Best Punk Rock Band of All Time

[Brenda Starrr]

Well, aren't you a spectacular plethora of punk knowledge!

[Paper Hearts]

you know what, Brenda?

[Brenda Starrr]

What?

[Dollardave]

I liked the vast variety of punk bands u listed Game u definitely listened to alot along the lines I did when I was younger. I met Wattie from The Exploited when I was 19 at St. Andrews tho aint that cool :grin

[soothsayer]

very correct Rozz.......

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I've been betrayed.

you know what, Brenda?

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What?

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To be continued.........

[Troy Spiral (13)]

Misfits / The Clash when im in a gothy mood.

Sex Pistiols / Exploited / The damned when im not.

Black Flag when i want to be cool and impress the chicks.

[Scary Guy]

I believe you have some of those confused, most of those are strait up punk (not that there is much of a difference).

I considder bands like blink 182, green day, good charolate, etc... to be punk rock.

[soothsayer]

You voted for Misfits right Troy???? :whistling

[TomCat]

I Clash-ed in the 80s. :woot:

[Rozzlyn]

very correct Rozz.......

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I'm actually in the zygote stages of "taking back" Ann Arbor for the hippies, punks, weirdos and misfits (but not The Misfits -- they're getting a tad sell-out these days).

[phee]

I believe you have some of those confused, most of those are strait up punk (not that there is much of a difference).

I considder bands like blink 182, green day, good charolate, etc... to be punk rock.

I have never heard that distiction before... interesting...

[TomCat]

the recent entries aren't what I'd call "punk Rock." I'd call them punk pop.

[Guest Megalicious]

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[Dollardave]

I believe they use the term bubblegum-punk ...bubblegum and punk should never be in the same fucking sentence GOD DAMNIT!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I read once u posted that u were listening to old operation ivy not many people know about old rancid. I had some 12" records by them when I was younger I liked the song bankshot.

[saechalyn]

Uhm, hello?? Didn't you guys know Avril Lawhatever invented punk??!!

*ducks*

I kid, I kid!

For the record, I voted for The Clash.

[Msterbeau]

Uhm, hello??  Didn't you guys know Avril Lawhatever invented punk??!!

*ducks*

I kid, I kid!

Bwahahhahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Guest Megalicious]

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[Slept with ghost]

just dave and the projectile menstraions were so fucking punk rock we dont even have a fucking cd

[Guest Game of Chance]

Ok...so after I posted this thread...I thought of about 150 different bands...that could have been an option, The Ramones, Iggy and the Stooges, Catholic Discipline, Negative Approach, The Meatmen, well...I'm not gonna name them all

I voted for Dischord Records.

[Rozzlyn]

I've been betrayed. 

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Well, I never meat for this to happen.

But I did have a bit of a point there.

Q65, while the earliest band I could discover where there is a notable similarity between their sound and the genre which would soon become "punk", I was only pointing out that The Stooges were the earliest known band to embody all generally agreed-upon elements of punk music. While many music historians may be correct in stating that New York is where people started to actively notice it, CBGB is only where punk, as it's known today, took it's first steps. It was gestated in obscure little European bands and took some blows whilst in utero from MC5 and The Doors (who many fringe music scene historians note as the first band with decidedly Goth elements), but The Stooges gave birth to it.

It's interesting, I've been having a similar conversation on the ModCulture.co.uk forums, only in reverse -- most of the people on there are obsessed with the earlier blues and jazz artists who gave birth to the Mod music scene and seem very quick to brush off the "1964 Explosion" bands as a cultural phenomenon which are hardly the backbone of the Mod musoc scene (and the words they have about The Jam and Secret Affair are even less kind). I'm not saying you're dismissing anything that came before 1974 because I doubt you are -- I'm just saying there's an interesting similarity there.

[Rozzlyn]

I believe they use the term bubblegum-punk ...bubblegum and punk should never be in the same fucking sentence GOD DAMNIT!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Whenever I heard the term "bubblegum punk", I always thought of Cyndi Lauper.

(There's actually a more appropriate photo I was looking for, but she always looks cute in these older photos, like a little girl playing dress-up. )

[Rozzlyn]

just dave and the projectile menstraions were so fucking punk rock we dont even have a fucking cd

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You perv. You've been reading my LJ.

[soothsayer]

I'm trying to influence the voters. :grin

[Scary Guy]

The Doors (who many fringe music scene historians note as the first band with decidedly Goth elements)

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CRAP YOUR RIGHT!

Here all this time I thought it was Black Sabbath (1970).

I feel weak :tear

[Rozzlyn]

I'm trying to influence the voters.  :grin

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My vote still stands -- X-Ray Spex (and The Stooges) is better than all of these choices.

If my vote could be bought with pretty images, I wouldn't have Divine's music videos on the computer.