What's your personal favorite tracks and also songs that were important to the who punk community?

Also, have any particular favorite bands?

prince and punk is like hackbrötchen for veganer

Well my favorite bands are of course the Ramones, Runaways and Sex Pistols. Those are my top 3

Sex Pistols, The Misfits, Anti-Nowhere League, Killing Joke, The Cure, The Stranglers, The Clash, Black Flag, Skrewdriver, New York Dolls, The Buzzcocks, The Runaways, The Stooges, The Damned, The Dictators, The Slits, The The, early Midnight Oil

X was by far my favorite punk band.

I always thought of The Stooges as "proto-punk", but they are a great mention. Other early songs I love are Roxy Music's "Editions of You" and Brian Eno's "Third Uncle".

Can i get away with early Adam & The Antz? I love the 'Dirk wears White sox' album sooo much. Also the Peel sessions, before Adam went pop. 'Plastic Surgery', 'Zerox', 'Deutscher Girls'. All that shit.

gandorb said:

X was by far my favorite punk band.

right on

Buzzcocks are my #1, followed by the Ramones and the Replacements. I like lots of others, like the Saints, Television, the Undertones, the Jam, the Clash, the Descendents, Husker Du, the Ruts, the Rezillos, and so on.

Some of my favorite punk bands(in addition to most of the ones already listed).

Descendents, Black Flag, Bad Religion, Bad Brains, The Avengers, Dr.Know, Minor Threat, Blood for Blood, The Freeze, Conflict, Die Kreuzen, Adolescents, Poison Idea, TSOL, DRI, The Wipers, The Exploited, Discharge, Broken Bones, Agent Orange, Subhumans, Rudimentary Peni...


Anyway, i like Punk music but I'm much more into post punk. Especially bands from the UK.

The Avengers...San Francisco Punk rock !

Bad Religion...

From the Wipers first album(Is This Real-1980)

Screwdriver?? You do know they are a racist band? They are fucking skin heads!

Black Flag, Husker Du, Minutemen, Suicidal Tendencies, Dead Boys, Flipper, Dead Kennedys, Richard Hell & the Voidoids, Electric Eels, Buzzcocks, Rocket From The Tombs, Butthole Surfers, Didjits, Killdozer, Big Boys, Void, Nomeansno, DOA, Corrosion of Conformity, Refused, SNFU, Dirty Rotten Imbeciles, Cro-Mags, Ism, Fear, Angry Samoans, Dickies, Avengers, Weirdos, X, MDC, Circle Jerks, Dwarves, Crass, Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers, the Hickoids, and many others.

2freaky4church1 said:

Screwdriver?? You do know they are a racist band? They are fucking skin heads!

Skrewdriver are indeed a racist band (or certainly became one in the '80s), but please don't think all skinheads are racist. In fact the original skinhead movement in the late '60s in the UK grew out of the mod movement and was very much influenced by the Jamaican rude boys, both in the way the dressed and their love of reggae music. If you read about what are known as the original Trojan Skinheads, otherwise known as traditional skinheads, you'll see that they aren't the same as the white power skinheads that cae later on. There is also the SHARP movement (Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice) that distinguishes between themselves and the so called Boneheads, racist who adopted the skinhead look.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_skinhead

When it comes to punk I really like the bands that opened up their sound and were influenced by other genres, so for me the nuber one punk band is The Clash. Their early punky stuff from their debut album is great but I particulary love the London Calling album, with it's reggae, jazz, and rock n' roll influences. I actually used to live in Brixton in London, so that particular albu has a lot of resonance for me with the sings London Calling, and The Guns Of Brixton (I used to love listening to that one on my walkman at the back of the bus heading for a night out).

The Jam were also a great band, perhaps not strictly punk, but again it was nice how they opened up their sound with the mod and soul influence.

bobzilla77 said:

Black Flag, Husker Du, Minutemen, Suicidal Tendencies, Dead Boys, Flipper, Dead Kennedys, Richard Hell & the Voidoids, Electric Eels, Buzzcocks, Rocket From The Tombs, Butthole Surfers, Didjits, Killdozer, Big Boys, Void, Nomeansno, DOA, Corrosion of Conformity, Refused, SNFU, Dirty Rotten Imbeciles, Cro-Mags, Ism, Fear, Angry Samoans, Dickies, Avengers, Weirdos, X, MDC, Circle Jerks, Dwarves, Crass, Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers, the Hickoids, and many others.

Heck yeah, Refused are bad ass. The album The Shape of Punk to Come, is a
classic.

A couple other Punk, hardcore punk, or close enough-punk, bands that i dig are Bane and Converge. Bane's album Give Blood is pretty good, and i absolutely lose my sh*t over Converge.


Anyway, i guess i would say that I'm a little more of a Hardcore Punk fan than i am of straight up Punk.