Best Punk records Ever

the Ruts at the albany with the uk subs

"me and my desire" 999

Did anyone else listen to radio Luxembourg in the punk era?

sure did. Too many to list but I noticed someone mention the Skids Into the Valley, the B-side called TV Stars brings back happy memories.

Charlie Harper got me and my mates in The Marquee one night, one of my pals was a skinhead, the bouncers wouldnt have it, he told the bouncers these boys follow us everywhere, good old Chas, saw them in Amersham Arms in New X about 20-25 years ago, superb

never really into punk when it was out but one of my younger brother was. Constant sound of siouxsie ans the banshees, orange juice and the Buzzcocks coming through the bedroom wall. I am sure there must have been many more but they are the ones i remember. Orange juice sounded about the best

Punk , new wave ,who cares about the name , irrelevant then and irrelevant now , it was a fantastic era.

Into The Valley - The Skids
All four of the pistols singles
No More Heroes  , all of Black And White album - The Stanglers
King Rocker - Gen X
Holidays In Cambodia - Dead Kennedys
Alternative Ulster / Suspect Device - SLF
Love Song - The Damned
Tommy Gun - The Clash
Love You More - The Buzzc0cks

who killed liddle towers- upstarts
harmony in my head- buzzcocks
life begins at the hop -xtc

DETTERS , i knew a skin who followed the subs all over... ROY B... i heard chas is still at it..... in his 70,s by now

Punk had so much energy and lots of good stuff been mentioned. I'd like to add Identity and Oh Bondage Up Yours, as I'm a fan of the late Poly Styrene and X-Ray Spex

https://youtu.be/Ue5jyj_nosc

https://youtu.be/ogypBUCb7DA

I was just too young for the first wave of punk but was well into the second wave (early eighties onwards).

Somebody mentioned SLF earlier - Hanx is one of the best live LP's ever released:

Johnny Was:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwu2r4HQ7gE

The Subhumans were one of my favourite bands and they were local to me so i've seen them about a million times (approximately):

Religious Wars:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFFDpvk_fEM&list=RDmFFDpvk_fEM#t=2

There are so many that its difficult to choose but Big A Little A by Crass used to get played a lot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIdcDL64KCE

I saw Vice Squad the other night - excellent! and Becky Bondage looking as good as ever!

Stand Strong Stand Proud:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LwNDtxN4Ys

Lambeth, bit tubby, round black glasses?

One of the best live shows I've seen would be The Cramps 77/78 time in Brizzle

Pretty Vacant was the best, shirley! Even though I was 26 at the time I loved it.

no mate he werent from deptford , catford way big family of boys ... the subs played secret gigs under the name.... scum of the earth

I know, it must be same bloke, Millwall fan

maybe dets ....i see you said on here a while back your in petts wood now, i was in the daylight last week , we might know each others boats

nicky horne played lots of punk stuff on his capital radio show back in the day,good mixture and Friday was always oldies night

I was in there last Saturday dinner time

Ah! The memories.

Society - The Ruts
Ghetto - The Wall
Outside View - Eater
Suspect Device - Stiff Little Fingers
UK82 - The Exploited
My War - Black Flag
Do They Owe Us A Living - Crass
Smalltown England - New Model Army
They Declare It - Discharge
Teenage Warning - Angelic Upstarts
Identity - X Ray Specs
Crash Course - UK Subs
Cities In Dust - Siouxsie & The Banshees
Subvert - Zounds
No Government - Anti-Pasti

for starters.....

Has anyone mentioned The Anti-Nowhere League's truly horrible "So What" yet?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6MlrPESdDI

Even Metallica did a cover of that one.

nothing horrible about the ANL alun, brilliant

Hello Mrs Shaw. Could I borrow your lawnmower.........OR PARTS OF YOUR BODY!!!!!!!!

Classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrB1QjD1WDc

I go to a lot of punk gigs in and around Bristol and they are generally fairly good natured with a lot of fat old geezers re-living there youth but when I saw the ANL in the Bierkeller a few years ago there was genuine animosity in the crowd!

I was thinking last night that it is very subjective as to what constitutes punk or new wave. Adam Ant classed himself as a punk artist, yet he has also been categorized as new wave and even a new romantic. Blondie were a punk outfit imo, yet Sunday Girl was one of the 70's top disco tracks. Another one was Ian Dury who also was a punk artist yet Rhythm Stick was also a top single on the disco charts.

Yeah

I mean some even classed REM as punk rock!

Forgot to mention The Bad Brains - 'I' and 'Pay To Cm'

Dagenham Dave - Stranglers

another track from that era that I loved was -
Stiff Little Fingers - Johnny Was

Harmony in my Head - Buzzcocks (by a distance)
Outdoor Miner - Wire
Babylon's Burning - Ruts (what a riff)
No More Heroes - Strangers
Hong Kong Garden - Siouxsie and the Banshees
Do Anything You Wanna Do - Eddie and the Hot Rods (punk?)
Tommy Gun - Clash

The first punk single - possibly??


"(I'm")Stranded" - The Saints

edit: replace Tommy Gun with Safe European Home.

Some other UK New Wave/Punk gems :


The Motors : 'Be What You Gotta Be'

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At0BizU5-V4


The Adverts : 'Safety In Numbers"

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


Here's a punky cover version of a famous 60s US 'protest' song

The D!ck!es : 'Eve of Destruction'

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


I never liked the UK Subs, but their song 'Down On The Farm' was covered quite superbly by Guns n' Roses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aEeii9aR6o

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any of you punk rockers know one by the four skins (yes really) called sumfink like "aint that sweet" only heard it once,aint on youtube and I thought it was good at the time (1977)

Adam and the Ants - Zerox

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRwyR86M_oc

Before Adam went 'Dandy', he and his Ants produce the classic (imo) LP Dirk Wears White Sox.

yes good choice^

I don't know the song that you are looking for terry but are you sure it was the 4-Skins as they only started in '79?

Clash end of FRED

well it was such a long time ago gin ive proberly got the year wrong but defo the four skins m8

nothing like "evil" btw

Was talking to a bloke in the pub recently who insisted he had fronted a famous punk/new wave band during the 70/80s.
I didn't believe a word of it but he was adam ant.

I'm sure one or two gentlemen of a certain age on this thread who will recall that one of the bands mentioned to date had a beautiful female bass player. What's maybe less well known is that this delightful individual appeared under a pseudonym in a few Top Shelf Gentlemen's Entertainment periodicals before her band became known nationally.

I never saw these worthy publications at the time (although I'd heard the rumours) but thanks to the wonders of the World Wide Web these magnificent, erm, pieces of art can be seen in all their glory at the Vintage Erotica website. Just google accordingly.

You can thank me later, and I'm not taking any blame if your browser history is then seen by all and sundry.

That's very good, HH.

Adam Ant, famously, doesn't drink or smoke. Doesn't stop him  going in a pub though I suppose.

OK, he may have started smoking

http://www.laweekly.com/music/adam-ant-is-no-longer-a-goody-two-shoes-2402906

tbah though crags, it's not a true story.

Its real enough if you could just delete that last comment , it makes a good story

Adamant, very good

Chit Chat is so funny, that's why I can't stay away for too long

It took me a while to get it.

Just looked at that article in your post, Crags. He looks unrecognisable.

He's doing pretty well now after his much publicised breakdowns.  Went to see him last year in Liverpool and he was on top form.

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/music-nightlife-news/review-adam-ant-east-village-9077861

He's looking very good there!

Here he is at Liverpool
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http://youtu.be/F2twC_RLSPg

I had no idea he had made a comeback.

he went to the same school as me as a very small boy--barrowhill in st johns London London, sounds posh but in truth was an old time school with very strict teacher who though of nothing to give the ruler to 6 year olds like me

and that why we are both
only kiddin

Oh.

terry mccann
     18 Apr 16 17:46   

any of you punk rockers know one by the four skins (yes really) called sumfink like "aint that sweet" only heard it once,aint on youtube and I thought it was good at the time (1977)

Probably 'Wonderful World'

It was on one of the 'Oi' albums and they were big / notorious in that scene as 'the band that started the Southall riot'.

A few more good tracks from the old days. The first one is the Subhumans 17 minute opus - From the Cradle to the Grave

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy5FMfTqf5k

Zounds - Dirty Squatters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_u95nIx3lE

Partisans - 17 Years of Hell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_ZUybYk6fk

Menace - GLC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L23I1xi7uR0

no not that roger,infact this not even on the greatest hits lol, "yes she loves me and I love her aint that sweet" is as much as I remember of it

there were quite a few good covers around in those days. Particularly remember -

She's Not There - UK Subs (Zombies/Santana)
Reflections - Original Mirrors (Supremes)
Stepping Stone - Sex Pistols (Monkees et al)

Can readers remember anymore?

Times They Are A-Changing - Vice Squad
Johnny Was - Stiff Little Fingers

I loved Johnny Was. In fact I've already posted it. I didn't realise it was a cover.

If you count other new wave/ mod stuff there was -

Lambrettas - Poison Ivy
Jam - David Watts

I love The Ramones cover of Baby I Love You, I actually like it more than the original

My Way of course by Sir Sidney Vicious

saw the Rezillos live once who did a brilliant version of The Sweet's Ballroom Blitz. Not sure if they ever recorded it though.

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

ah cheers Breeding - good old youtube

The Ramones - Baby I Love You
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http://youtu.be/VQdOyN9_5k8

I love this, too, BB

I remember going to see The Ramones and everyone gobbing at them as they came on stage

I saw The Clash in Inverness and Joe Strummer took the band off stage because an element in the crowd was spitting, that was in 1982!

I took this last year it's just off the Portobello Rd


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I went to school with a lad who, after playing in a few local bands ended up playing guitar (possibly bass) with UK Subs and The Rezillos/Revillos.

Can't remember but think he was call Macaughlin. It was a loooong time ago

I can't remember going to see the Ramones, but my mate Pete swears I did.

Brighton Centre, autumn 1979. Absolutely no recall of the band, the gig, my presence there or anything. But apparently I was there, right at the front, getting pogoed into the bouncers.

Same thing with the Undertones. I've got a ticket stub which says I saw them at Bracknell Sports Centre at that time, but if you asked me, I'd swear blind I'd never even been to Bracknell, never mind gone to see a band whose falsetto appeal I never understood.

And the Only Ones. The only reason I know I saw them somewhere in Windsor in the 1970s was because I was using a town centre urinal afterwards and the chap standing next to me started absent-mindedly humming Glad To Be Gay.

By the way, is it true that Tom Robinson turned out to be happily married with kids?

PuNk-and-Stuff
‏@PunKandStuff

On stage 'Tonight at the Roxy' in 1977, Slaughter And The Dogs supported by The Lurkers

I saw the lurkers in some pub in London, dancing with some shinheadsi went ar$e over t1t slipping on some beer,
I thought im in trouble here but no the boys helped me up counldnt of been nicer, good the lurkers were lambeth

fulhams version of the RAMONES

oddly enough pub might of been in Fulham, something cow perhaps?

RED COW HAMMERSMITH

Submission - Sex Pistols ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UZ0bPaOdbQ

Kill The Poor - Dead Kennedys ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgpa7wEAz7I

Fcuk A Mod - The Exploited ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfRzNnU6D50

Babylon's Burning - Ruts ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCkNu9OxThc

If The Kids Are United - Sham 69 ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GQMIXGRjaw

Hersham Boys - ^ ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzHFXzum95w

Bodies - Pistols ...

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

Suspect Device - Stiff Little Fingers ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBYoNYuUVk0

English Civil War - the Clash ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBYoNYuUVk0

Into The Valley - The Skids ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBYoNYuUVk0

Skifmarks r on me :)

Valley here ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9udxbvHiqGw

English Civil War by the CLASH!

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

I was never a punk fan but seen the Pogues on NYE around 1989. I'm not sure who was more drunk, Shane or me.

My favourite punk song is 68 Guns by the Alarm

The Alarm were not a punk band

I thought they were. I didn't like punk anyway

Shane McGowan certainly was a punk - unlike his music.

Oi! Oi! Oi! - Cockney Rejects ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me0iB35PQZw

Love in a Void ~ Siouxsie, Severin, Budgie and Bob



https://youtu.be/OD88v9qmkCY

So many but some not mentioned so far (I think)

Shot by Both Sides - Magazine
Where Were You - The Mekons
Young Savage - Ultravox (before midge ruined them)
Chinese Rocks / Born to Lose - Johnny Thunders
White Riot - The Clash
obv any early Pistols
Autonomy - Buzzcocks
No time to be 21 - Adverts
Something that I Said - The Ruts