I’m so punk I only listen to Minor Threat when wasted 
I am shocked, I say shocked that it took until post #19 for someone to mention Dead Kennedys.
Anarchy in the UK is the first thing I thought of.
Oh, I misread it. Thought it was asking for one song, so I figured it would be something off the Clash’s 1st album.
If we are talking whole alboms I’d say
The Clash’s - 1st album/Give em Enough Rope
Social D - Live at the Roxy/Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell
Ramones - 1st album/Rocket to Russia
But whatever you choose - TURN IT UP MOTHERFUCKER!
Patti Smith, “Rock n’ Roll Nigger”
Sex Pistols, “God Save the Queen”
Buzzcocks, “Mad Mad Judy”
Violent Femmes, “Add it Up”
English Beat, “Mirror in the Bathroom”
Lydia Lunch/Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, “The Closet”
I could go on.
I usually reach for Cacophony by Rudimentary Peni when someone asks for my favourite punk album.
But then, I’m a little odd.
I’ve been flipping through the ol’ virtual music collection and I’m going to have to cast my vote, subject to change in the next 10 seconds, for Suspect Device by the Stiff Little Fingers.
I have to go with anything by DK. For ‘newer’ punk, anything off of Punk in Drublic works.
Yay! Someone else loves Fifteen! Fifteen/Crimpshrine are two of the most underrated punk rock bands ever. Of course, having said that, for the OP I’ll go with “Filler” by Minor Threat.
Wire - “12XU”
or
Pere Ubu - “Final Solution”
I’d say God Save The Queen or Blitzkrieg Bop would be good, instantly recognizable examples.
However, although compelling cases can be made for the Ramones and Sex Pistols, I contend that no one person or band started mid-70s punk, and it perhaps wasn’t quite fully realized until a year or two later. The first Clash album would fall into this category.
Rock n Roll itself is punk, IMHO. Elvis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, the Beatles, Stones, Kinks, Who, Hendrix and MC5 all were probably as reviled as punks in their day as the Pistols, although only after the advent of the post-Vietnam era was the really cynical “fuck you” attitude as fully realized.
Shit, I was just about to amend my Pink Flag recommendation above to specifically mention this song.
or gettin’ laid…
The Replacements, “I Hate Music.”
I hate music/It’s got too many notes…
Flag’s “Rise Above” followed by the DK’s “Too Drunk to Fuck”.
Sunday morning playlist, meet SDMB.
Amen! Too bad the philistines in this thread will just be all “TEH SEX PISTALS”, having never heard true punk music like Wire.
Ya know, it’s elitist attitudes like this that are the worst part of music. It IS possible to express an opinion without being a total jackass about it.
Amen! Too bad we couldn’t get through this thread without somebody posting the very annoying I’m-so-much-cooler-than-everybody-else, your-taste-sucks thing.
Two different questions. If somebody asked me to “play some punk rock,” I’d put on some early Stranglers. But they weren’t the “most punk” by any means…they were too old and Doors-influenced to be accepted by the punk fraternity even back in the '70s. Now if you asked me to play the most punk song I can think of, I think I’d go with “Oh Bondage Up Yours” by X-Ray Spex. Makes the Sex Pistols sound like Loggins & Messina, without lapsing into total chaotic noise-blat.
You must be under the impression that punk is about putting music back in the hands of the people.