Hardly ever listen to all that happy stuff but when I do it's NoFX, Sex Pistols, Farse, Schism, Goldfinger and Greenday.

Barely saw any really good bands. Many props to those who listed actual punk bands like GG, 4 skins and that Oi dude.
Ska definitely isn't punk. It's what reggae derived from. Although you would think of it being vice-versa. I have OLD OLD OLD Marley albums when he was playing ska before reggae was even a twinkle in Peter Tosh's eye.
I don't consider myself all that punk but I know what is and isn't punk. I saw someone mention Cursive and Thursday and stuff. I'd consider them more indie than anything. That's the way to go. No band usually sounds like another. But then you have the wannabes like Riddlin Kids or some shit pop-punk-emo-core-core i'm sad whimper listen to me cry-core bands. Good Charlotte is sadly considered punk by all these teenie bopping girls and frat jocks. I don't get it. That's like calling Evanescence death metal or something.
I like grind and speed stuff. Redchord and converge, Dillinger Escape Plan. blah blah.
Nobody mentioned Against All Authority. Although some of their stuff is Ska-like I'd consider it more punk than anything else.

But Avril has got to be punk numero uno. JAY KAY!! HAHA!

Holy Moly, people lump ska and punk together because punk came from the original ska (Skatalites, anyone?), and most current ska sounds a lot like punk.

Huh.... are you fucking kidding me!!!!!!

You sound like one of my skinny tie and porkpie hat friends who ramble on and on about ska being the roots of reggae... fuck, you can't mention a reggae band with out one of them barking out that Bob M was in a ska band before he got all nappy.

As far as my favorite punk bands go

The Clash
Youth Brigade
Naked Raygun
Husker Du
Replacements
SNFU
Black Flag
Anit-Heros
Cock Sparrer

I can't think of any bands within the last 10 years that I have liked for more than a week.

I guess the Dropkicks, but that was 93-99 , not that new crap their pouring out.

And for the skinhead record!!!

The Templars are by far the most BORING band I have ever had the displeasure to see. The 4 track recording and sweet home alabama riffs can only go so far.

I paid over a grand to bring them to town once and the fuckin place empitied while they were on stage. Skinheads traved from three states to see them and then left halfway through their set.

punk:
fugazi
at the drive-in
hot water music
sleater-kinney
burning airlines
blood brothers
cursive

emo:
planes mistaken for stars
thursday
the get up kids
my chemical romance

i had to add my list because a lot of newer bands are getting left out. there's too much ancestor worship in punk rock. you don't have to have slavish imitations of old punk rock just to be punk. punk rock can go in new directions, but the punk rock attitudes aren't making it very easy. i think it's best to keep punk fresh musically, so it doesn't become obsolete politically/socially.

Taking Back Sunday
Engine Down

I'd have to say The Get Up Kids. I <i>know</i> they're not punk in the true sense of the word, and I do appreciate old-school punk, but they have a phenomenal sound, and their lyrics are very sincere. If they don't qualify, I'd have to say Lagwagon or No Motiv.

AFI, definitely.

Taking Back Sunday
The Clash
Glassjaw


the new Mars Volta is great, also.

fugazi is waaaaay over rated.

favorite bands and i was into punk back when you were so scared to go to shows that you puked before you were drunk! just thinking of the shit you were going to see that night.

The Kings(Bands that everyone wanted to be): Ramones, Black Flag, Minor Threat, UK Subs, Blitz, Agnostic Front.

Other Greats:
Angry Samoans
Doggie Style
Uniform Choice
Stalag 13
Detox
Youth Brigade
Old Social Distortion
Dead Kennedys
Old Vandals (I saw a show where Stevo blended a live rat with beer and some nasty girl drank it)
Descendents
Blitz
Discharge
(Metallica's Kill Em All gets a special nod cause i remember every punk saying "damn that's good metal shit" when it came out)
Dr. Know
Dag Nasty
DI
DOA

I wish I could name them all....

Nirvana
Ramones
the breeders
Fugazi
dead kennedys
Alkaline Trio
Hot Water Music
Sonic Youth
Sebadoh (if they count as punk)

Hoodo Gurus
The Clash
Ramones
Nine Below Zero
Specials
Buzzcocks
Butthole Surfers
Pylon
Love Tractor
Young Fresh Fellows
Police
Frank Black
English Beat
DFX2
and of coures....
Surf Punks and Dead Milkmen! HA

NOFX forever. they're so original, and they're musicianship speaks for itself. don't believe me? listen to the 17 minute EP. The DECLINE.

AFI
Rancid
Ramones
Bosstones

my favorites right now include Rufio, AFI, and Vendetta Red, its almost impossible to find a "punk" band i dont like ;) recently ive been listening to a lot of stuff from a band from lawrence kansas (jayhawk country) by the name of "salt the earth"...mp3.com calls them post-hardcore, nonetheless they're awesome...

Catch 22
Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Reel Big Fish
Rancid
Ramones
Mephiskapheles (what the satanic ska?!?!?)
Five Iron Frenzy
The Grandprixx
Big D and the Kids Table
Specials
Less than Jake

So many more but my mind is shot at this point...

ska:
Cherry Poppin Daddies (not the swing cd)

The Mudsharks. Find aMudsharks cd today if you like ska at all. Nuff said.

I'm so glad someone said Big D and the Kids Table. You can't find a better Ska-Punk band than Big D. Yeah, Ska-Punk, because Ska ties in with punk, it IS punk, so shut your holes.

Also, go get the Mars Volta Record. It's a record. not just 13 songs on a cd. A real record. Awesome. I love it. They may not be "punk" and may not have been around in the 70's and 80's, but a least they aren't a poser band, which is something you can't say for a lot of these bands on this list.

Sorry for being so mean, but I'm a big ska fan and it hurts to hear what these "punks" have to say about it.

P.S. Stop saying Social D just to sound cool. :)

whew...this might take a while:
Propaghandi
Refused (Are fucking gods)
30 foot fall
Lower Class Brats
The Exploited
Black Flag (Rollins is the man)
Fugazi
At the Drive-In (more experimental post punk than anything, but they still rock)
Minor threat
Wizo
Reel big Fish
Dropkick Murphys
Flogging Molly
Bad Religion (their old stuff with bret gurewitz)

As far as Hardcore goes:
Poison the Well
Shai Hulud (only the albumn "hearts once nourished with hope and compassion)
In Pieces (for those more sensitive moments)
Division Zero (they are local but they are great)
Rites of Spring
Refused (had to mention them twice)

Bands people consider punk that aren't:
AFI (their old stuff is okay, but new stuff blows dead bears)
Mest
Blink 182
Avril Lavigne
New Found Glory (lead singer was actually the guitar player for Shai Hulud, wierd huh)
Good Charlotte
Simple Plan
Dashboard Confessional
Alkaline Trio
The Gettup Kids
Taking Back Sunday
Thrice
Thursday
Rufio
The Juilana Theory
Yellowcard
Finch

or any other "emo" or pop punk shit.
Go ahead, test my musical knowledge.

crass. flogging molly. operation ivy. nofx. propagandhi. sleater-kinney. lunachicks. bikini kill.

and an offshoot of punk..hardcore:
blood brothers. glassjaw. poison the well. botch. hope conspiracy. meshuggah. shadows fall. from autumn to ashes.

and yes, metallica's kill em all is as punk as metal gets :P really similar styles.. don't know why punk and metal kids aren't supposed to get along..

and fugazi and rites of spring were the original emo before all this water downed shit.

Social Distortion
Dead Kennedys
Dropkick Murphys
US Bombs
Operation Ivy
Rancid
The Bosstones
The Slackers (ska)
The Pietasters
Hepcat

And I have to insert NOFX in there as well...

Really, you could almost buy any CD from Hellcat Records, and you'll be smiling.

A lot of other bands I like are Swedish, with Swedish lyrics, so you probably wouldn't come across them anyway...

The Mars Volta
Rx Bandits
Cursive
Elvis Costello
The Clash
The Slackers
Hepcat
Rancid
Desmond Dekker
Operation Ivy
Common Rider
Dropkick Murphys
Fishbone
Bosstones
The Pouges
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros
The Police
Rocket From the Crypt
Thrice
Bob Marley and the Wailers
The Specials


Thats a pretty broad range of music thats associated with punk or ska in someway. There are so many others but cant think right now.

Operation Ivy
Less then Jake
Reel Big Fish
NoFX
Dropkick Murphy's
Bad Religon

A lot of great bands listed...

I was really into an Ottawa band called furnaceface... They were great...

For Ska I'd also list the Montreal band Me, Mom and Morgentaler.

REAL Punk.

It began with the Ramones...

Progressed through the Sex Pistols...

And died after The Clash, Black Flag & The Dead Kennedys broke up...

THAT'S real punk.

op ivy!!!! man i can't believe only 3 ppl mentioned em so far...so now everyone in this thread has got to go out and get Energy

hmmm did you mean punk/ska, or punk, and ska??

I guess I would be considered a second (or maybe third) wave punk fan. I picked up most of what I liked between 86 and 89, before being sucked of into rural hell and not being able to keep in touch with anything.

Most of what I had was copied tapes which eventually all broke. I then went off to college and was learning about all kinds of new music, and gradually picking up older punk stuff that I knew I wanted. I'm a lot more picky now, so it's intersting to find out what was really good stuff and what was crap I just liked because I was a kid (A moment a lot of you will have in 15 years when you pull out your Staind or whatever the "hard" people listen to now).

Most of the good and bad has been mentioned. Some of my faves were

The Dead Kennedys
The Misfits
Minor Threat

One of the bad, that I can't help loving is The Dead Milkmen. I don't know if it'd because they were one of my first concerts or what, but I'll listen to them every once in awhile much to my fiancee's chagrin.

In somewhat the save vein, the only recent punk act I have really been able to get into has been Atom and His Package.

I guess the last Sleater-Kinney CD came out swinging and much more punk than their other stuff. Or I guess a better way to put it might be that they jumped sub-genres

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I personally don't listen to too much punk but The Shape of Punk to Come album blew my mind.

Also The Mars Volta is great, but I wouldn't put them as punk for those who did.

Social Distortion
Mike Ness
Backyard Babies
Me First and The Gimme Gimmes

The way I see it, there's Old Punk and New Punk.
The Old Punk was the best, bands like the Sex Pistols and the Stooges. And you have to give credit to the pop-sounds of the Ramones and the Clash.

New Punk is devided in two categories:
1.Real Punk- stuff thats more or less screeming out a political speeches with a detuned guitar, it's more about propaganda and/or selling records than music.

2.Pop Punk- Pretty much everything that doesn't fit into real punk. Bands that just play the same four chords on every song. These bands all have the same sound, there are different types, but they all sound alike.

Bands that don't fit into these categories and have an original sound (Green Day, Rancid, Op Ivy) are my favorite.

And yeah man, Sonic Youth's awesome, but they're definitely not Punk.

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

I'm a big fan of Dropkick Murphys, Flogging Molly, MM Bosstones, Operation Ivy, Sublime, Reel Big Fish...the list goes on.

I didn't know there were this many Dropkick Murphys fans here, any of you guys seen them in concert? I saw them last week and the show was just crazy...I can't wait to see them again.

Gimme Gimme's are great! I even got my parents to listen to them... they thought the new take to some of their favorite songs was "interesting."

Dead Kennedys always.

the specials
not technicly a punk group, but definately influenced by punk

Does Nirvana count? AFI a prtty cool too and others I forgot to mention , I like them too

Misfits, Black Flag, Ramones, Sex Pistols

Rancid
MxPx
Less than Jake
Cath-22
Nofx

the clash
rancid
h2o
nofx
minor threat
bad brains
screaching weasel
oxymoron
sublime
the minutemen
fugazi
velvet underground
the sex pistols

are you fucking serious??????????????????