Over the more than 40 years since Punk first was heard, there has been a lot of discussion and thinking and writing about how punk caused a social shift, a revolution in music, it gave the means of production and distribution to the artists. And you didn’t even need to know three chords to be an artist – you could make up your own chords. Because if nothing else punk has having a bloody good time – hence the title of this episode Punk! Ha ha!
Two pints of lager and a packet of crisps, please | Splodgnessabounds
Where’s Captain Kirk | Spizzenergi
Is Vic there? | Department S
Twat | John Cooper Clarke
Billericay Dickie | Ian Drury and the Blockheads
Neat neat neat | The Damned
Happy talk | Captain Sensible
Swords of a thousand men | Tenpole Tudor
Somebody’s gonna get their head kicked in tonight | The Rizillos
Roadrunner | Modern Lovers
Justa nother teenage rebel | Outcasts
Overcome by fumes | Rudi
One chord wonders | Adverts
Reward | Teardrop Explodes
Shot by both sides | Magazine
Babylon is burning | Ruts
Party fears two | Associates
Hong Kong garden | Siouxsie and the Banshees
Strange obsessions | Protex
Another girl another planet | The Only Ones
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