― Billy Dods, Friday, 21 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― DavidM, Friday, 21 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― T Traherne, Friday, 21 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Kris, Friday, 21 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― dave q, Friday, 21 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Arthur, Friday, 21 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
"I'm Down" - The Beatles
"Mutiny in Heaven" - The Birthday Party
"Bad Man" - The Oblivians
― fritz, Friday, 21 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Brian MacDonald, Friday, 21 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
RUNNERS-UP: "Pretty Vacant" by the Pistols, "Neat Neat Neat" by the Damned, "Borstal Breakout" by Sham 69, "Cretin Hop" by The Ramones
― alex in nyc, Friday, 21 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Simon, Friday, 21 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Why have I never liked "Stranded"? I recognize it's a good song, but I never got any kick out of it. I'd love to love it as much as you fellas do, but... Never did it for me.
"Anarchy in the UK" all the way.
― sundar subramanian, Friday, 21 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Thomas Fischer, Saturday, 22 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― philT, Saturday, 22 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
If the screamers can be on this list, so can CV.
I would also say that Final Solution by Pere Ubu would be seriously up there if it were three minutes shorter.
― Michael Taylor, Saturday, 22 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― anthony, Saturday, 22 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― scott, Saturday, 22 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― gabe, Saturday, 22 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― stevo, Saturday, 22 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Dr. C, Saturday, 22 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― dave q, Saturday, 22 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Simon, Saturday, 22 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Billy Dods, Saturday, 22 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― jel, Saturday, 22 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Dishonest Ohio folk pretend they're moronic and homosexual (even if some of 'em actually are) while posing for magazine spreads amongst the debris of mid-seventies American consumer culture. KelvinatorKelvinatorKelvinatorKelvinator
― Michael Daddino, Saturday, 22 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
pere ubu - "30 seconds over tokyo"
electric eels - "cyclotron" b/w "agitated"
wire - "i am the fly"
buzzcocks - "what do i get?"
the slits - "shoplifting"
the fall - "totally wired"
swell maps - "let's build a car"
bad brains - "pay to cum"
flipper - "sex bomb"
the birthday party - "the friend catcher"
― jess, Sunday, 23 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― fred solinger, Sunday, 23 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Nitsuh, Sunday, 23 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
I'm quite happy with "God Save The Queen", actually.
― Tom, Sunday, 23 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
And I would also very much like to know if there are any mp3s of those 'flippant' choices hanging around anywhere. I must have them...
― emil.y, Sunday, 23 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― mark s, Sunday, 23 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
This Perfect Day is an astonishingly, erm, *perfect* song. Absolutely flab free, not a milli second wasted.
― Alexander Blair, Sunday, 23 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Sean, Monday, 24 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Arthur, Monday, 24 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― jel, Monday, 24 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― g, Monday, 24 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Andy, Monday, 24 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
"fuck tha police" may be the better punk single -- but it doesn't have the opening line, "you are now about to witness the strenf of street knowledge" (which, in my book, outclasses even the mighty fine, "is she really going out with him?") and it's not the wide- ranging statement of purpose (or lack of purpose) that "compton" is. which is a long way of saying that it's their "God save the queen" (attack on authority figurehead) to "anarchy in the u.k.'s" "compton."
and while i'm at it: were n.w.a. the sex pistols to public enemy's clash?
― fred solinger, Monday, 24 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 24 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Jerry, Sunday, 30 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Robin Carmody, Sunday, 30 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Smarmy Yank, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― smarmy, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Matt Riedl (veal), Saturday, 13 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 20 February 2006 22:39 (twenty years ago)
― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Monday, 20 February 2006 22:40 (twenty years ago)
Spiral Scratch.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 20 February 2006 22:58 (twenty years ago)
― retrogurl, Tuesday, 21 February 2006 01:35 (twenty years ago)
― WROFLMOTHER (haitch), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 01:45 (twenty years ago)
― sleeve (sleeve), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 03:07 (twenty years ago)
― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 03:18 (twenty years ago)
― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 03:19 (twenty years ago)
― WROFLMOTHER (haitch), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 03:21 (twenty years ago)
― The Velvet Overlord (The Velvet Overlord), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 08:12 (twenty years ago)
and my biased, ridiculous answer is: Wire - "Ex-Lion Tamer"
― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 08:18 (twenty years ago)
― zeus (zeus), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 08:36 (twenty years ago)
Ridiculous because it wasn't ever a single?
― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 10:54 (twenty years ago)
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 11:08 (twenty years ago)
― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 11:10 (twenty years ago)
since when was ILM so serious?!
thanks for being snobs.
― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 11:12 (twenty years ago)
When people show up who think "I Am the Fly" blows
― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 11:18 (twenty years ago)
actually that surrealists version is pretty good!
― WROFLMOTHER (haitch), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 11:55 (twenty years ago)
― retrogurl, Tuesday, 21 February 2006 12:20 (twenty years ago)
― Jimmy Mod: The Prettiest Flower In The Pond (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 13:02 (twenty years ago)
Now then:Antiseen - Fuck all y'allPoison Idea - feel the darkness / alan's on fireblack flag: nervous breakdownBuzzcocks: all of them - singles goin steady doesn't have a bum track on it.Jesus Lizard - wheelchair epidemic / Mudhoney Hates the Polics - great dicks covers, that improve on the originals.New Bomb Turks - JobDead Kennedys - Nazi Punks fuck off - not their best song, but the packaging puts it on the list
and lots and lots more.
― Uncle Tom (Uncle Tom), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 15:16 (twenty years ago)
Yes, exactly, it was dead by the end of 1977
― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 15:20 (twenty years ago)
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 15:37 (twenty years ago)
Wanker.
― Uncle Tom (Uncle Tom), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 15:50 (twenty years ago)
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 16:07 (twenty years ago)
Well, at least you got that right
― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 16:12 (twenty years ago)
― eek, Tuesday, 21 February 2006 20:27 (twenty years ago)
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 20:35 (twenty years ago)
― r3000, Tuesday, 21 February 2006 20:37 (twenty years ago)
― Nick H (Nick H), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:28 (twenty years ago)
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:29 (twenty years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:37 (twenty years ago)
― naus (Robert T), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:54 (twenty years ago)
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 22:26 (twenty years ago)
As far as I can remember he doesn't actually say that (the UK scene pretty much died and) the action moved from the UK (back) to the US from about '79/'80 onwards - but the inference is pretty clear.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 22:34 (twenty years ago)
― wangdangsweetpentangle (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 22:45 (twenty years ago)
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 22:53 (twenty years ago)
― LeRooLeRoo (Seb), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 00:08 (twenty years ago)
― Pete Scholtes (Pete Scholtes), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 04:41 (twenty years ago)
I remember that. That'll be Alternative TV, with one Julian Holland (in NHS specs) on piano.
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 09:19 (twenty years ago)
I'm recreating the semi-legendary "Lose Your Friends" and "Lose Your Job" cassette comps from the mid 80s and those are the only 2 tracks left to find.
I've narrowed my vote down to "New Rose."
― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 13:24 (twenty years ago)
it seems to me that a lot of 76-era punks tend to be more openly affectionate toward their grandchildren than their kids, like lots of men-folk of a certain age.
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 13:53 (twenty years ago)
Also we're not expected to take responsibility for our grandchildren in the same way, are we?
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:18 (twenty years ago)
This thread + Spotify = a serious addiction.
I wound up creating a chronological list of 300 punk songs, 1973-present, arguable and beautiful: What is punk? A Chronology in 300 Songs: 1973-2011
I'd love more suggestions, especially on '85 to the present. There was a lot since then that's considered punk that I don't like, or don't consider punk, and a lot that I like that's not really punk, and an awful lot of underground stuff that I've forgotten. That's why I titled with a question. The list is chronological by year, and chronological within the year when possible, then sequenced for flow. I'm still learning to Spotify too, so if it doesn't work, let me know. I think I made it interactive, so feel free to add songs. Make it 500? I copied my original list elsewhere.
I'll have to save these other threads for a lazy Saturday:
Best punk singleWhat are the definitive proto-punk, punk, post punk and hardcore songs?recommend me some punk songs101 Punk Rock Love Songstop 100 most punk songs in the blues idiomBest of "Disco-Punk"?
― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 15:01 (fourteen years ago)
Whoops, not "Best punk single" obviously. And looking back, it's also obvious I ignored the traditional meaning of "single."
― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 15:13 (fourteen years ago)
Wow, really nice playlist. Here's some post-85 radness that's looks to be on US spotify
The Ex - Gonna Rob the SpermbankNew Bomb Turks - Born Toulouse-LatrecThe Dwarves - Drug StoreA-Frames - ExperimentEpoxies - Wind Me UpPissed Jeans - Boring GirlsJay Reatard - My ShadowDisfear - Get It OffMarked Men - Blew My Head
― bendy, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 16:45 (fourteen years ago)
Thank you! I'll keep adding. My only limit is to include just one song per album as a representative of the release, unless another was also released as a single. But from now on it'll be one big tent, all additions welcome. (I'll keep my own list separately. I already left out some obvious ones, and would add those to this shared list too.)
― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 19:01 (fourteen years ago)
I copied my original list elsewhere.
Where? I don't have Spotify, Pete (and don't plan on getting it), but if you can provide a link to the list, I'm sure I can make some suggestions.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 14:00 (fourteen years ago)
On Spotify: I just meant I'd take new songs even if I didn't like 'em--which hasn't actually been a problem.
― Pete Scholtes, Thursday, 1 September 2011 01:40 (fourteen years ago)
Saw the current version of the Weirdos open for the current version of the Adolescents last night. The Weirdos sounded great on "We've Got the Neutron Bomb" and "Solitary Confinement." Adolescents on "Amoeba" and "Kids of the Black Hole"
― curmudgeon, Monday, 29 June 2015 14:37 (ten years ago)