Posted on 06/22/2024 4:24:49 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Punk is a raucous, stripped-down genre of rock music that, at its best, is made of “three chords and the truth.” Punk rock is accessible and immediate, featuring artists who may only know a handful of chords, but they’re into it for the music, not the technique. Arranging them into any kind of hierarchy is bound to get punches thrown in a punk bar. Here are the 31 best punk songs of all time.
1. Anarchy In The UK – Sex Pistols Sex Pistols - Anarchy In The UK
The archetypical punk song, this 1977 Cook, Matlock, Jones, and Rotten song was the proverbial foreign object in the punchbowl of the overproduced British rock scene of the late 1970s. Dripping with contempt for the British hierarchical worldview like the rest of Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols, this is one of the classic punk songs for a reason.
2. God Save The Queen – Sex Pistols Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen Revisited
Recorded almost midway through the 70-year reign of Queen Elizabeth II, this ripping indictment of English authority is a classic punk banger. Half-sung and half-shouted by Johnny Rotten, the angry lyrics and simple message of rage toward the system and its abuses, personified by the Queen, make this a song that will long outlive its target.
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Not offended in the slightest.
I was joking.
Stop Making Sense is worth watching / listening to, if you haven’t in a while.
They all were on that album, pretty much.
I got as far as Crazy Little Thing Called Love….
Richie Dagger’s Crime by The Germs
Well, you got me then. :)
I would have thought the Violent Feemes would have made the list.
Oh, man... if you’re going to pull The Dickies out of the closet you have to mention “You Drive Me Ape (You Big Gorilla).” Classic Dickies punk.
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The Jam
Hello?
Indeed, my wife was grateful to me for taking her to see it at our local artsy theater.
Byrne is an artistic genius. Weird as can be, but you know what they say about creative/artistic types.
Uncontrollable Urge is the best Devo song. Great YT video of them doing it live.
United States of Whatever-Liam Lynch
https://youtu.be/KEjHJXd8bpU?feature=shared
Galaxie 500- Reverend Horton Heat
https://youtu.be/Yb_juTPQJUc?feature=shared
500 Channels-Choking Victim
https://youtu.be/hmxdNIyE4qI?feature=shared
Uh... “Crazy Little Thing Called Love,” “99 Luftballoons” and “Psycho Killer” are Punk? Meh. Not a great list, IMHO. Too much Green Day as well, and no mention of a lot of the great, early Punk pioneers/songs.
Maybe The Jam’s early work could be considered punk, but I consider them mod revivalists. Love their music.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lFGavUOpO8s
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m-H0uIH5HHQ&pp=ygUUdGhhdCdzIGVudGVydGFpbm1lbnQ%3D
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YfpRm-p7qlY&pp=ygUUYSB0b3duIGNhbGxlZCBtYWxpY2U%3D
‘I walk Alone’
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Green Day
Blister In The Sun by Violent Femmes
psycho was good- and the casbah as well- good picks
The album is called Exposure, and it’s Daryl Hall, not John Hall.
Punk is not great musicians experimenting in the studio using studio techniques. You Burn Me Up is great song but I don’t think of it as punk rock.
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