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Top Five... Punk & New Wave Tracks
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in no particular order
blank generation - richard hell & the voidoids
alternative ulster - stiff little fingers
i am the fly - wire
nice n sleazy - stranglers
public image - pil0 -
My Sharona - the knack
Teenage Kicks - undertones
Pretty Vacant - sex pistols
Sgt Rock - xtc
So What? - anti nowhere league
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Oh yes Stig.
ANL So What? - still superb live - when they play it the crowd go nuts.
Tattood Beat Messiah by Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction worth a mention too.0 -
Is this a thread to list one's Top Five... Punk & New Wave Tracks, or to list the most obscure punk & new wave tracks of all time?
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Bad Brains - Pay to Cum
Toast - Sarah Jane
Southport - Days like these
Misfits - Last caress
Snuff - Vikings
Social Distortion - story of my life
NOFX - Liza and Louise
Dropkick murphys - Baroom Hero
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Can't believe 'I don't like Mondays' by the Boomtown Rats, 'I can't stand my baby' by the Rezillos and 'Jimmy, Jimmy' by the Undertones haven't been mentioned.0
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Black Sea- XTC
Kilimanjaro- teardrop explodes
Maverick Years- Wah
Heaven Up Here- Echo and he Bunnymen
Talking Heads - Fear of Music
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So many good tracks already mentioned, so will add some less obvious in the mix and go with;
Paradise - Buzzcocks
Curfew - stranglers
Love in a void - Siouxsie
My cherry is in sherry - Ludus
Stay free - the clash
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Do it. Pink Fairies.1
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It's easy to come up with five top bands, it's damned hard to pick a best track by some of them.
Clash - White Man in Hammersmith Palais (or I Fought the Law)
Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the UK
Siouxsie and The Banshees - Hong Kong Garden (or Mittageisen, or Dear Prudence, or Love in a Void, or The Passenger)
Joy Division - Love will Tear Us Apart
Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster (or Suspect Device)
Honourable mentions to
Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen in Love (with someone you shouln't've)
Undertones - Teenage Kicks
Mink DeVille - Spanish Stroll
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and now I've read the thread, I'm reminded of all the ones I should have put in my honourable mentions list but didn't.1
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Great stuff. I remember Animal introducing this at the Lyceum one night - "This was our song for Europe...it lost"Friend Or Defoe said:
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As usual, ask me tomorrow and it'll be completely different
I've stuck to the punkier end of things:
How Much Longer - Alternative TV
Teenage Kicks - The Undertones
Identity - X-Ray Spex
Ambition - Subway Sect
Bingo Master's Breakout - The Fall
and from across the pond...
Piss Factory - Patti Smith
Non-Alignment Pact - Pere Ubu
Holiday In Cambodia - Dead Kennedys
Makes No Sense At All - Husker Du
Blitzkrieg Bop - The Ramones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK4BMiB6xaI
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Great song that0
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Alternative Ulster - SLF
Nobodys Hero - SLF
Picadilly - SLF
Big Time - Rudi
Teenage Kicks - Undertones
Belfast out punked New York1 - Sponsored links:
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No particular Order
Nobodies Heroes. Slf
Staring At The Rude boys The Ruts
Another Dead Soldier Anti Pasti
Alternative The Exploited
Punks Not Dead The Exploited
Tin Soldiers Slf
Child Killers. Condemned 840 -
Great Thread chaps!HarryAMuse said:As usual, ask me tomorrow and it'll be completely different
I've stuck to the punkier end of things:
How Much Longer - Alternative TV
Teenage Kicks - The Undertones
Identity - X-Ray Spex
Ambition - Subway Sect
Bingo Master's Breakout - The Fall
and from across the pond...
Piss Factory - Patti Smith
Non-Alignment Pact - Pere Ubu
Holiday In Cambodia - Dead Kennedys
Makes No Sense At All - Husker Du
Blitzkrieg Bop - The Ramoneshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK4BMiB6xaI
Particularly like Selhurst Addick tracklisting and Seth Plum (one track says it all).
HarryAmuse - just for ATV alone!!!
How about this little lot (sorry did you just say top 5)
Johnny moped - Incendiary Device
Cortinas - Facist Dictator
Stranglers - Ugly
Sex Pistols - Problems
Damned - Born to Kill
Rezillos - Can't stand my Baby!
Slits - Typical Girls
Members - Offshore Banking Business
Ruts - Stepping Bondage
UK Subs - Kicks
Exploited - UK '82
Cockney Rejects - Flares and Slippers
Alternative TV - Action, Time, Vision!
Generation X - Running with the Boss Sound
Clash - Capital Radio
Users - Sick of you
Best just stick to our Great Britain punk/new wave and leave the stateside tracks for another thread!
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I'm sure a few of you will be interested in this:
http://www.punk.london/index.php
London to celebrate 40 years of punk culture in 2016
PRESS RELEASE
“London calling to the faraway towns” The Clash
On this day in 1976 the Sex Pistols released their infamous debut single ‘Anarchy in
the UK’. Today London’s leading cultural venues announced plans to celebrate the legacy
and continuing influence of London’s punk scene throughout 2016.
Live gigs, talks, films, exhibitions and museum displays are all part of a year-long
celebration of subversive culture. Not only will punk’s roots in London be explored,
but also its on-going influence on modern day culture and society, from fashion to film,
politics to identity, and of course music.
Punk London will kick off with the Resolution Festival from 4 to 14 January 2016 at The
100 Club, the world-renowned music venue that hosted the legendary two-day 100 Club
Punk Festival in September 1976.
Other organisations involved in Punk London include the British Fashion Council,
British Film Institute, British Library, Design Museum, Doc ‘n Roll Films, Institute
of Contemporary Arts, Live Nation Merchandise, Museum of London, The Photographers’
Gallery, Rough Trade, PYMCA, Premier and On|Off, Roundhouse and Universal Music
Catalogue.
In keeping with punk’s grass roots ethos, punk fans up and down the country are being
encouraged to create their own events. Anyone wishing to host an event can register via
the Punk.London website at www.punk.london/diy.1 -
New Rose - The Damned
God Save the Queen - Sex Pistols
What's My Name? - The Clash
In the City - The Jam
I Am the Fly - Wire
Rockwrok - Ultravox!
No Reply - Buzzcocks
How Much Longer? - ATV
Science Friction - XTC
...and the Godfather of them all:
Kick Out the Jams - MC5
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Pretty Vacant- Pistols
The Day the World turned Day-Glo - XRay Spex
Search and Destroy - The Dictators
Submission - Pistols.
Little Old Wine Drinker Me- The Lurkers.
What an Old Codger I am- Stranglers
Outdoor Miner - Wire
Public Image - PIL
Stranded - Saints.
Gary Gilmores eyes - The Adverts0 -
Ultravox! - Frozen ones
Joy División - Day of the Lords
Stranglers - 5 minutes
Devo - Beautiful World
Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime
I'm not sure which bands actually fit in these categories, but these will do to be going on with.
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