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Your top 20 Punk bands ranked
TheEdge949
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Ok here's mine FWIW, lets see how many if any at all we agree on.
01, Sham 69
02, Stiff Little Fingers
03, The Clash
04, The Sex Pistols
05, The Rezillos
06, Cockney Rejects
07, Buzzcocks
08, The Damned
09, A.N.L
10, Skids
11, Angelic Upstarts
12, Exploited
13, Boomtown Rats
14, Ramones
15, Black Flag
16, Discharge
17, The Jam
18, Siouxie and the Banshees
19, Undertones
20, The Dead Kennedys
Well that lot should polarise opinion a little. Have at it.
01, Sham 69
02, Stiff Little Fingers
03, The Clash
04, The Sex Pistols
05, The Rezillos
06, Cockney Rejects
07, Buzzcocks
08, The Damned
09, A.N.L
10, Skids
11, Angelic Upstarts
12, Exploited
13, Boomtown Rats
14, Ramones
15, Black Flag
16, Discharge
17, The Jam
18, Siouxie and the Banshees
19, Undertones
20, The Dead Kennedys
Well that lot should polarise opinion a little. Have at it.
Comments
Boomtown Rats? Again, Punk, really?
The only bands I dont really know in that list are..
05, The Rezillos
11, Angelic Upstarts
15, Black Flag
I knew most of the Stone punks, thankfully. A mad bunch but ok if you did know them. I remember one punk on our estate who was actually called Anti Nowhere League on the CB radio (Showing my age here, sigh)
Question for you Mark. I remember going to a punk band's party back in the day (was an eye opener......we casuals did actually get run out of the party venue!, lol) Anyway, I have forgot the name of the band. Based in Stoke they were and I dont thing they did anything to write home about. Any ideas?
1. Lurkers
2. 999
3. Ramones
4. X-Ray-Spex
5. Adverts
6. Sex Pistols
7. Pogues
8. Damned
9. Dead Kennedys
10. Sham 69
11. Stranglers
12. Boomtown Rats
13. Macc Lads
14. Angelic Upstarts
15. Skids
16. The Clash
17. Buzzcocks
18. Siouxsie/Banshees
19. Ruts
20. Wire
So many more I rejected for not being punk enough, but I love. Skindred, Flogging Molly, Toy Dolls, Television....
Surprisingly, the awesomely named Guns n W4nkers were not
Seen the Rezillos, and Angelic Upstarts. Both awesome.
I would argue that whilst The Jam certainly did become the Modfathers their early stuff is definately punk.
Same with the Rats, songs like Lookin after Number 1 and Mary of the Fourth Form showed the raw anti establishment stance that typified punk. You could argue that The Clash are not Punk for similar reasons but again the early work was absolutely 3 chord heaven.
Reason I ranked Clash so low is that (with the exception of White Riot) their early stuff was (IMO) overrated.
1. The Clash
2. Sex Pistols
3. Buzzcocks
4. X-Ray Spex
5. Siouxsie + The Banshees
6. 999
7. Skids
8. Boomtown Rats
9. Generation X
10. The Members
11. Stranglers
12. The Rezillos
BLONDIE would be No.3 if you classed them as a PUNK Band from when they started
I’d rather listen to reggae, and I really detest reggae.
The Veins were also a punk band from Stoke whio I once saw at The Inset in Stoke, anyone remember the nightclub? They weren't very good at Punk but soon morphed into Incandescent Luminaire & were still no good at being New Romantics either. Alan/Mark, do either of you remember Lotus Records in Hanley? The bloke that ran that was lead singer of both these bands. Will post my top 20 once I have had a think lol
Morphed into Modern Romance. Who may have sold far more records. But were truly dreadful.
The Jam were always ma favs but like so many they morphed into the mainstream as they matured and started to try and get some cash.
There are loads ah could name but ah will go for these 10.
1 The Jam
2 The Pistols
3 Dead Kennedys
4 UK Subs
5 The Damned
6 Iggy Pop and The Stooges
7 Siouxsie
8 The Saints
9 The Skids
10 Sham 69
Ah would say they were the kind of popular punkish bands that ah liked, then you have the more hardcore forever punks,
1 999
2 The Exploited
3 Crass
4 ANL
5 Cockney Rejects
And then some Yanks
Dropkick Murphys
Germs
Social Distortion
The Replacements
Minor Threat.
Ah would buy a ticket to see any of these bands today.
I dont remember that club/pub called the Insert in Stoke, but obv remember Lotus Records up 'anley duck. Cracking shop......where I brought my 1st Bowie/Jam etc vinyls.
I linked up with that punk I knew from years ago (via Facebook) a couple of years ago. He is now fat, bald and showing his age. He is also a plane spotter & metal detector! Rebel with a cause, lol.
1) The Ruts
2) Sex Pistols
3) UK Subs (Charlie & the band are on countdown to their final ever tour starting Sept 7th (Tunbridge Wells) & ending with three sold out gigs at The 100 Club, London on 28th- 30th Sept), they will be missed.
4) Stiff Little Fingers
5) 999
6) The Skids
7) The Adverts
8) Crass
9) Dead Kennedys
10) Angelic Upstarts
11) Eater
12) Maid Of Ace
13) Siouxsie And The Banshees
14) The Lurkers
15) The Ramones
16) Vice Squad
17) Discharge
18) The Members
19) Sham 69
20) Ultravox (w. John Foxx)
There are so many more I could have made a case for being in my top 20 but there just ain't the room lol
Lotus records became, once Mike Lloyd's disappeared, the main place for tickets, band shirts etc. Used to get thrown out all the time for taking my chips n curry sauce from the Fishnet chippy in, whilst browsing albums.
Also after I became a metalhead it was the best source of records as the mainstream shops didn't even know how to spell "Heavy".
I used to often hear the saying:
"Punk isn't a fashion it's an attitude"