If you were to put together a c.d. entitled "The Best of '80's Punk", what songs would you include?

Hard to say; most good punk -- including a lot of the songs mentioned in some of the above answers -- was actually from the mid-to-late 1970s. The best of it -- The Ramones, the Buzzcocks, the Damned, the Sex Pistols, the Clash -=- was already on the way out when the Age Of Reagan began and New Wave started taking over. (More that a little of what was mentioned above is really New Wave, not punk.)





BUT -- I checked, and the Ramones' "Rock and Roll High School" was released in 1980, and "Subterranean Jungle" in 1983, so I'll go with those.

If you were to put together a c.d. entitled "The Best of '80's Punk", what songs would you include?
Ghetto Defendant - The Clash


London Calling- The Clash
Reply:The Misfits - Die, Die, Die My Darling, Astro Zombies


Black Flag - TV Party


The Ramones - My Brain is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes to Bitburg), Mama's Boy, The KKK Took My Baby Away


Siouxie %26amp; the Banshees -Peek-a-boo


Bad Brains - I against I, Pay to C*m, Banned in DC


Dead Kennedys - Kill The Poor, California Uber Allies, Holiday In Cambodia, Too Drunk To F**k
Reply:"Rock the Casbah" by The Clash


"Don't Stand So Close to Me" by The Police


"Blitzkrieg Bop" by The Ramones


"The Metro" by Berlin


"Love on your side" by the Thompson Twins


"Why Me" by Planet P


"Sunday Bloody Sunday" by U2


"Zombie" by The Cranberries
Reply:Cindy Lauper, Pat Benatar ohhh brain freeze, can't think anymore.
Reply:tsol, code red,d.i. richard hung himself, exploited barmy army,day glo abortions proud to be a canadian
Reply:The Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated


Sex Pistols - Anarchy


Ian Drury - Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll


The Clash - London Calling
Reply:bad brains.. i against i