Recommend me some First Wave

The three big ones are necessary, The Clash, The Ramones, and the Sex Pistols. Beyond that the Dead Kennedys, Bad Religion, Buzzcocks are pretty good.

A group tag is a good idea. Any ideas? We could always use simply "first wave punk"

SV-Shivers said:
I think it's already very common throughout the land...something else..

Three people have used it six times.

http://www.last.fm/tag/first%20wave%20punk

CptWenis said:
SV-Shivers said:
I think it's already very common throughout the land...something else..

Three people have used it six times.

http://www.last.fm/tag/first%20wave%20punk


Ah.

How about Sham 69, Circle Jerks, The Exploited. Theres some that are good.

the tag's been pretty raped. My Chemical Romance, Greenday, Muse, The Rasmus were the first 4 bands to come up on the radio.

mbatterham said:
the tag's been pretty raped. My Chemical Romance, Greenday, Muse, The Rasmus were the first 4 bands to come up on the radio.

Then we have a mission and duty to fix it

Pink Floyd is the second most listened to band in this group? How odd. o_o

From my so far minimal knowledge, I'd reccomend Sham 69, The Rezillos (they only have one album, so they're easy to get into), the Adicts, and Siouxsie and the Banshees' first album.

For true 1st-wave, check out 101'ers (Joe Strummer's band before Clash), U.K. Subs, Anti Nowhere League, Vice Squad, Toy Dolls, Subhumans (1st-wave in spirit if nothing else), Magazine (a fork of Buzzcocks), The Jam, and The Damned.

For some early American punk, DK, Stooges/Iggy, Ramones and Bad Religion have already been mentioned. But also check out other early American rockers like Minor Threat (along the same vein as Circle Jerks), Adolescents, Descendents, 7 Seconds (long the same vein as Minor Threat), early Black Flag (before Rollins), Social Distortion, X-Ray Spex, and Bad Brains.

...That should keep you busy for a while. :)

Television for sure. In my opinion, by far the best of the early punk bands. Buzzcocks and Wire are also worth a listen.

The Jam, Generation X, Stooges, New York Dolls, X-Ray Spex, Richard Hell & The Voidoids, The Dictators, Ultravox, Stiff Little Fingers, Magazine, Elvis Costello, Undertones, Siouxsie & The Banshees, The Slits, The Cure, Gang Of Four...

In other words, buy the Box Set - NO THANKS!: THE 70's PUNK REBELLION.

I was there when it happend!

Others have pointed the way so here are some good ones you won't find on any Top Ten Lists but meant a lot to me. You're lucky, you can get them for free. . . back in my day any punk record was hard to find. . .

I remember going into Bleeker Bob's (supposedly the hippest record shop in NYC cira 1979) asking for Sham 69. . . they didn't have anything for an aspiring punk other than a used Richard Hell album and a lecture about NYC being the true home of punk, . . .Kid, don't believe it! As FEAR said: "NY's alright. . .if you like saxaphone!"

The Damned single "Neat, Neat, Neat" was technically the first punk record. . .Yet, they never really kept up the energy. However, they did record an almost perfect rock album:

The Black Album (The Damned)

ALSO FIND:

HANX
Stiff Little Fingers
A great live record which really captures the feel of the era.

Snap!
The Jam
A greatest hit double LP that is the beautiful pop side of early punk.

"Super Black Market Clash" which contains many classics including "1977", a track I waited 15 years to hear (after seeing the compelling lyrics somewhere).

The Punk Singles Collection: '77-'80
Sham 69

Ignore NY Punk

You've got chronological first wave punk, geographical, and categorical. In the 70s, you've gotta say Iggy Pop was precursor/crossover to punk, as was Nick Cave. But then you have The Clash, The Ramones, Richard Hell, Buzzcocks, The Damned, Fear, X, as first-round - Costello was punk, but not like the Sex Pistols. Different vibe. THen you've got the NYC stuff (Ramones, NY Dolls, Television, Talking Heads [though TH were more art school than pure punk]), and then the wave out of SoCal, led by X, The Minutemen, The Meat Puppets, Descendants (SF?), Misfits, Black Flag, The 88s, The Slits, Fear, Circle Jerks, TSOL, Alley Cats, Dead Kennedys (SF).

Best punk concerts for my money: Clash (81 & 83), The English Beat (ska actually - 78, 83), X (81), Circle Jerks (79), Fear (81), Killing Joke (second wave - 84), and The Jam in 82 (but that was Mod, or sub-strain of punk). Social Distortion was problaby second wave, but can't quite remember wheh they first emerged out of the L.A. suburban landscape. Same with the Vandals.

As a SoCal kid you couldn't get around the fact that X defined the movement there. Their album, "Los Angeles," articulated the L.A. scene.

Perhaps already mentioned: check out Penelope Spheeris' documentary "The Rise and Fall of Western Civilization" for a telling slice of punk history.