[Closed] The best punk song

It's either Alternative Ulster or Suspect Device by Stiff Little Fingers, I think you'll find.

Clearly this 😀

It has to be, the one, the only:

(most definitely too sweary for work!)

Though Rockbitch may well take the crown for most punk stage act...

Patrik Fitzgerald Bingo Crowd

If it's the Clash, and it's not Rudy Can't Fail, then it's the wrong answer.

If I can't win with quality, I'll win with quantity

Or maybe its this The Buzzcocks Fast Cars

End of thread

and also the start of your new playlist :O)

That is a tricky one... this is the 1st that came to mind:

Patti Smith GLORIA a true original

I only heard Patti Smith a few years ago for the first time.:O( It was the OGW Test. I was doing something else with the TV on and it caught my ear. So good!

i'm sorry you're all wrong THIS is the best punk song ever imho 😀

Meanwhile, across the pond...

Now I was going to say Blitzkrieg Bop as well.

well 1 is pretty hard but add to the list (or to replace Patti Smith?)

The Adverts - One Chord Wonders

waits for New York Dolls cognoscenti to put us all in our places

Depends which punk really..which era. .for me songs I always think of are love song by the damned or hong kong garden by siouxsie. After that conflict and discharge stuff..but thats a totally different beast of punk

Another massive OP IVY fan here... So something by them.... Maybe.

Been trying to actually pin point my favourite and really can't do it. So I'm not playing 🙁

Op ivy..fun band..not really punk though were they.

Ska influenced punk,but still punk. Just not from your 'era' of punk a bit like what you said up there...

Discharge Fight Back

Pretty Vacant, still love the intro.

NOFX The Decline.

Something for everyone in there 8)

Flame me but..

The Leaving song part II AFI

Most punk stuff sounds like POP now. Buzzcocks and even the Ramones my wife would listen to 🙂

or

Pretty Vacant, still love the intro.

This. Has to be the best intro of anything.

This has to be in with a shout.

Blimey - my era ... so "punk was about 1976 - 1980 ish ..

Slayer - as punk band - oh, do give over. Same goes for the ersatz punk of Anti Nowhere League

So real punk - I will give you

White Riot - The Clash
London Calling - The Clash
Another Girl, Another Planet - The Only Ones
The two mentioned by the OP re SFL
Teenage Kicks - The Undertones
Cary Gilors Eyes
Anarchy in the UK - The Sex Pistols
The Whole Wide World - Wreckless Eric

Pre -punk punk

The Stooges and Iggy
Patti Smith (esp Horses / Rock n Roll N*****)
And the New York Dolls ...
And even some Ramones
And Lou Reed

This may not be the best, but it never fails to raise a smile:

hora - Member
Flame me but..

The Leaving song part II AFI

I'll keep it simple

😀

Subhumans - Religious Wars

Mrmoofo it's in fact minor threat not slayer.... So sharrup opinion no longer valid

Another vote for NOFX The Decline. Quality and quantity, 20 minutes of punk perfection.

Mrmoofo I saw the Anti Nowhere League twice and they were very scary gigs I wouldnt call them ersatz, they may of had a very short shelf life but were really full on.

I really like Slayers version of Filler/I dont want to hear it, the original is great as well.

I'm liking _tom_'s suggestion; SLF embodies the angst and protest of early punk, with the backdrop of the Troubles. For annoyance/upset value, the Pistols or the Dead Kennedys would get my vote (the latter probably due to my mother confiscating my copy of "Too Drunk" for a week).

probably due to my mother confiscating my copy of "Too Drunk" for a week

🙂 @ khani
*now waiting for YouTube link to Vic's 'I remember Punk Rock'*

One of three for me

That's just this week though,next week it'll probably be something completely different...

SLF were great and Inflamable Material is a classic, they got all prima donnaish on the next tour and walked off stage because they were being gobbed at. At the time we labelled them as poseurs and sell outs 😆 I dont think I would want to be gobbed at and would of walked off stage as well.

Oh maturity what have you done with the livid young man I once was 😉

Mrmoofo I saw the Anti Nowhere League twice and they were very scary gigs I wouldnt call them ersatz, they may of had a very short shelf life but were really full on.

Scary LOL ! I saw them half a dozen times supporting other acts & thought they were a joke

Last post was meant to say its a minor threat song not a slayer song. Although I do love slayer.

These are all great and there's some great new punk bands about too.
Quite into this, new band, older sound...

Slayer - as punk band - oh, do give over.

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Why didn't he just post up the original for all of us? A far better effort, punkwise.

thought they were a joke

Were you one of those sneering Crass fans 😉

What could be less punk than laying down definitions of what is and isn't punk 😆

Wilfully obscure, but I have a soft spot for Ed Banger and the Nosebleeds 'I aint been to no music school' when you think of people like Morrissey and Vini Reilly that were involved.

What about The Rezillos?

You're all mistaken, first UK punk single, first UK punk album, first to break up, first to reform, ladies & gentlemen, I give you....

The Damned - New Rose

An Old Man writes: Damn there was some good stuff around then!

As Minor Threat and The Stooges have gone.
Radio Birdman.

No Dead Kennedy's yet?

UK punk? Hmm probably Discharge

[i]What could be less punk than laying down definitions of what is and isn't punk[/i]?

Having a competition about which is the [i]best[/i] punk song in 2014? 😉

Were you one of those sneering Crass fans

Hell no ! Although I did see them a few times as well,they only used to charge a quid for a ticket & Big A Little A wasn't too bad a song..

Upstarts were probably the best band I ever saw live,raw energy & so f'kin LOUD !

Smash It Up

either

or

one of the first punk bands?

Can someone write a script which adds all the videos on these threads to a playlist?

Old dude's still got it. Keith Morris=legend

Yes stevie750, Aint No Feeble Bastard probably is the best punk song ever!

I dont think I would want to be gobbed at and would of walked off stage as well.

been there, done that. stayed on stage

c1984, Selby, North Yorkshire. I'm not sure Selby had ever seen a post-punk band at the time (you might describe the look we had as "goth" but I think it was before the term "goth" had made it out of London).
Anyway, imagine 120 young farmers & miners, letting their hair down to what they thought was a "Punk" band...
Paul's first mistake was playing the opening riff to Pretty Vacant - to wind them up, it wasn't even in the set. well that was it. not just gobbing, but beer glasses too.
nowhere to go so we stayed put. Paul did have to find an alternative fingering for the A chord...

ah, memories

Second for New Rose or I Wanna Be Your Dog!

Were you one of those sneering Crass fans

Bringing it a little up to date.....

Social Distortion: Reach for the sky/Don't drag me down

RAW POWER (ITALY) **** AUTHORITY ......... Those vocals.

BAD BRAINS (Washington DC) ATTITUDE

BLITZ (New Mills) Razors in the night.

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😀 ^ Love that appeal Haze

I think this thread needs some nomeansno

Dunno if it's been done, but this is the finest band I've ever seen by some margin. Seen them twice in the Westie in Aldershot. Best night out I've ever had in my life, no contest!

Oh, and seriously, NSFW!!!

I remember seeing Snuff at the Kennington cricketer they managed to do a full cover of "i think were alone now" in about 11 seconds.

and another under appreciaed band

Punk/rock and it is their best...

My era musically although I don't consider Undertones in particular a punk band although there was plenty of spitting at their gigs. Clash or Stranglers were not full on punk either. SLF and Alternative Ulster yes. Progues in their original guise where excellent, their support "The Men they couldn't hang" where pretty rough. I recall a band called Penetration with some pretty punk material.

"Best Punk Song" would have to be something fairly underground from a band who never had a proper contract or even made a record, otherwise it's too conformist.