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I'm compiling an album through iTunes based on punk music from the 70s onwards. But there don't seem to be that many punk bands. Which punk bands are the best?

Heroin, Aus Rotten, Minor Threat, Husker Du, State of Alert, The Locust.

The Clash, Sex Pistols, Stranglers, XTC, Sham 69, The Jam (Early stuff), Blondie.

Here's a list of groups I think you must have

-The usual suspects
-René Binamé
-Flogging molly
-Anti-flag
-Rise against
-The exploited
-...

there are more, but I can't think of 'em right now, certainly try to find the first two, they're great!

Refused?

iTunes, how very punk of you :D

Punk..

Mmmm.

Dead Kennedys

Operation Ivy (ska-punk)

(counting hardcore too)

Dead Kennedys, the Partisans, Wire, Bad Brains, Inside Out, Suicidal Tendencies, Refused, Angelic Upstarts, Cock Sparrer, Bombscare, Stiff Little Fingers, Agent Orange, the Clash, Sex Pistols, Reagan Youth, Ramones...

Theres a lot of stuff i'd recommend but my definition of punk is more an aesthetic thing rather than a musical style, so i'm conscious of that and I left a few out that people would disagree with, and it's probably not what you're looking for anyway.

NOFX, Buzzcocks, Reagan Youth, Black Flag, Choking Victim, Die Toten Hosen, Descendents, Rise Against, The Dwarves, Los Crudos, Me First & The Gimme Gimmes, Angelic Upstarts, The Misfits, The Offspring, F-Minus, Pulley, The Vandals, The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, Stiff Little Fingers, UK Subs, Bad Religion, The Undertones, The Vibrators, Oi Polloi, Bouncing Souls, Pennywise, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, Heideroosjes, Voodoo Glow Skulls, Beatsteaks, Rancid, Tiger Army, The Weakerthans...

There's many many more...search for punk bands on wiki.

Black Flag, The Dwarves, Me First & The Gimme Gimmes, The Misfits, The Offspring, The Vandals, Bad Religion, Oi Polloi, Pennywise

Ugh, forgot these ones in particular. :p

iTunes, how very punk of you :D

Me thoughts exactly.

That said, I V Stalins list is pretty extensive.

The Clash...yeah....they kick a$$....

Ugh, forgot these ones in particular. :p
He wanted a list of punk bands...I didn't say which of those I actually like.

In case you were wondering, I don't particularly like these: The Dwarves, The Offspring, The Vandals (one good album, the rest is crap), Oi Polloi. Not a massive fan of the Vibrators or Rise Against, either.

the one and only SKREWDRIVER...:sniper: :upyours:

The Clash...yeah....they kick a$$....

The Clash are one of the only punk bands I like. I'd say that the clash are the best.:)

He wanted a list of punk bands...I didn't say which of those I actually like.

In case you were wondering, I don't particularly like these: The Dwarves, The Offspring, The Vandals (one good album, the rest is crap), Oi Polloi. Not a massive fan of the Vibrators or Rise Against, either.

Agreed on most counts except the Offspring.

Bad Religion, The Exploited, The Clash.

Dunno if RATM and Offspring are punk? If they are, then they too.

He wanted a list of punk bands...I didn't say which of those I actually like.

In case you were wondering, I don't particularly like these: The Dwarves, The Offspring, The Vandals (one good album, the rest is crap), Oi Polloi. Not a massive fan of the Vibrators or Rise Against, either.

Well, same with my list really. I included stuff that I love and stuff I think is just okay.

I like the Dwarves and the Offspring started out awesome but died after Smash. The Vandals and Oi Polloi are just ok, but I haven't heard any albums - only individual songs, so what I haven't heard could well be crap. The rest of your list I mostly haven't heard enough to judge, or I simply don't like them. (eg. the Buzzcocks and Rancid)

Pretty much I V Stalin's list with Flogging Molly added.

Strike Anywhere, Ignite, NRA, No use for a name, Pridebowl, Millencolin, Strung out.

iTunes, how very punk of you :D

It's a good program. Anyway, why should it matter?

...

Avril Lavigne.

*hides*

:D

It's a good program. Anyway, why should it matter?

True punks beat people up and steal their music!

THE FALL

MARK E. SMITH

Same thing really. 31 years (and over 40 members) of the best punk and post-punk around. Get 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong. A great intro. Any band of worth today recognises the importance of The Fall.

Early Nick Cave, Birthday Party and Bad Seeds pre-Murder Ballads.

Early Smiths actually... poppier, but still punk

THE FALL

MARK E. SMITH


Yay!

I was worried someone wouldn't mention them :D

Also the Toy Dolls, The Buzzcocks, Against Me!, Violent Delight, The Stooges etc etc.

Don't want to think too hard about Punk bands at the moment though, It'll probably screw up my revision.

the one and only SKREWDRIVER...:sniper: :upyours:

What is it with low post counts and those smilies? :S

Here's a few that I think haven't been mentioned yet.The 4 skins
7 Seconds
999
Abrasive Wheels
The Adicts
Against Me!
Agent Orange
Agnostic Front
Angel City Outcasts
Angry Samoans
Anti Product
Anti-Heroes
Anti-NoWhere League
Antischism
Antisocial
Artless
Aus Rotten
Beastie Boys
Beerzone
Biohazard
Bitterbois
The Blaggers
Bleach Boys
The Blitz
Blood For Blood
Boot Party
Bound for Glory
Brassknuckle Boys
Bread And Water
Broken Bones
The Bruisers
Brutal Truth
Bulldozer
The Business
Butthole Surfers

To hell with revision. I've a History exam tomorrow. The Fall are more important! My existentialism lecturer would agree! (he quotes him in class)

Ooh, ooh, Stooges.... and buy one Cramps album. Don't bother with more than one, they all sound the same...

stalin and Similization got most of the best and well known ones.

You say party! we say die!
yeah yeah yeahs
drop kick murphys
the distillers
agnostic front (its worth being crushed by sweaty half naked punks with mohawks to see them live)
the adicts
alkaline trio (sounded brilliant live)
fenix tx
the fugs (listen to CIA man)
the impossibles
something corporate
towers of london (absolutely crazy live)

i realise that not all of these bands are strictly pure punk but most of the obvious bands (nofx, clash, sex pistols, rancid.) have already been mentioned plenty. I have seen a few of these bands live and they all gave a very good performance.

To hell with revision. I've a History exam tomorrow. The Fall are more important! My existentialism lecturer would agree! (he quotes him in class)

Ha ha, fantastic.

Early Nick Cave, Birthday Party and Bad Seeds pre-Murder Ballads.

*nods*


Angry Samoans

Oh, they're good. Forgot them.

Butthole Surfers

I really wanted to mention them, but every time I do in a punk thread, someone comes out and tells me that they're not punk. :p

If someone can actually give a definition of punk that doesn't make me shake my head in horror, I'll fly over to them and give them a big hug. In the early 80's punks in New York saw hip-hop as being a spin-off of Clash style punk... And the Fall blend Jazz and Punk on stuff like Hip Priest.

We had this thread before.

Refused won.

Can I add Victims Family to the list?

We had this thread before.

Refused won.

I was just about to say them

Husker Du were only mentioned once... What's up with that?

Husker Du were only mentioned once... What's up with that?
I would've mentioned them, but they already had been. Didn't really see the point in repeating. Otherwise, they'd have been one of the first bands in my list.

We had this thread before.

Refused won.

That's a moot point, because Refused win at everything.

Los Crudos

What a fucking band. Did you get to see them live?

What is it with low post counts and those smilies? :S

The first LP is a cracker though (and thankfully free of their later neo-nazi bullshit).

What a fucking band. Did you get to see them live?
Sadly not. But they are fantastic.

In no particular order, and a pretty much random selection:

Amebix, Rudimentary Peni, Stalingrad, Monkhouse, Jim Carroll Band, Discharge, Poion Idea, Nation Of Ulysses, Universal Order Of Armageddon, Alternative TV, Flux Of Pink Indians, Conflict, Chaos UK, The Undead, Doom, Sore Throat, Sedition, Pink Turds In Space, Bleeding Rectum, Charred Remains AKA Neanderthal AKA Man Is The Bastard, Charles Bronson, Yuppicide, SFA, Rorschach, Neurosis, Zena Geva, Born Against, Tragedy, Pleasent Valley Children, Jawbreaker, Fuel, Health Hazard, Generic, John Holmes, Boxed In, Lynched, xKnifedx...

how long do you want us to go on for?

EDIT: even though the above list is far, far from representative of anything rather than bands that first came to mind, I do feel I have to add Snuff, Wat Tyler, Snowblood and Hard Skin to the pack there.

Oh, and Ian Dury!

But there don't seem to be that many punk bands. Um, there are literally tens of thousands of punk bands. Here are some good ones that I didn't notice getting mentioned before:

The Gits, Bikini Kill, Propagandhi, Pennywise, The Wipers, The Lunachicks, Betty Blowtorch, Squat, The Subhumans, Citizen Fish, The Slits, The Plasmatics, The Meat Puppets, The Minutemen, Government Issue, The Dicks, The Crucifucks, M.D.C., D.O.A., D.I., D.R.I.

How about Guttermouth?

They have some really cool kick-ass songs as well :D

Seems like most bands are covered here. I've got a few though

- Roger Miret and the Disasters
- The Queers
- Fugazi (Emo-core perhaps, and certainly stylistically different, but still punk at heart)