All That is Punk..

     To start with, if you don’t like punk music, click off of this now.  Nothing here that is going to even remotely amuse you. 

     There are over twenty songs here, all with one common thread; they are punk songs.  You’ll find stuff going back to the beginning of the movement in the 70’s… 80’s skater punk…. hardcore, and some just plain off the wall shit.  But through them all, there is a greater theme… these are great punk songs, by some of the musical revolutionaries who have and are continuing to create a musical mindset.

     Yhere is no order or reason other than that.  This isn’t supposed to be a ‘best of’ list;  no need to tell me that I forgot so and so.  There are a lot of great bands not here.  But there are a bunch who are.  Consider it a compilation put together for you.

Rise Against Give It All

Not only a great song musically, but powerful lyrically.

Fugazi Waiting Room

Fugazi is one of those bands that has always been under the radar, but they are legends.

Husker Du Something I Learn Today

Husker Du somehow managed to get themselves lumped in with the ‘grunge’ scene, which is sad.

Goldfinger Wake Up

Many great punk songs are like this…simple, a bit cheesy, but poignant.

Millencolin Man Or Mouse

One of the 90’s bands that never really built a huge following but should have.

Leftover Crack Gang Control

Kind of an oddball group; they bounced between ska and hardcore and a kind of rap rock thing in an erratic fashion that really made them ahead of their time.

The Damned Smash It Up

The Offspring revitalized this song, but the original just has that feel to it.

Operation Ivy Oi Skinhead

Most people don’t realize that skinheads originally had nothing at all to do with racism; just the opposite.

The Adolescents Lockdown America

One of the bands that incorporated amazing harmoies into punk.

Social Distortion Reach For The Sky

Gave punk music a taste of blues.

Turbonegro All My Friends Are Dead

One of the oddest groups to ever take the stage.  They’re part A Clockwork Orange, part Rocky Horror Picture Show.

The Adicts Bad Boy

In case you were wondering, this band had a huge influence on Heath Ledger’s Joker.

The Dead Boys Ain’t it Fun

Utterly unlike the rest of the original wave of British punk.

Descendents Coffee Mug

Nerd icons.  Ever heard such awe and power thrown into 30 seconds?

Ramones 53rd and 3rd

The kings, in an amazing performance with Rancid.

Pennywise My God

Hard to pick a Pennywise song, but this one seems appropriate for recent events.

Offspring All I Want

People sometimes forget what an amazing band the Offspring truly is.

A.F.I. Totalimmortal

Ok, so they’ve gone all emo on us.  This was a brilliant punk song that oozed 80’s misfits.

NOFX Don’t Call Me White

Punk music’s sense of sarcasm.

Vandals Oi To The World

Another of the 80’s bands that everyone has forgotten who influenced everyone.

Dropkick Murphys Johnnie I Hardly Knew Ye

All of the Celtic punk bands owe it to the Murphys… every Irish American should own one of their CDs.

Bad Religion 10 in 2010

And we end with the Godfathers.

     Hopefully this has opened some doors, and reopened some others for you.  Music as it was meant to be.