Seeing some good discussion and fans in the Anti-Flag vs Green Day thread, I thought we should start a general punk thread.
I mostly listen to streetpunk, oi, and ska-punk stuff with some 80’s hardcore and crust/anarcho mixed in as well.
Some of my favs are
A Global Threat
Oi Polloi
Leftover Crack
Black Flag
The Briggs
Blanks 77
CV
Cock Sparrer
Crass
INDK
DK’s
4-Skins
American Distress
etc
etc
etc
discuss some bands and stuff, but
keep it real, no MCR or simple plan, please.
I love Simple Plan!!
And Green Day!
since you spelled it rawk, I refuse to answer this question…
a punk rock thread? heck yea. lol.
i like
the academy is
mcr
the used
threee days grace
senses fail
lot more. oh and true punk rockers wear the checked vans, and have them in different colors:)
I was being sarcastic
What the hell is ‘oi’?
Dudewithasock, I don’t appreciate the tone in which you asked that question.
I would appreciate it if next time you said something like, “Can you tell me what the hell ‘oi’ is, please?”
There are children that browse this forum, and we need to be careful not to expose them to harsh language unnecessarily.
Yay for people with my sense of humor! 
Well, I was there on the fringes of it in 1977 ish. Got told off by my dad for wearing a studded dog collar, and told he’d take me for a walk on a lead if he caught me wearing it again. I worked part time at Rushcliffe leisure centre and had a shirt with “RLC Staff” written on the back. When they changed the design, I tore the sleeves off, and piggled off part of the lettering so it said, “RLC Stiff” and got threatened with the sack by the boss.
But mainly I was into good ol’ rock ‘n’ roll.
My present collection of punk(ish) stuff includes the following, but I’m not one to pay too much to genres:
5,6,7,8’s
Adverts
Anti-Flag
Anti Nowhere League
Broken Bones
Buzzcocks
Clash
Cramps
Damned
Dave Brubeck Quartet
Dead Fingers talk
Dead Kennedys
Demented Are Go!
Devo
DMBQ
Doom
Electric Frankenstein
Exploited
Green Day
Guana Batz
Jam
John Cooper Clarke
King Kurt
Meteors
Misfits
Motorhead
Pogues
Polysics
Public Image Ltd.
Ramones
RC5
Rezillos
Rudimentary Peni
Ruts
Selfish C*nt
Sex Pistols
Sham 69
Sid Vicious
Skids
Slaughter and the Dogs
Squeeze
the used suck
maybe your infinite skillz have messed with your brain.
ok
Ashtray
Left Over Crack
Dead Kennadys
Sex tape scandel
The Helper Monkeys
T.S.O.L.
Agent Orange
The Germs
X
Circle Jerks
Secretions
Black Flag
Buzzcocks
Nausea
Bad Religion
Ramones
The Clash
L7
Vandals
Havhana Brown
No Use For a Name
I know how much crap I’ll get for this but
come on
half of those bands suck, it’s not even rock or “rawk”. It’s junk, just banging on a guitar. Believe me I would never listen to Simple Plan but that’s more palatable than something where the music isn’t audible or is unbearable
Whatever dude, in none of those bands do they scream or yell except for LoC. I really doubt you have listened to many, if any of those, and condemning it so blindly is just stupid. 
Its like punk with a much more plain rock and roll feel, normally slower, etc.
DK being saracastic? never!!!
naw man i’m just kidden i love you.
Lessee…
Face to Face
The Ataris
No Use for a Name
The Suicide Machines
Blink 182 (Back in their “Chesire Cat” and “Dude Ranch Days”)
NOFX
Bad Religion
Millencolin
Buck o’Nine
Less Than Jake
Planet Smashers
No Doubt (older is better)
Save Ferris
Common Sense
Goldfinger
Mest
The Honeymans
Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Mudmen
Reel Big Fish
Sublime
The Bouncing Souls
The Kingpins
Whole Lotta Milka
Edna’s Goldfish
I Voted for Kodos
Samiam
Skabba the Hut
Catch-22
Streetlight Manifesto
Prolly a bunch others I’m forgetting…
I used to listen to more punk (An old roomate listened to it all) but I got into ska more, and slowly was reintroduced to punk. But I still skank when given the opportunity 
Ah, this modern music, it’s just thump thump thump, no tune you can whistle, and you can’t hear the words. Shocking. Now, in my day… etc. etc.
Punk is cartoon music. It is as hard to draw a perfect cartoon as it is to draw anything else. Charlie Brown has a circular head with two dots for eyes, and a line for a mouth. Sometimes he has a nose. Schultz gave him personality by drawing him perfectly; I couldn’t.
Likewise with music. Music is rhythmic sound. Sometimes the rhythm is very simply, and percussive; sometimes the rhythm is implied in the melody; sometimes there is harmonic rhythm. Some music has many simultaneous rhythms; other music has only one simple rhythm. Punk is pretty simple, which means to make it work, you have to do it well.
Slaughter and the Dogs are abominable at doing it well, the Sex Pistols (at their best) were very good at it. Some punk is great music, some is complete crap. The same could be said of many if not all other genres.
Personally I think punk shouldn’t sound “good”
besides once a punk band is universelly exepted as good they aren’t realy punk. as the sex pistols said “We don’t like music, we like chaos”
mmmbop is my favorite punk rock song. it’s so hardcore. emo for life. (the opinions expressed here are for sarcastic purposes only, i do not condone the listening of mmmbop nor do i condone a life of emo)