^I wouldn't call Sonic Youth post-punk.
But mine would be a toss-up between Joy Division, The Fall, Wire and Gang Of Four.

yeah. Joy Division or The Cure. I never hear the cure being called post-punk but they kinda are. Then there's the Fall. Great songs, even if 1/2 of them are plagiarism jobs, but that voice is just horrible. P.I.L's metal box is cool too.

why not?
They fall into that time line and have a similar sound...

^Now that I think about it I guess so but they are more Experimental.
On another note has anyone else noticed how consistent Post-Punk is as a genre every other one has half of the bands terrible but there are only a few bad Post-Punk artists.

I bet there are a whole lot of bad ones that we just don't know about.

But even so it's not being shoved down our throats like other genres.

true

b.s. what genre shoves bands down our throat?

and there aren't any "bad" post-punk bands because the only bands that people really know of the genre are joy division, new order, the smiths, the cure, wire, swans, gang of four, and a few other misc. ones. it was a niche genre back in the day and is especially niche now. i love it, think it is awesome, but only a few really stand out bands came out of it.

I think there are a lot more than you think, not to mention the numerous bands that have been influenced by the post-punk movement. I think it can be considered one of the most original and influential genres of all time.

punk, rock and metal all have bad bands that are popular but with post-punk all the big bands are awesome sure there are probably bad artists but not well known ones. So post-punk is being represented well to most people.