Any punk fans out there? What's good?

Avail

Big Drill Car

Jawbreaker

Jaundice

Tilt

Sparkmarker

Crimpshine

Trunk

Jawbox

NoFX

Quicksand

Orange 9mm

SNapcase

They didn't know they were punks, but they were one of the first and one of the best:

The Saints

(I'm) Stranded

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+saints+%28i%27m%29+stranded

ukathleticscoach wrote:

The best bands were not out & out punk.

The Stranglers

Buzzcocks

Damned (who had 1st UK punk single,)

Understand

Dead Kennedys

Stiff Little Fingers

Check this one out

https://youtu.be/nTO7nXw4StY

Saints, 1978

Australian X, 1979

Minutemen 1983

Lazy Cowgirls 1990

kmaclam wrote:

No Minutemen, Pere Ubu, Flesh Eaters, Gun Club or Mission of Burma???

Ubu are pre-punk prog-art rock whose albums coincided with punk; "punk" wasn't necessary for them.

do you know The Girls?

Electric Eels I'd say are punk

Chain Gang "Son of Sam"

Bleeker Bob wrote:

Black Flag absolutely sucked .

Husker Du punk ?

To each his own. Husker Du's first record was awesome. After that, pretty mellow. Without a doubt, it's all very creative.

IMO the best punk rock is by relatively unknown bands (even for punk).

In the late 70s and early 80s there were a zillion punk rock bands and they all had like 1 or 2 good songs.

The best thing is to get punk rock compilations from that era.

Are you freaking kidding me?!

Sex Pistols are the one and only true Punk Band there ever was. Yet 2nd page into the thread they are not even mentioned. You should all be ashamed of yourselves. A lot of bands mentioned are really good bands. Its just not punk. Even the Ramones who the Sex Pistols were heavily influenced by.

Sex Pistols had a sound and culture that defined Punk and and no other band ever captured it.

Ryan Foreman wrote:

Are you freaking kidding me?!

Sex Pistols are the one and only true Punk Band there ever was. Yet 2nd page into the thread they are not even mentioned. You should all be ashamed of yourselves. A lot of bands mentioned are really good bands. Its just not punk. Even the Ramones who the Sex Pistols were heavily influenced by.

Sex Pistols had a sound and culture that defined Punk and and no other band ever captured it.

Good point

Minor threat, bad brains.

Snapcase? Minor Threat? You guys are liberal with the word “punk,” but that’s ok.

Everyone did well hear. I’m sure I’ll repeat but:

Operation Ivy, NOFX, Pennywise, Descendants, Bad Religion, Rancid, DK, Avail.

Newer bands... Latterman, The Menzingers, The Loved Ones, Nothington, Against me!

Punk is a joke on itself perpetrated by people who don't understand what the word "punk" means.

The best punk song is "kill the hippies" by the Deadbeats. Or something else you or I and nobody else posting ever heard of, because it's essentially just a phase of garage rock running from late 70's to late 80's. At that point it was displaced by MTV's grunge, and with the concurrent resurgence of the Grateful Dead, punk was reduced to being the alternative to hippieism.

Another popular band of that era was Bad Brains. Be wary of the popular bands, the legit stuff was never mass produced. Only care about the bands cool people tell you about. But remember to ask yourself why anyone cool would call their own self a punk.

ukathleticscoach wrote:

kmaclam wrote:

I think the above band you were referring to were the Undertones (irish?), nice pop sound.

That's right-hand autocorrect

Saw them live when I was about 13. A few of us met the bass player afterwards. He was chatting to an old friend who turned up from his home town. The bouncer tried to kick us out, we all said he's in the band but he didn't believe us. The guitar player didn't say a word and just went out onto the street with the rest of us chatting & signing autographs.

https://youtu.be/Pgqa3cVOxUc

Glad to see the Undertones getting some love on this thread. The top video is actually Stiff Little Fingers though. The bottom one is the Undertones. Incidentally, they re-formed with a different (although similar sounding) singer in the early 2000s and played the Black Cat in DC. That was one of the funnest most energetic shows I've ever seen.

I know I originally posted that under SLF.

Strangles were also brilliant live early on. Someone from the crowd got in stage and started singing. JJ Burnel flew across the stage and Kung Fu kicked the guy to the floor. He was loving it even though he had a bit of a dead leg.

We used to listen to a guy at night on the radio called John Peel he would champion all the new punk and indie bands. Without him s lot would never have made the charts

Blahblahblahblah wrote:

Bad religion

Adolescents

GG Allin

I agree with this list wholeheartedly.

ukathleticscoach wrote:

I know I originally posted that under SLF.

Strangles were also brilliant live early on. Someone from the crowd got in stage and started singing. JJ Burnel flew across the stage and Kung Fu kicked the guy to the floor. He was loving it even though he had a bit of a dead leg.

We used to listen to a guy at night on the radio called John Peel he would champion all the new punk and indie bands. Without him s lot would never have made the charts

Yeah, John Peel was a legend. I've got several records of bands playing live in his studio back when they were just getting started and he was promoting them. Legend has it that the Undertones - Teenage Kicks was his favorite song. At the very least, he promoted the heck out of them. I spent some time in England when My Perfect Cousin was a hit, and heard it all the time on BBC Radio. They were sadly overlooked in the States at the time, although the guys in Green Day obviously heard them at some point in their formative stages.

To answer the OP's question, Husker Du's "Zen Arcade" is where he should start. This is a live version of the first song on the album "Something I Learned Today":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1fBMtaVd9sAlso, punk was not really a term used when Husker Du was emerging in the early 80s, the term was hardcore.

kmaclam wrote:

Bleeker Bob wrote:

Black Flag absolutely sucked .

Husker Du punk ?

The OP wasn't asking our opinion of Henry, he was looking for some punk. And how would you characterize Husker Du? Math rock?

Ryan Foreman wrote:

Are you freaking kidding me?!

Sex Pistols are the one and only true Punk Band there ever was. Yet 2nd page into the thread they are not even mentioned. You should all be ashamed of yourselves. A lot of bands mentioned are really good bands. Its just not punk. Even the Ramones who the Sex Pistols were heavily influenced by.

Sex Pistols had a sound and culture that defined Punk and and no other band ever captured it.

8th post of the thread.

I'm more upset about the lack of mentions of THE CLASH although I recognize they are genre-defying.

I've listened to punk since I bought an MC5 record at age 12. The Clash and Sex Pistols rocked my world in the mid-to-late 70s and then I fell in love with and saw most of the great early DC bands--SOA, Bad Brains, Minor Threat, etc. I like almost all the classic UK punk and American hardcore bands mentioned above and find much to like in Rancid, Green Day, and a slew of much more obscure more contemporary bands.