POLL - 1977 Punk Singles Choose Your Favourites

A cross-section of 1977 punk singles (using the widest definition). Vote for as many as you like.

 

White Riot,Chinese Rocks,and God Save The Queen

 

Pretty Vacant

 

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I only seem to be able to vote for one. In that case, it has to be the Damned.

Although I did not discover them until they reformed in 1979 and released a string of excellent singles then a great album.

Similarly, I never heard the Pistols single because the BBC refused to play it and I could not find a shop that had it!

In the real-time 1977 my favouritesingle was the Stranglers' - saw them on Top of the Pops and both single and album available at all good record shops on United Artists records and tapes...

 

God Save the Queen
Neat Neat Neat
F*** Off
Orgasm Addict
Sheena

 

I deliberately kept the poll to just one single per act; otherwise I could have done with about 125 choices, instead of the 25 limit! For me 1972 & 1977 were the most exciting years of the '70s; the former most certainly influencing the latter. Punk singles were like shooting stars, lighting up a very stagnant 'scene'.

'God Save The Queen' was banned left, right and centre; although Peel managed a couple of furtive plays. None of the UK chainstores would list it on the charts, let alone sell it. My hometown had just one shop willing to stock it; a large notice in their window announced that although they'd sell GSTQ, under NO circumstance would they play it. Inside, the Pistols singles were kept under the counter, in already sellotaped-up brown bags!! Hard-core, or what!

I voted for everything on the list, except The Boomtown Rats; never could stand Geldof's gobbiness.

 

White Riot.

 

Geez, I picked 16 of 'em.... lots of good stuff there.

 

Bodies - Sex Pistols
Pretty Vacant - Sex Pistols
God Save The Queen - Sex Pistols
E.M.I. - Sex Pistols
White Riot - The Clash
London Lady - Stranglers
The Modern World - The Jam
She's So Modern - Boomtown Rats

 

Neat Neat Neat
In the City
Sheena is a Punk Rocker
Ca Plane Pour Moi

I love "Ca Plane Pour Moi." The perfect combination of snotty and catchy.

 

Lots of great stuff here, but no Wire? "Mannequin" would definitely be at the top of my '77 punk singles list.

 

Bodies and EMI weren't singles!

 

Half of them weren't punk but they still made the list. 2 4 6 8 Motorway by the Tom Robinson band. Seriously?

 

Yeah, I got 14 and that was without voting for the Pistols (just not my favorite track by them...). Great stuff here.

 

Patti Smith
Sex Pistols

 

A bunch of my favourites in that list:
God Save The Queen
Your Generation
White Riot
In The City
Prove It
Chinese Rocks
Whole Wide World
Orgasm Addict
Sheena Is A Punk Rocker
Watching The Detectives

 

This Perfect Day.

 

Nearly all on the list are good, some are brilliant. Except the boomtown rats, who had no qualities I could admire.

Love The Saints!

 

Pistols
Plastic
Blondie
Elvis

Didn't know The Rats were considered punk

 

Add Ons:
Stooges - I Got A Right (recorded 1973, released 1977)
Dead Boys - Sonic Reducer
Ramones - Rockaway Beach (45 rpm mix)

 

when I saw TRB at The Apollo in 78 the majority of the crowd were punks.

 

Many favorites, but Sheena... she was the original punk rocker

 

Spiral Scratch (EP)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Spiral Scratch

Spiral Scratch is an EP and the debut release by English punk rock band Buzzcocks. It was released on 29 January 1977, and was the first punk record to be self-released (that is, without the support of an existing record label). It is the third official record ever released by a British punk band (preceded by The Damned's "New Rose", the Sex Pistols' "Anarchy in the U.K." and two first singles by The Vibrators in november 1976). The EP is the only Buzzcocks studio release to feature original singer Howard Devoto, who left shortly after its release to form one of the first post-punk bands, Magazine.

When reissued in 1979, it reached number 31 in the UK Singles Chart.[3] In 2017, it entered the top spot of the UK Physical Singles Chart after being re-issued on its' 40th anniversary.[4]

 

I selected The Damned "Neat, Neat, Neat", however I would add Devo's "Mongoloid/Jocko Homo" to the list. Many will debate whether it's 'punk rock', but I choose to believe it is.