Punk Wars!!!111!!!!1111oneoneeleven!!one1!!

[i_deserve...]

none of those are really 'punk' though...
Johnny Rotten was I suppose but the rest of the Pistols were competely apolitical and the Clash signed to a major and the Ramones were really proto-punk as were the Stooges and the Buzzcocks and the Undertones weren't all fuck the system and everything and punk is all anarchy and bad schooling which leads to grammar like this.

I say Crass, as they lived on a farm and gave out anarchist propaganda and all of that shit. ANARCHY!

Yes that's right, punk is dead, it's just another fake product for the consumer's head! Best rap song ever.

[John Brainlove]

[John Brainlove]

I like that picture. But I have to vote Pistols.
For - Johnny Rotten's spitting, wild eyed fuck-you-ness.
That TV interview - "You fucking dirty rotter."
The gig on the thames.
Their song getting asterisked out in the charts.
Being thought of as a genuine threat to the status quo.
Being mentioned in Parliament.
Sid Vicious.
etc

[Durutti]

YEEEEEAAAAAHHHHH!!!

[creakyknees]

Musically I love the Buzzcocks best,
Iggy and the stooges next.

I think it is wrong to just describe punk rock as being bands that sung about anarchy, I think it was an attitude. Otherwise you might as well punk as Anarchy music or agit pop/rock, although I do think the list would have done better to have swapped the dead kennedies for the undertones.
Also I really really like the stranglers.
and what about siouxie and the banshees?

[Smileadelic]

Any thread that mentions the word "punk" is bound to become a breeding ground for people who want to protect their own sacred definition thereof. Nothing wrong with that, of course - makes for amusing reading ;D

[Durutti]

Look at them: breeding, swarming, cloning in the pulstating mass of punkspawn. Billions of zealous punk tadpoles wriggling about, biting and thrashing; consuming each other in a vicious, ground-level fight for survival.

[bamos]

Did you just say something?

UH! WUNTOOFREEFOR!

[Durutti]

*sigh*

If I don't say that then the guitarist misses his cue. What can you do?

I have something else to say: "carpet burns!"

[ZombieElvis]

Some Else: The Stranglers. The original British punk bank band and the best.
Although I actually prefer slightly later new Wave bands like The Only Ones, Stadium Dogs to "proper" punk, like, the Sex Pistols, Sham 69 etc purely on grounds of melody and like, guitar solos doods.

[cadd]

I went through a phase of listening to at least one Stranglers album a day when I was a teen and had a big raven logo painted on my bedroom door.

I've met a few young types who reckon The Exploited are the best punk band. I saw them in March 84 and they were spat on so much the singers mohican fell down. There was a bit of a feud between them and Crass, anarcho peace punks v gluesniffing spitting violent chaos punks.

I was talking online to someone I bought an Anti-Nowhere League album from on ebay and we were talking about Discharge. He described them as 'fucking pioneers' and I can't think of a better description.

[creakyknees]

Talking of spitting reminded me also that we have missed off the damned

[John Brainlove]

I thought about these bands but I thought I'd stick to the "main" bands.
Fair enough re: Dead Kennedys, didn't think of them.
But the Damned only had like 3 good songs, and The Skids only had one, and The Stranglers only had about 4 or 5, wheras all the bands above had tonnes, except the Undertones, but "Teenage Kicks" means they automatically get a mention.
*runs for cover*

[cadd]

I thought early Damned were excellent. Brian James guitar playing was really good. I saw them in Govan Town Hall, Rab C Nesbitt land.

[Fullerov]

I voted other.