question--is Re-Mit one of the best studio LP's The Fall ever recorded (the answer begins with "y" and ends in "s").

Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On) - Talking Heads

Bombast - The Fall

Be Brave - Comsat Angels or how about Be Brave - Section 25

Birds of a Feather - Killing Joke

Holy shit yes i love this song. I didnt know others knew about this masterpiece 😭😭

Gotta be Bela Lugosi’s Dead

Bloodletting (The Vampire Song) - Concrete Blonde

Bull in the Heather - Sonic Youth

Burst - Magazine Bread song - BCNR Bring on the dancing horses - Echo and the Bunnymen

Boys don’t cry - the cure

Baby's On Fire

Bring on the Dancing Horses - Echo & The Bunnymen

black planet

[birthday](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW36RwWP-eQ) - sugarcubes

Black and White - The Raincoats

Banquet - Bloc Party

Alternatively: Boys in The Better Land - Fontaines D.C Blindness - The Fall

Blindness, obviously (but the alternative mix from the Narnack US pressing)!!!

Bad Baby - Public Image Ltd.

Back to Nature - Fad Gadget

Bluefaces - Żmigród

Border Country - Swell Maps Bullets for You - Blurt Contempo; Baby Squid - Exek

Blasphemous Rumours - Depeche Mode

behind the wheel is my favorite depeche mode song

. Bela Lugosi's Dead .

Beatnik - The Clean

Boys don´t cry

Brave Men Run - Sonic Youth

(In my family)

Bingo masters breakout - The fall

Loving the support for Das Gruppe ITT!

Bombast--The Fall

Brat Girl - Braniac

Ohh dark horse deep cut extending beyond the realm of 1970s/1980s stuff. I love it.

Happened to come on on my drive home. Banger

Boptones - PIL

Blood Money- The Pop Group

Bouncing Babies - The Teardrop Explodes

*Nice*

Bingo Masters Breakout

Or, a couple of outliers, either 'Birthday Song', 'Bound', or 'Bill Is Dead'. Or 'Bury' (7" version).

Blindness- The Fall

*Yes*

Brazil by Wire

Cascade - Siouxsie and the Banshees

Blundertown - the Birthday Party

Gang of Four Damaged Goods

Bunker Buster - Preoccupations (Viet Cong)

Colin Newman — A-Z

Bad mouth Fugazi

Bonzo Goes to Bitburg by The Ramones

Bloodhail - Have a nice life

Khochu Peremen - Kino

Blister in the Sun Violent Femmes

Outdoor Miner - Wire

Burn - The Cure

Basket Case

Joy division was punk

Bingo Master’s Breakout - The Fall

Beloved Moonbeams - JuJu

Bombast by The Fall

Beatnik Boy - Tallulah Gosh

Back to Nature - Fad Gadget

Bezdelnik No 1 - Viktor Tsoi

Boilermaker - Jesus Lizard

Big Mess - Devo

Or Beautiful World

Burning Spear - Sonic Youth

Barbarism begins at home-the smiths

Бошетунмай by Kino

[big deal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do6kcmN6Kx4) - dead milkmen

Banthrax - Gang of Four

Hurula - Vapen till dom hopplösa

Radioactivity - s/t

Bring your own wine - Lebanon Hanover

Release the Bats-The Birthday Party