Posers
Punks
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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Posers
Punks
This may be borderline, but
Only a Lad - Oingo Boingo
I don’t know if Craker is considered a punk band but I think this song qualifies (I love this song).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n8rfFRvIH0
And this one too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYdlqjiQPAc
Well, I went further. My mistake.
Green Day, 99 Luftballons, What The???????
The Pretenders were really more New Wave than Punk, but some of their music has a punk flavor to it with some songs, and attributing genre is a subjective endeavor to begin with anyway, because many bands play several types of so-called genre. 🙂👍
Some of these songs - a lot, in fact - aren’t even punk. And there is no legitimate punk top 10 without Black Flag on it.
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Refused, New Noise
Refused, Tannhauser derive
Add “Holiday in Cambodia” by the Dead Kennedys.
Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster
They should have let he keep playing drums, she'd probably still be alive today.
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Agree, but kicking their drummer out of the band for not getting the jab sure wasn’t punk.
Masterplan by the Plasmatics!
13th Floor Elevators/Roky Erikson. Gonna stand on my head and spit nickels on that one.
Don’t know if they were punk, but they had punk elements like the founder’s former band, Camper Van Beethoven. I would call them indie rock. Played the cassette to death in my car when there was still such a thing.
I wish I was an expat from MD. Still stuck here.
The entire album is great. 🙂👍
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