View Poll Results: Your favorite punk band ever?
Ramones
12
11.65%
The Clash
21
20.39%
Sex Pistols
1
0.97%
The Damned
1
0.97%
Black Flag
1
0.97%
Gang Of Four
1
0.97%
Dead Kennedys
6
5.83%
Green Day
3
2.91%
Husker Du
2
1.94%
Wire
6
5.83%
MC5
0
0%
The Stooges
0
0%
Bad Brains
2
1.94%
Rancid
2
1.94%
Social Distortion
4
3.88%
The Buzzcocks
2
1.94%
Misfits
19
18.45%
Minor Threat
0
0%
Minutemen
3
2.91%
Rise Against
0
0%
New York Dolls
0
0%
Bad Religion
1
0.97%
X
3
2.91%
Generation X
0
0%
Screw this, my favorite punk band isn't listed (Other)
13
12.62%
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Your favorite punk band ever
06-12-13, 03:07 PM
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Re: Your favorite punk band ever
I think the Dead Kennedys had the most consistent catalog as far as quality goes. While the Ramones, Clash, X, Bad Brains, etc. are great and have some all-time classic albums, they also have some absolute shit in their catalog.
06-12-13, 04:02 PM
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06-12-13, 05:01 PM
#28
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Re: Your favorite punk band ever
A friend of mine tried to get me into Gang of Four, Sex Pistols and a couple of others years ago. Just wasn't my thing. I tried to get him to listen to The Misfits and I guess he felt the same.
06-12-13, 05:48 PM
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Re: Your favorite punk band ever
Ramones, Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, Sex Pistols, and X.
The Sex Pistols may have been assembled by an impresario, but they overcame their trite origin.
The Sex Pistols may have been assembled by an impresario, but they overcame their trite origin.
06-13-13, 01:08 AM
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Re: Your favorite punk band ever
the dead kennedys and the misfits (danzig era) are pretty close for me. the dead kennedys have better lyrics (not that i dont like the misfits lyrics), better history, more good songs so i voted for them.
as a young kid i remember being in a record store with my dad and seeing a dead kennedys poster. i asked him who they were and he said "some bad band". who knew that yrs later they would be in my top 10 fav bands of all time.
as a young kid i remember being in a record store with my dad and seeing a dead kennedys poster. i asked him who they were and he said "some bad band". who knew that yrs later they would be in my top 10 fav bands of all time.
06-13-13, 01:51 AM
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this seems like deja vu....
06-13-13, 08:16 AM
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Re: Your favorite punk band ever
As for my #2 pick, I listen to the Buzzcocks far more than any of the other "classic" British punk bands. Aside from London Calling, they wrote the best songs of the era.
06-13-13, 11:13 AM
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Re: Your favorite punk band ever
Probably the Damned for me.
I went to see the Stranglers play both nights in Chicago last weekend. Both gigs were brilliant - Saturday's was made even better by hanging out with Jake Burns from Stiff Little Fingers before the show. He told me they'll be doing a new album this Fall and then going back out on the road after that.
I went to see the Stranglers play both nights in Chicago last weekend. Both gigs were brilliant - Saturday's was made even better by hanging out with Jake Burns from Stiff Little Fingers before the show. He told me they'll be doing a new album this Fall and then going back out on the road after that.
06-13-13, 11:20 AM
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06-13-13, 12:30 PM
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06-13-13, 12:44 PM
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06-13-13, 03:12 PM
#43
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Re: Your favorite punk band ever
yep
Paul should go back and read his own (well said) words
Paul should go back and read his own (well said) words
In a 2005 Tribune interview, Westerberg said, "I think Tommy wants to get together again and play. I don't know if we could call it the Replacements if it was just me and him and two other guys. I'd be a liar if I said I wouldn't enjoy the adulation. But we were always the exception to the rule when it came to the way things were done. And I'd like to see us maintain that mystique. There's the great problem of us getting back together and sucking the bag, and ruining the reputation forever. Maybe we should just sit tight and let people think we were great. We were about youth and rebellion and fun and wildness, and all the things that don't necessarily sit well as we get older. We were never big jammers or played long, slow music that would make sense to revisit now that we're all better musicians. So I wouldn't look for any reunion soon. If I dropped dead, I think that's the safest bet you could make to see all of us in one place."
06-13-13, 06:30 PM
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Re: Your favorite punk band ever
I wanted to give a vote to some local bands and go with Bad Religion or X but I have to admit that the Clash trump them all. They might be the obvious pick, but they are the right one.
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06-13-13, 06:52 PM
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Re: Your favorite punk band ever
I was 18 in 1973. Back then you could drink at 18. We used to hang out at CBGBs every week. I recall going there Thursdays for some reason. The Ramones, Patti Smith Group, Blondie, The Dead Boys, The Cramps, Television, Richard Hell and the Void Oids, The Miamis, Mink Deville, New York Dolls. We saw The Dictators at a club in Queens called Coventry. Coventry had 3 or 4 stages and there were 7 or 8 groups playing on some nights. We also hung out at Max's Kansas City, The Bottom Line, Club 57. We saw one show at The CBGBs Theater, Patti Smith Group on new years eve 1977. That was not open for very long. We saw many bands that we had no idea who they were. There was also a guy with an accordian who played Gloria. He called himself Tumbleweed and I could swear he was Weird Al. There is no way I would be able to pick any one group, it was the whole scene at the time.
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06-13-13, 08:51 PM
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Re: Your favorite punk band ever
Misfits all the way for me (Danzig era, certainly not the current sad incarnation). Favourite punk band not listed in the poll: Television
06-13-13, 08:58 PM
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I never understood why Television were considered a punk band. They played super long, intricate songs. Was it their production sound? Or just that they were contemporaries of punk bands?
06-14-13, 01:48 AM
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Re: Your favorite punk band ever
I love Television, but I think they were just part of the "scene" really - their work was pretty un-punk, although having Richard Hell with them briefly gave them some cachet. I wouldn't call Talking Heads or Blondie very punk either and they were part of the whole CBGB crowd...
06-14-13, 05:42 AM
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Re: Your favorite punk band ever
*Yes, what does "punk" really mean? At my high school everyone thought the B-52's were punk and the term "punk" just meant "weird shit that the geeky kids listen to."
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