The Stranglers
The Cure
Midnight Oil
Siouxsie & The Banshees
Television (well, that reunion album sure was)
Wire
Simple Minds
Duran Duran (hey, Rio was good)
The Cars (more like boring adult contemporary, actually)
The B-52s
Devo
Elvis Costello (the Woody Allen of rock; he keeps releasing new albums every year on schedule, people stopped giving a shit a long time ago)
Squeeze
The Psychedelic Furs
The Pretenders (only #1 and #3 are any good)
Aztec Camera
Graham Parker
Joe Jackson
Pere Ubu
The Damned
Billy Idol (Gen X were good, pity the drugs turned him into a cartoon character - the Ozzy of punk?)
Robyn Hitchcock (honestly Underwater Moonlight is the only one I like all the way through, not just "a few good songs, boring alternative)
The Church
Peter Gabriel
DID NOT
Blondie (the last album sucked, so they wisely broke up before turning into one)
The Jam (broke up at exactly the right time)
Joy Division (duh)
Killing Joke (still put out good albums, unbelievably)
Mission of Burma (see above)
The Undertones (broke up at right time)
Madness (see above - I don't count the Undertones/Madness reunion albums, like most reunions most fans don't even bother to listen to them, they just go to the concerts to hear the oldies)
The Clash (see Blondie)
The Go-Betweens (still released good albums right up until Grant's death)
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