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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Hong Kong Garden - Siouxsie and the Banshees.
Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized
The Clash - Train In Vain
All I wanted was a Pepsi
“Best” and “punk” are a contradiction in terms and should never appear together.
They omit “ What Do I Get” by the Buzzcocks and put a lot of non-punk/ post-punk dreck on it. Waste of time
I’m only familiar with two: Psycho Killer and Rock The Casbah. Psycho Killer is pretty good.Casbah is one of my all time favorite songs.The video is great too!
Sorry, any punk list that does not include “World Destruction” by Afrika Bambaataa and Johnny Lydon and “Instutionalized” by Suicidal Tendencies is lame.
99 Luftballoons by Nena? Queen? Ah, heck no!
This writer missed the mark.
Tell them to meet me in the slam pit. I’ll dust off my combat boots.
I Want To Be A Cowboy by The Vandals is another one... SOUNDS BEST LOUD !!!!
Great minds think alike, Gator!
I love Queen but in no way was Crazy Little Thing Called Love a punk song.
Clickbait stuff, but that’s the idea. There’s no best punk songs, but it’s fun to talk about it and see lists we won’t agree with.
And a lot of these songs aren’t punk. Queen? It is true that Queen would never have a song like that if not for punk, but it’s not “a punk song.”
Greatest punk songs are generally more obscure than these, but some of them are valid, First two of course.
All of the tracks on the “Repo Man” sound track are better than most of the songs on this list.
Anarchy Burger (Hold The Government) - The Vandals
Preach it! So they have a few songs from “The Beach Boys” — oh, I mean, “The Ramones” — and nothing from “Dead Boys”, not even “Caught with the Meat in Your Mouth”? Without Stiv this isn’t a list, it’s LOST.
London Calling would’ve been my #1
Also Ramones Pet Cemetery would be somewhere on the list.
Stukas over Disneyland - The Dickies
Punk Rock Girl - The Dead Milkman
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