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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Cool story, somebting that won’t be forgotten for sure.
Yes. “I want to be your dog”, for example... A favorite: “Bored”.
Great drummer, guitarist, bass player too. VERY unique band.
Dancing with Myself—Billy Idol
Billy originally did it with Generation X.
First five ok list
Dog for Iggster is far more punk that lust for life
I mean come on
Sigue Sigue Sputnik – Love Missile F1-11
(’Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.’)
List made by youngster
Hey they do try lol
Journey and Zep in same sentence
Please
Robert is a treasure as is his zany wife
Nice! Thanks for posting. Jr high me thought Matthew Ashman was the coolest looking human on planet Earth.
Lol.
To me they’re both hippie music.
Zeppelin better, sure.
“ “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” is closer to 50s rock&roll or doowop than punk. It’s something Sha Na Na could cover.” “
Yeah, the song sounds like Elvis.
<< In the 70’s very few people went to punk shows, bought punk records, liked it. >>
Depends on one’s neck of the woods. My walking distance stomping grounds in the late ‘70s was the Sunset Strip (The Roxy, The Whisky, The Rainbow, Gazzarri’s, etc.), and punk was big there at that time. My high school had a decent share of punkers back then. While I occasionally listened to The Ramones, Pistols, Clash, and a few others and went to a few shows, I was still a rocker / bluesman at heart.
Yep. When punk came out it was certainly quite a disruptor on the music scene. I was never of a fan although I did like some of the Ramones songs.
Yes. Los Angeles. San Francisco. Manhattan.
And even the numbers in these places were not that big in the 70’s.
You left out the Masque (not on the Strip).
In the 70’s most people were still long haired hippies.
Did you have Clash or Ramones or Sex Pistols albums?
I did, and enjoyed them.
Which Clash Album did you get first?
Their second album was released in the US first. I bought the US release of their second album first - which was a repackaging. 1979.
Give Em Enough Rope.
Wish I still had my Marantz receiver from back then.
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