Top five punk bands

[pig bodine]

The Ruts were popular with the Dischord crowd. Their first album was easy to find as a cut-out,which is how I acquired it.

[The Modernist]

Good grief.

Put up or shut up old boy.

1. Missing Presumed Dead
2. ELO
3 that's it

I think he'd have Genesis in there as well.

[TG]

Oddly, I'm not sure I've ever heard anything by this act. Wait, did they do that song "Babylon's Burning" or something? I think I just heard that recently, but was distinctly unimpressed. It may be that if you come to this stuff years/decades afterwards, it's lost some of its initial thrill.

WTF

They weren't really big over here, at least in the circles I was moving in. I don't recall ever being aware of them playing on the radio or on jukeboxes and they never came over and played shows/toured here. So yeah, I would say they didn't have a big impact here.

Agreed. I saw most of the UK punk bands that came through L.A. and I don’t remember them at all. And I’ve never heard them, either. They had no real impact here that I’m aware of.

[The Modernist]

Henry Rollins is always going on about them (and has fronted them a few times), so that might have given them a bit of US exposure over the years (if not at the time)

[yomptepi]

I think he'd have Genesis in there as well.

You might as well have Genesis in your list. Jesus wept.

[The Modernist]

Stop your waffle and put up your five!

[Dr Markus]

Stop your waffle and put up your five!

Mod and his obscure band names. I bet this band started out as the "next big thing".

[yomptepi]

1. The Damned ( of course stupid)
2. Siouxsie and the Banshee's
3. The Saints
4. Wire
5. Buzzcocks ( with Devoto obvs)

[Jumper K]

Swedish

AC4
Wolfbrigade
The Doughnuts
Kvoteringen
Randy

The Hives?

Not punk

[yomptepi]

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm doughnuts.

[Jumper K]

US or UK?

From anywhere. Even Bristol.

Top 5 from Bristol
Idles
Vice Squad
Onslaught
Lunatic Fringe
Cortinas

[yomptepi]

1. The Damned ( of course stupid)
2. Siouxsie and the Banshee's
3. The Saints
4. Wire
5. Buzzcocks ( with Devoto obvs)

Siouxsie and the Banshee's what?

Ask Spellcheck. They put apostrophes in everything.

Obviously everything up to and including The Scream. Particularly the early recordings of The Lord's prayer and those epic Peel Sessions.

[harvey k-tel]

Damned
Minutemen
Swell Maps
Bad Brains
Nomeansno

[Graham Murakami]

Jam
Clash
Sex Pistols
Boomtown Rats
Stiff Little Fingers

[yomptepi]

Jam
Clash
Sex Pistols
Boomtown Rats
Stiff Little Fingers

You are the Modernist and I claim my five pounds.

[yomptepi]

My little list
1. The Only Ones
2. The Stooges
3. Television
4. The Ramones
5. The Clash

broad church.

[clive gash]

BCB doesn’t talk about Punk much does it?

[Purgatory Brite]

1. X-Ray Spex
2. The Buzzcocks
3. Sex Pistols (Never Mind The Bollocks only)
4. Ramones
5. The Damned

[The Modernist]

BCB doesn’t talk about Punk much does it?

No -although we used to. I remember a number of lengthy Pistols threads that, much like the band itself, were very lively and disruptive; they really used to divide.
I guess the reason we don't talk about it as much is we're all getting older. Punk's one of those things that belong to your youth in many ways -it's not really current to our lives now, although I'm sure now I've said that, that there'll be a load of old punks to tell us they regularly have Discharge as a soundtrack when they're making their toast in the morning!

[naughty boy]

BCB doesn’t talk about Punk much does it?

No -although we used to. I remember a number of lengthy Pistols threads that, much like the band itself, were very lively and disruptive; they really used to divide.
I guess the reason we don't talk about it as much is we're all getting older. Punk's one of those things that belong to your youth in many ways -it's not really current to our lives now

It wasn't THEN!