Good Punk Bands
 

I am fairly new to the punk genre, and honestly do not know many good bands. I was wondering what bands would be a good listen. Any advice would be very helpful...thanks.

The Basics:

Big Black
Black Flag
Crass
Dead Kennedys
Discharge
Faith (get the split with Void)
Gang of Four
Richard Hell & the Voidoids
Hüsker Dü
Meat Puppets
Minor Threat
Misfits
The Modern Lovers
Negative Approach
New York Dolls
Ramones
The Replacements
Repulsion
S.O.A.
The Teen Idles
Void (get the split with Faith)
Wesley Willis
Wipers
Wire

Classic Punk:The Must Haves

Sex Pistols- Nevermind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols
Ramones- Rocket to Russia
The Clash- The Clash
The Damned- Damned Damned Damned
Buzzcocks- Singles Going Steady

Hardcore Punk:The Must Haves

Black Flag- Damaged
Bad Brains- Bad Brains
Minor Threat- First 2 7"s
Dead Kennedys- Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
Circle Jerks- Group Sex

Post Punk:The Must Haves

Joy Division- Unknown Pleasures
Television- Marquee Moon
Gang of Four- Entertainment!
Public Image Ltd.- Metal Box
Echo & The Bunnymen- Crocodiles

And the one everybody forgets to add to lists like this:

POISON IDEA "Feel The Darkness"

I can't stress this enough. This is a timeless album. Angry teenagers turned to all this pop/punk or hardcore punk when this album intelligently and furiously talks about injustices in society. This album introduced me to 'classic' rock.

I don't turn to pop-punk when I'm angry, I turn to it when I'm in a good mood. :)

Dont forget GBH, a true punk band as well.

I like punk styled music played by people with socially acceptable hair cuts

I recommend

Fugazi
Leatherface
Dag Nasty
Husker Du
Paint It Black
Hot Water Music

I don't think there are many UK punk fans here. I like GBH as well as Discharge, UK Subs, Explioted, Conflict.

**waiting for the anti-exploted flames** :shycouch:

Some good pop-punk to check out is:

Screeching Weasel
Descendents
The Buzzcocks
The Queers

Well, classic pop-punk.

If you want some new skate-inspired pop-punk, check out Lagwagon and Millencolin. Great bands.

The Buzz****s
The Descendants
The Stranglers are all great punk bands too.

The Ramones of course. The Clash, Black Flag, Exploited.

Crass!

Bad Religion. Always Bad Religion.
Limp Wrist is good.
Most of the excellent ones have been mentioned, but how about Really Red? D.O.A.? THE GERMS, THE GERMS AND THE GERMS!!!!!

If you're new to punk, a really good compilation to download is Rhino's, "No Thanks! The 70's Punk Rebellion". Its about 100 songs, and every single one is amazing. On top of that some good albums are:

Wire- "Pink Flag"
Richard Hell- "Blank Generation"
The Modern Lovers- "The Modern Lovers"
Television- "Marquee Moon"
Velvet Underground- "White Light/White Heat"
Iggy & The Stooges- "Raw Power"
The Germs- "GI"
The Buzz****s- "Singles Going Steady"

About as punk as the Nolan Sisters

What about Post-Hardcore?

I'm going to include emocore too

Fugazi
At the Drive In
Drive Like Jehu
Thrice(last 2 albums)
Rites of Spring
Embrace
Moss Icon
Drive Like Jehu
Braid
Texas is the Reason
Cap N Jazz

And while we're talking about them, let's not forget to mention Rocket from the Crypt!

Also, I don't think anyone in this thread has mentioned:

Subhumans
Fear
Seven Seconds
Reagan Youth
Generation X (who never make these kinds of lists because people either (a) think they're a one hit wonder or (b) don't realize who they are)

I like all of those bands. Add Broken Bones into that mix too.

Only heard the first two. I'll check out the others whenever I can.

Thanks :wavey:

Whole Wheat Bread
The Clash

Just to name two

screeching weasel
dead kennedys
bad brains
old bad religion

but i dont listen to much punk

Dinosaur Jr. and Husker Du are another two good post-hardore bands.


Speaking of which, what do you guys consider "post-hardcore"? I generally refer to it as bands which grew from hardcore punk to experiment, generally embracing a more melodic sound/a heavy pop sound, but alot of people refer to what I call "metal-core" (Hatebreed, Therefore I Am, etc.) as "post-hardcore".

I'd say the first example and i think most people would too, it's one of those horrible vague tags though that i hate using.

Same here. Alot of my friends listen to Metalcore so it gets confusing when I tell them I hate their music, but I love post-hardcore bands.

Well, I consider post-hardcore to be everything from Fugazi to Alexisonfire. My favorite post-hardcore band is definitely At The Drive-In. Gotta love them.

Blink 182 or +44

The Offspring
+44
Blink-182
Green Day

Pop-Punk ^

Old blink was sick tho

What about some modern stuff like; Operation Ivy, Rancid, NoFx, Anti-Flag...

Also Proto-punk or First Wave Punk In The US

The New York Dolls - The New York Dolls
Iggy Pop & The Stooges - The Stooges
The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
MC5 - Kick Out The Jams / Back In The USA
Patti Smith - Horses

Lol.

http://www.videomusicnmp3.com/wp-con...flag-1-new.jpg

they kinda remind me of

http://evilbeetgossip.com/wp-content...6/greenday.jpg

I mean, there's the ties, the fauxhawks, the dressy clothes, the black hair, the guy with the blonde hair that kinda sticks up, the fact that they're both on major labels, and the fact that their music is poorly written political grabage.

I recently downloaded a few Anti Flag albums on a reco. Damn if YOU are saying there are bad, I am getting seriously worried ;) Are they bad?

absolutely terrible

FFS. Cheers. I will delete that trash lol

Meh whatever... there are many bands i rather listen to anti flag, but i like em sue me whatever

that picture of them is hilarious!
they all like to think they are the clash dont they

:(:(:(

MDC, Billy Bragg, Nausea, Defiance Ohio, Bratmobile, Moss Icon, Witch Hunt, Bikini Kill, JFA, Choking Victim/Leftover Crack, Antisect, Rites of spring, The Phenomenauts, Husker Du.

A short list of random punk bands I like.

Penetration, nuff said.

i say..Anti-Flag..Anti-Hero Rammones The Clash Black Flag Scratch Acid Flipper