MOST punk song ever? (1 Viewer)

Jerry Twig

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Not the BEST punk song ever, but what is the MOST punk song ever? Of course it could be one and the same.

I’ll get the ball rolling:

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CONFUSE - Spending Loud Night
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it is a cover of Salon Music - Spending Silent Night. so someone dubbed Confuse over a video of Salon Music! the original romantic lyrics have all been changed to punk stuff.
here's the whole Spending Loud Night EP. this is believed to have been recorded in 1985.
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Kevin Rowland trying very hard to be punk rock by releasing an anti-Johnny Rotten song with the Killjoys in 1977

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I nominate it because it's both completely phony but also about as real as everyone else back then, always trying to be one kneejerk reaction ahead. Nothing more classic punk rock to me than songs about scene politics! Oh, and great track as far as these things go.

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This is the song that sprang to mind when I read the thread title.

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Kevin Rowland trying very hard to be punk rock by releasing an anti-Johnny Rotten song with the Killjoys in 1977

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I nominate it because it's both completely phony but also about as real as everyone else back then, always trying to be one kneejerk reaction ahead. Nothing more classic punk rock to me than songs about scene politics! Oh, and great track as far as these things go.

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Johnny Won't Get To Heaven is often cited as a proto hardcore song - great tune. Damaged Goods reissued it on 7' years at some stage
 
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I remember overkill doing that. Didn't know it was a cover.


After the Stiffs it was recorded by the subhumans

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Then of course DOA ( first version I heard)

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Johnny Won't Get To Heaven is often cited as a proto hardcore song - great tune.
Oh that's interesting, I really like it but I'm glad Kev quickly formed Dexys and not, like, some West Midlands version of Minor Threat. It's a shame they never properly made a full album though.
 
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