Favorite Punk Bands?

meesterperfect

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Listened to alot of Punk in the 80's -early 90's.
I liked The Dead Kennedys and the Butthole Surfers alot.
And The Sex Pistols.
 
d.r.i
suicidal ten...
fugazi
minor threat
turbonegro
youth of today

but i rarely listen to punk anymore,punk is about rebellion its not about music,it all sounds the same...

im more into music now...still once in a while its good
 

squallumz

knows petras secret: she farted.
I don't listen to punk anymore, not since it all turned into pop music.

Green Day were my favourite band. Believe it or not, they used to be pretty damn good. They got dull after "Warning" came out :2 cents:


And let's not forget about the Sex Pistols.

no no no, davie. punk never turned into pop. punk died before that happened, mate. dead kennedys, sex pistols, exploited, those were the last. all this sum 41 and blink 192 bullshit, that was never punk and should never have be considered punk in the first place. the only punk was in the 70s and 80s. those were the times it lived, and those are the times it died. its fine with me.

i look at it like beavis and butthead. they stopped before it sucked. it was early, but just at the right time. they knew mtv was fucking garbage, and they got out of it JUST in time. i mean it sucked then, but omfg, look at it now!

"punks not dead it just deserves to die, when it becomes another stale cartoon" - dead kennedys
 
I am a fan of some hardcore bands, but I don't want to group them in with the punk genre, I don't believe they are the same thing at all.
 

Patrick_S

persona non grata
Ramones
The Misfits
The Saints
The Birthday Party
Dead Kennedys
The Clash
Buzzcocks
Suicidal Tendencies
Bad Religion
Suicide
 
I am a fan of some hardcore bands, but I don't want to group them in with the punk genre, I don't believe they are the same thing at all.

hardcore is synonymous with punk, in the 80's punk music started getting harder and faster and that's why it was called "hardcore punk". it also started getting more technical with people who actually knew how to play music and it influenced heavy metal and vice versa in the late 80's. in the 90's it worked more toward establishing itself as a distinct genre of it's own, while based on, but still different from heavy metal and punk. even today it is vastly different from then, and virtually unrecognizable to it's origins, so much so that most people who are into modern hardcore, but not into classic punk don't even know that the two were the same.
 
I am a fan of some hardcore bands, but I don't want to group them in with the punk genre, I don't believe they are the same thing at all.


Hardcore is merely a genre of Punk; as are Horror Punk, Oi!, Skate/Surf Punk, Ska Punk, etc. Hardcore developed as a much more aggressive form of pure punk music. It came to a head when the line between thrash metal and punk became very blurred, creating the "cross-over" period of the late-80's and early 90's.
 
I´m a major hardcorefan!
Ripcord,Heresy,Mob 47,Anticimex,Skitslickers,Kaaos,Riistetyt,XbrainiaX,Dead Radical,Infest,No Comment,DropDead,Capitalist Casualties.
I could probably go on all day.
I don´t like mtv punk and metal bands pretending to be hardcore.
I would also like to say that punk and hardcore are very alive and well in the underground scene.
 
seeing that they started the whole thing i have to go w/ the ramones, but i have to give credit to the clash, black flag and the dead kennedys.
 
I would say something about hardcore bands, but I really don't listen to any hardcore at all anymore except the band Zegota. they pretty much ruined all other self-important inneffectual bands in the genre for me.

I really listen to ska punk the most (i just call it ska, because I think that there really ins't any non-punkish ska bands today.) Arrogant Sons of Bitches are at the top of my plat list.
 
I was into the punk scene of the mid 70s in NYC.The top two were my favs that I went to see the most.
The Ramones
The Dead Boys

A few others that come to mind.

Blondie
Sex pistols
The Vibrators
Elvis Costello
The Dead kennedys
The Revillios
Surf punks
Angry Samoans

As well as lots more.Lots of one hit wonders too that had good tunes.
 
It's not so much the bands, it's the people who get all their political ideas from their cd collection that irritate me. But yeah, most punk bands are dreadful. :lame:

Ah, for me it's not so much the bands themselves, but having to put up with their road crews. Punk bands tend to have total douche bags as stage techs, and it really sucks having to work with them. The worst show to work, hands down, is the Warped Tour. Ask any stagehand who has worked that show what the worst show to work is and they'll say the same thing. 5 bands plus audio in 1 truck is just plain stupid.

The only punk band that I remember that seemed to have their shit together quite well was Green Day, so Green Day is ok.
 
Oh, I forgot about the Dropkick Murphies. Their guys were pretty cool. So that's 2 punk bands that I don't mind.
 
Were you ever there in the early 80s?
I´m thinking about Lower East Side and places like A7 and 171A.

To be honest nrver heard of those ,might have been after I was into it as much.The main clubs I went to were CBGBs of course and Max's Kansas city which were like night and day to each other.CBs being a dump in the bowery (but a cool dump lol) and Max's being this nice place with 2 floors.
 
To be honest nrver heard of those ,might have been after I was into it as much.The main clubs I went to were CBGBs of course and Max's Kansas city which were like night and day to each other.CBs being a dump in the bowery (but a cool dump lol) and Max's being this nice place with 2 floors.
I have only read about these places.
I think they opened around 81-82,but apparently it wasn´t a good idea to go east of 2nd avenue back then.
 
Hardcore / Punk / Post-Punk

Sex Pistols
Dead Kennedys
Wire
P.I.L.
Husker Du
The Replacements
Flipper
Buzzcocks
Magazine
Black Flag
 
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