No contest for me



The greatest band to have emerged since the 60's 'golden era'. And they were a state of mind and an attitude every bit as much as they were a band. There's been no one to touch them ever since and sadly, the way rock music has disappeared up its own arse in recent years, there probably never will be.

20, 20, 24 hours to goooo....I wanna be sedated!!!

Ramones.

LJ.

Patti Smith
Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers
The Clash

Three totally different types of music that are all under the "punk" flag.

"Punk" is a tough term to pin down. You can't even confine it to a certain time period. The Velvets were playing in 1969. Then you have The Stooges and The Dolls who were doing something completely different in the early '70s. The kind of music that Patti Smith, Richard Hell, and Television were making in New York starting in 1974 bears little resemblance to what the Sex Pistols were doing in London a couple of years later. The Ramones were an anomaly that turned into an archetype. Everything that came after them was pretty much informed by their look if not their music. After 1978 you got mostly a lot of derivative crap. I've gotta agree with Gazza about the Clash though - they were the last rock and roll band that really were "a state of mind and an attitude as much as they were a band." I'd love for something to come along that's even half as exciting as any of these bands were.

Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground are nowhere near synonomous.

The pistols kept getting together for a re union, but they never brought out new music, just what was already in their recording!!! The clash kept recording new material, the sex pistols were dead!! The Stooges were the original, along with the MC5, (If you were brought up in Detroit) also The Original Alice Cooper band was a punk band, (before cooper got into the make-up)  I think a lot of respect should be made to The Stooges (they were the original)

I forgot SLF, and Gen X... fuck... This thread makes me think.

Mekons!!!

Warning...drunken post.

These bands came along when I was inbetween "discovering the Stones" and dealing with "My disco lovin friends"

They all deserve props. Can't select one.

Patti Smith
MC5
Stooges
Clash
Ramones

Thank God I found the Buffalo Underground..where people understood.

LJ.

Had to vote for The Velvet Underground. Velvet Underground And Nico pisses over anything released by the other artists on that list IMO.

I have to be honest, punk, as a genre, has never really grabbed me. I DO like The Clash, but they were so much more to them. Punk is more than music, its fashion and a way of life.

Were the Stones of the mid-sixties "Punk?" I think so.

What about

Dead Boys
Stiff Little Fingers
Crass
The Misfits
Fear
Dead Kennedys
Discharge

Stewed n Keefed wrote on Jun 7^th, 2008 at 12:09pm:


Yep. Rock and Roll's last great renaissance period.

Quote:


One need only listen to their cover of She Said Yeah, and no answer need to be written, the truth is in your ears!

Stewed n Keefed wrote on Jun 7^th, 2008 at 12:09pm:



What about them??? 

The Sex Pistols for me, closely followed by The Buzzcocks.

I cant say im surprised by the clash being no.1 so far, but the best band in the world ever (better than the stones) are




absolutely the best band ever, i cant even tell you how good they are, progenitors of like 30 different genres of music and were the greatest punk band ever, greatest jazz fusion band ever, greatest rock n roll band ever - just pure greatest badn ever


tho i cant figure out -
Whats so good about the clash?


(personally, i think they are probably one of the worst bands ever, honestly, strummer was just bandwagon jumper like siouxie - just thought oh this looks like itll pick up soon ill latch onto this)

- so explain why they are no.1 on this list that includes stooges and the dolls?!

My fav. punk bands are Ramones, Clash & their little baby called Rancid. In that order... The Stones our and will always be my number one.
I'm just glad two of these four are still touring, and hopefully the next Rancid album will be better than the last Stones record... I'm looking forward to hearing a song called Darlene, that is all about The Fox News whorecasters.

GotToRollMe wrote on Jun 9^th, 2008 at 8:15am:


I agree, and rock and roll is what they play... They're are good punk band, but a great rock and roll band. Professional and from everything I've seen, really good to the fans, not at all elitist or bothered by...
I'm going to see them Friday night, the 13th... In Texas... GULP!!!

" It's the Clash in a walk for me. If for no other reason than Guns Of Brixton, Right Profile, White Riot, Jimmy Jazz, and on, and on, and on...... There was a time when they really were the only band that mattered. I got a chance to interview Joe Strummer just a few months before he died. He was a real gent. That was a major loss. Mick Jones was in the studio a few weeks ago pumping his latest effort. The guy reaked of some very fine bud. Though I must say that he looks like an old English butler these days.  "


" It is a pity that the Clash broke up as I thought they were a very good band " ( Peter Denis Blandford Townshend , Rockline : November 16th  , 1985 )


'kins !

Riffhard wrote on Jun 9^th, 2008 at 9:35am:


Out of all the great Clash songs (and there are a bunch), I've gotta say that Guns Of Brixton is my favorite.

GotToRollMe wrote on Jun 9^th, 2008 at 12:08pm:


And mine.

No white band ever grasped Jamaican music as well as the Clash did. Much more than just a bunch of 3-chord wonders.