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Re: Best Punk Song..
Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2021 11:22 pm
by demographic
Yorick wrote: Tue Apr 13, 2021 7:56 pm
I'm gonna raise the bar a little bit here.
And that one was the song at a mates funeral.
Re: Best Punk Song..
Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2021 8:35 am
by Nidge
Got to have at least a couple from Anti Nowhere League in any self-respecting punk list. I'd go with Woman and So What
Re: Best Punk Song..
Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2021 9:28 am
by Supermofo
Nidge wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 8:35 am
Got to have at least a couple from Anti Nowhere League in any self-respecting punk list. I'd go with Woman and So What
There's an ANL documentary on Amazon Prime, watched it the other month was quite good.
Re: Best Punk Song..
Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2021 12:00 pm
by hawker
If it is by the Stranglers, say, does that automatically make it punk??
In that case...:
GOLDEN BROWN Best song ever not to reach number one!! Thanks to the Jam and a Town called Malice!!
Ho hum!! But GB is just brilliant!!

Re: Best Punk Song..
Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2021 1:00 pm
by Mr Moofo
Having come through the whole punk thing in 1976-78 ( although the trend setters would say ‘75 was the year) I never saw the Anti Nowhere League, Crass or the Dead Kennedys as punk ...
The Stooges / Iggy certainly deserve a lot of credit ...
But other great tracks
Blitzkrieg Bop - The Ramones
Another Girl Another Planet - The One Ones
Orgasm Addict - The Buzzcocks
Sweet Gene Vincent - Ian Dury
Red Shoes - Elvis Costello
Peaches - Stranglers
Where’s Captain Kirk ( Spizz Energy) - just because he is a Solihull boy ...
17 seconds - the Cure
Gary Gilmore’s Eyes - the Adverts
Re: Best Punk Song..
Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2021 1:04 pm
by Yorick
hawker wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 12:00 pm
If it is by the Stranglers, say, does that automatically make it punk??
In that case...:
GOLDEN BROWN Best song ever not to reach number one!! Thanks to the Jam and a Town called Malice!!
Ho hum!! But GB is just brilliant!!
I remember that Golden Brown made Radio 2's record of the week.
And I always hated the Jam

Re: Best Punk Song..
Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2021 1:53 pm
by Skub
Re: Best Punk Song..
Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2021 8:26 pm
by Jody
WOW, what a question. I suppose "best" is always gonna be subjective, but I think "punk" is too!
Ever Fallen in love - Buzzcocks
Basketcase- Greenday
Good Rats- Dropkick Murphys
Lisa and Louise- NOFX
Good day to die- Wednesday 13
Bad Habit- The OffSpring
Re: Best Punk Song..
Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2021 9:04 pm
by Flux
Mr Moofo wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 1:00 pm
Having come through the whole punk thing in 1976-78 ( although the trend setters would say ‘75 was the year) I never saw the Anti Nowhere League, Crass or the Dead Kennedys as punk ...
The Stooges / Iggy certainly deserve a lot of credit ...
Think Crass formed in '77 and feeding of the 5000 was released in '78, but agreed they might not be classed as first wave, I think they're considered as late-comers as they only disbanded in '84 when most of the original had disappeared, but it's irrelevant to me when they formed.
DK another top band.
Agreed about Iggy and the stooges
Thanks to Supermofo for introducing me to something new (Booby Vylan), good stuff.
Oh and my username is taken from the band Flux of pink indians who I was listening to when I registered.
Re: Best Punk Song..
Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2021 11:43 pm
by harum-scarum
Love a number of these, and despise a few more. My adds to the playlist would be:
Chron Gen - Jet boy jet girl
The Cortinas - Fascist Dictator
The Adverts - No Time to be 21
All great live too!
Re: Best Punk Song..
Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2021 1:32 am
by mangocrazy
Can't believe it's not been mentioned yet:
Shot by both sides - Magazine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ul_vTkwgs4
Re: Best Punk Song..
Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2021 8:00 am
by Bigjawa
Exploited - The Mods
Re: Best Punk Song..
Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2021 8:15 am
by Supermofo
Flux wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 9:04 pm
Thanks to Supermofo for introducing me to something new (Booby Vylan), good stuff.
Bob Vylan is awesome, he is genuinely mixing stuff up. Punk, grime, rap, metal all in a pot. Lots of his stuff on youtube. I watched an interview with him about his 'Church of Vylan' project where he was doing a song a week on the basis it forced him to experiment and create to get better and not worrying about perfection all the time. I also like one of his songs might be full on punk and another full grime and the next something different.
Re: Best Punk Song..
Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2021 8:26 am
by cheb
Bigjawa wrote: Thu Apr 15, 2021 8:00 am
Exploited - The Mods
Or as they were known in Edinburgh by those who saw the graffito, The Explioted.
The MC5 need mentioning. Vague I know, but I don't have a favourite anything, nothing's that clear cut.
Re: Best Punk Song..
Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2021 8:32 am
by Nidge
Christ it’s like being 12 all over again

that’s not real punk, that’s not real psychobilly, that’s not real new wave.... that’s too commercial.... I liked them before anyone else had heard of them...
Re: Best Punk Song..
Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2021 8:35 am
by cheb
Hipster punks. Is a Mohican manbun even possible?
Re: Best Punk Song..
Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2021 9:50 am
by Nobby
Nidge wrote: Thu Apr 15, 2021 8:32 am
I liked them before anyone else had heard of them...
Which reminded me of a tale ...
I was in a Band back in the Day.
We were playing at some London venue and were in the pub after a sound check.
A couple of girls who would turn up to see us were having a drink, so I start the conversation about getting in round the back (!!??) when they said they weren’t coming to see us , they were going to another gig.
They mentioned the name.
It meant nothing to me.
I have though thought over the last 40+ years who the fuck are the Cure ?
Re: Best Punk Song..
Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2021 11:37 am
by DefTrap
I must have been out of the country when punk was a thing and thus have never quite understood what all the fuss was about.
Take away all the "you had to be there" rose tinted spectacles stuff and there's a really high percentage of rubbish
Re: Best Punk Song..
Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2021 12:10 pm
by Yorick
DefTrap wrote: Thu Apr 15, 2021 11:37 am
I must have been out of the country when punk was a thing and thus have never quite understood what all the fuss was about.
Take away all the "you had to be there" rose tinted spectacles stuff and there's a really high percentage of rubbish
Oh yes. I was sifting through punk compilation albums for ideas, and found some right dross

Re: Best Punk Song..
Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2021 1:22 pm
by Flux
Nidge wrote: Thu Apr 15, 2021 8:32 am
that’s not real psychobilly
OTMAPP?
