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#PunkBritannia - help pick the Ultimate UK Punk Playlist
Throughout June, 6 Music travels back three decades to a time where youthful rebellion and three guitar chords collided to create one of the most important cultural developments in 20th century history: Punk rock.
To accompany our special series of shows presented by the likes of John Lydon and Captain Sensible, as well as BBC4’s excellent Punk Britannia series, we thought we’d hand over control of Now Playing ask you to compile two playlists - the first this Sunday celebrating all things UK Punk.
We want you to pick your favourite UK punk tracks past, present and future. It could be:
* The Clash, Siouxsie and the Banshees, X-Ray Spex and other legends which helped made the punk movement what it was
* Anything Malcolm McLaren related, be it his own music, the Sex Pistols or Bow Wow Wow
* Something from the second wave of punk, perhaps Belfast’s Stiff Little Fingers, The Skids or maybe even The Tom Robinson Band...
* The music it’s inspired – new wave, post punk and hardcore
* Acts flying the UK punk flag in 2012, such as Frank Turner, Pure Love and Your Demise
But remember – this show is strictly for the Best of British, we’ll be celebrating the US Punk Scene (in particular New York city) the week after.
Get in touch in all the usual ways – leave a comment on this blog, drag a track onto our Spotify Playlist, leave us a suggestion on Facebook or Tweet #PunkBritannia.
Comment number 1.
At 15:05 7th Jun 2012, jml1970 wrote:Since it's UK Punk only, so we can't have The Saints or The Ramones and stuff...
"Teenage Kicks" has to be in it - and some of the other great original Good Vibrations records - My pick would be The Outcasts "Just Another Teenage Rebel".
The Cortinas - "Fascist Dictator".
The Angelic Upstarts - ""Police Oppression", "I'm An Upstart", anything really...
The Damned "New Rose" should be an automatic..
UK Subs - "C.I.D"
Sham 69 - "Borstal Breakout" / "Kids Are United"
Stiff Little Fingers - "Wasted Life" (or "Suspect Device", "Alternative Ulster")
The Ruts - "In A Rut" / "Babylon Is Burning"
X-Ray Spex - "Oh Bondage Up Yours" (.. anything really)
Penetration - "Don't Dictate"
The Valves - "Robot Girl"
Rezillos "Can't Stand My Baby" / "My Baby Does Good Sculptures"
Subway Sect - "Nobody's Scared"
Dangerous Girls - "Dangerous Girls"
Llygod Ffyrnig - "N.C.B"
Leyton Buzzards - "19 And Mad"
The Models - "Freeze"
The Cravats - "I Hate The Universe"
The Zeros - "Hungry"
Suburban Studs - "No Faith"
The Adverts - "Gary Gilmores Eyes" / "Bored Teenagers" / "One Chord Wonders"
Generation X - "Dancing With Myself"
... and loads more that I've tempoarily forgotten...
--- and anything by The Sex Pistols or The Clash of course.
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Comment number 2.
At 15:16 7th Jun 2012, Magaski wrote:For me the Sex Pistols are the pinnacle of Punk but at the same time so far removed from what Punk became defined for, which was a chaotic garageband DIY loose and unbalanced sound.
The Sex Pistols had a solid backing and a an angry, intelligent, poetic lyricist. Musically, the four singles from NMTB are tight and well produced and the vinyl singles were pressed louder than anything else around at the time. Overall the production, planning, musicality and polemic produced a killer sound that was never replicated by anything that came after.
Doesn't stop me loving Alternative TV, The Adverts, Dave Goodman's Justifiable Homicide, The Clash, Gen X's first album, Buzzcocks, Eater and all the bands that the punk sound influenced in the years after.
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Comment number 3.
At 15:20 7th Jun 2012, Magaski wrote:So after that explanation:
1. Anarchy In The UK - Sex Pistols
2. God Save The Queen - Sex Pistols
3. Pretty Vacant - Sex Pistols
4. Gary Gilmore's Eyes - The Adverts
5. X-Ray Spex - Oh Bondage
6. Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster
7. The Damned - New Rose
8. The Clash - Career Opportunities
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Comment number 4.
At 15:29 7th Jun 2012, Sheer Zed wrote:Here's my all time favourite UK punk playlist for Sunday: 12XU by Wire, Boredom by The Buzzcocks, Neat Neat Neat by The Damned, The Sound of the Suburbs by The Members, Another Girl Another Planet by The Only Ones, Babylon's Burning by The Ruts, Peaches by The Stranglers, Is She Really Going Out With Him? by Joe Jackson, Warsaw by Joy Division, (Love Like) Anthrax by The Gang of Four, Into the Valley by The Skids, She is Beyond Good and Evil by The Pop Group, Typical Girls by The Slits, Oh Bondage Up Yours! by The X-Rays Specs, Teenage Depression by Eddie and The Hot Rods.
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Comment number 5.
At 15:46 7th Jun 2012, Simon wrote:Outdoor Miner - Wire
Shoplifting - The Slits
Fairytale in the Supermarket - The Raincoats
Boredom - Buzzcocks
Bodies - Sex Pistols
Rapist In the Park - Anorexia
Smash It Up (Part 2) - The Damned
It's Obvious - The Au Pairs
Totally Wired - The Fall
Nothing by the Clash, though. They were awful.
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Comment number 6.
At 17:18 7th Jun 2012, Wasp_Box wrote:jml1970 and others have pretty much got it covered, so how about some more post-punk:
Killing Joke - The Wait
The Fall - Frightened
The Cure - Jumping Someone Else's train
Anti-Nowhere League - For You (the only track I can think of that you could actually play)
Magazine - Shot from Both Sides
Sisters of Mercy - Adrenochrome
Wire - Practice Makes Perfect
That'll do for now!
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Comment number 7.
At 17:34 7th Jun 2012, Dave wrote:how about a few more obscure releases
The Art Attacks - I'm a dalek
The Shapes - wots for lunch mum?
The Users - Kicks in style
The Carpettes - small wonder
London - friday on my mind
the dodgy named Raped - cheap night out
anything by the Lurkers, Chelsea, Upstarts, Patrik Fitzgerald, Penetration etc etc the list is endless
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Comment number 8.
At 22:20 9th Jun 2012, Rich_l wrote:Bodies - Sex Pistols
CID - UK Subs
Riot - UK Subs
Suspect Device - Stiff Little Fingers
Punk's not Dead - The Exploited
New Rose - The Damned
Cranked Up really High - Slaughter & the Dogs
Viva la Revolution - the Adicts
....I could go on for hours........
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Comment number 9.
At 11:08 10th Jun 2012, AndyVonPip wrote:Trying to pick ones that haven't been mentioned
"Dame To Blame " By Slaughter And The Dogs" - Fusing a simple but wonderful faux metal guitar riff with the snotty attitude of the New York Dolls. And the first punk record I owned
"Lifes A Gamble" By Penetration. Pauline Murray's "peel of bells" voice was wonderful-Moving Targets is a fabulous album and I fancied her something rotten ,ooh those eyes, which is reason enough ;)
"Self Conscious Over You" By The Outcasts - Not because it's a classic, but I have a vague recollection of Peel playing it . I have the vinyl but have never been able to track it down online. Think it was on Good Vibrations records.
"Hunted" by The Passions - Post punk feminist new wave with a reggae beat, and marked me moving away from shouty "Oi" rubbish that was starting to infiltrate punk.
"(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais" - The genius of the Clash and Strummer personified, great lyrics and again leading the way as Punk evolved into something more meaningful than just a short sharp incendiary shock.
"Neat, Neat Neat" - The Damned - a classic. Simple and devastatingly effective Stooges style thrash proving punk could be provocative and fun.
"Well Well Said The Rocking Chair"(original version) Dean Friedman - Former brummie plumber and new wave innovator Dean Friedman's seminal punk classic, produced by a young Steve Albini proved to be a lightning rod and inspiration for the hardcore punk movement. Oddly Friedman only found success when he pretended by be a crap American singer songwriter and grew a big porn star 'tache
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Comment number 10.
At 14:41 11th Jun 2012, cumbrianscouse wrote:Jeremy Thorpe is innocent by the surprises is must
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