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Calling all punk fans: Favourite punk singles?

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  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,484
    edited January 2022
    Damned     - New Rose
    Buzzcocks - Boredom
    999              - Emergency
    The Jam    - In the City
    Ramones   - Blitzkrieg Bop
    Clash         - White Riot
    Undertones - Teenage Kicks
    Chelsea - Right to Work
    Ruts - In a Rut
    Generation X - wild youth
    X Ray Spex - Identity
    Lurkers - Aint got a clue
    UK Subs - live in a car
    Wire - 12XU
  • Swindon_Addick
    Swindon_Addick Posts: 1,665
    I was a bit too young for the first wave of punk. Around 79-80-81-ish I was listening to Buzzcocks and Boomtown Rats more than anything else. Then someone lent me the Dead Kennedys album and my tastes changed quite dramatically. Didn't get into the Clash until Combat Rock came out, then went and bought all their older stuff and largely forgot about all other punk bands.

    Having said which, I'm going to nominate Dead Kennedys Kill The Poor which I don't think anyone's said yet.
  • Afternoon Delight
    Afternoon Delight Posts: 919
    Tutt-Tutt said:

    Stranglers - Curfew

    Quality song
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,062
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    Damned     - New Rose
    Buzzcocks - Boredom
    999              - Emergency
    The Jam    - In the City
    Ramones   - Blitzkrieg Bop
    Clash         - White Riot
    Undertones - Teenage Kicks
    Chelsea - Right to Work
    Ruts - In a Rut
    Generation X - wild youth
    X Ray Spex - Identity
    Lurkers - Aint got a clue
    UK Subs - live in a car
    Wire - 12XU
    I’d choose every one of those 
  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,390
    golfaddick said:
    Karim_myBagheri said:
    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


    One of my all time opening riffs.

    Shame about the singer.
    Most charisma of any singer I’ve seen, including Bowie, Beefheart and Strummer. He’s no Sinatra of course, but that’s not the point. 
  • HarryAMuse
    HarryAMuse Posts: 1,178
    How Much Longer - Alternative TV
    Ambition - Subway Sect
    Piss Factory - Patti Smith
    Eisiger Wind - LiLiPUT
  • bingaddick
    bingaddick Posts: 8,184
    God Save the Queen - Sex Pistols 
    Ever Fallen In Love - Buzzcocks
    Do Anything You Wanna Do - Eddie & The Hotrods
    No More Heros -Stranglers
    Teenage Kicks - Undertones

    That's for starters....
  • Arsenetatters
    Arsenetatters Posts: 5,990
    Not all singles but - 
    The Jam Funeral Pyre for the drum solo
    xray specs oh bondage
    999 emergency
    Stranglers walk on by, Dagenham Dave, 5 minutes
    Sex Pistols bodies, EMI 
    The Damned smash it up

  • Albertan_Addick
    Albertan_Addick Posts: 173

    Damned - Love Song
    SLF - Alternative Ulster
    Dickies - Banana Splits
    Buzzcocks - Fallen in Love
    999 - Homicide
    Clash - White Riot
    UK Subs - Stranglehold
    Undertones - Teenage Kicks


  • grumpyaddick
    grumpyaddick Posts: 6,597
    This thread makes me feel young (almost).

    I bought the Patti Smith single Because the Night and found Rock n Roll Nigger on the B side.

    Quite an experience at that age, I can tell you.

    Did anyone attend Reading in 1978 or was it 1979 with Sham 69, The Jam, Eurythmics, The Police. Quite something.

    Got to interview Captain Sensible and Paul Cook of the Pistols and watch them gig many years later. Brought it all back. 

    Happy days full of hope, energy and attitude. 

     

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  • Tutt-Tutt
    Tutt-Tutt Posts: 3,279
    Tutt-Tutt said:
    Jam - In the City
    Clash - Complete Control
    Stranglers - Curfew
    Sex Pistols - Did you no wrong
    Television - Marquee Moon

    then more Pub Rock than Punk;
    Doctor Feelgood - All Through the City
    Eddie and the Hot Rods - Beginning of the End
    Squeeze - Cool for Cats

    and onto indie;
    Joy Division - Transmission

    Lucky enough to start Sixth Form in 1976. Perfect timing. All still on my playlist.


    I should have added how important the music press was at the time....Sounds, NME and Melody Maker. Record Mirror also came a bit later. All kept you informed and entertained on a weekly basis.
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,130
    God save the Queen
    Pretty Vacant
    Anarchy in the UK
    English Civil War - The Clash
    All around the world - The Jam
    No more heroes - The Stranglers
    Public Image - PIL
    The day the world turned dayglo - Poly
  • Chippycafc
    Chippycafc Posts: 14,166
    edited January 2022
    Stranglers - No more heroes.
    The Jags - written on the back of my hand (not sure if thats punk but was around that time).
    Most Buzzcocks songs,
    Eddie and the hot rods - Do anything you wanna do,
    Sham 69 - Ulster boy.
    Most Undertones songs.
    Tom Robinson Band - Sing if your glad to be gay/Martin.
    Ian Dury - Sex and drugs and rock and roll/Plaistow Patricia (dont play this song if your mum is around)
    The Rezillo's - Motorbike beat.
    X Ray Spex - World turned dayglo.
    Dr Feelgood - Milk and alcohol.
    The Ramones - Rockaway beach.
  • fadgadget
    fadgadget Posts: 1,394
    Love This , still have it on Vinyl .
     https://youtu.be/Y7pX9CWN1bg
  • bolloxbolder
    bolloxbolder Posts: 7,973
    Ah those were the days, tripping up to the Marquee etc to see the new bands. Still my favourite music genre.

    I have nothing to add to the above choices. Always will be a massive Jam, Buzzcocks,  Clash and Stranglers fan. I suppose songs not mentioned to add to the many excellent lists above are

    Where have all the boot boys gone? And Dame to blame by Slaughter and the dogs

    Turning Japanese by the Vapors
  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,390
    Tutt-Tutt said:
    Tutt-Tutt said:
    Jam - In the City
    Clash - Complete Control
    Stranglers - Curfew
    Sex Pistols - Did you no wrong
    Television - Marquee Moon

    then more Pub Rock than Punk;
    Doctor Feelgood - All Through the City
    Eddie and the Hot Rods - Beginning of the End
    Squeeze - Cool for Cats

    and onto indie;
    Joy Division - Transmission

    Lucky enough to start Sixth Form in 1976. Perfect timing. All still on my playlist.


    I should have added how important the music press was at the time....Sounds, NME and Melody Maker. Record Mirror also came a bit later. All kept you informed and entertained on a weekly basis.
    Used the buy the first three you listed every week, and the Record Mirror occasionally. 
    Incredible really. 
  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,390
    bolloxbolder said:
    Ah those were the days, tripping up to the Marquee etc to see the new bands. Still my favourite music genre.

    I have nothing to add to the above choices. Always will be a massive Jam, Buzzcocks,  Clash and Stranglers fan. I suppose songs not mentioned to add to the many excellent lists above are

    Where have all the boot boys gone? And Dame to blame by Slaughter and the dogs

    Turning Japanese by the Vapors
    There were two or three waves of punk, and that only gets you up to 1980. 
    ’Where have all the boot boys gone’ sounded very punk, but the lyrics are more second or third wave than first. Paved the way for the Oi! bands like Cocksparrer, that took punk into a different direction, lyrically and politically at least. 

  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,130
    JamesSeed said:
    bolloxbolder said:
    Ah those were the days, tripping up to the Marquee etc to see the new bands. Still my favourite music genre.

    I have nothing to add to the above choices. Always will be a massive Jam, Buzzcocks,  Clash and Stranglers fan. I suppose songs not mentioned to add to the many excellent lists above are

    Where have all the boot boys gone? And Dame to blame by Slaughter and the dogs

    Turning Japanese by the Vapors
    There were two or three waves of punk, and that only gets you up to 1980. 
    ’Where have all the boot boys gone’ sounded very punk, but the lyrics are more second or third wave than first. Paved the way for the Oi! bands like Cocksparrer, that took punk into a different direction, lyrically and politically at least. 

    I recall there being punk, which was swiftly followed by New Wave which basically had punk music's brevity and attitude but with a proper tune a little more melody and finesse.
    I suppose they were pretty interchangeable and in any case the best punk bands developed into something greater, eg The Jam, The Clash and the Stranglers (who were never really punk in the first place)
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,062
    Chippycafc said:
    Plaistow Patricia (dont play this song if your mum is around
    😃
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,130
    stonemuse said:
    Chippycafc said:
    Plaistow Patricia (dont play this song if your mum is around
    😃
    Wish I was brave enough to have it as my ringtone  :)

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  • pettgra
    pettgra Posts: 1,574
    One Law for Them- The 4 Skins. What a blinding name for a band.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,086
    fadgadget said:
    Love This , still have it on Vinyl .
     https://youtu.be/Y7pX9CWN1bg
    That's great. I don't remember it is a track in it's own right, but as the sound track to a jean's (Lee Cooper?) advert.
  • kafka
    kafka Posts: 2,372
    ..and not one of you has mentioned the ultimate punk icon,  Plastic Bertrand.

    to those already mentioned would add;
    Mind your own business - Delta 5
    Promises - Buzzcocks
    Wash it all off - You've got foetus on your breath
    My cherry is in sherry - Ludus
    Sonic Reducer - The Dead Boys

  • fadgadget
    fadgadget Posts: 1,394
    Stig said:
    fadgadget said:
    Love This , still have it on Vinyl .
     https://youtu.be/Y7pX9CWN1bg
    That's great. I don't remember it is a track in it's own right, but as the sound track to a jean's (Lee Cooper?) advert.
    Gary Numans Version .

    https://youtu.be/aaiiisBo9Ns
  • Arsenetatters
    Arsenetatters Posts: 5,990
    The Vibrators - whips and furs (?)
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,848
    Damned - New Rose
    Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant
    Clash - White Riot (The album version was better)
    Jam - In the City
    Stranglers - Grip
    Suburban Studs - I hate school
    Ian Dury - Sweet Gene Vincent
    Sham 69 - Borstal Breakout
    The Rods - Do anything you wanna do (not strictly punk etc, etc, but swept along with the others in 77)
    Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop
    Generation X - Your Generation

    From later on
    Anti-Nowhere League - Streets of London/So What

    As Bollox said, Slaughter and the Dogs first few singles were great as well. I think our criteria at school was, if it upsets the other 90% it must be good. Talking of school, looking at the recent Deep Purple thread, they were the neutral ground that everybody liked.

    Probably missing a few obvious ones. Haven’t included Elvis Costello, Graham Parker etc, mighty as they are, although the Attractions were maybe the most aggressive band I ever saw. 
  • Chippycafc
    Chippycafc Posts: 14,166
    fadgadget said:
    Love This , still have it on Vinyl .
     https://youtu.be/Y7pX9CWN1bg
    Didn't this become an advert for Lee Cooper jeans.
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,831
    SE_7EVEN said:
    Mence ...GLC
    Slaughter and the dogs .....where have all the boot boys gone.
    X Ray specs....oh bondage up yours identiy
    Banshees ...love in a void...helter skelter
    Penetration....don't dictate
    Adverts ...Gary Gilmores eyes 
    Ramones..beat on the brat.
    Pistols...all on NMTB
    Cash ...white riot album
    Dammed..new rose



    How could I have forgotten Love in a Void?
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,831
    grumpyaddick said:
    This thread makes me feel young (almost).

    I bought the Patti Smith single Because the Night and found Rock n Roll Nigger on the B side.

    Quite an experience at that age, I can tell you.

    Did anyone attend Reading in 1978 or was it 1979 with Sham 69, The Jam, Eurythmics, The Police. Quite something.

    Got to interview Captain Sensible and Paul Cook of the Pistols and watch them gig many years later. Brought it all back. 

    Happy days full of hope, energy and attitude. 

     
    Patti Smith's Because the Night is brilliant but is it punk?  Not that I care, it's so good you could call it a power ballad or experimental jazz and I wouldn't stop listening to it.
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,831
    Chippycafc said:
    Stranglers - No more heroes.
    The Jags - written on the back of my hand (not sure if thats punk but was around that time).
    Most Buzzcocks songs,
    Eddie and the hot rods - Do anything you wanna do,
    Sham 69 - Ulster boy.
    Most Undertones songs.
    Tom Robinson Band - Sing if your glad to be gay/Martin.
    Ian Dury - Sex and drugs and rock and roll/Plaistow Patricia (dont play this song if your mum is around)
    The Rezillo's - Motorbike beat.
    X Ray Spex - World turned dayglo.
    Dr Feelgood - Milk and alcohol.
    The Ramones - Rockaway beach.
    Surely a lot of the women on here would have played this in there youth and now they'd be saying "I won't be playing this when my little angel is around".

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