My 82 Favourite Punk Rock Singles ‘77-‘79
The complete list (extremely belated, I know)
I’ve been meaning to compile a full list of all my punk single reviews forever, but kept forgetting. Anyway, here it is.
As a bonus, you can find at the bottom a list of honourable mentions/obvious picks that I forgot about.
- #1 Buzzcocks - ‘Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve)’
- #2 Richard Hell and the Voidoids - ‘Blank Generation’
- #3 The Clash - ‘Complete Control’
- #4 Sex Pistols - ‘God Save the Queen’
- #5 The Damned - ‘Love Song’
- #6 Ramones - ‘Sheena is a Punk Rocker’
- #7 The Stranglers - ‘No More Heroes’
- #8 The Sex Pistols - ‘Pretty Vacant’
- #9 The Saints - ‘Know Your Product’
- #10 Buzzcocks - ‘Harmony in My Head’
- #11 The Clash - ‘(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais’
- #12 Ramones - ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll High School’
- #13 The Sex Pistols - ‘Anarchy in the UK’
- (equal) #14 Radio Birdman - ‘New Race’
- (equal) #14 Dead Boys - ‘Sonic Reducer’
- #15 Blondie - ‘Hanging on the Telephone’
- #16 Public Image Ltd. - ‘Public Image’
- #17 The Clash - ‘London Calling’
- #18 Ramones - ‘Rockaway Beach’
- #19 The Saints - ‘(I’m) Stranded’
- #20 The Jam - ‘In the City’
- #21 The Only Ones - ‘Another Girl, Another Planet’
- #22 Gang of Four - ‘Damaged Goods’
- #23 The Undertones - ‘Teenage Kicks’
- #24 Stiff Little Fingers - ‘Alternative Ulster’
- (equal) #25 Blondie - ‘X Offender’
- (equal) #25 Magazine - ‘Shot by Both Sides’
- #26 The Fall - ‘Rowche Rumble’
- #27 The Damned - ‘Neat Neat Neat’
- #28 X-Ray Spex - ‘Oh Bondage, Up Yours!’
- #29 Elvis Costello - ‘Pump It Up’
- #30 Talking Heads - ‘Psycho Killer’
- #31 XTC - ‘This is Pop?’
- #32 Buzzcocks - ‘What Do I Get?’
- #33 The Ruts - ‘Babylon’s Burning’
- #34 The Stranglers - ‘Peaches’
- #35 Skids - ‘Into the Valley’
- #36 The Fall - Bingo-Master’s Break-Out!’
- #37 Television - ‘Marquee Moon’
- #38 Dead Kennedys - ‘California Über Alles’
- #39 Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers - ‘Chinese Rocks’
- #40 Wire - ‘I am the Fly’
- #41 The Jam - ‘All Around the World’
- #42 Elvis Costello and the Attractions - ‘(I Don’t Want To Go To) Chelsea’
- #43 The Undertones - ‘Jimmy Jimmy’
- #44 The Clash - ‘Tommy Gun’
- #45 Siouxsie and the Banshees - ‘Hong Kong Garden’
- #46 Elvis Costello - ‘Radio Radio’
- #47 Wire - ‘Mannequin’
- #48 The Vibrators - ‘London Girls’
- #49 Tom Robinson Band - ‘Up Against the Wall’
- #50 Eddie and the Hot Rods - ‘Do Anything You Wanna Do’
- #51 Talking Heads - ‘Pulled Up’
- #52 The Damned - ‘New Rose’
- #53 Germs - ‘Lexicon Devil’
- #54 The Adverts - ‘One Chord Wonder’
- #55 Sham 69 - ‘Angels With Dirty Faces’
- #56 Ramones - ‘I Wanna Be Sedated’
- #57 The Fall - ‘It’s the New Thing!’
- #58 The Clash - ‘White Riot’
- #59 The Stranglers - ‘Grip’
- #60 Wipers - ‘Better Off Dead’
- #61 Graham Parker and the Rumour - ‘Discovering Japan’
- #62 The Sex Pistols - ‘Holidays in the Sun’
- #63 The Clash - ‘Clash City Rockers’
- #64 The Mekons - ‘Where Were You?’
- #65 The Cure - ‘Killing an Arab’
- #66 The Dictators - ‘Search and Destroy’
- #67 Elvis Costello - ‘Less Than Zero’
- #68 Joy Division - ‘Transmission’
- #69 Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers - ‘It’s Not Enough’
- #70 Talking Heads - ‘Love → Building on Fire’
- #71 Rich Kids - ‘Ghosts of Princes In Towers’
- #72 Generation X - ‘Ready Steady Go’
- #73 Siouxsie and the Banshees - ‘Jigsaw Feeling’
- #74 Adam and the Ants - ‘Zerox’
- #75 The Saints - This Perfect Day
- #76 Stiff Little Fingers - ‘Suspect Device’
- #77 The Boomtown Rats - ‘Lookin’ After No. 1’
- #78 Ultravox - ‘Rockwrok’
- #79 The Vibrators - ‘Baby Baby’
- #80 The Damned - ‘Problem Child’
- #81 Gang of Four - ‘At Home He’s a Tourist’
- #82 Buzzcocks - ‘Orgasm Addict’
Honourable mentions/Obvious omissions
- Subway Sect - ‘Nobody’s Scared’
- Subway Sect - ‘Ambition’
- Ruts - ‘In a Rut’
- 999 – ‘Emergency’
- Iggy Pop - ‘The Passenger’
- Iggy Pop - ‘Lust for Life’
- The Adverts - ‘Gary Gilmore’s Eyes’
- Ian Dury and the Blockheads – ‘Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll’
- Chelsea - ‘Right to Work’
- Television - ‘Prove It’
- The Slits – ‘Typical Girl’
I’m sure there are also others…
