Do you know any great punk song with catchy guitar riffs?
(such as THE JINX by Peter & The Test Tube Babies.)

Ca Plane Pour Moi by Plastic Bertrand is good; it's a French/Belgian punk take on Subterranean Homesick Blues.

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Anything by the early Clash and Sex Pistols

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Gonzo goes to Bitburg. Ramones

Rise above by Black Flag

Richard Hell & The Voidoids "Liars Beware" has always been a personal favorite.




Liars Beware

Richard Hell-blank generation
Dead boys-sonic reducer
the Saints-eternally yours album or im stranded album
Johnny thunders-down to kill album
the only ones-another girl another planet
New york dolls-1st album
Ramones-1st album
Stranglers-ratticus norvegicus album
G.G.Allin-bite it you scum
Sham 69-questions and answers
Angelic upstarts-solidarity
The exploited-sex and violence
Anti nowhere league-we are the league album

The Saints - Kissin' Cousins .... Ya could drill thru the back teeth of a beast with that one ----- PLAYLOUD!!!!!!!!!



ROCKMAN

The Mummies - She Lied ... Recorded in a Frisco furniture warehouse --- PLAY LOUD!!!



ROCKMAN

No More Nothing - Fear

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What is this from....besides heaven, Wow!

The Undertones - "Teenage Kicks" Stiff Little Fingers "Suspect Device" The Stooges - "Search and Destroy" The Dead Kennedys - "Let's Lynch The Landlord" The Clash - "Capitol Radio 2" & "Safe European Home" X - "Los Angeles"



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Born to lose - Johnny Thunders and The Heartbreakers/LAMF
One track mind - "
Wait and see - Stiff Little Fingers/Nobodys heroes
Rough Trade, Alternative Ulster,Suspect device - Stiff Little Fingers/Inflammable material

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Peter and the Testtube Babies "Banned from the Pubs", "September"
Dead Kennedys "To drunk to F...", "Kill the Poor"
The Damned "Nasty, Nasty"
999 "Homicide", "Emergency"
Buzzcocks "Ever fallen in love"
Slime "Legel, Illegal,Scheißegal", "Hey Punk"
UK Subs "Warhead", "Emotional Blackmail"
Sham 69 "Angels with Dirty Faces", "Hersham Boys"



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Dead Boys had a few interesting songs with basic good riffs, for instance:





(They also did a not-so-good cover of good old Stones' "Tell Me" )

And I still like "Anarchy in the UK" and "Pretty Vacant" by the Sex Pistols.

But most of punk was pretty useless.

Baby I was "Born to Lose"!

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But most of punk was pretty useless.

No. In 1977, Siouxsie & The Banshees (who were huge fans of the Sex Pistols... Sid Vicious played with them in 76, and Steve Jones on three SATB songs on their third album) were punk, right? Then with the single HONG KONG GARDEN and their debut album The Scream they kept playing with a punk energy, but their songs were more than "basic". How can one of the most important bands of the last decades be useless? How can you forget post-punk, and all the bands who came before 78 and whose members were intelligent enough to not keep playing the same things over and over?



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Thanks for all your answers.
I already know most of these bands, and they are great.



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I am sorry, but I don't like Siouxy&the Banshees very much. Nor The Clash, nor the Ramones, and certainly not any punk band that ever came after that. I am also not very fond of post-punk/new-wave, I find most of it rather tedious, monotonous, self-absorbed whining. I make an exception for PIL and Joy Division (the latter of which of course were more or less the "Kings of the Morose and Monotonous", but they had a few songs that at least had some life in them).

But Siouxsie & The Banshees' music was not "tedious, monotonous and self-absorbed whining"! Actually they were not monotonous AT ALL. Have you ever listen to their discography? I mean, A Kiss In The Dreamhouse and Kaleidoscope? (with the guitarist who played for PIL in the late 80's).



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MC5-Kick Out The Jams





The Damned - New Rose

Favourite punk rock song? Almost everything from Bad Religion.

Pistols -- I Did You No Wrong


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