I fucking love punk
Hope i'm not out of place here - just wanted to share some great artists and also ask if anyone knew of anymore i could get me grubby paws on

Personal favourites - NOFX: Punk in Drublic, Pump up the Valuum
Voodoo Glow Skulls (some shit, but some ska punk thats brilliant - not less than jake like)
Rancid -Rancid
Madball (Punk/Hardcore i dunno)
Poison Idea - ditto
Crumbsuckers

Safe

If you asked me 6 years ago id be all over this haha. Im so out of touch with it now. Pump up the Valuum is still an awesome album!

Punk is grand. From Pop to Hardcore and Crust I love it more then meta at timesl I would say.

Nofx are in my top 10 bands. Just simply for the song 'The Decline' which they played 2 years ago (its 18 mins long)

Check out if you like NoFX

The Lillingtons :- http://www.myspace.com/thelillingtonsrealdeal
Teenage Bottlerocket :- http://www.myspace.com/teenagebottlerocket
The Dillinger Four :- http://www.myspace.com/dillingerfour
Off With there heads :- http://www.myspace.com/offwiththeirheads

and my friends band

Strung Up :- http://www.myspace.com/societyrotinhell

Dead Kennedys is all you need.

I remember Dropkicks and Less Than Jakes in manchster on 06 was amazing. JTJ did a set of old and rare songs. Was propper good.

Punk wise i have mainly been listening to Dead Kennedys, The Damned, Cro-Mags, Amebix, Black Flag, The Misfits, Sham 69 and other obnoxious bands haha

I really need to explore it more, but I have 'Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing' by Discharge, which is quality.

DKs, The Damned, The Exploited, The Clash, G.B.H, Misfits, Ramones, Sick of it All and going off on a tangent, The Specials... and err... Sum 41 yay!

James download Spotify theres stuff from these bands on there free and easier with the odd advert.

punks great, cant believe no ones mentioned anti-flag yet. stoke on trent 26th and burnley 29th next month.

James wrote:I really need to explore it more, but I have 'Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing' by Discharge, which is quality.

Yes! one of my faves, so raw and energetic and raging!!!!

and i like the Offspring.. not really explored punk either, but a lot of what i have heard is good!

Minor Threat
Articles Of Faith
Black Flag
Dead Kennedys
Bad Brains
The Misfits
The Rammones
Youth Brigade
SS Decontrol
GBH
Discharge

All good bands for me.

I bloody love punk. Discharge are mighty and Hear Nothing... is one of the best, simply because it's so brutally simple. When STD did the Anti-EP about 50 years ago, it was totally inspired by Discharge. One band who ripped them off far harder than we ever did was Crucifix. Dehumanization was a good album but maybe too many songs. And definitely not as good as Hear Nothing...
Dead Kennedys are my favourite band ever (though it is a shame that they have done some legacy pissing...). I once sent my alternative lyrics to 'California Uber Alles' to Alternative Tentacles and they forwarded me a message of approval from Mr Biafra. I was a nineteen year old fanboy and well-excited. His stuff with DOA, Ministry (with Lard), NoMeansNo and the Melvins are all great. Full Metal Jack-Off (14mins) surpasses any other epic punk song.
I'm not huge on NoFX, FAt Mike's voice grates on me a touch but The Decline is truly another great epic punk monster (18mins). Only other one that really needs to be added is Subhumans' From the Cradle to the Grave (17mins). Absolutely manic with some of the best lyrics ever.

Black Flag are great and people need to definitely look beyond Damaged. I think all the releases I've heard are really good in a horrible kind of way.

Minor Threat are another grand supreme. One of the best things a band can do is play Minor Threat songs. Though I do not follow the straight-edge ethos there are a lot of things I can relate to in Minor Threat and their songs are structurally perfect slabs of Punk/HC. FUGAZI are a totally different animal but brilliant as well. Hooray for Mackaye.

Looking at your list, Tom, I'm wondering if you've heard Govt. Issue another great band in the vein of Articles of Faith.
Right, list time: Raw Power, MDC, Circle Jerks, Anti-Sect, TSOL, Crumbsuckers, (early) Agnostic Front, (early) Corrosion of Conformity (well, that's the punk bit, anyway), Cro-Mags, Bad Brains, Cross-Stitched Eyes (relatively new, check them out), DRI, Poison Idea. That's off the top of my head.

You know DRI have reformed Spike has recovered from his colon cancer, there playing local shows ever so often then looking to tour next year.

Raw Power
MDC
Ratos De Porao

Fuck yeah!!!