Rhino Records recently released No Thanks! The '70s Punk Rebellion, a spiffy 4-disc set (regardless of the absent Sex Pistols) with:

Disc: 1
1. Blitzkrieg Bop - Ramones
2. White Riot - The Clash
3. Heart Of The City - Nick Lowe
4. Boredom - Buzzcocks featuring Howard Devoto
5. (I'm) Stranded - The Saints
6. Neat Neat Neat - The Damned
7. In The City - The Jam
8. Final Solution - Pere Ubu
9. Roadrunner - The Modern Lovers
10. Little Johnny Jewel - Television
11. One Chord Wonders - The Adverts
12. Born To Lose - The Heartbreakers
13. Search And Destroy - Iggy & The Stooges
14. Let Me Dream If I Want To (Amphetamine Blues) - Mink DeVille
15. Oh Bondage Up Yours! - X-Ray Spex
16. 1 2 X U - Wire
17. Blank Generation - Richard Hell & The Voidoids
18. (Get A) Grip (On Yourself) - The Stranglers
19. Cherry Bomb - The Runaways
20. Personality Crisis - New York Dolls
21. Teenage Depression - Eddie & The Hot Rods
22. Two Tub Man - The Dictators
23. Hey Joe (Version) - Patti Smith
24. Your Generation - Generation X

Disc: 2
1. Lust For Life - Iggy Pop
2. Gary Gilmore's Eyes - The Adverts
3. Satday Night In The City Of The Dead - Ultravox!
4. What Do I Get? - Buzzcocks
5. X Offender - Blondie
6. Lookin' After No. 1 - The Boomtown Rats
7. Don't Dictate - Penetration
8. Bingo Master - The Fall
9. Free Money - Patti Smith
10. The Modern World - The Jam
11. Chinese Rocks - The Heartbreakers
12. New Rose - The Damned
13. Ambition - Subway Sect
14. See No Evil - Television
15. Suspect Device - Stiff Little Fingers
16. Mannequin - Wire
17. Baby Baby - The Vibrators
18. Love Comes In Spurts - Richard Hell & The Voidoids
19. First Time - The Boys
20. Sonic Reducer - Dead Boys
21. Shot By Both Sides - Magazine
22. Mystery Dance - Elvis Costello
23. Trash - New York Dolls
24. The Day The World Turned Day-Glo - X-Ray Spex
25. Do Anything You Wanna Do - Eddie & The Hot Rods

Disc: 3
1. Ready Steady Go - Generation X
2. Teenage Kicks - The Undertones
3. Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll - Ian Dury
4. Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've?) - Buzzcocks
5. Rocket U.S.A. - Suicide
6. Mongoloid - Devo
7. Homicide - 999
8. Mr. Big - The Dils
9. Warsaw - Joy Division
10. Where Were You? - The Mekons
11. Lexicon Devil - The Germs
12. (My Baby Does) Good Sculptures - The Rezillos
13. The Wait - The Pretenders
14. We Got The Neutron Bomb - The Weirdos
15. Pablo Picasso - The Modern Lovers
16. Action Time Vision - Alternative TV
17. 2-4-6-8 Motorway - Tom Robinson Band
18. We Are The One - The Avengers
19. Borstal Breakout - Sham 69
20. Wasted - Black Flag
21. Sheena Is A Punk Rocker - Ramones
22. I Love Livin In The City - Fear
23. She's So Modern - The Boomtown Rats
24. Ghosts Of Princes In Towers - Rich Kids
25. We're Desperate - X
26. You Drive Me Ape (You Big Gorilla) - The Dickies
27. Dancing The Night Away - The Motors

Disc: 4
1. Hong Kong Garden - Siouxsie & The Banshees
2. Hanging On The Telephone - Blondie
3. Top Of The Pops - The Rezillos
4. Adult Books - X
5. The Sound Of The Suburbs - The Members
6. California =DCber Alles - Dead Kennedys
7. Another Girl, Another Planet - The Only Ones
8. (I Want To Be An) Anglepoise Lamp - The Soft Boys
9. Radio, Radio - Elvis Costello & The Attractions
10. Typical Girls - The Slits
11. Human Fly - The Cramps
12. Psycho Killer - Talking Heads
13. Babylon's Burning - The Ruts
14. If The Kids Are United - Sham 69
15. Alternative Ulster - Stiff Little Fingers
16. Boys Don't Cry - The Cure
17. She Is Beyond Good And Evil - The Pop Group
18. Is She Really Going Out With Him? - Joe Jackson
19. Get Over You - The Undertones
20. Love Like Anthrax - Gang Of Four
21. Peaches - The Stranglers
22. Into The Valley - Skids
23. You Can't Put Your Arms Round A Memory - Johnny Thunders
24. Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division

The Smiths

I'll probably be in the minority by saying this, but if her idea of punk is Good Charlotte, Avril Lavigne and other MTV bands, why not get her music/books she'll end up actually liking?

I'm not saying that she'll most definitely hate the suggestions listed, but she probably won't like them and you'll be wasting your money. If she likes Good Charlotte I'd be very surprised if she ended up liking more than a couple of the bands (Ramones, Clash, Stiff Little Fingers) listed.

Yeah, but you can't blame him for trying to expand her horizons. That boxed set might be the way to go, that's a bunch of killer tracks (most of which I own the entire album they're on and can verify they picked the right ones...)

I have a 12 yr old daughter who lives for Good Charlotte, and somehow I have been able to actually broaden her musical world with The Ramones, Dead Milkmen, Lene Lovich, The Jam, etc.

Yeah, when my little brother was 12, I caught him listening to Pink Floyd. I immediately threw that disc out of the player and put in some Daniel Johnston and Beat Happening. Changed his life!

I'm telling you: go to any bookstore and just flip through "Please Kill Me". Incredible book! Tons of stories as told by the people who lived it. Funny to see how they contradict each other at times. You get different people's perspectives on the same story. I've read it 3 times and am ready to give it another read!

"We've Got the Neutron Bomb" is basically the LA version of "Please Kill Me". Good, but not great.

Go on ebay or your local indie store and track down some back issues of Flipside while you're at it too!

hey, pink floyd music is great.

Shhh!
I'm already tired of paying up to $30 an issue, i don't want to have to pay any more!

yeah, if you're doped up on drugs anything sounds great!

I cut my teeth on Sex Pistols, Sonic Youth and the Ramones and I love "Dark Side of the Moon". To each his own, I guess.

must there be holier-than-thou pretentious crap in every music thread?

Anyway, give her Bad Religion's Against the Grain

What a holier-than-thou statement!

Yet, I've always loved Pink Floyd as well... and The Beatles, and Jimi Hendrix, and... oh nevermind, I guess some of you just won't understand.

What a deflection!

What a threadkiller!

BAD BRAINS

Many of the greats have been mentioned by I didn't see anyone recommend The Stranglers.

I just noticed this is currently on sale at Best Buy for $39.99!!!

Minor Threat
Minor Threat
Minor Threat
Minor Threat
and maybe some Germs

I found this book:

Early D.R.I. & C.O.C, although there is a fine line between early punk & hardcore.

Essential: Misfits, Ramones, Dead Kennedys, Descendents

i'm new - LOVE old punk/hardcore!!

here we go:

agression (they only used 1 'G' when spelling it)
libido boyz (minneapolis)
NAKED RAYGUN (chicago)
pegboy (ditto)
screaching weasel!!!(ditto)
crass (old - 1970-80's uk punk)
nomeansno
gang green (another cross-ocer band like DRI)
7 SECONDS (not said yet???!!!)
MDC (name any anacronym, but MILLIONS OF DEAD COPS was the original)
flipper
black flag!!! (have the tattoo - so do a million others!)
misfits
D.I.
subhumans
UK subs
8 bark
agent orange (everyone had this if you skated in the 80's)
big drill car
babes in toyland
circle jerks
descendents (started emo w/ rites of spring when east met west coast)
cro-mags (cross-over)
husker du
jawbox
jawbreaker
TSOL
NOFX
reagan youth
samiam (the BEST unknown - major label wise - emo band in the US who has been doing it for 10 years now)
suicidal tendencies
trenchmouth

ALMOST anything at the oldschool labels:
dischord
lookout
alternative tentacles
twintone (out of business)
caroline
victory
SST
frontier

nice to meet you all.......

Oh, great, someone mentioned NOFX.


I declare this thread officially dead!

c'mon! they have been around for s long time! i remember them in H.S. back in the late 80's!

at least i did not mention 182, good charlotte, green day, etc. etc. - not that i EVER would.