& if we could try to have just bands around the 1976-'82 era,cuz the newer bands really don't make the grade,imo anyway 
Mine...
(Was actually a lot harder than I thought it would be only having ten & then deciding what order to put them in)
1)The Clash
2)Stiff Little Fingers
3)Dead Kennedys
4)UK Subs
5)The Ruts
6)Angelic Upstarts
7)999
8)The lurkers
9)The Adverts
10)Discharge
Yes I am really bored 
flipper
err... The Ramones
And punk started circa. 1974 too 
New York Dolls
Patti Smith
Ramones
Anything really out of that New York CBGB scene
And I do wish I was old enough to appreciate the first wave of punk bands - I was only nine in 1976.
I was only nine in 1976
I was 17
mastiles did I say it didn't ?I just think that in '76-82 was it's prime years ....
Oh & I saw the Ramones a few times as well
Something like this, I couldn't decide an order though... there are loads more, and more modern stuff too but these are my favourites!
Black Flag
Misfits
Adolescents
Circle Jerks
TSOL
Dead Kennedys
Discharge
Minor Threat
Ramones
Stooges
mastiles did I say it didn't ?I just think that in '76-82 was it's prime years
Fair enough - you just mentioned 'newer' bands which suggested you saw 1976 as the start of punk. No offence meant.
Wasn't The Strangler's 'Peaches' credited with being the breakthrough punk single too - top ten charted in autumn 1975? COuld be wrong - was told that and the 'fact' stood. Where's Google...
First uk punk-The Damned "New Rose"
Nope that was a rubbish fact (The Stranglers one) - the album wasn't released until 1977 
Ohh - The Boomtown Rats had their moments too
Just thinking about the drums at the start of New Rose makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up....
Can't believe I've forgotten to put The Buzzcocks in my own top 10 
Ohh - The Boomtown Rats had their moments too
They were probably the first to get a No1
I thought the glaringly obvious omission from your mostly English top 10 was Sham 69. but you're right, the Buzzocks, from my home town too. They can displace the Circle Jerks on my list. 
The Undertones!
Teenage Kicks - John Peel's fave track ever and possibly mine too.
The stranglers were a bunch of pub rock chancers, just jumped on the punk bandwagon. Why has nobody mentioned the Pistols yet? Agree with emac's number 1 choice, but would have to have the Undertones, Penetration and the Ramones in there. And chapeaux to Dr Feelgood - no, they definitely werent a Punk band, but they certainly helped kick start things in the UK.
I loved the early Sham,until their songs started to sound like Chas & Dave ones....
Can't believe I've forgotten to put The Buzzcocks in my own top 10
beat me to it !
2nd Ramones, Patti Smith, Television, Dolls etc
et le Clash, natch.
I was 19
Never really liked The Pistols,still don't.Undertones (for me) only made a couple of good songs,Penertration were ok.
Like I Said it was hard to narrow it down to just 10
Wot no Siouxsie?
In no particular order
Sex Pistols
Crass
The Ruts
The Stranglers
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Magazine
The Clash
PIL
999
Ultravox (John Foxx era)
Violators
One way system
Demob
Crass
Conflict
The Wall
Killing Joke
PIL
The Adicts
Poison Girls
Subhumans
That would be Ultravox!
Stooges anyone ?
MC5 ?
(showing my age now !)
I've missed out The Vibrators too 
You have all forgotten the "kings of punk": Poison Idea.
How can you forget Slaughter and The Dogs.
They supported the pistols at the famous Lesser Free Trade Hall gig in Manchester in '76
I had the Stooges on my list.... when did they start? mid-late 60s?
I might add crusty/grindcore types Extreme Noise terror just for fun. MURDER!!!
Bugger,Slaughter as well(thumps head)
Odd how stuff like this brings back memories of some really good, underrated bands. The Skids were good live, as were the Adverts. Never really 'got' Sham 69 - too football hooligany for me, PMSL at the Chas & Dave reference!
Saw the Clash loads of times, the best of the bunch for me. Saw the Pistols (in 76 and when they reformed in the 90's - hate to say it but they were far better the second time round).
The so called 'second wave', ie Discharge and all that lot, never really did it for me, but having shared a few pints with him, I thought Charlie Harper was a top bloke. Jesus, this is like reminiscence therapy at the old folks home!
I think it was Stuart Maconie I heard say that he really felt sorry for kids since punk because they haven't had such a massive revolution of music & culture that the mid/late 70's brought to the UK
I know what he means, it's hard to describe what a force it was
hate to say it but they were far better the second time round
Not for me
I remember walking into an early Pistols gig - the atmosphere was indescribable - violent tension is probably the only words I can find for it but it was totally intoxicating
X-Ray Specs - Day the world turned dayglo - class, pure class.
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