Context: British post-punk entered the 1980s with support from members of the critical community—American critic Greil Marcus characterised "Britain's postpunk pop avant-garde" in a 1980 Rolling Stone article as "sparked by a tension, humour and sense of paradox plainly unique in present day pop music"—as well as media figures such as BBC DJ John Peel, while several groups, such as PiL and Joy Division, achieved some success in the popular charts. The network of supportive record labels that included Industrial, Fast, E.G., Mute, Axis/4AD and Glass continued to facilitate a large output of music, by artists such as the Raincoats, Essential Logic, Killing Joke, the Teardrop Explodes, and the Psychedelic Furs.

Question: How did critics respond to British post-punk groups in the 1980s?
Answer: support

Question: What nationality was the critic who positively characterized Britain's postpunk scene in an 1980 Rolling Stone article?
Answer: American

Question: What about the sense of paradox in postpunk different in relation to the pop music of the day?
Answer: unique

Question: What corporation was John Peel a DJ for?
Answer: BBC

Question: What were Fast, Mute, and Glass in the context of post-punk music?
Answer: record labels

Question: When did British post-punk emerge?
Answer: 1980s

Question: Who said that British post-punk was "sparked by a tension, humour and sense of paradox plainly unique in present day pop music"?
Answer: Greil Marcus

Question: What popular DJ supported the emergence of British post-punk?
Answer: BBC DJ John Peel

Question: What British post-punk bands had success in the popular charts?
Answer: PiL and Joy Division

Question: Which record labels really supported the British post-punk movement?
Answer: Industrial, Fast, E.G., Mute, Axis/4AD and Glass

Question: When did post-punk not get the support it needed?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Which groups didn't find success?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What record labels were not supportive?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What artists never had record labels?
Answer: Unanswerable