My personal fav punk band, Anti-Flag

The song that got me into them, "Turncoat"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa5KJ5C-QP8

Anti-consumerist/media propaganda song off their newest album "The End"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adjNEcbzOOA

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Who can forget Green Day and Offspring? The first two CDs I ever purchased! (I bought cassette tapes before then)

The first song I ever heard by Green Day, "Basketcase"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a73Y40Qqodo

I've always thought this track by Offspring was underrated, "All I Want"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOUYl2XSwso

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I can't find any good quality videos, but Propagandhi definitely goes up there as one of my favorite punk bands. They definitely have a lot of passion behind their music:

edit: A decent live video of them playing the first two songs I heard by them, "Natural Disasters" and "Back to The Motor Leagues"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdrcHP4sHA4

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Rise Against is a perfect example of modern punk music, and another of my favorites.

MMA Fans might enjoy the video of Hideo Tokoro highlights along with their single "Give It All" (the song starts 1min 20secs into it)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk1rS3xVu7M

Did I mention Rise Against is an all-vegan band that avidly opposes animal cruelty? This video has a few clips along those lines. The song is "Ready to Fall"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmoB2svMld8

It's also worth mentioning that all the members of Anti-Flag are either vegan or vegetarian as well.

Hell yea ED! Way to surprise me!

Bah, showoff....

K, operation ivys the grampa of modern skapunk (such as it may be) and of rap-rock too...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyvB8Sz8gjY

One of the most classic punk songs EVAH by Crass--catchy even for non punk likin nooblets..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyvB8Sz8gjY

He spent 15 yrs, gettin loaded, 15 yrs tilliz liver exploded, now whats bob gonna do, now that he cant drink?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cu_vdChemQ

RIOT GRRRLS FTW

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WreQbMlFEjU

annnnd another girl band that can actually do punk..L7 = tite
(LOL@England obv)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JW4Y3Wivmg

annnd no punk montage is complete without a bit of nazish stuff...Black flag..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjVZaZ4o6_4

Lets have a war, give guns to the queers....lolz...Fear FTW

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJAlIHsXcLY

I hate generic punk rock. Green Day epitomise pretty much everything that went wrong with punk - the uniform clothes and uniform attitudes that replaced the DIY ethos and individualism; the cynical retreading of old Clash songs for a new generation unfamiliar with the originals; the lack of any humour or irony in a punk-by-numbers song like American Idiot.

Saw the Clash, the Damned and a few more obscure (and shitty) bands etc in the late '70s, but not the Pistols unfortunately. We got pretty much swept along by all the musical changes that were happening at the time, London being its epicentre...it was impossible not to.

The best punk band ever remains the Pistols, by a mile. What a bunch of anti-intellectual working class kids with a love of the Stooges/Dolls/Can/Bowie (and instruments stolen from the likes of Elton John and Bowie) did was ground breaking, and the passing of time (30 years now, LOL!) has only strengthened this view. They did it first, they did it best.

Their best song was probably a B side called Satellite, and was the only "love" song they ever wote...

Suburban kid and you got no name
You're too dumb baby and you got no brain
I bet you're all so happy in suburban dream
But I'm only laughing
You ain't in my scheme

Baby
I love you
I love you
I love you

I only ever listen when you're on the phone
From your safety-restricted zone home
When I got nothing better to do
Then there's always you
You're good for my shoe

Hey babe
I love you
I love you
I love you

You look at me and you just can't tell
You're looking like you just came outta hell
Acting like a dirty lavatory
There ain't no bid for your chastity

Hey baby
I love you
I love you
I love you
I'm in love
I'm really in love

Try and join the scene but you're too obscene
You're looking like a big fat pink baked bean
How did you figure that you'd be any use
When all you're gonna get is my abuse

Hey babe
I love you
I love you
I love you

You know I don't like where you come from
It's just a satellite of London
And when you look me in the eye
I just remember I wanna die

Hey babe
I love you
I love you
I love you

Johnny
London


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRHuLC2J8p4

Some Yanks...


Stooges - Search and Destroy. A notorious gig of theirs in London that ended in a riot in '73 was attended by various Pistols-to-be, amongst others. This is what you get when combine a singer with an abnormally high IQ and an insatiable desire for self-destruction, with a guitarist just released from a detention centre.

Honey, I'm the world's forgotten boy,
The one who's searching, searching to destroy

If you don't either already have a copy of Raw Power (preferably NOT the remastered one), please just get it - trust me, I know what I'm talking about here... and if you wanted to demo rock n roll to someone from Planet Xrurtasdf who'd never heard Human music before, you'd play them Fun House.

Perfect
Iggy


http://youtube.com/watch?v=TKYALsp-sIg&feature=related



The New York Dolls proto glam/punk from '73...Trash

http://youtube.com/watch?v=kXd9OIYL9xM&feature=related

Highest self-induced mortality rate of any rock band ever, wp sirs - if only Green Day and their ilk would take note we might be getting somewhere.

Sweet! We got ourselves some music elitists!

I can't believe I forgot to mention Bad Religion! Obv love them. "The Process of Belief" is my fav album of theirs.

Punk died around 1978-9, as intended - seriously, what is the point in being a punk band now?

I see so called punks now and they remind me so much of Teddy boys in the '70s, harking back to some bygone era: