The Great (Arguably) Punk Rock Band Hunt
OK, ladies and gents. The Mid-Nineties thread was a runaway success. The New Rock thread took an unexpected, but delightful, turn towards some bands I might not ever have discovered otherwise. So, I'm rolling the dice again on another genre that I have a good relationship with, but want more of.
Let's talk punk.
Punk Rock, Proto-Punk, Post Punk, Pop Punk.
Lay it on me.
Also, along with the punk bands I'm also looking for bands that have obvious punk influences OR have obviously influenced punk. Close does earn a cigar in my book when it comes to this genre. So let me show you what I've got, and you tell me what you think I'm missing.
The Ramones
Sex Pistols
The Clash
The Stooges
Iggy Pop
The Offspring
Green Day
The Hives (This band is completely f*cking awesome)
Libertines
I'm not listing albums this time because I'm still collecting from all of these artists (except The Hives, I might have all of The Hives)
So let's go for the hat trick music lovers. Let's see if we can make this thread pretty, oh so pretty, vacant. (Not really, please post some suggestions 
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Blondie should be up there as contemporaries of the Ramones, or they just new wave? In any case, Dead Kennedys and Black Flag from early period.
I grew up listening to punk and still mainly listen to it but also enjoy grunge, stonerrock and noiserock. Here are some of my favorite punk bands growing up (SST and Alternative Tentacles are 2 good labels for punk):
Dead Kennedys
Black Flag
Descendents
Bad Brains
NoMeansNo
Minor Threat
Minutemen
Firehose
SNFU
Misfits
Science ain't an exact science with these clowns but, they're getting better.
Dead Kennedys and Misfits should have been no brainers, I can't believe I missed them.
The rest are news to me as far as I know, so that gives me a good base to start with.
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Alkaline Trio
MxPx
Face To Face
Propagandhi
Samiam
Strung Out
Tilt
Braid
Dillenger Four
Some more mainstream stuff, with punk influence:
Blink-182
Yellowcard
Simple Plan
Sum 41
Fallout Boy
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Beer For Ben
Social Distortion
Siouxsee and the Banshees(arguable, but shrug)
Dropkick Murphys
Wannabe priest with a sword....
I always feel weird when I listen to the Dropkick Murphys because I'm not Irish. I know it's silly but it's the same kind of feeling I get when I listen to ganster rap.
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I am Irish at least part Irish, I only have one of their albums though. Its ok, I don't enjoy them as much as when I first purchased the album. Maybe if I picked up another one.
I actually have a station on www.pandora.com with all punk music, I renamed it angry white boy music.
Social Distortion is by far my favorite.
Wannabe priest with a sword....
Refused, motherf*ckers!
The Shape of Punk to Come is absolutely blistering and as vibrant and fresh today as it was 10 years ago.
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If you like Dropkick Murphys then check out Flogging Molly.
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Flipper
The Voidoids
The Replacements
The Minutemen
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Fugazi
Minor Threat
Biohazard
Ewww, I feel dirty even reading those names.
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Not sure I would consider Flogging Molly punk, they are good don't get me wrong, just not sure how I would classify em.
Wannabe priest with a sword....
Bad Religion, just not anything recent.
Rancid, again, the earlier stuff is better. Representative of the punk end of the ska spectrum. Or travel even further back and time and check them out when they were the UK Subs.
As for more post-punk, The Pixies are worth checking out. They're also worth listening to as one of the most influential bands for the 90's, particularly the grunge era. Doolittle is one of my all time favorite albums.
NOFX is a lot of fun, if not the most influential, relevant, or interesting example of punk.
For more contemporary hardcore, I really like Snapcase, but I'm from upstate NY, so it's sort of a regional requirement.
For just straight up fast fun punk, I really like Pennywise.
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SUB HUM ANS remains one of my favorite cockney punk bands of all time. EP-LP is a great compilation.
I've always been a Misfits fan, and Samhain was an interesting evolution of that band.
Some of the earlier TSOL and 45 Grave are good (and if I haven't cemented my love of horror-punk, then there ya go.)
Let's see, what else:
Dr.No
Bad Brains
I still kind of include The Cramps, but they're more "psychobilly" than anything else.
Early Cro-Mags
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I'm going with specific album recommendations to start you off, because the variety of the output for these artists can be huge.
First by a long shot: Double Nickles on the Dime by the Minutemen. So punk that not a few in the punk community hated them. May not be quite what you're expecting, but one of the top albums of the 80s.
Up on the Sun - Meat Puppets (They started out more punk, but were bending the rules by this point)
Zen Arcade - Husker Du (followed by New Day Rising)
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GBH/Charged GHB
The Exploited
Sham 69
The Angry Samoans
The Damned
Agent Orange
Samhain (Misfits/G Danzig spinoff)
The Dickies
The Dicks
The Slits
Generation X (early B Idol)
Chelsea
Subhumans
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More old school thoughts:
Gang of Four - Entertainment
Mission of Burma - Anything
Wire - Anything
Pipe (band from NC in the 90s, on Merge records. may be an obscure pick, but they put on some of the best punk rock shows i've ever seen).
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XTC - certainly not punk in a 1-3-4 kind of way, but their early albums were much more angular til they settled down into their pop zone. Still, Black Sea is an album born from their rougher roots.
X - seminal LA band. Start with Under the Big Black Sun, or Los Angeles.
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The Vandals
Operation Ivy
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Furthermore:
MDC (Millions of Dead Cops/Children/Etc)
SOD (Stormtroopers of Death - thrash metal cross-over a la Billy Milano)
The Germs
X
Septic Death (started by artist Pushead)
Discharge
D.I.
Husker Du
Anti-Nowhere League
Raw Power
Oh crumbs, I'm all thumbs laying here with you. You're beautiful and busty and I'm a little rusty - I've forgotten what to do...
The mighty Swingin' Utters. Bar none. The US Bombs with the mighty Duane Peter comes in a close second. and the Supersuckers.
For the more retro appeal, New York Dolls, Johnny Thunder and the Heartbreakers, the Weirdos, Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Vice Squad,
Streetpunk/Oi Bands: The Business, c*ck Sparrer, Angelic Upstart
Hardcore: Minor Threat, H2O, Agnostic Front, Sick of It All, 7 Seconds (sort of),
Smaller CA local bands: The Stitches, The Smut Peddlers,
Riot Grrl bands: Bikini Kill, Huggy Bear, Bratmobile,
You don't want to listen punk rock on your iPod. You want to go see punk rock in local dives. Support your local scene.
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My favorite punk band of all time is Bad Religion. And they have made some cool songs in recent days - "Social Suicide" from The Empire Strikes First is a very good song.
If you aren't listening to Bad Religion yet, then the first album to get **for someone who can handle non-slick sounding 80s punk** is definitely No Control. It doesn't sound like ass, in fact it's great, but there's not a lot of gloss. If you want to break in a little easier, get Stranger Than Fiction. Both are among my favorite albums ever by anyone.
After that, I am a big big 90s punk fan. Almost anything from record label FAT Wreck Chords was bound to be good in those days. In particular, I was a big fan of
Lagwagon
No Use For a Name
Strung Out
Snuff (for the love of god, everyone check these guys out, they are incredibly unique. They feature an organ and a trombone, without the least hint of ska. Do not force me to turn this into a Snuff thread. Go listen to those songs right now.)
Sh!t, I have to go work. I will be back to annoy you later, and I expect to find dozens of Snuff converts by then. Seriously, the world would be a hell of a better place if everyone listened to their simple, fun, wonderful music. Also, the stuffed shark who lives in my dashboard is named after them.
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This is Shreveport, there aren't any local punk bands except the high school kids in their garages. Of course, it's not like I have my finger on the pulse lately.
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Are you two into trying new things?
Digging through the ruined remnants of my mind, here are some good ones that haven't been mentioned...
Discharge
Suicidal Tendencies
Circle Jerks
The Adicts
The older the better with these, no idea about anything beyond about 1986-ish. I might have more at the house.
Edit: hadn't been mentioned when I started my post
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Stranger Than Fiction was my first Bad Religion disc. The Bad Religion 80-85 compilation was great also with a rawer, buzzsaw guitar sound.
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All the ones I can think of have already been mentioned, except maybe Voodoo Glow Skulls. That's if ska punk actually counts
For post punk, there's obviously The Futureheads and you can't go far wrong with Cable (the British one, there's an American Cable too).
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DOUBLE EDIT: No Use For A Name.
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I have never yet found 80-85 listenable, which means despite all my stage dives and crowd surfing, I'm not nearly punk enough. It's been remastered as How Could Hell Be Any Worse, which I might check out one day.
Get to watching those Snuff clips, y'all!
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For a more anarcho political bend (as punk rock should be), check out: Crass, Conflict, Half Life, Aus Rotten and Anti-Flag (eh).
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Nick Lowe (was responsible for bringing The Damned, Slits, Eddie and the Hotrods for the first "punk tour" of the US) Also for giving life to Elvis Costello'
Trotstky Icepick (one of the odder bands from the SST label, odd in a good way)
Big Black(Chicago's Finest), Shellack, Rapeman, and Steve Albini (best sound engineer known to man)
The Dead Boys/Lords of the New Church (Stiv Baters, may he rest in piece)
Stan Ridgway/Wall of Voodoo (Stan is bar none one of the best song writer/story teller alive. Considered to be the next Johnny Cash)
BeatNigs Industrial/punk band from San Francisco (Had the pleasure of seeing them live at the Outhouse in
Lawrence, Ks)
Lard (Jello Biafra and Ministry/Al Jourgensen) Check out early Ministry, synth pop. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry0TyIJXgoU&feature=related
Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper/Jello Biafra http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGDT7wKvdRk
Cabaret Voltaire (new wavish, but worth listening to)
Psychic TV
Throbbing Gristle
Joy Division (punk/industrial. Long time favorite)
Einsturzen Neubauten (German Industrial)
Birthday Party/Nick Cave
SWA/Tom Troccoli's dog/Black Flag (Had the honor of seeing these three in a Hispanic VFW. Back when Henry Rollins was a skinny long hair and only a few tatoo's)
Naked Raygun
JFA (Jody Fosters Army) Skate punk
Buzzc*cks
Stiff Little Fingers
Fishbone
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
And I can keep going...