Rancid, The Clash, The Distillers, Stiff Little Fingers, Sex Pistols, Maniac Spider Trash... there's too many to name!
Sex Pistols, Clash,CockSparrer, Blitz,Rezillos,SLF, Adverts,Slaughter & the Dogs,Ramones,Partisans,Misfits,Adicts,Toy Dolls,Rancid,Abrasive Wheels,Lurkers,999,Dropkick Murphys,Red Alert,Angelic Upstarts,X-Ray Spex...................etc. My head will explode if i try to think of them all!
The sex pistols by far...and x-ray-spex, the clash and dead milkmen. I really like greenday and rancid too..When i was in grade two...ii listenen to these bands religiously lol
Older Green Day, Operation Ivy, Oxymoron, The Epoxies, Stiff Little Fingers, Face To Face, The Offspring, The Adicts, Dropkick Murphys, Flogging Molly, X, The Distillers, The Soviettes, The Briefs, Radiators From Space..... and that's some of my favorites.
Bad Religion, Sex Pistols, Sublime, the Clash, Rancid, the Ramones, the Germs, Dead Kennedys, Descendents, FEAR!! How come you guys havent mentioned Fear much yet?
Fear were great. Maybe a lot of people took them too seriously though. I think they just preferred to take fun, and irony, to a level most people aren't comfortable with.
Toxic Narcotic, The Foilies, The Cancer Bats, The Slits, A-Political, Anarchoi, Crass, Attentat Sonore, Chaos UK, A Global Threat, Aus-Rotton, Rotton Bois, The Oi Scouts, Street Troopers, Oxymoron, Strike Anywhere, The Pist, Conflict, Antidote, Anti-Hero, Anti-Product, The Misfits, US Bombs, 4 Skins, Oi! the Arrase...hmmm...Anti-Flag, Dead Kennedys, Drop Kick Murphys, NOFX(kinda), Beir, Breakfast...umm...Bad Religion, The Buzzcocks, the 101'ers...Nekromantics, Rezillos...The Velvet Underground, The Saints, The Havoc...im sure there are some good ones that i forgot...you can see that i left The Clash, The Ramones, Green Day and The New York Dolls off...because i dont consider them punk one bit(The Ramones can make a case though...) alsothere arnt the Sex Pistols...the reason for that is because although they were the first punk band to sell out in the UK at the time they most certainly werent the first band over there and they were probably the worst on their instuments...but Sid was kidda cool
whatever the media tries to tell everyone pop and punk can not be combined since they kind of have opposite ideas on what music should be. punk= rioting pop= not very aware of the world, but nice to listen to (opion of pop listeners, not me ok?)
Ah son 'O feckin bitch, I need help pronto. Some one who might know, enlighten me. What is the name of the female fronted band that sings a song with a chorus somethin' like, "I know he's getting breezy, I know he's getting breezy, I know he's getting breezy, and the drugs don't work no more" that's what it sounded like at least. I wanna learn more about the band. I've heared it on the radio a year ago, it's constantly been on my mind. I have a hardon for the chicks voice. Thanks.
New York Dolls always get forgotten. Punk rock certainly would not have happened as we know it without them. Mclaren, the Sex Pistols puppeteer learned everything he knew about the music biz from the Dolls. He even begged Doll Syl Sylvain to be their frontman! Tommy Ramone claimed that the Ramones were directly inspired by the Dolls. Clearly the Dolls were the only band in town that mattered when the Ramones formed. Chrissy Hyde said that every Britpunk band of the era had both Dolls lps. There isn't a first wave punk band that doesn't have Dolls connections of one sort or another. (ok maybe the Saints) And which of these bands came first? Pistols, Clash, Damned, or Heartbreakers from the original 'Anarchy in the UK tour'? Of course it's Doll Johnny Thunders' Heartbreakers!!!
The Dolls are more of a Glam Rock band in my eyes...indeed they did help spark the movement...but the Velvet Underground did too...and in my opinion they had more of an influence...but very true that the did help spark the movement...actually any band that came out of the CBGB club at that time did...
I wasn't saying they were a punk band, to me they're just rocknroll and I like it. The Dolls seem to be forgotten when the whole punk rock genesis thing is discussed. VU were gone by the time the Dolls ruled NYC. And nobody else came around until they were history. Patty Smith's guitar player Lenny Kaye said recently 'there was VU and then they were gone, then there was the Dolls and that is what sparked the whole thing.' The (original) Dolls never played CBGB's- they pre-dated it. Everybody at CBGBs followed in the Dolls wake.
Thats why people forget to mention them when they talk about punk bands...they might have influenced punk...but they arnt punk...thats why they are excluded from lists like this... I looked up the doll and you're right...they never played CBGB's...i thought they had...hahaha
I've been to tons of punk shows going back to the early 80s but I'm not punk. I like straight up rock-n-roll best. Sometimes a punk rock show is the only rock-n-roll to go see though. The Dolls are my fave band and I try to use the fact that they influenced punk to sucker people into checking 'em out. Most people consider the Heartbreakers to be punk so either way Johnny Thunders was there at the start. CBGB's started having punk bands about the time the Dolls split- spring '75. The Heartbreakers were the second band to play there, right after Televison I believe. I wonder what forum would be good for me. Unfortunately the RnR forum is overrun with classic rock fans. Dylan and post-Revolver Beatles aren't my cup of tea. I like first wave rock-n-roll and especially later bands of the same vein like Dolls, Stones, Heartbreakers and Hanoi Rocks. Plus I like late 70s early 80s rockabilly.
Hahaha...i love the Dolls...and so do most of the people i know...i do the same thing with the Velvet Underground...since most of my punk friends have never heard of them i try to turn them on to VU by saying they were the first Hahaha...your knowledge of CBGB's is way beyond mine...all i know about that place is thats where it all started(unless you count The Saints...hahaha...kids these days say the Saints stole their sound from the Ramones )
I don't care what anyone says. I still adore Misfits. WhisperingWoods, you mentioned Sublime. They definitely have punk influence, and you can hear it in quite a few of their songs, but I don't think I could put them under ANY genre. They're just... Sublime. Love 'um, too, though.
Saints say that they were sitting around listening to the Stooges for years and they just burst out with '(I'm) Stranded' the same time all the other punk records came out. I for one believe 'em! Yeah I dig VU too. Nothing like guys in leather jackets playing actual rock-n-roll when the world was wearing paisley and calling 'Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite' rocknroll! Oh yeah- what you do with VU is what I do with the Dolls! I could care less who influenced who but if people think the Dolls were first punks then maybe they will be a fan like me!
Sublime is one of a kind The new Misfits, without Danzig? Hahaha...i believe them too...they knew nothing about what was happening in NY at the time...well...im sure they knew...but i dont think they cared...
Saints were pretty isolated over there in Aussieland. (I'm) Stranded was the first punk lp I ever bought- at a garage sale in '84. Been a fan ever since!
