favorite english punk rock band?!

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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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.