American Reacts to Top 10 British Punk Bands!
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- Let's go on a journey through the rebellious world of British punk as we check out the top ten bands that defined the genre. From the raw energy of the Sex Pistols to the political anthems of The Clash, discover the influential sounds and rebellious spirit of British punk rock!
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You're surprised there are 10 British bands to go on a list. As a 1970s teenager, I'm suprised it isn't a much bigger list.
It could definitely be a Top 50 😁👍
Long story short: around 1990, here in Hungary a rock journalist wrote a 2-part book titled 'The Decade of New Wave', the first was about British Punk Boom in almost it's entirety, the middle chapter - 2/3 of the book - was named 'The Class of '77' and showed artists of fresh sounds who started or got on top in 1977 in alphabetical order. The (cca.) 80% of the list of more than 100 acts were (or started as) Punk.
I though it would be hard to water it down to 10 myself
I'm tempted to say i could name a thousand but that maybe a bit of an exaggeration.
Gotta agree with you, so many more great bands
Oh absolutely.
Let's add The Ruts Vibrators UK Subs The Undertones The Stranglers The Slits and the Skids.
Also add : The Angelic Upstarts, Discharge, Broken Bones, AntiPasti and The Cockney Rejects !
Yeah, all great bands, Stranglers and Undertones were even essential IMHO. And with the exception of The Adicts there were no bands from the 80s... I missed 999, Toy Dolls and The Exploited
Penetration, Rezillos, The Saints
@@hardywatkins7737 The Saints are from Australia
@@Reani71 Good point. I forgot they had to be British.
Surprised there are 10 punk bands from Britain...there are hundreds dude.
You beat me to it!
Americans always think that the U.S is the busy citycenter and the rest of us are in the suburbs.
@@LalaDepala_00I dont know any punk bands other the ramones from septic land
These mugs think Henry Rollins is a punk, ffs
@@LalaDepala_00 Magazine may be the closest America has allowed itself to be musically Godless.
Alternative Ulster by SLF is brilliant.
That chiming guitar intro! 🔥🔥
Hanx Live album version , some good tunes , Wait and see, Tin Soldier, Nobodies Hero.
No mention of The Stranglers, who started out as punk, but were actually fine, successful musicians.
They did really interesting and so diverse music! They're like Art Rock. Totally unique. One of the most noteworthy bands of the 70-80's era.
If The Jam can get in as Punk, so should The Stranglers have been included
The Jam, started as punks, listen to the first albums. The Adverts song Looking Through Gary Gilmour's Eyes, is based on the request that Gary Gilmour wanted his eyes donated to medical science for transplant. The song is about a man who wakes up after an eye transplant and starts seeing strange visions and he realises he's, 'looking through Gary Gilmour's eyes'.
Have to agree, A-bomb in Wardour St was punk.
Two people on the transplant list did in fact receive Gilmore's corneas.
I remember seeing the band at Barbarella's. With her proto-goth 'panda' eye make-up and black leathers, bassist Gaye Advert was oddly charismatic, and one of punk's relatively few female icons.
No Undertones? John Peel would not be happy
They were from Derry
Green Day are basically a Stiff Little Fingers tribute band. Other bands that could've been on the list. The Stranglers, The Ruts, Boomtown Rats, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Cure, The Members, Generation X, The Skids, Vice Squad, and many more
Until 2 years ago I worked with the Vice Squad bassist . . .
The Cure isn’t punk , boomtown rats are Irish, SATBs aren’t punk either
Absolutely, SLF were my first gig 1979, great songs and energy, Green Day totally ripped em off!
Saw SLF at the Hammersmith Palais there encore was Barbed wire love, one of my favourites.
Saw stiff little fingers a few times amazing gigs , I loved the Jam but I always thought that they were New Wave
X-ray Spex certainly one of the most unique bands ever formed
Loved them.
Love them
Lora Logic is still going :)
The Undertones could have been in here. Along with SLF, they made the Northern Ireland punk scene fairly important on the UK market. Terry Hooley and 'Good Vibrations' (there's a movie about that) were also kinda significant.
I was a regular visitor to Good Vibrations Records shop, and bought many singles - the '25p bargain box' on the counter provided me with quite a few oddities (including some now worth hundreds of pounds).
I was in so often that Terry allowed me to have a look through his own collection one afternoon.
Rudi were the no.1 punk band but never made it. Slf jumped on the bandwagon. Saw them in 78 supporting Eddie and thr Hotrods. Big flares and smoke on the water rock covers with the odd Clash song thrown in.
The Stranglers should have been in the top 10 too.
Punk in the UK has an enormous relationship with Reggae. Don Letts suggested that they create their own music to express their own values.
Apart from the Clash doing a cover of "Police and Thieves", there is not a great symbiosis between the two genres. UK is not renowned for it's plethora of reggae musicians. Most of them are from the West Indies / Jamaica. Ska, on the other hand, does seem to have a bit more influence on punk, simply because it has a much faster and stronger basic sound to it.
Shout outs to Adam and The Ants & Generation X, whose front end both went on to fame and glory as Adam Ant & Billy Idol.
Siouxsie and The Banshees went from punk to Goth
Toyah went from punk to an enticing prog/punk combo.
Honourable mentions also to Penetration and 999.
Generation X and Siouksie should definitely have been on this list.
I forgot Siouxsie and the Banshees, they were brilliant and should have been on the list.
@srodgers66 @srodgers66 As should Adam ant. I almost felt out my chair when I realised he wasn't going to make the cut. Especially hard, as I was lying in bed at the time.
But then I remembered this was another click-bait list of nonsense from WatchMojo. UK or not, they produce the most appaling misinformed just about every time. I only watch them now because they are often so full of
b○||○× that it's sometime almost funny.
I do hope JJLA realises this. He's so insightful and quietly clever he deserves better, frankly.
Toyah went from Punk to getting her baps out every Sunday lunchtime. 🤩
Amen brother!! Or sister!
A Blue Plaque was unveiled on her former home in North Street, St Leonards. Poly Styrene had lived in the house from 2004, until she died from breast cancer in nearby St Michael’s Hospice in April 2011. My Home town.
Poly Styrene was a great singer and a great person, it such a shame she died early.
Yup great. But to get a 'real' blue plaque, I thought you had to be dead for at least 50 years.
I just that's just the non-conformist nature of punk, though.
I remember watching a sky arts documentary on Polly called I am cliche. It's there on demand.
@@StephenSE9 Then it's a 'blue plaque' not a 'Blue Plaque.'
British Heritage have pretty strict rules about this; the time since death being one of them.
Anyone can slap a 'blue plaque' up anywhere for any reason. Nothing is stopping me from putting one on my front door reading, "Phil lived here for a bit. He liked aardvarks."
But that does not make it official. The use of the term (with capitals) is meant to convey the significance of the event or person.
Maybe you don't see (or care about) the distinction. I do.
@@Varksterable you've replied to me
Nice to hear a mention of the late, great John Peel!
Every Sunday, without a fail. Rip in Peelie..
John Peel :The best DJ ever no one else is even clse
I can’t believe Magazine didn’t get a mention, Shot by Both Sides is a classic
The album version of Shot is SHIT tho
Too tame lacks aggression
One song
" is she really going out with him" the opening lyric to the UK first Punk Band, The Damned. Very apt for the genre.
There is no "punk sound" as such, it's an ethos and view, the music is massively eclectic, and includes so many influences from other styles.
Damn right, a joy in saying up yours, I will do it my way!
Americans think of it as a sound not an attitude. It amuses me they think "Green Day" were a punk band.
The Damned never sold out. They evolved and along with Siouxsie and the Banshees virtually invented Goth. They're still going and still releasing new material. And it's still good. Darkadelic was released last year and the single off it, Beware of the Clown, is very political, very clever and it fucking rocks.
Absolutely brilliant album
Scabies is past it.👍
You're dreaming if you think otherwise..
One of the best decades ago
Betcha he's not there long 😞 being back in the band
Like Siouxsies shot voice 😞
JJ Burnel would not be happy to miss out!
Stranglers were great, but more Pub rock I'd say.
Pub rock!! Haha!! Possibly the opposite! @@srodgers66
@@srodgers66You're right, even the band thought themselves just as Rock 'n' Roll, even though they got caught up in the Punk genre, they were a little older too. Dave Greenfield lived in our village and he told me that a couple of times whilst having a drink or two at our local.
I like The Stranglers a lot.
Though I don't think they are a 'Punk' Band.
"Golden Brown' and "Always the Sun" are not 'Punk' songs.
Jean wouldn't be bothered,as the stranglers weren't punk
Pete Shelley was a mate of mine. We played in the band that was pre Buzzcocks. His nickname was ‘Magpie.’ Pete was from Leigh, but formed the band at Bolton Tech.
The Ruts were sublime! Babylon's Burning, Love in Vein excellent, excellent excellent!!!!
Very underrated band! West one shine on me
Jah War is one of my favourite tunes of all time.
The Crack album, was awesome and they were such a tight unit .
@@stephenbennett1643 great album, along with grin and bear it
Ruts DC still going strong !
The Jam weren't a punk band - they were in the forefront of the late-70s Mod revival. Hence Weller's nickname, the Modfather.
New wave mods
I just came to say the same, the clue is in Paul Weller's nickname "the MODfather"
Tell that to all the punks at their gigs! They were an important part of the movement and helped shape the new wave. After the split Bruce joined SLF and I would still call them a punk band.
Mod Revival was inspired by the Jam, but they were never really a part of it. They were punk just as much as the Clash were, but like the Clash they grew out of it.
@@stevefuller2933 Exactly.
Crass are incredible. They have tracks you listen to and think "what the hell is this" but then, somehow, it starts to all make sense. They're a proper punk band, they full on lived punk and they MASSIVELY influenced the rave scene that emerged in the 90's too, not necessarily through the music (although the UK 90's Free Party movement did have heavy punk influences) but the lifestyle and attitude
There was a good set of bands associated with them, as well - Poison Girls and Zounds probably being the two most known.
@@sameebah What about Flux, Conflict, The Subhumans and the band that recorded the greatest album ever (Deathchurch), Rudimentary Peni?
True anarchist punks who were so pissed off with the music industry they made their own record label which got albums not just from themselves but so many new artists into big high street HMV and Virgin stores with a huge printed label on the cover, 'DO NOT PAY MORE THAN 99p'. All the other albums were closer to 5 UK pounds at the time which was unaffordable for us.
@@jungliatpil9124 The band I was in have a track on the album Bullshit Detector 2.
@@garylovell6017 I bought the Bullshit detector albums also so have heard it at least once. Almost everything from crass records I could find I bought during the 80's especially liked the reading material inside the fold out covers. That was my true education.
I must admit I've never heard of a few of them. The Damned were brilliant, they're still touring now. My favourite is The Stranglers, but they were probably more punk rock.
On a sidenote, I love my pair of DMs 😀
The Stranglers definitely should have been on the list
@@kneeboarderndevon I agree. Chuck out Crass and put in The Stranglers.
@@mroldnewbieSaw them with the Who and AC/DC at Wembly Stadium in '79. They didn't think of themselves as a punk band, probably because they were a bit older and formed before Punk began. Dave Greenfield told me they still thought of themselves as a "Rock 'n' Roll band. He and his wife Pam, used to run one of the pubs in my village, along with their pet rats! Both still lived here until covid got him. JJ used to live here briefly too. Both really nice blokes.
@@johnp8131That was when they played the whole of the Raven album, which was moving away from the punk sound .
But they never considered themselves as punk. Especially Jet Black, RIP. He hated the bands likeness to punk.
I love punk, it let me wear stockings and DM's. At the same time. Also makes me realise that my guitar playing isn't that bad.
The Subhumans and Crass are awesome, also The Exploited should’ve had a mention too.
Exploited don't belong on any classsic punk list. Cliche punks
@@srodgers66nonsense.
Listening to the exploited as I read this and my neighbours come out their houses and jump waving their fists swearing
One of the best things about Punk, (although mostly forgotten now) is that many bands didn't all sound Punky at all. At least not all in the same way. Patrick Fitzgerald, John Copper Clarke, The Slits, Rudimentary Peni, The Mob, TV Personalities, Poison Girls, Attila The Stockbroker, etc. all brought something very different to the party.
The "smoking" Damned drummer you point out is Chris Millar, AKA Rat Scabies
I'm so glad they had crass in this list, they are often missed out and yet they defined the punk culture better than any other punk band.
I'm very disappointed they did not include the stranglers in this list, although the stranglers were not solely punk they did lay out the foundations of a generation of 70s punk and 80s synth.
The Stranglers were the second band I saw back in '78. Amazing band! More punk than the Jam which made this list!
Massive Stranglers fan here.... I've never regarded them as punk. More New Wave if anything...but really a genre all of their own.
@@mustangtel9265 they embraced the punk culture with a vengeance but they were genre benders, centered around punk, synth, romantic, psychedelic (the gospel) and as you say, new wave but they always retained that punk element, a lot more than the Jam and they were on the list.
@@mustangtel9265 Pub rock. More like the Feegoods than Punk
Yes, The Stranglers were integral to the list.
Great video 👍 If you collected vinyl records you might get an idea how big punk was😊
Back in the late 70s, The Adicts used to rehearse in the pub at the end of my road. I'd go down there just to watch. A couple of years later I was in a band of my own and we were touring with them.
The Jam were for sure part of the early punk movement of 1976-7, but (just like the Clash) developed their sound very quickly, and so crossed over into other categories.
For some specifically British vids - have you checked Public Information Films (PIFs). They were everywhere in the ,60s 70s, 80s. I'd recommend any of these:The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water, Play Safe kites and frisbee, The Blunders family, Broken Glass, Rabies , Fireworks, Man Trap polished floors
I love the Adicts. It took me years to discover them, but I'm glad I did. Great pop sensibilities.
I went to see Stiff Little Fingers last week..still blowing the roof off
Although they came to fruition at the end of the Punk explosion the most Punk band in terms of their attitude and how they lived their day to day lives was Killing Joke. They also influenced a lot of other bands in other genres, most notably Nine Inch Nails, Faith No More and Metallica, who covered their song "The Wait".
Probably the first post punk band
I had the original drummer from the Buzzcocks come round my house & set up my drum kit, he gave me a few tips them played his drumming from 'Ever fallen in love'. Was absolutely amazing!
No mention of The Toy Dolls? I'd have them at number 1. Funny, actually had talent and all completely mad!
I don’t think they have ever or will ever make a top ten list, they’re a fun band, I have seen them a few times, but come on really?
The Chuckle Brothers of Punk Rock.
Yeah, I thought I would see them at least in the honourable mentions part.
Siouxie and the banshees are definitely one of my favourite punk bands as well as the damned and the clash
It's a shame 'The Ruts' didn't make this list. Their song 'Babylon's Burning' is one of my favourites from the era along with 'Shot's Shot' by Magazine. 'The Stranglers' should really have been on there too.
I was just thinking did I miss Stranglers?, im not a huge punk man and def prefer the more musical stuff but with an edge for which they were the best. There are probably 3 Stranglers songs in my top 50
"Shot's Shot". I like that alternative title
I loved Shot By Both Sides by Magazine, my mate and I were the only 2 long haired rockers in a crowd of punks when we went to see them, we were also lucky enough to see Bauhaus as their support band.
Toy Dolls wrote some very fun songs. Sunderland band who were talented and comedic.
I can't remember if it was an official alternative name but we used to call "Stiff Little Fingers", "Rigid Midget Digits".
I think the name came from a Vibrators song of the same name.
Rigid Digits was their first record label
@@rjart4 - it did. When I saw the flyer for their first gig I thought it was the Vibrators doing one of their "secret gigs". What a pleasant surprise that was. The Belfast punk scene was one of inclusion, it didn't matter what your religion or politics were - if you were at a gig, you were one of the team.
@@sameebah First band I ever saw, I saw XSLF last year they were excellent.
SLF were and are a great band ,old friends of mine were roadies for them , Suspect Device was brilliant
The Fall ................ although they were a Genre of their own .
1977 -79 was the high point of punk!
Sid.brought a look to the band. Glen Matlock was a key songwriter for the sex pistols. He did play bass on 10 of the 12 tracks live, that went on the album. Steve may have been on the album but it was Matlocks work
Gary Gilmour's Eyes is a pretty dark song, when he was executed his eyes were donated to science and the corneas used in a transplant - looking through Gary Gilmour's eyes is a song about a person who received the transplant and in effect is looking through the eyes of a murderer
Saw the Damned perform last week! Still amazing!
Stiff Little Fingers are also great live!
Where were the Stranglers?
I discovered the stiff little fingers because Green Day had a free compilation album with the music magazine NME with some of their influences on there. They had SLF’s Tin Soldiers on it and I became a fan after that.
The Clash’s “London Calling” album was rightfully called the greatest album of the 80s by Rolling Stone magazine, because the diversity of styles on this double LP foreshadowed the fragmentation of rock and pop in the 80s into many different sub-genres.
Stiff Little Fingers were Green Day before Green Day.
And so much better than Green Day
Rubella Ballet, Citizen Fish, 999, The Mob, Poison Girls, Peter and the Test Tube Babies, Vibrators, Subway Sect, Spizz Energy. Discharge, Chaos, The Exploited, Anti Nowhere League. Loved Rudimentary Peni. There were loads of bands in the UK but The Jam were a mod band really
When I leave this despicable world I am going out to - X-Ray Spex - Oh Bondage up Yours.
🙏 RIP M
Saw The Jam live in early '78 and believe me they weren't "polished" at all - brutal Rickenbacker frontal assault and incredible punk energy. The music was closer to early Who/Small Faces/Kinks than pure punk, but even crazier than the original. Instead of watching this cheezy "documentary", watch the early live videos of each of those bands 😉
The appearance of Punk on the musical scene in Britain was fairly explosive. This meant that just about every young band and some old ones not signed to a major record deal got labelled as punk often regardless of the music they played. I'd put The Jam in that category. Fortunately this also opened peoples eyes and ears to a whole bunch of artists that may have otherwise stayed local and under the radar. Probably similar to the emergence of Rock n Roll through to Beatlemania.
It was an exciting time to live through, although I never had DMs.
Yeah, the Jam were more part of the mini mod revival that was happening at the same time as punk.
I used to knock round with a few of them, including Helen the small lady who was in a couple of punk videos and films. What a fantastic time in London. Plus No Department X ??
The Adverts Bary Gilmore Eyes is an excellent tune. when Gilmore was executed his eyes were used in an eye transplant and the song is about the patient receiving the eyes.
I'm lying in a hospital,
I'm pinned against the bed.
A stethoscope upon my heart,
A hand against my head.
They're peeling off the bandages.
I'm wincing in the light.
The nurse is looking anxious,
And she's quivering in fright...
I'm looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes.
Eye transplants don't exist.
Im glad Crass are there and Sub humans are mentioned but there are loads missing.
UK Subs
Undertones
Exploited
Stranglers
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Toy Dolls
Skids
Sham 69
And many many more
Where are Siouxsie and the Banshees formed in London in 1976, great vid as usual my friend..
The Stranglers?
Not punk.
Rattuss Norvegicus. The link between the pub rockers and punk… also Motörhead. There are quite a few ways to define punk aren’t there.
Punks liked the Jam but I agree with you, they are not strictly a punk band.
New wave/ mods
this video is comedy gold. "way to go joe you did it". react videos never fail to entertain me, and make me feel a lot better about myself.
Just a note:
I find you one of my most compelling 'reacts' channels from the US, you seem like a 'thoroughly decent fellow' and worthy of note.
I have no idea how to further promote your channel, but, wish you great expansive success.
Your voice is a gentle reminder that America is NOT homogeneous, I thank you for the reminder as a 'judgy' Brit.
PS open up your 'community' tab so many can have lolz at our joint stupidity ;-)
the Slits not given a mention either, which surprised me
Oh great shout. More influencial than almost any other band from that era.
@@srodgers66 They were crap 😂😂😂 could barely play
I saw them in 78 support the Rich Kids .
Influential.l!!??
Did you make that up yourself 😂😂
@@gmantramp404 Yeah, what do you do? Just copy what everyone else tinks? ":could barely play". You didn't really get punk did you.
@@srodgers66 Nah I'm a real punk from 77 and I don't copy anything but I'm slightly wrong. Lets just say that they're a shite reggae type act cuz they weren't really punk
@@gmantramp404 we'll agree to disagree, but they did the best Peel Session ever in my opinion.
I was at Gatwick airport with my future wife. We went for a drink while waiting then we suddenly realised the Damned were on the next table
The Damned, TV Personalities, Stranglers, Cock Sparrer, Skids, The Fall, Slaughter and the Dogs, Stiff Little Fingers, Cockney Rejects, The Undertones, Wire...(Top 10 change all the time)
Rudimentary Peni?
@@F28aj To be honest I hated all those middle-class kids pretending to be exploited. Slaughter and the Dogs or Angelic Upstarts over Crass any day.
Maybe i'm too working class. It's just Musical, we're old now, cheers.
As an old punk I would not have put the Sex Pistols on this list, a Malcolm McLaren boy band, we used to laugh at people that put them on their jackets. Pill deserves to be there instead. Killing Joke didn't even get a mention and the Ruts were amazing. Can you call Joy Division punk?
Pill & killing joke great bands.....👍
No, but Warsaw were...
Rudimentary Peni should have at least had an honorable mention
Well done - yes the Buzzcocks were from Manchester - one of many bands that tumbled out of that city after a famous gig by the Sex Pistols. I'm amazed there was no mention of Siouxsie and the Banshees, who started as punk but then (along with the Damned) became founders of the goth movement. The Stranglers were initially a great punk band, too, later moving to a mix of punk aesthetic and poppier sounds. Then there's UK Subs, The Slits, Skids, Anti-Nowhere League, The Undertones, New Model Army, Wire, The Vibrators, Angelic Upstarts...
This guys voice is amazing can he not tell me a bedtime story I'd be asleep in minutes
No punk list would be complete without the 'Exploited'
Sex Pistols are probably the least "Punk" band on the list, considering they were manufactured by Malcolm McLaren. Punk was HUGE in the UK, possibly he most important musical movement in the UK's history.
The Exploited, GBH, The Nightingales but my favourites: Anti Pasti (No Government, Caution in the Wind) and the Angelic Upstarts (Mr Politician).
My old band toured with GBH! Also, Wattie (from The Exploited) and I drank a lot and were having fun when some guy started hitting on me and wouldn't leave me alone. Wattle knocked him out cold with one punch...
Subhumans were/are brilliant, check out Citizen Fish and Culture Shock too, Dick Lucas was in all 3, great bands, great fans, some of my favourite gigs of all time was watching them.
Henry Rollins' favourite punk band was The Ruts. Check out Babylon's Burning!
Not gonna go down the cul-de-sac of arguing who was punk/mod/new wave but as someone who lived through that era the best bands in no order inmo were:
The Jam
Sex Pistols
Buzzcocks
SLF
Undertones
Clash
Stranglers
Damned
Siouxsie & the Banshees
Elvis Costello
Cure
Skids
And that’s just 12
The Damned are still playing, and are amazing! Crass changed my life, literally! As a young veggie and animal rights supporter, I became vegan, 40 years ago. The Fall should have been on that list. Check out The Way They Were Tony Wilson Documentary on here, my favourite ever! You’ll see why the Jam are on the list, and I assume Captain Sensible of the Damned will be wearing his sun glasses, I had to get some!
Was the Anti-Nowhere League mentioned?
I could name SOOOOOOOO many more & That's not even going into the outer fringes of punk & American Punk groups like The Ramones,,Dead Kennedys,, The Stooges,, Misfits,, New York Dolls,, The Jam,, The Circle Jerks,, The Germs,, Social Distortion,, The Damned,, The Queers..I feel it necessary to mention "The Cramps" because of their unique sound/style created by combining punk & psychobilly (A subgenre of rockabilly which they are credited for creating)...Also,, A special mention to this group which over time,, Would end up re-grouping/growing into 3 different great punk groups that would ALL be successful,, Starting out as "Operation Ivy",, Then forming "Rancid" & Lastly the formation of "The Transplants"..Not to mention Many,, Many other great American punk groups to come over the years.
No Siouxie and the Banshees, The Slits, Jonny Moped ( great Netflix documentary) in this list? Sham 69 only an honourable mention - hmm
I was too young for this, but my dad loved it. Wish you were still here dad!
What happened to Sham 69
The Adverts are still one of my favorite bands! Gary Gilmore had gorgeous blue eyes; he donated them so after his death people in need did receive them... Also, his last words were, "just do it" - yes, that's where the Nike tagline comes from. Anyway, check out The Adverts on the John Peel sessions - it's awesome!!!
Where are The Stranglers or The Skids?
No mention of Slaughter and the Dogs? They were big on the Manchester punk scene
Live Slaughter . . . Rabid Dogs is still one of my favourite albums.
I get it now, but at the time of you were British, The Ramones just sounded like every other big haired soft metal US band. The idea that they were 'Punk' in the way that UK acts were 'Punk' was just silly
Listen to In the City.
Greenday are basically a copy of several UK Punk bands, The Clash, Stiff lIttle Fingers and the Clash. They are so ill thought of by the many older punks in the ULK because they are so derivative
Don't forget that outside of punk in those days (Siouxsie & the Banshees were punk to begin with btw) came gothic music. Alien sex Fiend, Bauhaus, Christian Death (Rozz Williams USA), Sisters of Mercy, The Cure, The Mission, Fields of the Nephilim or more recently London after Midnight and Faith and the Muse (but they are both Americans).
Angelic Upstarts - 999 - The Skids - Joy Division (warsaw) - UK Subs - Stranglers - Generation X - Siouxsie - Undertones - The Fall - Cockney Rejects
went to school with lead singer of crass.. top man .. still touring.
That list doesn't even scratch the surface. There were so many more in the late 70's.
Possibly the biggest revolution in music ever.
I heard of Gary Gilmore and I'm not even American. But I confess I am a big movie fan and first heard of him through a mini series called The Executioners song in which Tommy Lee Jones played him. It's on youtube in decent quality and is well worth checking out.
There were a lot of obscure bands too. One of my favourites were London.
What about the stranglers 🤪
Don't forget, the US punk scene was a few years behind the UK. So that sunglasses thing, by the time they were being worn in the US, we had already moved on.
The jam were mods not punk
You want New Bands with a Punk Edge check out:
Magazine (I Love You You Big Dummy)
Discharge (Realities of War)
The Stranglers (No More Heroes)
999 (No Pity)
Siousie and the Banshees (Hong Kong Garden)
Possibly some are a little more sophisticated than you might like but are of the time.
How did 999 not make this list? And Siouxsie Sue was so cool!
The clash were a mix a kind of hybrid band who always retained a pink element but often moved into rock.
And reggae, when Topper joined the rest of the band had to learn how to play to keep him from leaving.
I think you meant Pink Elephant
Crass,Conflict
SUB HUM ANS, Discharge, Rudimentary Peni etc. was the best of punk.Pissed over Ramones etc. (Who I love!)😍😍😍😵💫
Discharge, awesome.
Some rather more toward the "pop" end of the genre there, but still good.
Crass exemplify the British punk sound to me, Feeding of the Five Thousand really sums it up and is well worth a listen.
And the band Conflict as well, of course.
Owe us a liven, cause they do cause they do, owe us a liven OF COURSE THEY FUCKING DO
@@rufus1346 They don't want me anymore,
Cus I frew it on the floor...