Mission of Burma was an American post-punk band from Boston, Massachusetts, formed in 1979. Then again, I think this band's music poses that interesting general question of genre distinction; They have some songs that sound more traditionally punk (That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate is even featured on a collection of mostly old-school punk songs called Faster & Louder: Hardcore Punk, Vol. 1, which has plenty of bands more commonly labeled as punk).