Kinda have a soft spot for D.O.A.'s I’m A Fucking Bum. I figure that oughtta be on any list of this sort somewhere. Most of the others I could have thought of have already been mentioned. It’s been a while!
It’s all about attitude.
Most of mine have been mentioned already.
If they count as “punk”, I’ll nominate “Watusi Rodeo” by Guadalcanal Diary.
FWIW, I’d consider NMA post-punk, Mission of Burma right on the cusp of punk and post-punk, Social Distortion punk, Joy Division post-punk, and Pattie Smith punk.
In no particular order:
Dead Boys: “Sonic Reducer”
Stooges: “Loose.” All of Funhouse, actually.
Electric Eels: “Jaguar Ride”
Fun Things: “Savage”
Cosmic Psychos: “Custom Credit”
Unnatural Axe: “Better Off Dead”
Freestone: “Bummer Bitch”
Nervous Eaters: “Just Head”
Real Kids: “Reggae Reggae”
Dicks: “Young Boys Feet”
I spent waaay too much money on Killed By Death and Bloodstains LPs when I was a teenager. I could probably haul them out and give you fifty or a hundred more.
And let’s not forget about all the Nuggets-type stuff…
Took this long to mention the Dicks…(glad there is another fan on the boards)
OP should clarify whether it is punk, proto punk or American Hardcore.
I wuz a hardcore fan. Just a few that stand out.
How about some of the Texas bands like Dicks, Big Boys, MDC, Really Red, Mydolls, Butthole Surfers?
How about all the DC bands, such as Minor Threat, Scream and a whole slew of others.
The Boston Bands.
Almost anything on Rise and Fall of Western Civilization. I think they were missing TSOL though.
NorCal focused If Punk is Dead, What the Hell is This
DOA barely gets mentioned and what about all the other Canadian bands
Fuck regionalism, there were a ton of great bands from all over. A lot of what people now might consider “hardcore” were pretty wimpy at the time.
A few suggestions, off the top of my head:
Waiting Room (Fugazi) (which of course has already been mentioned)
i against i (Bad Brains)
True Grit (Meatmen)
Small Parts Isolated and Destroyed (Nomeansno)
Wig out at Denko’s (Dag Nasty)
Man, what a great band.
Just got their new album, Magnus Dominus Corpus, with most of the original band! Pretty fuckin’ good. Check out their website, The Miscreant Detainment Center
You’re thinking of The Decline Of Western Civilization, and since that was a comp of mostly unsigned northern California and Nevada bands, TSOL didn’t qualify being semi rock stars from LA and all that. Besides, TSOL are sissies 
I’ve never actually heard anything by them, but they’re mentioned in the song “Part Time Punks” by one of my favorite groups, The Television Personalities:
They’d like to buy the O-Level single
Or “Read About Seymour”
But they’re not pressed in red
So they’ll buy The Lurkers instead.
My list, off the top of my head featuring lots of repeats from earlier in the thread:
- The Clash - “Complete Control”
- The Buzzcocks - “Raison d’Etre”
- Sex Pistols - “Pretty Vacant”
- The Rezillos - Top of the Pops"
- X - “Los Angeles” (or “Beyond and Back”)
- X-Ray Spex - “The Day the World Turned Day-Glo”
- The Damned - “Neat Neat Neat”
- Dead Kennedys - “California Über Alles” (or “Too Drunk to Fuck”)
- Wire - “Mannequin” (or “I Am the Fly”)
- Talking Heads - “Psycho Killer”
A special mention to “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” by The Slits, my favorite cover version ever.
I also love Gang of Four, Mission of Burma and especially The Fall but am considering them Post-Punk for the purposes of this thread (for the record: “Damaged Goods,” “Trem Two” and a split between “How I Wrote ‘Elastic Man’” and “Totally Wired”).
Can I make another list…Ten songs that IMHO define the punk rock, well second wave punk anyway. The first wave was waaay to esoteric to define (the first wave includes everyone from Television to GG Allin to Gang of Four):
Blitz-“Someone’s Gonna Die” probably the greatest single ever
Social D-“Mommys Little Monster”
Exploited-“Punks Not Dead”
MDC-“John Wayne Was A Nazi”
Black Flag-“Jealous Again”
Dead Kennedys-“Police Truck”
Cro Mags-“By Myself”
Discharge-“Drunk With Power”
DOA-“Fucked up Ronnie”
Suicidal Tendencies-"I Shot The Devil (but I could not get my own Pepsi)
Ha! Only Minuteman reference in this whole thread, and they were as hardcore as anyone. RIP D Boone
Agreed
– other “punk” songs done by bands not considered as such:
Repeat - **Manic Street Preachers **
Territorial Pissings - Nirvana
Lose Control - Ash
I’d have to go with…
Sex Pistorls - Submission
Gang of Four - Not Great Men… or Anthrax
The Buzzcocks - Are Everything
Sex Gang Children - Maurita Mayer
Bad Brains - Sacred Love
Sorry I don’t have ten…I’ll have to think of more later when I’m not deliriously tired!
I think Sublime actually did that one better, but there are a ton of other Descendents songs that could go on this list, including “Bikeage”. (“Myage” and “I’m not a loser” off that album were, funnily enough, also covered by Sublime. Wonder if they were fans?)
For the Dead Kennedys I’d nominate “Chemical Warfare” (everyone once in awhile I’ll start singing this song when someone farts)
Gwar has done some pretty good punk songs, including “I Hate Love Songs”, “Fish Fuck”, “Nitro Burning Funny Bong”, and “Ham on the Bone”
The Subhumans’ “From the Cradle to the Grave” is great. I don’t think anyone has mentioned that, have they?
That’s not 10, but this thread is about punk-rock. Fuck you guys.
Woah, I thought I was the only one who had ever heard this song. Good choice, although I wouldn’t have included it in my list.
Chairman Pow , I wasn’t sure if I should include them either, but I was tired, so I did I thought I was the only one that listened to Sex Gang Children - nice to meet you! My roommate got me into them in college. They still sound awesome in my opinion.
[ol]
[li]** Everybody’s Happy Nowadays**–Buzzcocks[/li][li]Sheena is a Punk Rocker–Ramones[/li][li]Pinhead–Ramones[/li][li]Jet Boy Jet Girl (English version of “Ca Plane pour Moi”)–Elton Motello[/li][li]Pretty Vacant–Sex Pistols[/li][li]Holiday in Cambodia–DK’s[/li][li]Nazi Punks Fuck Off–DK’s[/li][li]Police on my Back–Clash[/li][li]Slave to my Dick–Subhumans[/li][li]Son of Sam–Dead Boys (I think)[/li][/ol]
The first three here I’m muchly surprised not to have seen yet:
- Do Anything You Wanna Do - Eddie & The Hot Rods
- Smash It Up - The Damned
- Teenage Kicks - The Undertones
- So What - The Anti-Nowhere League
- Blitzkrieg Bop - The Ramones
- Holiday In Cambodia - Dead Kennedys
- White Riot - The Clash
- Another Girl Another Planet - The Only Ones
- Ever Fallen in Love With Someone You Shouldn’t Have - The Buzzcocks
- Don’t Ask Me - Public Image Limited
Hell, I think Sublime deserves to have something nominated on here. They weren’t JUST a punk band, but the fact that they could move so smoothly between punk, ska, dub, and reggae made them extra-special. “Seed” comes to mind as one of their faster, punkier songs, but they had a lot of good stuff… also “I Saw Red” with Gwen Stefani.