Top 5 Hardcore Punk Bands
 

There were tons in the eighties but who would you consider to be the best bands of the genre.

1.Bad Brains
2.Minor Threat
3.Husker Du
4.Black Flag
5.Germs

1. Minor Threat
2. Converge
3.Black Flag
4 Husker Du
5. Rites of Spring

1.Husker Du
2.The Germs
5.Bad Brains
3.Black Flag
4.Bad Brains

switched Discharge for Bad brains...

1. Stooges
2. Sex Pistols
3. Sonic Youth
4. Minor Threat
5. Mind Over Matter

1. Minor Threat
2. Germs
3. Dead Kennedys
4. Black Flag
5. Cr@ss

Not even Sway would call Stooges, Sex Pistols, Crass, or Sonic Youth hardcore punk.

1- Minor Threat (d'uh)
2- Government Issue
3- Youth Brigade
4- Circle Jerks
5- Dead Kennedys (if they count)

i wouldn't count hüsker dü as hardcore, yes, land speed record is off the fucking charts but everything else is definitely not hardcore.

right now, i think, in no order:

# minor threat
$ rudimentary peni
+ zyklome a
& negative approach
= stillborn christians


ask me again in a couple of days.

+1

Maybe find somewhere to stick Circle Jerks in there too though.

Minor Threat, Black Flag and Circle Jerks pretty much cover most of the bases of H/Core

Circle Jerks
Minor Threat
Bad Brains
Black Flag
Dead Kennedys

In no particular order.

from dc, actually; they were ace!!! teen love fucking rules, a dozen dead roses with lydia lunch is also great.

1. black flag
2. dead kennedys
3. bad brains
4. reagan youth
5. minor threat

Good to see Circle Jerks getting so many mentions.

two bonus bands:

- gorilla biscuits
+ outo


I've got the world up my ass
and i'm gonna move fast
be the first
won't be the last
i've got the world up my ass

society is burning me up
take a bite, spit it out
take their rules
rip 'em up, tear them down

twisted mind, withered brain
you know I'm going insane
I just tell them to get back
when they tell me how to act
i've got the world up my ass

you know I've got the world up my ass

yeah. i admit that was a liberal list of hardcore punk.
i think i was thinking about the propulsive rhythms and
minimal chord changes as factors. i intentionally picked
bands from before and after the era of nyhc proper or
whatever your local hardcore punk scene was known as.

i think they moved to maryland, but they started in dc; they used to poster flyer in coke machines that read NO SCENE, NO TREND to piss off ian mackaye and the rest of the harDCore punks, this was before they started the band; then they took the name.

I was just making a light-hearted reference to a hardcore thread I started a while back. Me, Sway and Savage Clone had a heated debate about hardcore and its meaning and origins.

-Sum 41
-Blink 182
-Good Charlotte
-Offspring
-Green Day
Oh, you said the top 5 ? Sorry,...

Just in case you didn't see this, swa(y).

And in case you're interested in the poll results:

http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/showthread.php?t=8743

there's this famous quote that jello met jeff the vocalist and the other dude that killed himself later or something and they kept telling him "you hate dc, right?, you hate ian mackaye, right?"

they were bleak as shit, i have a flipside vhs tape with a bunch of performances and it has the video for teen love, it's just the song with some images going along with it and the lyrics sometimes scrolling on the screen, but i was disappointed as i wanted to see how they looked and sounded live. i mean, if i thought flipper looked so bleak then i can't imagine how no trend would look like.

I posted a link to the other thread because I thought people interested in this thread might be interested in that one.

yeah, the middle part is pretty cool though, nada surf put a catchy chorus instead.

Well, I sure wouldn't say the other ones were hardcore at any point (aside from a few throwaway covers by Sonic Youth of course) but Cr@ss's first album was The Feeding of the 5000 which featured 18 songs at 45 RPM! As arguably the first punk band to bring Anarchy into the genre as a serious political statement (unlike the Pistols throwing it around for pure shock value) as well as to start their own record label, they certainly brought a whole lot to the movement that directly influenced the new generation of mostly American bands. Yes, they departed from this phase by their third album, but so did Husker Du who are topping many a list here.

1.Void
2. Negative Approach
3. Redd Cross first EP only!!
4. does Flipper count? If not Adolescents
5. Black Flag

Dude, the Beastie Boys were not that good of a hardcore punk band. They are much better rappers.

Yeah, but to put them in the top 5 greatest of all time??? Yr off yr rocker.

Yeah Beasties are much better as hip-hoppers and their funk stuff like In Sounds From Way Out. But their early punk stuff is still good.

Husker Du would be in there somewhere.

i'm sorry, those are what you call, gay pop punk bands...

Except for the Offspring, who you call Snowboard Butt Rock.

Ah ah ah
Yeah, I know. It was a crapy joke.

oh.

haha (unconfotable laughter)

Ok, seriously :
- Black Flag
- Dead Kennedys
- Bad Brains
- Minor Threat
- The Circle Jerks