Hey, Ho - Let's Go: The Punk Rock Survey
 

Inspired shamelessly by Dead-Airs Survey threads:

1. A Punk song that defines the genre:
2. A Punk band that defines the genre:
3. The ultimate Punk band lineup (Vox/Lead/Rhythm/Bass/Drums):
4. One Punk album you would want on a desert island:
5. One Punk song that makes you dance:
6. One Punk song that makes you think:
7. A band that should be thought of as Punk, but rarely are:
8. A band that shouldn't be thought of as Punk, but regularly are:
9. British or American:
10. Sonic Youth's most Punk Rock song (no covers):

5. Zen Arcade - Husker Du
10. Silver Rocket

Even though it isn't dedicated Punk, it kicks ass like an Irish wife-beater with a giant boot.

Because it's only right that I should answer my own question:

1. A Punk song that defines the genre:
Born to Lose - The Heartbreakers.

2. A Punk band that defines the genre:
The Ramones.

3. The ultimate Punk band lineup (Vox/Lead/Rhythm/Bass/Drums):
Vox: Lux Interior; Lead: Johnny Ramone; Rhythm: Johnny Thunders; Bass: Sid Vicious; Drums: Jerry Nolan.

4. One Punk album you would want on a desert island:
Songs the Lord Taught Us - The Cramps

5. One Punk song that makes you dance:
Little Doll - The Stooges

6. One Punk song that makes you think:
New Kind of Kick - The Cramps.

7. A band that should be thought of as Punk, but rarely are:
Motorhead.

8. A band that shouldn't be thought of as Punk, but regularly are:
Talking Heads.

9. British or American:
American.

10. Sonic Youth's most Punk Rock song (no covers):
Kill Yr Idols.

1. A Punk song that defines the genre:
Insults - Stiff Love

2. A Punk band that defines the genre:
Nervebreaker

3. The ultimate Punk band lineup (Vox/Lead/Rhythm/Bass/Drums):
Vox: That guy from FYP [with Glenn Danzig on the side adding "Whoa"'s]; Lead: Greg Ginn; Rhythm: That Fleshies dude; Bass: Sid Vicious! Punk!; Drums: ROBO

4. One Punk album you would want on a desert island:
Wire - Pink Flag.

5. One Punk song that makes you dance:
Screeching Weasel - Totally.

6. One Punk song that makes you think:
Swell Maps - Loin of the Surf.

7. A band that should be thought of as Punk, but rarely are:
Cows! [I always hear "noise rock"; sure, that applies, but they are fucking punk as fuck too]

8. A band that shouldn't be thought of as Punk, but regularly are:
NOFX.

9. British or American:
American.

10. Sonic Youth's most Punk Rock song (no covers):
Kill Yr Idols.

1. A Punk song that defines the genre: Iggy pop & the Stooges - I wanna be your dog
2. A Punk band that defines the genre: Ramones I guess
3. The ultimate Punk band lineup (Vox/Lead/Rhythm/Bass/Drums): Wow this one is a little too tough for me
4. One Punk album you would want on a desert island: The Adverts - Crossing the Red sea with the Adverts
5. One Punk song that makes you dance: The Saints - I'm Stranded ... Hands down
6. One Punk song that makes you think: I didn't know a Punk song like that actually exists
7. A band that should be thought of as Punk, but rarely are: Television always had a punk attitude imo
8. A band that shouldn't be thought of as Punk, but regularly are: Greenday, Blink 182, Sum 41 all of that shit
9. British or American: American for sure
10. Sonic Youth's most Punk Rock song (no covers): Nic Fit

1.Exploited: Punk's not dead
8.The Clash.
Wire.

cant pick one for any of those

Crass. the end.

1. A Punk song that defines the genre: The Stooges - Raw power
2. A Punk band that defines the genre: The Stooges (even if they're more categorised as proto-punk)
3. The ultimate Punk band lineup (Vox/Lead/Rhythm/Bass/Drums): The Stooges (whether with Ron Asheton or James Williamson)
4. One Punk album you would want on a desert island: Funhouse
5. One Punk song that makes you dance: Blank generation
6. One Punk song that makes you think: none
7. A band that should be thought of as Punk, but rarely are: Television (at least at their beginning), Joy Division (live)
8. A band that shouldn't be thought of as Punk, but regularly are: Green Day :confused:
9. British or American: American
10. Sonic Youth's most Punk Rock song (no covers): 'Cross the breeze

Oh yeah, sorry forgot it was the first thing that came to my mind.

1. A Punk song that defines the genre: RICHARD HELL- BLANK GENERATION
2. A Punk band that defines the genre: SWELL MAPS
3. The ultimate Punk band lineup (Vox/Lead/Rhythm/Bass/Drums): MOST OF THE RAMONES AND MICK JONES AND EPIC SOUNDTRACKS
4. One Punk album you would want on a desert island: WIRE- PINK FLAG.
5. One Punk song that makes you dance: CRASS- BANNED FROM THE ROXY
6. One Punk song that makes you think: WIRE- REUTERS
7. A band that should be thought of as Punk, but rarely are: SWELL MAPS
8. A band that shouldn't be thought of as Punk, but regularly are: TELEVISION
9. British or American: IRISH ACTUALLY THANKS VERY MUCH!!!!
10. Sonic Youth's most Punk Rock song (no covers): ITS GOTTA BE KILL YR IDOLS

You know DR, I thought about doing this survey too, but I was going to do it with "songs". It was a good idea to limit it to one genre.

1. A Punk song that defines the genre: "Too Drunk To Fuck"

2. A Punk band that defines the genre: I want to say something more original than the Sex Pistols, but they are in fact the answer to the question.

3. The ultimate Punk band lineup (Vox/Lead/Rhythm/Bass/Drums): Rocket fromt the Tombs, first generation. Any supergroup would likely stop being punk as The Lords of the New Church easily prove. I actually like the Lords a lot, but they weren't punk.

4. One Punk album you would want on a desert island: Confusion is Sex (it's Sonic Youth's most "punk" album)

5. One Punk song that makes you dance: "Lobotomy" by the Ramones

6. One Punk song that makes you think: "Margin Walker" by Fugazi

7. A band that should be thought of as Punk, but rarely are: Public Enemy

8. A band that shouldn't be thought of as Punk, but regularly are: The Offspring

9. British or American: American

10. Sonic Youth's most Punk Rock song (no covers): "World Looks Red"

i thought I would just put my top seven tunes up here...

1) subhumans - I dont wanna die
2) casualties - no rules (best intro ever)
3) a global threat - out in the dark
4) Civil Disobedience - Manufactured Citizen (who else has tripple snare rolls?)
5) Allergic to Whores - Exit (similarly fast drumwork as civil disobedience)
6) Aus Rotten - Fuck Nazi Sympathy (obvious reasons, if the music was half as good as the lyrics it would have made it to the top five)
7) The Varukers - All Systems Fail (90s version with more speed and edge)

1. A Punk song that defines the genre:
"Pretty Vacant"

2. A Punk band that defines the genre:
Sex Pistols

3. The ultimate Punk band lineup (Vox/Lead/Rhythm/Bass/Drums):

Lydon/Thunders/Steve Jones/J.J. Burnel/Cook

post:
Yow/Ginn/Denison/Sims/Simins

honorable mentions:
Iggy Pop, Ron Asheton, Chris Stein, Arthur Kane, Robert Gotobed

4. One Punk album you would want on a desert island:
Never Mind the Bollocks...Here's the Sex Pistols

5. One Punk song that makes you dance:
"Bodies"

6. One Punk song that makes you think:
"Anarchy in the U.K."

7. A band that should be thought of as Punk, but rarely are:
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts

8. A band that shouldn't be thought of as Punk, but regularly are:
Blink-182

9. British or American:
No specific preference, but if I have to decide, British.

10. Sonic Youth's three most Punk Rock songs (no covers):
The World Looks Red, Inhuman, Kill Yr Idols

I must admitt, from you I am dissappointed, I expected something a little less, corporate, though I do have Casualties on my list as well so, yellem asega (no worries!)

I was just about to say I mostly agree with Mr 2600. I'm not sure of his thinking, but for my part The Pistols represent a great deal of what punk is about, and what it's become. They've inspired a great many 'properly' 'anarchist' bands (I use these terms very loosely) such as your Crasses or your Napalm Deaths whilst also inspiring the 'fake' 'corporate whores' such as your Blinks or Green Days. They represent, to many, a moment of rebellion, an exciting pop-cultural moment of breaking with the past; to miserly (but not yet old) cunts such as me they sound like a better version of the Faces. There's a huge pop element to the Pistols (like, uh, choruses - remember them?) but they're still an important yardstick/ reference point, even if negatively, for the majority of 'punk' bands.

I'll happily undermine any salient points here by saying that I don't really like punk, unless Avril Lavigne counts.

Can't be bothered to do the actual list, but I'd take British at a fairly large push.

SuchFriends, Lydon told McClaren to go fuck himself and the band lasted for one fucking album, and it's "corporate?"

That's not to say that I don't get your meaning, well, I sort of get it.

Punk By The Numbers:1969
Punk The Book: The Stooges
Punk The Supergroup:
Album Played by a player created from a cocanut: X Anthology
Let's Dance: Smash It Up International Noise Conspirascy
My Brain Hurts: White Man In Hammersmith Palis
Punk In Disguise: Dead Prez
Punk You: Blondie
U.K Vs. U.S.: USA
10:SY Kickin Out The Jams: Teenage Riot

demonrail:
Talking Heads are wonderful. They surely do have a "punk attitude." Of course, they are usually thought of as New Wave or New Wave Punk, owing to the presence of Harrision on the synthesizer at times, Byrne's rather unorthodox songwriting content and vocals, and all the polyrhythms and funk elements. They eventually, as you know, became poppier.

LifeDistortion:
I'll never forget the time that Toilet & Bowels attempted a character assasination upon myself for merely posting the lyrics to Blondie's "Rapture" in one of the many, many threads about Sonic Youth's "Do You Believe in Rapture?" And all I was doing was bumping a long-forgotten-about thread with those song lyrics because I had just heard the Blondie song. He wished to peg me as "soft" or "corporate" and call me out for even mentioning Blondie, like it was some unpardonable act. I mean, he could have written, "you sure are bored, and by the way, I think Blondie suck," and that would have been fine, but instead, he made it into this whole thing about how I had no credibility at all. And he kept on & on with it to bump the thread because, I suppose, he wanted everyone to see him "exposing me" as an "unhip" Blondie fan.
Kim is a well-known Debbie Harry fan, and whatever, I like some of Blondie's early music. Oh well, what can you do? A certain amount of people are gonna be unmitigated dickheads; unfortunately, such is life.