Top punk songs that define the genre?

List your top 10 (more or less) punk songs.
Pick them to define the genre as you see it and/or your favorite and/or you best of list.


Blitzkrieg Bop – Ramones
God Save The Queen – Sex Pistols
London Calling – The Clash
New Rose - The Damned
American Idiot – Green Day
I Wanna Be Loved - Heartbreakers
(Can't Get My) Head Around You – The Offspring
American Jesus – Bad Religion
Babylon's Burning - The Ruts
Alternative Ulster - Stiff Little Fingers

For whatever reason I had a hard time. Mostly because I was limiting it to one song per band.
Also I kept it at 10 (I think I could have defined the genre with a few songs, or I could have added a bunch), I excluded pre 1975, new wave, grunge, alternative, and I am not really into hard core. Don’t let that stop you from including any of these if it suits you.

 

Magazine - Shot By Both Sides (single version had an amazing energy)

 

I'm Stranded - The Saints
Anarchy In The UK - Sex Pistols
Gary Gilmores Eyes - The Adverts
GLC - Menace
White Riot - The Clash
Borstal Breakout - Sham 69
Boredom - Buzzcocks
Neat Neat Neat - The Damned
Oh Bondage Up Yours - X-Ray Spex
Cant Stand My Baby - The Rezillos

 

God Save the Queen : Sex Pistols

One of the most powerful, incendiary songs ever written.

 

Sex pistols -god save the queen
Clash - white riot
Damned - love song
Dead kennedys - nazi punks eff off
Crass - big a little a
Discharge - fight back
Bad brains - sailing on
Buzzcocks - orgasm addict
X ray spex - the day the world turned day glo
Ramones - blitzkreig bop

 

Very difficult defining a whole genre from so many countries; here a try:

Dead Kennedys: 'Holiday in Cambodia'
The Ex: 'State of Shock'
The Ramones: 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue'
Blur: 'Song 2'
The Undertones: 'My Perfect Cousin'
Flipper: 'Ha Ha Ha'
PIL: 'Public Image'
Iggy Pop' 'Lust for Life'
Nirvana: 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'
Wire: '12XU'
The Wipers: 'Doom Town'
The Stranglers: 'No More Heroes'
Jane's Addiction: 'Stop!'
The Jam: 'That's Entertainment!'
Nina Hagen: 'Unbeschreiblich Weiblich'

As you see even some songs with acoustic guitars, an organ, some reggae dub and even a cello...

 

Oh and how about a plug for my favourite local group Beverly Kills, and their christmassy girl punk cover of Walking in the Air from the Snowman y

 

Some more.........

One Chord Wonders - The Adverts
Sick Of You - The Users
Sick On You - Hollywood Brats
Read About Seymour - Swell Maps
Another Girl Another Planet - Only Ones
Car Crash EP- The Avengers
No Time To Be 21 - The Adverts
Lookalikes - The Drones
I Don't Care - The Boys
Shadow - The Lurkers
What Have We Got - Sham 69
This Perfect Day - The Saints
Know Your Product - The Saints
Hong Kong Garden - Siouxsie & The Banshees
Regulations - Neon Hearts
Sonic Reducer - Dead Boys
Ain't Nothing To Do - Dead Boys
At Home He's A Tourist - Gang Of Four
Action Time & Vision - ATV
Part Time Punks EP - TV Personalities
Suspect Device - Stiff Little Fingers
What Do I Get - Buzzcocks
Blank Generation - Voidoids

 

Sex Pistols, Pretty Vacant
The Stranglers, Straighten out
The Clash, Career Opportunities
The Ruts, In a Rut

 

Not really my kind of genre, and I don't know if they define punk but these are some of my favourites:

Bad Religion - 21st Century Digital Boy
Rancid - Ruby Soho
Fall Out Boy - Thnks fr th Mmrs
Thirty Seconds From Mars - This Is War
Sum 41 - In Too Deep
Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Blink-182 - First Date
Offspring - Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)
Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbdag
Nirvana - Come As You Are
Good Charlotte - The Anthem

 

Adverts - Gary Gilmore's Eyes (original version)
Buzzcocks - Boredom
Clash - Hate & War
Damned - Born To Kill
Dead Boys - Sonic Reducer
Dead Kennedys - Holiday In Cambodia
The Fall - Rebellious Jukebox
Gang Of Four - Armalite Rifle (original version)
Generation X - Your Generation
The Heartbreakers - Born To Lose
Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Blank Generation
The Jam - Art School
Public Image Ltd - Public Image
The Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop
Rich Kids - Ghosts Of Princes In Towers
The Ruts - In A Rut
The Saints - I'm Stranded
Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen
Sham 69 - Angels WIth Dirty Faces
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Nicotine Stain
Slits - Typical Girls
Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster
Stranglers - Something Better Change
Tubes - White Punks On Dope
Undertones - Family Entertainment
Vibrators - Whips And Furs
Wire - 12XU
X-Ray Spex - Oh Bondage Up Yours

 

Very little ever happened in punk after this

 

X - Los Angeles
Dead Boys - Sonic Reducer
Black Flag - Nervous Breakdown
Bad Brains - pretty much everything they did
Circle Jerks - Wild In the Streets

 

| The Stooges "TV Eye" (1970)
| Neu! "Super" (1972)
| Brian Eno "Blank Frank" (1973)
| Pere Ubu "Final Solution" (1975)
| Adam & the Ants "Plastic Surgery"
| Warsaw "Warsaw"
| Sex Pistols "Pretty Vacant"
| Siouxsie & the Banshees "Love in a Void"
| The Stranglers "Hanging Around"
| The Fall "Rowche Rumble"

 

These are not punk songs to my definition.

 

Let's see your list.

 

Mommy, Can I Go Out and Kill Tonight?" or Die, die My Darling by Misfits.

 

Sheena is a Punk Rocker

 

Not a huge punk fan beyond some of the usual suspects (Clash, Stranglers, Ramones) and a few singles by other bands, but I'll add this. Probably too obscure to be genre defining, but I've always loved it and that's the only excuse I need...


Wimp by the Zeros (sorry about the ad, if you're getting that for 30 secs at the beginning).

 

The Adverts - One Chord Wonders
Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen
X-Ray Spex - Identity
The Clash - Complete Control
The Damned - New Rose
Banshees - Hong Kong Garden
Buzzcocks - Spiral Scratch EP
Undertones - Teenage Kicks
Discharge - Decontrol
Kleenex - Heidi's Head
Swell Maps - Read About Seymour
The Pop Group - We Are All Prostitutes

 

The Weirdos - We Got The Neutron Bomb/Solitary Confinement
Radio Birdman - Aloha Steve & Danno, Hand Of Law, New Race

 

Blitzkrieg Bob -- Ramones
Complete Control -- The Clash
Holiday In Cambodia -- Dead Kennedys
Johnny Hit and Run Paulene -- X
Year 1 -- X
Oh Bondage, Up Yours! -- X-Ray Spex
Unity -- Operation Ivy
Straight Edge -- Minor Threat
Rock 'n' Roll Ni**er -- Patti Smith Group
Search and Destroy -- The Stooges

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpkV8nHbttI

this ( The Victims "Television addict " ) , together with the Zeros masterpiece
you add " I m Stranded " and strangely enough my 3 favorite genre defining punk classics come from very remote cities ( Perth , Brisbane , San Diego )

 

Of course that should say Blitzkrieg Bop. I spell "blitzkrieg" correctly and misspell "bop"??!!

 

B-side Did You No Wrong , blows GSTQ
out of the freakin' water !