So what are your top 10 faster/louder songs? Here are mine in no particular order
Faster,Louder-Dictators
Complete Control- The Clash
Rock&Roll Nigger- Patti Smith Group
No Fun- Iggy and the Stooges
Seventeen-Sex Pistols
Razors in the Night-Blitz
The Oi Song- The Casualties
Flares and Slippers- Cockney Rejects
I’m not Afraid of the FBI- The Spits
Orgasm Addict- Buzzcocks
Oh one more thing, No emo songs please.
You missed
Kiss Me Deadly - Generation X
I Want To Be Sedated - The Ramones
Holiday In Cambodia - Dead Kennedy’s
Love Song - The Damned
and since you are allowing pre punk (Iggy Pop)
Lookin For A Kiss - New York Dolls
Sorry couldn’t think of 10.
Can’t come up with a definitive top ten right now, but Minor Threat’s “Filler” is almost certainly #1.
Hmm… I’d take White Riot over Complete Control. In fact, I’d take several others over Complete Control, as good as it is.
Mine:
Wire - “12XU”
Pere Ubu - “30 Seconds over Tokyo”
Germs - “Lexicon Devil”
Suicide - “Frankie Teardrop”
the Clash - “lost in the supermarket”
Los Reactors - “Dead in the suburbs”
Husker Du - “Celebrated Summer”
Bush Tetras - “Cowboys in Africa”
Gang of Four - “Damaged Goods”
Fear - “Beef Bologna”
Perhaps you all can help me find the thrashiest song I have ever heard. Ridiculously fast, primitive guitars. Dates from about 1978. In French, perhaps by a French-Canadian group.
Any guesses?
“I Hope You Get Drafted” The Dicks
“Albright Monument Baghdad” Propaghandi
“Struck a Nerve” Bad Religion (the song that got me into punk originally)
“Dinkas When I Close my Eyes” Against All Authority
“Clone” Avail
“Wrecktheplanetfantastic” Dilinger 4
plus four more kick ass songs
Lots of good choices so far, but I’d have to add my #1 favorite punk song, “Petroleum Distillation” by Fifteen, “Sound System” by Operation Ivy, and almost anything by the great Social Distortion… perhaps “Story Of My Life.”
Is there any K-tel or like it compilation of Punks Greatest Hits. I get a hankering for some punk but don’t want weeds. Just the good stuff.
This is a wild stab in the dark but maybe Voivod? They were an incredibly speedy French-Canadian Thrash Metal group. I don’t think they started recording until the early '80s, though. I haven’t actually listened to any of their music for about 20 years so I may be a bit off in my recollections.
Blitzkreig Bop - The Ramones
Los Angeles - X
*See You In The Boneyard * - The Flesheaters
*The Next Big Thing * - The Dictators
*Marquee Moon * - Television
*Love Comes In Spurts * - Richard Hell and the Voidoids
*Heart of Darkness * - Pere Ubu
The Modern World - The Jam
*Coup D’Etat * - The Circle Jerks
*Pretty Vacant * - The Sex Pistols
Not so much a definitive top 10 for me just the first 10 I could think of that I would call essential punk songs.
I’d put “Mommy’s Little Monster” way ahead of “Story of my Life” for punk songs. We’re also missing the Dead Kennedys’ “Holiday in Cambodia,” the Misfits “Die Die My Darling,” and Black Flag’s “TV Party.”
Someone already said that, but so far, no “California Uber Alles.”
SEX PISTOLS Anarchy In The UK
SHAM 69 Angels With Dirty Faces
THE CLASH Complete Control
THE DAMNED New Rose
SAINTS I’m Stranded
STIFF LITTLE FINGERS Gotta Gettaway
THE DEAD KENNEDYS California Uber Alles
THE JAM In The City
RADIO BIRDMAN Aloha Steve And Danno
RAMONES I’m Against It
THE REZILLOS Flying Saucer Attack
BUZZCOCKS - Harmony In My Head*
1978 was the year of Frenchie PLASTIC BERTRAND Ca Plane Pour Moi
My favorite Ramones song has always been Bonzo Goes To Bitburg.
Other’s may not agree, but Rhino’s 'No Thanks! The ’70s Punk Rebellion’ looks good. I don’t have it, but assume it’s a collection of their out of print D.I.Y punk series compilations. If it’s $65 price tag isn’t in your budget, the seperate CDs are available on half.com Rhino D.I.Y Punk from the UK, NYC, Boston & LA discs
Hmm, after careful deliberation & reflection, starting with #1 (the best)
#1: The Fall - Rowche Rumble (Stunned the Fall haven’t gotten a mention yet)
#2: The Damned - New Rose (Seconded)
#3: Buzzcocks - Orgasm Addict (Thirded)
#4: **The Jam ** - The Modern World (Seconded)
#5: DKs - Too Drunk To Fuck (Better than CA Uber Alles & Holiday in Cambodia)
#6: X - Los Angeles (Seconded)
#7: MC5 - Kick Out The Jams (Proto-punk’s been mentioned by a few already - Fuck Hudsons!)
#8: D O A - Disco Sucks (In 1979, alot more than just disco sucked)
#9: Ramones - Rockaway Beach (Had to include at least 1 NYC Band)
10: Reagan Youth - Jesus Was A Communist
There was a French band called The Lou’s who were around in 78
almost everything in this thread seconded and thirded.
The Fall - “Frightened”
FUCK YES on “TV Party,” too.
Can’t assemble a top 10 list at the moment, but I’d probably but NOFX’s The Decline near number one.