History AwesomeMusic / Punk

%%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMGgYRGd1-E HEY!!! HO!!! LET'S GO!!!]]

** Hell, the Clash are so good that even their rubbish albums have classic songs. See [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROj_1R36lX0 "This Is England"]].

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDjoUxQB658 "You're Gonna Go Far, Kid"]]. [[TheChessmaster Manipulating people like puppets]] has never sounded so awesome. Badass drums, awesome guitar solo, someone who can control your every action ''without you even knowing''. Or caring.
** Yes, that album is awesome. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYGUEpRCZYc "Half-Truism"]] should get some attention too.

%%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1DOcke51iM "The Kids Aren't Alright"]] anyone?
%%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeWjzBHUdsI "Self Esteem"]].
%%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMCOo3aPwc0 "NO BRAKES"]].
%%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji9NPW3mi8o "Coming for You".]]
%%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkzVHer6B8A "Defy You".]]
* A Wilhelm Scream: the critically-acclaimed 2007 album ''[[VeryFalseAdvertising Career Suicide]]''. Asides from being the peak of their tight, [[EpicRiff punk/metal hybrid sound]] and featuring the band's new, gnarly bassist, AWS dropped two songs from the tracklist because "they weren't fuckin' fast enough!!" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSCX_vuRDWc some bass CMoA]].

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91rAHIb8BwY "New Rose"]]; talk about making a first impression.

%%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OiSEr1-LYk "History Of The World (Pt. 1)".]]

* Music/{{Rancid}} - Maxwell Murder's bass solo. When co-lead singer Lars calls Matt Reed "the greatest fucking bassist in the world," [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiObCHW1TPY you believe him.]]

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ7pgElCPXE "Too Drunk To Fuck",]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUpidCc7wwY "Soup Is Good Food",]] from ''Music/{{Frankenchrist}}'' and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PScmRiaZhwk "Police Truck"]] especially.
** Sorry, I was off on a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KTsXHXMkJA "Holiday in Cambodia"]].
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW8UlY8eXCk "California Über Alles"]] über alles!
** The entire album ''Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables'' is the best punk album ever recorded, maybe one of the best albums of the past 25 years. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oCPNMZuWwI "MTV - Get Off the Air!!!"]]
* Music/TheSexPistols: ''Music/NeverMindTheBollocksHeresTheSexPistols'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8fLOJswWtk "God Save the Queen"]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbmWs6Jf5dc "Anarchy in the UK"]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWF9MMxnekQ "Holiday in the Sun"]].

** "A More Not perfect Union". You might think a seven minute punk song about New Jersey and Civil War iconography bookended by a rendering of an Abe Lincoln speech wouldn't be awesome, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFHlK8ZXgvE you'd be wrong]]. From "All the armies of Europe and Asia could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River," to "I was never trying to change the world, I was just looking for a new New Jersey," to "Rally round the flag, boys, rally once again, singing the Battle Cry of Freedom!" everything about this song is pure undiluted awesomeness.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZYignZ2HfE "The Battle Of Hampton Roads"]]. It's the epic "fourteen minute long" album closer of ''The Monitor'', and it is made of PURE AWESOME. The entire thing moves at a whiplash pace, the lead singer sings what seems to be a hundred words a minute, and the whole thing builds and builds with guitar solos and shouted vocals and a refrain of "please don't ever leave me," all to a FREAKIN' BAGPIPE SOLO. OH MY GOD.
* "The Vulture (Acts I&II)" by Gallows. Who knew that the same set of lyrics repeated several times could be so [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMHxfxRM3ck kick ass]]? The first couple times, it's all calm... then comes the huge epic crashes of distortion that last for almost too long... then the amazing punk song that takes the dark and grim lyrics of Act I and makes them ANGRY AS ALL HELL!

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scars_(band) The Scars]], y'all. The Scars. Immensely talented Scottish punk/post-punk band that sadly dissolved into nothingness in 1982. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTGk4v2P6uc "Fear of the Dark"]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er9l5R37a58 "Adult ery"]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_1qIrVS71o "All About You"]]... they recorded a whole song, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkiNIJcL6ic "Horrorshow"]], with ''lyrics in [[Film/AClockworkOrange Nadsat]]''. HARD. FREAKIN'. CORE.

** Listen to this: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3AoiVMQqX4 "New Noise".]]
** At Coachella 2012, it only took two seconds of the opening drums for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rk6LHyUgik this track]] to let the audience know what they were in for.

* "Search and Destroy" from ''Music/RawPower'' by Music/TheStooges. Unfortunately, due to a convoluted mixing process, both official cuts of the song are either hollow and quiet or '''''[[LoudnessWar LOUD ENOUGH TO SHATTER GOD'S EARDRUMS.]]''''' Luckily, there exist [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDA80hZsS38 balanced remixes in which every glorious note can be heard.]]

* ALL of ''Relationship of Command'' by At The Drive-In. One minute it's serene and melodic, the next it's chaotic and noisy. But the raw emotion WILL give you goosebumps and make you want to sing/scream along with Cedric Bixler-Zavala. Best examples include [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ge6ttcFrvA One Armed Scissor,]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA_F7T06aaI Arcarsenal,]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgAkZfObn0c Invalid Litter Dept.,]] and the two tracks featuring Iggy Pop, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUued3xvRpU Enfilade]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4wvGx4gue0 Rolodex Propaganda]].
* German band Son Goku (named after [[Anime/DragonBallZ THAT Son Goku]]) only lasted long enough for a single album, but their lack of familiarity is criminal. Case in point: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js4injEUy4U Alle für Jeden]].

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nQ0EGo1KN0 "There's only one way of life, and that's your own, your own, your own..."]] And not just that - most if not all of ''Levelling The Land'' is brilliant. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV-i6yQCJOs "The Riverflow"]], anyone? Or [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EklLaE2CNSo "Fifteen Years"]]?
** Most of their anti-war songs, including, "Another Man's Cause" and "The Cholera Well", qualify. And then there's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc5NCaHYlsY the full band version of "Barrel Of The Gun"]]...
* The King Blues' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcFZEsn2Lls What If Punk Never Happened?]]", a 6-minute opus where Jonny Fox is taken on a journey by [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture Doc Brown]] to see what happens if the whole punk movement never happened. The whole thing has to be heard to be believed, but it will [[TearJerker make you cry]], then [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments warm your heart]], then [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome make you do several fist pumps]].
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc5iTNVEOAg My Own Worst Enemy]]" by Lit really kicks ass.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdI2Xg8ncmI Ghost Rider]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igT-iS4nfzs Frankie Teardrop]] by Music/{{Suicide|Band}} may not sound like it. But they were seminal in the creation of [[SynthPop Synthpunk]] as we know it.