Bodies - Sex Pistols
Suspect Devise - Stiff Little Fingers
Guilty of being white - Minor Threat
Blitzkrieg Bop - Ramones
Walk Together, Rock Together - 7 Seconds
Last Caress - Misfits
100 Boys - The Golden Horde
Police Truck - Dead Kennedys
Sick bed of Cuchulainn - The Pogues
Back Against The Wall - Circle Jerks
Austin won't like the look o this
Blown out again - Peter and the test tube babies
Get over you - The undertones
Problems- Sex Pistols
Big time - Rudi
The cops are coming - outcast ( RIP Getty)
Teenage kicks - the undertones
Eighties- killing joke
Alternative Ulster- Stiff little Fingers
Borstal breakout- Sham 69
Stranglehold- UK subs
Fast cars - Buzzcocks
Restricted myself to one per artist, and to tracks that to me were punk, e.g. I think of the Stranglers as a punk band, but Golden Brown is not a punk track. Obviously too, the term 'Punk' is very subjective.
Sex Pistols - Submission
Undertones - True Confessions
Damned - Love Song
Boomtown Rats - Rat Trap
Buzzcocks - Promises
Stranglers - Hanging Around
Ian Dury and the Blockheads - Sweet Gene Vincent
Sham 69 - Hurry Up Harry
SLF - Suspect Device
Graham Parker and the Rumour - Hey Lord Don't Ask Me Questions
I agree that 'punk' is subjective. For example I'd classify Nirvana as punk. Here's 10 for me, although I'd admit that some are mainstream:
White Riot - The Clash
Anarchy in the UK - Sex Pistols
Ever Fallen in Love - The Buzzcocks
Teenage Kicks - The Undertones
Alternative Ulster - Stiff Little Fingers
Another Girl, Another Planet - The Only Ones
Starbuster - Fontaines DC
Human Being - The New York Dolls
Blitzreig Bop - Ramones
I wanna be your Dog - The Stooges
I think I'd have Radiators from Space at #1 with Television Screen just for iconic intro alone but will need a think on the other 9.
Any more punks out there?
Only Ones: Another Girl Another Planet
Sex Pistols: Pretty Vacant
Skids: Into the Valley
Frank Turner: Getting Better
SLF: Nobody's Hero
Stranglers: No More Heroes
IDLES: Danny Nedelko
Viagra Boys: Ain't No Thief
Stoogies: I Wanna be Your Dog
Dead Kennedys: Holiday in Cambodia
There were some very good punk bands from the north:
Protex - Don't Ring Me Up
Rude - Big Time
The Outcasts - You're a Disease
SLF - Suspect Device
The Starjets - war Stories
The Moondogs - who's Gonna Tell Mary
Rufrex - Wild Colonial Boy
Therapy? - Animal Bones
The X Dreamysts- I Don't Wanna Go
The Undertones - Mars Bar
Bad Manners - Just a feeling
Body Snatchers - Do Rocksteady
Toots & the Maytals - Monkey Man
Madness - Night Boat to Cairo
Desmond Dekker - You can get it if you really want
The Beat - Can't get used to losing you
The Specials - Message to you Rudy
Andy & Joey - You're Wondering Now
The Pioneers - Let your Yeah be Yeah
Bob & Marcia Young - Gifted & Black
Could mention a few of the original ska numbers but they never did as much for me as the high tempo second phase ska era of 1979-1981.
The Specials - Stupid Marriage
The Specials - Rat Race
Madness - Bed and Breakfast Man
The Selecter - Three Minute Hero
The Beat - Too Nice to Talk to
The Specials - Friday Night, Saturday Morning
The Specials - Ghost Town
The Beat - Best Friend
Madness - Nightboat to Cairo
Bad Manners - Just a Feeling
The Specials - Too much too young
Madness - Baggy Trousers
The Selecter - On My Radio
Madness - Nightboat to Cairo
The Specials - Message to you Rudy
The Beat- Mirror in the Bathroom
Bad Manners - Can Can
The Specials - Rat race
The Specials - Ghost town
The Beat - Too nce to talk to
Kingsmen - Louie Louie
Dave and Ansil Collins - Double Barrel
Madness - Embarrassment
Special - Gangsters
Untouchables - Free Yourself
Beat - Too Nice To Talk To
Bad Manners - Lip Up Fatty
Selecter - On My Radio
Boris Gardiner - Elizabethan Reggae
Desmond Dekker and the Aces - You Can Get It If You Really Want It
John Jones - Rudy Mills
5446 Was My Number - Toots and The Maytals
Monkey Spanner - Dave & Ansell Collins
Israelites- Desmond Dekker
Johnny Too Bad - The Slickers
Buttercup - Winston Scotland
Stop That Train - Clint Eastwood and General Saint
Dat - Pluto Shervington
Wet Dream - Max Romeo
Off the top of my head.
Slayer - Angel of Death
Anthrax - Indians
Sepultura - Chaos AD
Acid Reign - Humanoia
Slayer - War Ensemble
Anthrax - Among The Living
Sepultura - Territory
SOD - March Of The S.O.D.
Pamtera - Walk
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Jesus
I've nothing against thrash metal, just not on a Sunday morning.
Can our southern friends not say or spell thrash properly?
wondering that myself
Quote from: Tony Baloney on October 05, 2025, 01:01:43 PMCan our southern friends not say or spell thrash properly?
Apologies half hung over!
Not expecting many contributions. Gaaboard is steadily on the decline since it's lofty heights in the '00's!
None of the songs mentioned would be thrash metal I'm thinking of Panthera, Slipknot Rose Tattoo , i.e. songs with the lyrics shouted.
Quote from: Denn Forever on October 05, 2025, 04:07:09 PMNone of the songs mentioned would be thrash metal I'm thinking of Panthera, Slipknot Rose Tattoo , i.e. songs with the lyrics shouted.
From Wiki
''Thrash metal is an aggressive, fast sub-genre of heavy metal that emerged in the early 1980s, characterized by high-speed, palm-muted guitar riffs, fast drumming with double bass pedal, distorted and complex guitar solos, and a punk-influenced anti-establishment aesthetic. Influenced by both speed metal and hardcore punk, it features themes of warfare, death, and social hypocrisy. The "Big Four"—Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, and Slayer—are credited with popularizing the genre.'' Look, you believe what you believe it is. As they say -
''Art is subjective''.
Iron Maiden - The Trooper
ACDC - Back in Black
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Deep Purple - Strange kind of woman
Gun's N Roses - Paradise City
Dio - Holy Diver
Led Zeppelin - Moby Dick
Slayer - Die by the sword
ACDC - It's a long way to the top
Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
Alice Cooper - Elected
Iron Maiden - Run To The Hills
Motorhead - Ace Of Spades
Deep Purple - Hush
Nazareth - My White Bicycle
Guns 'n' Roses - You Could Be Mine
Van Halen - Why Can't This Be Love
Faith No More - We Care A Lot
Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water
I listen to some metal bands for example Slipknot and Lacuna Coil. I wouldn't call myself a heavy metal fan because I don't listen to those classic bands from the 80's. I also like the sub genre of Nu Metal, I will probably go to see System of a Down next year.
Zeppelin are just not a metal band. Heavy, Hair, whatever variation you want - they aren't metal
Like a ballad.
Love Hurts - Nazareth
Love Bites – Def Leppard
Is This Love – Whitesnake
November Rain – Guns N' Roses
Carrie – Europe
Every Rose Has Its Thorn – Poison
I Don't Want to Miss a Thing – Aerosmith
Hallowed Be Thy Name – Iron Maiden
Punk
Lost generation - Runnin' Riot
Warriors Code - Dropkick Murphys
Sometimes Antisocial Always Antifacist - Stage Bottles
Let us Hear Your Voice - pennywise
Sound System - Operation Ivy
I wanna be sedated - Ramones
London Calling - The Clash
Wasted Life - SLF
Radio - Rancid
Sorrow - Bad Religion
Ska/Rocksteady
A It Mek - Desmond Decker
Miss Jamaica - Jimmy Cliff
Gun Fever (Blam Blam) - The Valentines
Cry Tough - Alton Ellis & The Flames
Too Much Too Young - The Specials
Sally Brown - Bad Manners
One Step Beyond - Madness
We Do The Ska - Chris Murray Combo
Have The Time - The Slackers
Johnny Quest Thinks We're Sell Outs - Less Than Jake
Metal
Ride The Lightning - Metallica
Davidian - Machine Head
Peace Sells - Megadeth
Domination - Pantera
Refuse/Resist - Sepultura
Run To The Hills - Iron Maiden
Know your Enemy - RATM
Dam That River - Alice in Chains
Master of Puppets - Metallica
Never Back Down - Sick of It All
Tunes that were the soundtracks to my childhood
They were often frowned upon at the time.
But I appreciate their influences now.
Erasure - Love to Hate you
Depeche Mode - See you
Blacmange - Living on the Ceiling
Yazoo - Don't Go
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
Bronski Beat - Small town Boy
Jan Hammer - Crocketts theme
Heaven 17 - Temptation
AHA - The Sun Always Shines on T.V.
OMD – Enola Gay
Quote from: From the Bunker on October 26, 2025, 09:20:34 PMTunes that were the soundtracks to my childhood
They were often frowned upon at the time.
But I appreciate their influences now.
Erasure - Love to Hate you
Depeche Mode - See you
Blacmange - Living on the Ceiling
Yazoo - Don't Go
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
Bronski Beat - Small town Boy
Jan Hammer - Crocketts theme
Heaven 17 - Temptation
AHA - The Sun Always Shines on T.V.
OMD – Enola Gay
Nice list. Right up my street. Off the top of my head, I'll go with;
Depeche Mode - Stripped
The Human League - Being Boiled
Gary Numan - Are Friends Electric
Fad Gadget - Back To Nature
Soft Cell - Memorabilia
Public Image Limited - Death Disco
OMD - Electricity
Kate Bush - Cloudbusting
Coil - The Wheel
The The - This Is The Day
Just too many to mention.
I never really left the 80s. Stuck.
Tried to keep it to one per artist. Could easily have done a top 200.
Heaven 17 - The Height of the Fighting
Human League - Being Boiled
Depeche Mode - New Life
Cure - The Walk
Pet Shop Boys - Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)
Spandau Ballet - The Freeze
Captain Sensible - Glad It's All Over
Kane Gang - Closest Thing To Heaven
Gary Numan - I Die You Die
PhD - I Won't Let You Down
Associates - Party fears two
Joy Division - Love will tear us apart
Depeche Mode - Shake the disease
Visage - Fade to grey
The Cure - Boys don't cry
Gary Numan - Cars
Soft Cell - Bedsitter
Kraftwerk - The model
Erasure - Sometimes
Heaven 17 - Come live with me
Morrissey - Everyday Is Like Sunday
Major Tom - Peter Schilling
Kids in America - Kim Wilde
Whip It - Devo
Da Da Da - Trio
Crash - Primitives
Blue Monday - New Order
Ball and Chain - Social Distortion
Friday I'm in Love - The Cure
The Dead Heart - Midnight Oil
Fiction Factory- Feels like Heaven
Masquerade- Guardian Angel
PHD- I won't let you down
Eurythmics- Love is a stranger
Visage- Fade to grey
Baltimora- Tarzan Boy
Spagna- Call me
Dusty Springfield- In private
PSB/ DS- What have I done to deserve this
Jon and Vangelis- I'll find my way home
Industry- State of the nation.
11 there, in case one or two of them don't qualify by time or genre. Every now and then enjoy going back and trawling youtube playlists around any of these. Nostalgia is medicine.
Take on Me - A-ha
Invisible Touch - Genesis
Temptation - New Order
Personal Jesus - Depeche Mode
True - Spandau Ballet
Enola Gay - OMD
A Little Respect- Erasure
Rise - Public Image Limited
Thorn in my Side - Eurythmics
Love will tear us apart - Joy Division
Quote from: weareros on October 28, 2025, 12:40:32 PMMorrissey - Everyday Is Like Sunday
Major Tom - Peter Schilling
Kids in America - Kim Wilde
Whip It - Devo
Da Da Da - Trio
Crash - Primitives
Blue Monday - New Order
Ball and Chain - Social Distortion
Friday I'm in Love - The Cure
The Dead Heart - Midnight Oil
Somehow forgot Golden Brown - The Stranglers (never knew it was about heroin either)
Tarzan Boy- Baltimora
Always on my mind- Pet shop boys
Stay on these roads- A-HA
The Promise- When in Rome
Enjoy the silence- Depeche Mode
Call Me- Spagna
Live it up- Mental as anything
Feels like heaven- Fiction Factory
Scrolled through my Spotify playlist:
Wishing - A Flock of Seagulls
Smalltown Boy - Bronski Beat
Wishful Thinking - China Crisis
Voyage Voyage - Desireless
The Killing Moon - Echo and the Bunnymen
Love is a Stranger - Eurythmics
(Feels like) Heaven - Fiction Factory
Will You - Hazel O'Connor
Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
Once in a Lifetime - Talking Heads
Bonus track: Souvenir - OMD