Best Punk Bands

My personal top five are

1. Sex Pistols

2. The Ramones

3. Minor Threat

4. Rise Against

5. Rancid

What are yours?

The Clash
Dead Kennedeys
Sex Pistols
Bad Religion
The Ramones

The Misfits
The Exploited
Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13/W13
Zombeast
Bloodsucking Zombies From Outer Space

1. Bad Religion
2. Sex Pistols
3. Operation Ivy
4. Rancid
5. Nofx
6. Pennywise
7. The Unseen
8. Gob
9. Anti-Pasti
10. GBH
11. Lagwagon
12. Screeching Weesel
13. Crass
14. Dead Kennedys
15. Black Flag
16. No Use for a Name

In no real order.

1. Rancid.

2. At The Drive-In.

3. Gogol Bordello.

4. Social D.

5. Dead Kennedys.

6. Black Flag/that whole LA scene but mainly Black Flag.

7. Big D and the Kids Table for being the only good ska band.

8. Fugazi

9. The Shondes.

The Ramones are a punk band?

Originally posted by AbusedZebra:

The Ramones are a punk band?

Basically, but they’ve aged terribly. I’d check out Bonzo Goes To Bitburg for one of their only songs that holds up.

1. The Slits
2. X (Los Angeles “X”, not the other one)
3. The Damned
4. Ramones
5. Flux of Pink Indians

(in no order)

Anti-Flag

Dead Kennedys

Rise Against

Bad Religion

AFI (old afi that is)

Minor Threat

Leftover Crack

Subhumans

The Casualties

Black Flag

Operation Ivy

The Unseen

The Living End

Pennywise

The Clash

Sex Pistols

Brat Attack

Dropkick Murphys (Irish punk, but still punk , at least i think so)

Rancid

@ Ramones being punk:

The Ramones were the Green Day of their day, go figure…

A few I like that haven’t been mentioned are the stooges, MC5, The Velvet Underground, the Voidoids, and the rezillos.

ones that havent been listed:

GG Allin, The Descendents, Suicidal Tendencies, Crass, The Flatliners.

(i see a few of these bands are mislisted.. being hardcore, actually but whatever.)

i cant belive somebody listed X.. lol. i cant stand X…(not why im suprised.. suprised coz most people on here cant tell dogshit from a fish fillet when it comes to damn near anything..) theyre one of those bands that for some reason are labeled punk but sound like garbage nonsence.. whatever.. i dont care if they were popular at the punk clubs they played.

oh, and the clash will never be punk, its more pop rock with a ska influence than anything.. but at least theyre a good band. sex pistols are garbage and sid vicious was a pansy that couldnt even play bass for the first many years he was in the band.

Originally posted by Crass:

ones that havent been listed:

GG Allin, The Descendents, Suicidal Tendencies, Crass, The Flatliners.

(i see a few of these bands are mislisted.. being hardcore, actually but whatever.)

i cant belive somebody listed X.. lol. i cant stand X…(not why im suprised.. suprised coz most people on here cant tell dogshit from a fish fillet when it comes to damn near anything..) theyre one of those bands that for some reason are labeled punk but sound like garbage nonsence.. whatever.. i dont care if they were popular at the punk clubs they played.

oh, and the clash will never be punk, its more pop rock with a ska influence than anything.. but at least theyre a good band. sex pistols are garbage and sid vicious was a pansy that couldnt even play bass for the first many years he was in the band.

…congrats on your 100th post
EDIT:

Originally posted by Crass:

oh, and the clash will never be punk, its more pop rock with a ska influence than anything.. but at least theyre a good band. sex pistols are garbage and sid vicious was a pansy that couldnt even play bass for the first many years he was in the band.

The first two Clash albums were definitely punk. I’d still consider London Calling a punk album as well, but with a very strong rock influence. After that they experimented with alot of other genres. But yeah….. The Clash fucking rule.

Originally posted by Crass:

ones that havent been listed:

GG Allin, The Descendents, Suicidal Tendencies, Crass, The Flatliners.

(i see a few of these bands are mislisted.. being hardcore, actually but whatever.)

i cant belive somebody listed X.. lol. i cant stand X…(not why im suprised.. suprised coz most people on here cant tell dogshit from a fish fillet when it comes to damn near anything..) theyre one of those bands that for some reason are labeled punk but sound like garbage nonsence.. whatever.. i dont care if they were popular at the punk clubs they played.

oh, and the clash will never be punk, its more pop rock with a ska influence than anything.. but at least theyre a good band. sex pistols are garbage and sid vicious was a pansy that couldnt even play bass for the first many years he was in the band.

lol, what. Why is my taste in music getting attacked simply because I like a band which you do not like? And if you’re going to attack me, at least do it directly instead of passive aggressively. Fantastic maturity.

Originally posted by werewolfsociety:

Originally posted by Crass:

ones that havent been listed:

GG Allin, The Descendents, Suicidal Tendencies, Crass, The Flatliners.

(i see a few of these bands are mislisted.. being hardcore, actually but whatever.)

i cant belive somebody listed X.. lol. i cant stand X…(not why im suprised.. suprised coz most people on here cant tell dogshit from a fish fillet when it comes to damn near anything..) theyre one of those bands that for some reason are labeled punk but sound like garbage nonsence.. whatever.. i dont care if they were popular at the punk clubs they played.

oh, and the clash will never be punk, its more pop rock with a ska influence than anything.. but at least theyre a good band. sex pistols are garbage and sid vicious was a pansy that couldnt even play bass for the first many years he was in the band.

lol, what. Why is my taste in music getting attacked simply because I like a band which you do not like? And if you’re going to attack me, at least do it directly instead of passive aggressively. Fantastic maturity.

How exactly is he “attacking you”? So he dislikes “X”, get over it.

^ Once again, lol, what.

If you’re just responding to the person directly above you, there’s no need to build a quote pyramid.

GG Allin
Bad Brains
Minute Men
The Exploited
Dead Kennedys
Fugazi
The Misfits

Originally posted by Crass:

ones that havent been listed:

I was actually waiting for you to mention Crass.

I really can’t stand most of their music, but some of their lyrics are breath taking.

Clash was punk

I was gonna list Bad Brains punk, but they themselves call themselves hardcore

idk,

if we name hardcore bands in here as punk, because it is technically hardcore punk, then we’ll have to start naming “pop-punk” bands, eww

Well i definitely have to say Blink-182,
but seriously i like Iggy Pop and the Stooges, Black Flag, Minor Threat, and pretty much all the other bands listed here

the order of the fly

SEX PISTOLS
CLASH
RAMONES
Elvis Costello
Joan Jett
Buzzcocks
Sid Vicous
Iggy Pop

Best punk bands are:
Bad Brains
Bad Religion
Black Flag
Circle Jerks
The Clash
Crass
The Damned
Dead Boys
Dead Kennedy’s
Green Day (Old Stuff)
The Jam
MC5
The Misfits
NOFX
The Ramones
The Replacements
Richard Hell & The Voidoids
Rise Against
The Ruts
Sex Pistols
Sham 69
Social Distortion
Stiff Little Fingers
The Vibrators

wow super bump