best punk band

[UpsideDownFlag]

Poll question: best punk band

my vote goes for NOFX. used to be greenday, but my tastes changed a little.

[HughBeaumont]

1. Ramones without hesitation.

Blink 182 is a punk band?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

2. Lee Scratch Perry and the Upsetters

23. but of course

Cheers!

You might have noticed I never pass up an opportunity to post this pic




and of course the Clash, & I see others have already commented on their absence

[Renew Deal]

3. NOFX and Greenday ar better than the Ramones.

Greenday is a Ramones wanna be. NOFX is a california skater band. The Ramones are punk rock. They are what all of them wanted to be.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

4. The absence of The Clash in this poll is very telling.

Obviously, this means you are a freeper. :evilgrin:

[UpsideDownFlag]

12. i knew i was missing people, that's why i wrote other

but between us, i cant believe i missed the clash and the dead kennedys

[Screaming Lord Byron]

14. That's alright. I do it all the time with polls.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

13. Although, I'd probably nominate The Saints

and hold The Clash back for Best Rock Band Overall.

[tigereye]

16. yeah I wondered about that

these kids today. Don't know about the Clash. Harummph.

What about Richard Hell and the Voidoids?

Okay, now we need an old-school punk poll.

[quispquake]

5. For Me, the "Dead Kennedys"

Just because I was a hick from central Maine when I first saw them in late 1980, and this was the show that changed my life...I remember actually being scared, but totally rocking!!! "This song's for you, Alexander Haig" as Jello & folks tear into "Kill the Poor"...very enlightening!!!

I'm still a BIG fan of Jello Biafra...it's too bad the Dead Kennedy's themselves had such a sad ending...

[vi5]

6. Oh good lord....

I love all the bands on your list with the exception of Blink 182. But none of them even come close to being the best punk bands, by any measure of the definition of that term. All of them are great pop/rock bands with punk edges to them.

[UpsideDownFlag]

17. lol, call anti-flag a pop rock band to their face.

haha

[vi5]

20. Hey, by my standards of punk they are supper poppy...

And trust me, after 20 plus years of being involved in punk music and the punk scene and seeing what I've seen with skinheads and fights and violence, particularly in the 80's, anti flag doesn't scare me. I've given tougher bands than them a hard time.

They are a good band, they just aren't particularly "punk" to me. They have some snazzy clothes and do their hair up real nice though.

[DODI]

7. Without the Ramones there would be no others.

[No2W2004]

8. Dead Kennedys

pretty much the definition of punk with a hard political edge

[name not needed]

9. Dead Kennedys

[chelsea0011]

10. Clash............no contest

Ramones best American band

[Ganja Ninja]

11. UK Subs for one album.

Another kind of blue.

Like so many bands, one album and then it's over.

[SmileyBoy]

15. Belvedere.

All others do not compare.

[74dodgedart]

18. X

Live at the Whiskey A Go-Go on the Fabulous Sunset Strip

[DBoon]

19. No X? No Black Flag?

what sort of list is this?

24. & no Minutemen either

but I bet you already noticed that

[DBoon]

25. Yeah, that would have been too obvious

May he rest in peace.

[bullimiami]

21. i picked anti flag

but x, clash, sex pistols, pil there are just so many.

i would recommend Against Me! for any of you who have not heard them and live they are excellent.

one of my favorite live "punk" so called bands is flogging molly though.

[LeftCoast]

22. Thanks for putting Bad Religion on the list!

Been listening to those guys since the 80's. :)