We don't get up there and preach. We don't have our sermon written out. We play what we feel like playing that night
10. Hüsker Dü
Score: 136.1
Votes: 6
AM rank: 128
Biggest fans: BryanBehar (#2), FrankLotion (#4), CupOfDreams (#5), Live in Phoenix (#6), fasbjd (#10)
Punkest release:
Flip Your Wig (1985), "Minneapolis' most powerful trio refining their pop thrash to maximum intensity" (Lenny Kaye, guitarist in the Patti Smith Group and first critic to refer to 'punk rock' in his liner notes to the seminal garage compilation
Nuggets, Spin, 1986)
It's the suede denim secret police, they have come for your uncool niece!
9. Dead Kennedys
Score: 136.6
Votes: 11
AM rank: 409
Biggest fans: mileswide (#6), Edre Peraza (#7), granit (#9), acroamor (#10), BryanBehar (#12), Nassim (#18), DaveC (#19), Live in Phoenix (#19)
Punkest release:
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables (1980), "None of their later output would top the catchy, high energy brutalism of
Fresh..." (punknews.org, 2017)
We've been addressing the #MeToo movement and shitty patriarchal systems of injustice and subjugation since 1995!
8. Sleater-Kinney
Score: 155.2
Votes: 8
AM rank: 170
Biggest fans:
FrankLotion (#1), Nassim (#5), DaveC (#8), Live in Phoenix (#8), mileswide (#8), CupOfDreams (#18), acroamor (#19)
Punkest release:
Sleater-Kinney (1995), "They suit each other perfectly. The result: pissed-off guitar-heavy punk somewhere between Tribe 8 and Bikini Kill" (Ox Fanzine, 1996)
The whole idea of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll or the idea of alcohol. Who really supports the idea of alcohol being a huge part of music? The alcohol industry
7. Fugazi
Score: 180.1
Votes: 7
AM rank: 230
Biggest fans:
acroamor (#1),
Nassim (#1), fasbjd (#6), BryanBehar (#7), FrankLotion (#7), CupOfDreams (#13)
Punkest release:
The Argument (2001), "Fugazi going out at the top of their game" (punknews.org, 2018)
Why are there no clouds in the sky? 'Cause God wants to see his favorite band play again!
6. Green Day
Score: 192.5
Votes: 9
AM rank: 136
Biggest fans:
Edre Peraza (#1), andyd1010 (#3), Krurze (#7), BryanBehar (#8), Live in Phoenix (#9), mileswide (#9), FrankLotion (#10), acroamor (#11)
Punkest release:
Dookie (1994), "These are singalongs from beginning to secret-track end" (punknews.org, 2014)
When the much-saluted bywords of British punk were 'rebellion', 'relevance' and 'gritty realism', they brought something fresh, pithy and even humorous
5. Buzzcocks
Score: 203.9
Votes: 10
AM rank: 298
Biggest fans:
DaveC (#1), CupOfDreams (#3), BryanBehar (#5), granit (#5), Live in Phoenix (#10), mileswide (#10), Nassim (#12), fasbjd (#15), FrankLotion (#15)
Punkest release:
Spiral Scratch EP (1977), "A seminal artifact of '70s DIY [not least because it was the first independently released punk record]" (trouserpress.com, 2010)
We're the most famous band you've never heard of
4. Wire
Score: 209.2
Votes: 9
AM rank: 205
Biggest fans: CupOfDreams (#2), Krurze (#2), Nassim (#2), mileswide (#4), fasbjd (#5), FrankLotion (#11), DaveC (#18), Live in Phoenix (#18)
Punkest release:
Pink Flag (1977), "Weighs in with an astonishing 21 tracks and is all excellent coming at music from a different angle" (punk77.com, 2019)
We're not into music, we're into chaos
3. Sex Pistols
Score: 220.9
Votes: 9
AM rank: 82
Biggest fans:
granit (#1),
Live in Phoenix (#1), DaveC (#5), FrankLotion (#5), Edre Peraza (#9), fasbjd (#9), BryanBehar (#11), mileswide (#12), CupOfDreams (#19)
Punkest release:
Never Mind the Bollocks (1977), "A direct, honest, no bullshit album which contains some of the most vital rock songs of this decade, brutal, real and full of energy and passion" (Kris Needs, Sounds, 1977)
Wait till you see us, we stink, we're lousy, we can't play
2. Ramones
Score: 308.7
Votes: 10
AM rank: 78
Biggest fans:
CupOfDreams (#1),
Krurze (#1), fasbjd (#2), granit (#2), Edre Peraza (#3), Live in Phoenix (#3), BryanBehar (#4), FrankLotion (#8), mileswide (#20)
Punkest release:
Ramones (1976), "The band go on to fashion a sound so monomaniacally insistent that this record poses a direct threat to any vaguely sensitive woofer and/or tweeter lodged in your hi-fi" (Nick Kent, NME, 1976)
The razor-edged poets of a lost generation, those too young for the musical magic of the 60s
1. The Clash!
Score: 378.5
Votes: 13
AM rank: 18
Biggest fans:
fasbjd (#1),
mileswide(#1), FrankLotion (#2), Live in Phoenix (#2), BryanBehar (#3), granit (#3), CupOfDreams (#4), acroamor (#5), andyd1010 (#5), Krurze (#10), Edre Peraza (#12), DaveC (#13), Nassim (#15)
Punkest release:
The Clash (1977), "THE CLASH ALBUM IS LIKE A MIRROR. IT REFLECTS ALL THE SHIT. IT SHOWS US THE TRUTH [caps not mine]" (Mark Perry in his Sniffin' Glue fanzine on the album that most likely inspired him to start his own band Alternative TV)
It wasn't to be for Ramones, bad luck Krurze, but well predicted Frank on calling a victory for The Clash!
I'll round this all up by presenting the decade lists in one go tomorrow but was there any part of the results anyone didn't see coming? Wire appearing at 4 was the main upset for me, we seem to rate them higher as a forum than both critics and the general public, we've clearly got better taste