Favorite Punk Songs

And even better but sadly even more forgotten, The Flys and the WONDERFUL Love And A Molotov Cocktail

 

That's a great song, but is it really considered punk? I genuinely want to know. Doesn't seem to have the attitude, IMO.

 

The original 45, which is completely unhinged compared to the weedy version that showed up on the album.

 

Well, The Clash is punk, but the song is very well produced. Great tune, though.

 

Bad Brains - The Big Takeover
Black Flag - Nervous Breakdown
Misfits - Bullet
Saints - No Time
Richard Hell & the Voidoids - Love Comes in Spurts
Dead Boys - Down In Flames
Pere Ubu - Street Waves
Wipers - Youth Of America
Sister Ray - Release
Sonics Rendezvous - City Slang

 

Babelouge/Rock n Roll ****** - Patti Smith

 

The tense, biting melodrama of this track makes it one of the most lilting artifacts of that short, small movement that engulfed Southeast England in the spring/summer of '77.

 

Negative Approach - Nothing

 

I am determined to listen to stuff I generally shy away from and while probably will never be a fan of the punk genre I liked this.

I wonder how many can accept it was only a razors edge removed from the dreaded disco music.

Perhaps only the artists name is all that separates it.

 

Nervous Eaters "Just Head":

 

Replacements F school

 

My vote for the greatest pre-London Calling Clash song goes to the '77 b-side "City of the Dead" — all thanks to the blaring sax supplied by Gloria Mundi blower CC, who also appears on Ultravox's sublime "Hiroshima Mon Amour".

 

Do you know this one? Another great song by The Clash.

 

Beating the Sex Pistols to vinyl by more than six months was the following English quartet and their blue-haired front-man with this viola-strewn zinger:

 

Here's a little crash course that I just put together in about 5 minutes. All this goodness will fit on one CD. edit...Damn! I see I missed The Damned.

 

This list I assembled last year — one of my many 1977 mix-lists — focuses primarily on punk:
1977 V - YouTube »

 

Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the U.K.

Always interesting to see what people consider punk. It reminds me of a Supreme Court justice who was asked to define pornography. To paraphrase to this topic. "I may not be able to define punk but I know it when I hear it."

 

Sex Pistols - Bodies
The Stranglers - Nice 'n' Sleazy
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Sex and Drugs
999 - Emergency
The Clash - Police & Thieves
The Ruts - Babylons Burning
The Skids - Into The Valley
The Members - Sound of the Suburbs
PIL - The Public Image
Buzzcocks - Boredom.

 

I have heard that as part of pop culture without knowing the source,it has a melody or tune one can get into rather then monotone chanting so maybe more of a fan of "punk" then I knew...it was just a song to me.

 

Oh, it is a great tune. But every time I hear it I can't convince myself it's a punk song. Sounds too poppy, too mainstream. Especially when compared to something like "Clash City Rockers".

 

The Stranglers were never exactly a punk band — more like a sui generis mix of The Groundhogs, Atomic Rooster, and Banks-era Yes to these ears — but the following cut is right up punk alley:

That's Lora Logic of X-Ray Spex on sax.