I'm making a Punk Rock Mix Tape - what songs should I include

[LynneSin]

Was just finishing up listening to "Sandista" by the Clash.

What songs would you include on a Punk Rock Mix Tape.

[Blues Heron]

1. So much good stuff by the Clash

Janie Jones, Clash City Rockers, Tommy Gun, I'm so Bored with the USA. For starters. Having a bit of a Clash retrospective here recently!

"Ignite" by the Damned
Lots of good punkabilly stuff by X

[ArnoldLayne]

7. Now you have me in the mood for The Clash. I needed to get away from my 41 year obsession for

Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett. Almost the whole London Calling album, most of Sandinista and some Combat Rock. Here I go from London Calling- Death or Glory, Rudie Can't Fail, The Guns of Brixton, Koka Kola, Revolution Rock. From The Clash album-I Fought the Law, Londons Burning and White Riot. From Sandinista-Police on My Back, Hitsville U.K., Verson Pardner and Washington Bullets. From Combat Rock-Straight to Hell, Know Your Rights, Ghetto Defendant and Sean Flynn.

[cyberswede]

2. Hmm

in no particular order...

Institutionalized (Suicidal Tendencies)
California Uber Alles (Dead Kennedys)
Orgasm Addict (Buzzcocks)
The Wait (Killing Joke)
Static Age (The Misfits)
Nervous Breakdown (Black Flag)
Fishing (PIL)
I Wanna Be Your Dog (The Stooges)
Holiday in Cambodia (Dead Kennedys)
Bela Lugosi's Dead (Bauhaus)

[GoCubsGo]

3. Needs some Ramones.

Too many good songs to pick just one or two, but I really like "Cretin Hop" and "Blitzkrieg Bop", and the fact that they rhyme is just a coincidence.

[Aristus]

5. I'd go with "I Wanna Be Sedated".

[GoCubsGo]

6. That, too!

One of my faves.

[LeftOfSelf-Centered]

12. +1

Love that song!

[zappaman]

57. Last song of the night at my wedding!

[Raffi Ella]

4. -

I'm not a big fan of Punk but The Pogues have some really great songs.

[ArnoldLayne]

8. Now for some Gang of Four-Entertainment Album- I Found That Essence Rare, Anthrax, Guns Before

Butter and Ether

[sendero]

48. Seconded...

.... one of the handful of "punks" I could listen to more than once.

[Ohio Joe]

9. Well...

Mommy Can I Go Out & Kill tonight? by The Misfits

My Money Is On The Longshot by Less Than Jake

Pomises by Fugazi

Who Says? by Richard Hell & the Voidoids

American Jesus by Bad Religion

That should get you started.

[Throd]

10. "Intensive Care" by Peter and the Test Tube Babies

or something by Discharge, Rudimentary Peni, UK Subs...

[hibbing]

11. Dead Kennedys

Hi,
Ahhh, damn I was cool back in my punk days. Holiday in Cambodia, Kill the Poor, California Uber Alles, Police Truck, hmm others I can't remember at the moment. But some people don't like them, so a recommendation with that caveat.

Peace

[Mr.Bill]

13. MC5 - some say the first punk music.

[hibbing]

15. Kick out the jams mf!!!

[LeftOfSelf-Centered]

14. A couple of songs I would put on a mix tape:

Stranger Than Fiction - Bad Religion
Look What Happened - Less Than Jake (I prefer the version from the album "Anthem", because it's shorter and the backing vocals really add to the last chorus)
Glad To See You Go - Ramones
Bad Idea - A (Worst band name ever)
Roll On - The Living End
Over The Rainbow - Me First And The Gimme Gimmes
Rainbow Connection - Me First And The Gimme Gimmes
Hurra! - Die Aerzte
Tobacco Island - Flogging Molly
Whistles The Wind - Flogging Molly (This one's not really punk, but such an awesome song!)

and if you want to get really political there's:
"El Vals Del Obrero" - Ska-P
"Comsumo Gusto" - Ska-P
"El Gato Lopez" - Ska-P
"Cannabis" - Ska-P

[orleans]

16. my faves

crap--almost forgot this great one

and this

[Recursion]

17. Fugazi. Probably "Repeater"

Maybe "Waiting Room".

[GReedDiamond]

18. From a Los Angeles perspective...

Germs - Lexicon Devil

Black Flag - Rise Above

Minutemen - History Lesson Part 2

The Dills - I Hate the Rich

Nobody Rules - The Hundredth Monkey

Urinals - Surfin' With the Shah

100 Flowers (formerly the Urinals) - Sensible Virgins

The Controllers - Neutron Bomb

Geza X - Isotope Soap

The Deadbeats (w/Geza X) - Kill the Hippies

The Dream Syndicate - The Days of Wine and Roses

Mad Parade - Real Horror Show

Wall of Voodoo - Mexican Radio and their cover of Ring of Fire

All of the above may be heard on Spotify.com.

[uriel1972]

39. Wall of Voodoo - Ring of Fire...

Oh my lack of God, I love that track. Think I'll go hunt it down and thrash it again.

[GReedDiamond]

41. Here...

[uriel1972]

43. And, Thank you...nt

[OriginalGeek]

19. from more of a crossover perspective:

but you could probably make a couple great CDs with all the suggestions in this thread....

[mackerel]

20. soooo many good ones!

[progressoid]

21. X, The Damned, Iggy Pop, Dead Kennedys, Siouxsie and the Banshees,

x - Breathless

Siouxsie and the Banshees - Spellboound

Iggy Pop - The Passenger

The Damned - Smash it up

The Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia

[PeteSelman]

22. Police Truck by Dead Kennedys.

Hell, anything by them.

20 Eyes by Misfits
Mr. Freeze by Dr. Know
Killing for Jesus by Circle Jerks
Stupid, Stupid War by D.R.I.
Memories of Tomorrow by Suicidal Tendencies
Drunk and Crazy by Fang


Do people still make tapes for real? Hit punk shuffle on your pod. So much easier.

[a la izquierda]

23. Sonic Reducer- Dead Boys

Amoeba- Adolescents
Sorrow- Bad Religion

[Avalux]

24. The Circle Jerks - Live Fast Die Young n/t

[mattvermont]

34. Finally a Circle Jerks rec.

Black flag another important one.

Anybody know Pounded Clown or Barbara's Bush?

[Coventina]

25. "Kiss Off" - Violent Femmes

I also needs to have me some Social D.

[ZombieHorde]

26. You have to have Crass.

So What? Banned from the Roxy. Punk is Dead.

[lame54]

27. Censored - I Don't Sell Drugs...

[OxQQme]

28. Although not known as a punk band

this should be on the compilation:

[dawg]

29. Some Green Day, some Simple Plan, maybe some ...

Switchfoot. I don't know what else? Is Avril Lavigne considered punk?

[KamaAina]

30. 30 posts and no 'Mats or Husker Du?

Or, for that matter, solo Bob Mould, like the opening theme to the Daily Show, which is titled "Dog On Fire".

Also: a Michigan band, the Meatmen: "Crippled Children Suck"!

edit: Closer to home, Minor Threat, from DC.

I used to play this $#*! overnights on college radio. One hour lead-out from New Rock 94, then one hour of free-form, featuring '70s stuff from the AM studio down the hall, then one hour lead-in to Jazz 94.

[Avalux]

35. I don't consider the Replacements or Husker Du punk.

Husker Du had their wall of noise and were unique in their own right but it wasn't punk. The Replacements were just a bunch of drunk kids with a great lyricist - the one time I saw them live they couldn't finish the set. Good times.

[GReedDiamond]

46. On Edit: I meant to post this in reply to the OP, but, fuck it, I'll add this to the mix here...

..."Kill the Hostages" by Benedict Arnold & The Traitors.

Released on 7 inch vinyl on the Veracious Records label, July 4, 1980.

Recorded live on a four track at Studio Nine Recorders, on the corner of Hollywood Blvd & Western Avenue, Hollywood CA, in early 1980.

The B side is called "Red Alert," a song about the "punk violence" occurring amongst a faction of Huntington Beach neo-nazi style punkers, circa 1979.

You can hear the record somewhere on the internets tubes if you really wanna hear it.

The song (and a few others by The Traitors) has been included on several fairly obscure punk compilations authorized by the band, and bootlegged and pirated several times by others, as well as having been re-released as a 7 inch vinyl record by Artifix Records, who faithfully reproduced the sleeve graphics and remastered the audio.



Here's 3/5ths of the band back then, the bass player and drummer are invisible or hard to see:



I was/am the drummer, and ran the "art dept" and the "record label."

[Go Vols]

31. Sex Pistols - God Save the Queen

[JoeyT]

32. You can't go wrong with Rise Against.

Edited to add: If you don't mind political stuff in your mixtape, I mean.

[John Poet]

33. 'We Want The Airwaves'!

The Ramones. I'm big on that one. lol

[lovemydog]

36. The Jam

'Art School' or 'Down in the Tube Station at Midnight'

[uriel1972]

37. I want to be straight... Ian Dury and the Blockheads, maybe... nt

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

38. Ummm!!!!

Chemical Warfare!?!?! Of course.

[lovemydog]

40. The Undertones

Teenage Kicks

[Gravitycollapse]

42. I Like Fucking by Bikini Kill

Her's Your Future by The Thermals

You Are The Government by Bad Religion

[Gravitycollapse]

44. Idiots Are Taking Over by NOFX, Basket Case by Greenday...

Actually pretty much anything from Dookie will work.

[uriel1972]

45. The Saints - I'm Stranded...

The Angels - Mr Damage and Take a Long Line
Were early AC/DC with Bon Scott punk? If they were there are a few of theirs. Heh forgive my Australian focus, but I grew up with Australian and English rock and pop.

[6000eliot]

47. "Pissing In A River" by Patti Smith Group

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[Jesus Malverde]

49. Punk thread, bumping for later.

Great list all.

[rudolph the red]

50. Holiday in Cambodia for sure

[architect359]

51. My Sharona - The Knack

BUT!

...covered by The Chipmunks!

[mackerel]

52. Hella good songs on here!

[LynneSin]

53. I know - I might really make a Punk Rock mixed tape

I don't have all of the groups but it does help me to find what might be missing in my punk collection.

[mulsh]

54. don't forget the Mekons

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[TeeYiYi]

55. Pretenders - Tattooed Love Boys

Aahhh... Chrissie Hynde

TYY

[zappaman]

56. Early Stranglers

Peaches, Burning Up Time, 5 Minutes, or No More Heroes.

[Rhythm]

58. Gotta add The Cramps

This one's my personal favorite!

[shenmue]

59. Yes!

Great band, great song.

[Earth_First]

60. On a Maxwell XL-II?

Oh analog...