Recommend me some PUNK RAWK!

[dubkitty]

One of those bands that gets in the punk door only because they were loud and discordant, but Mission of Burma is one of my favorite bands of all time. And their post-reunion work is great. I can't recommend them enough. See them live if you can.

OH FUCK YEAH

[theavondon]

Or, Nation of Ulysses.

[Achtane]

Guitar Wolf
Teengenerate

[eatyourguitar]

Dead Kennedys

Clash

Black Flag

these 3 especially

also:
sex pistols
stiff little fingers
pennywise
bad religion
exploited
(old) pixies

no one else said sex pistols wtf?

EDIT: dub kitty got the sex pistols its in a big paragraph

[dubkitty]

i didn't try to make a list because most everything i'd have named had already been mentioned by someone. nobody mentioned Gang of Four yet, though, who were kind of the missing link between The Clash and Mission of Burma.

[StopReferencing]

Didjits - any

Yes.

One of those bands that gets in the punk door only because they were loud and discordant, but Mission of Burma is one of my favorite bands of all time. And their post-reunion work is great. I can't recommend them enough. See them live if you can.

And yes, absolutely.

[StopReferencing]

Um first badbrains album to listen to?

I don't know, either the S/T ROIR tape or Rock for Light.

[theavondon]

Um first badbrains album to listen to?

I don't know, either the S/T ROIR tape or Rock for Light.

S/T, def.

[O Drones]

Crass
Rudimentary Peni
Amebix
Anti-Sect
Subhumans (UK)
Discharge
Anti-Cimex
Disclose
His Hero Is Gone
The Mob
Oi Polloi
Nausea
Scatha
Sedition

[fuzzybassist]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuTQeu0w9Aw[/youtube]

[Mudfuzz]

if i was going to suggest one thing it'd have to be the Ramones, even though i'm not exactly a mad Ramones fan. the thing is that the Ramones were more or less the bridge between NY punk and UK punk, and the match that lit the fuse. when the Ramones first played in London they hit the scene there like the atomic bomb, and they were the inspiration for most of the semi-talented folks who took up arms and formed the punk bands of London. you kind of have to hear the Ramones to understand punk in the same way that you have to watch Hitchcock to get suspense movie-making...much of everything after is a variation on those basic tropes. check out live albums and concert tapes by punk and punk-influenced bands and note how many cover Ramones songs.

True.

This has always amused me
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0sI6eFarFE[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gbIal1RnoY[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Giebe-uzPFg[/youtube]

[jfrey]

Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material
Bad Brains - I Against I

also, Swingin' Utters. Haven't listened to them in a while and not sure what specific album to recommend.

[Jero]

Sex pistols are junk but a necessity in any punk list nonetheless.

[DuoSonicII]

BIG BLACK

[dubkitty]

Sex pistols are junk but a necessity in any punk list nonetheless.

i don't agree that they're junk, though they did have a distinct Malcolm McLaren side. "Bodies," for example, isn't a mere shock-value number at all; rather, it's as brutally serious an anti-abortion screed as you'd ever expect to hear from a rage monkey (and i use that characterization with affection...i love Lydon) who was raised Catholic.

die little baby
screaming
"MUMMYYYYYYYYYY..."
stupid fucking bloody mess
it's not an animal
it's an abortion

he's not playing around. he's as serious as a heart attack. or more pertinently, as serious as an abortion.

plus they rawked like Mott the Hoople on stimulants. if that isn't redundant.