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Originally posted by Maximum Jack:
I've been working on my list of greatest punk songs and I think "Sonic Reducer" is sitting comfortably atop the list.

This gave me a pretty good idea for a thread. We've got the "Top (Whatever) Songs by Any Artist" thread. How about a "Top Songs in Any Genre" thread? We could make lists of the best Punk, Post-Punk, British Invasion, etc. songs. I think it would be pretty sweet.

We sort of have this already here.

Ah yes. I knew my idea sounded familiar.

All right List-Mania 2007 continues. Here's a list of my favorite American Punk songs. While it does span nearly 30 years, I think the spirit of punk is captured by each and every song. One caveat-- in order to move things along, I pretty much stuck to what I'd already uploaded to my iTunes, so there might be some glaring ommisions.

My Top 25 American Punk Songs:

1) The Dead Boys, “Sonic Reducer”
2) The Ramones, “Blitzkrieg Bop”
3) The Misfits, “Attitude”
4) The Replacements, “Kids Don’t Follow”
5) The Bags, “We Don’t Need the English”
6) Social Distortion, “Mommy’s Little Monster”
7) Minor Threat, “I Don’t Want to Hear It”
8) X, “We’re Desperate”
9) Black Flag, “Nervous Breakdown”
10) Hüsker Dü, “In a Free Land”
11) The Dils, “Class War”
12) The Avengers, “We Are the One”
13) Circle Jerks, “Live Fast Die Hard”
14) Crime, “Hot Wire My Heart”
15) VKTMs, “100% White Girl”
16) The Deadbeats, “Kill the Hippies”
17) Bad Religion, “We’re Only Gonna to Die”
18) The Descendents, “Suburban Home”
19) Johnny Thunders, “Chinese Rocks”
20) Pagans, “Nowhere To Run”
21) Suicide Commandos, “You Can’t”
22) The Eyes, “TAQN”
23) Adolescents, “L.A. Girl”
24) The Dicks, “Hate the Police”
25) The Exploding Hearts, “Modern Kicks”

I'll be posting other lists over the next few weeks.

Too many great DK songs to choose from so you decided to leave them off entirely, ey?

I could have sworn I put "Callifornia Uber Alles" on there. I was shocked when I read your post. Yes indeed, top 10 for sure.

No Clash? Surely "Janie Jones" deserves a spot among Punk's best songs.

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Originally posted by Maximum Jack:
My Top 25 American Punk Songs:

One of these days I'll learn to read.

Look what I just did.

You rock.

Cool, just let us know--either here or through PM--what other threads about punk are floating around so we can move them here.

I was thinking of starting one called "FragileKidA is a Punk". Would this be a good spot for it?

Go ahead and hurt my feelings, everyone else is doing it nowadays...

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Go ahead and hurt my feelings, everyone else is doing it nowadays...

If most of people do that than i wont cause, you know, follow the masses is wrong!!

My Top 25 Favorite Punk Songs (Non U.S.):

1) The Saints, “(I’m) Stranded”
2) The Undertones, “Teenage Kicks”
3) The Jam, “In the City”
4) The Clash, “I’m so Bored with the USA”
5) Wire, “12 X U”
6) The Buzzcocks, “Breakdown”
7) The Damned, “New Rose”
8) Elvis Costello, “Radio, Radio”
9) Stiff Little Fingers, “Suspect Device”
10) The Diodes, “Tired of Waking Up Tired”
11) The Cure, “Grinding Halt”
12) The Boomtown Rats, “Lookin’ After Number One”
13) The Sex Pistols, “Anarchy in the UK”
14) Warsaw, “Warsaw”
15) Crass, “White Punks On Hope”
16) Patrik Fitzgerald, “Safety Pin Stuck In My Heart”
17) Radio Birdman, “Anglo Girl Desire”
18) Penetration, “Don’t Dictate”
19) Angelic Upstarts, “I’m an Upstart!”
20) X-Ray Spex, “Identity”
21) Vibrators, “Yeah Yeah Yeah”
22) Alternative TV, “Action Time Vision”
23) Sham 69, “Borstal Breakout”
24) The Lurkers, “Ain’t Got a Clue”
25) The Adverts, “One Chord Wonders”

Not too many upsets here, but I'm sure some of you will remind me of a few I've forgotten.

I watched the Woodie awards the other day and The Academy Is… put on by far the best performance. If you didn’t see their performance I was able to track it down and I posted the link below. Go check it out because it was great.

http://www.mtvu.com/video/?id=1574351

The Reagan Youth, NOFX, Descendents, All, Anti-Flag ('s older stuff), and The Casualties.

these are some of my favourites:

Crass, Dead Kennedys, The Ramones (ONLY early stuff, i hate that Sheena Is A Punk Rocker pop punk bullshit), Bastard Squad (the Australian one), The Stranglers, Nirvana, The Hives, Motorhead, A Bridge To Many, Bad Brains, also, I consider alot of the UK Hip-Hop to have ties with punk, so with that in mind: Lethal Bizzle, Dizzee Rascal and The Streets shall be added to my list.