Not gonna do a poll on this one...there's just too many!  Here are some of mine:

Dead Kennedys
Dead Milkmen
Violent Femmes (folk punk ;D)
The Ramones
X
The Misfits
Minor Threat
Bad Brains
Black Flag
Sex Pistols
SNFU

i have to go with the misfits and the ramones.

Hey, Sputnikcorp, just wondering if you'd classify SSS as punk? I was trying to decide which genre best described their music- 'Electro-punk' was the term I came up with, but people define punk so differently these days, just wondering if that term would be accurate?

yeah, there aren't many real punk bands out now. its all new millennium pop crap.

yeah, there aren't many real punk bands out now. its all new millennium pop crap.

Yo dang right, 'crombie! I heard someone describe bands such as Blink 182 & the UK's Busted as punk the other day, what a load of tosh! In my opinion, the main feature of punk was it's anti-establishmentism, something very much lacking in the modern 'wannabe punk' genre. Nowadays we just get manufactured boy bands, chosen for looks rather than talent, pushing PC 'lyrics' aimed at teenage girls- somehow, some people think this is punk. Over Sid's dead body!  :D

Yo dang right, 'crombie! I heard someone describe bands such as Blink 182 & the UK's Busted as punk the other day, what a load of tosh! In my opinion, the main feature of punk was it's anti-establishmentism, something very much lacking in the modern 'wannabe punk' genre. Nowadays we just get manufactured boy bands, chosen for looks rather than talent, pushing PC 'lyrics' aimed at teenage girls- somehow, some people think this is punk. Over Sid's dead body!  :D


Man...you are preaching to the choir!  I so agree!  The day Blink 182 and Good Charlotte become REAL punk is the day hades freezes over! ;)  I mean, Avril Lavigne?  Punk?  Please! >:(

Hey, Sputnikcorp, just wondering if you'd classify SSS as punk? I was trying to decide which genre best described their music- 'Electro-punk' was the term I came up with, but people define punk so differently these days, just wondering if that term would be accurate?


well, there more new wave. tony james, the leader of SSS was a member of generation X so the punk ethos was there. then again, a lot of new wave bands started off as punk bands...since cyberpunk was an underground literary movement in the 80s, sputnik embraced the cyberpunk values of style over substance, extreme commercialism, computers and a love for anything japanese. so yeah, cyberpunk would be the term i would describe SSS.

Sex Pistols

Er...The Sex Pistols were long gone in the eighties.

For me, punk was much more a seventies thing than eighties. That's when it had it's heyday and was really really awesome. But it was around in one form or another in the eighties and if I had to pick a favourite, it would have to be Dead Kennedys.

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Er...The Sex Pistols were long gone in the eighties.

For me, punk was much more a seventies thing than eighties. That's when it had it's heyday and was really really awesome. But it was around in one form or another in the eighties and if I had to pick a favourite, it would have to be Dead Kennedys.

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Yeah...this is technically true, although the Pistols are considered part of UK punk spanning from 1976-1981 (The Great Rock n Roll Swindle was released in '81).

70's punk was slower and more "hard rock" than it was punk in my opinion. you get bands like Dead Kennedys, Minor Threat, JFA in the mix with the speed and/or political and social commentary in the mix....that's punk rock to me.

We had one in Canada called "Teenage Head".  They had a loyal following in the early 80's, as well as several mainstream hits.  Don't think they ever made it out of Canada though

We had one in Canada called "Teenage Head".  They had a loyal following in the early 80's, as well as several mainstream hits.  Don't think they ever made it out of Canada though


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30 years ago, my favorite decade was so yuppified that even the punk bands wore jackets!  (Jackets, OK, but not ties, because they were punk, dammit.)

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With a few beers' worth of hindsight, it's pretty good stuff. 

For anyone who wants to dig into the history of Canadian punk from Hamilton, ON, both Teenage Head and the Forgotten Rebels are still active, and that T-shirt the Rebels' guitarist is wearing sure looks familiar.

Oh babe, it may be quite good but it's not
Quite as good as it should but it's not,
No, babe, it ain't Hollywood...

Lemme tell ya again, this ain't Hollywood, this is rock and roll...

  Minor Threat
  The Germs
  X
  DRI

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30 years ago, my favorite decade was so yuppified that even the punk bands wore jackets!  (Jackets, OK, but not ties, because they were punk, dammit.)

HZI6v8Z6Q6E

With a few beers' worth of hindsight, it's pretty good stuff. 

For anyone who wants to dig into the history of Canadian punk from Hamilton, ON, both Teenage Head and the Forgotten Rebels are still active, and that T-shirt the Rebels' guitarist is wearing sure looks familiar.

Oh babe, it may be quite good but it's not
Quite as good as it should but it's not,
No, babe, it ain't Hollywood...

Lemme tell ya again, this ain't Hollywood, this is rock and roll...


Oh yeah!

Also, Teenage Head appear as themselves in 'Class of 1984', a low budget 1982 thriller starring Perry King, Tim Van Patten and Michael J. Fox, that was infamous for it's filming locations as it was set in an American city, but noticibly filmed in Canada.



For me, their best is still the 1983 hit 'Tornado' when they were known as Teenage Heads.  It's often said that Teenage Head were hugely popular in Canada, which was true, but based on their songs that hit the charts, it appears otherwise.  'Tornado' only reached #39, and was their 3rd top 40 hit out of 4 total hits.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9UhvlwMUWE