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Calling all punk fans: Favourite punk singles?

JamesSeed
JamesSeed Posts: 17,388
edited January 2022 in Not Sports Related
Over these last couple of years of covid misery I’ve taken to blogging, mainly the Jimmy Seed/Minnie Seed stuff, but also one about buying records. 
The first post covered 1969-1974 when I was still at school. I bought my earliest records in Medhursts in Bromley where David Bowie bought his (much cooler) records some years earlier, when he was still at school. That list includes prog through to Roxy and Kraftwerk. 
The second (much shorter) post covered my college years when I couldn’t afford to buy many albums. Lots of Bowie and Velvet Underground. 
The third post covers buying dub reggae albums between 1977 and 1980. 
There are a couple of Spotify playlists that mean you can hear tracks from most of the featured albums. 

The next post will be about buying punk singles between ‘77 and maybe ‘80 or ‘81, and I’ll have to go through my box and list them all (around a hundred I’d guess) but I’d really be interested to get an idea of what your favourite punk singles are? 
Also, are they the same now as they were back in the day? For example my favourites were Pistols and Clash singles back then, but now they’re vying with the Ramones, early Buzzcocks and the Lurkers, for some reason 😂
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  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,057
    Hong Kong Garden Siouxie & the Banshees
    Ever Fallen in Love The Buzzcocks
    Teenage Kicks Undertones
    Peaches The Stranglers
  • Pedro45
    Pedro45 Posts: 5,837
    Damned - New Rose/Smash it Up
    Clash reggae - White Man/Guns of Brixton/Armagideon Time
    Undertones - Teenage Kicks

    I was more into new wave than punk...

  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,085
    Sex Pistols - Silly Thing
    The Fall - Bingo Masters Break Out, Container Drivers, Rowche Rumble
    Stranglers - Didn't buy any singles but tore the arse out of Rattus Norvegicus - loved every track
    Siouxsie ATB - Arabian Knights, Spellbound
    Members - Sound of the Suburbs

    TBH I don't play them very much now, but love them when I do hear them.   

  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,384
    God Save The Queen
    Pretty Vacant
    Hurry Up Harry
    Sounds of the Suburbs

  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    My favorites
    Submission - Sex Pistols
    Pretty Vacant
    Identity - X Ray Spex
    All around the World - The Jam
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,841
    The Screeching Weasels - I wanna be a homosexual 

    bit modern though..  

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqX_q_F2fOQ

  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,888
    Jilted John - Jilted John
    Ever Fallen In Love - Buzzcocks
    Do Anything You Wanna Do - Eddie & The Hotrods
    Go Buddy Go -Stranglers
    Teenage Kicks - Undertones
  • fat man on a moped
    fat man on a moped Posts: 936
    London Girls - The Vibrators
    Neat Neat Neat - The Dammed
    In the City - The Jam
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    edited January 2022
    The band that inspired London Punks but didn’t look like Punks, were the Pink Fairies. So in tribute to them I nominate the single with the most ‘punk’ title.
    ‘Do it’.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpUAZ2xSR-0
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,281
    Another Girl, Another Planet - The Only Ones
    Where's Bill Grundy Now? - TV Personalities
    Spiral Scratch - Buzzcocks
    White Riot - The Clash
    Teenage Kicks - The Undertones
    In The City - The Jam
    I belong to the Blank Generation - Richard Hell
    Live at the Marquee - Eddie and the Hot Rods

    Loads more I sold ages ago


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  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,085
    Love this thread. So many crackers I'd forgotten about. Could well get noisy around my house tonight.
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,841
    Karim_myBagheri said:
    The Screeching Weasels - I wanna be a homosexual 

    bit modern though..  

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqX_q_F2fOQ


    that came from the mid 90s. for the late 70s i would say Pretty Vacant by the Sex Pistols. Mainly because of the Abba riff.. 

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6GDdKrQ8EI


  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,057
    Into The Valley - The Skids
    Israel - Siouxie atb
    Wednesday Week - Undertones
    Nobodys Hero - Stiff Little Fingers
    Everybody's on Top of the Pops - The Rezillos
    Babylon's Burning - The Ruts
    Pssyche - Killing Joke
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,348
    Addick Addict said:
    Jilted John - Jilted John
    Ever Fallen In Love - Buzzcocks
    Do Anything You Wanna Do - Eddie & The Hotrods
    Go Buddy Go -Stranglers
    Teenage Kicks - Undertones
    I remember being very surprised and disappointed when I found out that the brilliant Jilted John and the excruciating John Shuttleworth are one and the same. 
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    Teenage kicks, ever fallen in love, alternative ulster.  My top 3 probably. 
  • Phil
    Phil Posts: 613
    In no particular order :-
    Grip/London Lady - Stranglers
    Do Anything You Wanna Do - Eddie & The Hot Rods
    Milk & Alcohol - Dr Feelgood
    Shot By Both Sides - Magazine
    Marquee Moon - Television
    Neat Neat Neat/New Rose - Damned
    Gary Gilmour's Eyes - The Adverts
    In The City - The Jam

    and many more.....
  • Mrkinski
    Mrkinski Posts: 957
    So so difficult - I could pick all Stranglers singles as my top 5 - but for variety I would choose:

    Penetration - Come into the Open
    The Skids - Working for the Yankee Dollar
    Siouxsie and the Banshees - Spellbound
    The Stranglers - 5 Minutes
    The Clash - London Calling
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,869
    London Calling - The Clash
    Go Buddy Go - Stranglers

    plus Pistols
    Anarchy
    God Save 
    Pretty Vacant

  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,906
    Holidays In The Sun - Pistols
    Smash It Up - Damned
    Public Image - PIL
    Party In Paris - UK Subs

    Could list nearly all Pistols songs tbf.
  • HardyAddick
    HardyAddick Posts: 1,638
    Chizz said:
    Addick Addict said:
    Jilted John - Jilted John
    Ever Fallen In Love - Buzzcocks
    Do Anything You Wanna Do - Eddie & The Hotrods
    Go Buddy Go -Stranglers
    Teenage Kicks - Undertones
    I remember being very surprised and disappointed when I found out that the brilliant Jilted John and the excruciating John Shuttleworth are one and the same. 
    Load of us went on a camping holiday in the late 70's. Was in the same tent as Jilted John. Nice guy. 

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  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,388
    edited January 2022
    All great suggestions, probably only half of which I own. 

    Never heard of The Screeching Weasels - I Wanna be a homosexual though 😂
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,384
    pedant calling .. pedant calling  .. are a lot of the songs/versions selected REALLY punk ? .. it depends (of course it f$$3" does) on the definition of 'punk'
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    HardyAddick said:
    Chizz said:
    Addick Addict said:
    Jilted John - Jilted John
    Ever Fallen In Love - Buzzcocks
    Do Anything You Wanna Do - Eddie & The Hotrods
    Go Buddy Go -Stranglers
    Teenage Kicks - Undertones
    I remember being very surprised and disappointed when I found out that the brilliant Jilted John and the excruciating John Shuttleworth are one and the same. 
    Load of us went on a camping holiday in the late 70's. Was in the same tent as Jilted John. Nice guy. 
    Was Gordon a moron as well? 
  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,388
    Karim_myBagheri said:



    for the late 70s i would say Pretty Vacant by the Sex Pistols. Mainly because of the Abba riff.. 

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6GDdKrQ8EI


    My first day at ITN, 11 July 1977 I walked out of reception and walked past studio two, and could hear them recording the video for this. They got chucked out for throwing beer cans at one of the cameramen (Micky James) who innocently asked if they were joking. They came back the next day and finished the vid. I loved the Pistols and got to know Paul Cook when he was helping his dad with his carpentry work. 
  • HardyAddick
    HardyAddick Posts: 1,638
    Cafc43v3r said:
    HardyAddick said:
    Chizz said:
    Addick Addict said:
    Jilted John - Jilted John
    Ever Fallen In Love - Buzzcocks
    Do Anything You Wanna Do - Eddie & The Hotrods
    Go Buddy Go -Stranglers
    Teenage Kicks - Undertones
    I remember being very surprised and disappointed when I found out that the brilliant Jilted John and the excruciating John Shuttleworth are one and the same. 
    Load of us went on a camping holiday in the late 70's. Was in the same tent as Jilted John. Nice guy. 
    Was Gordon a moron as well? 
    Long time ago. We all change - I have. John was very unassuming then and played down the success of the singles. We didn't really talk about them. 
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,830
    The Clash - White man in Hammersmith Palais, Pressure Drop
    Sex pistols - Anarchy in the UK, Pretty Vacant, GSTQ
    stiff little fingers - Alternative Ulster, Suspect Device
    Ian Dury - sweet Gene Vincent
    Eddie and the hot rods - Do anything you wanna do
    Spizz something-or-other, whatever they happened to be called at the time, possibly Energi - Where’s Captain Kirk?
    John Cooper Clarke - Beasley Street
    Undertones - Teenage Kicks
    Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop, Sheena is a punk rocker
    Siouxsie - Hong Kong Garden, Mittageisen, Spellbound, Israel
    Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet
    Ruts - Babylon’s Burning
    Girls at our best - Getting nowhere fast
    Slits - Typical Girls

    And that’s without looking through the shelves of 45s. 
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,629
    Anything by the Pistols or Damned but one of my favs is Holiday in Cambodia by The Dead Kennedy's
  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,388
    Henry Irving said:
    Another Girl, Another Planet - The Only Ones
    Where's Bill Grundy Now? - TV Personalities
    Spiral Scratch - Buzzcocks
    White Riot - The Clash
    Teenage Kicks - The Undertones
    In The City - The Jam
    I belong to the Blank Generation - Richard Hell
    Live at the Marquee - Eddie and the Hot Rods

    Loads more I sold ages ago

    Noooooooooo. 
    Kept a great selection though. 
  • charlton4ever
    charlton4ever Posts: 1,728
    edited January 2022
    So many but my fav is  "The Ruts - Babylon’s Burning" - still holds up today (and I remember being down The Barrier and we would sing our own version "Morris Walks Burning" lol).
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,841
    JamesSeed said:
    All great suggestions, probably only half of which I own. 

    Never heard of The Screeching Weasels - I Wanna be a homosexual though 😂
    well, now you have, enjoy.. 

    tbf they had loads of good songs. 'My right' and 'Every night' being a couple. 

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