best punk rock song ever

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Maybe spoken about this before?... Putting Punk... and it's softer sister New Wave into context of my growing up. Yes I was fully aware and enjoying rock and all the bands of the early and mid 70's....but around 1976 I started to feel a pull- and a reaction to what was happening personally and out there in the world forum.... millions of kids like us were sick of our Parents old chestnuts - "make do and mend", "waste not want not", "do what they do in Russia.... go without!"
All these dismissive clipped phrases putting a bandaid over a social compound fracture, I'm thinking "my town is crap, school is underfunded, shortages all over the section and hospital waiting lists were in their miles... Yet we were at war in Northern Ireland, and poked our noses in African squabbles and funded ailing economies elsewhere. Music in the form of rebellion and authority questioning was the medicine of many. Disco, funk, and hip- hop we're all key cogs in the machinery of music in my younger times, but the punk movement resonated the most, I feel sorry for the youth of today as destruction seems more of a watch word... yet hope as a device or word appears to be vanishing.
Yup, pretty much went through something similar in America. Living in LA County, harassed for having long hair, cops could do whatever they wanted and did, Reagan had a whole war on drugs that was a war on my neighborhood, all the while funding the Contras. I got into metal the most until I started hearing more punk, and then a lot of the metal just seemed silly.
 

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I definitely think it was a generation thing, I didn't go the full hog in spikes & pins though. I dressed in a Dillinger suit, sprayed my Doc Martins ford motors Alpine Green and generally looked like I'd just come out the tank. Like many on here all music morphs into one. The Mekons 'I Was A Punk Before You Were A Punk'... ran true back then.
 

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Sean Purcell on sex and singing here... I used to hitch hike to see these bands, and then sleep in the buffet lounge of St. Pancras Station... Money was tight, but for 20 bucks a great night could be had!
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