the 100 most important Anarcho-Punk songs

Fuck Shit Up!! - Blatz
Utopian Wastleland - Anti Product
Knowledge - Operation Ivy
Land of the Rising Sun - Dirt
ATF - Aus Rotten
Tube Disasters- Flux of Pink Indians
What the Fuck You'd Expect? - AAA
Manufactured Citizens - Civil Disobedience
Anything they recorded - Crass
Altercations - The Tossers
The Evil Song - End the Race
Rise Above - Black Flag
I Don't Wanna Hear It - Minor Threat
Subvert City - Subhumans
My Congressman - Fifteen
I Fought the Law - Dead Kennedys


I listened to all of these because I like them, what more is there to say?

 

Toxic Narcotic- 5 Billion People Must Die (Although now-a-days, it should be 7 or 8 or so, reasons still fit though)

 

I'm not trying to start an argument, but wouldn't "Anarchy in the UK" fit in the list?

 

Aus rotten-the system works for them,american ethic
Conflict-this is the A.L.F.
there s more but my fav. are here

 

Flux of Pink Indians -Some of Us Scream, Some of Us Shout
Icons of Filth-Fucked Up State

 

Well, Anarchy in the UK and the Sex Pistols was a more mainstream scene than the anarcho-punk scene, and it was anarchism in a different way. I will argue that the Sex Pistols was important for the anarchist scene, but we've run that discussion before on this forum, and some does disagree.

That said, i would say some songs missing is:
Crass - Big A, little A
(The whole middle section, "he is he, and she is she, but you're the only you", they encourage individual thinking. Important song i think)

Crass - Bloody Revolutions
(Against violent revolution - Anarchy and peace)

Poison Girls - Persons Unknown
(Encourage all to unite no matter background, and also, a song that shows how experimental and different the anarcho-punk scene can be musically)

The Mob - No Doves Fly Here
(one of the saddest and most powerful anti-war songs i've ever heard)

Subhumans - Who's gonna fight in the third world war?
Subhumans - Religious wars
The Mob - Witch Hunt

Skarpretter - Government
(A great lyric about government using people)

Skarpretter - Ammunition
(Opposite the early anarcho bands, a song about fighting back with any means necessary, being tired of nothing happening)

 

Never said Op Ivy was, just that I like that song. Anarchy in the UK should be on the list of most important if only for one reason. That song is the first exposure to punk in general for a lot of people. I personally can't stand the pistols but they were one of the first "punk" bands I ever heard. For that alone it is definitely one of the most important.

 

I'd Say...

Zounds - Subvert
i think no song better covers sabotage on the job and keeping your ideals with you wherever you go.
Amebix - Arise
just the power of this song and the vocals, it to me has this enegry that towers over the religious bullshit it speaks of
Amebix - No Gods No Masters
If for no other reason than the title thats become such a slogan
MDC - Born to Die
again, if for anything else than for "no war, no kkk, no fascist USA"
MDC - Chicken Squawk
this song was one of the reasons i went veggie. most songs about animal rights (that i know at least) aren't nearly as fun as this one
Subhumans - When The Bombs Drop
to me this song paints an awsome picture of an society who's ignorance and complacency leads to their destruction

short list, really. honestly specific songs are hard to pick out when often it's just a whole album of good stuff. like i'm tempted to put that whole first Millions of Dead Cops Album up.

 

Read what the orginal poster said

There is no right or wrong. He also said it was purely subjective. So they did in fact fit because of purely subjective reasons.

 

Alls I knows is Modern Day Witch Hunt definatly needs to be on this list, for obvious reasons.

 

Categories generalize and divide I listen to music! Like:
Reagan Youth -USA
LoC....and out comes the n bomb
Carcass - Blood Spattered Banner
Propagandhi - War Is Peace, Slavery Is Freedom, May All Your Inventions Be Humanitarian
Brujeria - Matando Gueros...............

 

psh, anarcho is just another label anyway.

operation ivy- freeze up
dead kennedys- we've got a bigger problem now
subhumans- love is...
zounds- can't cheat karma
crass- big A little A
T.S.O.L.- abolish government
Rudimentary Peni- Cosmetic Plague
Negative Approach- Can't Tell No One
MDC- I remember
Defiance, Ohio- I Don't Want Solidarity if it Means Holding Hands With You