What are yr top 5 punk bands?
 

Mine

Ramones
Stooges
Misfits
Dead Kennedys
Black Flag

How about you?

Dead Kennedys, Ramones, Buzzcocks, Stooges, Voidoids/tie with Cramps

The New York Dolls, The Stooges, Wire, Richard Hell & The Voidoids, and The Cramps. I guess.

The Stooges, Ramones, Sex Pistols, Dead Kennedys, The Slits

debbie gibson, tiffany, NKOTB, milli vanilli, C&C music factory

The Germs, The Ramones, The Seeds, Sex Pistols, Subhumans, Dead Kennedys, The Stooges, Pope Smashers. I know I went past 5, but punk has too many good groups to limit it to 5.

Very interesting list, chabib. Would you say the same for mine? (needs to be top 10)

X
50 Foot Wave
Big Black
Bikini Kill
Patti Smith

I like The Ramones, Descendents, Half Japanese, and (thanks to the old board) Teenage Jesus and Flipper

This is hard but I'll try....

Ramones
Bad Brains
Buzzcocks
X
Minor Threat

The FUCKING FALL. Dead Boys. Modern Lovers. The Dwarves. Dead Kennedys

See.....I like The Modern Lovers more than Minor Threat. I can't just pick 5. Fack.

1.Dead Kennedys
2.Patti Smith (Fuck it Horses is as punk as it gets)
3.Bad Brains
4.Minor Threat
5.Missing 23rd

Honorable Mentions
X
Husker Du (early)
Melvins (Mangled Demos)
Black Flag
Iggy & The Stooges

The Stooges
Fugazi
Rites of Spring
Joy Division
The (International) Noise Conspiracy

No wait...actually:
1. My Chemical Romance
2. The Used
3. Atreyu
4. Avenged Sevenfold
5. Fall Out Boy

I definetly agree w/ The Melvins, & Iggy & The Stooges.

I still have to hear the Melvins, I'll check them out next time I have spare time on my hands; I have to go to bed now

Get right to work on listening to The Melvins. If you want punkish Melvins, go w/ the "Magled Demos, 1983" cd. that shows how hardcore of a band they were, & still are.

dead kennedys
ramones
husker du
stooges
clash

and buzzcocks coming in close

Inhuman you should also check out Stoner Witch by the Melvins.

Patti Smith
Stooges
Pistols
Ramones
GG Allin

it was hard after seeing the greats of Debbie Gibson listed (such balls on the habib man to admit the love) but it reminded me of a question I was recently asked was Madonna punk in her hey day or just freeing the gay rights and the right to take pix of my snatch with a mirror?

Hmmm, The Stooges, DK, X, Refused, and hardcore verison of The Queers.

I don't think I could pick five and besides all the bands I could think of at the moment all of you pretty much said already. One band I might add to the list is The Dead Milkmen. I'm sorry if they aren't what are the standards or whatever but they are a pretty cool band I think. O yeah, and the Damned's in the time of their early lp.


...does anyone else notice the Sex Pistols hasn't been mentioned? I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with that, just putting it out there. ha.

top 5 as of this moment in time: black flag, stooges, bad brains, descendents, old bad religion

Bad Brains
Hüsker Dü
Iggy And The Stooges

I'm not a huge punk fan. These are the only three, that came into mind, when i thought of the term punk.

punk sucks ... well, mostly

oh, I didn't know if hardcore punk counted. In that case, Refused for me too. I love The Shape Of Punk To Come, nearly every song on that album is perfect

Dead Kennedys
The Clash
The Stooges
Bad Brains
Herion (punk?)
Black Flag

!. Dead Kennedys
@. Germs
#. FEAR
$. Ramones
%. The Clash

die kreuzen
reagan youth
void
buzzcocks
amebix

those are right now, try asking me in 5 minutes

Ahh..how could I forget the Germs..
Add them to my list.

1.big black
2.flipper
3.ramones
4.ummmm............
5.uhhhhh.............
yeah i don't like punk that much.

Minot threat
Black flag
Gray matter
iggy pop (& the stooges)
the clash

Husker Du
Stooges
Wipers
Buzzcocks
Bad Brains

I Forgot Gray Matter! OK Im gonna move Minor Threat out for Gray Matter.

1. Stooges
2. NY Dolls
3. Modern Lovers
4. The Cramps
5. Pussy Galore

BURN NO BRIDGES!!!

Punk is such a vast category. I'm really only into stuff like Millions of Dead Cops.

Minor Threat
Black Flag
Husker Du
Minutemen
Dead Kennedys...

and a nod to Void, Fang and the Necros

I am surprised that the sex pistols were not metioned more

To put in some more recent bands, Ikara Colt and McLusky deserve mentioning. May not have changed the format as much as older bands did, but they brought their own sound and voice. And any band who shouts SINK VENICE deserves legendary status in my book (hence my username :cool:)