& 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 8)
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?

Patti Smith at her best

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!
😉

punk started circa. 1974 too

Hmmm…

And hmmm… again

And a bit more hmmmm… 😉

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.

I stand very much corrected on the start of punk thing. I was only young at the time m'lud!

(And I was a metal-head really, not a punk. I did like Motorhead gigs though – a great mix of embroidered denim and studded/painted leather.

Anyone mentioned Crass yet?

EDIT – I saw The Damned play a few years back at Leeds Uni with the original line-up (inc. Captain Sensible) and it was sooo funny – between every song, almost the whole audience broke into 'Happy talking, talking, happy talk'. The band were so pished off with it by the end.

🙂

I meant musically – I have to agree with you about the atmosphere thing though, but a lot of the early punk gigs were like that, probably due to the fact that your adrenaline was already going mad due to the amount of hassle you'd had making your way there – hard to believe nowadays, but there were plenty of meatheads willing to give you a kicking because you were wearing 'straight leg' jeans.

Slits
Angelic Upstarts
Anti-Nowhere League
Eddie and the Hot Rods
Generation X
Ian Dury & the Blockheads
The Members
X Ray Spex

Gonna get the vinyl out when I get home, time for a bit of nostalgia.

Big Star considered early punk, or "power pop" ?

Weird, the adrenaline and fear of getting jumped in the late 70's was about getting a kicking – never, ever dreamed of anyone with a knife, let alone a gun.
All that aggro and pent up frustration with today's easy access arsenals would make going to a gig like going into a war zone!