List about the best Punk Rock groups
Punk, also called punk rock, is a musical genre within the rock that emerged in the mid-1970s. This genre is characterized in the music industry by its independent and amateur attitude. In the beginning, punk was a very simple and raw music, sometimes neglected: a simple type of rock, with simple melodies of short durations, sounds of amplified guitars little controlled or noisy, few arrangements and instruments, and, usually , of fast bars and tempos.
In this list about the best Punk Rock groups you can find:
19. Teen Idles
18. X
17. Suicide
16. Siouxsie & the Banshees
15. The Stranglers
14. Dead Boys
13. TV
12. Discharge
11. Talking Heads
The Damned
Blondie
The Stooges
Black Flag
Dead Kennedys
The Clash
Blink-182
Sex Pistols
Ramones
green Day
19. Teen Idles
Formed in Washington DC in August 1979, whose members were Nathan Strejcek, Geordie Grindle, Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson. They recorded two demos and an EP, released before the separation in 1980. They were the first band to record for the independent label Dischord Records, besides being spearhead in both the straight edge movement and the hardcore DC, after the separation, MacKaye and Nelson would form the seminal punk group Minor Threat.
18. X
Formed in Los Angeles, California in 1977. It emerged with the first wave of American punk bands and its original members were the singer Exene Cervenka, bassist John Doe, guitarist Billy Zoom and drummer DJ Bonebrake. They have released seven studio albums from 1980 to 1993. After a period of inactivity during the mid-1990s, the band met in the early 2000s.
17. Suicide
It is a synthpunk duo made up of Alan Vega (vocalist) and Martin Rev (synthesizer and drum machine). His first album, the eponymous Suicide, is often considered a classic.
16. Siouxsie & the Banshees
It is a British rock band formed in 1976. Bearers of the post-punk movement, along with the band Joy Division and The Cure, their music continued to evolve towards alternative rock in their albums and to pop in their singles. Siouxsie and the Banshees was one of the most innovative bands of the post-punk movement.
15. The Stranglers
The group, created in 1974 as Guildford Stranglers falls within punk rock despite having appeared before the first wave of the genre and are considered as one of its predecessors.
14. Dead Boys
Formed in Cleveland in 1976.
13. TV
It is an American rock band formed in New York in the mid and late 1970s. Despite being often considered a punk band, Television had a distinctive style in which the guitars of Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd were the center of attention, so they have been compared to psychedelic rock bands like Grateful Dead.
12. Discharge
It is an influential hardcore punk band of English origin. His music was crucial for the development of English hardcore, better known as UK82, crust punk, grindcore, black metal, thrash metal, and several subgenres of extreme metal. His music is characterized by its highly rhythmic heaviness, distortion and atonality in the guitars and a voice crudely shouted, similar to a political discourse. Its theme is strongly rooted in anarchism, pacifism and disarmament.
11. Talking Heads
It was a band of New Wave and Dance punk formed by David Byrne in 1974 along with Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth. A couple of years later, guitarist and keyboard player Jerry Harrison, who had previously recorded with The Modern Lovers, joined her. After eight...
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