Top punk songs that define the genre?

Adolescents - Amoeba
Void - My Rules
Descendents - Myage
Bad Brains - Pay to Cum
Doughboys - You're Related

 

Stranded by The Saints, and nine others.

 

Rise Above - Black Flag

 

Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the U.K.
The Clash - I'm So Bored With the U.S.A
Dead Kennedys - California Über Alles

 

Babelogue/Rock & Roll N****r - Patti Smith
I Don't Care About You - Fear
I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts - X

 

Anarchy in the UK - Sex Pistols
Blitzkrieg Bop - Ramones
Search and Destroy - Iggy and the Stooges
Personality Crisis - New York Dolls
Let's Have a War - Fear
Nervous Breakdown - Black Flag
Kill the Poor - Dead Kennedys
I Don't Wanna Hear it - Minor Threat
I'm Stranded - The Saints
Roadrunner - Modern Lovers

 

Sorry to be slightly OT.
You can find all you have with that. Never found a more comprehensive list with such an amazing track list. Hard to choose amongst them (maybe the 4th cd is less punk and more post punk). Just a selection missing : The Sex Pistols (due to copyright rights).

Always in my Ipod for 6 years to help me with running. Does anyone know a better comp ?


Ramones – Blitzkrieg Bop 2:12
1.02 Clash, The – White Riot 1:59
1.03 Nick Lowe – Heart Of The City 2:03
1.04 Buzzcocks – Boredom 2:53
1.05 Saints, The (2) – (I'm) Stranded 3:33
1.06 Damned, The – Neat Neat Neat 2:42
1.07 Jam, The – In The City 2:19
1.08 Pere Ubu – Final Solution 5:00
1.09 Modern Lovers, The – Roadrunner 4:06
1.10 Television – Little Johnny Jewel 7:06
1.11 Adverts, The – One Chord Wonders 2:36
1.12 Heartbreakers, The (2) – Born To Lose 3:02
1.13 Stooges, The – Search And Destroy 3:29
1.14 Mink DeVille – Let Me Dream If I Want To (Amphetamine Blues) 2:54
1.15 X-Ray Spex – Oh Bondage Up Yours! 2:50
1.16 Wire – 1 2 X U 1:57
1.17 Richard Hell & The Voidoids – Blank Generation 2:44
1.18 Stranglers, The – (Get A) Grip (On Yourself) 4:03
1.19 Runaways, The – Cherry Bomb 2:19
1.20 New York Dolls – Personality Crisis 3:42
1.21 Eddie And The Hot Rods – Teenage Depression 2:58
1.22 Dictators, The – Two Tub Man 3:33
1.23 Patti Smith – Hey Joe (Version) 5:08
1.24 Generation X (4) – Your Generation 3:17
2.01 Iggy Pop – Lust For Life 5:13
2.02 Adverts, The – Gary Gilmore's Eyes 2:14
2.03 Ultravox – Saturday Night In The City Of The Dead 2:34
2.04 Buzzcocks – What Do I Get? 2:55
2.05 Blondie – X Offender 3:12
2.06 Boomtown Rats, The – Lookin' After No. 1 3:10
2.07 Penetration (2) – Don't Dictate 2:55
2.08 Fall, The – Bingo Master 2:24
2.09 Patti Smith – Free Money 3:51
2.10 Jam, The – The Modern World 2:32
2.11 Heartbreakers, The (2) – Chinese Rocks 2:55
2.12 Damned, The – New Rose 2:43
2.13 Subway Sect – Ambition 3:04
2.14 Television – See No Evil 4:04
2.15 Stiff Little Fingers – Suspect Device 2:43
2.16 Wire – Mannequin 2:37
2.17 Vibrators, The – Baby Baby 3:42
2.18 Richard Hell & The Voidoids – Love Comes In Spurts 2:01
2.19 Boys, The (2) – First Time 2:22
2.20 Dead Boys, The – Sonic Reducer 3:06
2.21 Magazine – Shot By Both Sides 4:01
2.22 Elvis Costello – Mystery Dance 1:37
2.23 New York Dolls – Trash 3:09
2.24 X-Ray Spex – The Day The World Turned Day-glo 2:51
2.25 Eddie And The Hot Rods – Do Anything You Wanna Do 4:04
3.01 Generation X (4) – Ready Steady Go 2:58
3.02 Undertones, The – Teenage Kicks 2:26
3.03 Ian Dury – Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll 3:04
3.04 Buzzcocks – Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've?) 2:42
3.05 Suicide – Rocket U.S.A. 4:17
3.06 Devo – Mongoloid 3:34
3.07 999 – Homicide 3:42
3.08 Dils, The – Mr. Big 1:43
3.09 Joy Division – Warsaw 2:26
3.10 Mekons, The – Where Were You? 2:43
3.11 Germs – Lexicon Devil 2:05
3.12 Rezillos – (My Baby Does) Good Sculptures 2:53
3.13 Pretenders, The – The Wait 3:11
3.14 Weirdos, The – We Got Neutron Bomb 3:00
3.15 Modern Lovers, The – Pablo Picasso 4:22
3.16 Alternative TV – Action Time Vision 2:31
3.17 Tom Robinson Band – 2-4-6-8 Motorway 3:18
3.18 Avengers – We Are The One 2:41
3.19 Sham 69 – Borstal Breakout 2:06
3.20 Black Flag – Wasted 0:51
3.21 Ramones – Sheena Is A Punk Rocker 2:48
3.22 Fear (3) – I Love Livin In The City 2:11
3.23 Boomtown Rats, The – She's So Modern 2:58
3.24 Rich Kids – Ghosts Of Princes In Towers 3:34
3.25 X (5) – We're Desperate 2:01
3.26 Dickies, The – You Drive Me Ape (You Big Gorilla) 1:53
3.27 Motors, The – Dancing The Night Away 3:14
4.01 Siouxsie & The Banshees – Hong Kong Garden 2:56
4.02 Blondie – Hanging On The Telephone 2:21
4.03 Rezillos – Top Of The Pops 3:22
4.04 X (5) – Adult Books 3:15
4.05 Members, The – The Sound Of The Suburbs 3:55
4.06 Dead Kennedys – California Über Alles 3:28
4.07 Only Ones, The – Another Girl, Another Planet 3:03
4.08 Soft Boys, The – (I Want To Be An) Anglepoise Lamp 3:00
4.09 Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Radio, Radio 3:07
4.10 Slits, The – Typical Girls 3:55
4.11 Cramps, The – Human Fly 2:15
4.12 Talking Heads – Psycho Killer 4:20
4.13 Ruts, The – Babylon's Burning 2:32
4.14 Sham 69 – If The Kids Are United 3:48
4.15 Stiff Little Fingers – Alternative Ulster 2:44
4.16 Cure, The – Boys Don't Cry 2:41
4.17 Pop Group, The – She Is Beyond Good And Evil 3:23
4.18 Joe Jackson – Is She Really Going Out With Him? 3:36
4.19 Undertones, The – Get Over You 2:43
4.20 Gang Of Four – Love Like Anthrax 3:19
4.21 Stranglers, The – Peaches 4:07
4.22 Skids, The – Into The Valley 3:17
4.23 Johnny Thunders – You Can't Put Your Arms Round A Memory 3:04
4.24 Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart

 

The title did not load but that looks like - No Thanks! The 70s Punk Rebellion.
I was just perusing that on Amazon the other day.

 

Spin: Twenty Greatest Punk Songs Ever #1
Weinerschnitzel

 

No Thanks is good, but 1-2-3-4 is better!! http://www.amazon.co.uk/1234-Punk-N...8&qid=1387284697&sr=1-1&keywords=1-2-3-4+punk

 

Only in your mind.

 

Top track

 

Anarchy - Sex Pistols - It''s Too Late - Jim Carroll Band - When Our Love Passed Out On The Couch - X - Clampdown - Clash - Pretty Vacant - Sex Pistols - Should I Stay Or Should I Go? - Clash - The Hungry Wolf - X - Catholic Boy - Jim Carroll Band - No Feelings - Sex Pistols and one off the first Clash record, would have to think about it - Remote Control, Complete Control, the whole record is A songs.

 

EMI—Sex Pistols

 

New York Dolls - Chatterbox.

 

Institutionalized - Suicidal Tendencies

 

The only song you need to define it is:
FEAR "I love livin' in the city"

 

Marquee Moon - Television

 

"Living in the Gutter" by Ian Rubbish and the Bizarros.

 

This Rhino DIY cd "Anarchy In The UK - Punk I 1976-77" has a nice little set of essential punk numbers.

 

Sex Pistols - Bodies
Buzzcocks - What do I get?
X-Ray Spex - Oh! Bondage Up Yours
The Fall - Spectre Versus Rector
Wire - 12XU
Clash - Janie Jones
Ramones - Sheena is a Punk Rocker
Dead Kennedys - Kill the Poor
Damned - Neat Neat Neat
Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the UK

And many more

 

The Saints were Australian and The Boomtown Rats Irish!!

 

A few more beauties for the collection (PLAY LOUD):

Generation X - No No No


Chelsea- The Right To Work
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Anq3qJ0w-wo

The Rings - I Wanna Be Free
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1gYQGYHvrQ

The Electric Chairs - Stuck On You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Maki2DEvfQ0

 

OK, since you asked, here are some of my favourite punk songs:

Buzzcocks – Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't 've?)
The Skids - Sweet Suburbia
MC5 - Kick Out The Jams
Stiff Little Fingers – Alternative Ulster
Penetration - Don't Dictate
Generation X - King Rocker
Ramones - Sheena Is A Punk Rocker / Blitzkrieg Bop / I Wanna Be Sedated ....
The Stranglers - Hanging Around
The Bates - Billy Jean
The Clash - London's Burning
Sex Pistols - Anarchy In The UK / Pretty Vacant / EMI ...
The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog / Search And Destroy
UK Subs - Down On The Farm / Angel