Who Were/Are The Five Greatest Punk Bands ?!
Question: The Clash
The Sex Pistols
The Ramones
The Damned
Siouxsie and The Banshees
Answers: The Clash
The Sex Pistols
The Ramones
The Damned
Siouxsie and The Banshees
Back in the early movement the best bands were the Sex Pistols / the Damned/ the Clash / Xray Spex / The Stranglers
The Sex Pistols
Black Flag
The Ramones
The Misfits
The Clash
In my opinion: The Ramones, Descendents, NoFX, Crass and The Buzzcocks.
My top are:
Black Flag
Dead Kennedy's
Sex Pistols
Social Distortion
The Clash
MxPx
Good Charlotte
The Misfits
Mest
Hawthorne Heights
The Clash
Anti-Flag
Black Flag
MXPX
Sex Pistols
The Ramones - "Officially" got it going.
The Misfits - Way too much influence on Music in general to ignore this band.
The Clash - Showed that punk wasn't just one-dimensional
The Pogues - Set the standard for incorporating traditional styles
The Meteors - Not only did they start psychobilly, but they have played over 2000 shows. That's worth a lot!
I'm not a huge punk guy, but I'll take a stab (from the perspective of greatest, not necessarily favorite):
the Clash
the Ramones
the Sex Pistols
the Misfits
Minor Threat
(Black Flag should probably be in there somewhere, but I don't know who to take off. Dead Kenedy's too.)
Ramones (76- 96?)
Sex Pistols (76-78)
The Clash (77-81)
X (80- 86?)
Dead Kennedys (78- 84?)
Unofficial chronological Godfather credits-
Monks (64-66?)
Velvet Underground (66- 70)
Stooges (68- 73)
MC5 (68- 71?)
New York Dolls (73-74?)
(best guesses on era)
I think your extras are dead on (including Blue Cheer). How did the Sex Pistols beat out the Ramones on your top 5? Great list though! What about Wire's Pink Flag album?
Only five? Damn. Here goes....
-The Sex Pistols
-The Ramones
-The Exploited
-The Plasmatics
-The Clash
the Clash
the Sex Pistols
the Ramones
Hüsker Dü
Social Distortion
the clash
the ramones
the adicts
the exploited
the sex pistols
man i want to add so many more
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the sex pistols
the clash