Punk bands?

Question

Can anyone name me any popular, punk/hard rock punk bands? Music that hard core punks listen to.

Answer 1

The Ramones - Started punk rock, more or less. The original punk band, and have literally influenced most rock bands since. Albums to try: Ramones, Leave Home, Rocket to Russia, Road to Ruin, End of the Century, Ramones Mania (a good compilation album)
Sex Pistols - Exemplify the punk attitude. These guys are the spirit of punk rock at its best. The really only have one album, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols. Anything else you find is a bootleg, but might be worth a search.
Bad Religion - Incredible, old school punk. Intelligent, Socially conscious lyrics and great melody. Still producing music since around 1981 or something. Best albums: Suffer, Stranger than Fiction, Recipe for Hate

Those are three excellent punk bands. Start there, then move onto other suggestions like Pennywise, Dead Kennedies, Buzzcocks, etc.

Answer 2

Anon is right about the 80s stuff. People will preach that all over here. It's good, we get it. Now get over yourself. The 70s-80s punk is best music ever is too narrow minded, and you are just conforming to nonconformity. It's all music, play what you like. It's a phase, and we've all been there. Sure, I cut my liberty spiked mohawk off 10 years ago, and all my patches/spikes/buttons/studs/etc are sitting in a drawer somewhere....But I still go to more shows than the majority of the kids here.
That being said, if you want to be "punk," go to shows and just live the scene, you'll find them. Some of the best punk bands I've ever heard were local bands that released one EP (small record) and broke up.
You can't buy or download punk. Go to shows.

Answer 3

80s Hardcore:
Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Husker Du, Black Flag, Gang Green, SS Decontrol, The Misfits, 7 Seconds, Middle Class, The Germs, Dead Kennedys, Jerry's Kids,Circle Jerks, Cro Mags

Celtic Punk:
The Pogues, Dropkick Murphys, Flogging Molly, The Tossers, Real McKenzies, The Mahones

Answer 4

The Casualties, Teen Idles, Lower Class Brats, Frontline Attack, A Global Threat, The Voids, Charged GBH, Circle Jerks, The D.icks, DOA, Personality Crisis, Street Brats, Subhumans, Suicidal Tendencies, UK Subs, TSOL, The Virus, The Void

Answer 5

My personal "Big Three", in alphabetical order, are the Clash, the Dead Kennedys, and the Sex Pistols. I like lots of punk besides that, but those are definitely the three punk bands I'm into far more than any other. No, I cannot define "real punker". It's a subjective judgment, for starters, and to be truthful I don't see much point in attempting to define it. What else should you do besides listening to punk? Well, it's not for me to say, but just as a suggestion: listen to other genres as well, travel, read, write, dabble in the visual or performing arts, go hiking, etc...

Answer 6

Punk Precursors: The Fugs.

Overobvious punk: Ramones, Sex Pistols, Dead Kennedys, the Clash.

Overlooked punk: The Avengers.

Punk outliers: Butthole Surfers, Negativland.

News & Views for Anarchists & Activists:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/

Answer 7

while i should give a speach about how punk is doing what u want ill tell ya i listen to operation ivy the clash the ramones rancid and even some system of a down oh yeah rage against the machine and anti flag hope that helps

Answer 8

Hardcore punks listen to Fall Out Boy.

Oh, by the way, there is no "rule of thumb" in punk. The point is to be a non-conformist and like what you like. Saying that the only good punk was pre-90's is just ignorant and proof that you really have no idea what punk really is. You think that by getting a mohawk and a jacket with Misfits patches all over it you're automatically a punk. Thanks for conforming, now go back to listening to your Crass and buying DK shirts at Hot Topic.

Answer 9

Hardcore and popular are generally not the same. My favorites to be tarred with the hardcore brush being Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, Conflict, Flux and - most inspirational of all - Crass.

Answer 10

Misfits