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06 August 2007
I loved the Book Of Lists when I was a kid and I love punk rock, so this is great news. (check the author names).
Well, my love of reference books played a big part in my rock fanatacism. When I got into music, I took all the music encyclopedias out of the library and learned how to make cultural connections and follow influences and family trees. I still do it now when hunting for tunes.
Good to see Handsome Dick gettin' paid. A list, to celebrate:
BitterOldPunk's 5 Most-Played Punk Songs on his iPod:
1. Stiff Little Fingers -- Suspect Device
2. Dillinger Four -- Shiny Things Is Good
3. The Queers -- From Your Boy*
4. The Clash -- Clampdown
5. Screeching Weasel -- Hey Suburbia
*I know this is a terrible, mawkish, deeply stupid song, OK? I know. Really. But it makes me happy.
Mine 5 most-played punk songs (going by my fast & loose definition of punk):
1. Sound System - Op Ivy
2. London Calling - The Clash
3. No Action - Elvis Costello
4. Ruby Soho - Rancid (huh?)
5. Gimme Danger - The Stooges (that's more like it)
The Offspring - Gone Away
The Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated
The Clash - London Calling
Anarchy in the UK - Sex Pistols
Forgotten Rebels - In Love with the System
Hmm. Since "Clampdown" and "Suspect Device" have already been singled out, I'll go with the following:
The Ramones - Teenage Lobotomy
The Clash - White Man (In Hammersmith Palais)
Dead Kennedys - Holiday In Cambodia
X - We're Desperate
The Buzzcocks - What Do I Get
Kevin Guilfoile did not write the fucking Book of Lists. About 50 people wrote bits and pieces of it and Irving Wallace's family threw the whole thing together, throwing out almost as much as they put in. I know, because I wrote for the fucking Book of Lists and got paid for two lists they never published, therefore my name doesn't appear on the fine-print page with the other 50 people who wrote the fucking Book of Lists. Maybe if I'd been a little more openly pissed at that, I might have shown the right attitude to contribute to the Punk Rock Book of Lists. sigh.
radiohead
Led Zeppelin
The Specials
The Cream
T. Rex
The Troggs
Pink Floyd
The Buzzcocks
David Bowie
Black Sabbath
Billy Childish
The Jam
The La's
Gomez
Belle and Sebastian
Stereophonics
Stereolab
Super Furry Animals
Morcheeba
The Stone Roses
Supergrass
Billy Bragg
Richard Thompson
Catherine Wheel
The Clash
The Cure
Elvis Costello
Julian Cope
Coldplay
PIL
Del Amitri
The South
Blur
Massive Attack
James
Fatboy Slim
David Gray
U2
The Coral
Muse
Travis
Mansun
Levellers
Primal Scream
Dexy's Midnight Runners
Badly Drawn Boy
Geneva
Ash
Feeder
Toploader
Starsailor
Depeche Mode
Turin Brakes
Embrace
Divine Comedy
The Verve
Texas
Moloko
Catatonia
the Charlatans
Joy Division
The Fixx
Duran Duran
The Church
The Pogues
Queen
My Bloody Valentine
Pet Shop Boys
New Order
The Police
The Smiths
Spacehog
Van Morrison
Thin Lizzy
Elbow
Eurhythmics
The Damned
The Animals
Genesis (especially with Peter Gabriel)
King Crimson
Echo & the Bunnymen
The The
XTC
Steel Pulse
the Chameleons
Kate Bush
Bauhaus
Yes
Wishbone Ash
Jethro Tull
Gang of Four
The Sex Pistols
Creation
Squeeze
Nick Lowe
Madness
Killing Joke
Dire Straits
The Yardbirds
10cc
Creation
Baby Bird
The Stranglers
The Manic Street Preachers
The Small Faces
The Moody Blues
Roxy Music
Travis
The Fall
Athlete
Love and Rockets
Arctic Monkeys
Bat For Lashes
Klaxons
Maps
New Young Pony Club
Fionn Regan
Jamie T
The View
Amy Winehouse
The Young Knives
Editors
Guillemots
Richard Hawley
Hot Chip
Muse
Zoe Rahman
Lou Rhodes
Scritti Politti
Sway
Thom Yorke