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- The Clash. Tagged as “the only band that matters,” the Clash became one of the most influential punk bands as the genre started gaining popularity in the United Kingdom.
- The Sex Pistols. If there’s one band responsible for jumpstarting the phenomenon of British punk, despite their short career, it’s the Sex Pistols, formed in London in 1975.
- Buzzcocks. Pete Shelley and Howard Devoto formed the Buzzcocks in Bolton, England, in 1976. The band’s lineup changed throughout the years, but guitarist Steve Diggle continued as a contributing member since its inception.
- Vice Squad. Next up on our list is the Bristol band Vice Squad, formed in 1979. Although they released several punk rock singles, they also experimented with street punk, a subgenre driven by hardcore punk and Oi!
- Sex Pistols – Anarchy In The UK. Of course, the Sex Pistols! Where the hell else would we start? Admittedly, so much nonsense has been written about them over the years that it's hard to look at their legacy with any true objectivity, but there is no denying the band's impact both musically and culturally.
- The Damned – New Rose. The first UK punks to release a single (this one!) , the first to release an album (the brilliant Damned Damned Damned), the first to tour the west coast of America (having an influence on the punk scene there that can still be heard to this day), the first to split up and reform… Let's just say that The Damned got there first with almost everything.
- The Clash – White Riot. Another band about which a great deal of nonsense has been written. Contrary to the epithet of the time, The Clash were not 'the only band that matters', and iconic title-track aside, their third (double) album London Calling is not, as suggested by many critics, 'one of the greatest rock albums of all time', but a tedious collision of styles that is slightly less interesting then watching paint dry (please send hate mail to the usual address).
- Siouxsie And The Banshees – Love In A Void. Queen of goth, you say? Well, yes, but that's not to say the Siouxsie's punk credentials aren't second to none.
Bollock Brothers. The Boys. Brian James and the Brains. Broken Bones. The Burial. Jake Burns and the Big Wheel. Bus Station Loonies. The Business. Buzzcocks.
Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s. Rooted in 1950s rock and roll [ 2 ][ 3 ][ 4 ] and 1960s garage rock, punk bands rejected the corporate nature of mainstream 1970s rock music. They typically produced short, fast-paced songs with hard-edged melodies and singing styles with stripped-down ...
British Punk. Although Britain wasn't the birthplace of punk rock, it was the place where punk had the greatest musical and cultural impact, catching hold as the ultimate music of outrage and rebellion in a way it never quite duplicated in America. British punk was partly inspired by the back-to-basics rock & roll of the pub rock movement and ...
The list above (view it in a larger format here), the “All-Time Punk Top 100”—voted on in 1981 by readers of the “music paper” Sounds—contains a handful of songs from Siouxsie and the Banshees and Public Image Limited. Some people might choose to split hairs.
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The first and most influential British punk band was the Sex Pistols, who hit the scene in 1976 and made an immediate impact by directly inspiring just about every British punk group that followed. Their simple, raw, stripped-down guitar riffs set the blueprint for much British punk, and their provocative, playfully subversive rhetoric got them demonized in the press and even physically ...
