favorite english punk rock band?!

Joy Division

do wire count?if not slits

Wire

I'll do four:
The Clash, Sex Pistols, X-Ray Spex, Buzzcocks

(and for "early" post-punk, Joy Division, Gang of Four and Wire)

Another vote for Discharge

I don't know why people don't think Wire was a punk band.

Pink Flag is definitely punk, but having heard megafan Jim DeRogatis argue endlessly for many years that Wire was actually the first post-punk band (beginning with Pink Flag, not after) I figured he’s explored the idea much more thoroughly than I ever will.

Terry and the Idiots

Wire was actually the first post-punk band

There was an article written a few years ago by Colin Newman that I can't locate now, starting something like: "I still remember the day I invented post-punk, I'd just written a song called 'Practice Makes Perfect'..."

Crass

0–9
The 4-Skins
4ft Fingers
999 (band)
A
Abdoujaparov
Abrasive Wheels
!Action Pact!
Adam and the Ants
The Adicts
The Adverts
Alternative TV
Amazorblades
Angelic Upstarts
Angelica (band)
Angletrax
Anthrax (British band)
Anti-Establishment (band)
Anti-Nowhere League
Anti-Pasti
Anti-Social (band)
Apologies, I Have None
The Apostles (band)
The Art Attacks
Automatics
B
Back to the Planet
The Banned
Barse (band)
Basement (band)
Bears in Trees
Big in Japan (band)
The Bleach Boys
Blitz (British band)
Blitzkrieg (punk band)
Blitzkrieg Bop (band)
The Blockheads
The Blood
Blyth Power
Bollock Brothers
Boston Manor (band)
The Boys (English band)
Bubblegum Screw
The Burial
Bus Station Loonies
The Business (band)
Buzzcocks
C
The Cannibals (band)
Cardiacs
Caretaker (band)
The Carpettes
Caves (band)
Chaos UK
Chaotic Dischord
The Chefs
Chelsea (band)
China Drum
Chron Gen
Chubby and the Gang
Citizen Fish
The Clash
Cock Sparrer
Cockney Rejects
Combat 84
Condemned 84
Conflict (band)
Consumed (band)
The Cortinas (punk band)
Counterfeit (band)
Crass
The Cravats
Creaming Jesus
Creeper (band)
Crisis (band)
Crucial Three
Cult Maniax
Culture Shock (band)
D
The Damned (band)
Day 21
Demob (band)
The Desperate Bicycles
The Destructors (band)
Devilish Presley
DIRT (band)
Disco Zombies
Disorder (band)
The Distractions
Djevara
Dogsflesh
The Doll (band)
Dream Nails
The Drones (English band)
E
Eater (band)
Eddie and the Hot Rods
Eight Rounds Rapid
The Ejected
Elti Fits
The Enemy (English punk band)
English Dogs
The Ethical Debating Society
Ex Pistols
The Expelled
F
The Fades
Fall of Efrafa
The Fall (band)
False Heads
Fatal Microbes
The Featherz
Ferocious Dog
Fighting Fiction
Fire Dept
The Fits
Flamingo 50
Flats (band)
Flint (band)
The Flowers of Romance (British band)
Fluffy (band)
Flux of Pink Indians
The Flys (British band)
Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes
Frantic Elevators
Fresh (band)
The Freshies
G
Gallows (band)
GBH (band)
Generation X (band)
The Ghost of a Thousand
Gnarwolves
The Godfathers
Goldblade
Good Throb
Grade 2 (band)
Great Cynics
Grown at Home
Guns n' Wankers
The Gymslips
H
Hagar the Womb
The Hangmen (British band)
Hard Skin
Healthy Junkies
Heavy Load (punk band)
Heavy Lungs
The Higsons
Tom Hingley and the Lovers
The Homosexuals
Hooton 3 Car
The Hotlines
Howards Alias
Huggy Bear (band)
I
Idles
The Ignerents
Indecent Assault (band)
Infa Riot
Inner City Unit
The Innocents (UK band)
J
The Jam
Janus Stark (band)
The Jellys
Solemn Sun
Johnny Moped
Jools (band)
K
Kill Casino
The Killjoys (British band)
The King Blues
King Kurt
King Prawn (band)
Koopa (band)
L
Leatherface (band)
London (punk band)
London SS
The Lords of the New Church
Lost Cherrees
Lower Than Atlantis
The Lurkers
M
Macc Lads
Major Accident
Manufactured Romance
Masters of the Backside
Max Raptor
Mega City Four
The Members
The Membranes
Mere Dead Men
The Mescaleros
The Metros
Middle Finger Salute
Thee Mighty Caesars
Milky Wimpshake
Million Dead
Ming City Rockers
Misery Addict
Miss Black America (band)
Miss Vincent
Misspent Youth (band)
The Mob (British band)
The Models
The Moors Murderers
Elton Motello
Mr Zippy
Muncie Girls
The Mutants (UK band)
N
Neo (British band)
Neon Hearts N
Nervus
The Newtown Neurotics
The Nips
The Nosebleeds
Notsensibles
Nova Twins
The Now
O
'O' Level
Omega Tribe (British band)
On Trial UK
One Way System
The Only Ones
Our Time Down Here
The Outsiders (British band)
P
Pardon Us (band)
Pendleton (band)
Penetration (band)
Personal Best (band)
Peter and the Test Tube Babies
Petrol Girls
Phinius Gage
The Photons
The Pigs
The Plague (English band)
Pork Dukes
The Prefects
The Professionals (band)
Puncture (band)
Punishment of Luxury
R
Rabid (band)
Radio Blank
The Raincoats
Rancid Hell Spawn
The Rank Deluxe
Red Alert (band)
Red Flag 77
Red Letter Day (band)
Red London
The http://i.imgur.com/QbYzHTH.jpg
The Restarts
Revenge of the Psychotronic Man
Rich Kids
Rikki and the Last Days of Earth
Riot/Clone
Riot Squad (band)
The Ripps
Riskee and the Ridicule
The Rivals (band)
Rolo Tomassi
Rubella Ballet
Rudimentary Peni
The Ruts
S
Satan's Rats
Sauna Youth
Schwartzeneggar
Screaming Dead
Subway Sect
Senseless Things
Serious Drinking
Sex Pistols
Sham 69
Sham Pistols
The Shapes (British band)
Sharks (band formed 2007)
The Shrives
Siiiii
Sister George
Skintight Jaguars
The Skints
Skrewdriver
Slaughter & the Dogs
Slaves (English band)
The Slits
Smash (British band)
The Smirks
The Snivelling Shits
Snuff (band)
Soho Roses
Sonic Boom Six
Sore Throat (punk/new wave band)
Sounds of Swami
Special Duties
The Speedometors
The Spitfire Boys
Spizzenergi
Splodgenessabounds
The Stiffs (band)
The Stranglers
The Straps
Stratford Mercenaries
The Stupids (band)
Subhumans (British band)
Suburban Studs
The Surfin' Lungs
Swell Maps
T
TAT (band)
The Teardrops (UK band)
Thatcher on Acid
Thee Faction
Thee Headcoatees
Thee Headcoats
Throwing Up (band)
The Tights
Tom Robinson Band
Towers of London (band)
Toy Dolls
Tubeway Army
Tenpole Tudor
Tunnelmental
The Tuts
Twenty Flight Rockers
U
U.K. Subs
The Users (band)
UXB (band)
V
The Vandals (UK band)
Vant (band)
The Vibrators
Vice Squad
Vicious White Kids
Violent Delight
Virus (British band)
Voodoo Queens
W
The Wall (band)
The Wanderers (band)
Wargasm (band)
Wasted Youth (British band)
Wat Tyler (band)
Winnebago Deal
Wire (band)
X
The X-Certs
X-Ray Spex
Y
Yes Sir Boss
Youth in Asia (band)
Z
The Zeros (English band)
Zombina and the Skeletones

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everytime i put in http://i.imgur.com/QbYzHTH.jpg together i get this pussy pic why?!

r e d s k i n s

I'm an ignorant American so I can't reliably distinguish English, Welsh, Scottish, etc punk bands. Sometimes I even mix up Australian and Irish punk bands too.

But I like pretty much all the songs with funny accents on this comp:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Thanks!_The_%2770s_Punk_Rebellion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6un5OZ1EXk

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hatcat must live

I always forget that the Jam were punks at the start.

Mau Maus and Chron Gen to that list

Discharge.

best song by Flux Of Pink Indians

best song by Flux Of Pink Indians

this might actually be true

this week it's Zounds.

ha I just saw Steve Ignorant play Crass songs and Subvert by Zounds was played twice in between bands

my actual answer to this question might be the UK Subs tbh. seems wrong but I just did the sums and it checks out

Good Throb

ha never have I been happier to scroll through some copypasta list of bands. best UK punk band of the 2010s imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnwyULT3Uks

or maybe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8lZUxHX8e8

top banger - xp re the Slits although that is also true of that Crass song

<3

X-Ray Spex
Rudimentary Peni
Adam & the Ants
Adverts
The Damned

some of the bands on this list made awesome music that wasn't really punk -- or rather, as a "punk band" they were not as good as the other bands I listed, but the non-punk music was equally awesome as the punk music of the other bands

like:
The Clash
Stranglers
Slits
Raincoats
Toy Dolls

though actually ... I think of Adam & the Ants more like a pop band tbh ... the demos were way more punk than the "regular" albums they put out

clash, sex pistols, mekons

Killing Joke is my favorite so far, surprised they weren't mentioned

feel like there were whole threads in the deep past mocking alex in nyc for claiming killing joke were punk

Not surprisingly.

Not so deep even

Thirty plus years of digging around in this stuff I’m always amazed that new-to-me good things still show up, like the Wasps’ “Teenage Treats”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6svx8Qtcam0

Someone tell Jim Rogatis that the first posthpunk band was Magazine.

They even got onto "Top of the Pops" before Buzzcocks

alternative tv, subway sect, slits, the fall

first postpunk band is hawkwind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUxFQ5QBiYk supposed first english punk rock song!

David Thomas likes to laugh at critics who call Pere Ubu post-punk, since their first single was 1975.

other than the sex pistols generation x and the clash i really was not into english punk but i have heard of the buzzcocks damned gbh slits and uk subs and for irish punk the boom town rats subs and for scottish punk probably the best of them all the exploited!

the homosexuals

Not sure if there was a better British punk single than this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9NBrq-SF1k

debut singles by english punk bands would be an interesting sub-topic / poll

"where were you" vs "orgasm addict" vs ...

Spiral Scratch surely?

Where Were You is also not the debut Mekons single

sorry

wrong about the mekons, but buzzcocks it looks like is a question of first release vs. "first single"

anyway, obviously i know next to nothing about this stuff

It’s not worth polling, as Anarchy would be ipso facto

The No Thanks! comps were polled once many years ago. These were the top English* tracks by points:

Shot By Both Sides - Magazine 9
Boredom - Buzzcocks featuring Howard Devoto 8
Oh Bondage Up Yours! - X-Ray Spex 8
New Rose - The Damned 7
Neat Neat Neat - The Damned 5
1 2 X U - Wire 5
One Chord Wonders - The Adverts 5
Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've?) - Buzzcocks 5
Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division 5
Mannequin - Wire 4
The Day The World Turned Day-Glo - X-Ray Spex 4
Dancing The Night Away - The Motors 4
Radio, Radio - Elvis Costello & the Attractions 4
Heart Of The City - Nick Lowe 3
Where Were You? - The Mekons 3
Peaches - The Stranglers 3

*by my unscientific definition

For what it's worth, Killing Joke were certainly born of punk, but I'd never have suggested they were anything other than post-punk. But, y'know, whatever.

All the punks I knew in the early 80s certainly thought Killing Joke were punk.

Buzzcocks. Of somewhat more newish music, Snuff.

The Clash

The Jam

Although, the best work of both bands came after they stopped being punks.

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close down ilm

(I mean Rudimentary Peni are my favourite if we're not counting Cardiacs as punk, but c'mon)

probably 4 vaguely fit this bill I cant seperate : Buzzcocks / swell maps / raincoats / homosexuals

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would you like to elaborate?

I would!

https://lavidaesunmus.bandcamp.com/album/peter-pan-hits-the-suburbs-lp

Give it a go, see what you think...

I associated Astronauts with Surf like the australian band from the 60s of Man or Astro-man?.

MUS44 THE ASTRONAUTS - Peter Pan Hits The Suburbs LP
Reissue of this long lost masterpice from 1981 originally released by Bulge / Genius records. The Astronauts were (and are, after close to 30 years and a history of lineup shifts only bested by The Fall) the definitive psych-punk ensemble, though even that title doesn't do 'em justice. Their sound culminates the post '77 punk dabblings of head forbears Twink (his 'Do it 77' single and The Rings' 'I wanna be free' platter), Nik Turner (the outstanding Inner City Unit and the 'punkier' late 70's bits of Hawkwind) and Daevid Allen's planet Gong (with fellow acid-punkers Here and Now) all woven in with an earlier Robert Wyatt / mellow candle-y psych folk vibe... While not sounding like any of those things at all.
Get it?

The album's range is gigantic:
from dissonant punk a la Fall ('Everything stops for baby'), to epic progressive folk ('Protest song', 'Baby sings folk songs'), ditties ('Sod us'), hard-rock ('The Traveller'), pop ('How green was my valley'), garage / surf ('Still Talking'), industrial ('How long is a piece of string'), and set to arrangements that employ synths, flute, saxophone, and strays into progressive or even free-form / psychedelic sections. The icing on the cake is the mature statement of the lyrics, a cynical and bitter exploration of the lives of simple men, miles away from the generic horror / punk overtones that permeated most of alternative albums at the time.

bold statement, i like.