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31 Best Punk Songs Of All Time
Music Grotto ^ | 12/19/23 | Liam Flynn

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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To: waterhill

13th Floor Elevators/Roky Erikson. Gonna stand on my head and spit nickels on that one.
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What a song! Perfect. Gutteral and primitive. I still have the vinyl. Little ring wear but plays perfect.


61 posted on 06/22/2024 5:23:25 PM PDT by sunny bonobo
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To: DallasBiff

Read later.


62 posted on 06/22/2024 5:24:13 PM PDT by NetAddicted (MAGA2024)
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To: DallasBiff
Richard Carpenter Trio - Dancing In The Street

Here she is doing a song cowritten by Marvin Gaye, who was himself a drummer, and they also interpolate Shadow of Your Smile, a more jazz composition.

The Richard Carpenter Trio - Iced Tea (Battle Of The Bands June 1966)

I've seen a clip of her playing jazz drums in college, but she was great. It makes me mad they wouldn't let her play them.

63 posted on 06/22/2024 5:25:03 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: CletusVanDamme
Buzzcocks - What Do I Get?

This is my favorite Buzzcocks song from the same album:

Buzzcocks - TBR Upon Clicking

64 posted on 06/22/2024 5:26:11 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: DallasBiff

Any Ramones


65 posted on 06/22/2024 5:27:44 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: sunny bonobo

Camper Van Beethoven - Take The Skinheads Bowling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlX1cQU8rxI


66 posted on 06/22/2024 5:28:04 PM PDT by MD Expat in PA (No. I am not a doctor nor have I ever played one on TV. The MD in my screen name stands for Maryland)
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To: nickcarraway

“The Body”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56RICywExfw


67 posted on 06/22/2024 5:28:16 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana

Rise - PIL

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jPj-8_wOZcA


68 posted on 06/22/2024 5:31:13 PM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: Robert DeLong

True dat, DeLong.

Offspring is SORELY underrated.

“You’re Gonna Go Far, Kid” is proof positive of that.

RLTW


69 posted on 06/22/2024 5:31:59 PM PDT by military cop (I carry a .45....cause they don't make a .46....)
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To: Gay State Conservative

The Clash - Rock The Casbah

Both great songs. You may also like:

Rumble In Brighton

Both great songs you suggested. 🙂👍

70 posted on 06/22/2024 5:32:35 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: DallasBiff

WTF? Queen?


71 posted on 06/22/2024 5:33:39 PM PDT by PatriotCJC (Keep your powder dry!)
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To: DallasBiff

*best* and *punk* are mutually exclusive.

An oxymoron if ever there was one.


72 posted on 06/22/2024 5:33:43 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: odawg

GMTA


73 posted on 06/22/2024 5:34:09 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: sunny bonobo

You know that Roky escaped from a mental institution? True.


74 posted on 06/22/2024 5:35:16 PM PDT by waterhill (I Believe! Eph. 5:11)
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To: sunny bonobo; MD Expat in PA

Yeah.

Camper Van, Monks of Doom, Cracker weren’t punk, but Camper started in 1983 when punk was established and accepted.

They wouldn’t exist as they were if not for punk. They played at punk venues with punk bands sometimes.

You’re right it was the shift to alternative made possible by the non commercial non marketable punk of a few years before.

Camp Van was a college band. Cool college kids had accepted punk by then.

So these bands didn’t have to be like Journey or Led Zeppelin etc…

So in that respect they had a punk influence and ethos of a sort.

In the 70’s very few people went to punk shows, bought punk records, liked it.

By 1985 or whenever it was Camper could put out an ironic cover of Wasted on their album.


75 posted on 06/22/2024 5:36:12 PM PDT by ifinnegan (MDemocrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Morgana
Bodies

It's hard to listen to, but he really tells the truth about abortion. I forgot he actually uses the word abortion many times.

76 posted on 06/22/2024 5:36:47 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: TheWriterTX
Time Zone - World Destruction
77 posted on 06/22/2024 5:36:50 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: waterhill

“ You know that Roky escaped from a mental institution? True.”

And then hid out in the kremlin with a two-headed dog.


78 posted on 06/22/2024 5:37:20 PM PDT by ifinnegan (MDemocrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: DallasBiff

Like another language to me. Never heard of any of them. Will have to YouTube some things.


79 posted on 06/22/2024 5:37:28 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Navarro didn't kill himself.)
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To: nickcarraway

I’m not a discharge. I’m not a two inch squirm. I’m not a loss of protein. Mommy?!?


80 posted on 06/22/2024 5:39:06 PM PDT by ifinnegan (MDemocrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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