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Calling all punk fans: Favourite punk singles?

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  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,831
    kafka said:
    ..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

    I didn't know that had been released as a single, only having bought the album, otherwise I'd have had that in my list.  There was another mainly/all female band around the same time who were of a similar quality as Delta 5 and I can't for the life of me remember their name - it wasn't The Slits, that I do know.
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,831
    edited January 2022
    Here's one that's a favourite purely because of the physicality of the single itself, On My Own / The System by The Dunneau
    https://www.boredteenagers.co.uk/dunneau.htm

    This 45 is about 1/4" thick - roughly three times as thick as a normal one, I guess.  It's more like a side plate than a record.
  • Badger
    Badger Posts: 4,842
    Damned - New Rose
    The Saints - I'm Stranded
    The Clash - Complete Control
    Eater - Outside View
    Subway Sect - Ambition
    The Drones - Bone Idol
    The Heartbreakers - Chinese Rocks
    Swell Maps - Read About Seymour
    The Killjoys - Johnny won't get to Heaven
    Johnny Moped - Incendiary Device
    The Cortinas - Fascist Dictator
    The Outcasts - Just another Teenage Rebel
    The Users  - Sick of You
    The Waps - Can't wait 'til '78
    999 - I'm Alive
    The Snivelling Shits - Terminal Stupid
    The Zeros - Hungry
    Wire - 12XU
    Sex Pistols - Anarchy
    Angelic Upstarts - I'm an Upstart


  • SE_7EVEN
    SE_7EVEN Posts: 290
    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


    Cheers for  the Lurkers nudge, forgot...the lurkers ....self destruct
  • SE_7EVEN
    SE_7EVEN Posts: 290
    Did Jarret play in the Afflicted?
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,059
    AddicksAddict said:
    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. 
    I saw Spizzenergi last week supporting Theatre of Hate. 
    Here he is after (lights round his neck). 
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,484
    edited January 2022
    Covered End said:
    AddicksAddict said:
    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. 
    I saw Spizzenergi last week supporting Theatre of Hate. 
    Here he is after (lights round his neck). 
    https://youtu.be/W1sju0GFJCA

    Definitely loved this
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,484
    Another couple for the list : 

    Mekons - Where were you?
    Anti Nowhere League - So What? (most offensive lyrics)
  • Thunders Addick
    Thunders Addick Posts: 69
    ATV - Action Time Vision
    Cortinas - Fascist Dictator
    Radiators from Space - Television Screen
    Users - Sick of You
    Damned - New Rose
    Subway Sect - Ambition
    Wire - Outdoor Miner
    999 - Feeling Alrights with the Crew
    Members - Offshore Banking Business
    Ruts - Staring at the Rude Boys
    Clash - White Man in Hammersmith Palais
    Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet
    Vibrators - Baby, Baby
    Slaughter & the Dogs - Where Have All the Boots Boys Gone
    The Boys - Brickfield Nights
    Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant
    Public Image Ltd - Public Image
    The Professionals - Just Another Dream

  • Thunders Addick
    Thunders Addick Posts: 69
    JamesSeed said:
    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. 

    That's really interesting. People always go on about Pistols performing Pretty Vacant on TOTP but they never did. It was just a promo video shot by Mark Mansfield of Supersonic fame that was shown on TOTP.
    The Pistols never went on TOTP nor did the Clash.

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  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,059
    https://youtu.be/lWyrsHtGLNQ
    Spizz at 229 couple of weeks ago.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,059
    https://youtu.be/0sb7UQyMrSE

    Theatre of Hate at 229.
  • Alicanteaddicks
    Alicanteaddicks Posts: 126
    Went to a 4 Skins gig
    around 1980 in East London 
    ended a bit nasty. 
    Preferred following 
    Conflict.  
    Eltham based Punk Band 
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,484
    Thunders Addick said:
    ATV - Action Time Vision
    Cortinas - Fascist Dictator
    Radiators from Space - Television Screen
    Users - Sick of You
    Damned - New Rose
    Subway Sect - Ambition
    Wire - Outdoor Miner
    999 - Feeling Alrights with the Crew
    Members - Offshore Banking Business
    Ruts - Staring at the Rude Boys
    Clash - White Man in Hammersmith Palais
    Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet
    Vibrators - Baby, Baby
    Slaughter & the Dogs - Where Have All the Boots Boys Gone
    The Boys - Brickfield Nights
    Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant
    Public Image Ltd - Public Image
    The Professionals - Just Another Dream

    Had forgotten Alternative TV - Action Time Vision is a great single.
  • Arsenetatters
    Arsenetatters Posts: 5,990
    Loving this thread. It’s got me listening to various old favourites. The Damned’s Smash it up - I’d forgotten what a superb intro bit.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,086
    Covered End said:
    https://youtu.be/lWyrsHtGLNQ
    Spizz at 229 couple of weeks ago.
    Looks like Howard Jones


  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,059
    I thought he looked like my wife's Auntie Joan tbh.
  • TellyTubby
    TellyTubby Posts: 3,553
    edited January 2022
    I wasn't into punk, but some of the music has grown on me. 

    Friggin in the rigging-I heard that for the first time driving up from the Man of Kent to see Charlton play at Rotherham in a Mk3 2L  Cortina. Top motor.

    Gary Gilmores eyes- because I have sort of got to know TV Smith in recent years.

    A punk band local to me here in North Devon had this very quickly banned, so very few records exist of it, I can't think why. The bulk of the band members are still going under a different name playing very different stuff, but the crowd always demand this gets played. You really must hear it. 
    https://youtu.be/GZpXll8dBVY
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,059
    It's different.
  • TellyTubby
    TellyTubby Posts: 3,553
    Covered End said:
    It's different.
    Tbf they do it better these days. 

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  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,059
    edited January 2022
    https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=1CzKpjBFwjA&feature=share
    Reminded me of Be My Girl by The Police, first album I bought.
  • sillav nitram
    sillav nitram Posts: 10,173
    edited January 2022
    https://youtu.be/JsK8fHPjav0
  • Chippycafc
    Chippycafc Posts: 14,166
    edited January 2022
    Cant believe i forgot these.

    The Saints This Perfect Day Original Top Of The Pops Kid Jensen Intro - YouTube

    The Saints = perfect day Aussie punk band. Think they are still about in one form or another.

    The adverts were another great band, have a couple of their albums.
    Shot from both sides-Magazine.
  • Chippycafc
    Chippycafc Posts: 14,166
    edited January 2022
    TellyTubby said:
    I wasn't into punk, but some of the music has grown on me. 

    Friggin in the rigging-I heard that for the first time driving up from the Man of Kent to see Charlton play at Rotherham in a Mk3 2L  Cortina. Top motor.

    Gary Gilmores eyes- because I have sort of got to know TV Smith in recent years.

    A punk band local to me here in North Devon had this very quickly banned, so very few records exist of it, I can't think why. The bulk of the band members are still going under a different name playing very different stuff, but the crowd always demand this gets played. You really must hear it. 
    https://youtu.be/GZpXll8dBVY
    One of our secretaries is called Lucy Loo, just mentioned it to my engineer about playing it, next time she walks into the office.

    Telly...is TV Smith still married to Gaye Black (known as Gaye Advert)
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,059
    Good idea if you want the sack  :D
  • Chippycafc
    Chippycafc Posts: 14,166
    Covered End said:
    Good idea if you want the sack  :D
    That's what he said.
  • TellyTubby
    TellyTubby Posts: 3,553
    Chippycafc said:
    TellyTubby said:
    I wasn't into punk, but some of the music has grown on me. 

    Friggin in the rigging-I heard that for the first time driving up from the Man of Kent to see Charlton play at Rotherham in a Mk3 2L  Cortina. Top motor.

    Gary Gilmores eyes- because I have sort of got to know TV Smith in recent years.

    A punk band local to me here in North Devon had this very quickly banned, so very few records exist of it, I can't think why. The bulk of the band members are still going under a different name playing very different stuff, but the crowd always demand this gets played. You really must hear it. 
    https://youtu.be/GZpXll8dBVY
    One of our secretaries is called Lucy Loo, just mentioned it to my engineer about playing it, next time she walks into the office.

    Telly...is TV Smith still married to Gaye Black (known as Gaye Advert)
    I was introduced to him by the lady that he is living with now, my understanding is that they go back a long way but got back together in more recent years. So not as far as I'm aware Chippy and not an item. 
  • theeenorth
    theeenorth Posts: 2,282
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    Another couple for the list : 

    Mekons - Where were you?
    Anti Nowhere League - So What? (most offensive lyrics)
    Streets of London better?
  • grumpyaddick
    grumpyaddick Posts: 6,597
    AddicksAddict said:
    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.
    Interesting point. Probably not pure punk but of that genre and era. I loved the Feelgoods but they were really pub rock not punk either. 

    Rock n Roll Nigger I thought was punk in musical style , lyrics and sheer anger.

    As you say, the labels don't really matter.  

    Makes me weep to think of young people listening to Ed Intetesting Sheeran though.  Punk it is not. 
  • WestSussexAddick
    WestSussexAddick Posts: 1,223
    Harmony In My Head - The Buzzcocks
    Don't Dictate - Penetration
    Captain Kirk - Spizz
    A Forest - The Cure
    Nobody's Hero/Tin Soldiers - Stiff Little Fingers
    Happy House - Siouxsie & The Banshees
    For My Country - UK Decay
    Go Buddy Go - The Stranglers
    Kiss Me Deadly - Generation X

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