Quick… put them in order:
[ul]
[li]The Strokes[/li][li]Mooney Suzuki[/li][li]The Vines[/li][li]The White Stripes[/li][li]Zen Guerilla[/li][li]The Hives.[/li][/ul]
Civilization itself depends on your answer.
Mine:
[ol]
[li]Zen Guerilla. Best band in the world right now, except for the Cosmic Psychos.[/li][li]Hives[/li][li]Mooney[/li][li]Stripes[/li][/ol]
…and the Vines and the Strokes are somewhere below Andrew WK and Smashmouth.
Smashmouth is considered punk? I must say, that differs greatly from my definitive punk bands, which include Fear and Dr. Know.
Kids today… buncha pantywaists.
Which was kinda the point.
Hey, I’m way more hardcore than those Punks, on account of I listen to the original Rockabilly. Check out my list:
Eddie Cochran
Dale Hawkins
Carl Perkins
Boyd Bennett
Chuck Berry
I just burned a Mooney Suzuki disk and a couple early Hives disks from a buddy. I’m not into those other bands.
By the way, the best band in the world is actually Snuff 
It’s odd, I grew up in the 80s and although I was never a “punk” I always liked a lot of punk rock and my crowd always hung with the punks. I can’t imagine anything more innapropriate to the “punk ethic” than snobbishness- in large part punk was a reaction against the snobbishness of the “art-rock” crowd.
I don’t care much for Blink 182 or any of those other bands with numbers in their names, but if they’re really pissing you elderly punks off so much maybe they’re doing something right.
As far as “pop punk” goes, I loved Shonen Knife and will admit to owning a Sigue Sigue Sputnic record. The only “punk” band I listen to anymore is NOFX, and I’m not too sure where they fall on the pop-punk scale.
The all time greatest punk band is of course the Dead Kennedys, although I always kinda enjoyed the first GBH album.
Umm, aren’t most of those bands just “rock” bands?
Seriously, that’s not even the bands that usually piss off the old-fogey punks.
You da’ Man, JA - Eddie Cochran’s “20 Flight Rock”, in addition to be the song Paul McCartney used to audition for the Quarrymen (and he got in because he knew all the words, IIRC), is one great great song.
If you add Gene Vincent to your list, I agree whole-heartedly, even though I don’t know who Boyd Bennet is…
They all blow ass equally.
However, I was watching VH-1 Classic when I was suddenly reminded that I had already seen The Strokes twice before, once when they were called The Ramones and then again when they were called The Romantics.
The Ramones/Strokes were alright, but The Romantics/Strokes and The Strokes/Strokes both blow ass, the Strokes/Strokes of course blowing the most ass.
The punks were much snobbier than the art-rockers. You never saw David Gilmour wearing a ‘Sex Pistols Suck’ t-shirt. What’s more quintessentially punk than hating stuff?
Seriously though, you don’t think Lee Ving would take this guy out back and stomp on his kidneys a little?
