Punk/Awesome Music

"Welcome to a new kind of tension,
 * Speaking of The Ramones, "Blitzkrieg Bop" is a perfect 'storm the barricades' soundtrack.
 * And is used as such in the "Battle of the Belt" during the pilot episode of Space: Above and Beyond by Lt. Cooper Hawkes For Great Justice.
 * HEY!!! HO!!! LET'S GO!!!
 * "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg (My Brain is Hanging Upside Down)".
 * The Clash. Starting out as a pretty good punk band. But their masterpiece was the 1979 London Calling. Where many punk bands were people without a lot of musical talent, they instead incorporated elements of everything from rockabilly, to ska, to reggae. This in a genre dedicated to the pursuit of rock at its most basic.
 * "Sandinista!" was their masterpiece, and it is finally being Vindicated by History. It actually has a tribute album.
 * Hell, the Clash are so good that even their rubbish albums have classic songs. See "This Is England".
 * The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster's "Mister Mental" adds a certain awesome to any scene.
 * The Offspring's "You're Gonna Go Far, Kid". Manipulating people like puppets has never sounded so awesome. Badass drums, awesome guitar solo, someone who can control your every action without you even knowing. Or caring.
 * Yes, that album is awesome. "Half-Truism" should get some attention too.
 * "Self Esteem".
 * "NO BRAKES". Come ON, people!
 * A Wilhelm Scream: the critically-acclaimed 2007 album Career Suicide. Asides from being the peak of their tight, punk/metal hybrid sound and featuring the band's new, gnarly bassist, AWS dropped two songs from the tracklist because "they weren't fuckin' fast enough!!" some bass CMoA.
 * "History Of The World (Pt. 1)" by the Damned.
 * "New Rose"; talk about making a first impression.
 * Really, nobody mentioned "Smash It Up," a punk anthem for anarchy rivaling the Sex Pistols' "Anarchy In The UK?" Or hell, anything from an album with Captain Sensible on it's guaranteed to be Goth-Punk gold.
 * Streetlight Manifesto. Take ska, expand the horns to two saxes, a trumpet, and a trombone and give it a more agressive feel. Of note their album Somewhere in the Between, in which every song features an epic horn feature.
 * Everything Goes Numb is an excellent ska album. "Point / Counterpoint" is musical brilliance.
 * Short Stack have many wonderful songs, but "In This Place" is one of the best.
 * "Resisting Tyrannical Government" by Propagandhi. Specifically the last 30 seconds or so of it.
 * NOFX. -"The Decline". This song can help those struggling in a major depressive episode.
 * Bad Religion - "Faith Alone". While it does have a lot of similarities to other BR songs like "Sanity" and "Infected", the solo is one of the best Bad Religion solos ever.
 * Rancid - Maxwell Murder's bass solo. When co-lead singer Lars calls Matt Reed "the greatest fucking bassist in the world," you believe him.
 * How has Dead Kennedys not been mentioned yet? "Too Drunk ** ****" "Soup Is Good Food" and "Police Truck" especially.
 * Sorry, I was off on a "Holiday in Cambodia".
 * "California Über Alles" über alles!
 * The entire album Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables is the best punk album ever recorded, maybe one of the best albums of the past 25 years.
 * "MTV - Get Off the Air!!!"
 * No love for the Sex Pistols? Shame on you, Tropers. For your consideration, "God Save the Queen", "Anarchy in the UK", and "Holiday in the Sun".
 * "We're so pretty, oh so pretty, VACANT!"
 * "A More Perfect Union" by Titus Andronicus. You might think a seven minute punk song about New Jersey and Civil War iconography bookended by a rendering of an Abe Lincoln speech wouldn't be awesome, but you'd be wrong. From "All the armies of Europe and Asia could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River," to "I was never trying to change the world, I was just looking for a new New Jersey," to "Rally round the flag, boys, rally once again, singing the Battle Cry of Freedom!" everything about this song is pure undiluted awesomeness.
 * Speaking of Titus Andronicus, it's impossible to not mention "The Battle Of Hampton Roads". It's the epic "fourteen minute long" album closer of The Monitor, and it is made of PURE AWESOME. The entire thing moves at a whiplash pace, the lead singer sings what seems to be a hundred words a minute, and the whole thing builds and builds with guitar solos and shouted vocals and a refrain of "please don't ever leave me," all to a FREAKIN' BAGPIPE SOLO. OH MY GOD.
 * "The Vulture (Acts I&II)" by Gallows. Who knew that the same set of lyrics repeated several times could be so kick ass? The first couple times, it's all calm... then comes the huge epic crashes of distortion that last for almost too long... then the amazing punk song that takes the dark and grim lyrics of Act I and makes them ANGRY AS ALL HELL!
 * "If the horses don't drink / drown them in the water..."
 * The Scars, y'all. The Scars. Immensely talented Scottish punk/post-punk band that sadly dissolved into nothingness in 1982. "Fear of the Dark", "Adult ery", "All About You"... they recorded a whole song, "Horrorshow", with lyrics in Nadsat. HARD. FREAKIN'. CORE.
 * We don't have the Refused up here? Travesty. Listen to this: "New Noise"
 * "Blank Generation" and "Love Comes in Spurts" by Richard Hell & the Voidoids
 * Don't forget "Kid With The Replaceable Head" and "Time."
 * Also "That's All I Know (Right Now)" by Richard Hell's short-lived band The Neon Boys, covered by Sonic Youth as a Goo B Side.
 * "Chinese Rocks" and "Born to Lose" by Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers
 * Also "Pirate Love" and "London Boys," which was a Take That to the Sex Pistols for their song "New York", itself a Take That to Johnny Thunders' former band New York Dolls.
 * "Goo Goo Muck" and "Human Fly" by The Cramps.
 * "Where Eagles Dare," "Skulls", "Last Caress", "Teenagers from Mars", "Halloween", "Night of the Living Dead", and "Hybrid Moments" by The Misfits.
 * "Johnny Hit and Run Paulene" and "We're Desperate" by X.
 * Also "White Girl" and "Los Angeles"
 * "Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't Have)?" and "What Do I Get?" by Buzzcocks
 * From more recent Buzzcocks albums, "What Am I Supposed To Do Now?" and "Wish I Never Loved You."
 * "Sonic Reducer" by the Dead Boys.
 * With the Dead Boys right above, one can't forget the band that spawned them, Rocket From The Tombs, (and their songs "Ain't It Fun", "Sonic Reducer", "Down In Flames", etc.) as well as spawning avant-garde band Pere Ubu. Their original version of "Ain't It Fun" kicks the Dead Boys' version to the curb. Other good tracks are "30 Seconds Over Tokyo", "So Cold", "I Sell Soul", "Amphetamine", and "Muckraker."
 * "Search and Destroy" by The Stooges. Unfortunately, due to a convoluted mixing process, both official cuts of the song are either hollow and quiet or LOUD ENOUGH TO SHATTER GOD'S EARDRUMS. Luckily, there exist balanced remixes in which every glorious note can be heard.
 * So nobody mentioned "Raw Power", "TV Eye", or "I Wanna Be Your Dog?"
 * "Cherry Bomb" by The Runaways
 * "Gloria", "Free Money", "Land", "Redondo Beach", "Piss Factory", and "Dancing Barefoot" by Patti Smith.
 * Also, "Rock n Roll Nigger" and "Because the Night".
 * "Peaches" and "Get A Grip On Yourself" by The Stranglers
 * "Oh Bondage Up Yours" and "The Day the World Turned Day-Glo" by X-Ray Spex.
 * "Bata Motel" by Crass.
 * "Bloodstains" by Agent Orange.
 * "Kamala's Too Nice" and "Guest List" by Screeching Weasel.
 * Green Day's "Jesus of Suburbia," "Homecoming," "Holiday", "Whatsername", and "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" from American Idiot.
 * "American Idiot".

All across the alienation."

"I really hate to say it but I told you so
 * Everything pales in comparison to "Letterbomb".
 * "St. Jimmy".

So shut your mouth before I shoot you down ol' boy

Welcome to the club and give me some blood

And the resident leader at the lost and found"

"It's something unpredictable,
 * "21 Guns" was awesome
 * "Misery" from Warning was a great song.
 * "Macy's Day Parade" and "Minority".
 * "Waiting" and "Warning".
 * "21st Century Breakdown" and "Know Your Enemy".
 * Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)

But in the end is right,

I hope you had the time of your life."

"Sometimes I give myself the creeps,
 * From Dookie, "Longview", "Welcome to Paradise", and "When I Come Around".
 * "Brainstew" from Insomniac.
 * "BASKETCASE"!

Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me,

It all keeps adding up,

I think I'm cracking up,

Am I just paranoid?

Or am I just stoned?"


 * The Dictators' Go Girl Crazy, one of the most underrated punk records ever released.
 * Husker Du, anyone? Every album they released from Zen Arcade on featured a minimum of two CMOA's, with Zen Arcade featuring about ten.
 * Bomb The Music Industry! - "I Don't Love You Anymore"
 * "Worth Dying For", "Torches", and "Survive" by Rise Against. Heck, most of their songs could qualify, depending on your personal taste.
 * ALL of Relationship of Command by At The Drive-In. One minute it's serene and melodic, the next it's chaotic and noisy. But the raw emotion WILL give you goosebumps and make you want to sing/scream along with Cedric Bixler-Zavala. Best examples include One Armed Scissor, Arcarsenal, Invalid Litter Dept., and the two tracks featuring Iggy Pop, Enfilade and Rolodex Propaganda.